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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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Seinfeld had its moments, particularly early on when it broke a lot of the 80s family comedy moulds. Friends was the standard, mediocre, formulaic dreck that Americans love, complete with the show pretty much turning into a lightweight prime time soap by the end of its run.
 
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There seems to be a big dividing line between those who like Seinfeld and those who like Friends. Seinfeld could have definitely been friends if they had added the soap opera element and eliminated "No hugging, no learning." Not sure if it's true or not, but I guess there was a time when NBC liked to do crossover nights where actors/characters from different shows would come in for a cameo in another show. Seinfeld didn't want to do it, NBC was going to force them to, so they scripted for the Friends character to die, and NBC finally backed off.

As a guy I work with put it, "Friends? Isn't that Seinfeld for girls?"
 
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Friends was funny for the first four, maybe five seasons. Then it became a caricature of itself (see also: HIMYM). I never liked Seinfeld.
 
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"It's Moops!"

The bubble boy episode might be the greatest of any from the modern era.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Friends was funny for the first four, maybe five seasons. Then it became a caricature of itself (see also: HIMYM). I never liked Seinfeld.
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This for Seinfeld only it didn't take 4-5 seasons.
 
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"Galentine". Not necessarily the concept, but the word grinds my gears.
 
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There's a greeter at work that grinds my gears. yes, I push carts. And one of the things I'm told is to "keep the cart garage neat and organized." Instead, every line of carts I bring in, she separates, and leaves the garage looking messy. I can understand pulling the first couple carts of each line off for customers, but she'll tear up an entire line, and then wonders why I'm mad at her.

She's also the same one who, when the store is overwhelmed, will tell me "we're out of carts" every 30 seconds, despite the fact that I'm working to bring carts in from the other side of the lot.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
There's a greeter at work that grinds my gears. yes, I push carts. And one of the things I'm told is to "keep the cart garage neat and organized." Instead, every line of carts I bring in, she separates, and leaves the garage looking messy. I can understand pulling the first couple carts of each line off for customers, but she'll tear up an entire line, and then wonders why I'm mad at her.

She's also the same one who, when the store is overwhelmed, will tell me "we're out of carts" every 30 seconds, despite the fact that I'm working to bring carts in from the other side of the lot.
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Would it help if I stopped by and slashed her tires? If I time it right, I could do it when she could still get them in the tire department to put some new ones on. Or not. ;)
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
There's a greeter at work that grinds my gears. yes, I push carts. And one of the things I'm told is to "keep the cart garage neat and organized." Instead, every line of carts I bring in, she separates, and leaves the garage looking messy. I can understand pulling the first couple carts of each line off for customers, but she'll tear up an entire line, and then wonders why I'm mad at her.

She's also the same one who, when the store is overwhelmed, will tell me "we're out of carts" every 30 seconds, despite the fact that I'm working to bring carts in from the other side of the lot.
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You could, I dunno...discuss these things with her? Seriously dude, 95% of the stuff you ***** about here could easily be dealt with by growing a set of bahlz and talking to people. If you take up the issue with them, and nothing gets better, at least you tried. Then come on here and *****. If you don't make an effort to fix the situation, it won't get fixed.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
You could, I dunno...discuss these things with her? Seriously dude, 95% of the stuff you ***** about here could easily be dealt with by growing a set of bahlz and talking to people. If you take up the issue with them, and nothing gets better, at least you tried. Then come on here and *****. If you don't make an effort to fix the situation, it won't get fixed.
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I've told her, and she still does it.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
I've told her, and she still does it.
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Talk to your supervisor. Both things may, in fact, be part of her job (though, if I had to guess, she's not supposed to break up an entire line...that just sounds stupid). Ask them if she's supposed to be doing it, especially if she's the only greeter that does. As a cashier sup at Target, if we started getting low on carts, my bosses would be asking me where the cart attendant was and if he was aware of it/outside getting more...and I better have known the answer.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Talk to your supervisor. Both things may, in fact, be part of her job (though, if I had to guess, she's not supposed to break up an entire line...that just sounds stupid). Ask them if she's supposed to be doing it, especially if she's the only greeter that does. As a cashier sup at Target, if we started getting low on carts, my bosses would be asking me where the cart attendant was and if he was aware of it/outside getting more...and I better have known the answer.
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The other greeters will either leave what's there alone, or just break the first couple off for customers. She, on the other hand, will break up entire lines. No other cart person has complained, and I'm guessing that's why she does it.

As for the "we need carts at the corral" speech, when I'm on the other side of the lot, it takes 4-5 minutes on a dry day to get from the exit door to the entrance door. Today, it took about 7-8 minutes per line because of the snow.
 
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How many carts does your store have? 12? How can you run out? I've never been to a store when there's been less than 80 carts just sitting there waiting. It sounds like someone needs to buy more carts if they really run out that much.
 
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I had one, apple-filled. Some of my coworkers had 3 or 4. Pretty sure I would throw up if I had that many.
 
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At least I spaced mine out. One in the morning, one towards the end of the work day, and one this evening. Had I eaten three of them fairly quickly, yeah, bad things, man.
 
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I've had 4 of them over the day. kinda not feeling right after all of that. Even worse is the fact that I know that there's still one left out in the kitchen, calling out to me. And I had just recently gotten down to the 250 mark after ballooning up over the holidays to 260+.
 
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Couple of airport worker related gear grinds:

1. I understand that you may be on a leisurely drive to the post office or home or UPS or wherever but, most of us driving down the side roads are trying to get to work so please go faster than 25 in the 35 zone! I have to find a parking spot, hopefully one close to the entrance that hasn't been taken by an *hole pilot parking for 10 days, and then get through security, and finally clock in. That all takes time you are now wasting!

2. Hey dude jogging or riding their bike on the tug road, GET THE * off of it! Did you not notice the "restricted access" signs? Yeah its outside the fenced area but it's still restricted! I don't really want to swerve around you on an icy road hauling 30,000 pounds of * in a crappy airport tractor with crap brakes.
 
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