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I've been afraid to post itt because I'm starting to become the kind of person ruled by how lovely their job is and I'm afraid I won't stop if I start typing.. But I will try to control myself. I work in a tattoo shop. I'm the piercer there, I apprenticed there. It's been 9 years since last Wednesday. My apprenticeship was kind of tough and as I have found out may have been artificially made a little longer. I was pretty broke but I worked my way up. My boss is loving nuts. Like anyone in this twin industry is kinda weird anyway? But she's slowly revealed herself to be a complete loving head job, that I've just accidentally tied a rope around my ankle to. So, ok. Covid hit here and almost immediately her housemate threw her out because he was hearing incredibly horrible things from his family in Wuhan. I think he still had some of her clothes. She moved into the back room of the shop. We have a few months of lockdown and then I go back to work. She suddenly has some mild form of leukemia, she says she can no longer deal with some of the shop's day to day and makes me the manager (this is the only time she's ever called me this) but she offers me no extra pay. She says she absolutely cannot afford it. I look at this homeless, cancer ridden woman who I do kinda owe a debt of gratitude to, I think about the shop having to close and me and our other artist losing our jobs and I panic and agree, and start one of the most poo poo summers of my life. All the shop's day to day is mine; calls, stock, emails, social media, IT, sterilisation, cleaning plus the biggest rush on piercings I've ever seen. We'd run out of clamps every day. I have to stop taking appointments after a certain time to clean or else I'd go home late. We'd regularly run out of jewellery for appointments we've already booked because she ignores my stock counts. She'd forget to finish bookings correctly and I'd get double or even triple booked for some slots. I wouldn't sit down from arriving in work til leaving. I was in full ppe gear, goggles, mask apron, gloves in an unventilated room in the middle of summer doin all this. It BLEW. I'm piercing lips and noses, under masks, before vaccines are a thing and I'm making GBS threads it the whole time. All this set against her getting very comfy living in the shop and almost immediately letting it turn into a poo poo pile. Managing itself was a nightmare too. The boss is very tight with money, for.. reasons. I think I'll mostly leave it at that for... reasons. But the long and the short of it is she hates me actually doing stock orders for anything because it means money moving and paper trails and so on and so all my actual managing is very carefully micromanaged and her card is very jealously kept hidden away and locked behind some 2 factor auth that she regularly forgets. Meanwhile I'm over here rationing out piercing needles. And so I burned out. We came back in July and by September I was showing up for work late every single day. That was 2020, its slowly gotten worse. 2021 was a carbon copy of 2020 right up until she caught covid and tried to keep the shop open while she still lived there. We refused to. She got brain fog pretty bad from it, and things got worse! I think I'll leave it there as like a part 1. There's... oh god there's so much more. I haven't even gotten to her stealing clients, or the cocaine landlord guy, or the boomer commune or the secret in store bdsm, but I dunno if any of that's on topic?? I have an interview lined up with a pretty nice shop in the city though, and I really hope I get it. I need to leave this part of my life behind. poo poo I really hope I didn't post too much
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Oh I'll  alrightStealing clients: She's been using the fact that she lives in the place where our booking book lives as an excuse to take all the best bookings for herself. Alienating both of her employees in the process of course. She'd be paid her cut for any of our work and our other artist charges considerably more than her so it might even only personally be a small loss on her part. I regularly have to do the free aftercare follow ups for piercings she's done now too, of course. Our client base has shrunk this summer so this has only gotten worse. I took an extra day in the week to try and cut her off from this and she suddenly won't answer any piercing inquiry we receive at all now. The Pile OK so she's also a hoarder. She will not throw things away. Now she lives in the shop. So that's gotten out of hand. I often throw poo poo out and find it sitting on a shelf later.. We own.. oh god OK all of this is true
This contributes to the general displacement of The Pile but it is not The Pile itself. What is The Pile?  (pictured: The Pile) So.. we have no rear entrance, or place to store rubbish, wheelie bin, dumpster. None of it. Its one of the few drawbacks of the building, can't be helped. What perhaps could have been helped was the bosses strange anger towards the local bin company? She wouldn't pay for commercial pickups so had to rely on the residential version which she never figured out the schedule for and would basically wait to see if bags were on the street and then would have someone throw some bags out. It never worked though? None of it was collected and she got mad and insists it's easier to bring everything to the dump and recycling centre herself. Except she doesn't. This stinks btw. You may note the needles stored in one corner and an ultrasonic cleaner in the other with the pile encroaching. I am deeply DEEPLY ashamed of The Pile, even though its out if my hands. I see The Pile and I feel deep disgust. The Pile is a danger to our clients. The Pile would get us shut down if there was actually any kind of health practices in this country (not America). OK moving on. The Cocaine Landlord I wanna be vague about this but her lovelife is a mess of losers, idiots and catfish. Which is a shame. This guy seemed a lot better, they met before covid, he seemed stable and loaded, theyre both in their 50s. He owned some properties he let himself but Shoe oh he's a good landlord to his tenants. She ignored work to text him a lot, which was cute I guess. Anyway, after she got sick he cheated on her and she started to mention random poo poo about him. He made her break covid travel restrictions and get 2 trains to meet him, his apts weren't exactly official and looked like shitholes. He stole the shop's drill for some reason. Anyway the breakup got weird, something about him having to mail her underwear or something, I tried to blank it out. But it was at that point she decided to Google his name and found out about the 2 kg of Cocaine he had in his suitcase at the airport in the early 2000s The Nuclear Option As any business would, she's been threatened with legal action before. Usually it's the same person threatening us every time, for discrimination. For being banned from the shop for not paying for something, and then being double banned for threatening to kill someone. Last time she yelled "I'll get on to my solicitor about this!" I yelled back "Fuckin' do it, then!" and locked our door. The boss, does not take these threats very well. Her plan? Well she'll close the shop down and move city of course! That definitely works, and doesn't stress me out at all!! Codependency The boss cannot say no to a customer. She can say no to us as employees, as a boss but otherwise she can be talked into anything. She's in a thing for it and has at least identified it. She overpromises a lot though, again to customers only. So if someone asks to slide 2 other people into a single booking she'll just let it happen. Constantly. And then it's up to everyone else to bend time and resources around that. Stressful. She will also give anyone who asks a job with no real further input. Do we have the space for another person? Do we have enough clients to support another person? Don't matter, she'll have em come in. I came in one day last year to find I had a new apprentice. There was no discussion about this, I was not offered anything to train this new person, I don't know if I'd still have this job if it had worked out or if I'd have been moved to like a proper paid managerial position or if it would have been up to 2 people to pierce in our one piercing area all week ughh. We also had a new artist this year join the shop. Apparently his portfolio was real good. However he had come here from Portugal to be a kitchen porter and not a tattoo artist and so left his gear at home. No problem, he can just use my machines and gear for free!! When was he going to fit in seeing as our extra space has a permanent artist in it all week and a guest at the weekend? Oh she was going to open the shop an extra day of the week just for him, and maybe the guest's spot if she couldnt make it in. And he was gonna be left there unsupervised too for some reason. I was super burned out at this point so I left it. If he stole the til it was on her. He came in for a test day or something one morning while I wasn't around and immediately hit on our other artist and made her feel super uncomfortable. I don't think the boss knows that. Anyway he never got his day to tattoo. The boss decided it wasn't her job to tell him when to show up for work and declared it was our artist's job. So she would find out if our guest wasn't in on a Saturday and would tell the artist to call this guy to tell him there was a n open slot the next time SHE was in which was Tuesday so he'd have like 3 days to find a client for the day and he moved back to Portugal. I never met him... I actually don't know his name? OK the flipside of this is if she fucks up and lets someone down she turns really quick. If she thinks she might be liable she gets even worse. She once sat and shut down completely, utterly blanking me and and girl who had slipped and fallen down the stairs while I tried to help her. This woman is in the Order of Malta btw. I was asking her for an ice pack from her kit and she just sat and looked at the wall. Later when she tried to sue us over this she declared that she had been instead beaten by her boyfriend and was trying to make some money off of it, he began to bring this up randomly to customers and repeat this accusation it was reallt hosed up. I don't know what kind of fists leave 2 perfectly parallel welts across you back roughly the same distance as two pf our steps but... Much later she accused a guy who'd let a lip piercing go really bad of having sucked too much dick, which is why she must never know I'm queer. Yeah OK the BDSM in the shop thing You know you're gonna write about something stupid when you have to first stop to say you're sex positive and you don't care what people are up to outside of work... of course when you blur the lines between home and work, when they align like some awful depressing eclipse. Uh so she claims to be an incel currently? I dunno if she knows about the far right stuff inherent to being an incel but she claims it. She's also very quick to point out about aftercare and vetting and so on in the bdsm community, which is rad poo poo but its usually unprompted, and uh.. I never really thought about it until recently but I guess she wanted someone to ask her about it. Not me though, I don't wanna know. Except now I do. Now the whole shop knows, now some of our clients know. She's been using.. ok so we have 2 shop emails, one is her ancient one from 20 years ago on yahoo that's a mess and no one can access properly which lead to our new one for the public and stuff to contact us. Didn't stop her from signing up for stuff and buying toys on BOTH ACCOUNTS. I get sent the receipts. On my phone. I actually get Lovehoney push notifications. She's been having computer issues lately. A lot of them. She keeps resetting all our passwords and we can't do thing like use the cash machine or access emails. I've been trying to sort it all week. But she told(?) the artist she's been constantly trying to delete her search history and I guess Opera deletes all your saved passwords when you do too? Huge gently caress up this week over it. Led to a late payment, late shipment. I'll miss out on money this month or next because she was using our work computer for porn or somethin. The folder on the desktop with all the copies of our forms and info sheets disappeared last month again. She accidentally deleted it. Again. So I into the recycle bin I went and found it. Along with some .APK files for the Fetlife app. I wish I hadn't seen it! Now look, I don't know why she grabbed an apk instead of going onto Google play and downloading it. Someone would have seen it when we needed her phone to 2 factor something anyway. But there it is. Background to the secret in store BDSM. So our Artist's cousin is on Fetlife, I'm not so I dunno if it let's you filter by area or what, perhaps its just a huge coincidence?? But she's scrolling one night when she recognises a picture. Apparently it took her a second, like first she saw a tattoo she recognised and then recognised the room and then looked over this person's shoulder to our perfectly illuminated shop name painted in our window next to this middle aged woman who has all our bosses tattoos. I dunno who this mystery woman is, no one can say, because her head is cleverly cropped out of the photos but whoever has been breaking into the shop to stage amateur bondage photoshoots should probably do it in a room that hundreds of people see every month. Ugh I wrote way too much. I've not been sleeping because of anxiety, I have attacks before I sleep now and when on my way to work. So bitching about the source of it all morning instead of sleeping is at least cathartic. I'm sorry if it's sooooo much. But hopefully someone enjoys my storys of working for a complete nut job??
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Its a situation that sometimes I can only look at in tiny pieces, because lookin at all of it makes me freak out. I'm supposed to have a zoom interview with someone soon in a different shop, they keep getting busy though, so hopefully by the time we talk I'm not a nervous wreak. I'm currently in with a single appointment scheduled for 5pm today which means I'm stuck just waiting for it all day. I might try reschedule.. But I'll leave you with this brain teaser. If she lives in the non-residential back room of a shop, where do you suppose she showers??
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Me! posted:She keeps resetting all our passwords and we can't do thing like use the cash machine or access emails. I've been trying to sort it all week. But she told(?) the artist she's been constantly trying to delete her search history and I guess Opera deletes all your saved passwords when you do too? She insists on paying everyone in cash so there isn't a paper trail. None of us can get loans. To remedy this she decided we could have SOME bank transfers as a treat and sends the pair of us €100 of whatever we've made each week to our accounts. We still cannot get loans. Sometimes, she forgets to do this. Today, she has forgotten her bank password. I spoke to someone in another shop today at lunch, I have an interview on Monday and possibly a trial day coming up. I cannot WAIT Also to answer my shower question, she used to go to a gym and would use their shower (not bad) now its apparently a bucket, I'm not supposed to know this
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Jul 22, 2022 15:50
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Someone who knows where I'm from got in touch with some relevant tax advice for my country  I'm waiting til I know if this other job is a go to quit.. I should maybe.. tell my coworker to run as far as she can too..
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goatface posted:So are you actually where the address on that cardboard box says, or is it a red herring? Can you read that?!
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Jul 23, 2022 11:59
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Oh I'm cool with that, you can get that from my post history 
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I wrote a much bigger version of this but I don't wanna just vent itt so here's a very short version of a few incidents in the last week. There's one for every single day I've been in but I chopped em out to get to the meat. I hate it here!! She wasn't happy with how an online order I did went last week. In response to me asking for some admin time set aside for me to do orders and stock checks she insisted instead she would do stock checks herself. I didnt really want that but anyway she only ever did it once. So I did the order by eyeballing our stock. She makes a huge show of yelling down the phone at the stockist the next day and adds about $100 onto the order. I finally get back into our email and check the confirmation for the order and cos she was shouting on our terrible shop phone she actually ordered a heap of the wrong thing. She was also so keen to show me up that she ordered things that were already on the order and doubled up on stuff so great! She got the customs info some time at the weekend but she pretends she doesn't know how to pay it and so leaves it for a few days while I'm out and things always show up late over it. I cant wait to see her hosed up order come in. She managed to forget the password to her online bank things and it hosed with our pay over the weekend. No one can log into the app that lets us control the cash machine in here either atm... because again she forgot and changed the pw. I forgot that Monday was supposed to be the big day. So again, I had a sit down meeting the other month, basically about how things have to change, certain things should be more... legit and on the level and she refused pretty much everything but didn't want me to feel left out and so took me on a tour of the shop pointing out all the furniture she'll move around? I dunno how that was supposed to make me feel better about being an unpaid manager who hates her? But anyway she never bought any of it, she was gonna get cubbies for the jewellery and a cool dentist chair to pierce in and mess with some stuff and what she actually did was contact someone's cousin to move our counter 90 degrees clockwise? It was supposed to happen on Monday. And I was dreading coming in and having to act like that helped even a little but she didnt offer the guy money and he didnt do it hahaha. She wont pay for anything. Today! It's only halfway through but I came in to the boss looking over the new decals for the front of the shop. She didn't talk to or pay the person arranging them so they half assed it a little and some of the lack of communication means the info on the sheets are wrong too. Wonderful, I go to mop up and end up shouting "ARGH" because there's a rancid unflushed poo poo in the toilet. I dunno if I mentioned this before but both me and the other person know which version of the boss we're getting today. A no-flusher means we are getting a particularly bad version of her. Later she got a box from a supplier that she wouldn't let me open on my own and was being super shifty about, but turned out to be tattoo gear, so I think it's safe to say she's got some sex gear on the way. Anyway that's just... this week. I used to be the kinda dude who could show up to work and do it all and go home and now I'm just trapped here depressed about it. The interview fell through, with the guy promising to call later, but I don't know any more.. maybe I'm being stupidly impatient but every single day I come in here is.. yeah
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Quick update about the lovely poop from someone's rear end. She kept disappearing yesterday, but she's such a lovely boss (pun) we didn't really mind it. Turns out she has a massive stomach virus and has been puking and making GBS threads uncontrollably in secret and was just banking on no one noticing or catching it. I'm away for a little bit this weekend, not back til some time next week. I'll uh... give some thought to my future while I'm away. If I puke at all while I'm away I'm gonna call from the hotel and tell her to die in a fire
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Back from my short break and the first thing out the boss is "Shoe we need to have a chat at your earliest convenience" I'm booked out solid til I have to go home so I dunno when the gently caress that's supposed to be  I've managed to contact the other shop right in the middle of their summer blitz and they keep putting off the interview, frustrating, doubly so cos I could probably alleviate that pressure.. if I worked there... Also annoying because I was checking out their piercer profiles and I'm more experienced than some of theirs, I'm perfect. Gimme that job dude. Or give me a hard no so I can go work in Tesco or at the dump or something. But either way I'm done here
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Tried to quit today. Ended up with 2 weeks paid leave.
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Johnny Truant posted:Yeah, use those two weeks to search for other jobs, then quit after the 2 weeks. You are correct. She's like "see how you feel then". So now I'm home, the meeting never happened, but about midway through the day the boss announced I had a new apprentice and that was that, no extra pay to teach someone, no time alloted or anything, she said "I'm the boss there is no discussion" verbatim. And I blew the gently caress up, I said "yeah OK how much notice do you need? 2 weeks?" and she was like "For what??" and I replied "For quitting, man, I quit!" Anyway yeah I have some clients tomorrow we couldn't cancel on and then I'm off for 2 weeks to unfuck my life. edit: still processing what happened but man she really tried to turn a lot of stuff around on me today, we had a very long angry talk. She said I was really mad all the time and that it made her not want to work here any more. And she said she'd taken steps to change things (she has in her hole) and that she feels like I blame her when things go wrong.. but youre.. the boss! She just kept talking about how bad I make her feel constantly and I was like wait hang on a minute here, I'm the employee, you're the boss. I'd taken my issues to her and she ignored them and now she's acting surprised by this all while also saying she's noticed how upset and dissatisfied I am? Nothing adds up. Oh also she told me some weeks we don't have enough money to restock after I'm paid and I don't actually care? That's on you?? Maybe run a sustainable business???? Shoehead fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Outrail posted:Fair enough. IANAL either, but given what Shoe's posted I predict there's a 0.001% chance they have an actual employment contract, a smaller chance it isn't filled with laughably stupid made up bullshit and an even smaller chance of actually being enforceable. You're right! She only realised she had 2 employees with no contracts this year, and that that carries a steep fine. Her solution was to email another business owner to send a copy of their contracts so she could cut and paste things into to hand to us. In the end she didn't even get that done, she grabbed me in the middle of a busy day and insisted I look over them and ammend them as needed. Which I'm pretty sure also wasn't legal and I never did it. So yes I both have no contract and also have a contract that's full of laughable made up bullshit that applies to like a laundrette or something. I have everything I'm owed btw, bar the 2 days I've worked this week.
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Aug 4, 2022 07:20
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Finished up here. Got paid. Suddenly have 3 extra weeks of holidays I can take whenever. Got some fuckin backpay for something else I don't remember. Got another tentative job interview this Monday morning if it doesn't fall through again
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I was posting itt I think last August about my hosed up tattoo artist boss? So small update, my wife and I had to sort out some alternative accommodation and it left me in the shop over Christmas, mostly saving. Something came up over the course of this moving process that uh.. how do I be super vague about legal stuff? I basically am going to ask her to put something right on Tuesday when we open and if she accepts I'm working until I finish the move and then leaving (a month and change) or I'm quitting on the spot, dunno which I want more. Loads of job applications are heading out in the meantime and I have something like 12 months of rent saved up so I'm gonna be OK. I fully expect her to poo poo a brick and try to fire me or to refuse. I'm fully going forward with that as the most likely outcome. Knowing I was gonna do this eventually actually probably kept me there for a few months more, tbh. But it does mean I have more incredibly stupid tidbits about for eg. Fetish gear alterations during work hours, a mystery rash, having adhd means you don't have to work, wait now I have autism, "how long does a credit check take anyway?" and probably a heap of other things I'll get to posting once I'm sure I'm free and safe. Gonna take it easy today, I've people to contact tomorrow about this or that, I have to see our family dog before she gets put to sleep (she's VERY OLD, and this timing is terrible). Basically putting affairs in order before I get the gently caress out of there 
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TotalLossBrain posted:I mean, I've had coworkers whose fetish it was to drive the company-branded minivan (lol) and expose themselves while passing other cars. I think I posted about it but a former apprentice of ours found my boss's fetlife account, and while her face isn't visible in pictures the logo of the shop printed on our front fuckin window is.
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I was posting itt last year(?) about my hosed up tattoo artist boss. I'm still there atm, much farther in the mortgage process thankfully. The end is in sight, though it's cost me some money to untangle from her awful tax history and record keeping. Been kind of embarassed to keep working there and posting too much about it. I have a lot saved now and a fairly full portfolio so I've put the last year to good use. I'm not here to talk about that (yet), instead I'm here to post about my boss taking a holiday and preparing so poorly for it that the business is now in existential peril. This may go down in history as the worst she's ever handled ANYTHING. I wrote a lot and I'm not really comfortable taking up so much thread space so heres a pastebin https://pastebin.com/8CGH2yGf TLDR; Boss freezes me out over pay issue Piercing Apprentice leaves over the Boss's bullying spilling over onto the rest of staff Boss Books holiday and books a secret guest artist, tells nobody Artist discovers it and ends up having a series of fights over it Boss then freezes her out Artist has seen how this goes and starts (with my help) to set up her own shop Boss tries to buy everyone's affection by spending thousands on new furniture while still refusing to speak to us Artist leaves right before the Boss gets the holiday We have a busy but difficult week and a half because she doesnt leave the shop prepared She returns without her phone, is locked out of most of her business accounts Apprentice is set to leave for the other shop at the end of the month Once Im sorted and will be leaving as soon as possible Employees Jan 1st:5 by the end of the month: 2 This is even missing out on random things like the week she threatened to fire everyone, the 3 hour long staff meeting we had to discuss 1SOMEONE'S attitude, her offering me a contract that didnt mention pay, was for 4 months and had a 2 year long non-competition clause written into it, how once I refused to sign it she spent the entire next week telling the guys she was dying and that they would have to run the shop once she was gone, how she performatively now takes her own blood pressure in the shop when things go wrong. There's more, there's always more and it's always worse, like the saying goes. But yeah, the exodus has started, all we have to do after is make sure she isn't able to grab another crop of young people to do it to again.
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God I would but the rental situation here is such that if I can get a mortgage, even a hosed up long mortgage it'll end up being something like half rent. Rent atm in Ireland is about 2k a month. The housing crisis is real as gently caress here. On the upside if I don't get approved I have about 6 months rent saved. I am just in limbo here with my wife waiting for it.
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Aug 5, 2023 14:42
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If you've time to lean you've time to.. input code..
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It's the final day for my last remaining co worker asides from the boss today, and I just so happened to have tomorrow and Saturday booked off and my boss is taking it out on all her clients today! 
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Atopian posted:How many people should you have in your team, ideally? It's a tattoo shop so everyone is kind of an individual. Started the year off with 3 other Co workers asides from the boss, 3 artists and 2 piercers. Ideally you'd want a shop manager for that many people but we just had to kind of split the role between us all for free, one of the many reasons this all fell apart. I'm working very hard on following the others out the loving door. I'll be renting space in someone who just left's lovely new studio space, but piercing has a higher cost of entry and I've a few super pressing home and health things to sort out first before I end up self employed
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Noticed something odd on the shop's FB the other day, a gorgeous painting of a bonsai tree in front of a full moon, uploaded by the boss, but wait hang on... The boss hasn't been painting recently... and actually this looks all smudged and weird and is kind of low res for a photograph... And... and... Ah yes there it is on a stock website, along with the painting she posted last week. Brilliant!!
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Ravus Ursus posted:Barudak: human life is worthless. lol I nearly lost it there with her, she was making fun of a client for coming for aftercare kind of late, of course that's messed up on it's own, but it's only so late because she refused to help the woman while I was at the loving hospital with someone that it hasn't been sorted already. I can't remember if it was itt or just the piercing thread I mentioned it, but I'm working on going full time renting space in a friend's shop, I can't wait to be out of here E: oh yeah and I got my desk back in work... technically. She took it from me after I added a new piercing to my list, but then all my coworkers quit and I just took one of theirs 
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People have been sneaking onto the shop's roof for the last few weeks, Boss wont call the police or the landlord and has just resigned herself to the possibility that they might get in through our main window. Sucks but hey if you have that little faith maybe we should move the cash box to a more secure location? Nahhh too much work, if they get in they get all our cash and needles, and all the keys to the other rooms if they want to stay and unlock all of it. She's off to a sweat lodge for the weekend and I hope they do get in after I leave, gently caress her.
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My boss kind of had the opposite happen to her, she lost the shop keys one day years ago (she claims a customer took them and that she knows which, which means we'd have his name, address and phone number but ok) got the locks changed immediately which is actually way better and faster than I'd expect with her and then forgot at some point that they'd been changed. Every night now she retires to the hosed up room in the back to sleep and leaves her keys in her side of one of the locks so that guy can't unlock the door completely. Except it also meant no one who worked her can get in if she doesn't take them out again in the morning after her sink shower. Anyway that's over now, because about 2 months ago she locked her keys in the shop and because she refused to speak to either of us staff members over various grudges to come down with our keys she crowbarred the door open and destroyed most of the locks. She's yet to replace them and our door looks like poo poo lol
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Outrail posted:I got halfway through the first paragraph before I realised it was a shoehead post. E: Im so ready to be outta here. Shoehead fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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The shop got a snazzy new website for free last year when an apprentice joined, made by her GF while she was switching offices (very nicely). So that apprentice is in the other shop now, and the site was due for renewal on WIX, we'd been using their messaging system to tie the 4 or 5 ways to contact us into one inbox, it was very helpful, site also had it's own form I got a heap of bookings from. Note I'm using the past loving tense here, because the boss forgot her god drat password about 2 months ago, complained endlessly to the person who set things up, but then at the last minute before her GF stopped working for us, refused to let her help out because she was "busy". She's been back, emailing the boss about how she wont be able to pay for the site going forward, obviously, and finally at the last possible second the boss was like "well the site is broken anyway" and now we don't have a website and all our website related correspondence is gone. She's so loving good at this. She hasn't made enough money to cover my wages this week, I think mine + comms last week wiped her tattoo incomings. The ship isn't sinking yet but it's starting to list dangerously. I had to hold the side of my desk until a panic attack ended there. I'm going to be ok, I just have to wait a little bit longer. I have to learn to enjoy watching someone's business implode
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Oct 4, 2023 12:26
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Already got a DM asking if the shop had shut down over the website being dead
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Oct 4, 2023 14:11
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Volmarias posted:"Can't cover payroll" is usually a sign that the ship is nearly under the surface and will suck down anything still nearby when it's finally gone. I think you are beyond the listing stage, if you haven't pulled out I hope it's because you have a compelling reason to stay for the end. Oh my exit plans are well underway. But I did have a very serious discussion with my wife over if it was worth the wait or to just gtfo now. I was so upset after yesterday that I applied for a position in a bigger shop even though I'm working on becoming self employed JUST IN CASE. Today's issue is very stupid but she's now making sure she fucks up one item on every jewellery order she makes, and then I just can't do whatever piercing needs it. Last month it was one for lips, this month it's eyebrow bars. Very shortsighted and petty, seeing as she gets a cut of whatever I do here and she needs the money more than I do at this point. 
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Oct 5, 2023 15:38
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Boss is on fire today. Another day with 0 bookings for her so she's focusing on being really annoying and coping super hard. Gave me a full on talk about how the economy is keeping people away from this shithole of a shop, she'll be ok becaus she's saved sooo much money. I'll be ok but thanks for asking, rear end in a top hat. She forgets that it's only been 2 weeks since she had almost the exact conversation with me but that time instead of the economy she was blaming "the controversy" of losing 70% of her staff and how people in this town are too gossipy. They just know you suck, sorry. She's followed that up by very very seriously considering taking up this offer:  I might have talked her out of it, but when I told her to assume anyone, even old clients, offering this have been hacked she said something kind of weird and confusing about how it's illegal anyway to mine bitcoin if the person you are giving it to are going to use it for criminal purposes??? I'm not sure if she means like "ah well I shouldn't go for it" or "I can't possibly lose!", but I wouldn't mind watching her lose her money in a bitcoin scam right now
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Oct 6, 2023 11:36
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Saw something legitimately traumatic today in the shop, I might take some time
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Oct 7, 2023 16:34
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Shoehead posted:Saw something legitimately traumatic today in the shop, I might take some time poo poo I didn't even finish typing this out I was really out of it. A kid fainted and smashed her head into the corner of our counter this morning and was fully out for a few minutes. I legit thought she was dead, her head snapped off that thing hard as hell. I was on my own with her mom trying to roll her over while my boss hid in the corner and eventually she came over to check her skull and neck (she's an Order of Malta volunteer). She left on her own power, Boss interrogated her a little, (for her own guilt I guess) and it turns out she hadn't eaten at all which is a really bad idea. She insisted to her mom she wouldn't eat for the rest of the day either. It's her 13th loving birthday. It's not.. Good After they left my arms went all floppy, I felt like rayman with no arms or legs but hands and feet. The boss sat down like nothing happened and I had to go right back to piercing almost immediately, finished the day. I kept saying things the wrong way around for my aftercare spiel. I called my wife at lunch and it helped. Not in til Tuesday, but I might call in sick
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Oct 7, 2023 22:12
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It's free you just have to wait for ages. I'm worried about her neck too
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Oct 7, 2023 23:58
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Azuth0667 posted:They have those and tried to tell us we owe 50$ if anything happens to it so very low rate of adoption. One of my old cantankerous coworkers got one and flushed it down the toilet for reasons he's yet to explain. Figuratively or literal- oh I already know don't I?
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Oct 8, 2023 09:18
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Lol I'm saving my PTO for the week I throw my keys across the counter, for some reason I get 2 weeks evey 6 months instead of 12 (because she did a find replace on "12 months" to transform it into a 6 month contract and didn't read either draft)
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Oct 8, 2023 22:25
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Boss is currently very confused as to why she owes outstanding VAT 🤔
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Oct 11, 2023 15:07
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Rawrbomb posted:I don't know if you mentioned it here, or in another thread, I'd use that vacation time before the shop is gone. Or at least get them to pay you out! She also got a massive rental bill for a water purifier that she got put in 10ish years ago and never got serviced, she says she shouldn't have to pay because of that, I hope they poke her again while I'm in. Also this reminded me I need to submit some tax info to the bank, so I'm gonna go do that so I can leave
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Oct 11, 2023 19:23
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Rawrbomb posted:Just seeing the writing on the walls (that its a sinking ship), I know you're sticking it out for your own reasons, just I guess don't expect that money to be there right now or be planning on it. Given the other things you've said. Currently she needs the money more than me. I actually just added a couple of days off to my book on either side of my wedding anniversary. I'm gonna paint some warhammers and order some takeout e: She WILL take it out on me when I get back. She makes sure (it cannot be coincidence) that the maximum about of poo poo is hosed up in the shop whenever I'm back from a day off or god forbid, I'm sick.
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Holy poo poo, this website
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