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Re: Things that are things.

Postby sunglasses » Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:29 pm

Just emailed my resignation letter. Thought I'd be getting a response back but...crickets.

Huh.

Lol, right after I posted I got a call. It turns out my contact person at my contract company has been out sick for 3 days. So they didn't find out until my GM boss called them.

"Is there anything we can do to keep you?

"Make your insurance more affordable"

Which I know they can't do.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby Paradox » Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:07 pm

So, I never got the appeal of tide pods. I know they're supposed to look like sweet tasty fruity candy, but they never seemed appetizing for me. Which is probably for the best.

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Then they go and release this:

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Fuck. I'd go through a stomach pumping to have a bite out of this.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby Anglerphobe » Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:14 pm

It may say something unflattering about our civilisation that plastic pouches of bright orange and blue liquid can be said to look like our favourite treats.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby D-LOGAN » Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:33 pm

They do look tasty-

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Re: Things that are things.

Postby jbobsully11 » Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:27 am

It’s fun watching old people yell at the TV whenever non-‘murican units are mentioned, especially when I get to explain that “ton” can refer to two different things.
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Re: Things that are things.

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Re: Things that are things.

Postby JamishT » Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:35 am

So there was this dude at work who worked in my department, and was pretty reliable. He showed up on time, didn't take overly long breaks, and we shared good laughs when our shifts overlapped. A few days ago I heard a manager call him over the walkie to meet them somewhere... and then a few minutes later the store manager found me in the backroom to tell me that he wasn't coming back. Today, I found out that he had been stealing iPhones from the store like a complete idiot. He now is being charged with a felony (because of the value of the items he was stealing) and will never be allowed back to the store (duh).

Also, tonight I said see ya to the only manager I've ever considered asking out, because she's getting transferred to a different store. I never made a move because dating a manager is a dumb move and she mentioned a boyfriend. And called me "buddy".

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Re: Things that are things.

Postby Malfeasinator » Sun Jan 28, 2018 2:14 pm

JamishT wrote:So there was this dude at work who worked in my department, and was pretty reliable. He showed up on time, didn't take overly long breaks, and we shared good laughs when our shifts overlapped. A few days ago I heard a manager call him over the walkie to meet them somewhere... and then a few minutes later the store manager found me in the backroom to tell me that he wasn't coming back. Today, I found out that he had been stealing iPhones from the store like a complete idiot. He now is being charged with a felony (because of the value of the items he was stealing) and will never be allowed back to the store (duh).

Also, tonight I said see ya to the only manager I've ever considered asking out, because she's getting transferred to a different store. I never made a move because dating a manager is a dumb move and she mentioned a boyfriend. And called me "buddy".

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You're not still on nights, are you?

Paradox wrote:So, I never got the appeal of tide pods. I know they're supposed to look like sweet tasty fruity candy, but they never seemed appetizing for me. Which is probably for the best.

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Then they go and release this:

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Fuck. I'd go through a stomach pumping to have a bite out of this.


It looks death, or licorice, and I'm not sure which is worse.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby JamishT » Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:19 pm

Yeah I'm on the closing shift still. Not sure what that has anything to do with anything though.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby Doodle Dee. Snickers » Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:52 am

Yeah, dating a coworker is NEVER a good idea. There's one right now I kinda like, she's being kinda cute when we talk, but I'm just like "Nope. I've learned this lesson the hard way already".

Anyways, reading Oliver Twist makes me think that maybe I should mess around with a narration/serial format like that, because I have a story that I think would work well with it that's a very frontier-y space exploration adventure. I just need to find a site that publishes serials of that nature.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby cmsellers » Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:10 am

Doodle Dee. Snickers wrote:Anyways, reading Oliver Twist makes me think that maybe I should mess around with a narration/serial format like that, because I have a story that I think would work well with it that's a very frontier-y space exploration adventure. I just need to find a site that publishes serials of that nature.

Your best bet is a fan or semi-pro zine, either finding or starting one. There are now plenty of publishers for novels these days and people read periodicals because they prefer short stories. I don't know of any professional market that accepts unsolicited serials; I'm not sure if there are any that publish them at all.

However I know of at least one fan zine which later where the primary editor had his own serial as a weekly feature for the first entire run (it was later rebooted as a semi-pro zine with a different editor), and that zine also published shorter serials from other writers. There's a lot of fan zines out there, and if you decide to start your own fan zine it will give you insight into the editorial process from the other side.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby Delta Jim » Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:26 am

The other day I saw a car with a bumper sticker that said "Dogma free since 325 AD". It was clearly a religious thing (specifically Judeo-Christian), but I couldn't think of any historical events that would be considered "freeing oneself from dogma" that happened in 325 (granted, I'm no theological historian, I just know that my best guess, the Protestant Reformation, happened several centuries later). So I looked it up and this is the only religion-related thing I could find that happened in 325 AD:

Wikipedia wrote:May 20 – First Council of Nicaea: Constantine I summons an ecumenical council of bishops in Nicaea (Turkey). The Nicene Creed declares that the members of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) are equal. The council decides that Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Arius is exiled to Illyria; his works are confiscated and consigned to the flames.


Still not sure how exactly saying Jesus and God are equally divine counts as being "dogma free". In fact, I feel like burning the writings of some guy who said otherwise is kind of dogmatic.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby Malfeasinator » Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:42 am

I mentioned nights because I did nights for years, it's usually my fallback shift for new crappy jobs, but it's no way to really live life. You don't get as many chances to socialize, and days and nights blur together and before you know it, a lot of time has passed you by.

And the shitty thing is that managers don't remember you. You do all this thankless work and nights get blamed for all kinds of stuff. You're the background performer in a kabuki show, a man in black that moves the sets and people around, and though you get stuff done, you'll never be known and hardly get a chance to ever get promoted.

You might take a pay cut if you get transferred to days, but it's the only way to move up in that world.
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Re: Things that are things.

Postby JamishT » Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:19 am

Malfeasinator wrote:I mentioned nights because I did nights for years, it's usually my fallback shift for new crappy jobs, but it's no way to really live life. You don't get as many chances to socialize, and days and nights blur together and before you know it, a lot of time has passed you by.

And the shitty thing is that managers don't remember you. You do all this thankless work and nights get blamed for all kinds of stuff. You're the background performer in a kabuki show, a man in black that moves the sets and people around, and though you get stuff done, you'll never be known and hardly get a chance to ever get promoted.

You might take a pay cut if you get transferred to days, but it's the only way to move up in that world.


Ah yeah. That's definitely true. In my situation I'm the closer from a team of 4 or 5 people, so I'm the background worker of the background team. Thankfully, I do get recognition from management, mostly because I've been there for like 4 years where most people last a few months. The store manager, after telling me that the other guy wasn't coming back to work, asked me if I have any friends I could get to apply, to which I replied, "Brenda, I don't have any friends!"

I don't know why, but, to me, that's one of the funniest things I've said at work.
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