Well, nothing's really pissed me off lately that's blog worthy. Of course work is always a good pisser offer lol But that's nothing new and would be too monotonous to blog work all the time *g*
I could go on a mini rant about trying to lose weight. Why is it so easy to turn into a fat cow, but so hard to get thin? LOL
I started first by cutting waaay down on junk food for a month, lost 5 pounds (yay!), then I cut waaaaay down on drinking pop, switched to iced tea, lost another 5 pounds (yay!). SO...after about 3 months of limiting junk (I still eat some on occasion, but not three meals a day like I used to...I swear if I get cut, I'd bleed chocolate sauce) I decided to start exercising. Now, I find regular exercise to be very boring so when somebody suggested playing DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) would be an excellent workout, I decided that that could be fun exercise. I bought Dance Praise which is just like DDR but with Christian music. I like it. There's a mode where you can start out slow and easy, but each song gets just a weeee bit more difficult. I can usually go 30 minutes on this mode before getting worn out. There's also an arcade mode where if you hit the steps correctly, you get power ups, some good and some bad. I like the confetti one, covers the screen in confetti *g* This game also comes with a calorie counter. It counts how many calories you've burned by doing the dances. I went through 5 songs...and burned 38 calories...that's the yogurt I had for breakfast LOL
Just thought of something else to rant about....last minute notices. My pastor wants to start a puppet ministry, but we have no puppets. He also sprung it on me last Sunday that he wants me to write the puppet skits for VBS, but could I have them done in a week or two so we can practice acting them out and get them pre-recorded before VBS week (June 22-25). Uh yeah sure...I'll just call in sick for an entire week so I have the time. And as for doing these with no puppets....that'll be fun LOL
Something good that happened at work Saturday night....I stopped a $1500 liquor theft. Of course one of the clerks on Sunday told me I was racial profiling for watching these guys in the first place...but if I wasn't watching, they'd have gone out the door with $1500 in liquor. I was covering the camera counter for a break. I stepped into the little back room for a couple minutes and kept hearing bottles clanking together. I peeked out the door and saw 3 black men loading up a shopping cart. I stood back where I could see them but they couldn't see me and watched for a bit. I saw one of them pushing the cart down the aisle, so I stepped out of the back room where I could be seen and just stared at them. The one pushed the cart back into the aisle and they spent about another 5 minutes looking to see what I was doing (staring at them lol). He signaled to his buddies to drop what they had, then they started to wander and hang out in front of the camera counter. I kept staring *g*. The 'leader' asked if we carried Rose...I knew they knew we had Rose, they were just over in that aisle loading up so I told him I didn't know liquor, if we had it it would be on the wine wall. He said he couldn't find any, didn't want me going to help look, and the three left empty handed. After the clerk came back from break, I went down the aisle and found the shopping cart filled with $500 of liquor. Just before we were leaving, the clerk found a hand basket with more liquor...and it was filled, it took both of us to lift it into a cart. I put everything in the back room for the manager to see the next morning. The liquor manager was ordering, and found another hand basket with even more liquor. The 2 managers watched the security tape from the previous night, and saw that one of the guys actually went into the liquor back room and took 3 bottles of $45 tequila. Once everything was totalled up, it was almost $1500. What did I get from the company for stopping $1500 from walking out the door...."good job". That's it..."Good job" When the store manager gets back from vacation, I MIGHT get a $5 customer service award coupon...wow.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
More stupidity...
Wow...2 days in a row posting!!! It's a miracle! (Now if I could just get readers ROFL)
More stupidity in the news today.
A Florida mother is demanding her daughter's school destroy and reprint their yearbooks. The reason? Her daughter wore a short skirt with no panties on the day the club pictures were taken, sat in the front row, and may have exposed herself in the picture. Story Here
The daughter's reasoning? She didn't want panty lines. Huh? Who sees panty lines when you're sitting on your tush? Anybody looking that closely to pictures shouldn't be in posession of a school yearbook!
Moral to this story: If you're going to go without underpants, wear a longer skirt.
More stupidity in the news today.
A Florida mother is demanding her daughter's school destroy and reprint their yearbooks. The reason? Her daughter wore a short skirt with no panties on the day the club pictures were taken, sat in the front row, and may have exposed herself in the picture. Story Here
The daughter's reasoning? She didn't want panty lines. Huh? Who sees panty lines when you're sitting on your tush? Anybody looking that closely to pictures shouldn't be in posession of a school yearbook!
Moral to this story: If you're going to go without underpants, wear a longer skirt.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Great message!
While driving home from work I was following this guy: 
Normally following somebody in a motorcycle isn't a big deal, but this is what the back of his t-shirt said:
So, we see he's advertising safety, and has a cute picture of a sad face with a head booboo...so..
WHY WASN'T HE WEARING A HELMET?
Monday, April 13, 2009
Horrendous "customer service"
This is actually my sister's issue.
Some back story first:
My sister and brother in law homeschool my 2 nieces. He's on disability so they order the girls curriculum one month at a time, when his disability check comes in. Every time, they have delivery issues.
The packages come via UPS. The last 3 shipments were never delivered. They call UPS, UPS says the driver attempted a delivery but was unable. They once were told they were in too dangerous a neighborhood...but they live across the street from the police station! They've also been told that they would need to go to UPS to pick up their package...50 miles away! They've been told that the driver attempted delivery but nobody was home. OK....on disability, neither one works so somebody is home all day. No trucks even drove past the house.
There was supposed to be some curriculum for the youngest one delivered today. I even spent a few hours over there and never saw a truck...but the tracking said "attempted delivery, signature not available". Huh? Where did they attempt to deliver? Were they trying the wrong building? If so, don't they double check addresses first? They're supposed to try again tomorrow, and my sister is going to call once an hour to make sure they deliver. My brother in law is going to contact the BBB (since this has happened three times), and they're going to see if their supplier can ship via Fed Ex from now on.
Anybody else have trouble getting UPS to deliver packages?
Some back story first:
My sister and brother in law homeschool my 2 nieces. He's on disability so they order the girls curriculum one month at a time, when his disability check comes in. Every time, they have delivery issues.
The packages come via UPS. The last 3 shipments were never delivered. They call UPS, UPS says the driver attempted a delivery but was unable. They once were told they were in too dangerous a neighborhood...but they live across the street from the police station! They've also been told that they would need to go to UPS to pick up their package...50 miles away! They've been told that the driver attempted delivery but nobody was home. OK....on disability, neither one works so somebody is home all day. No trucks even drove past the house.
There was supposed to be some curriculum for the youngest one delivered today. I even spent a few hours over there and never saw a truck...but the tracking said "attempted delivery, signature not available". Huh? Where did they attempt to deliver? Were they trying the wrong building? If so, don't they double check addresses first? They're supposed to try again tomorrow, and my sister is going to call once an hour to make sure they deliver. My brother in law is going to contact the BBB (since this has happened three times), and they're going to see if their supplier can ship via Fed Ex from now on.
Anybody else have trouble getting UPS to deliver packages?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Hang up and Shop!
I know I'm not the only retail worker who is really peeved by people who chatter away on their cell phones while we're trying to wait on them.
I had one today. I was covering a break at the camera counter. I was running a roll of film, and heard the woman talking away on her phone. She was standing at the register, but made no move to end or even pause her conversation. I finished the roll of film I was working on, looked up, said "I'll be right with you"...THEN she decided to put her phone down.
Something else that peeves me is those bluetooth earphones. I see people walking through the store holding conversations...and it looks like they're talking to their cart of groceries. "Hello broccoli, are you having a nice ride in the shopping cart?" I thought one of these people were trying to ask me a question, so I said "Pardon?"...and they snipped I'm on the PHONE!" Like I can tell, you're not holding a phone and I see you talking to yourself.
Have you ever been stuck behind one of these in the checkout line? They feel the need to finish their conversation before even bothering to look for their money, then it's the checker's fault when they can't find enough because they're searching through purses with one hand while the other is holding a phone (actually, some people should try super glue then they'll have a hands free!) and talking so much that they don't even know what they're looking for.
Please...just hang up the phone until you're done shopping!
I had one today. I was covering a break at the camera counter. I was running a roll of film, and heard the woman talking away on her phone. She was standing at the register, but made no move to end or even pause her conversation. I finished the roll of film I was working on, looked up, said "I'll be right with you"...THEN she decided to put her phone down.
Something else that peeves me is those bluetooth earphones. I see people walking through the store holding conversations...and it looks like they're talking to their cart of groceries. "Hello broccoli, are you having a nice ride in the shopping cart?" I thought one of these people were trying to ask me a question, so I said "Pardon?"...and they snipped I'm on the PHONE!" Like I can tell, you're not holding a phone and I see you talking to yourself.
Have you ever been stuck behind one of these in the checkout line? They feel the need to finish their conversation before even bothering to look for their money, then it's the checker's fault when they can't find enough because they're searching through purses with one hand while the other is holding a phone (actually, some people should try super glue then they'll have a hands free!) and talking so much that they don't even know what they're looking for.
Please...just hang up the phone until you're done shopping!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Work is crap
Yeah, in this economy, I'm thankful to at least HAVE a job...even though it only pays $10.75 per week and there's so many deductions that my take home is about half of that...
Every Wednesday I have to place an order. Orders are due by 2pm. I get to work at 8am...then have to spend several hours just trying to find an order gun. The store has 7 guns, one is permanently kept in grocery receiving, the others are supposed to be split, 3 to Osco, and 3 to Jewel...it never happens that way. There were a lot of complaints about not having available guns so when the company got new guns, some brilliant buffoon made the decision to keep them all at the service desk and have people check them out. That's fine...however NOBODY CHECKS THEM OUT! I go to check, there are 2 out of 6 guns checked out, but none available. Now, I think I'm pretty decent at math....unless the "new" math has changed things....6 guns minus 2 checked out...there should have been hmmmm 4? available. Hmmmm nope. No guns. Walk around the store asking everybody "Do you have a gun?" "Hmmm nope" (while hiding one behind their backs) Normally, I don't get an order gun until about 10 or 11am. My department takes at least 2 hours for a decent order. I take a 30 minute lunch at noon...so getting a gun at 11, I only get an hour to order before lunch, and an hour after. Not really enough time for a very good order. OTC is not a department that can survive a half-assed order, however when the equipment is not available, what is somebody to do?
Also...a few weeks ago (actually almost a month now) I took a vacation week to try to help save payroll. I was assured that while I was gone that my department would be taken care of. It wasn't. A month later I'm STILL trying to catch up. Here's the scoop: All our overstock is programmed into the ordering guns, so that if we order something that we have overstock, we're alerted. After our order is transmitted, we get a printout (a pull sheet) of items to be taken from overstock and filled to the sales floor. We get 2 of these a week. During vacation, my pull sheets were given to one of our night shift high school kids. Instead of taking the product from overstock and filling the sales floor, she marked off and initialed the pull sheet and filed it. The product was still in overstock. Meaning that when I came back, I had to reprogram everything. That normally could be done in a couple days...but not in the retail world. It's taken a month because every time I tried, I got called away to help somebody else with their job...but getting no help at all with mine....except for the high school kid who messed it all up in the first place.
So today...2 hours to get a gun, I'm trying to order, getting paged every 10 minutes for some stupid thing and I have people all over trying to take my gun. I get my order done (half-assed), take a break, then start re-programming my overstock. Apparently the boss isn't happy because this means that I'm actually utilizing the space in my bay, and he can't store his overstock liquor there. I'm in the middle of re-programming (with a department the size of mine, this could be an all day project, between re-stacking, organizing, and condensing boxes) the boss says that my department is a mess and I need to face it up before I go home. Hmmm OK, but the guy who does date codes was in today and he faced it while doing date codes. SO...I decided that I'd do what I could today, and do the rest tomorrow...but I finish MY work FIRST before doing anybody else's. Thursday is ad audit day...the gal who does our audits complained about the amount of work she has to do, so they decide that since I have nothing to do on Thursdays that I could take half her audits. Anybody else in that store can get all the audits done in one 8 hour shift, but for some reason she can't....why? Very poor time management skills...and she spends about 2-3 hours snooping to see what everybody has in their desks and overstock areas.
Such is the world of retail.
Every Wednesday I have to place an order. Orders are due by 2pm. I get to work at 8am...then have to spend several hours just trying to find an order gun. The store has 7 guns, one is permanently kept in grocery receiving, the others are supposed to be split, 3 to Osco, and 3 to Jewel...it never happens that way. There were a lot of complaints about not having available guns so when the company got new guns, some brilliant buffoon made the decision to keep them all at the service desk and have people check them out. That's fine...however NOBODY CHECKS THEM OUT! I go to check, there are 2 out of 6 guns checked out, but none available. Now, I think I'm pretty decent at math....unless the "new" math has changed things....6 guns minus 2 checked out...there should have been hmmmm 4? available. Hmmmm nope. No guns. Walk around the store asking everybody "Do you have a gun?" "Hmmm nope" (while hiding one behind their backs) Normally, I don't get an order gun until about 10 or 11am. My department takes at least 2 hours for a decent order. I take a 30 minute lunch at noon...so getting a gun at 11, I only get an hour to order before lunch, and an hour after. Not really enough time for a very good order. OTC is not a department that can survive a half-assed order, however when the equipment is not available, what is somebody to do?
Also...a few weeks ago (actually almost a month now) I took a vacation week to try to help save payroll. I was assured that while I was gone that my department would be taken care of. It wasn't. A month later I'm STILL trying to catch up. Here's the scoop: All our overstock is programmed into the ordering guns, so that if we order something that we have overstock, we're alerted. After our order is transmitted, we get a printout (a pull sheet) of items to be taken from overstock and filled to the sales floor. We get 2 of these a week. During vacation, my pull sheets were given to one of our night shift high school kids. Instead of taking the product from overstock and filling the sales floor, she marked off and initialed the pull sheet and filed it. The product was still in overstock. Meaning that when I came back, I had to reprogram everything. That normally could be done in a couple days...but not in the retail world. It's taken a month because every time I tried, I got called away to help somebody else with their job...but getting no help at all with mine....except for the high school kid who messed it all up in the first place.
So today...2 hours to get a gun, I'm trying to order, getting paged every 10 minutes for some stupid thing and I have people all over trying to take my gun. I get my order done (half-assed), take a break, then start re-programming my overstock. Apparently the boss isn't happy because this means that I'm actually utilizing the space in my bay, and he can't store his overstock liquor there. I'm in the middle of re-programming (with a department the size of mine, this could be an all day project, between re-stacking, organizing, and condensing boxes) the boss says that my department is a mess and I need to face it up before I go home. Hmmm OK, but the guy who does date codes was in today and he faced it while doing date codes. SO...I decided that I'd do what I could today, and do the rest tomorrow...but I finish MY work FIRST before doing anybody else's. Thursday is ad audit day...the gal who does our audits complained about the amount of work she has to do, so they decide that since I have nothing to do on Thursdays that I could take half her audits. Anybody else in that store can get all the audits done in one 8 hour shift, but for some reason she can't....why? Very poor time management skills...and she spends about 2-3 hours snooping to see what everybody has in their desks and overstock areas.
Such is the world of retail.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Village Ordinances
Gotta love how village ordinances work so well to protect the residents. NOT
My parents, both retired and diabetic, got a letter from the village. The trash cans are visible and that violates an ordinance. Ok...they live in a townhome with no outdoor storage (no shed, garage, etc) Where exactly are they supposed to put the trash cans? Also, several years ago our trash pick up company got new trucks with this fancy lift, however the fancy lift doesn't work with regular plain old metal outdoor trash cans...my parents had to buy these huge plastic trash cans, which every Tuesday evening must be pushed to the end of the driveway. There are 2 cans, one for trash and one for recycling.
My parents have been keeping their cans on the porch for the last 2 years. For some reason this year that's not good enough and in order to help "beautify" the village, residents must now make sure their trash cans are not visible. SO...this means either putting them in the backyard and dragging them through the house once a week, or just keeping them in the house..where there's no room.
They asked about putting up plywood on the porch so the cans would be unseen...they village wants them to get a building permit...to put about 5 nails into a sheet of plywood.
My parents, both retired and diabetic, got a letter from the village. The trash cans are visible and that violates an ordinance. Ok...they live in a townhome with no outdoor storage (no shed, garage, etc) Where exactly are they supposed to put the trash cans? Also, several years ago our trash pick up company got new trucks with this fancy lift, however the fancy lift doesn't work with regular plain old metal outdoor trash cans...my parents had to buy these huge plastic trash cans, which every Tuesday evening must be pushed to the end of the driveway. There are 2 cans, one for trash and one for recycling.
My parents have been keeping their cans on the porch for the last 2 years. For some reason this year that's not good enough and in order to help "beautify" the village, residents must now make sure their trash cans are not visible. SO...this means either putting them in the backyard and dragging them through the house once a week, or just keeping them in the house..where there's no room.
They asked about putting up plywood on the porch so the cans would be unseen...they village wants them to get a building permit...to put about 5 nails into a sheet of plywood.
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