2484: Enemies
Yesterday I noticed, when I got around to paying my credit card bill, that I failed to get a bill from ComCrash last month, so I hastily paid the same as the prior month, just to get some kind of payment in. Today, I received the PAST DUE bill 9_9 and am still wondering where the prior one went. As disorganized as I am, I do have a method of remembering to pay bills [leaving them in front of the monitor until paid], so it's preposterous to think I forgot it entirely.
Granted, it may have been in the wad of circulars that otherwise stuff the box, but I tend to be pretty anal about sifting through that to find anything that might be a bill before dumping it all otherwise unread.
The n00bs continue to exasperate me in that way that, say, little boys do when trying to explain to them that pulling little girls' pigtails is hurtful and they shouldn't do it. It makes perfect sense to me, but they have no particular incentive to care since they themselves have hair too short to hurt when pulled.
Ruiner Lizard in particular is clueless in the real sense--not the way Clueless was, since his was mostly arrogance, but a genuine ignorance or failure to grasp the reason for things. I don't watch him like a hawk to get a sense of what he's doing specifically, but I'll look up and see him working a cart of backstock, look away to do whatever I was doing, then look back to see he's vanished without a trace. When he returns, it's often been to bring some other backstock into the [already cluttered] area, without having first finished whatever he started.
That's one of my bigger peeves, this overdependence on having carts in the stockroom after the [long-ignored] mandate to keep them OUT of the stockrooms. [Mind, this was prior to their sign-on, so it's the Execs' failure to reiterate the rules. They generally ignore/don't understand what I have to say.] The biggest issue is they take up a lot of space for the relatively small amount they hold. The lesser but still important issue is that they're for guests to use, not for staff to hide away out of reach.
So when there's a clusterfuck going on, my general plan of action is to clear out all the carts first, then take them out to the corral, but Ruiner Lizard especially seems to just take the empties and load them up with more stuff. He can't even load just one up and finish that--he puts some stuff in a cart, then moves the cart, then walks off to do something else entirely X(
Exasperating! ...which is only part of why I end up dallying when someone [usually Cream, reluctantly so] puts me in Electronics.
[As for the latter, I learned from pholph that requesting to be posted there means they won't ever put me there again. Of course, failing to express a preference seems to do almost the same...]
I seem to be in at midnight again tonight, by virtue of crack I made at Cream about Slave Driver Slowpoke =B Seems a good time to get some shit done for once ^^;
Edit: To rub lemon juice in my papercut, here is today's Ask Amy:Dear Amy:
I do not agree with what you wrote when you responded to "Not So Appalled Parent," who let her teenage kids drink in her home.
My kids were allowed to drink in our home, too. They almost always had their own alcohol, but once they asked me to buy it for them, and I did. The kids knew that if they ever drove away from my house drunk they would never be allowed to come here again. If they could not spend the night, I would drive them or they posted a driver who would not drink that night. Believe me, I made sure no one left here drunk.
My kids have not lost one of their friends to drunken driving, but kids in our town who drove around drinking have been lost, so you see the kids will get their alcohol anyway. As a parent, I would rather have my kids and their friends where I can keep an eye on them. My kids are now 22 and 21, and they still bring their friends here.
Mother in Hartford
I understand that you think you did your children a favor by enabling them and their friends to drink in your home, and I'm delighted along with you that they all dodged a bullet and didn't hurt themselves or someone else -- but that doesn't make it right to serve alcohol to underage kids.
I think parents who do this mainly want to seem "cool" to their children and then justify their own behavior by saying they are taking a stand concerning drinking responsibly. I agree that we need to do a much better job of teaching our kids how to use alcohol, and that lesson should also include choosing not to drink.
Studies have shown that the younger people are when they start consuming alcohol, the more at risk they are for becoming problem drinkers later.
Parents who serve alcohol to minors should also put their energy into advocating for changing the laws. But parents tend to lose their interest in this issue once their own children have safely reached adulthood.
I want to find this woman and beat her in the face.
Underage drinking/smoking/sex is prohibited for a reason! Teenagers haven't necessarily learned responsibility and restraint. Look at all the accidents caused by careless teenage drivers, hence the Maryland law prohibiting teenagers from using even hands-free cellphones while driving. There is nothing so beneficial about alcohol that it's worth encouraging underage drinking. [I'm inclined to say it's not worth encouraging drinking, period, but I know about Prohibition and that it's not so harmful as drug abuse, so I hesitate to openly froth at the mouth.]
Granted, it may have been in the wad of circulars that otherwise stuff the box, but I tend to be pretty anal about sifting through that to find anything that might be a bill before dumping it all otherwise unread.
The n00bs continue to exasperate me in that way that, say, little boys do when trying to explain to them that pulling little girls' pigtails is hurtful and they shouldn't do it. It makes perfect sense to me, but they have no particular incentive to care since they themselves have hair too short to hurt when pulled.
Ruiner Lizard in particular is clueless in the real sense--not the way Clueless was, since his was mostly arrogance, but a genuine ignorance or failure to grasp the reason for things. I don't watch him like a hawk to get a sense of what he's doing specifically, but I'll look up and see him working a cart of backstock, look away to do whatever I was doing, then look back to see he's vanished without a trace. When he returns, it's often been to bring some other backstock into the [already cluttered] area, without having first finished whatever he started.
That's one of my bigger peeves, this overdependence on having carts in the stockroom after the [long-ignored] mandate to keep them OUT of the stockrooms. [Mind, this was prior to their sign-on, so it's the Execs' failure to reiterate the rules. They generally ignore/don't understand what I have to say.] The biggest issue is they take up a lot of space for the relatively small amount they hold. The lesser but still important issue is that they're for guests to use, not for staff to hide away out of reach.
So when there's a clusterfuck going on, my general plan of action is to clear out all the carts first, then take them out to the corral, but Ruiner Lizard especially seems to just take the empties and load them up with more stuff. He can't even load just one up and finish that--he puts some stuff in a cart, then moves the cart, then walks off to do something else entirely X(
Exasperating! ...which is only part of why I end up dallying when someone [usually Cream, reluctantly so] puts me in Electronics.
[As for the latter, I learned from pholph that requesting to be posted there means they won't ever put me there again. Of course, failing to express a preference seems to do almost the same...]
I seem to be in at midnight again tonight, by virtue of crack I made at Cream about Slave Driver Slowpoke =B Seems a good time to get some shit done for once ^^;
Edit: To rub lemon juice in my papercut, here is today's Ask Amy:Dear Amy:
I do not agree with what you wrote when you responded to "Not So Appalled Parent," who let her teenage kids drink in her home.
My kids were allowed to drink in our home, too. They almost always had their own alcohol, but once they asked me to buy it for them, and I did. The kids knew that if they ever drove away from my house drunk they would never be allowed to come here again. If they could not spend the night, I would drive them or they posted a driver who would not drink that night. Believe me, I made sure no one left here drunk.
My kids have not lost one of their friends to drunken driving, but kids in our town who drove around drinking have been lost, so you see the kids will get their alcohol anyway. As a parent, I would rather have my kids and their friends where I can keep an eye on them. My kids are now 22 and 21, and they still bring their friends here.
Mother in Hartford
I understand that you think you did your children a favor by enabling them and their friends to drink in your home, and I'm delighted along with you that they all dodged a bullet and didn't hurt themselves or someone else -- but that doesn't make it right to serve alcohol to underage kids.
I think parents who do this mainly want to seem "cool" to their children and then justify their own behavior by saying they are taking a stand concerning drinking responsibly. I agree that we need to do a much better job of teaching our kids how to use alcohol, and that lesson should also include choosing not to drink.
Studies have shown that the younger people are when they start consuming alcohol, the more at risk they are for becoming problem drinkers later.
Parents who serve alcohol to minors should also put their energy into advocating for changing the laws. But parents tend to lose their interest in this issue once their own children have safely reached adulthood.
I want to find this woman and beat her in the face.
Underage drinking/smoking/sex is prohibited for a reason! Teenagers haven't necessarily learned responsibility and restraint. Look at all the accidents caused by careless teenage drivers, hence the Maryland law prohibiting teenagers from using even hands-free cellphones while driving. There is nothing so beneficial about alcohol that it's worth encouraging underage drinking. [I'm inclined to say it's not worth encouraging drinking, period, but I know about Prohibition and that it's not so harmful as drug abuse, so I hesitate to openly froth at the mouth.]