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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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dxmnkd316 said:
I somehow managed to avoid the plague going around the office right now. Thankfully I'm done for the year. Talk about dodging a bullet. This one was bad news.
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I just had an hour-long meeting with my manager in which she started by saying that she'd been sick since Wednesday. Great. I've successfully avoided any of the illnesses going through the office all fall and thus far into winter only get be stuck in her cubicle for an hour three days before I'm supposed to do the family holiday thing. Wonderful.
 
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People who don't know how to properly pack their * for shipping. I'll just put this glass bowl in a box with no padding or anything but it's ok because I wrote "fragile" on it!

Amazon is the worst. "I'll just put these bottles of liquid in a box with no arrows to keep them upright and then complain when the bottles leak over the other stuff!"
 
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Oh, Sam's Club members and guests: you waited until December 22nd to do your holiday shopping, and you can't wait an extra 3 minutes for one of us lot attendants (cart people) to bring a line of carts into the building?

Also, people who complain that the carts are wet. Uh... if it's raining out, that means not only are you and I wet, the carts are wet.

And the greeter who took over at 2 PM today. Apparently, "I'm on my way with more carts" to her means "I left the carts in the parking lot and took a 3 week vacation to Miami," because she keeps repeating "we're out of carts at the entrance door."
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
And the greeter who took over at 2 PM today. Apparently, "I'm on my way with more carts" to her means "I left the carts in the parking lot and took a 3 week vacation to Miami," because she keeps repeating "we're out of carts at the entrance door."
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Do they sell shovels there? :D
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Oh, Sam's Club members and guests: you waited until December 22nd to do your holiday shopping, and you can't wait an extra 3 minutes for one of us lot attendants (cart people) to bring a line of carts into the building?

Also, people who complain that the carts are wet. Uh... if it's raining out, that means not only are you and I wet, the carts are wet.

And the greeter who took over at 2 PM today. Apparently, "I'm on my way with more carts" to her means "I left the carts in the parking lot and took a 3 week vacation to Miami," because she keeps repeating "we're out of carts at the entrance door."
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So you are taking your talents to South Beach :confused: :p
 
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The State of Minnesota. $500 for a new tags? ****ing outrageous. **** this state and its over-taxing government. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
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Friends trying to convince me to become a Beachbody/Isagenix/Melaleuca/Herbalife representative. "Oh, you're into health and wellness... you can make money this way!" Um, no. Yes, I'm into health and wellness, but I believe in the "hard work and good decisions" method, not in any specific product line. Also, I see your pyramid scheme from a mile away. The only way you make money by any of these products is convincing others to sign up to sell underneath you. * that.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
The State of Minnesota. $500 for a new tags? ****ing outrageous. **** this state and its over-taxing government. :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Are they like Michigan, where you could register your truck as "Farm/Log" and pay less for plates? :D
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Oh, Sam's Club members and guests: you waited until December 22nd to do your holiday shopping, and you can't wait an extra 3 minutes for one of us lot attendants (cart people) to bring a line of carts into the building?

Also, people who complain that the carts are wet. Uh... if it's raining out, that means not only are you and I wet, the carts are wet.

And the greeter who took over at 2 PM today. Apparently, "I'm on my way with more carts" to her means "I left the carts in the parking lot and took a 3 week vacation to Miami," because she keeps repeating "we're out of carts at the entrance door."
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People do know that they can grab their own **** carts from out in the parking lot on their way in right?? You know the one that some jerk didn't even bother with pushing it back to a cart corral. One where a good gust of wind could set it rolling and have it run into and dent your vehicle up right??
 
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bigmrg74 said:
People do know that they can grab their own **** carts from out in the parking lot on their way in right?? You know the one that some jerk didn't even bother with pushing it back to a cart corral. One where a good gust of wind could set it rolling and have it run into and dent your vehicle up right??
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Sam's Club also has flatbeds for moving large/heavy items. I caught a member trying to put a flatbed on a rock island at the back of the lot, and he would have, had I not yelled "I'LL TAKE THAT!"
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Sam's Club also has flatbeds for moving large/heavy items. I caught a member trying to put a flatbed on a rock island at the back of the lot, and he would have, had I not yelled "I'LL TAKE THAT!"
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Nice, the old I'll just stick it here so it doesn't roll into somebody's car, but its a pain in the butt for the guy who has to retrieve it trick. You should have given him a shovel.
 
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*ing Goddam idiots interjecting bullsh* in a Christmas thread that is meant to ignore all differences and simply wish your FELLOW HUMAN BEING well wishes.

Hence the deletion of that thread. I started it, and I f*ing ended it because of said bullsh*.
 
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Brenthoven said:
*ing Goddam idiots interjecting bullsh* in a Christmas thread that is meant to ignore all differences and simply wish your FELLOW HUMAN BEING well wishes.

Hence the deletion of that thread. I started it, and I f*ing ended it because of said bullsh*.
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Let me guess, the she male got involved?
 
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Awhile back I was grousing about small rodents that make their way above ceilings or between walls and then die there.

We had that distinctive dead animal smell in our basement bathroom several weeks ago. I thought that the smell "must be" coming in around one of the ceiling light fixtures. Searched the rafters above each one, found nothing. Tried an experiment: cover the lights with plastic so that I could remove it one light at a time and determine which one the smell came from. Covered all three: no change in smell.

Hmm.. could it have somehow crawled into the ventilator shaft that connects the ceiling fan to the outside? there's a cover on the outside, but maybe....I removed the ceiling fan, nothing. I took apart the tube that connected the ceiling fan housing to the outdoor vent. Nothing.

Finally, it dawned on me: there also is a small opening around the supply pipes to the sink! I taped plastic over those gaps, and the smell (in the bathroom) disappeared. Good news and bad news, I still have to find the carcass.

It becomes one of those "adventures" in which you cut rectangles in the other side of the wall that the sink is on (I can't cut below the sink itself because it's all tile). Cut one rectangle above footer behind supply pipes: stronger smell, no carcass. Could it somehow have died on the drain pipe?? Cut another rectangle, no carcass.

D^mn. The prior owner had drilled a hole in the stud for electrical supply, the smell is wafting through there. Cut another rectangle above footer in next section over from supply pipes. Bingo, so to speak. A whole d^mn nest, all dead. Yuck in the short term, hooray in the long term.

We had tried these devices that supposedly emit an ultrasonic tone that repels rodents, one had been taken out and not replaced.

Now comes the taping and patching. Such is life sometimes, eh?
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Nice, the old I'll just stick it here so it doesn't roll into somebody's car, but its a pain in the butt for the guy who has to retrieve it trick. You should have given him a shovel.
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And then there's:

-Cars in the lot who won't let me have the right of way when I come through with a line of 25 carts. I see people who don't even have their heads up or they're on their phone.

-My fellow cart people will assemble a line of carts in a corral so that whomever is pushing the motorized cart pushing assistant can come and retrieve it. When I get to the corral, there's carts all around the line, but not one with the line. Is it so hard to push your cart into the line that's there?

-The people who leave it by a lamp post or in their parking space. You walked around the store with the cart, but you can't walk an extra 6 feet to put it in a corral?

-And the people who leave a motorized wheelchair in the lot without having the decency to turn the wheelchair OFF. Many times I've gone to retrieve one of these carts, only to find the battery completely drained, if not dead.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
And then there's:

-Cars in the lot who won't let me have the right of way when I come through with a line of 25 carts. I see people who don't even have their heads up or they're on their phone.

-My fellow cart people will assemble a line of carts in a corral so that whomever is pushing the motorized cart pushing assistant can come and retrieve it. When I get to the corral, there's carts all around the line, but not one with the line. Is it so hard to push your cart into the line that's there?

-The people who leave it by a lamp post or in their parking space. You walked around the store with the cart, but you can't walk an extra 6 feet to put it in a corral?

-And the people who leave a motorized wheelchair in the lot without having the decency to turn the wheelchair OFF. Many times I've gone to retrieve one of these carts, only to find the battery completely drained, if not dead.
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Here's a Retail 101 tip for ya:

All customers are arseholes till proven otherwise... Just accept this and things will be much smother on your end :p
 
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TV shows that glorify being fat.

Hoarders is one of my guilty pleasures (judge as you wish). That means I end up watching TLC or Lifetime, which means I see commercials for the other shows these stations have. Each has a new series coming out about fat people and how much fun and how awesome it is being fat. I'm not talking about the Dove plus-size models with a little extra meat on the bones. I'm talking about obese people. That is not okay.

I guess that's my problem with the entire "fat acceptance" movement. It should be for those 'Dove plus-size models' type people who are slightly to moderately overweight, but other than that are relatively healthy. Instead, the obese and super obese are using it as an excuse to continue their bad habits that are leading to major health issues.

I suppose I can't really blame TLC and Lifetime, though. They know their viewership, what they're going to watch, and what's going to make them the most money.
 
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