Hoodie Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 <blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="disparaissant" data-cid="1919172" data-time="1355784427"><p> dealing with a huge mental health crisis and i have a 15 page paper to write and a final on wednesday and i can't ddo this</p></blockquote> yes, you can. you're a smart, awesome lady. GO KICK SOME ASS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 ok, so i work in a bookstore. the company has a huge warehouse from which they send the stores i manage books that have these really obnoxious publisher stickers on them. when one such book sells on the internet my staff and i are obliged to remove the stickers before sending the books back to the warehouse to be packed and shipped to the customer. the other day i get an email from the warehouse saying they received a book to be packed from my store that still had a sticker on it. my coworkers are lazy and forgot to do it. so, the warehouse said they were going to send the fucking book back to the store so that we could remove the sticker. this would have delayed a paying customer's order by two business days. i told them it was a waste of time and the customer's patience. i'm a manager. two warehouse guys who are not managers gave me serious tude about it and talked about how they weren't going to "waste their time" "rewarding my staff" by taking the sticker off themselves and just sending the book off like proper fucking gents. so, a whole email exchange unfolded, the general manager stepped in and basically i had had enough and thought to just make a joke of it. so i wrote this email: "Hi, I will make sure that the staff is completely clear that they must remove the stickers before boxing the picks and if they do not do so they are not properly completing the job. Heads will roll. Empires will crumble. Despots will be deposed. If by G-d a sticker should make its way to the warehouse do let me know and I'll try to get to the bottom of the tragedy and assail the culprit(s) with un-rewards. However, should that happen, definitely do not delay a paying customer's order by sending the book back to the store. That would be completely unprofessional. Anyway, looks like we've duly exerted our energies over the tyrannical sticker in question so I'm going to go make sure my vessels of GOO-Begone! are at the ready and in a condition of flowing over, and this evening I will personally oversee all picks-related hardships. I hope I am up to the challenge. Alcofribas" now, this appeared to me to be completely facetious and sarcastic as it did to my other manager who thougt it was the cause of the lols that she emitted whilst reading it. however, this morning i get an email from the warehouse in which i am told that "managers should act like managers not petulent children who get their feelings hurt when they're told to do their job." the person who sent this is not a manager. and keep in mind this is still just about a fucking sticker on a book. so my Lady Alcofribas (who works with me) advises me to call the warehouse and clear it up. i call. i calmly and respectfully explain that my email was clearly a joke and i was just trying to make light of the situation but i do apologize for any hurt feelings. i explained that i felt it was completely inappropriate both professionally and personally for me to be called a "petulant child" by a coworker, especially one who i hardly know and who isn't a manager himself. he totally lost his shit. he said he didn't believe me that i was joking and that i just "didn't have the balls to man up." he said he has been in the book business longer than i've been alive (pretty sure he's like 10 years older than me) and thus demands a "great deal of respect" and if i want him to respect me well, he "has no reason to." he explained that if i wanted to have a "linguistic conversation" (i declined) he would "get all structuralist on my ass." i was like, look, there's just no need to call me names and tell me how to do my job. if you have some beef about work jbc, don't be all snooty and send books back to me so my staff can remove a sticker. that's asinine. he then explained that since i said my email was a joke so was his. i told him he was being insincere. he said so what? i said, well, what's the point of that? etc etc etc the conversation ended with him saying he was too mad to continue. so, normally upper management would chime in here. but upper management is full of shit. the general manager is a cunning little liar who is constantly bad mouthing me and other managers and lying to people about shit he fucked up so that other people take the blame. he's also a sexist pig. he's rude, dishonest and sadly full of himself even though he's a fucking loser. his boss is the owner. he's useless for this kind of thing (and most things in general). the hr manager? the owner's girlfriend. she didnt come into work this weekend because she was "too broken up about the shootings in CT." if you meet her for one second you'll realize this is complete bs since she's as heartless as it gets. and i'm not even on the fucking clock right. p.s. the warehouse workers aren't black, if that's what you were thinking lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 i've lost faith in humanity and I do wish the world ends soon, for us to revive like haunting souls craving for vengeance through space and beyond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 ok, so i work in a bookstore. the company has a huge warehouse from which they send the stores i manage books that have these really obnoxious publisher stickers on them. when one such book sells on the internet my staff and i are obliged to remove the stickers before sending the books back to the warehouse to be packed and shipped to the customer. the other day i get an email from the warehouse saying they received a book to be packed from my store that still had a sticker on it. my coworkers are lazy and forgot to do it. so, the warehouse said they were going to send the fucking book back to the store so that we could remove the sticker. this would have delayed a paying customer's order by two business days. i told them it was a waste of time and the customer's patience. i'm a manager. two warehouse guys who are not managers gave me serious tude about it and talked about how they weren't going to "waste their time" "rewarding my staff" by taking the sticker off themselves and just sending the book off like proper fucking gents. so, a whole email exchange unfolded, the general manager stepped in and basically i had had enough and thought to just make a joke of it. so i wrote this email: "Hi, I will make sure that the staff is completely clear that they must remove the stickers before boxing the picks and if they do not do so they are not properly completing the job. Heads will roll. Empires will crumble. Despots will be deposed. If by G-d a sticker should make its way to the warehouse do let me know and I'll try to get to the bottom of the tragedy and assail the culprit(s) with un-rewards. However, should that happen, definitely do not delay a paying customer's order by sending the book back to the store. That would be completely unprofessional. Anyway, looks like we've duly exerted our energies over the tyrannical sticker in question so I'm going to go make sure my vessels of GOO-Begone! are at the ready and in a condition of flowing over, and this evening I will personally oversee all picks-related hardships. I hope I am up to the challenge. Alcofribas" now, this appeared to me to be completely facetious and sarcastic as it did to my other manager who thougt it was the cause of the lols that she emitted whilst reading it. however, this morning i get an email from the warehouse in which i am told that "managers should act like managers not petulent children who get their feelings hurt when they're told to do their job." the person who sent this is not a manager. and keep in mind this is still just about a fucking sticker on a book. so my Lady Alcofribas (who works with me) advises me to call the warehouse and clear it up. i call. i calmly and respectfully explain that my email was clearly a joke and i was just trying to make light of the situation but i do apologize for any hurt feelings. i explained that i felt it was completely inappropriate both professionally and personally for me to be called a "petulant child" by a coworker, especially one who i hardly know and who isn't a manager himself. he totally lost his shit. he said he didn't believe me that i was joking and that i just "didn't have the balls to man up." he said he has been in the book business longer than i've been alive (pretty sure he's like 10 years older than me) and thus demands a "great deal of respect" and if i want him to respect me well, he "has no reason to." he explained that if i wanted to have a "linguistic conversation" (i declined) he would "get all structuralist on my ass." i was like, look, there's just no need to call me names and tell me how to do my job. if you have some beef about work jbc, don't be all snooty and send books back to me so my staff can remove a sticker. that's asinine. he then explained that since i said my email was a joke so was his. i told him he was being insincere. he said so what? i said, well, what's the point of that? etc etc etc the conversation ended with him saying he was too mad to continue. so, normally upper management would chime in here. but upper management is full of shit. the general manager is a cunning little liar who is constantly bad mouthing me and other managers and lying to people about shit he fucked up so that other people take the blame. he's also a sexist pig. he's rude, dishonest and sadly full of himself even though he's a fucking loser. his boss is the owner. he's useless for this kind of thing (and most things in general). the hr manager? the owner's girlfriend. she didnt come into work this weekend because she was "too broken up about the shootings in CT." if you meet her for one second you'll realize this is complete bs since she's as heartless as it gets. and i'm not even on the fucking clock right. p.s. the warehouse workers aren't black, if that's what you were thinking lol lol JBC man you're right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 right??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadows and Labyrinths Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 my first post in this thread: i'm out of pot. time to face some emotions i've been avoiding for the past few months. also, shaky hands. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 I want to play SNES games while on class or on the bus/train, but I can't find a decent smartphone without those shitty touchscreen controls nor a decent emulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 i've lost faith in humanity and I do wish the world ends soon, for us to revive like haunting souls craving for vengeance through space and beyond Let's not and say we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 (edited) right??? Alcofribas you missed an open invitation to get post-structuralist on his structuralist ass and explain calmly that the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as pound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power. (what I'm saying is just pull some Judith Butler quotes from google and watch his head asplode) Edited December 18, 2012 by baph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 (edited) I keep reading the Conneticut Shootings thread even though every other post makes me cringe and makes my day a little bit worse. Also, worried my cat's been making himself sick from lapping up the condensation run-off that's been gathering in that little black-mould infested trough below the sliding glass door. Also realized that water's been seeping into the carpet and there's probably mould festering under there too. Don't have time to call the land lord atm cuz I gotta rush off to a session, ack! Edited December 18, 2012 by Zephyr_Nova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 I just found out that Hitler had a sister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 right??? Alcofribas you missed an open invitation to get post-structuralist on his structuralist ass and explain calmly that the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as pound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power. (what I'm saying is just pull some Judith Butler quotes from google and watch his head asplode) never in my life did i imagine some one would threaten me with a linguistics conversation in which my ass would be assaulted with structuralist diatribes. i mean, what is this i don't even Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Haha, that is pretty incredible. You really should have taken him up on it. It'll never happen again. FWP: I almost replied in that shooting thread, but realized I didn't want to get even more caught up in it. Yet part of me still wants to go in there and make the point. Stupid impulses, plz fuck off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I just found out that Hitler had a sister ???? So? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 well now I want to learn more about her but I'm pretty stressed right now with the fucking school. so my FWP is: time + school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I absolutely love Hitler and Nazi history. ive seen just about every history channel special there is on the subject. and there are a lot of decedents of Hitler around the world. they all changed there name though (obviously). its interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I absolutely love Hitler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) Edited December 19, 2012 by baph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I absolutely love Hitler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glunk Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 it's my ex's birthday today. i miss him and i'm such a mess and i feel horrible. i think i have to deactivate my facebook account because i have so many of his friends added. i wish i could just sleep through all this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 it's my ex's birthday today. i miss him and i'm such a mess and i feel horrible. i think i have to deactivate my facebook account because i have so many of his friends added. i wish i could just sleep through all this. Shit man, ex-nostalgia is the shittiest force in the universe. Good luck with yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 those things are hard no matter what, but keep your chin up glunk! find something new for you to think and wonder about, focus more on the happiness that you gained from this relationship and how this change is not a permanent one but one that will guide you, one that reflects what is true 2 u “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I'm going through pretty much the same thing jules is going through in his work related thread and it's doing my head in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 im going to see the hobbit tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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