Posts made by Cobalt

@Miss-Demeanor I ... don't think that's how it is at my store. The AM over the cashiers does the schedule for the cashiers here. Or at least did. Or at least claims he did.

@Auspice said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

There were maybe 20 hours for the entire month left.

This is why I ended up taking the job at Walmart. I already had a workstudy position and a job at the college bookstore. But the bookstore couldn't really give me enough hours, and the workstudy position there is a /set amount/ you can work for the term. So. Which was super unfortunate because I loved working at the college bookstore. Everyone was amazing and fun to work with. And if someone was being a shit to me it wasnt, "Well you need to smile and suck it up", it was "God that guy is an asshole."

Apparently we're moving to an automated scheduling system in about a month. "You might get oddball schedules." and "its based on your availability so the more open your availability it is the more likely you'll get hours and not have your hours cut".

I keep forgetting this one!

So there is this guy that came in and he was kind of loud, and talking to someone in the aisle. I just figured he saw a friend or something. One of the other cashier's turns to me and goes: "God that guys pisses me off so much."

Which was pretty out of character for her, she doesn't normally complain about anything. So I was like, "...why?" So she tells me he always come in acting like he';s on some kind of drugs, acting weird, being a pain, etc. I'm like: Okay whatever.

He comes through my line and he makes weird nervous chatter. But for the most part its normal. Kind of nonsequitor but not outside the norm of what some people say to me. And I finish his order up and he asks me for a plastic bag, and I say, "I don't have any."

And he's like, "Oh right, right, what about a round one?"

"A... round one? A paper bag?" I ask, confused now.

To which he says, "yeah, yeah." He pulls out a nickle and gives to me and says, "Yeah that's it! That's it, I was thinking about a nickle bag."

(We charge 5 cents per paper bag because bag ban in the city.)

And I'm like: Okay, strange but not outside the realm of a normal person. Maybe he has some sort of cognitive issue, it's fine. He grabs a bag and shakes it open and suddenly looks up to me and says, "AND THAT'S! the difference between a troll and leperchaun."

And then walked off to talk to another customer.

He came back through my line a few days later, and he's acting mostly normal. We're even having a coherent conversation. He spent the day with a family member who was getting ready to cover for someone at work. He had an okay day.

...and he goes, "Yeah, I spent the day with the AristoCats."

@surreality said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

@Cobaltasaurus I would absolutely report that. Absolutely. Bullying like that is simply not OK. I am so sorry you had to deal with that.

I appreciate the sentiment but I work for Walmart. At this point he leaves me alone. He tried to tell me I couldn't change my schedule for six months, and so I talked to some other people and they were like "what?". And I was like: "Well if he won't accommodate my school schedule I'll just quit." Which I assume he overheard because we sat down and looked at the schedule he's got me on right now and it doesn't interfere with summer and the personnel manager has said she'll put my fall schedule into affect a week or so before school starts. We'll see if this comes true come September.

@Ganymede said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

@Cobaltasaurus

I love you very much. I wish I could help you somehow.

Do you need a letter?

When I'm done with my associate's and desperately looking for work in the field, crying because the training I'm getting isn't really enough to actually prepare me... yes, probably.

@Ganymede said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

Shit, people, how hard is it to pick up the phone or talk to people in the workplace?

When I told the personnel manager she was like: "That wasn't in the schedule I gave you at orientation... I don't know why that's there. I'll take it off."

Que me on the floor redlining, and the offending AM walks up to me, looms over me and says, "I had you scheduled for X to X but it seems you can't do that..."

Que me being intimidated into working 7pm to 11pm on a school night because I was caught off guard and a guy a foot taller than me was looming over me.

@lordbelh said in Any Streamers Out There?:

@Apu , I know that @Cobaltasaurus streams, having watched it for a bit.

I fell down the hole back into Darkest Dungeon, so even though I'm on summer vacation I haven't done anything because ... Darkest Dungeon. XD XD I'm nearing week 110 so it isn't really a good place to stream, and I don't want to start over.

But @Insomnia's post above is great. She has a lot of great advice since she's got experience with this.

@Miss-Demeanor said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

@Royal SIGH

Also... fuck you, Assistant Manager that's changing my schedule AFTER the approved schedule has been made public, without asking for my approval of the change.

My AM did this the first week I was on the floor, he added a day to my schedule without telling me. I only found out because I went to get the schedule that was outside of my first three weeks that Personnel Manager had given me. If I hadn't happen to be looking to >the future< well ahead of time, I would have had a no-call/no-show my second week into the job, because I would have had no idea I was scheduled.

ETA: It was also outside of my availability.

@Glitch said in Short Story Contest:

• Length: 400 - 800 words.

That's not a short story, that's a scene! >:| goes back to the writershop.

ETA: But at least it won't be soul crushing to edit, like a novel.

I thought it was page/noeval? o.O

@Royal said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

@Cobaltasaurus it's my right to wear cat piss to camouflage myself from predators! You can't take that away from me!

No.

@Chime said in Code Teachers?:

@Cobaltasaurus .... escaping mushcode so that it isn't parsed isn't that hard. Really!

Parsing context exists only at the beginning of an lbuf or after [ ... or as an argument to a function that is already being parsed.

I know...? that wasn't really my problem? It was typos rather than not knowing how to escape mushcode.

Or see signature. XD I know what I'm doing, I swear!

http://fallcoast.net/wiki/Code_Teaching_(%2BWho)

We didn't finish, I'll be scheduling another session for a day when I have alittle bit more time.

I know it's walmart but please for the love of god bathe before you come to the store. Or at least wear clothing that doesn't reek of cat piss.

Retail reminds me of how much I hate people.

@silentsophia said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

1. Please do not snap your fingers, whistle and point in front of you like I am a dog. Thank you.

Where the fuck do you work that people act like this? I mean, jesus. I work at a walmart and people aren't that much of an asshole to me.

@DnvnQuinn said in Angel's Legacy: Seeking Help!:

I can try tomorrow if you wanna pm me he address.

Addy is:

angels.mechanipus.com 8000

Hey folks:

I need a few people to come poke at chargen. See if everything works the way it should, etc. I think I've got it working but I'm not 100% positive.

I'm beginning to miss being an administrative assistant. Jesus, I never thought anything could be worse. 8-hours of cashiering is worse.

Also, if you want me to put something on the bottom of the bag MAKE SURE IT ISN'T THE LAST FUCKING ITEM. What the fuck.

Also apparently I need to be faster but bag things the way they want, perfectly. And be friendlier but not talk to people. I'm not even upset anymore, just fucking confused. Do these people know the meaning of the word 'friendly'? I don't think so.

===================> Coding Lessons - Mon Jun 20 17:00 est <===================
Coding lessons! Are you interested in learning MUX code? I'm going to host a lesson. We'll go over:
- Permissions & Inheritance
- @commands vs functions
- Build A +Who!

Time: 2pm PT / 5pm ET This will be no more than 1.5hr long.

Storyteller: Cobaltasaurus
Genre: OOC
Signups: Millicent, Katherine, Toma, Nope, Hamlet, Deckard, and Jackson
========================> 3543: Coding Lessons - Mon Jun 20 17:00 est - 7 <====

It won't be anywhere near as indepth or REAL PROGRAM like @Ashen-Shugar's stuff up above. But it'll hopefully be friendly enough that non-RL programmers will get something out of it. Since I learned to MU* code before anything, I have that as my perspective. It'll be short because I work that afternoon and frankly, I don't want to use my last day off before summer term starts teaching people how to code. (Sorry!)

But I'll probably try to do one the next week depending on how homework and stuff goes.