That time of the year again

There was going to be a Vlog today, but Bioshock Infinite kept crapping out whenever I tried to Alt+Tab to set it up in OBS classic. I’ll try to aim for next Thursday or Friday, possibly both if I have enough time.

Speaking of time, there was none today. We received a ton of Black Friday freight on top of regular freight that had to be broken down. I remember last year and even earlier this year when a freight load was this large I was either scheduled or requested to come in early. But due to our shrinking numbers in people and hours that seems to be impossible, much like finishing up today. It was impossible, especially with every Tuesday being Geriatric Tuesday until Christmas.

That of course brought in some interesting people persons. There was one old man that grabbed a screen protector for an iPhone 6 and thought it was an iPhone. Another one wanted to know which iPhone case worked for her Samsung Galaxy Sky, and there were others. Between the excessive amount of merchandise and the constant traffic with a bare bones staff it just kind of ate at me. I can’t wait until Christmas just to get this damned stuff over with.

I thought the older were wiser

I’m not sure what it is, but my last couple of work days have been a bit more interesting than usual. On Sunday I had a lady that didn’t know what the word “simplistic” meant, and yesterday I had another lady that didn’t know what a “commercial” was. Both ladies were at least in their mid to late 50’s, and native English speakers.

Here’s what happened on Sunday: I helped a lady who wanted to find a Windows 10 compatible mouse, and I told her that all the mice we sold were simplistic to install, she interrupts me and asks me “What does simplistic mean? Does it mean it’s simple?” I wanted to pull a mirror out of my pocket, have her look into it and tell her “No, I’m talking about you…” But other than that she was a nice person, but strange… She wanted to know if I knew the tax rates of all other 49 states because, you know, that’s something that I should know right? Turns out she lived in California and wanted to buy a steam gift card to get Stardew Valley for herself. More power to her, but she kept asking me math questions to try and get me to confirm answers for her…

Of course that was much more pleasant than the other lady. She was an all out total bitchface. She wanted to buy a TV, and she was looking at the commercials playing on all the TV’s assuming that what was on the TV had something to do with it… it was a commercial for Uncharted 4. I explained that to her and then she said “WHAT IS A COMMERCIAL?” Which threw me the fuck off because how can you not know? Especially since I’m pretty sure she was around when the first commercial was invented… So I explained it to her, telling her that it’s an advertisement for a Playstation 4 game “Oh, well I don’t want that.”. Already I was missing the Stardew lady… When did words like “Simplistic” and “Commercial” become too scary and confusing for people? Son of a bitch… No wonder Donald Trump won the GOP. I’m a fucking thesaurus compared to Mr “I’m good at words”.

Oh well, on the same day Stardew lady needed help I did help a friendly gay couple choose between Star Wars Battlefront and Fallout 4 by telling them that it was “Skyrim With Guns”, and we all laughed. So maybe there is still some hope for humanity…

Happy Stupid Day

Today wasn’t one of my better days. I broke down all my freight and things were going well, that was until the store opened. It’s geriatric discount day and everyone came into shop. My first customer bought a prepaid cellphone card, and in Oregon we have a 911 tax, 75 cents goes to the state to fund 911 calls since less and less people are using landlines and moving to cellphones. And this customer was bitching about how he shouldn’t have to pay this tax because he never needs to call 911… Kinda makes me wish there was a program where you need to signup just in case you need to use 911, and if you don’t signup for it then you can’t dial it with your phone. Then on the off chance where they need to call 911 and can’t then we can at least say we’re thinning the herd.

Then I had to help a bitchy lady with a camera purchase. She wanted me to pick out the SD card for her because she didn’t understand how storage capacity works. She literally told me in her own words “Please do my thinking for me.” Then she also wanted me to pull out the camera, put the batteries in and the SD card before buying it… My boss gave me the ok to do so, so I did. And I may have “accidentally” set the SD card to read only mode. :v

I also had to activate a phone for someone and help another who didn’t know how to turn his phone on because apparently the red button where it said “PWR” alluded him. But they were much nicer so I took the time to help them, even though reading instructions was too hard for them. Everyone else was actually quite pleasant. And my bosses didn’t get on my case about not getting the freight finished or put away, probably because I looked like I was going to beat someone with a wii controller. Or shove a selfie stick up someones arse. That would actually be a good use of one now that I think about it. A selfie AND a colonoscopy all in one? That could be marketable!

Oh and on the ride home we almost got hit by another dumbshit’s car because he was too busy looking in another direction while swerving behind us. They looked to be about my age so they weren’t senile, just fucking dumb. There were lots of dumb people today. Dumb dumb dumb.

I’d have gone to sleep by now but needed a bite to eat and needed to take out a bit of my rage in Elder Scrolls Online. I escaped Cold Harbour and made it to the world of the living near a ship. I made my character a Khajit Sorcerer. It’s been pretty fun so far, but it’ll take some getting used to. This isn’t like Skyrim where I can live out my random fantasy of being a khajit tailed cyberninja with dragon wings, troll moons, pogo hammers and anything else that could feed my absurd imagination. But it certainly did bring back good feelings like I used to have in Uru when I still had a warm happy feeling for that game. I’ll need to get back to it. ESO that is… People seem to be friendlier there.

Survived.

Well, I managed to survive through yet another Geriatric Tuesday. I’m real beat. Allergies have been bugging me too. I think I’ve sneezed 17 times within the last half hour… Might pop a benadryl even though it makes me drowzy. That might do me some good though because I have to be to work a bit earlier tomorrow for the 4th.

Work today was absolute chaos. People crowding everywhere emptying the shelves and 4 managers giving us orders that had no consistency (in otherwords a regular day plus 2 extra managers). We did get one extra body to help us tonight, or they would have if they didn’t call him to check the moment he got there. sigh

Decided to run windoze update tonight to get some security fixes (since I’m on an x64 platform) and surprisingly I only had to restart twice. O_o

Geriatric Tuesday Open Thread

Good god work was busy today. it didn’t help that one of the guys we had working with us was being a total asshat. I asked him to get something for a customer because I was being bombarded with orders and other customers and ended up having to do what I asked him to do because he decided he’d rather have a thumb up his ass. Not only that but apparently two customers were waiting around for 20 minutes for something he was supposed to get them. Christedy Christ Christ Christ what a fuckwit.

Currently at work on this weeks episode of YCDTOXB. It’ll be much longer than the last couple I released. I may even release a Vlog within a few days.

Geriatric Tuesday Open Thread

Well… Today I learned that I didn’t order enough bread to feed the old zombies. I spent 8am through 2pm doing nothing but trying to get bread to the shelf to feed the masses. We’re practically out now until Thursday. This is why I hate it whenever they put me on bread ordering duty. I always have to figure out how much to order one week ahead of time, what sale is taking place, how many people might be in and how the weather will be like. How the fuck do they expect me to figure this shit out at 6 in the fucking morning? For fucks sake I either order too much or not enough…

Short night again.

I got extended at work tonight till 10pm. Not only that, they want me to come in tomorrow at 10 am and I’ll be off no later than 7pm. So I’ll be bringing my gaming laptop methinks, nothing like pretending all the zombies in L4D are your daily customers…

So it’s eat, do a quick checkup on what’s going on in the world, shower, pack a lunch, pack laptop, lay out clothes, wash thermos, select teabag for it, then sleep. What a way to end Geriatric Tuesday

On another note, someone thought I was from another country tonight for whatever reason. Like Russia or Ukraine. The last time that happened someone thought I was British or Canadian. It’s pretty sad that people think you’re from another country because you’re not a lard ass like everyone else.