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Ahhhh I am so sick of cheerleaders. Seriously. Like 80% of people I'm forced to deal with every day at work are related to cheerleading somehow. It's getting old. No I don't care that your child's shit doesn't fit. It fit her a month ago when we came to size them, so unless you're a moron and wrote down the wrong size, it should still fucking fit.
And no one wants to pay for their stuff. Normally when we size the girls, we take down at least half of the payment and collect the rest on delivery. Why is this such a difficult concept for people to grasp? This is the day it will be delivered, this is the amount you will owe at that time. But noooo. Instead we get a million excuses. It's amazing.
The worst is Aliquippa. Now I don't know why, but the sponsor elected to have each girl come to our store and try their stuff on individually instead of having them sized. Which of course means I did 90% of them because no one else helps any fucking customers ever. The sponsor gave them a deadline, which passed. And another deadline, because a lot of them were waiting for their welfare money or baby daddy money or baby daddy welfare money. I'm serious. Then a third deadline for final payment (we take all payment before even ordering their shit because they are not good about paying). That final deadline was yesterday, when basically everyone decided to come finally, or to call and give us sob stories about why they don't have the money and can they pay later and still get their stuff ordered.
I understand not having money, but the total for their gear if they got all of it came to $66. Sixty six fucking dollars, half of which was already paid (no one paid in full). So $33 essentially.
You would have thought we were asking them to sacrifice their first born child.
One lady called and complained that the man who helped her (Rel) told her she didn't have to put down the final payment until pickup. We're like...but your sponsor wants it paid now, and she's been telling you this for weeks. One dad came in and flipped out on his wife that their daughter "wasn't doing this cheer shit next year" because it's so expensive. Well buddy, maybe if you didn't have a neck tattoo that says "Big Daddy", you could find a decent fucking job and provide for your kid.
Thirty three dollars.
If you don't pay by your due date, you get a $30 late fee because we have to order your shit separately instead of with the group order, so we don't hold everyone up for your ass. You can imagine how that goes over with people. One lady got super offended even after we explained that we had to order her shoes and reset all the screens for her shirts to be printed. "Well how hard can it be to reset two screens?"
It's not hard. But it takes time. And you had ample time to get here without getting stuck with and extra charge. Don't pay your electric bill on time and see what happens.
It's just been a stressful week for everyone. I get stuck upstairs helping customers and answering the phones while everyone else is downstairs scrambling to put together cheer orders for delivery. I would much rather be the person downstairs. Then everyone comes in after 5 when everyone else is gone and I have to guess about the stuff they want that I know nothing about because no one tells me anything about cheerleading. Oh, Johnna said she had a bow for you? Well guess what, I have no fucking idea where it is, and furthermore the basement looks like a warzone, and I have no idea what this mystical bow is meant to look like. YAY.
Then another cheer lady chewed Johnna out because she went to pick up her stuff and her sponsor wouldn't give it to her because her check bounced. She was mad that Johnna told the cheer sponsor that the check bounced because it was not her business. UM YEAH IT WAS. It became her business. Here's a way to keep that from happening: don't write checks that are gonna bounce.
Hell I know what it's like to have no money. But do you know when I do have money? When I have to pay my bills! It's not...that...hard. Skip your weekly trip to the nail salon and fucking pay us!
I just can't deal with these people anymore. I don't know how they manage to function as adults, let alone have children. And the children are going to grow up the same fucking way. It's depressing.
So Wednesday I woke up to rain. It was tapering off by the time I got into my car, and I headed to work. On the radio they kept talking about flooding in places and I was just sort of "yeah whatever" and kept driving. I got to Montour Run and traffic was slow and I was getting all pissed off because people suck at driving. Then I got through the intersection and saw why. The rainwater was still running down the cliffside and the drain was backed up and the water was pooling along the edge of the road and had started to cover the lane heading to the parkway. It was awesome. So I drove through it obviously like everyone else and got onto the parkway. It started to pour about five minutes later, then stopped, and as I reached my exit I saw there was a huge black cloud racing across the sky towards me. I pulled into the parking lot and got into the building about twenty seconds before the rain started.
Which- just to interject here: TURN ON YOUR FUCKING HEADLIGHTS WHEN IT IS RAINING. Seriously. Come on people. Just turn them on whenever you get into your car. Alternatively, buy a car that has them on automatic. Or just hire me to sit in the passenger seat and punch you in the face whenever you lights are off.
So it rained basically all day and then stopped at 2ish. Another line of storms was moving in later and I was trying to gauge when they would hit to see if I would have time to go grocery shopping or not. I decided to just go home after work and had just pulled in when Deb texted me that there was a tornado warning. That was about the point where I heard my screen door start flapping around and the mailbox flap rattling. I looked out the bedroom windows and another giant black cloud was heading my way at like 60 mph. Luckily the tornado warning expired and we just got more rain. It was p awesome. Then after that was over there was a rainbow out my living room window. :V
Yesterday I got home and parked behind my house as usual, put the car in park and looked over to put my windows up and OH MY GOD GIANT DOG STICKING ITS HEAD IN THE WINDOW. Bella had spotted me and raced over to greet me. :V I thought I ran the dog over, she came out of fucking nowhere. Kita was highly suspicious when I got inside.
Speaking of Kita, she is finally out of heat and is back to being just a mild pain in the ass instead of a big one. :V For a while she would try to hump my arm. I was like Kita you are massively stupid go away. Gotta get some money together to fix her. :V
My hair has grown at least 2 inches already. I don't know if I'll keep it short. It's honestly not much less work. It's still too thick and tangles like a mother no matter the length. And I still shed like a dog. IDK, I'll let it grow for now I guess unless I think of something better to do with it.
Spent the last week reading The Crimson Petal and the White which was very interesting. It was about a prostitute in 1800s England who ends up the mistress of a rich guy. A bit different from my usual tastes. :V This book was a monster though. I read the ebook but I think the actual book is some 900 pages. It was quite good though.
And lastly. After yet another anti-choice bill passed in Texas, one charming Senator tweeted a link to a website selling coat hangers with the caption "Dear liberals, go bookmark this site now." Because you know. Pro-life, except it's funny when women die from trying to self abort with coat hangers. HA HA I GET IT.
I honestly can't with Republicans anymore. I just can't. The fact that these pieces of shit make it into office while spewing this kind of hypocritical bullshit just makes me want to kill myself. The fact that they aren't ousted from office directly for things like this astounds me. The fact that they know that these bills don't stop abortion, that they just stop SAFE abortion, and they pass them anyway claiming it's helping women and people believe it...I just...
Just admit that you hate women. Just admit that you want to punish them for daring to have sex. Because if you were really pro-life, you would be doing something about helping disadvantaged children, not cutting food stamp programs or school lunch programs. You would be promoting medical care for children, for pregnant women, for babies. But you're not.
I know it's not polite to wish death on anyone, but I'm pretty sure wishing for Republican men to get their dicks hacked off is okay. I think that would be more effective in preventing unplanned pregnancies after all.
Annnnd George Zimmerman is not guilty. Of shooting and killing an unarmed teenager.
I hate this country.
EDIT: and omg Cory Monteith died. This is the worst fucking week.
And no one wants to pay for their stuff. Normally when we size the girls, we take down at least half of the payment and collect the rest on delivery. Why is this such a difficult concept for people to grasp? This is the day it will be delivered, this is the amount you will owe at that time. But noooo. Instead we get a million excuses. It's amazing.
The worst is Aliquippa. Now I don't know why, but the sponsor elected to have each girl come to our store and try their stuff on individually instead of having them sized. Which of course means I did 90% of them because no one else helps any fucking customers ever. The sponsor gave them a deadline, which passed. And another deadline, because a lot of them were waiting for their welfare money or baby daddy money or baby daddy welfare money. I'm serious. Then a third deadline for final payment (we take all payment before even ordering their shit because they are not good about paying). That final deadline was yesterday, when basically everyone decided to come finally, or to call and give us sob stories about why they don't have the money and can they pay later and still get their stuff ordered.
I understand not having money, but the total for their gear if they got all of it came to $66. Sixty six fucking dollars, half of which was already paid (no one paid in full). So $33 essentially.
You would have thought we were asking them to sacrifice their first born child.
One lady called and complained that the man who helped her (Rel) told her she didn't have to put down the final payment until pickup. We're like...but your sponsor wants it paid now, and she's been telling you this for weeks. One dad came in and flipped out on his wife that their daughter "wasn't doing this cheer shit next year" because it's so expensive. Well buddy, maybe if you didn't have a neck tattoo that says "Big Daddy", you could find a decent fucking job and provide for your kid.
Thirty three dollars.
If you don't pay by your due date, you get a $30 late fee because we have to order your shit separately instead of with the group order, so we don't hold everyone up for your ass. You can imagine how that goes over with people. One lady got super offended even after we explained that we had to order her shoes and reset all the screens for her shirts to be printed. "Well how hard can it be to reset two screens?"
It's not hard. But it takes time. And you had ample time to get here without getting stuck with and extra charge. Don't pay your electric bill on time and see what happens.
It's just been a stressful week for everyone. I get stuck upstairs helping customers and answering the phones while everyone else is downstairs scrambling to put together cheer orders for delivery. I would much rather be the person downstairs. Then everyone comes in after 5 when everyone else is gone and I have to guess about the stuff they want that I know nothing about because no one tells me anything about cheerleading. Oh, Johnna said she had a bow for you? Well guess what, I have no fucking idea where it is, and furthermore the basement looks like a warzone, and I have no idea what this mystical bow is meant to look like. YAY.
Then another cheer lady chewed Johnna out because she went to pick up her stuff and her sponsor wouldn't give it to her because her check bounced. She was mad that Johnna told the cheer sponsor that the check bounced because it was not her business. UM YEAH IT WAS. It became her business. Here's a way to keep that from happening: don't write checks that are gonna bounce.
Hell I know what it's like to have no money. But do you know when I do have money? When I have to pay my bills! It's not...that...hard. Skip your weekly trip to the nail salon and fucking pay us!
I just can't deal with these people anymore. I don't know how they manage to function as adults, let alone have children. And the children are going to grow up the same fucking way. It's depressing.
So Wednesday I woke up to rain. It was tapering off by the time I got into my car, and I headed to work. On the radio they kept talking about flooding in places and I was just sort of "yeah whatever" and kept driving. I got to Montour Run and traffic was slow and I was getting all pissed off because people suck at driving. Then I got through the intersection and saw why. The rainwater was still running down the cliffside and the drain was backed up and the water was pooling along the edge of the road and had started to cover the lane heading to the parkway. It was awesome. So I drove through it obviously like everyone else and got onto the parkway. It started to pour about five minutes later, then stopped, and as I reached my exit I saw there was a huge black cloud racing across the sky towards me. I pulled into the parking lot and got into the building about twenty seconds before the rain started.
Which- just to interject here: TURN ON YOUR FUCKING HEADLIGHTS WHEN IT IS RAINING. Seriously. Come on people. Just turn them on whenever you get into your car. Alternatively, buy a car that has them on automatic. Or just hire me to sit in the passenger seat and punch you in the face whenever you lights are off.
So it rained basically all day and then stopped at 2ish. Another line of storms was moving in later and I was trying to gauge when they would hit to see if I would have time to go grocery shopping or not. I decided to just go home after work and had just pulled in when Deb texted me that there was a tornado warning. That was about the point where I heard my screen door start flapping around and the mailbox flap rattling. I looked out the bedroom windows and another giant black cloud was heading my way at like 60 mph. Luckily the tornado warning expired and we just got more rain. It was p awesome. Then after that was over there was a rainbow out my living room window. :V
Yesterday I got home and parked behind my house as usual, put the car in park and looked over to put my windows up and OH MY GOD GIANT DOG STICKING ITS HEAD IN THE WINDOW. Bella had spotted me and raced over to greet me. :V I thought I ran the dog over, she came out of fucking nowhere. Kita was highly suspicious when I got inside.
Speaking of Kita, she is finally out of heat and is back to being just a mild pain in the ass instead of a big one. :V For a while she would try to hump my arm. I was like Kita you are massively stupid go away. Gotta get some money together to fix her. :V
My hair has grown at least 2 inches already. I don't know if I'll keep it short. It's honestly not much less work. It's still too thick and tangles like a mother no matter the length. And I still shed like a dog. IDK, I'll let it grow for now I guess unless I think of something better to do with it.
Spent the last week reading The Crimson Petal and the White which was very interesting. It was about a prostitute in 1800s England who ends up the mistress of a rich guy. A bit different from my usual tastes. :V This book was a monster though. I read the ebook but I think the actual book is some 900 pages. It was quite good though.
And lastly. After yet another anti-choice bill passed in Texas, one charming Senator tweeted a link to a website selling coat hangers with the caption "Dear liberals, go bookmark this site now." Because you know. Pro-life, except it's funny when women die from trying to self abort with coat hangers. HA HA I GET IT.
I honestly can't with Republicans anymore. I just can't. The fact that these pieces of shit make it into office while spewing this kind of hypocritical bullshit just makes me want to kill myself. The fact that they aren't ousted from office directly for things like this astounds me. The fact that they know that these bills don't stop abortion, that they just stop SAFE abortion, and they pass them anyway claiming it's helping women and people believe it...I just...
Just admit that you hate women. Just admit that you want to punish them for daring to have sex. Because if you were really pro-life, you would be doing something about helping disadvantaged children, not cutting food stamp programs or school lunch programs. You would be promoting medical care for children, for pregnant women, for babies. But you're not.
I know it's not polite to wish death on anyone, but I'm pretty sure wishing for Republican men to get their dicks hacked off is okay. I think that would be more effective in preventing unplanned pregnancies after all.
Annnnd George Zimmerman is not guilty. Of shooting and killing an unarmed teenager.
I hate this country.
EDIT: and omg Cory Monteith died. This is the worst fucking week.