Daily Banter

[Rawdon Bray]

Soo, what is everyone up to today? Any fun stories?

[Victoria]

I had a line up of all of my Disney casettes at the garage sale, and a little girl came up to me with Sleeping Beauty and asked something in Spanish. Her mother pulled her away, but another lady leaned over and told me that she had asked me if I was in the film. xD

I was so amazingly flattered, lol. I'm tall, thin and blonde, by the way. I wish I looked like Aurora (hehe, I'm sure ours is as pretty as Disney's)

[Cosmin Luminitsa]

Vane, I bet you're bootiful~ <33

Stories? Holy shiet, I phucking love stories.

hokay, so yesterday, I got this parcel in the mail, right? It was an early b-day present from a friend of mine outta state. And the card? It was a mini bible she had ripped the pages out of, except for the blank ones, and she wrote on those. To top it all off~ She drew a picture of Mozenrath molesting Aladdin in it. X3 I've never been more sure I'm going to Hell.[/size]

[Elizabeth Bell]

Mozenrath.

Yummy.


EDIT: For some reason posting that on Bess' account seems wierd. o.0 She's so prim and proper.

[Alastair]

Well back in October some old lady decided she was going to run a red light while driving through a construction zone....and ripped the front fender off my car. So it's been in the shop for weeks. And my car is my baby. No one got hurt, my car could drive out but I was still crying after it all happened because I felt like I'd been a bad mother. I was apologizing to my car and crying because his face was all smashed up. His name, by the way, is Dante. Yes, as in Dante's inferno.
They had to replace the grill, the fender, the engine mount, the hood and both the doors because everything got just slightly tweaked. Came up to $4,000 worth of damage.

And the other day I got my baby back!!! Yay!!!
So that's my story of the week.

[Victoria]

I love my car because it's gotten me around, and even been my home in some really bad times. If it got smashed.... -bites fingernails- I think I'd be axing an old lady.

[Alastair]

I've lived out of my car for a few days but that was because of one of those big LA fires that happened two years ago around the end of summer and I got stranded on the wrong side of the mountains from home. lol.

[Mercy Bell]

It's more fun than one would guess. I like living in small spaces. If I ever have a home of my own, I want it to be a one room cabin somewhere rural. I could be happy in such a simple, small and comfy place. -wistful sigh- Somewhere that has all of the seasons, where the air is clean and the sun doesn't burn my eyes every day. Trees, and animals, and freedom and quiet. No dependence on anyone. No judgement, and expectations, and arguments about legal status.

Wow, totally random emotional tangent.

But yeah, my car is a 2003 silver VW Jetta, and VWs are hell to get fixed.

[Benjamin Benson]

....*coughs* my car's name is Very Enormous Rusty Automobile, or Vera for short. I'm not as handy with fixing cars as I'd like to be. I can change a tire, hot wire, install a stereo, check oil and transmission...etc along those lines, but the duct tape that's holding it together...yeah that's all I can really do to keep the headlight from falling out. Had a brush with the garage door at my old place...it just jumped out of no where.

Anyway...that was just my two cents, here's my story:

So there I am standing near the service desk at Wal-Mart, running around with a bum knee (which I blew out playing basketball in high school) trying to run around and do all these stupid calls, cause I'm basically the Jack-of-all-Trades and my boss comes up to me, telling me that by 7pm the lot had to be clear of carts. I seriously turn to her, give her an 'are you kidding me' look before she goes on about how the big boss over us doesn't want to get yelled at by the Co-Manager for the carts no the lot. So when he comes in at 7pm she wants the lot to be cleared of all carts. My response:

"Good luck with that...you do know that between 6pm and 9pm it's our busiest time and you expect the cart pushers to clear the lot during that time frame. It's not going to happen. Half the time during the week we only have one cart pusher and it's hard enough as it is for him to keep up. You expect him to clear the lot by 7?"
"Yes, because Monica's tired of getting yelled at."
[My inner voice says: 'Aren't we all but you don't see me dressing in drag and dancing the hula on a cash register.']
"Alright then we'll I'll just make a pass or two every few hours...take a look out there before I leave at 7."
"Good."

Now that little exchange was over...my eyes were still rolling, actually I think they still are. I'm walking off and pretty soon I get that little voice over my headset in my ear. "Can we have you back to the training room please?" Of course here I am thinking it's because I was basically being a dick to my boss over the carts. I'm basically walking to my doom in the back to only find that it has nothing to do with my smart retorts, but the fact that I'm bordering on getting a coaching (which is basically a fancy way of saying I'm one step closer to being fired) because I have too many absences (you can only have 3 in a 6 month period). As my big head boss is going through the list of absences I stop her. Now the following conversation has to be the funniest thing in the world and makes absolutely no sense at the same time.

"Wait...wait. I called in a tardy on that day and worked more than half my shift, it shouldn't be an absence."
[she turns back to the computer to start flipping through the documents.]
"You were set to work 1 to 9, you worked 4 to 9."
"You mean 8?" [inner voice shouting 'learn how to read military time! how long have you been my boss? 20:00 means 8:00!]
"Yes...so you worked a 4 hour shift instead of a 7 hour."
"Yeah, which is more than half my shift which is what is required for a tardy."
[she opens her mouth then closes it...suddenly Co-Manager walks in]
"Hey Leo, do you know why this is saying they didn't work 50% of their shift, when it's clear that they did."
"Did you take a lunch?"
"No, it was only a four hour shift."
"That's why."
"So...I have a 7 hour shift, I miss 3 hours of it, come in for 4 and it's not 50% of my shift, because I didn't take a lunch?"
"Right?"
"So if I had taken a lunch during that 4 hour period I was here it wouldn't have counted against me?"
"No."
"So let me get this straight...I call in on a 7 hour shift, miss 3 hours (which I was told would be okay), come in for the last 4 hours of it...and don't take a lunch so even though I worked more than 50% of my shift it doesn't count because I didn't take a lunch?"
"Unfortunately yes. The only way I know about that is because it's happened to me before."
"Uh...well there ya go."

Apparently if you're working a seven hour shift and call in for three hours of it, telling them you're going to be late...and come in to work the rest of the four hours it's not considered a tardy, by Wal-Mart's standards, because you didn't work 50% of your shift.

Now tell me...how on earth is 4 hours of a 7 hour shift not at least 50% of your shift?

[Mercy Bell]

...and where the hell does the lunch come in?



You work in hell.

[Benjamin Benson]

....So it seems.

[Rawdon Bray]

-is still wondering if Ben is male or female in real life-

[Nerys]

I didn't hate my job before. But now I love it.
Sorry about schedule hell! That blows in an epic manner.

[Benjamin Benson]

Yeah...it just frustrates me I think more than anything. It's just like they don't even know what they're doing.

[Rawdon Bray]

Does anyone here have Facebook/Twitter?

[Meriwether Strangeway]

Lol I can't think of anything interesting to banter about. I did however sit through a two hour meeting last night about Blackfriday sales week for my job, even though I'm only doing a call in on one day. Did however get a free lotion! I work at Bath and Body Works and even though I've only worked like 9 shifts since I got hired in May, I've gotten over a hundred dollars in free merchandice!

Oh! and I have a facebook

[Benjamin Benson]

So apparently...yelling at your boss is not a good thing. Just had to sit through a 5 minutes meeting about how I'm not playing as part of the team and that I need to start doing so or I'm going to get coached and/or lose my job. I swear, one day where I'm not going out of my way to lay down and let people walk all over me and this is what happens. Now back to another 4 hours in Hell. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood when I get back and I'll be able to post Ben again. Don't be surprised though if it doesn't happen.

[Rossana Doyle]

yup, i've got facebook. i don't have a twitter. i have nothing at all against people who twitter, i really honestly don't. but i find twitter banal and pointless for me. lol.

[Victoria]

I have a facebook, but I haven't been on it in weeks.

Poor Ben! You deserve better.

[Enya Ayre]

Okay, so I'm gonna ramble in here for a bit about the general business of my life at the minute, which also explains why I haven't been as active as I would like Dx

BASICALLY the main thing at the moment is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month for thos who don't know) where basically you have to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days. I must be a masochist - there is no other explanation as to why I am doing this xD And then there's college of course...and Rent, which is opening on the 2nd December, so very close D= On top of all that, I'm ILL D= Last Thursday we had our HPV jabs, and I felt totally ill on the evening, and I put it down to that, but then felt horriblly ill all day on Friday. THEN the same happened this week >.< Which was very annoying.

SO YEAH. Roll on December ;)

Sorry for ranting and rambling !

I loves you all !