Store Managers Suck and Dot Hacks
So yeah… today equaled the most crazy fucking shitty insane ridiculous shift I’ve ever had at S&S. Plus…. my fucking store manager is the biggest dick in the world…. I officially hate him now.
So…. as soon as I walk in like 4 minutes late because my father was late getting home to bring me….. Blair meets me at the door and just starts laying into me. First…. both Ryan Silva and Matt Blackmon are on register…. but neither of them are supposed to be … they’re supposed to be on “cleaning” and he only called them up because there were lines and I better get them off immediately. So he yells at me then for them being up front when he called them up in the first place. And we were slammed… there were still lines… so I’m all…. but it looks like they’re needed up front… and he just glares at me and tells me to get them off now. I haven’t even gotten to the fucking podium yet.
So I do get there and he follows me and then made some condescending remark that everything was messed up because I was late…. it was 1:04. I was 4 fucking minutes late. He walks off… and there on the podium written on the line-up is a nasty condescending note from Blair just for me… that I am absolutely to never call in people to replace people that call in. And this is the second time that he’s said something like this to me… like the thinks I’m always calling in people. This is all from last Sunday when everyone needed the red card. I have never called anyone in without manager permission… I would never do such a thing and where Blair gets this fucking idiotic idea that I just do whatever I want I don’t know. All I know is I was pissed and didn’t want to deal with his being an asswipe.
So… the rest of the day is just shit. Jared’s “father” who sounded like he was 18 called Jared in for carts tonight. Billy Gravelle was 45 minutes late, Kyle Dolbec an hour late. I was just a mess all over the front end…. it was slammed…. I got one… maybe two audits done all day…. I was lucky to get the sweep in at like 2:30 as each drawer was over $1000…. but that was it. Register 7 had had 4 people ringing on it and wasn’t audited once…. there was just no way. I was on register most of the day.
And to continue with Blair sucking…. at one point we were slammed, Bill Wimer was ringing on 9 and I asked him if Matt and Ryan were still here and he fucking lied to me and said they left. He wouldn’t fucking let me call them up. He’s just such a fucking dick. He just let lines sit there… and they sat there because I had no one. I just didn’t even want to talk to him….. I have no respect and no love for him anymore.
Outside of Blair being a little bitchwhore…… some of work was cool.
Sam was there…. I enjoy working with her… she makes things fun…. but was once again the dick magnet she always is. She was selfscan… but she’d come down… and she’d bag at all of the register’s… but every time she moves away from Chris McNamara’s register he’d look after her with little puppy dog eyes and beg her to come back and bag for him…… it was just…. goddamn Sam what is your secret…. I want to do that to boys…. though I would never lead them on like she does.
Chris McNamara was on carts…. but I took one look at the fact that I had Trevor inside who is useless… and no one on register and made Chris come inside by like 1:45 for the rest of his shift….. he loved me for that…. though it was in no way motivated by kindness… solely by need….. but I didn’t mind the gratitude.
Phyllis was Phyllis and getting customers to tell me to give her her break on time even though we were slammed…. oh Phyllis.
Everyone fucking had their schedule wrong today. Nick Gambaro was all thinking he was working 1:30 to 5… and I told him that was silly… the shift minimum is 4 hours and that wouldn’t have even been 4 hours… so he did stay until 5:30 for me… which was appreciated as we really needed it. Kyle though he was in at 4:30… when it was 3:30… and was all… I always write down the wrong hours…. seriously….. how hard is it to write down hours correctly…. plus he’s NC/NS’s like 3 times in the past week. Also…he sound so very gay when he talks…. but I’m not entirely sure he is.
Billy Gravelle loves doing carts and did it like his whole shift which I appreciated…. I’m starting to come around on him a little…. but he has some shitty shitty friends….. and one of them is the guy that’s always there in the wife beater…. who was fucking caught stealing today too…… Sully nailed the bastard and dragged hi right up to Blair and Bill…. it was awesome… the kid then threw a hissy fit about how he was not stealing… but we all fucking know he was.
So… when Jared called out…. I asked Blair permission to replace him. Blair gave it… and I never got the chance to call people because we were so busy…. but as people were coming in to check their schedule… I nabbed them… and I got Ben McGuire to cover… which was awesome. So… when Ben came in and went to get the red card from Blair…. Blair all comes storming out of the office and glaring at me mouthing… what is he doing here. I was so pissed… I just wanted to slug Blair. I just told him he was replacing Jared… and reminded Blair that he had given me permission for that…. so Blair just shut up and went back in his office. God…. I miss Linda. I want Linda back.
Also…. fucking Alanna….. every two minutes….. ran out of money. I would put $100 worth of 10’s and 5’s and she’d be out in 5 minutes again. It was hysterical….. she had like 10 customers in a row all getting like $100 cash back. Just ridiculous. I had to insert $250 into her drawer over like an hour plus all of my taking big bills to get smaller bills for her…. it was crazy. Also…. my Mom went into her line to shop and of course introduced herself…. because my Mom loves doing that… apparently Alanna said I was the best and all of the cashiers wished I was cdhing instead of anyone else…. it was sweet. Especially since I don’t know Alanna that well.
Lastly… I so want to be working tonight. Adam until midnight, Laurel in the desk, Derek, Jen, Ben, Eric, Alanna, and Kyle…. that’s a pretty damn good crew. Plus Adam and I would’ve had a fucking blast. It’s too bad…. especially as Paul never closes on Friday night.
So… departing from that… I just finished .hack//sign which was a very interesting anime. I’m glad I watched it for the experience… plus I’m now starting the game… so here are thoughts about both. Plus the anime had one of the most hysterically awesome endings of any show I’ve ever seen…. I could not stop laughing. So there will be some spoilers because some amusing things the show does require a little background…. if people care… though I find that hard to believe out of anyone that reads this…. but it’s worth it because I’m only going to go over the interesting and amusing qualities the anime possessed. Also…. the game they play is called “the world” so all anime long…… ZA WARUDO every couple of lines.
So… first off… the anime is incredibly boring. There is no doubt. I mean… it’s about player playing a MMORPG. And the setting fucking worked perfectly… I felt like I was watching player playing guild wars. Running around town… standing doing nothing… talking… wandering out for battles….. bothering everyone to form parties….. PKers being PKers. So well done…. except…. there was no fighting. I mean… it took until episode 24 of 26 until there was an actual MMORPG fight.
I was so happy when it happened as the characters were all calling shots… you heal… you offense… you defense… lets switch I’ll heal you attack… it was so… oh God this is awesomely like when I used to party in Guild wars or even Diabolo. But again… it was epsidoe 24 when this finally happened.
For the rest of the series… all they characters did was sit in town and talk… sit out in the world and talk…. and talk… and talk…. and talk. I mean… it was fascinating in trying to figure out what motivated each character… why they were playing… why they were joining with the different people… what they wanted out of the game and the other characters….. but just nothing but talking. And often the talk was just very pointless talking about playing the game instead of actually playing it. Just crazy.
Okay… the PKer…. Sora. He was awesome… all sneaky thief kinda class…. snuck up on people in random areas… demanded their member account info… or he killed them. Other times… he’d walk into a tough boss fight….. one or two of the party fighting it would be dead….. the rest would praise him for helping….. and then he’d kill all of them and fight the boss himself to get all the XP and treasure. Plus he’d challenge anyone to fight him. Oh God did it fucking remind me of Diabs…. the times when I’ve watched that happen… PKer’s were always fun… they’d show up in games where I was playing newb chars and either kill all the bosses so we couldn’t or warp to where we were and kill everyone and challenge any of us to fight him again. Then I’d go get my 99 sorc or pally or zon. The smart ones would leave immediately after. The dumb ones would challenge me and lose…. but I used to own that game so bad. I mean… one of the guys that runs one of the businesses that sells equipment online for real money…. me and my bro were their main supplier of gear. Sadly Sora had a bad end… he was crucified on a data cross and sucked into a giant doom mecha.
But anyway… other great points. The main love story is Tsukasa and Subaru. Tsukasa’s the really hot wizard boy that I really wanted. Subaru’s the little winged loli with a big axe. Yeah… they get all lovey dovey at things. But IRL…. Subarau’s a girl in a wheelchair… and Tsukasa is a girl in a coma…. they make like the best couple in the world… but when Subaru finds out she’s really in love with a girl… she’s all I don’t care I love you anyway… it was all….. fuck yeah….. lesbian hotness. Though Tsukasa was an ugly girl….. but Subaru was all nerdy and long hair in a wheel chair and was kinda hot.
Lastly… the ending… just spectacular. So…. the main party accomplishes their big goal… and pisses off the Big Bad which is some program in the game that’s trying to prevent it’s own destruction. Time for epic showdown. The PKer Sora after betraying the party for the BBEG then betray the BBEG for the party… but the BBEG then fucking kills Sora….. trapping him into the area the BBEG is and crucifying him on the light data cross and then sucking him in to fuel and awesome doom mecha. Also… the result puts the boy operating Sora in a coma… and you find out the kid was a 4th grader… which was all sad.
So now it’s time for the epic boss battle fight….. the whole party against the big mecha and the BBEG. Yeah… a hacker, Helba, working with the party at times just deletes the entire area where they are fighting and logs them al out Screen goes black… role credits. I fucking died. No fight….. no closure… they were just logged out. Then during credits Tsukasa and Subaru all meet in real life and hug and shit. But it was just so so……. wait… there’s no big fight with the BBEG? I was greatly amused.
So now… I’m moving onto the game. The cool thing about the game…. yeah… it’s exactly like the anime. I mean… I feel just like I’m controlling a character in the same game. It’s just a neat experience. I’ve only played like 2 hours….. but so far it’s been cool. Plus I’ve already run into the doom meach from the anime… plus the hacker Helba… and Balmung who is like this huge important figure in the world but was in one scene in the entire anime.
So…. as soon as I walk in like 4 minutes late because my father was late getting home to bring me….. Blair meets me at the door and just starts laying into me. First…. both Ryan Silva and Matt Blackmon are on register…. but neither of them are supposed to be … they’re supposed to be on “cleaning” and he only called them up because there were lines and I better get them off immediately. So he yells at me then for them being up front when he called them up in the first place. And we were slammed… there were still lines… so I’m all…. but it looks like they’re needed up front… and he just glares at me and tells me to get them off now. I haven’t even gotten to the fucking podium yet.
So I do get there and he follows me and then made some condescending remark that everything was messed up because I was late…. it was 1:04. I was 4 fucking minutes late. He walks off… and there on the podium written on the line-up is a nasty condescending note from Blair just for me… that I am absolutely to never call in people to replace people that call in. And this is the second time that he’s said something like this to me… like the thinks I’m always calling in people. This is all from last Sunday when everyone needed the red card. I have never called anyone in without manager permission… I would never do such a thing and where Blair gets this fucking idiotic idea that I just do whatever I want I don’t know. All I know is I was pissed and didn’t want to deal with his being an asswipe.
So… the rest of the day is just shit. Jared’s “father” who sounded like he was 18 called Jared in for carts tonight. Billy Gravelle was 45 minutes late, Kyle Dolbec an hour late. I was just a mess all over the front end…. it was slammed…. I got one… maybe two audits done all day…. I was lucky to get the sweep in at like 2:30 as each drawer was over $1000…. but that was it. Register 7 had had 4 people ringing on it and wasn’t audited once…. there was just no way. I was on register most of the day.
And to continue with Blair sucking…. at one point we were slammed, Bill Wimer was ringing on 9 and I asked him if Matt and Ryan were still here and he fucking lied to me and said they left. He wouldn’t fucking let me call them up. He’s just such a fucking dick. He just let lines sit there… and they sat there because I had no one. I just didn’t even want to talk to him….. I have no respect and no love for him anymore.
Outside of Blair being a little bitchwhore…… some of work was cool.
Sam was there…. I enjoy working with her… she makes things fun…. but was once again the dick magnet she always is. She was selfscan… but she’d come down… and she’d bag at all of the register’s… but every time she moves away from Chris McNamara’s register he’d look after her with little puppy dog eyes and beg her to come back and bag for him…… it was just…. goddamn Sam what is your secret…. I want to do that to boys…. though I would never lead them on like she does.
Chris McNamara was on carts…. but I took one look at the fact that I had Trevor inside who is useless… and no one on register and made Chris come inside by like 1:45 for the rest of his shift….. he loved me for that…. though it was in no way motivated by kindness… solely by need….. but I didn’t mind the gratitude.
Phyllis was Phyllis and getting customers to tell me to give her her break on time even though we were slammed…. oh Phyllis.
Everyone fucking had their schedule wrong today. Nick Gambaro was all thinking he was working 1:30 to 5… and I told him that was silly… the shift minimum is 4 hours and that wouldn’t have even been 4 hours… so he did stay until 5:30 for me… which was appreciated as we really needed it. Kyle though he was in at 4:30… when it was 3:30… and was all… I always write down the wrong hours…. seriously….. how hard is it to write down hours correctly…. plus he’s NC/NS’s like 3 times in the past week. Also…he sound so very gay when he talks…. but I’m not entirely sure he is.
Billy Gravelle loves doing carts and did it like his whole shift which I appreciated…. I’m starting to come around on him a little…. but he has some shitty shitty friends….. and one of them is the guy that’s always there in the wife beater…. who was fucking caught stealing today too…… Sully nailed the bastard and dragged hi right up to Blair and Bill…. it was awesome… the kid then threw a hissy fit about how he was not stealing… but we all fucking know he was.
So… when Jared called out…. I asked Blair permission to replace him. Blair gave it… and I never got the chance to call people because we were so busy…. but as people were coming in to check their schedule… I nabbed them… and I got Ben McGuire to cover… which was awesome. So… when Ben came in and went to get the red card from Blair…. Blair all comes storming out of the office and glaring at me mouthing… what is he doing here. I was so pissed… I just wanted to slug Blair. I just told him he was replacing Jared… and reminded Blair that he had given me permission for that…. so Blair just shut up and went back in his office. God…. I miss Linda. I want Linda back.
Also…. fucking Alanna….. every two minutes….. ran out of money. I would put $100 worth of 10’s and 5’s and she’d be out in 5 minutes again. It was hysterical….. she had like 10 customers in a row all getting like $100 cash back. Just ridiculous. I had to insert $250 into her drawer over like an hour plus all of my taking big bills to get smaller bills for her…. it was crazy. Also…. my Mom went into her line to shop and of course introduced herself…. because my Mom loves doing that… apparently Alanna said I was the best and all of the cashiers wished I was cdhing instead of anyone else…. it was sweet. Especially since I don’t know Alanna that well.
Lastly… I so want to be working tonight. Adam until midnight, Laurel in the desk, Derek, Jen, Ben, Eric, Alanna, and Kyle…. that’s a pretty damn good crew. Plus Adam and I would’ve had a fucking blast. It’s too bad…. especially as Paul never closes on Friday night.
So… departing from that… I just finished .hack//sign which was a very interesting anime. I’m glad I watched it for the experience… plus I’m now starting the game… so here are thoughts about both. Plus the anime had one of the most hysterically awesome endings of any show I’ve ever seen…. I could not stop laughing. So there will be some spoilers because some amusing things the show does require a little background…. if people care… though I find that hard to believe out of anyone that reads this…. but it’s worth it because I’m only going to go over the interesting and amusing qualities the anime possessed. Also…. the game they play is called “the world” so all anime long…… ZA WARUDO every couple of lines.
So… first off… the anime is incredibly boring. There is no doubt. I mean… it’s about player playing a MMORPG. And the setting fucking worked perfectly… I felt like I was watching player playing guild wars. Running around town… standing doing nothing… talking… wandering out for battles….. bothering everyone to form parties….. PKers being PKers. So well done…. except…. there was no fighting. I mean… it took until episode 24 of 26 until there was an actual MMORPG fight.
I was so happy when it happened as the characters were all calling shots… you heal… you offense… you defense… lets switch I’ll heal you attack… it was so… oh God this is awesomely like when I used to party in Guild wars or even Diabolo. But again… it was epsidoe 24 when this finally happened.
For the rest of the series… all they characters did was sit in town and talk… sit out in the world and talk…. and talk… and talk…. and talk. I mean… it was fascinating in trying to figure out what motivated each character… why they were playing… why they were joining with the different people… what they wanted out of the game and the other characters….. but just nothing but talking. And often the talk was just very pointless talking about playing the game instead of actually playing it. Just crazy.
Okay… the PKer…. Sora. He was awesome… all sneaky thief kinda class…. snuck up on people in random areas… demanded their member account info… or he killed them. Other times… he’d walk into a tough boss fight….. one or two of the party fighting it would be dead….. the rest would praise him for helping….. and then he’d kill all of them and fight the boss himself to get all the XP and treasure. Plus he’d challenge anyone to fight him. Oh God did it fucking remind me of Diabs…. the times when I’ve watched that happen… PKer’s were always fun… they’d show up in games where I was playing newb chars and either kill all the bosses so we couldn’t or warp to where we were and kill everyone and challenge any of us to fight him again. Then I’d go get my 99 sorc or pally or zon. The smart ones would leave immediately after. The dumb ones would challenge me and lose…. but I used to own that game so bad. I mean… one of the guys that runs one of the businesses that sells equipment online for real money…. me and my bro were their main supplier of gear. Sadly Sora had a bad end… he was crucified on a data cross and sucked into a giant doom mecha.
But anyway… other great points. The main love story is Tsukasa and Subaru. Tsukasa’s the really hot wizard boy that I really wanted. Subaru’s the little winged loli with a big axe. Yeah… they get all lovey dovey at things. But IRL…. Subarau’s a girl in a wheelchair… and Tsukasa is a girl in a coma…. they make like the best couple in the world… but when Subaru finds out she’s really in love with a girl… she’s all I don’t care I love you anyway… it was all….. fuck yeah….. lesbian hotness. Though Tsukasa was an ugly girl….. but Subaru was all nerdy and long hair in a wheel chair and was kinda hot.
Lastly… the ending… just spectacular. So…. the main party accomplishes their big goal… and pisses off the Big Bad which is some program in the game that’s trying to prevent it’s own destruction. Time for epic showdown. The PKer Sora after betraying the party for the BBEG then betray the BBEG for the party… but the BBEG then fucking kills Sora….. trapping him into the area the BBEG is and crucifying him on the light data cross and then sucking him in to fuel and awesome doom mecha. Also… the result puts the boy operating Sora in a coma… and you find out the kid was a 4th grader… which was all sad.
So now it’s time for the epic boss battle fight….. the whole party against the big mecha and the BBEG. Yeah… a hacker, Helba, working with the party at times just deletes the entire area where they are fighting and logs them al out Screen goes black… role credits. I fucking died. No fight….. no closure… they were just logged out. Then during credits Tsukasa and Subaru all meet in real life and hug and shit. But it was just so so……. wait… there’s no big fight with the BBEG? I was greatly amused.
So now… I’m moving onto the game. The cool thing about the game…. yeah… it’s exactly like the anime. I mean… I feel just like I’m controlling a character in the same game. It’s just a neat experience. I’ve only played like 2 hours….. but so far it’s been cool. Plus I’ve already run into the doom meach from the anime… plus the hacker Helba… and Balmung who is like this huge important figure in the world but was in one scene in the entire anime.