This happened a couple of months ago (I had a hair-scammer recently that reminded me of it), it was kind of a mixture of a suck/WTF.


This lady complained to me that she'd found a hair in her food.

No big deal really, sometimes that actually happens, despite all the precautions we take. More often people try to scam us ("I found a hair during the very last mouthful but I threw it away and even though I ate almost the entire meal and I can't show you the hair I found, I still want the meal for free!"), but that's ok, I usually give people the benefit of the doubt just in case.

This lady, though, didn't seem to be a scammer... she stopped me and told me she'd found a hair in her food after eating about one mouthful, and it was right there on the plate for me to see.

At this point there are a few things I should point out. This lady had hair that was a horrible bleached yellow-y blonde with about an inch of dark brown roots. The chef had a buzz cut, so his hair was barely 1/4cm long, and the kitchen hand had black hair that was about an inch long and was wearing a cap to keep it all in place (the way our front area is set up means the customers can see the kitchen staff quite easily). I was the only waitress, and my tied-back hair was very long, red for the first six or so inches, then black for the rest. So, of course, it's going to be obvious who the hair belonged to. (I think you can see where this is going...)

The hair on the lady's plate?

You guessed it! A horrible bleached yellow blonde with about an inch of dark brown!

The weird thing was that she wasn't trying to scam us, she'd taken about a bite of her food, and just wanted it replaced. Yet she didn't get that it was HER HAIR on the plate...

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/05/16.html

subfusc: dark or dull in color.

One WTF and a Suck. And a witnessed suck.

...What? Is there something in the water where I live? I don't understand the crazy that has emerged lately.

Recap: Volde-Mart FE cashier, in-training for Garden Center (w00t!)

Background: I was by myself for almost my entire 7-hr shift both yesterday and today. It sucks, but of a different nature than for this community. Both yesterday and today were very, very busy. And being alone means that I am solely responsible for working pallets of inside-freight, answering for calls to Live Fish, answering the phone, and cashiering. Today, there was the added "fun" of Toys calling out, and Garden gets to cover that department too, including phone calls and merchandise help (getting bicycles down, etc.). Luckily, I had help in Fish, because the guy who works Pets was actually working late enough to answer Fish tonight.
Normally, all of this is not a problem. Shit happens and it's manageable. You know, grumble under my breath when I'm alone but still do my job as best as I can, sort of thing. But remember, the store is extremely busy. Thus I'm running around like a headless chicken, trying to do several things at once. I'm a bit scatterbrained because I'm still in training and thus don't know where everything is, etc., and today I didn't feel well.

On to the stories!

( Sir...? )

This next one got a bit long, sorry.

( No, I don't speak Spanish. Thank you for insulting me in it. )

EDIT: Ahaha ; ; forgot the witnessed suck.

( Maybe I should hose YOU off? )

TL;DR #1: Man is weird.

TL;DR #2: Woman is the nastiest Spanish-speaking person I have met and was trying to make me feel inferior because I DON'T speak Spanish.

TL;DR #3: Couple is beyond stupid.

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There is one employee at my local grocery store who always, without fail, gets on my nerves. I wouldn't mind it if he wanted to strike up a conversation to be friendly but apparently he did not get the memo that using insults and sarcasm is not a good way to get the ball rolling. I have complained about him several times (especially when he asked if my in-laws were coming because I was buying dog food) and he is still employed there for some reason beyond me.

My mum had to buy a few things there today and I went with her. Sadly his register was the only one void of people and we wanted to get out of there sometime before next Christmas so we had no other choice. He asked how my mum was as he was ringing up the items, she responded with "Good" to which he rolled his eyes and replied with "Way to sound so convincing" and then he turned to me and said "And aren't you just Miss Chatterbox? Talk a lot, do ya?" I was too confused to say anything back to him because what did he expect me to do, answer for my mother when he asked how she was? It wouldn't have bothered me so much if he didn't say it in such an acidic tone and a scowl! I guess he really must hate his job/society in general because I've seen him be rude to so many people before... poor guy.

I work at a gas station/food mart.

My lungs and I did not appreciate when some older fellow came in smoking a pipe. Inside my convenience store. Not caring about my shocked expression. I was too surprised to say anything, actually: I mean, who DOES that? Smoking in a convenience store, at a GAS STATION (where there are signs everywhere saying to extinguish cigarettes and the like), is all around NOT COOL.

Double bonus: I am allergic to tobacco AND I have asthma, which is set off by allergies. I haven't been able to breathe right since the dude left my store... 12 hours ago.

Some background: People can come in and order quarts of yogurt. We make these by hand, and it does take a little extra time. It also slows whatever machine we made the quart with down a considerable amount, and we have to wait about ten minutes to use it again or the yogurt will get all soft and melty.

This is a WTF from my old job, working at Dairy Queen.

( Cut for language and feral behaviour. )

I need to make something this weekend that calls for 6 3/4 oz. flour and 8 oz. sugar. I don't have a food scale and do not intend to buy one just for this. On the comments section for the recipe, someone posted that 6 3/4 oz. flour is 1 1/2 cups and that 8 oz. is 1 1/8 cups.

Can anyone who has a food scale or anyone really familiar with the conversions confirm this for me?

Edit: My personal finances are NOT the bad service here, I added them in to make sense of what is going on. Im bad at managing my money, I openly admit it. The long story short is that I talked to three different people, asked them about my overdraft protection, and got 3 different answers. That's my whole gripe, in a nutshell.


( recut, to save space.. here is the full story )

To say anything at all around my store, mainly because if I say something to a customer they might decide to go to the office and say I was making fun of them to their face or something, this last time



Lady was trying to find 50 cents to add onto the current amount she had laid out so she could purchase her things, she gave up trying to find the 50 cents and used a higher amount bill, getting back about 75 cents in change, after this I was just trying to make small talk and all by saying "Isn't it crazy, when you have to use a bigger amount to pay for something you get the change you were originally looking for back?" alot of people have had this happen to them, "Couldn't find X amount of change, only to use more and get the X amount they needed before back as their change" The man behind this woman knew exactly what I was saying, I don't see how I was making fun.

I guess I can't make small talk without fear of getting in trouble, this is like the last time I posted where I said to one customer "Prices are going up on some of our items" and got in trouble because another customer I wasn't even talking to at the time called the office and said I was being rude

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Lamer than Michael Keaton. MUCH lamer than Henry Winkler.

because I just LOVE being forced to take samples (/end sarcasm)
( tired of being forced to take samples )

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 Recap: Working at a drive-in(with people on skates who bring out your food and such) on headset when I get what had to be either the rudest person in the world or maybe just the craziest...

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how would i go about getting put into the system for the WDW whatever?  like on the hub you can put in someone's name and under the section contacts.  well i see my fellow cast members i work with but when i put in my name, absolutely nothing 

also, how would i go about getting an email address with WDW?  i know some fellow cast members also have that. 

retail photography studio crazyness.

dear cheap-asses valued customers,

when we tell you we do not have any open appointments on the day before mother's day, yes, you can believe it IS true. no, we are not making up. i do not care if your coupon for a free sheet expires today. guess what? that's our standard offer. it's ALWAYS there, so no, we are not going to overstress and triple book ourselves just so you can get your free sheet. we will not also stay open late for you so you can get it. no.

yes, we can [and often do] email coupons to our customers. yes, you can even sign up for the e-mail coupons. if you don't want to give your address, yes, you can go to our website and get our standard coupon [free 8x1- or 10x13]. but you see that big red circle that takes up 1/4 of the coupon picture and says "CLICK TO PRINT COUPON"? yes, you actually do have to click that and print it. that is the part that has the coupon CODE on it. it's especially important when your coupon is beyond our standard [aka free sheet and a percentage off]. we don't have automatic codes for those. no, i am not "deliberately trying to rip you off". i apologize for not being the robot who memorizes obscure coupon codes.

and ma'am, i don't care if you are just using your coupon today. but if it says free 8x10 or 10x13, you would actually have to get an 8x10 or 10x13 to be able to apply it to your purchase. and the offer is only for the sheet. it does not come with a 30 dollar frame. if you actually were a regular customer, you would know that.

again, what you buy is your personal business. what you do with your prints is your personal business. and while it is illegal to scan your pictures to make copies, if you do it in your house with your own scanner, i really can't stop you. however, you do not have the right to yell at me and my co-workers if your scanner can't scan the whole thing and print it at a proper size. we also will not give you tips on how to upload your pictures. and we will not give you a copyright release form so you can take it to another camera store and make extra copies. seriously? seriously?

no love,
your underpaid photographer sales girl

I don't think I've posted here before; I've just been lurking and commenting here and there. I don't say I hate children, but they do annoy the piss out of me most of the time. So hi!

So, a few weeks ago I started a job at the bakery in a grocery store. I like it quite a bit for the most part so far. One of our things is we hand out free cookies to kids under 12. I don't mind it so much. There are the nice ones who say thank you, and the wee little ones who are shy or don't talk much and are just kinda like, O_O OMG cookie!! But I don't like the rude little fuckers who are old enough to know better but just grab the cookie and take off.

Also tonight, there was a lady ordering a cake; I was facing the shelves and making sure everything looked pretty and whatnot and the decorator was helping with her order. Meanwhile her little girl sprog was climbing all over the donut display case. Moo was telling her to get down, so I have to give her credit for that. But sproglet was having none of it. Finally I walked over and asked her very politely, "Can you get down from there?" She just kinda looked at me like, o_o but didn't get down. What I wanted to do was pick her up by the scruff of the neck and put her down. Lady, if your kid won't listen to you and get off the donut case, PICK HER THE FUCK UP and get her off the fucking donut case!! Jeezus christ, it's not rocket science.

A nine hour shift and amazingly only one bad customer...

Dear WIC woman, 

When you handed me your WIC I was a little annoyed because it was crumpled and ripped up. I flattened it out and proceeded to ring up your stuff cheerfully despite the annoyance of such disrespect to your WIC papers.
You then yelled at me for having my conveyor belt on. Personally I dont think you have any right to yell at me for using the conveyor belt when you are unwilling to push down your stuff. It is there for my convenience as well as yours. I continued to smile and ring up your stuff despite you yelling at me and throwing your stuff onto my conveyor belt in a frustrated manner.
As I totaled out your stuff and began to fill out the WIC you then yelled at me to stop saying I didnt get your bonus card. We dont scan bonus cards for WICs. It makes no difference if I do because you dont get to keep the savings. The savings help you in no way. There is no point to it,. If any of your stuff had been on sale, since I had already finished filling out the WIC, my boss would have been very mad at me because the WIC would have the wrong total on it. If you know anything about WICs, they are very tricky and specific. We would not get our money back if I had written the wrong information on it. Lucky for me, none of your stuff was on sale since you ignored me when I explained this to you.
Finally, to make you happy, a little less angry, I was about to take your bonus card to scan it for you but you yanked your hand away from me. That was really rude. Even worse, you then reached in front of me and scanned it yourself. Please, keep out of my space. I do not want you reaching in front of me to scan your card. In fact, none of our cashiers appreciate it when the customers do that.
I dont know why you were so angry when you came into my line. I know you just got off of work. You were still in your McDonalds uniform and I understand that working there has got to be a really tough and tedious job. I understand. But when I greet you with a smile and through all of your rudeness tell you to have a great day, I would think you could have been a little more polite.
To put it simply, as one of my coworkers said to me earlier today, you do not know me other than this brief moment in time. I said hello, asked how you were, wished you a great day. You had no reason to be mad at me. Either way, I still only wish the best for you because you seemed to be tired and stressed...
Hopefully next time I see you, you will have figured out how to be more polite.
Your neighborhood Food Lion cashier.

I have a huge crush on Robert Downey Jr. after seeing Iron Man. So THAT feels a little wierd, but whatevsky.



I told Gabe I want to get OUT of here for Memorial Day weekend. If anyone has any fun suggestions, we're all ears. I want to go fishing and rent some quads and go offroading. I dunno...I'm having a redneck phase or something.



I've been having chronic headaches. And, my doctor thinks they're related to my fudged up neck and shoulder. A nasty combo of an old whiplash injury and sitting at a computer all day. I'm supposed to get more sleep, eat better, GET REGULAR MASSAGES (I LOVE that one...), get up and move more, and do LESS stuff at the computer. Take a break from World of Warcraft?!?!?! NEVER!!!
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PS- Gabe needs a job. Help? Mortgage...

I just joined but I posted this in my journal on Sunday:
I found an old foldr with cake and bakery recipes that my mom has cut out over the years-this is the one my mom picked out, and it just looked good! After this one turned out so well, Im obsessed with roll-cakes now!
The roll-cake version of strawberry shortcake that I made for Mother's day:
it's not decorated yet but I did such a beautiful job with the assembly that I couldn't wait. I've made Buche de Noel cakes (a French chocolate roll-cake) for French class before but they always crack or split on me. This is my first roll-cake that didn't crack or split at all! And that's something to really be proud of. Oh, and did I mention it's going to be the most delicious fucking thing EVER?!?!!






Strawberry Shortcake with whipped cream and strawberries in the middle (and whipped cream frosting that's not on it yet in these pictures). It was soooo good! And it looked freaking cool!

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(video courtesy of youtube)

Out of the three water parks that Disney has created, I have only ever been to River Country. Of course it's been closed for over a decade so I want to know in everyone's humble opinion which of the other two do you like more, Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon?

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Smashing Pumpkin’s Billy Corgan - who co-headlined Richard Branson’s V FEST with Duran Duran - joined the band onstage at Chicago’s Rosemont Theatre for a performance of “The Chauffeur.”

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Talking Shop: Duran Duran

Duran Duran are back on the road, more than 25 years after hits such as Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio and Save A Prayer made them global stars.

After their 12th studio album Red Carpet Massacre, featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, came out last year, the group are playing in the US before dates in the UK in July.

Bassist John Taylor gives an insight into life on tour, and discusses their plans for a one-off show with Mark Ronson.

What happens in an average day on the road?

I try to stay in bed until 10, but I’m a serious coffee addict so the idea of coffee gets me out of bed at 9:30-ish. Then I’ll start the day with an internet connection, I might go to the gym, I might have a sauna. We like saunas and steams. Maybe do something to keep healthy. It’s pretty civilised really.

Staying sharp with my playing is the best formula for having a good time on stage
We might go to the venue at about four o’clock, make sure everything’s set up as we like it. Most days there’s an hour of press to do, interviews like this, and I try to practice for an hour a day. I try.

Do you still need to practice after all these years?

When you’re away from home, it’s all about the show. If you don’t have a good time at the shows, then touring is miserable. I’ve found that staying sharp with my playing is the best formula for having a good time on stage.

What’s on your rider?

We are so easy, man. We have a sushi selection, we like a certain quality of red wine to be available, we have a room that our roadies set up where we have a practice drum kit and bass and guitar amplifier so the rhythm section can warm up. We love to just play before we go on stage to break the ice.

One of the fun things we’re doing on this tour is we’ve got a little turntable in the dressing room with us, so every day somebody has to go and find some bizarre old vinyl album. It’s like a challenge.

We’ve had Tony Bennett, the Jungle Book soundtrack, The Supremes Sing the Liverpool Hits. At the end of the tour we’ll have accrued 100 vinyl oddities and we’re going to eBay them off for a good cause.

Is there much partying these days?

I’m not a big party head. It takes so much energy. Parties are so much work. People talk so loud and we’ve just been playing for two-and-a-half hours. You can’t do it very often.

How does touring now compare to 25 years ago?

Back when I was younger, there was a duality to life - there was road and home. They were like two separate lives. Today, family and friends are so important and we all try to stay connected in as consistent a way as we can, and in this sense technology has been a friend to the touring musician. I just got Skype two weeks ago when I was in Japan and it’s so mindblowing.

Have you been approached to do any British festivals like Glastonbury?

No. I guess I’d like to do it. We just did the V Festivals in Australia. It’s something new for us. Comparing a festival to a concert is a bit like eating a buffet as opposed to having a one-on-one candlelight dinner. I’ve always been a one-on-one candlelight dinner sort of person, but I can see how the buffet is appealing.

What are you planning with Mark Ronson in Paris?

I love Mark, I’ve known Mark for a long time. I’ve known his mum and dad and I’m very proud of what he’s achieved.

Ann and [stepdad] Mick Jones - from Foreigner, who raised Mark - are two of the most wonderful people you could ever know. It was always on the cards that Mark was going to be a very special fellow. He’s always been a really hard-working super-nice guy, and he deserves everything that he’s getting.

At this point we’ve had several conversations about what we want to do, and his ideas are really exciting. The idea is to create a 30-minute monster Ronson-Duran mash with nods to all and sundry and then play the damn thing live, which is kind of rad, as the Californians like to say. It’s a really exciting project. It’s good to have these kinds of things that challenge you and shake you out of your complacency.

Duran Duran are on tour in the US and Europe until July, including UK shows in London, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. John Taylor was talking to entertainment reporter Ian Youngs.

Courtesy BBC

My computer is broken. What happened was, my son spilled milk on my laptop and shorted out the motherboard, caused the battery to melt itself to the computer.. the whole 9 yards.
I get a call from Best Buy to call them back and let them know if I want to accept or decline the service order, because it will cost $1100 to fix and I can just get a new one for that price.
So I call back, and I tell the Geek Squad guy why Im calling.
This ensued: (M= me, GSI= Geek Squad Idiot)
GSI: "Oh, you need to talk to the service center not us."
M: "This was the number left in the message"
GSI: "I know, but I cant help you. Hold on.
M: "Oh, um. Okay."
~puts me on hold for 15 min~
GSI: Can I have your phone number that you left when you dropped it off?"
M: ~Gives phone number~
~Starts to tell me what happened again, and because I didnt have the accidental service program its not covered blah blah blah and THEN!!!!! says
GSI: Should I be talking to one of your parents? You sound really young.

EXCUSE ME?!?! Ive been speaking to you for the past 20 min. Ive given you all the information that youve asked for, and Ive even mentioned that MY SON spilled milk on the computer.
WTF!?

Not the worst service in the world, but what the hell? I thought that was so rude, and I needed to share :(