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@mylifeasaserver
If that lunch break is paid, you might have a case for eating at your desk. Since I highly, completely, unquestionably doubt that this place pays for lunch break, this guy can slurp ass about it. If it's unpaid, there is no incentive to work.
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I did not stutter.
Every month I give my manager my availability for the following month, and he works around it. If he *really* needs help on a day I'm unavailable, I do what I can to work with him. Sometimes that's working a short shift. Sometimes that's moving my plans around.
And sometimes that's saying "no."
He's good about it when I want a day off, so it's a fair compromise. And since I'm part-time, we can both be a bit flexible.
I do not do that with the other 2 stores I work at. Why not? Because I'm there as a favor to them, if I'm not available because I want to take 4 naps and attempt to get ice cream poisoning, that's my business.
Today I get a text from the new manager of store #2.
He seems like a nice guy and all, and asks me if I can work tomorrow.
I cannot. I have plans. Those plans involve buying plants for my fish tank and gluing them to driftwood. It's exciting stuff.
I tell him I cannot work tomorrow.
He texts back. "You're not scheduled tomorrow, and it looks like you have the rest of the week off. We really need you here."
"I am unavailable tomorrow."
"I'm scheduling you for 8am." He no longer seems like a nice guy, he now seems like an asshole.
"Plan on finding coverage for my absence then, because I am unavailable."
"I don't think you understand, you're being scheduled so you're expected to be here."
"OK. I tried being nice. I don't think YOU understand. Read the handbook. I cannot be forced to work in a store other than my home store. So you can keep the attitude and the pushy nonsense to yourself. Keep it up and I'll tell you to lose my number and never work in your store again."
"Are you sure this is your answer?"
"Yes. Now I'd appreciate if you stopped bothering me about it."
I hear nothing for a couple hours, then my phone rings. It's my manager. Because I am forever too stupid to live, I answer it.
"Hey can you help out in [store #2] tomorrow?"
"No, I have plans. I told [new manager of store #2] that when he texted me and then tried to force it."
"OK. He asked if I'd call and talk to you about it and try to convince you, so that's what this is. I'm not going to push it."
"Appreciate that." I then told him about my fish tank plans (because he asked.)
Later today I found out the plants wouldn't be in anyway. Had he not pushed it, I'd have reconsidered.
Now it's going to be play with the dogs, do a bit of cleaning, and see if I can like Mario Kart World a bit more than I currently do.
I thought I was done with the whole fish tank thing. Then I ran across a couple listings too good to refuse. Now I have yet another hobby. -J
40% tip?! Bitch for 40% you best be rotating my tires and charging my AC while I eat.
This looks 'shopped.
I hope it is, but I see enough stupidity regarding tipping (both the "eliminate it!" and "you should be tipping a minimum of a down payment on a house!" crowds) to be forced to wonder.
40% tip?! Bitch for 40% you best be rotating my tires and charging my AC while I eat.
Based
"But but if their unarmed they might be trying to feed their family, think if they have a mental illness, the morality of it all"
Yea sooo anyway!!
"If you kill a burglar you're evil because you value your stuff over a human life!"
No, if you decide to burgle someone it's because you value their stuff more than your own life.
Um, no? To all of this? If someone breaks into your house and tries to run at you(or any direction that could be interpreted as such in the moment) despite you pointing your gun at them and yelling "don't move!", then it's ok to fire and that has nothing to do with burglary, because anyone who charges someone with a gun can be reasonably assumed to have intentions alot worse than stealing a tv. If they're clearly no threat, like if you somehow know for a fact that they're not dangerous like these scenarios all imply, it's murder. Life>property, and one guy who, in this scenario, you know doesn't intend to harm you is not a mass of rioters trying to break into your property for who-knows-what and necessitating you become a Roof Korean.
If you see a stranger on your property, obviously you are obligated to give them the chance to retreat UNLESS it's immediately obvious they're a danger to your life or that of your family's.
But if you aim your gun at someone, tell them to stop, and they don't, you have a right to defend yourself, your family, and your property. You are not obligated to let someone walk off with your stuff, but you are obligated to give them a chance to stop and if they're not a threat to your life (for instance, if they're already leaving the premises) you aren't really within your rights to shoot to kill.
Shoot to maim, however? I'd say if you're breaking into someone's house to steal shit, taking a bullet is just the risk you have accepted to take, but I would support shooting to injure rather than kill in cases where there is no threat to life.
I'm just baffeled that people think that someone breaking into an occupied house is somehow UNAWARE that they're breaking into an occupied house.
Just for once I want people to stop and think about the simple element of 'if you see a house with a car at the front and evidence of people inside, what do you expect to find inside it?'
It's nice that so many people don't have criminal outlooks but by fuck I wish they'd develop at least a bit of one.
give them a chance to retreat yeah but let's not be suicidal. don't give them a chance to harm you before you decide to defend yourself, that's how bad things happen. "well I wasn't sure if he'd -" no, you can't be sure. you don't know somebody else's intentions. but when seconds count you don't want to be giving them the opportunity to make those bad intentions clear.
you invade my home, my safe space, you have declared war. I don't care what your intentions are. don't start a fight if you aren't ready to lose.
Interesting convo. Just pointing out two things for the group not pointed at anyone in particular. If not familiar with these concepts:
NO ONE…shoots to maim or disable. That is a line made up by politicians and movie directors. Not a single informed person recommends this.
Other point is the 21 foot rule.
Yeah, there's no "shoot to wound", there's either "shoot for center mass" or "shoot to miss". Which is why I'm so all-or-nothing on this, because the only reason you ever shoot at someone is to kill them, and if you're doing that then either they're attacking you/someone else, they're trying to do so, you have a good reason to believe they might be and no desire to risk your life to make sure(the scenario where the intruder sees you with the gun and decides to runs towards you), or you're committing murder. Anything not falling under the first three examples is the fourth.
Where I live anybody who breaks into my home while I'm in it is eligible to be shot dead. They could be ramming my ice cream down their neck, I shoot them and kill them in front of my freezer, it's a justified shooting. I don't need to try and parse out what their intention is, I don't need them to advance on me, simply being in my home unauthorized is enough. My door (that they bypassed without my permission) is all the warning they get/need. I don't have to announce my presence, let them know I'm here, I can lead with muzzle flash.
Fun fact: Also applies to my car.
Don't want shot? Don't break in.
I doubt a judge, jury or the majority of civilization would agree with "breaking and entering is enough to warrant death as appropriate force", although it's not like an internet tough guy would ever have anything like ^^^ happen.
If I have it my way, it'll never happen. If you think I want to shoot somebody, you're mistaken.
But castle doctrine here is very strong. Somebody doesn't even need to make entry into my home and it's legal for me to shoot through the door (though I'm still responsible for where those bullets travel afterwards) so for example, some rando is attempting to kick my door in? Legal shoot.
Guy gets in and is simply existing in the space? Legal shoot. You can doubt or think whatever you like, but your opinion is irrelevant.
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The Lead Tech
My manager returned today.
Amanda couldn't corner him fast enough, telling him that she was his best tech and should be lead tech and why she was more qualified than anybody else there.
He was very confused.
He then discovered (because I told him) that I'd started a rumor about a lead tech position, and she thinks that somehow her strategy of being a boil on the ass of progress means that she should be in a leadership role.
The manager was both annoyed an impressed.
Annoyed that now he got to break the news to her that there is no such position.
Impressed that I pulled it off, got a bit of a laugh about it when I told him I did it because she can't keep her nose out of my business.
Then he told her there was no such position coming.
I don't know if she has the brain power to connect the dots, or to reflect on her behavior that lead to it, but it was funny to me.
Who the fuck comes back from vacation on a Friday? -J
Based
"But but if their unarmed they might be trying to feed their family, think if they have a mental illness, the morality of it all"
Yea sooo anyway!!
"If you kill a burglar you're evil because you value your stuff over a human life!"
No, if you decide to burgle someone it's because you value their stuff more than your own life.
Um, no? To all of this? If someone breaks into your house and tries to run at you(or any direction that could be interpreted as such in the moment) despite you pointing your gun at them and yelling "don't move!", then it's ok to fire and that has nothing to do with burglary, because anyone who charges someone with a gun can be reasonably assumed to have intentions alot worse than stealing a tv. If they're clearly no threat, like if you somehow know for a fact that they're not dangerous like these scenarios all imply, it's murder. Life>property, and one guy who, in this scenario, you know doesn't intend to harm you is not a mass of rioters trying to break into your property for who-knows-what and necessitating you become a Roof Korean.
If you see a stranger on your property, obviously you are obligated to give them the chance to retreat UNLESS it's immediately obvious they're a danger to your life or that of your family's.
But if you aim your gun at someone, tell them to stop, and they don't, you have a right to defend yourself, your family, and your property. You are not obligated to let someone walk off with your stuff, but you are obligated to give them a chance to stop and if they're not a threat to your life (for instance, if they're already leaving the premises) you aren't really within your rights to shoot to kill.
Shoot to maim, however? I'd say if you're breaking into someone's house to steal shit, taking a bullet is just the risk you have accepted to take, but I would support shooting to injure rather than kill in cases where there is no threat to life.
I'm just baffeled that people think that someone breaking into an occupied house is somehow UNAWARE that they're breaking into an occupied house.
Just for once I want people to stop and think about the simple element of 'if you see a house with a car at the front and evidence of people inside, what do you expect to find inside it?'
It's nice that so many people don't have criminal outlooks but by fuck I wish they'd develop at least a bit of one.
give them a chance to retreat yeah but let's not be suicidal. don't give them a chance to harm you before you decide to defend yourself, that's how bad things happen. "well I wasn't sure if he'd -" no, you can't be sure. you don't know somebody else's intentions. but when seconds count you don't want to be giving them the opportunity to make those bad intentions clear.
you invade my home, my safe space, you have declared war. I don't care what your intentions are. don't start a fight if you aren't ready to lose.
Interesting convo. Just pointing out two things for the group not pointed at anyone in particular. If not familiar with these concepts:
NO ONE…shoots to maim or disable. That is a line made up by politicians and movie directors. Not a single informed person recommends this.
Other point is the 21 foot rule.
Yeah, there's no "shoot to wound", there's either "shoot for center mass" or "shoot to miss". Which is why I'm so all-or-nothing on this, because the only reason you ever shoot at someone is to kill them, and if you're doing that then either they're attacking you/someone else, they're trying to do so, you have a good reason to believe they might be and no desire to risk your life to make sure(the scenario where the intruder sees you with the gun and decides to runs towards you), or you're committing murder. Anything not falling under the first three examples is the fourth.
Where I live anybody who breaks into my home while I'm in it is eligible to be shot dead. They could be ramming my ice cream down their neck, I shoot them and kill them in front of my freezer, it's a justified shooting. I don't need to try and parse out what their intention is, I don't need them to advance on me, simply being in my home unauthorized is enough. My door (that they bypassed without my permission) is all the warning they get/need. I don't have to announce my presence, let them know I'm here, I can lead with muzzle flash.
Fun fact: Also applies to my car.
Don't want shot? Don't break in.
I see this, and my washing machine shit the bed today. Why does the replacement need wifi? What possible use could that have for me?
Rumor has it
There is no conversation in the pharmacy that Amanda doesn't want to be a part of. It could be work-related. It could be weekend plans. It could be talking about hemorrhoids. Doesn't matter.
Since she's decided that even my private conversation with my manager about my finger (healed as good as it gets, I guess) is her business, I could at least have some fun with it.
I decided to start a rumor that my company was going to add a lead tech position. It's a full-time position, with a $4/hr pay raise. In charge of techs, training, and with a say in hiring.
All I had to do was talk about this with coworkers where she could hear, and she's decided that she's the new lead tech.
For clarity - and because I don't talk about other coworkers very much because they do things like their jobs - there are at least 3 techs that I would endorse for such a role before myself because they're good at what they do and I don't want responsibility.
I'd rather die of dengue fever digging sewage ditches in India than even consider the possibility of Amanda being in charge of anything more difficult than breathing in and out.
I started that rumor on Friday.
Today she hit me with "I'm going to be lead tech soon, so you may want to listen to what I'm saying now," after I told her I would not do the audit on the storage area that the pharmacist had asked her to do.
I asked her why she thought she would be the new lead tech. "Because [coworker infinitely more qualified] isn't interested and I am. And I'm going to start talking to [manager] about it as soon as he gets back from vacation. You shouldn't put in for it."
I wouldn't dream of it.
Adventures of Elliot is more fun than I thought it would be. Well done Square Enix. Talk to me about a Chrono Trigger remaster/remake/sequel and I'll keep buying games. -J
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
I'm notorious (at least with people who read this blog) for being a bastard sometimes.
Sometimes I'm nice though.
A month or two ago I had this elderly lady come through my line because everybody in 3 counties decided that 4pm was the time to get their meds. She comes up to me, gives me her name, standard stuff.
Until it comes time to pay. She forgot her wallet either in the car or at home or on the moon, I don't know I wasn't listening. It came to under $10, and I had quite the line - I wanted her to get the hell out of line.
So I swiped my personal card, and told her to get me next time she was in. Not a big deal. Then I could go back to getting this hellish line down and do something else.
Fast-forward around a week. She came back with the money, a very nice card detailing how she'd prayed for me (even though I'm not religious it's still a nice gesture at worst,) and a very spendable $10 bill.
Everybody wins here, right?
If you've followed me for any time whatsoever you know better.
We had a walk through from some higher-ups that wouldn't be caught dead shopping here and my manager showed them the card. It looks good that this happened in his store - to a guy that has no idea who I am. They want to give me some award or another. I decline. I don't want it. They want to put me in this stupid quarterly newsletter. I decline. I want nothing. Just leave me alone and we're good.
Fast-forward again to 2 weeks ago. Some random manager that I don't know wanted to talk to me about it, as the lady had written a very nice note to corporate about what I did. He wanted to put me in for an award. "I'd rather be hit by a truck and dragged." I thought this sent a pretty clear message that I wanted nothing to do with it. Turns out he was the store manager.
Two days ago, the award showed up. That same store manager came up and announced it to everybody what I'd done and handed it to me and clapped at me. If it wasn't so utterly stupid it would have been insulting. Right in front of him I tore it up and tossed it in the recycling. Then we had to have some conversation about it in the shot room. Went like this:
Store manager: Why did you do that?
Me: Because I was very clear that I didn't want recognition of any kind, but you couldn't respect that.
Store manager: But it's a good award to have, looks good for promotion opportunities!
Me: Yeah that and $5 will get me a large McDonald's coffee. I didn't want it, it's meaningless. Signed by a guy who couldn't pick me out of a lineup. I don't know how I could have been any clearer about it.
The store manager thought about things for a moment.
Store manager: Are you still unwilling to be in the newsletter?
Me: If you attempt to put me in that newsletter in any capacity I quit, this is my notice. I don't want to be in the propaganda. I don't want recognition. I want nothing. Unless you're giving me a raise - and I know you aren't - I want to be left alone. As it stands I will never do anything like this again.
Store manager: Well we don't want you to feel discouraged from going above and beyond for the customers.
Me: Then you should have respected my wishes.
At that point I left the shot room whether they were done with me or not, leaving my manager with the store manager.
After a while the manager came to talk to me.
Manager: I really wish you hadn't done that.
Me: I really wish they hadn't given me that stupid award.
He squinted at me a moment, considered life choices and maybe if he could fire me, then told me he'd make sure I wasn't in the newsletter. I think he knows I wasn't bluffing.
Today I go in and find that award on our GLP fridge, taped together. Amanda took it upon herself to put it back together for reasons I can't comprehend. I took a magic marker and defaced it to the point it can't be determined what it was, then tore it up again in tiny pieces.
If I wanted some stupid award that meant nothing I'd print it myself. No need for some corporate dickheads to be involved. -J
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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool
i am going to eat my own entire skin
Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.
3 Days Off
Thankfully I don't have to work many Saturdays anymore, as we have staff that actually wants to be there on inarguably the most boring day of the week.
Sadly, other people want time off so I don't always get to have the full weekend to be the most unproductive version of myself.
It was me working the mid shift, 2 pharmacists, 1 competent tech working the opening shift, 1 new hire (that I really think will work out well working the closing shift,) and Amanda working the closing shift. Me telling you what shift everybody was on? Foreshadowing. Ominous foreshadowing.
We got busy on the register. I was on a call with a patient, and both the competent tech and new hire were up there but needed another cashier (we have 4 registers up there now because we get so busy.)
Pharmacist: Amanda, I need you to go run a register to get the line down, please. Amanda: No, I don't really feel like it.
This is a bold declaration, especially considering that any pharmacist is by default the boss of any tech.
I finished my call and went up to the register, because as it turns out the pay doesn't change if I'm putting the prescriptions in the bag or putting stock bottles back.
A couple hours before close we'd sent the competent tech home, so it was me, the new hire, and Amanda. I'm showing the new hire how to verify the drug order so we have it on Monday when she's again asked to go up front.
"No."
No explanation, no "I have to put this label on and I'll be there," nothing but "no."
Once in a shift is bad enough, but twice? I shuddered in arousal as I thought of the write-up she was sure to get.
Then the pharmacist pulled a great move. In front of her she asked me if I'd mind closing. I knew what was about to happen, and because I'm a petty little man fueled by spite I said of course I don't mind.
Pharmacist: Amanda, since you're not being cooperative today you can go home.
Amanda: But I need hours!
Pharmacist: Maybe think of that before refusing to do your job.
There was more protesting but at that point it was too late.
The rest of the shift we had a grand total of 4 people show up to pick things up, so it was prime training time - and a really stupid hill to choose to die on.
Fast-forward to today.
I showed up early because despite knowing better I volunteered to be in early to cover vacations (how dare my coworkers not be at work!) and when Amanda showed up she didn't even get her smock on before the manager had her in the shot room for a meeting.
She didn't come back to the pharmacy, and now I have 2 extra shifts because she has "unexpected time off" which is manager-speak for she has 3 days off to think about what she's done (we just ran short a person today, before somebody does some math and realizes that 2 is less than 3.)
This brought me unspeakable joy, despite now working 2 extra days this week that I previously had earmarked for naps and yard work.
The manager then went around to every tech and asked (nicely) if they thought they answered to just him or to every pharmacist.
It was one of those easy pop-quizzes that every kid (except 1...) got a 100 on.
You're a tech? The pharmacist runs your life at work. Simple.
This was the best shift maybe ever. No singing. No dancing. No dead weight to carry. And the new hire is adaptable and does as she's asked. I'm making cookies to bring to work tomorrow to celebrate. -J
been a follower for at least a decade now, and i come back every so often to check in and just got caught up on the past 10 or so months of the bullshit! i’m not very active on tumblr much these days but i hope, despite the circumstances the public is subjecting you, that you’re doing well!
im also a vet and im sure your wife has some great stories about awful people (i have too many to count…)
Hey anon. Things are pretty good here.
So far as the wife goes, her job is one I could never do even with training - but the worst she deals with are the people who come in with no money but expect services and hit her with "if you really loved animals you'd treat for free!"
Nobody uses my line of "if you loved your animal, you'd have gotten the pet insurance." Also I don't know if this has been here a while or just hit today, so apologies if it's been a while. Promise I wasn't ignoring it.
I need MORRREEEE content on Amanda. I’m counting down the days until she gets fired.
She'll be there long after I've given up and transferred/quit. At this point I don't know if it's a cruel joke by my manager (it really isn't) or he's just hoping she'll come out of her uselessness and be a decent tech.
OH NO! Somebody doesn't like me!
I showed up today after a glorious day off (and leaving early the day before didn't hurt) only to discover that Amanda now has a real problem with me, since I left early instead of her.
How will I ever recover?
The HR guy stopped by to see how my hand was doing (not as an HR thing, but because he's a reasonable human) and seemed pleased that I was out of the splint but I have daily exercises to do. (They suck.)
I'm on restricted duty for at least another 3 weeks, which means I pretty much fill prescriptions and answer phones. Because my manager is A) intelligent enough to know I'm not going against restrictions no matter how busy it gets and B) a good enough manager to not ask anyway I'm having an easy (and good time) working, singing idiot notwithstanding.
And it's a nice bonus to leave early when it suits me, like I did today when it slowed down and again Amanda wanted to go. Turns out that for the next 3 weeks or more, depending on recovery, I get first go at early outs.
She needed to run the register today anyway, since I'm on restricted duty and can't.
I would leave early so frequently I put myself into poverty just to keep annoying her. Yes, I am a sad, small, petty little man. -J
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Leaving Early
I was called this morning and asked to come into work.
Sure, it's shitty out and I had nothing going on anyway.
I show up and it's plenty busy...for about two hours. Then there's nothing to do.
Since I volunteered when called I'm asked if I want to leave.
Before I can say a word, here's Amanda. "Actually if it's OK I'd like to go. I have [something I don't care about] to do so I want to leave early."
The manager asks me if I mind.
Yes. I mind a lot.
Firstly because I have the opportunity to deeply offend and annoy Amanda, and that's worth more than any hourly. I don't say that though, because it's more fun to piss her off without letting on that her unhappiness brings me joy.
Secondly, I'm there on a shift I didn't have to be there for so I get the chance to bail on a boring dead shift.
She pleads her case, which more or less boils down to "John left early last week!" which would probably work except that was also a pickup shift on a day with multiple callouts.
She really wants to leave. To the point she's almost crying.
"It's up to John."
She looks at me, hesitantly. Expecantly.
And then I took my smock off and left, smiling like I just won the lottery.
Because I did.
Yes, I know I could have been nice. Being nice is free. Wait until everybody determines how much it costs to be an asshole. -J
