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Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


HazCat posted:

Also, apparently I got paid 2hrs OT last paycheck somehow, which is super weird because I didn't think I was anywhere close to the threshold for it. Looking forward to the extra $15 or whatever. Not sure why it really merits the regional manager calling up my line manager to scream at her but whatever :shrug:

I've been in the meetings, none of it was directed at me but there are typically very strict rules on OT. I think my company was relatively nice to the district managers in that it wasn't a problem as long as they were aware + okayed it (usually because the store is understaffed and they know it and are trying to get more people hired) but it still got brought up if there were even 2 hours like that.

So probably your regional manager had no idea about it either and is mad.


e: Retail - it's toxic on basically every level that has to set foot in a store ever

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HazCat
May 4, 2009

Shugojin posted:

I've been in the meetings, none of it was directed at me but there are typically very strict rules on OT. I think my company was relatively nice to the district managers in that it wasn't a problem as long as they were aware + okayed it (usually because the store is understaffed and they know it and are trying to get more people hired) but it still got brought up if there were even 2 hours like that.

So probably your regional manager had no idea about it either and is mad.

e: Retail - it's toxic on basically every level that has to set foot in a store ever

My company has a super strict 'no OT for any reason, if you pay out any overtime at all under any circumstances, someone is getting reamed out for it as soon as payroll processes".

Line managers are expected to pick up any slack in the store (since they are salaried and have much higher thresholds for OT), and there's no acceptable reason for them to keep any hourly staff on long enough to trigger OT.

Realistically, the good managers will let you work OT if they need you to, and just add your extra hours (plus time so you get paid the proper rate) to another week so your overall pay balances out right, and the poo poo managers just cut hours out of your timecard (which is cause for instant dismissal, but the majority of the time employees don't even realise it's happening, or don't realise how serious it is).

As long as that OT flag doesn't get raised, head office don't actually care how many hours we work or how much each employee gets paid. It's one of those examples of workplace behaviour being warped by the metrics used to measure it.

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret
Well, I finally put in my two weeks notice at the Olive Garden and I moved stuff into my new office at an electrical supply company. The owner of the store is super nice and so is everyone else. I can't wait to work for this company and no longer have to deal with lovely people anymore.

After 8 years. I am now finally loving FREE. I feel after all of the bullshit I went through I can do absolutely any loving thing in the world. And this job is a huge leg up from what I was doing. Moving up in the company even has stuff I want to get into such as Cisco networking and other IT work. But I am also in college and with the company now sponsoring me in my work there: the more certs I receive the higher pay I will get in return. Once I am done with college (About a year) then I can move into those higher fields. So it's an absolute win/win for me.

Was surprised I was in a good enough position to even have my name at the front of the desk at my new job. Going to take weeks getting to know the products they ship out but hey, I can learn it.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
:unsmith: ^^

Last week I got seven pallets in one delivery (1-3 is normal, it's almost always 2) and last night we got 9. Once you get more than 4 pallets in the shop you physically can't get to stock so it's kind of an exponential space issue.

Next week is our quietest week of the year by far, so I have absolutely no idea wtf is going on with the ordering.

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016
I got my first request to make a drink personally for a customer (sticker said "Pentaghastly pls make") and I replied over the headset "I bet its an old man"

it was an old man.


Edit: not an ugly old man. He looked like he might have been a total hunk 40 years ago

Pentaghastly fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Dec 19, 2017

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004
I'm glad for everyone that escapes retail or food service, but I don't know how the gently caress you parlay your experience in bullshit into a real job. Like I'm pretty sure if I found Aladdin's lamp and wished for a 'real' job, the ghost of Robin Williams would kiss his intangible teeth and say, "Christ kid, in this economy?"

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Just take what you do it and make it sound more polished. Like, solving your manager's bullshit task that takes 3 hours in the last 2 hours of your shift? Thats creative problem solving in a high paced environment. Bullshit inventory stuff? Hands on inventory management. Dealing with the dregs of western civilization? Customer relations and sales experience.

Sk8ers4Christ
Mar 10, 2008

Lord, I ask you to watch over me as I pop an ollie off this 50-foot ramp. If I fail, I'll be seeing you.
Seasonal sales at probably one of the most disorganized stores I have ever seen. We are hilariously understaffed. All seasonal people I was hired with in November quit, and we're having issues with interview no shows. So we're down to less than 15 employees for the holiday rush lmao.

I was scheduled to open today. The person who had the key to literally open the doors came in over an hour late (for a legit reason), and everyone else called out. I was waiting outside with a bunch of customers wondering wtf was going on. Then of course as soon as the doors opened, we got slammed, with me being the only person on the salesfloor. All the other employee and I could do was laugh at how loving awful everything was.

Customers were also particularly bitchy today. There were good reasons, like us opening an hour late, being understaffed, and people having to wait forever to get help, but we also got a bunch of little complaints about stupid poo poo out of our control. "Why is your website slow?" "Why can't I use this expired coupon?" "Why don't you have this in my favorite color?" Of course I got a lot of: "Can I just move to the front of the line, so you can ring me up RIGHT NOW? I'M IN A HURRY."

I kind of love it though. People losing their poo poo at Christmas is fun to watch if you're seasonal, because you don't have to care since you're leaving soon anyway. Also, somehow, despite how terrible everything else in this store is, I get paid overtime, so I've been taking advantage of that and grabbing every shift I can. That big fat paycheck at the end of the week makes this lovely job (almost) worth it.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
I've never heard any seasonal retail employment described as anything less than a circus.


Cop Porn Popper posted:

Dealing with the dregs of western civilization? Customer relations and sales experience.

I read that as customer retaliation and that's gonna stick

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

I'm glad for everyone that escapes retail or food service, but I don't know how the gently caress you parlay your experience in bullshit into a real job. Like I'm pretty sure if I found Aladdin's lamp and wished for a 'real' job, the ghost of Robin Williams would kiss his intangible teeth and say, "Christ kid, in this economy?"

I started college last year and went part time at my job. The college I went to I found out I qualified for grants and scholarships so not only did college pay me to study and do well but 'OG' also filled spots to pay for bills. During college I studied a lot and earned so far one certificate. If you are like me and enjoy computers and IT. Testout.com is a really great website to learn and grow your experience.

Honestly the hardware job kinda fell in my lap. I applied for the job, passed a background check and immediately went to an interview. Here I am awake at 5:30 in the morning getting ready to head to work!

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X

Pentaghastly posted:

I got my first request to make a drink personally for a customer (sticker said "Pentaghastly pls make") and I replied over the headset "I bet its an old man"

it was an old man.


Edit: not an ugly old man. He looked like he might have been a total hunk 40 years ago

Would it have been better or worse had it been a younger but ugly man?

epic bird guy
Dec 9, 2014

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

I'm glad for everyone that escapes retail or food service, but I don't know how the gently caress you parlay your experience in bullshit into a real job. Like I'm pretty sure if I found Aladdin's lamp and wished for a 'real' job, the ghost of Robin Williams would kiss his intangible teeth and say, "Christ kid, in this economy?"

Something that can be really helpful on resumes is specific tasks with known outcomes that demonstrate skills. This sucks for retail people since those sorts of things are few and far between, but over the course of a year or two in a retail job odds are good you've been asked to accomplish a task you don't normally do. When that happens latch on to it and throw it on the resume or a note that day. Even if it doesn't make it to a resume, its useful ammo in the interview answers box.

Some examples:
Have you ever been working when power was lost? How did your team respond? was there loss of product?
Have you ever participated in a total store inventory? What was your task? What were the results? (might be hard to get management to tell you much)
Have you ever needed to clean up an unusual or large mess or problem? How did you go about it? How long did it take?

My GM is a particularly talented interviewer IMO, and he likes to ask candidates about specific times when they participated in completing a task. Its a really telling question because people respond in a lot of different ways, but we'd be impressed if someone had answer's similar to the three examples and could explain how they solved the problem and how they worked as a team. If you use it as an opportunity to badmouth your previous job/managers (this happened recently), that looks bad.

Also try to squeeze as much info about your company from management as possible. Saying you're on the front end team of a store that pushes $120,000 weekly or whatever is way cooler than "cashier", and shows that you are informed. A lot of my managers in the past have been cagey about that information, but over time you should be able to tease it out.

SaberToothedPie
Dec 24, 2012

The #RXT REVOLUTION has two words for ya..
SCOOP IT!


:frolf:

he knows...

HazCat posted:

My company has a super strict 'no OT for any reason, if you pay out any overtime at all under any circumstances, someone is getting reamed out for it as soon as payroll processes".

Line managers are expected to pick up any slack in the store (since they are salaried and have much higher thresholds for OT), and there's no acceptable reason for them to keep any hourly staff on long enough to trigger OT.

Realistically, the good managers will let you work OT if they need you to, and just add your extra hours (plus time so you get paid the proper rate) to another week so your overall pay balances out right, and the poo poo managers just cut hours out of your timecard (which is cause for instant dismissal, but the majority of the time employees don't even realise it's happening, or don't realise how serious it is).

As long as that OT flag doesn't get raised, head office don't actually care how many hours we work or how much each employee gets paid. It's one of those examples of workplace behaviour being warped by the metrics used to measure it.

I'm like 100% sure we work for the same company but this is retail so it could be every company.

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016

Eric the Mauve posted:

Would it have been better or worse had it been a younger but ugly man?

Worse, maybe. Ime most old men are nice and don't creep for very long but younger guys stick around trying to make conversation which irritates me. Recently I was out front by myself one night and a young regular asked if we could receive "personal tips" and I said only if it was in an envelope with my name on it and he tried to make an envelope out of some napkins but failed and lingered for a bit while I was making his drink. I was uncomfortable but would have gladly accepted his money.

Edit: if you think a barista's cute leave a personal tip with your number on it. Giving someone money is a great way to start a long, healthy relationship

Pentaghastly fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 19, 2017

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


When my sister worked at an alterations shop she had old men trying to give her their dead wives' jewelry

It's also not a great move

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004
Realized about half an hour after I got home last night that I forgot to condition about half an aisle because I was trying to do a maintenance walk and condition at the same time, went, "Well, I'll just do this AFTER the maintenance walk and-" and yeah I didn't follow through. Whoops.

I wouldn't think anything of it if the store manager wasn't anal about conditioning. Oddly anxious about it and I don't know why I should/do care.

Probably won't even matter if the store manager wasn't the one who opens this morning.

Katamari Democracy posted:

I started college last year and went part time at my job. The college I went to I found out I qualified for grants and scholarships so not only did college pay me to study and do well but 'OG' also filled spots to pay for bills. During college I studied a lot and earned so far one certificate. If you are like me and enjoy computers and IT. Testout.com is a really great website to learn and grow your experience.

Honestly the hardware job kinda fell in my lap. I applied for the job, passed a background check and immediately went to an interview. Here I am awake at 5:30 in the morning getting ready to head to work!

I was planning to do community college, but it has to wait until I get a car worth a drat. If I blow up my car going back and forth then I'm SOL. I've even got a few relatives that would hook me up with jobs I could do from home but I don't have any of the requisite skills so

Don't even know where to look. Every couple of weeks I just fire up Indeed and fish around for a little while to see if there's anything worth pursuing.

Pentaghastly posted:

Edit: if you think a barista's cute leave a personal tip with your number on it. Giving someone money is a great way to start a long, healthy relationship

Hitting on someone that's obligated to be there and can't tell you to gently caress off seems like a lovely thing to do in general. Just go on Tindr or OKCupid or something for gently caress's sake.

That stuff can be gross. OTOH it is kind of hilarious watching a 50 year old cougar in leopard print making passes at the awkwardly smiling 18 year old bag boy who's praying for a asteroid strike or something, anything to make his life end

NerdyMcNerdNerd fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Dec 19, 2017

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:


Hitting on someone that's obligated to be there and can't tell you to gently caress off seems like a lovely thing to do in general. Just go on Tindr or OKCupid or something for gently caress's sake.

Oh I definitely agree. Some people still don't understand that we're obligated to be nice and friendly even if you reek of BO and won't stop staring. The most we can do is have the manager deal with you if you're being a weird pervert x100 and im trying to think of something stupid perverted to ask a stranger

Besides if the employee is single and looking they're probably on Tinder anyway. Just dont be like "hey...saw you at work and looked for you here"

Edit: actually dont attempt to look for them. even if they never know you did thats loving weird

Pentaghastly fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Dec 19, 2017

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


I went on a couple of first dates with women that asked me out when I was working the floor or making coffee. You just have to be normal and accepting of the fact that they will likely turn you down.

And if that's the case it is your duty to never show up to their workplace again.

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe
So remember a couple months ago when my boss bought a Clover POS system without doing any research and I found a bunch of terrible poo poo about First Data processing? Well they've started to vanish money from the deposits and are hiking processing rates already. The accountant just called my boss about an hour ago and he's extremely pissed. $600-800+ more per month to process cards and now $1500+ last month simply...gone.

Do your research when buying a point of sale system people.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
As a late 20's dude who's not unattractive, I occasionally get a bit uncomfortable with attention from mostly middle aged women, but it wasn't until I worked beside a skinny 20 year old woman that the real dregs of society start to show themselves. Like goddamn, putting up with everything in the job is bad enough without being creeped on every couple of minutes.

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

Just go on Tindr or OKCupid or something for gently caress's sake.
Too bad that these are poo poo places to meet people, especially OKC since you can't even see someone's messages to you unless you "like" each other, and you can't see who's liked you without paying $20/mo.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.
I was a late 20s dude who is unattractive at my last retail job, and I mostly just got people going on diatribes about immigrants and conservative values, and we were usually slow enough that these could last for, like, an hour. I guess being a chubby white guy means they think I agree with whatever poo poo they're spouting since they're also chubby white guys. I left a few months before the 2016 election, and boy howdy must that have been a time to be there as the day drew closer.

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

Just go on Tindr or OKCupid or something for gently caress's sake.


I actually found a really cute cashier working at a store near my work that I'd flirted with quite a bit on OkCupid one time and when I messaged her (with a 98% match rating), she immediately deleted her account and quit the job within the next week.

I should just stop trying to find happiness. :geno:

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004

Yawgmoth posted:

Too bad that these are poo poo places to meet people, especially OKC since you can't even see someone's messages to you unless you "like" each other, and you can't see who's liked you without paying $20/mo.

I was just pulling rando examples out of my rear end. I'm sure there are better sites or whatever. :shrug:

Ideally you meet someone while pursuing a hobby or something and share a mutual interest or whatever but if you live somewhere there's nothing to do and no nightlife welp.

SpacePig posted:

I was a late 20s dude who is unattractive at my last retail job, and I mostly just got people going on diatribes about immigrants and conservative values, and we were usually slow enough that these could last for, like, an hour. I guess being a chubby white guy means they think I agree with whatever poo poo they're spouting since they're also chubby white guys. I left a few months before the 2016 election, and boy howdy must that have been a time to be there as the day drew closer.

That reminds me of one fine afternoon back at my old job.

I was out in the lot, pushing a string of carts. As I neared the door, a 50-something white couple stopped me. I offered a cart, and they accepted. We talked for a few minutes about nothing, and they were all smiles and soft language, then outta nowhere the husband goes, "Crummy job. You know, they only have you out here because you're white."

:whitewater:

Of the three black co-workers I had that day, one was the CSM, and two were working the customer service desk. They dealt with assholes and retards all day long who would scream at them for the dumbest loving reasons. White, black, whatever- everyone in retail has a poo poo job, rando racist man.

Zenithe posted:

As a late 20's dude who's not unattractive, I occasionally get a bit uncomfortable with attention from mostly middle aged women, but it wasn't until I worked beside a skinny 20 year old woman that the real dregs of society start to show themselves. Like goddamn, putting up with everything in the job is bad enough without being creeped on every couple of minutes.

I'm an early thirty and I've had people assume I was 18-19 when I'm cleaned up and shaven. Maybe if I got a good haircut my job would be a lot more interesting.

Please, God, send me a forty-something adult who has money and something to talk about.

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

MC Hawking posted:

I actually found a really cute cashier working at a store near my work that I'd flirted with quite a bit on OkCupid one time and when I messaged her (with a 98% match rating), she immediately deleted her account and quit the job within the next week.

I should just stop trying to find happiness. :geno:
:same:

Back when I was a cashier there was this super cute girl who would always come through my line and chat/be flirty with me until someone else came through my line, sometimes hanging out for a half an hour or more. After a few weeks of this I asked her out for coffee and she said "oh I don't think my boyfriend would like that." Never showed up again. :eng99:

D34THROW
Jan 29, 2012

RETAIL RETAIL LISTEN TO ME BITCH ABOUT RETAIL
:rant:

MC Hawking posted:

terrible poo poo about First Data processing?

FirstData sucks period. I love the fact that there's more than one CC machine in the building now, basically, but I hate the fact that it prints these giant letter-sized loving receipts when a statement size would still be overkill. I also hate having to log in, getting kicked off mid-transaction, etc.

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe
The fact that this stupid machine can't be re-provisioned so our former highly competent credit card processor salesguy can handle the first data account is the biggest kick in the balls about this. The old guy had handled our account for the last four years or so through Heartland and another processor which we never had issues with. He also sells Clover machines but my boss didn't even think to ask if he had any drop in systems, or ask for a second opinion (nor did he for several months) on the rates the clown we bought our current system from was offering. The assclown takes a cut off the top as a 'middleman' between us and First Data, then First Data takes a cut too. And they're now losing large amounts of money into the ether. And the assclown is doing nothing about it because well..... he has zero incentive to do anything. He literally has nothing to lose. He got paid several thousand dollars for a machine that his employees had no idea how to configure or install properly and we're locked into his lovely service unless my boss decides to spend even more money to get out of this mess.

When I preemptively brought all of this to my bosses attention months ago his response was "we're to small, it probably won't happen to us let's wait and see." Well now it is happening and yet again there's no backup plan. Maybe if he takes another big hit to the pocketbook, he'll consider throwing this machine in the dumpster and we can move to Square. Or maybe do the original smart plan of buying an actual POS system that works on top of Windows specifically tailored to our type of retail establishment that I'd been pushing for a year prior to replace the antiquated system we had. A system which I told my boss was on borrowed time due to the writer of our old POS system vanishing from the face of the earth and there was literally no way to fix it without him if it broke catastrophically. All advice which was studiously ignored or simply waved away as "we'll deal with it when it happens."

What I'm saying is it's not my problem and I did everything I could to head this off at the pass. Now the cattle are being rustled off and he's snoozing at the bunkhouse. :shrug:


Edited for clarity.

MC Hawking fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Dec 20, 2017

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

I was planning to do community college, but it has to wait until I get a car worth a drat. If I blow up my car going back and forth then I'm SOL. I've even got a few relatives that would hook me up with jobs I could do from home but I don't have any of the requisite skills so

My car is a 95 Buick Century. It has several problems and I have treated the car like an absolute baby. It had its moments where I thought it would be done for several times while I was in college but for some reason it keeps trucking along. Check Engine light is not on and it still drives. I dunno how your vehicle works out for you but honestly I had the same mindset worrying about my car and my bills and I just jumped. College life can be intimidating but so far for me its been absolutely loving worth it. I turned 30 years old this past September and last year when things were kinda falling apart with my life I knew I had to jump for something. And that something was for myself. I was the baby eagle sitting in the nest with thorns poking me in my rear end because I have gotten too big for Olive Garden. So I knew eventually I had to make something happen with my dream in working in IT.

See if your local community colleges have you qualify for grants and scholarships like mine did. I live in Georgia so I am not sure how it is from state to state. But I get a good solid amount upfront at the beginning of the semester to help pay for books and tuition, the rest goes straight into my pocket that I can have a bit of fun money or save for stuff that needs to be paid off over time.

:siren: Fill out the FASFA :siren:

I was not too big on college but I will say working service, food, and even retail is workable if you are in college. Honestly, see what works for you by just going to the college and seeing what they have to offer. I know someone who is in university full time and does not have to pay a dime back for her loans and pay because she plans on being there until she passes away.

Edit- Also. One BIG piece of advice for you:

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

Don't even know where to look. Every couple of weeks I just fire up Indeed and fish around for a little while to see if there's anything worth pursuing.

It's not about what you know. But WHO you know.

Katamari Democracy fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Dec 20, 2017

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X

Pentaghastly posted:

Oh I definitely agree. Some people still don't understand that we're obligated to be nice and friendly even if you reek of BO and won't stop staring. The most we can do is have the manager deal with you if you're being a weird pervert x100 and im trying to think of something stupid perverted to ask a stranger

Yeah the shittiest thing is the guys--they're the nut low in restaurants, just the worst--who choose to believe that the retail employee is smiling at them and talking to them because she totally wants me and not because it's literally her job and she has no choice.

She doesn't want you. Her job is to smile and be friendly to you. Just complete your transaction, say thank you, and go away.

Only vaguely related story: the worst day of my career as a hotel front desk clerk was the stormy evening when two ~14 year old girls were left unattended in their room with nothing to do and decided it would be fun to relentlessly awkwardly flirt with the front desk guy all evening. Not sure I've ever been more uncomfortable in my life.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE
I find myself with the opposite problem, as a fat 30 year old tormented by all the really hot shirtless 20 something dudes that wander through my store.

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004

Katamari Democracy posted:

My car is a 95 Buick Century.

It's not about what you know. But WHO you know.

My car is a 93 Buick Le Something. It is actually a pretty OK car except I am not 100% about the seatbelts and it randomly stalls out sometimes. The last time I was on the freeway the car just decided 'eh gently caress it' and when the engine goes the power steering and power brakes go and if you were asleep you are now wide awake.

I qualify for grants and stuff. I can go. I can make it work. But it's one of those things that realistically won't happen until I get more poo poo in order.

The Lord Bude posted:

I find myself with the opposite problem, as a fat 30 year old tormented by all the really hot shirtless 20 something dudes that wander through my store.

Seeing hot people at work reminds me to lift.

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


A le sabre! And it cutting out could be a few things. Is it throwing a check engine light?

Edit: If it hasn't been changed recently, a new fuel filter or a quickie tuneup may be all it needs. If you have tools, the fine folks in AI can probably tell you how to have it running tip top in no time!

Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Dec 20, 2017

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004

Cop Porn Popper posted:

A le sabre! And it cutting out could be a few things. Is it throwing a check engine light?

Nope. Oil light and temp light ( I think ) pop on after the engine goes on vacation. Mechanic thought it was a sensor, replaced the sensor, and then it kept doing it. He did something else ( I forget ) for free and yeah poo poo was still broken.

I am inclined to believe that it has something to do with the power steering due it being more frequent in low-speed turns, but then it did it when I was going fifty in a straight line on the way to the liquor store and that was fun.

I'll try a tune up after tax time when I have more money to throw at stupid poo poo that pisses me off.

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


The oil and temp lights are unsurprising since your motor is no longer circulating oil and coolant. Oil pressure drops quick and the coolant heats up damned fast. And its unlikely to be the power steering system since its only connection to the motor proper is through a rubber belt that would likely snap if the pump siezed (which doesn't sound like whats happening) It is interesting that it isn't throwing a cel if its dying like that though. We do happen to have someone in AI who knows way too much about the motor in that car. He might be worth talking to. :)

Edit: this dude right here! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3738086&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post449321820

Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Dec 20, 2017

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:


I qualify for grants and stuff. I can go. I can make it work. But it's one of those things that realistically won't happen until I get more poo poo in order.

Hey no pressure at all. Hope my post was not at all :smug: at you or anything. I am just going by my experience.

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




Beastie posted:

I went on a couple of first dates with women that asked me out when I was working the floor or making coffee. You just have to be normal and accepting of the fact that they will likely turn you down.

Now that you mention it, I lost my virginity to a customer at the game store back in high school. Hi H !

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

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Musicians I respect keep having secret atrocious Christmas pieces. Tonight it’s Lionel Ritchie

Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016
Someone brought in their service dog in training, a beautiful black German shepherd, and his lipstick was out the whole time

It was so hilarious I had to go to the back and laugh it off

NerdyMcNerdNerd
Aug 3, 2004
Four more days until the Christmas music ends. :nutshot:

gently caress Wham.

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Pentaghastly
Mar 26, 2016
A whole lot of shift swapping later, I finally have this weekend off to go see my family. The girl going out of her way to cover for me is going to have a fat sephora gift card waiting for her. Maybe I was just emotional from thinking I wouldn't get to be with my family, but I almost burst into tears when she told me she could help me out after no one else could.

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