Comments | kat_rowe: Very belated (and loooooooooooooong) update

kat_rowe

Very belated (and loooooooooooooong) update

Oct 07, 2011 11:40

Time to get back into the swing of posting regularly, I guess. RL's been so tiring that I just haven't had the motivation lately, but it's time to smile, put my head up, and hop back on the horse. Isolating myself socially is a bad thing and I know that, so I'm resolving (again) to do better. Despite the prolonged radio silence, things haven't been ( Read more... )

ptsd, beading, family, sanctuary, rabid fangirl, welcome to walmart, update, work

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sgmajorshipper October 7 2011, 19:36:36 UTC

Oh, you get to deal with the Customer Service center. Lovely.
Just, wow, at those people who got arrested. Idk even how one would respond to that. Seriously. Wtf.

Oh my gosh. The Wally World in the town I grew up in has been "upgrading" to a Supercenter for what feels like forever. Apparently they were supposed to start three years ago, and then the recession hit and it was all put on hold, and remains that way, I guess, for the foreseeable future. *headdesks*

I'm legitimately curious to see how they wrap up the time travel stuff, but after that, idk how I'll feel about everything. My adoration for Sanctuary's been waning since the second half of S3, I think.

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 14:11:40 UTC

Customer Service is... interesting. I love the customers who walk up with "returns" that don't have receipts and who, just coincidentally, have recently done no-receipt returns at every other Walmart in Northeastern Ohio (and one in Pennsylvania). Happens every day. Usually just makes us laugh and roll our eyes after the customer's left, but I had one the other day who did it straight-faced with a four year old girl in her arms. Yeah, Betty filed a report on that one. I hate idiots who involve their CHILDREN in shit like that. There is a special place in hell for people like that ( ... )

sgmajorshipper October 12 2011, 20:16:13 UTC

Oh, wow. I mean, intellectually, I know that happens, but actually watching it...ugh. I can't believe people do that do their kids ( ... )

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 20:36:50 UTC

people are such freaking idiots. it's like "oh, hey, i have a kid so I can't be doing bad shit" but what if the cops are called or something and the poor child SEES. she was two or three it looked like. gorgeous little thing, too, who's probably going to grow up to be a complete punk just like her mama. SO sad and enraging ( ... )

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michelle1963 October 7 2011, 21:10:31 UTC

Sorry work has been such a bitch! Sounds like so much to deal with all at once, and regular Peyton Place. LOL!

I can't wait to see the jewelry you are making. :-)

I don't know your history, but hope those demons that are haunting you soon disappear from your life.

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 14:21:43 UTC

it amazes me that one small-town Midwestern Walmart can manage that much drama and wank (and all at once, lol). I may just be too used to working in offices and hospitals, though, where people had the sense (mostly) to keep business and pleasure separate, or at least to keep any mixtures of the two on the DL ( ... )

michelle1963 October 12 2011, 14:32:44 UTC

Oh dear God! I can't imagine.

I, too, was in attendance at my father's death, but it was not self-inflicted and was swift, all things considered ~ he died of cardiac arrest before the paramedics arrived. That was traumatic enough in of itself.

Hugs Kat. Sounds like you're getting stronger. Keep after it!

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 14:37:00 UTC

*hugs* it's always hard losing a parent. i was actually fine with my father's death until we lost Mom, too. I quit work and school to take care of her and she hung on for four years when the doc said she'd be lucky to have six months. she couldn't stand the idea of a hospital or nursing home, so it seemed like the obvious choice but the therapist actually winced when I told her, so I'm guessing that means not so much (or something?)

i hope you've made peace with losing your dad. I won't be trite and call it merciful or anything; even when it's peaceful, it's horrible to see *hugs you*

thanks *hugs*

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ehowton October 8 2011, 02:54:28 UTC

At least you don't have a dull desk job crunching numbers or some monotonous repetitive assembly-line function. No ma'am, not you. You get to interact with WAL-MART CUSTOMERS! Expect hilarity to ensue.

But those arrests? hysterical! (And I loved your Nelson...)

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 14:25:23 UTC

lmao. ah, Walmart customers. some of the most interesting customers in the world. had a guy covered in (what I hope was) fake blood walk up to me while I was covering the greeter's break to ask where we'd moved hardware to (or to establish an alibi). Walked out a few minutes later with a tarp in his cart, lol...

Then again, I had a guy sending a moneygram the other day wearing a "rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock" t-shirt, so the cool people and the weirdos balance out. more or less

>.>
<.<

sunkrux October 9 2011, 01:54:10 UTC

Long story short, I've been on temp disability since the first week of August due to my depression & chronic sinus infections. The depression is currently winning over the sinus infections.

Other than that, I'm okay.

Glad to hear you're doing okay all things considered. *HUGGLES*

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 14:27:37 UTC

oh, wow, Sunny, that sounds like a lot's been going on. it'll probably help, though, to take some time to just focus on your physical and mental health. I'm generally online when I'm not at work if you ever want to IM *hugs* hang in there and know I'm praying for you

sunkrux October 12 2011, 14:33:28 UTC

Thanks. I've been lying low lately, you're on my depression filtered list so if you go look at my feed via you're friends, you'll see why.

kat_rowe October 12 2011, 14:34:18 UTC

*heads over to catch up*

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