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**Exo** · 05-15-2021, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Customer: This coffee is too black. Something wrong with the machine?

Me: huh?....it just dispenses iced coffee

Customer: It's too black

Me: *points to label* it's a black coffee dispenser

Customer: nah man it's too black

Me: *Opens dispenser* yeah you see this a bag of black coffee...in the black coffee dispenser...it dispenses this black coffee

Customer: *still suspicious*

People don't understand how dumb people are. Yesterday I had a woman on the phone who didn't want to tell me WHERE in Pennsylvania she was located but still wanted me to point her in the direction of a store that would buy her terrible CD collection.

We share a certain bond Elph whether you know it or not. We deal with idiots.

innerspaceboy · 05-15-2021, 02:45 PM

I wanted to do something fun to celebrate Brian Eno's birthday today. The self-proclaimed "non-musician" remains one of my greatest creative and philosophical inspirations and today he turned 73.

This quirky image of Eno appeared in the British rock music magazine, ZigZag in 1982 and calls to mind the Oblique Strategies card which reads, “The tape is now the music." I tracked down the highest resolution scan of the image I could find, cleaned it up a bit, and had it printed and framed for my listening room.

Cheers to you, Mr. Eno!

Trollheart · 05-15-2021, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

People don't understand how dumb people are. Yesterday I had a woman on the phone who didn't want to tell me WHERE in Pennsylvania she was located but still wanted me to point her in the direction of a store that would buy her terrible CD collection.

We share a certain bond Elph whether you know it or not. We deal with idiots.

Reminds me of that line from Fawlty Towers, when Basil is asked by a guy he considers "common" if he knows anywhere that does good French food?

"Yes," he answers. "France. They seem to like it over there. If you leave now you can catch the tide. The swim should certainly sharpen your appetite!"

~~jwb~~ · 05-15-2021, 03:28 PM

Spoiler for long ass work rant:

So they're training me to be operator as I mentioned.. reason being my operator quit and they brought in this young redneck who is the cousin of the plant manager and were gonna train him to replace my operator. I told them they should train me to do it so now they're training both of us.

The other two operators quit too so we went from 3 shifts with experienced operators to 2 shifts with me and the other young guy and neither of us really know wtf we're doing lol. He pretends to know a lot more than he does cause his whole family is in the box business or whatever plus he's just cocky like that... Never wants to own that he is ****ing up.

Where as me I know damn well I'm completely underqualified and just seized an opportunity to try to advance cause the place is losing operators and even supervisors left and right. I'm starting to get the hang of it a bit but it's mentally taxing .. so much **** going on at once that I'm supposed to keep track of...
Plus I'm in the new position of having to boss other people around which doesn't come naturally to me... But I am learning quickly that if you don't they just take advantage of you.. which I already knew it's just weird being the one in that position...

The two people I have on my crew are the fake OH guy and some tomboyish country girl who's only like 18. She's stocky and almost comes across like a lesbian but apparently she has a boyfriend who just ripped her off and stole her credit card. The fake OH... The teacher/former meth addict I mentioned... Let's call him professor meth.

Well professor seems to have a thing for the young girl though he also almost comes across as gay so I can't tell whether he's OH thirsting over a typing broad or just her catty old gay friend. Kinda funny though. Either way they're decent enough people and easy enough to work with. Professor meth is predictably lazy though and sand bags sometimes.

Now I am gonna be on 7pm -7am as opposed to 3pm - 3am starting Monday but the other workers schedule stays the same.. only me and the other operator are changing schedules so I'll have his crew part of the time and mine part of the time and vice versa. ****s ****in exhausting though if they don't get a 3rd shift in soon enough I'll quit.. and after they spent all that time and energy training me

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They'll be pissed off of that happens and I won't care in the slightest except for I'll feel sorta bad for the guy who's training me cause he puts in a lot of effort... But they keep talking about we're gonna fix this ****... Clock is ticking cause once I'm completely out of debt and situated I ain't doing this 70 hrs a week ****. They'll be **** outta luck if they're relying on that long term.

**Marie Monday** · 05-15-2021, 04:37 PM

yeah 70 hours/week is brutal, they can't expect you to keep that up. No one should have to do that even short term. The fake OH/country tomboy situation speaks to the imagination though, at least that sounds like it'll offer some entertaining diversions. Keep us updated about it

The Batlord · 05-15-2021, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

yeah 70 hours/week is brutal, they can't expect you to keep that up.

It must be nice having been born yesterday.

**Marie Monday** · 05-15-2021, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

It must be nice having been born yesterday.

by can't I meant shouldn't, of course -_-

SGR · 05-16-2021, 06:51 PM

Work sucks. I really just want to be drunk, play Doom, and occasionally have sex. Is that so much to ask for?

YorkeDaddy · 05-17-2021, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

I wanted to do something fun to celebrate Brian Eno's birthday today. The self-proclaimed "non-musician" remains one of my greatest creative and philosophical inspirations and today he turned 73.

This quirky image of Eno appeared in the British rock music magazine, ZigZag in 1982 and calls to mind the Oblique Strategies card which reads, “The tape is now the music." I tracked down the highest resolution scan of the image I could find, cleaned it up a bit, and had it printed and framed for my listening room.

Cheers to you, Mr. Eno!

This is ****ing badass, what an awesome idea. You're inspiring me to do something similar!

innerspaceboy · 05-17-2021, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

This is ****ing badass, what an awesome idea. You're inspiring me to do something similar!

Fantastic! I'm always delighted when I can inspire creativity!

05-15-2021, 03:28 PM	#75074 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Spoiler for long ass work rant: So they're training me to be operator as I mentioned.. reason being my operator quit and they brought in this young redneck who is the cousin of the plant manager and were gonna train him to replace my operator. I told them they should train me to do it so now they're training both of us. The other two operators quit too so we went from 3 shifts with experienced operators to 2 shifts with me and the other young guy and neither of us really know wtf we're doing lol. He pretends to know a lot more than he does cause his whole family is in the box business or whatever plus he's just cocky like that... Never wants to own that he is **ing up. Where as me I know damn well I'm completely underqualified and just seized an opportunity to try to advance cause the place is losing operators and even supervisors left and right. I'm starting to get the hang of it a bit but it's mentally taxing .. so much going on at once that I'm supposed to keep track of... Plus I'm in the new position of having to boss other people around which doesn't come naturally to me... But I am learning quickly that if you don't they just take advantage of you.. which I already knew it's just weird being the one in that position... The two people I have on my crew are the fake OH guy and some tomboyish country girl who's only like 18. She's stocky and almost comes across like a lesbian but apparently she has a boyfriend who just ripped her off and stole her credit card. The fake OH... The teacher/former meth addict I mentioned... Let's call him professor meth. Well professor seems to have a thing for the young girl though he also almost comes across as gay so I can't tell whether he's OH thirsting over a typing broad or just her catty old gay friend. Kinda funny though. Either way they're decent enough people and easy enough to work with. Professor meth is predictably lazy though and sand bags sometimes. Now I am gonna be on 7pm -7am as opposed to 3pm - 3am starting Monday but the other workers schedule stays the same.. only me and the other operator are changing schedules so I'll have his crew part of the time and mine part of the time and vice versa. s in exhausting though if they don't get a 3rd shift in soon enough I'll quit.. and after they spent all that time and energy training me . They'll be pissed off of that happens and I won't care in the slightest except for I'll feel sorta bad for the guy who's training me cause he puts in a lot of effort... But they keep talking about we're gonna fix this ... Clock is ticking cause once I'm completely out of debt and situated I ain't doing this 70 hrs a week . They'll be ** outta luck if they're relying on that long term.

05-16-2021, 06:51 PM	#75078 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,327	Work sucks. I really just want to be drunk, play Doom, and occasionally have sex. Is that so much to ask for?