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I love it when an over aggressive customer insists that you must have something because the website said we did.
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That right there may be the reason I don't get promoted, also I don't try.
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I worked retail (video store clerk) for 7 months.
It convinced me that humanity is scum.
I have never worked retail again.
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Pfft. Lightweight. Retail didn't break me! In fact, I wasn't convinced humanity was scum until... wait.
Wait.
Hold on.
Hey: I'm still not! Kind of collectively a jerk, maybe, but, you know. That happens. Peoples be great!
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Except when they're a~%*@#&s or ask me stupid questions or want to haggle.
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Most customers are great or neutral, even when you are messing up. It only takes one jerkwad to put a dent in your mood, though,
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Most customers are great or neutral, even when you are messing up. It only takes one jerkwad to put a dent in your mood, though,
This is very true.
Customer Service is something that I think everyone should be absolutely required to do - and some people more than once, just to remind them.
That's what I mean, though. Although it only takes one person to really kill a good mood, it's almost always just the one (or, on really, really bad days, it might be several, but those are relatively rare).
Far more often are the "accidentally callous" or "ignorance not malice" group who come in, do something unpleasant, but it's from thoughtlessness instead of mean-spiritedness. Sure, that sucks, but you know they're probably nice to some people.
No, the ones that really got to me, were some of my coworkers. Frustrating folk, sometimes, even when I loved 'em.
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man I thought Viz was above censoring things--apparently not
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Today has been very Italian. I take the streetcar to work, and here in San Francisco our PCCs are painted in honor of cities that used PCCs, while the other streetcars come from all over the world and bear the livery of their original city. You never know what will pick you up. Today, it was a Class 1500, originally used in Milan and retired in the 90s, then given to San Francisco. Still bears a Milan paint job, and still has all the Italian language signage inside. Then I went to work, and I needed coffee because I'm running low. Go to buy a can of imported Italian espresso, and it's on sale, so I get more. Break comes, and I'm hungry. What lies before me in the Discovery of the Day display near the register? Soda and fig bars imported from Italy. After work I ask a coworker to help me find a wine I might like, and she finds me an Italian wine. And I bought more Italian soda.
Very Italian day today.
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man I thought Viz was above censoring things--apparently not
lmao they left in the cigarette smoke in the second volume
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Most customers are great or neutral, even when you are messing up. It only takes one jerkwad to put a dent in your mood, though,
We would have wonderful Monday-Thursdays. Then on Friday parents would literally drop off their kids at the video store and vanish for 2 hours while they went off to dinner or a movie. Or they'd just tell the kids to "go play in the kids' section" while they looked for a movie. And Heaven forfend you actually ask the kids to, y'know, behave themselves and not throw the movie cases everywhere. Because then the parents get in your face because you have no business talking to their kids like that.
Fortunately, our owner was totally old school:
Customer: Your employee was just very rude to my children.
Owner: Oh? How so?
Customer: He asked them to stop playing with the video boxes.
Owner: And?
Customer: That's it! He spoke to my children harshly.
Owner: OK. I understand. He was too nice. Get out.
Customer: What?!?!?
Owner: Get out of my store. I don't want your business.
Customer: You can't do that!
Owner: Yes. I'm the owner. I can. Get out of my store now or I'm calling the police and having them escort you out.
Customer: Well, I never!
Owner: Considering how you behave in other people's stores, I'm sure that's true.
Customer: I'm going to tell all my friends about you!
Owner: Good. 'Cause I don't want them coming in my store, either.
This wasn't a one-time event. He kicked out 1-2 customers a week.
Believe it or not, 24 years later he's still a very successful brick-and-mortar video rental store. Customers appreciate owners who don't tolerate bad customers. And honestly, he'd spent hours chatting with the "non-problem" customers about anything at all. He was a totally wonderful guy, but he has a zero tolerance policy for abusive customers, and he had no hesitation about getting in their faces.
Great boss. Terrible job.
EDIT: And I find it rather disturbing that he was the first of two shrewd-and-socially ruthless businessmen who developed the "NobodysHome Test". "If a person is rude to NobodysHome, then they're a complete a-hole because NobodysHome is nice to everyone and so nonconfrontational it's painful."
Pretty much if a customer complained about me, the customer got banned. No questions, no discussion. And I'm afraid I think he was right in every case...
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man I thought Viz was above censoring things--apparently not
this is Viz were talking about.
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man I thought Viz was above censoring things--apparently notthis is Viz were talking about.
Then again my experience with Viz was mostly Inuyasha--besides flipping the art , changing the shapes of speech bubbles and editing sound effects they didn't really do much of any censorship, and there are scenes with kagome bathing in the nude and so forth.
So the fact that they wouldn't censor Kagome bathing but they'd edit out Kaga's cigarette is weird to me lol
EDIT: and now Sai actually mentions the cigarette in volume 2--this is so weird
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noDude, you could have at least linked to Luthor from 'Returns.
We don't talk about that movie...
Let me just say that I remember being 16. Sixteen is awesome.Man... I must have been doing something wrong when I was 16. 16 sucked. Of course, I was an a&%#$@$ Straight Edge kid at that age, so what the f#%@ do I know.Nope, I was straight-edged as well. It's just that we generally don't quite understand just how good we have it at 16. Mostly because we're too busy making really stupid decisions while thinking they're great ones. (Also, I tend to be really happy, sooooo...)
Spoilered due to over-self-indulgence and general seriousness.
The main problem I had at the time was a) dealing with my mother's severe mental health issues, while b) dealing with my own severe mental health issues at the same time. On top of that, I think I took things way too seriously when I was younger, even up through relatively recently when I was in college.
Looking back on my teens and even my 20s, I kind of feel like I forgot to have any fun. I was always too busy dealing with family drama, relationship drama, work, school, health problems, and my own neuroses to ever just let loose. Being Straight Edge probably didn't help any, given that I was very tightly-compressed as it was.
man I thought Viz was above censoring things--apparently notthis is Viz were talking about.Then again my experience with Viz was mostly Inuyasha--besides flipping the art , changing the shapes of speech bubbles and editing sound effects they didn't really do much of any censorship, and there are scenes with kagome bathing in the nude and so forth.
So the fact that they wouldn't censor Kagome bathing but they'd edit out Kaga's cigarette is weird to me lol
EDIT: and now Sai actually mentions the cigarette in volume 2--this is so weird
lmao and now the next page the line is "put out their gum on a go board" they're really sloppy and inconsistent about it haha
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Well I don't care about feel good customer service stories, I'm one of three people here my foot hurts and these stupid pricks are asking if they can get an Avengers bike in a different color.
However I get paid by the hour and I don't care how long it takes me to look:-)
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Maybe a break Smurf will brighten things up :-)
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No, alas now I just want a Christmas present, smurfy:-(
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have I really been drawing for over a decade? Such a strange thought.
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man I thought Viz was above censoring things--apparently notthis is Viz were talking about.Then again my experience with Viz was mostly Inuyasha--besides flipping the art , changing the shapes of speech bubbles and editing sound effects they didn't really do much of any censorship, and there are scenes with kagome bathing in the nude and so forth.
So the fact that they wouldn't censor Kagome bathing but they'd edit out Kaga's cigarette is weird to me lol
EDIT: and now Sai actually mentions the cigarette in volume 2--this is so weird
So... Americans are now more offended by smoking than nudity? I guess that's some progress, at least.
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-_-
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I can get into that.
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EDIT: And I find it rather disturbing that he was the first of two shrewd-and-socially ruthless businessmen who developed the "NobodysHome Test". "If a person is rude to NobodysHome, then they're a complete a-hole because NobodysHome is nice to everyone and so nonconfrontational it's painful."
Pretty much if a customer complained about me, the customer got banned. No questions, no discussion. And I'm afraid I think he was right in every case...
That reminded me of a Gorbacz post stating that there is a special circle in hell for people making Mikaze angry in response to such occurrence...
*sigh*
I wonder where Mikaze is, he haven't posted since April.
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Current project progress: 6/15. Now to sleep.
my go is still embarrassingly bad
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my go is still embarrassingly bad
That is what she said. ~grins and runs~
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16 was a great year for me, I was transforming from a twig of a girl into a young adult with real curves. Nothing makes you feel like a woman more than having boys doing stupid things when you're around. Like this one poor boy who was so busy staring at my chest he walked straight into a metal door frame, just like on TV. It was wonderful.
I've never done that. Never! Never never! Nethers Nethers Neth....
Whoops.
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That article would be so much easier to read if there weren't huge pictures every two paragraphs.
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Today has been very Italian. I take the streetcar to work, and here in San Francisco our PCCs are painted in honor of cities that used PCCs, while the other streetcars come from all over the world and bear the livery of their original city. You never know what will pick you up. Today, it was a Class 1500, originally used in Milan and retired in the 90s, then given to San Francisco. Still bears a Milan paint job, and still has all the Italian language signage inside. Then I went to work, and I needed coffee because I'm running low. Go to buy a can of imported Italian espresso, and it's on sale, so I get more. Break comes, and I'm hungry. What lies before me in the Discovery of the Day display near the register? Soda and fig bars imported from Italy. After work I ask a coworker to help me find a wine I might like, and she finds me an Italian wine. And I bought more Italian soda.
Very Italian day today.
Looks like all your missing is a cafe with red and white striped tablecloths and Bocce ball in the park
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I was 16 when I pulled my favorite prank.
I was hanging out with my friends in the hallway after school, and one of my friends had a long trench coat. I asked him to borrow it and went to put on my gym shorts. Then I put my pants back on and dropped them around my ankles and put the trench coat on over it.
Then I shuffled my way into the cheerleaders' practice - long coat, pants around my ankles - and turned toward them, slowly opening the coat to reveal my... fully clothed body. Then I turned around and shuffled away.
The cheerleading coach was livid, but all the girls thought it was hilarious and kept me from getting in trouble.
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I was 16 when I pulled my favorite prank.
I was hanging out with my friends in the hallway after school, and one of my friends had a long trench coat. I asked him to borrow it and went to put on my gym shorts. Then I put my pants back on and dropped them around my ankles and put the trench coat on over it.
Then I shuffled my way into the cheerleaders' practice - long coat, pants around my ankles - and turned toward them, slowly opening the coat to reveal my... fully clothed body. Then I turned around and shuffled away.
The cheerleading coach was livid, but all the girls thought it was hilarious and kept me from getting in trouble.
That does sound hilarious.
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My 16th year was pretty cool, I got my drivers license and my first car a 1977 datsun b-210. I totally tricked it out with a kraco cassette player and louvers on the back window.
I got my first job working at round hill country club cleaning golf carts making $3.35/hr. My buddy worked in the kitchen and occasionaly would get beer. We would take the golf carts out on the course and go to the sandtrap by the 17th hole and drink the night away without a care in the world...
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Family drama
I understand exactly how much that can suck. It's not just you: anyone who goes through significant emotional drama like that can have bad impressions of that age of their time... and for them it can be totally correct.
I hope your life is pretty solid, now, though!
(That said, I was totally that studious unpopular, far-too-adult kid. I mean, I had a circle of friends, but... I was a neeeeerrrrrrrrd.)
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Cap: have you gone through three avatars today already?
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(That said, I was totally that studious unpopular, far-too-adult kid. I mean, I had a circle of friends, but... I was a neeeeerrrrrrrrd.)
I was just a straight-up nerd, not even the "too adult" kind because I was most certainly not that. And by my junior year, I didn't even have the excuse of being super-great at school, as my grades plummetted badly in my sophomore year (mostly due to biology, math, and Spanish) and never really recovered. But my junior year also was the year I stopped being "the kid that everyone (even the underclassmen) picked on and made fun of" and just started being "that kid who doesn't have a lot of friends but nobody really bothers anymore". Mostly because the people who were my worst harassers and antagonists either dropped out or graduated.
The curse of being socially awkward and shy, having highly nerdy interests like video games and fantasy, having very little interest in girls and dating and thus being considered uncool at best and gay at worst, and having an extremely easy-to-mock surname was basically the perfect storm for ridicule, and the first 10 years of my schooling was basically a constant stream of that. High school was really the only point at which it slacked off.
Also forgot to add in my list, that was the year I discovered the One-Act Play and got involved. I missed out on two years of potential fun because nobody ever told me where to go or who to talk to to get involved.
I got along great with most teachers, though. To the point some kids considered me a suck-up. I have very few fond memories of interaction with my fellow students except in band and OAP, but I have several fond memories of teachers.
Those two were really the only places I had... not friends, really, but positively-inclined acquaintances. People who didn't make fun of me at the first opportunity, and were content to just live and let live. Outside them, by my junior year my best friend had moved away, my next-best friend had dropped out, and my brother - always significantly more popular than me, by leagues - had his own group of friends so we spent very little time together after the first couple of months of his freshman year/my junior year.
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I'm good, got a bad ass Dragon, for now...
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not even the "too adult" kind because I was most certainly not that
By contrast, no one could call me "too adult" now in my life.
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I'm good, got a bad ass Dragon, for now...
Why would you want a dragon with flatulence, diarrhea, and prolapse?
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^ THE-EVIDENCE-SPEAKS-FOR-ITSELF ^
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not even the "too adult" kind because I was most certainly not thatBy contrast, no one could call me "too adult" now in my life.
I'm sorry didn't catch that, I was too busy playing Pokemon and writing my fantasy story while listening to video game music and planning my next D&D session.
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My two main issues with Michael Bay TMNT (now that I've seen it 6 times in a week)
Not enough Splinter (especially fighting!)
In order to connect April O'Neill to the turtles they completely disconnected them from Shredder.
Also if they're giving Shredder General Kale's armor (evil general in Willow) give him the awesome beard too.
Edit: I should say his face plate, except more modern, also like Willow they love to do a nefarious zoom in on his face.
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Let's be honest, if it weren't for our jobs and/or family responsibilities, would anyone here be considered truly "adult" in the normal cliche understanding of the term in this context? ;)
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My two main issues with Michael Bay TMNT (now that I've seen it 6 times in a week)
Something that movie made me think of is the old complaint by a standup comedian, I think it was Bill Engvall.
I want, just once in some movie, for someone to take it seriously when a main character shows up, obviously agitated and distressed, saying they saw something unusual. Instead of this usual "I don't believe you"/"Were you drunk?"/"Stop making things up" nonsense that every movie in the past forty years has used in that exact same situation.
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I was 16 when I pulled my favorite prank.
I was hanging out with my friends in the hallway after school, and one of my friends had a long trench coat. I asked him to borrow it and went to put on my gym shorts. Then I put my pants back on and dropped them around my ankles and put the trench coat on over it.
Then I shuffled my way into the cheerleaders' practice - long coat, pants around my ankles - and turned toward them, slowly opening the coat to reveal my... fully clothed body. Then I turned around and shuffled away.
The cheerleading coach was livid, but all the girls thought it was hilarious and kept me from getting in trouble.
sir, you had me at cheerleader.
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Doing my first D&D Encounters session tonight. Out of the Abyss first three chapters with almost no prep time and no information about anywhere other than the Sloobludop in the PDF. Two players (my friends) will be completely new as well.
Surely, hilarity will ensue.