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Tonight and Every Saturday : Alterrnative Dance at The Shelter! [Dec. 26th, 2009|12:37 pm]

dark_atlanta
[eighties1]
EVERY SATURDAY!
The best in Alternative Dance!
FREE before 11 : FREE parking : Doors at 9

The Shelter
2101B Tula St NW
Atlanta, GA 30309

Click on the flyer for more upcoming events!



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OMG I SHOULD BE IN UR SYSTEM 6__9 [Dec. 27th, 2009|11:27 am]

customers_suck
[bunnyhood]
[mood |confused]

so two things

1. I have been at this job since like...late september.

2. when you write a check its POLICY we see your ID/license

The system wont even let us continue on if we don't put one in. If you have the number and not the ID/license that wont cut it and we still need to see your ID/license.

If not then I have to get my manager to pass it by. 90% of the time he wont let you do it, 10% of the time your spending like 2 dollars and he doesnt care.

OR hell check HIS system(that I do not know about and no one told me about, and Ive never been told how it works) thats ONLY AT THE CUSTOMER SERVICE and only he probably has access to it. If you COULD do this every bloody time then (this only ever happened once with me and a customer) then im sure all the cashiers would have been told about it.

okay so lets get to the real rant. A lady comes in and she does have her ID, but when I ask for it she does the whole "I shop here ALL the time shouldn't you have it in your system?" speil. Now I understand maybe if you've come through my line a MILLION TIMES (and the people who actually do don't hesitate to show me their ID/license) but HELLO? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE EVER SEEN YOU. and I know you know that I'm new, but the fact you shop here OMG EVERY DAY means I should magically know who you are and your license number. No matter how NEW I am.

Im sorry but in my job description they never told me I had to memorize all the regulars account numbers and license numbers. No matter how long I work there.
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Essentuki, Russia. [Dec. 26th, 2009|04:55 pm]

cityscapes
[greenorang]
220.49 КБ

for lena_analena
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Post-holiday Pets [Dec. 26th, 2009|12:22 am]

sf_drama
[lorexiii]
[mood | nauseated]

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Our Cyber Tsar's Security Website of 7 years, wow I feel so secure already! [Dec. 26th, 2009|08:08 am]

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Our Cyber Tsar's Security Website of 7 years, wow I feel so secure already!
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A short one... [Dec. 27th, 2009|12:29 am]

customers_suck
[justcloseby]
Don't get shitty with me for not speaking your language, when you've made no attempt whatsoever to learn mine. Last I checked, I was the one speaking the official language of this country. I haven't done anything wrong. Enough with the scowling.

Oh, and I'm not stupid, either. I'm aware that you're cussing me out even though I don't speak the language you're cussing me out in. Some things are universal.

ETA: I apologize if this came off as racist, that wasn't my intent. My issue wasn't with him speaking another language, it was with him getting shitty at me for not speaking his. I can complety appreciate language barriers. A lot of our patrons have difficulties, but there are ways and means of getting your point across - pidgin English, simple mime, heck, I'd even work with interpretive dance. It was more the way he made no effort to communicate whatsoever, then got angry at me for not either speaking his language or reading his mind. I should have made that clearer in the original post but I'm posting this from my iPod lol.
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(no subject) [Dec. 26th, 2009|04:17 am]

customers_suck
[slash_puppy]
[mood |drained]
[music |Gigi D'Agostino ~ The Riddle Bla Bla Bla Remix]

Finally... the Christmas Music has gone off the air for the next year...

Anyway. Blue-shirted sometime cashier where It Means A Great Deal.

Dear older couple,

Yes, we are aware the road in front of the store is very, very icy. We've got courtesy clerks posted outside warning people to take the long way through the parking lot, because our driveway is solid ice.

Telling us that someone is going to fall and die on said ice is just being overly dramatic. We're handling it.

Thanks, but no thanks,
slash_puppy.

Also FFS people, it's SNOWING LIKE CRAZY outside. Could you at least bring back in the cart you took out there so they don't melt snow all over our floors once they're brought in?

First snowstorm in recent memory and Texans lose their effing marbles. >
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Manhattan [Dec. 26th, 2009|03:13 am]

cityscapes
[ganievich]
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PICK A BLOODY NAME [Dec. 26th, 2009|12:15 am]

bad_rpers_suck
[dimitrinabokov]
So, usually I can at least read through some pretty lousy profiles, and I do mean agonizingly bad. Gaia's sort of built up my tolerance to it, and any further difficulty is usually taken care of by my good friend Jack Daniels, who makes a wonderful beverage.

But this guy...this is the first time I couldn't get past the name section of the profile before my thought process came to a screeching halt.

( Your name is what? )
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I'm being a joiner [Dec. 26th, 2009|01:02 am]

cat_macros
[bell_witch]
meme
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I am not getting paid ? [Dec. 26th, 2009|02:00 am]

co_workers_suck
[ldykatrina]
Its not so much a co-worker suck as a supervisor suck.

I just had a death in the family on Tuesday. I told my bosses on Wednesday about it and also let them know that I would be having to travel for the funeral and would need two days off but as of Wednesday I didnt know which days. My supervisor said "whatever" and walked away - the mangers were awesome about it and just told me to let them know soon as I knew.

I found out Wednesday night when I would need to be off and Thursday morning I informed my supervisor and it went a little like this:

Me: The wake is Sunday and the funeral is on Monday so I wont be here these two days.

Sup: Do you have to go to both?

Me: Yes, I do

Sup: you wont get bereavement pay

Me: That's fine, you wanted me to tell you which two days I needed to take off and I am.

Sup: I really don't understand why you need two days

Me: Well there is travel involved, and I want to be there for my family

Sup: So why are you going to the funeral and the wake?

Me: Because its my family

Sup: you wont get paid for it

Me: that's fine

Sup: But your not going to get paid..

Me: I understand

Sup: you know you wont get paid for the days you miss

Me: yes, I get that - Do I need to do any paperwork associated with being out?

Sup: No - but you should talk to one of the AMs

Me: Okay, I will

Sup: actually, I will take care of it but you need to realize that you cant always take time off when you want to...

Me: Believe me, if uncle didn't just DIE I would be at work

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I checked with one of the AM's - there is paperwork I have to fill out, I may qualify for bereavement and I am totally cleared for missing work Sunday and Monday. But said supervisor didn't talk to anyone about it, I stayed late on Christmas eve making sure it was arranged and taken care of.
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(no subject) [Dec. 26th, 2009|09:20 am]

cityscapes
[bezslov23]
[music |Promise Me - The Gun Club]


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Minor Christmas Eve suck [Dec. 26th, 2009|01:01 am]

customers_suck
[invaderscythe]
Recap: Cashier/Self-checkout attendant in Midwest grocery store chain.

Dear customers,

Yes, people have been asking all day what time we close, it's at 5PM. Saying "that's wonderful, you guys deserve it!" and wishing us the happiest holiday really makes our day. However, dear customers, when we announce half an hour before we are closing soon, please don't try to take your sweet time shopping. We'd like to be outta here right around closing. To the customers who try to walk in our open door (which we were actually about to lock up), please leave. We have about three employees (two of them store managers) telling you to get out, especially since it's after 5 and we'd like to go home to celebrate the holiday with our family and friends. Saying "but I just need this ONE thing" or "I NEED cigarettes" is not going to cut it. If you REALLY need cigarettes, there's still about a dozen gas stations open, go to them.

Thanks for your time,

[info]invaderscythe
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You say you're not, but I think you are. [Dec. 25th, 2009|11:21 pm]

customers_suck
[brassdollfin]
You know it's going to be a bad transaction when someone starts bitching the moment they walk up to the counter. This past week, at your friendly local long-distance train station, a real treasure of a man walked up to the ticket counter. On a relevant side note, we are located on the second floor of the building. The sign when you enter the building says "(RRCompany) 2nd Floor" with an arrow that points up the stairs.

ESJ = Entitled, Selfish Jerkwad
Me = Ticket clerk of Awesome :P

ESJ: You know, you guys should really have a sign that you're open.
Me: *boggles* Huhwha?
ESJ: The window downstairs is all locked up. The window that says Ticketing.
Me: Oh, you mean the bus counter?
( Part the first, in which ESJ proves himself inobservant of our copious signage )
ESJ: Well I couldn't find it and I'm not stupid.
Me: *trying very hard not to contradict him on that* So, do you have a reservation?
( Part the second, in which ESJ's $2 discount is more important than my job, apparently. )
Really?? That kind of temper tantrum over less than $2? Dude, grow up. I'm pretty sure keeping my job is going to win between that and your $2 discount. Just count yourself lucky you came on a day that I was working, and not one of the grumpy old curmudgeons who would yell right back at you.

Edited to close italics XD
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Just a small boxing day WTF [Dec. 26th, 2009|04:16 pm]

customers_suck
[gumnut_girl]
I wear a red shirt at a department store in Australia.
I had the glorious shift in the middle of the day, which meant I didn't have to open or close, just walk around keeping the place clean, and deal with crazy people.
We have a deal in men's wear for selected jeans or shorts for $15 a pair.
I had to explain to a man multiple times that it was $15 for A pair of jeans or shorts, not for a pair of a pair of jeans or shorts.
After each explanation of "It's $15 for one pair" he would reply "yes one pair, two!"
I got a little irritated with having to repeat myself over and over but think it's just completely amusing!
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Something that happened last year... [Dec. 25th, 2009|08:49 pm]

bad_service
[eiregirl05]
[mood | sick]

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Movie House 55 [Dec. 25th, 2009|10:40 pm]

twilight_sucks
[amyrat151]
[Tags|]
[Current Location |home again]
[mood | drunk]
[music |Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon]

What did you watch this week?
InuYasha was good, could have been better but satisfying. Miroku's seiyu has been delivering some really good performances and I'm really impressed with him. FMAB was better than a lot of the episodes have been because the silly humor didn't feel out of place or forced.
Christmas stuff! The Christmas episode of Buffy, one of the Roswell Christmas episodes, the one in 2nd season, How the Ghosts Stole Christmas, which is a Christmas episode of the X-Flies, and Love Actually.
Merry Christmas! Happy Yule! Have a kick ass Hanukkah!
I'm a little drunk right now, but it's okay, I drank because I was having a good time, not to forget the fact that I was with my family, because I actually like my family.
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Electricity + water =/= good service [Dec. 26th, 2009|04:00 am]

customers_suck
[doubledgedsword]
[Current Location |Ireland]
[mood |awake]
[music |Road Crew - Motorhead]


More suckage from the game speciality store in Ireland! We were open on Christmas Eve until 5, and it had been a steady flow of crazy busy-ness all day long. At one point, the till queue snaked around the shop and out the door, and we had to get centre security to watch the queue and make sure nobody nicked anything.

I was prepping the queue, i.e. wearing a Santa hat, thanking custies for being so patient, and asking what the wanted. Because nothing is out "live" on our shop floor (we either have demo/dummy boxes or live product if it's under €25) the staff have to fetch everything and bring it to the tills. At Christmas, this can make things slow, so we had all our tills running and every spare member of staff working on prepping the queue.

I noticed one customer had a bix cardboard box with him, and thinking he wanted to trade in an old console, I approached him. (See my first game store suck for why I hate trade-ins! ) We have to test EVERY console that comes in, due to the fact that we will be selling them on.

I will now transfer you to the Department of Script Format for easy suck shareage!

FEATURING AN ALL-STAR CAST OF:

Me: Game Slave!
TIG: Trade-In Guy!
SSA: Senior Sales Assistant!
SM: Store Manager!
IXB: Innocent X-box 360 Elite

( It's better than a Christmas Pantomime... )Edited to add an LJ cut!
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(no subject) [Dec. 25th, 2009|10:52 pm]

dreadpiratekurt
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Happy Boxmas! [Dec. 25th, 2009|10:35 pm]

freyalorelei
[mood | yeah, Boxmas rocks.]

Christmas today! Happy whatever you choose to celebrate. :) I had a decent time of it...the day began with strata (breakfast dish made with bread cubes, ham, eggs, and two kinds of cheese--it is GODLY) and stollen (German pastry with dried fruit and powdered sugar--pronounced shtoh-len), and ended with ham, potatoes, and other things I couldn't eat because I filled up on strata throughout the day. Holy crap do I love strata, and Mom rarely makes it because it needs to be chilled for 24 hours.

Then gifts! The bulk of my haul was from Mom, and it consisted largely of almost every Dorothy L. Sayers novel ever written, plus the Wolverine movie, which I have seen and thought was rather mediocre, but it's two hours of Hugh Jackman shirtless so I do not care. Sally and Justin got me the first season of Leverage (yay!) and The Aristocats (huh? Not that I don't like it, but it's a rather...random choice). Gramma and Grampa got me the gift that keeps on giving: cash.

Mom got Grampa the new Star Trek movie, and insisted he open it last night*, because apparently they used to watch TOS together when she was a teenager. To my surprise, both he and Gramma liked it (well, he liked the parts he was awake for). I got her some Sue Grafton and P.D. James novels.

Sally got a necklace of chocolate pearls from Justin, something she has been hinting for for years but never actually expected to get. I got her the Quidditch/Fantastic Beasts boxed set and Justin a Transformers shirt that ended up being too small. :(

Apparently my aunt down in Florida got the best Christmas present of all from her son: a blue parrotlet. Now her little green parrotlet has a friend!



*We ended up staying overnight because the roads were REALLY bad.

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