I'm really considering moving into NYC with my cousin next year. I need to get out of this house. Now to save every single penny I have until then. Guess I'm never eating food again.

I'm a seagul

Good Luck with that as much as I like hanging out down in NYC. I don't think I could ever live there.

Because of moving house, yesterday was really the first time I got to sit down with MB after about one month´s abstinence. Was very pleased to come across two other returnees, and a new acquaintance ( Moshe, Cenotaph and Mr. Charlie respectively).
All I need now, ahem, is for Vanilla to acknowledge the PM I sent her!

So this happened today:
I was up front with my manager and we were watching this guy who some customer said was stealing things. I found the empty plastic bags that the items were taken from so I went and grabbed them. The guy was heading toward the entrance because most people try to skip out with stolen goods through the entrance thinking nobody will see. I noticed he was heading there and told him that the exit is behind me, not where he's headed. He starts mocking me saying things like "oh, so am I not allowed to touch it then? Is that illegal now?" and so my manager comes over and says "sir, he was just showing you where the exit is for your convenience." He then comes over to the two of us and starts going off on me and my manager, and he knew I knew because I was holding the empty bags that he had stolen from. As he's trying to walk out, he has books with him that we saw him take from our book department, my manager asks "did you pay for those?" and he states he got them from Half Price Books which is bull****, and as he's being escorted out the door, he starts calling my manager a stupid ****ing bitch while throwing the books at me.

Interesting day to say the least. Also one of the scariest moments of the day as well. He could've had a gun on him for all I know.

retail sucks, get out while you can and save your soul. i hate the 'customer is always right' bull****. let a lot of ppl go i knew were stealin while i worked various retail jobs in college. so many customers i wanted to beat the **** out of

I'm sucking on candy canes and it's not even Christmas.

I work for Value Village so i'm actually pretty happy with it since I work in production. I don't deal with customers too often. I guess i'm also lucky that my managers don't believe in the "customer is always right" crap because 10/10 times the management team will side with the employee.

thats nice then. the only thing retail helped me improve was my passive aggressiveness towards customers. so many idiots. i dont know what value village is, is it a chain store? most chain store have trained their managers to just kiss ass to the customers which is infuriatin for me. the locally owned places are usually more uncarin whether an asswipe comes back in or not. i considered a career in retail after my buddy got a job makin big bucks as a center store manager and i was unemployed but my short stints at different retail places gave me a black heart

My girlfriend's sucking me and it's not even my birthday! Things are looking up.

cake cake cake!!

Value Village is a thrift store and everything that goes on our floor is through donations from people (which is tax deductible since we pay non profits) and from non profits via trucks and trailers. So we basically pay non profit organizations for their merchandise which allows them to continue to do the things they do. It's a fantastic company and I am extremely happy to be a part of it.

VV is hands down my favorite thrift store

Mine too. Mostly I just drop stuff off there but I always look around. I've found a few Halloween costumes there in past years.

I actually work in the front of the same store.

So I deal with the idiots. If it wasn't for the fact that I mildly tolerate most of the people I work with, I'd call my soul dead by now. Then again I've been in retail for about 10 years and my faith in humanity dwindles daily.

:laughing:

You win.

its.... pay day!!


ive been so responsible for so long with my money (aside from gambling lol). like i never splurge on anythin and dont have expensive hobbies (aside from gambling lol). so now i have a good job that pays well i am gonna have like an extra $1000 a month after bills and all that junk. part of me really wants to save it for a car or somethin. but i feel like ive been savin forever (thrifty upbringin) and kidna wanna buy somethin cool.


any suggestion??? thinkin an ipad cause i like them. but im gonna have to talk to someone at best buy. i really just want somethin that 1) supports java and 2) allows me to play music

don't waste your money on apple products. Talk to someone at Best Buy and ask them what other tablets you could get.

I'm rocking the Nexus 7 HD but it all depends on if you want a larger screen or not there are plenty of other options.

Me too. I worked fast food so it was more like people trying to get free food, but same difference. The **** do I care if they get **** they didn't pay for? it's not my **** and I could give a **** about the company I work for. If the manager wants to make an issue of it then they can feel free, but ignoring them lets them leave quicker anyway so I can get back to leaning against stuff.

A vacation maybe?

A good stereo with a cup holder?

a positive day makes you smile. :)

That's so punx

Had a job interview this morning. One of those where you sit at a large table and get bombarded with questions by several seniors. I felt like a fish in a fishtank. I had to wear my serious face. Awful!

Watchin 'snow day' with my client and the girl who plays the 15 yr old is Sloan from entourage aka my alltime crush



What a conflictin boner

Thats life. I remember going fully erect over Natalie Portman in Beautiful Girls.

The little confliction I felt has vanished, she's smokin

Went to Costco for groceries and the gas there was $3.02. Lowest i've seen gas prices in a long ass time.

seriously, 8.25 gallons for $25.

now our car is well-fed and happy, such a pretty little beater.

My day was not that great but I can move on from it.

:(

*hugs*

Well, this meeting that I busted my butt setting up and gathering all the information/research for went nowhere. All the people I invited didn't show up and it ended up only being four of us there. The people that were only there for support and that's already part of our group. We ended the meeting early and spent the rest of the time talking about what we can work on to get people to come out to these meetings or if they are even interested in the first place. We might end up scraping this campaign which is light years ahead of it's time and if these people can't see that then they are truly foolish.

That blows DJ. :(

I have been staying up till the early morning playing age of empires 3, so fecking addictive. I'm so bloody tired though.

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We're putting Christmas decorations on the floor at work. I won't lie, I don't usually like doing decorations, but it really does add a lot of color to the department that I work in.

I ****ING LOVE XMAS DECORATIONS

I'm so excited for xmas I get high and bake zillions of cookies its the best time of the year

I just want to get them for our cats because I know they'll destroy them and it'll be adorable

My cat never has a problem with them strangely, but we bought all non-glass/unbreakable stuff last year because he's an ass hole

baby's got expensive taste!

The best thing about Xmas is when cats eat tinsel and end up with tinsel hanging out their bottoms. I love that.