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i worked retail here and there and it's fine if you turn you brain off and have a bowl waiting for you when you get home. i hate where i work now 100 times more than any retail i ever did so no, it never gets better. stay high, kids.
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i just put a piece of blue tape over the barcode on my license. thus if someone who actually has authority needs to scan it they can take it off and if it's some register jockey they'll have to take two extra seconds to key it in like they did forever. Jeff Sichoe posted:when I built houses for a bit I had a co-worker who would take his asthma inhaler and honk on it for like 5 mins straight till I guess he chugged enough propellant to get high, then he'd wander round the house we were building randomly nailgunning poo poo to the walls irl lol
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Jun 14, 2017 02:05
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Amazon (and Jeff Bezos) can suck my cock.
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Jun 14, 2017 10:39
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You work at a convenience store, badly I might add! The OP is Dante.
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Jun 14, 2017 20:23
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i went to a casino in murphy, north carolina a few weeks ago since I was in town on other business and man it is a depressing scene. people are animals. but you can smoke inside which was nice. I lost $5.
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re: bookstore chairs, I helped close down a small used bookstore in a dying town about 20 miles from the nearest "city". Overall it was a pretty pleasant experience but it was mostly old women buying Danielle Steeles and their ancient husbands buying Louis L'Amours which is easy enough, and the restroom was for staff use only so that was nice. But those chairs were pretty nasty. It is true that they never get cleaned, the store had been open for some twenty years and the chairs were probably original to the store and they were pretty bad. The only reason I'm reminded of this is that there was one time when i was going to put up some more backstock or something and there was an old, fat woman sitting in one of the chairs and i got a whiff of the worst smell when walking by her, it was like 100 years of cigarette smoke and cat piss and dust. I swear the smell had a color. Also these were old people so they were all probably incontinent anyway which is something fun to think about too. We ended up selling almost all of the fixtures but the chairs went into the dumpsters. The only real problem that we had while I was there was people asking helplessly "but where will I buy books now?" "Well, there's [giant two-story used bookstore in the city]" "Oh, no, that's too far away and I don't like driving on the Interstate." well then, good luck with that! Trade credits were still good at the owners' four other stores but the closest one is 1.5 hours away, so there was also a lot of bellyaching about "well I never go there so I have to buy SOMETHING!" It took three months to close completely and I worked there starting after the closure had been announced so there was certainly ample time to use up credits while there was a lot of good merchandise left. People where I live are very stupid though so whatever. Overall it was a good experience in retail, minimal complaints, and I would probably still work there if the store didn't close. I still see the owners and other ex-employees for dinner every few months.
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Jun 15, 2017 00:35
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he just wanted to namedrop that he'd been to caesar's palace, like that is a thing worth bragging about.
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Jun 15, 2017 01:31
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nm posted:I'm pretty sure that here (California) with the advent of pay at the pump, the pumps are always on and have been for a decade plus. Maybe they're from California or some other civilized place. I've been driving for 12 years or something and this has always been the case as far as I can remember. The canopy lights may be off but if the lights on the pump are on you can have at it. I've never been to California.
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Jun 15, 2017 20:52
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They have some pumps here at Exxon I think that take cash now.
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Starman Super DX posted:Automated pumps are a thing where I live but unless it's a Wawa most of the stations around here close around 11 or so. It's like "You dum-dums!! This gas is too expensive on a cashier's pay!!" You know?? Right?
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ikd i read it like dennis in always sunny babbling about dumdums. never in my entire life, in travelling all over the eastern United States from huge cities to small towns. I have never seen gas that was a dollar more than anywhere else, not even in the densest, expensive downtown areas. Maybe up to 30 or 40 cents more than a "good" price for unleaded but never anything approaching $1. Basically I don't believe you EcoBlue posted:I bet if you go to the expensive station you can avoid seeing poors also this is why i go to the publix next to kroger and not kroger. im not even remotely rich but idiot poors with too many kids is unpleasant to see if you dont have to, and there's less of those at publix.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:He was also obsessed with Charlotte Coffey from the Go-Go's (this was about 1999, by the way). He was heartbroken and angry when he saw an episode of "Behind the Music" that intimated she was no longer a virgin. was being a virgin one of their gimmicks? i remember reading a long explanation someone had written a long time ago about about how "our lips are sealed" was supposed to be about being a virgin but i dismissed it as the work of a crackpot weirdo/autist.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:What? This is Charlotte Coffey's band before th eGo-Go's, FYI: Yeah I'm familiar with their work and was aware of their origins I just i guess didnt get what your point was in the original post? not trying to be a dick here
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Jun 16, 2017 01:36
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Kelp Me! posted:Tbh at this point a Dave Attell reference is slightly more dated than a CompUSA reference You mean Insomniac?
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bag em and tag em posted:I was at target on Superbowl Sunday and saw some lady flipping her loving poo poo because they couldn't get the superbowl on the display TVs. She actually demanded the store employee hand her his phone so she could find a stream on his data. She could not comprehend that they were not refusing to comply, but literally could not fulfill her demands. It was pretty tasty to watch but I felt bad for the employees. Target sucks. When I lived in Atlanta I went to one to get a can of Murray's pomade and they didn't have it so I knocked over a display and then pissed all over the men's room.
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spite house posted:Implausible as hell, there's no loving way Target in Atlanta doesn't have Murray's I know that's why it baffled me. It wasn't even "metro Atlanta" it was city of Atlanta, North Druid Hills Road. I had to go to the Kroger in Toco Hills to get it.
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Jun 17, 2017 22:57
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Also most car insurance policies (USA) specifically exclude coverage if the car is being used as any sort of delivery vehicle.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:24
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Your Taint posted:If you don't like tipping, don't go to restaurants or bars. Yes Applesnots posted:Dollar a drink dude. Also yes, at minimum.
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Jun 30, 2017 18:27
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tipping threads are my favorite. I go to a bar that I like. I tip well. I go there often enough that they know what I (usually) order. I also get the occasional freebie and tend to get good pours. I could go drink alone in my squalid room for less money but I like going to the bar sometimes, so I pay the premium. not really sure why this concept is so difficult to understand (oh right autists/goons.)
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Thin Privilege posted:Yeah rich people are cheap as gently caress, and poor people give good tips. It makes me hate rich people. You are wearing designer pajama pants and live in a mansion/super fancy apartment, but tip me $1.00 on your $50 order. Thanks a lot rear end in a top hat. Sometimes there's a rare one that gives a huge tip, but that's most likely because they were poor prior to becoming rich. you don't get rich by spending money
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Jun 30, 2017 22:50
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I'm assuming it's because poorer people work in / have worked in / have friends that work in The Industry and thus understand how hard it can be.
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Jun 30, 2017 23:16
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Thin Privilege posted:Hurr I'm gonna spend $50 on some sandwiches but I won't get rich if I tip $5 instead of $1! chill, hoss, that's just how they think.
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Jul 1, 2017 01:05
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Glenn Quebec posted:Extreme defensiveness defines this thread and I've enjoyed poking the beehive. You've done an admirable job irl.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm so skinny and attractive God, same. Somehow this makes my opinion more important in the retail thread. lmfbo.
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Ahaha don't loving haggle you goony rear end goons either buy it or don't. Jesus Christ. Lmfbo this is the United States in tyool 2017 not loving Istanbul in the Middle Ages.
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Jul 7, 2017 20:57
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Starman Super DX posted:huh, what was the contest? seeing what things shipping companies/the postal service will accept without packaging? i guess. I think UPS will ship tires just with a sticker on them. We have these big things for moving tanks and heavy poo poo at work when doing rigging  that just have UPS labels on them from when they were shipped in. they're over 6 feet long and extremely heavy. You can ship pretty much anything on LTL freight too, as long as it can be moved with a fork and isn't like on fire or actively trying to kill someone or leak gallons of poo poo out. Last year we ordered an entire ~6x10x8 used glass-and-steel bus stop and i think it came via old dominion. don't remember specifically but it was an ltl carrier berth ell pup fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Starman Super DX posted:Idk I've never encountered a shopping cart that couldn't be pushed back to the corral normally In lovely neighborhoods at least in nc/ga/tn the wheels lock at the edge of the parking lot to keep people from stealing them but yeah it seems that would create piles of carts if that's what he's talking about.
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so I would assume that most of these people are just lazy
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Shaddak posted:Initial issue year of '64 is 90% silver, '65 to '70 is 40%. Starting in '71, they took out the silver. and though the 40% ones have intrinsic value it's illegal to melt them for scrap. still neat though. when I was making daily deposits years ago for work I'd periodically ask if they had any halves and got many 40% ones and a couple 90% ones and tons of the plain ones which I spent. i was probably "that guy" but whatever. http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html if you care. When I was a cashier I would always pull all the wheats (for fun) and the silver I'd get from time to time. You can hear the difference with silver when you put it in the drawer and I just ended up developing an eye for wheats, of which I have several hundred in a cigar box somewhere. The silver-containing nickels are hard to spot but they're usually worn and sort of dirty and I have a small collection of those. There are some truly batshit people out there that buy cases and cases of "crw" (customer wrapped rolls) of pennies from banks and sort the pure copper ones from the copper/zinc ones. people with even more time do it with dimes and quarters. I don't know how much silver is still out there but ~8-10 years ago they'd get like a quarter out of each $1k in rolled quarters or some other insanely small payout. A lot of banks don't even take rolled coin anymore so idk where they'd get them now. oh and coinstars used to reject silver (still do?) so i'd always check the reject bin when leaving a grocery store and I found a good bit of silver that way too.
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value-brand cereal posted:Someone once tried to tell me that 1 dollar coins were used to pay migrant labor in the US South, so they could use those to track what they buy and do in stores. Which sounds dumb and racist and convoluted. I guess they were trying to justify dollar coins?? I've used dollar coins to pay for bus fare until they raised the prices 2.50 USD and I got sick of carting so many coins around. I don't know about that but I do know that fans of Clemson use $2 bills when they travel to games to show all the money they give to the local economy for ??reasons??.
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Rutibex posted:When I was a cashier at a gas station I would make a point of collecting all the cool old coins. Canada does like a dozen commemorative one off quarters every year, so I would try to pick up those. I would also grab any coins with the hot young queen on it, or even rarer the ones with the king. I particularly like the octagonal nickels. Oh yeah I think I have one silver young-queen quarter and I definitely have penny with the king on it too. How they made it to the Southeast is anyone's guess.
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