Fuckwits

The obligatory catching up thread

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There’s a lot I could have been blogging about, but I’ve just either been too tired or not in the mood.

UNTIL NOW!

Of course I haven’t been ignoring the blog. I have been updating the features, even included a nice new steam stats plugin so you can check out what I’ve mostly been playing. Still sucked into Borderlands 2. I even leveled up to 32 last night! Space Engineers has been an interesting experiment. Reminds me of Garrysmod in space with minecraft elements. Speaking of Garrysmod I’ve been running a new cinema server which is pretty cool. It lets you get together with friends to watch things on sites like YouTube, blip or whatever place you want to watch stuff in cinema maps. It’s a fun way to share crazy links, which my group of friends and I seem to enjoy doing in mumble and IRC. Been also playing a bit of Saints Row the third on and off. That game is pretty funny. And of course TF2 which goes without saying. My TF2 servers have become pretty popular, especially Mann vs Machine. In fact on a daily basis I notice people on and off of MvM, regular TF2, CS:GO and L4D2 is usually getting some healthy use. And once on awhile the two gmod servers get some traffic. Especially during the weekend. Never expected the servers to become quite that popular. Even our steam group has grown a small bit. 😀

Already put in for my next vacation. Hopefully I’ll have off during Halloween for some funtime. Also continue my job searching. No luck yet on that front yet btw. But I’m not giving up yet. I’m still determined to get out of there. It seems like everyday when I go to work they find another way to make the employees more miserable, especially with the new rules being put into place by our store manager. I like how you can get written up now if you’re caught not smiling… Yeah, that’s an actual rule. Even if no customers are around if you’re caught with no smile on your face you get into trouble. I didn’t believe it until I saw the email. I’ll save the rest of that BS for another post and another day. It’s my weekend right now and I don’t need to raise my blood pressure.

I can tell I haven’t been here for a few.

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Logged into my blog today and found like, 8 different things to update. Some plugins, a lot of themes I should probably uninstall, and the new WordPress! Up on 4.0 right now.

I’ll probably look into updating the forum either later tonight or tomorrow. Feel like resting my brain a bit today, the last 7 days at work have been pretty nuts. I survived Labor Day and made closer to what I should be making daily. Then I hear of some new rules they’re trying to enforce.

One of them involves not sitting on benches. They’re for the customers only. Which would make sense if not for one minor issue… Our time clock where we punch in and out of is next to one of the benches, where people will usually wait when they’re coming back from lunch. We’ve started retaliating by sitting on the floor next to the bench. Which btw looks really silly when the bench is empty. I had some customers stare at me when I did it the other day. And I guess at one point there were five people sitting on the floor. One of the suggestions is to stand over by the fine jewelery area and window shop all the pretty things… I got yelled at yesterday for sitting on the floor because according to the person in charge at the time you’re not even supposed to be sitting on the floor around it. The email I got says otherwise… I’ll be doing it again. Full asshole mode is enabled right now and I can’t find the off switch.

Another rule that I might get in trouble for involves sitting in our cafe area. You can only sit there if you buy something from the deli area (which I usually buy a drink to go with my lunch (since the tea I bring doesn’t last me throughout the day. 😛 ) and even if you do buy something you have to move to another table if a customer says they want your spot. I can kind of understand if you’re sitting there for your quick break, but for lunch when you’re on your own time? Fuck them all to hell.

At this rate it won’t be long before they enforce limits on using the employee bathroom…

They were at my mercy.

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Yesterday morning before retiring to my bed to slumber I had some interesting phone calls that were left on the answering machine. Apparently I was supposed to start my cashier training yesterday, on my day off… First the trainer called wondering why I wasn’t at work, then my boss who wrote my schedule called telling me I was late (what a laugh), and then about 30 minutes later she called again telling me there was some sort of “scheduling conflict” and that I “was right for not coming in” and “if I could, come in ASAP for training” which I then proceeded to raise my middle finger up to the ceiling, make a pot of tea, and promptly went to sleep. They want me to come in and clean up their mistake? Fuck them.

When I did wake up in the afternoon though I called about a half hour after the training ended for the day (because timing is everything) and they told me that I have my regular schedule back and will have to be rescheduled for the training which can take some time. I’ll have to thank my boss for the most epic fuckup ever witnessed. This buys me some time to write more applications to other places. I even managed to get a hair appointment in finally. Today was just a really, really good day.

The Overlord is on the warpath again.

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I was approached yesterday afternoon by my boss. According to her I will be trained to be a backup cashier, which I have written in the past about declining… constantly. My opinion hasn’t changed on the matter, in fact it’s been getting worse. They’ve been cutting people back even further to the point that the entire store is a skeleton crew. So somehow everyone becoming cashier trained will fix this…?

I already told her that I would be putting in my notice, but having gotten home tonight to think things through I decided that was a little bit much. I’ll talk with her tomorrow, give her some choices. If I get trained I’ll stop working with them and become a pure cashier. At least long enough until another job comes along. I’ll be picking up some job applications tomorrow before work.

Considering I’ve worked there for 7 years and am only making ten cents above minimum wage… what have I got to lose?

These in game items will cost you your first born child… and second.

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Hmmmm, next time I want to buy hats in TF2 I might just have to pop out some babies and sell them on the Chinese market.

A young unmarried couple in China are accused selling not one, but two of their children to human traffickers. The money they got was used for gaming.

The first son was an accident, the second one seems to have been planned specifically:

The mother got pregnant again, and, in an interview, explained that the father “likes buying items in online games, and he likes staying out all night at internet cafes.” Because the couple was apparently using their money for the father’s gaming, the parents then allegedly sold their second son to traffickers to avoid a financial burden.

It’s rather sad as well as mind boggling that they would go through all the trouble just to purchase in game items. Basically the mother allowing herself to become a baby factory just to honor her husband’s gaming habits. Sickening.

The United Racists and special snowflakes of America

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We’ve been playing Mexican music at work every other song as part of a Mexican food promotion, and it’s interesting because it has annoyed certain people. To an extent it annoys me because a lot of the songs are the same with not much variety, but to one lady I helped today she felt it was unamerican to play such music, and when I tried to lightly jest that “Well, America is the worlds melting pot” she blurted out “Next we’ll be playing Iraq music”. I promptly shut up. It would be funny if we were promoting middle eastern food after this though. 😛 It would be such karma.

Then I had a woman show me her friends ass on her smartphone when trying to locate a particular pair of underwear that we didn’t even carry. It was halfway down her ass. She also screamed a lot and on top of that she kept throwing things down on the ground. Her friend looked rather embarrassed and kept saying “Lets go home I’m tired of shopping”.

Oh, I probably won’t be around later today. After I get home I’ll have to wind down and hit the rack early so I get go to work for an early shift. They’re making sure I’m exhausted before my vacation starts.

Special Snowflakes in May

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As planned there were a bunch of customers and hardly anyone around. I have to say I got the nice tourists tonight. After closing though I passed some guy who was complaining that he wanted to go inside to buy batteries after we’ve already been closed and claimed that it was bad business to not let him in… and that he should be let in since there is already a line. I love people and their first world problems.

Speaking of first world problems I’m sure quite a few have already heard about that virgin dude who got upset about how women didn’t throw themselves at his feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ZEjruo5eI

He’s handsome but damn that attitude is just disgusting. Calling yourself “the perfect gentlemen”, “the perfect guy” etc etc is… disturbing. If you have to tell yourself you’re “the perfect guy” you have some serious problems. Enough for ladies to look at you and go “Helllll no”. Not so perfect anymore is he?

At least the parents notified the police ahead of time that he might have been up to something. But nothing really got done until 6 people got killed… I imagine if he were of another color/race things would have been nipped in the bud far sooner.

Wow, talk about a sore loser.

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Have you ever been so pissed off at losing a multiplayer game that you call in a SWAT team? You should probably have your computer/console taken away…

Long Island police dispatched helicopters, emergency vehicles and an army of cops to a home where someone called in a bloody rampage on Tuesday.

They arrived with guns drawn and ready for war — only to find out the call to cops was an act of revenge by a gamer whom the teen who lives inside had just beaten in an online Call of Duty battle.

Amazing what happens when you let children do whatever they want.

Birth Control: It’s for ladies who can’t control their vajayjays

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Do you suffer from wandering vagina syndrome? No? Well, apparently some people think it’s for women who can’t control their labido.

“I think it’s time Republicans no longer accept listening to the Democrats talk about a ‘war on women,’” Huckabee said during a speech at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Washington. “The fact is the Republicans don’t have a war on women, they have a war for women, to empower them to be something other than victims of their gender.”

Yes, they want to empower the ladies… by telling them they can rule over the entire kitchen with an iron fist.

Huckabee said Democrats rely on women believing they are weaker than men and in need of government handouts, including the contraception mandate in Obamacare.

I wonder how these guys would like it if women attacked Viagra and Cialis as much as these guys attack Birth Control. Sounds like fair game to me. 😛

Huckabee said Democrats tell women “they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government.

Oh god…. when I got to Uncle Sugar when I was reading this today I almost spat tea all over my monitor. I mean, Uncle Sugar? Someone needs to make a pimped out Uncle Sam with the title “Uncle Sugar wants yo fine ass to have birth control”.

But in all seriousness why do these guys make women the centerpiece of this war? They always make it sound like the woman is the sex crazed monster and the man just kinda accidentally gets his dick stuck between her legs.