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[20 jazz funk greats]

i think you are worrying about nothing.  he might be overly friendly but he doesn't seem creepy in my opinion.

hey blog thread,

my crazy ex just said i'm bipolar.  which is hilarious coming from someone who's never taken a psych course in his life. and also quite ironic really! (i'm not the one with the extreme mood swings here) he is on his way over here right now for god knows what, closure or something.  which is retarded considering i broke up with him face to face because i'm not a coward. what else does he need? more break-up sex probably...

eh whatever. this all makes me laugh now and i am looking forward to hangouts with the new boy, whenever they might happen. (i has no way of contacting him because my phone is broken and a certain someone changed my facebook and email passwords, because he hates fun and wants to make sure i'm not having fun. sorry new boy!) 

love,
anna

[jhocking]

Your boyfriend knew your facebook and email passwords? how stupid are you

[20 jazz funk greats]

i have no idea how he managed to get them. hax most likely because i don't give people that kind of info because i'm not very trusting. but it's not a big deal to me since i don't have anything there i don't want him seeing. it just seems like an immature thing to do.  oh nooooes, not my facebook oh my life is over oh fuck. /sarcasm

[jhocking]

I wouldn't care about facebook, but losing access to my email would seriously screw me.

Also, http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,21736.0.html

[jhocking]

Okay this is pretty random, but I just decided to scroll down the list of threads and was kinda surprised at the stuff that hasn't been shoved off the first page yet.

[Caleb]

Blog Thread:

We should f'ing block myspace at the library since people can't seem to use it without clicking on something that makes a million popup windows come up.

And no.  It's NOT the computer.  It's you clicking on stuff that makes a million popups come up and crash the computer.

[Jace]

he and I would drink and play board/video games all night.

Buy Cranium and convince four other people to join you. Cranium is the best drunk board game that exists in this world, closely followed by Trivial Pursuit.

Quelf is the most ridiculous game ever.

I've played it sober, but somehow I imagine that it will be exponentially better when intoxicated

One of the cards was "True compliments about the player that drew this card, or, things you hate about the player that drew this card"

[Inlander]

I bought some art today! Art by a local artist! It was on display at the sourdough bakery where I was buying a croissant for breakfast!

I am sooooooo middle-class.

[KvP]

I'm always wanting to buy my friend's art. It hangs up in a coffee shop.

I am worse than you.

[Alex C]

Dearest blog thread,

I am kind of angry right now because I made the dumb ass mistake of checking out sports blogs and message boards again, so I need a second to vent on a topic that is likely nowhere near interesting enough to warrant starting a thread over. Nothing makes me angrier than sports fans going apeshit and whining that the NFL is turning into a weakling league because someone on their team gets fined for a late hit. The rules are there to discourage unnecessary contact because the sport is already stupidly dangerous. I know it's hard for the average fan to remember these things as they lounge on the couch nursing a beer, but believe it or not, the point of the sport is not to blow some other dude's kneecaps into a million pieces. In fact, some medical professionals may argue that avoiding career ending surgical procedures is more important than figuring out whether it was "fair" to fine a player a small portion of his large paycheck. None of the highest NFL officials really care whether or not Joe Lineman was really being malicious when he creams the quarterback, they just care whether or not there was more that could have been done to reasonably prevent a late hit. If the answer is yes, he could have done more, than he will be fined. It's about safety, not slandering.

[Inlander]

I'm always wanting to buy my friend's art. It hangs up in a coffee shop.

I am worse than you.

Hey, I don't think being unbelievably middle-class is a bad thing. The middle-class is a pretty okay class! I just think it's incredibly amusing when people live up to social stereotypes, even when the people in question is me.

Like when I last went home, and my mum had replaced all of the soap in the house with super-fancy boutique hand-wash.

[CarrionMan]

I think, personally, that the NFL is too commercialized. A lot of it seems kinda… Well, weak. They wear all that padding. They spend thousands of dollars on the grass, not the stadium, the grass. Wouldn't mind if they were using that money to improve the stadium, but, come on. Nice grass is nice, but, thousands of dollars? I'd prefer to see some nasty, really painful, messy football.

[Cernunnos]

Please guys
Buy art. I don't want to starve.
Incidentally, I just posted my portfolio on my facebook.

[Liz]

Jon, if I ever have enough money to spend on art I will buy something from you.

So you better make it good.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Blog Thread,

I was really depressed earlier today for no reason at all but then i listened to The Esther Caulfield Orchestra and also some Mr. Bear and i felt instantly better.

also, i quit not smoking again, so that probably helped. 



ah Wednesdays...

[Metope]

Kristin, if I ever have enough money to spend on art I will buy something from you.

So you better make it good.

?

[KvP]

Liz doesn't buy from socialists, she's from Real America.

(you guys are from Norway, right?)

[Slick]

They're from Europe and they're certainly not our allies if they're wasting time on art.

[Eli]

Dear Blog Thread,

I had a horrible day at work today. Who knew Starbucks' customers could be so rude? I spilled an extra hot cup of Americano on my hand and had to remake it while a woman stood at the counter and made rude comments such as: "If you worked at a real Starbucks, you would have been fired by now.", "An idiot could work this job. Hurry up!" and so on. Once I gave her her drink, she told me I did not give her enough room for cream when I gave her over an inch of room. I also tripled cupped her cup because we didn't have sleeves and when I picked up the first cup which was double-cupped, it was still too hot and I dropped it. She complains about having three cups. I have a quarter sized burn on my hand. I've only been working for six days.

[KvP]

Damnable yuppies.

[Liz]

Guys if I ever have a lot of money I will buy art from any of your artists, as long as said art does not suck.

[Slick]

Yeah so the trick with working fast food (starbucks included) is don't. I had some good times when I worked Tim Horton's, but a lot of people out there are giant assess who don't think of you as human. So work it while you need it and no longer.

[Alex C]

I'd prefer to see some nasty, really painful, messy football.

Do you actually watch football? I mean, shit, Anquan Boldin broke his face on this hit. There was a time when American football was less commercial. It ended around 1905 when 19 people died and Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the game for being too violent. That's right folks, Teddy motherfuckin' Roosevelt, hunter, boxer and war hero-- a man who just would not be stopped from violencing the hell out of San Juan Hill-- thought the game needed to be reined in. I really don't know what else to say. Tradition is admirable and all, but I don't much care for the idea of watching young men get carried off the field on stretchers because armchair quarterbacks across the country thought the game was getting too soft.

[est]

Eli, that is one reason why I could never work in the service or sales industry.  I am pretty sure I would have told that lady to go fuck herself.  Well done for being professional and TCOB when the customer was being a giant twat.

[CarrionMan]

Well, my form of football also includes shields and weapons. In fact, I think it's more of a deathmatch than actual football…

It'd still be better.

@Eli: Do restaurants/coffee shops not reserve the right to refuse service to rude customers? Exercise that right!

[Alex C]

I dunno, at the newspaper I worked at I think it was pretty much policy not to refuse people service until they did something completely insane like pooping on a delivery boy.

[KvP]

At the places I worked, and this is the case with most of my friends as well, the threshold is profanity. If a customer cursed at you, you had the right to refuse them service / kick them off the premises, no questions asked. My friends would sometimes subtly goad asshole customers into cussing them out.

[Dimmukane]

I've only had an angry customer once, and she walked out on me before I even had a chance to say anything.  Long story short, the credit card machines at the store I used to work at had strange criteria for automatically charging/debiting an account, and the woman accused me of not letting her pay in the manner she wanted to, when it was completely out of my control.  For a piece of ribbon and a 100 Grand bar.  Oh, well, she announced loudly that she was never returning to that store and I haven't seen her since, so whatevs.



Flog head,

I got an A on a paper that I felt is one of the weakest I've ever written.  I should be happy, because this brings my average in that class up to about a 92, but I'm still kind of puzzled as to why it was that good of a grade.  Now I'm kind of hoping that the next paper I have to turn in (which is probably weaker, but not for lack of effort) also gets a fantastic grade, because I hated it.

[tania]

my worst customer service experience took place while i was still in high school and working at pizza hut. this one woman came into the store to yell at me, specifically, about how we had delivered the wrong order to her (not at all my responsibility) which just so happened to be the same day me and my boyfriend of two years had broken up. when my manager came over to investigate she told him i was a bitch and a horrible woman and totally useless and should be fired immediately. before i left to go cry in the back room i overheard my manager and a couple of other coworkers yelling back at her and threatening to kick her ass.

i guess it's kind of lame but as much as i hated that job, i was really touched by how quickly everyone jumped to my defense. that day i learned that the other trick to working in sales is that customers tend to get most defensive when they know they are the ones who are wrong but don't want to admit it, so although it's tough to to take it personally you should really try not to if you can. also, that sometimes when people are mean to you your manager will threaten to kick their ass which makes it a bit more tolerable.

[Social Bacon]

Be acidicly nice to them. Like, to the point where they feel absolutely ashamed at how miserable their lives must really be to complain about shit like this.

Yesssssss. This is what I do, but not to make them feel miserable. I do it in the hope that if I'm nice enough I might actually improve their day. Plus I'd much rather feel happy about being nice then feel happy about being spiteful.

[BrittanyMarie]

Let me jump into the retail drama too! This was originally on the goals thread directed to Barmymoo cuz one of her goals was to not cry when customers are assholes. I used to do that too, see. Now I just get really happy when I get to kick them out for cussin'.

Oh man. Why are so many people dicks when it comes to retail? Unfortunately, you will get used to it. The vast majority of the jerks are people who know they're doing something wrong, it's just them being defensive. Not two weeks ago this lady with gray hair was trying to rent movies on this account for a 22 year old woman. This was not the right person so I asked to see her ID and she said the worst excuse ever "No, I have my sister's ID but not my own WHY" and she was getting increasingly rude so I was finally like "WELL YOU SEE HER MOTHER IN LAW KEEPS TRYING TO RENT ON THIS ACCOUNT." She eventually grabbed my computer -twice- to twist it toward her so I said I'm not renting to you no matter what now, so you need to leave. I wasn't going to rent to her anyway considering that I guess would be a form of identity theft to us also she had her own account where she was banned from the store for being a jerky mcasshole. I told my boss about all the "fuck you!" and "fuck this store!" and how it's "just me and that other lady [the manager is the other lady, I've been there three years] who give [her] fucking problems". Now I have permission to call the police if she ever steps foot into my store again! So yay!

Normally though I am super ridiculously extra nice because they'll usually say (real quietly) i'mreallysorryisnappedatyou. And maybe they won't be jerks in the future? Probably not, but it's nice to think.

[tania]

it's admirable to continue to be nice to customers even when they are dicks, but i am pretty stubborn and also in my experience i find people being jerks tend to be really stubborn too, and it is a terrible catastrophic combination so mostly i am hoping my retail days are over for good.
one good thing i will admit about working in retail is that it really makes you appreciate the people who work those jobs. unless you really don't care at all or something, it's just about impossible to be an asshole to someone who's only getting paid minimum wage to deal with shit all day if it's something you've experienced yourself. it might be self-inflating but i really am kind of proud of the fact that i am always nice to people working in sales.

[Social Bacon]

Yesterday I was chilling out with my floormates and told them that I was in a bad mood. They didn't believe me...

[ViolentDove]

Well, he did use an ellipsis. There might be some kind of exciting conclusion coming soon!

[Social Bacon]

Unfortunately the conclusion is nothing quite that exciting. I thought it might be clear from my previous post that the point I was hacking at is that even when I'm in a foul mood I maintain my philosophy of being as nice to people as possible at all times. Sorry if my implications were not clear enough.

[KvP]

one good thing i will admit about working in retail is that it really makes you appreciate the people who work those jobs. unless you really don't care at all or something, it's just about impossible to be an asshole to someone who's only getting paid minimum wage to deal with shit all day if it's something you've experienced yourself. it might be self-inflating but i really am kind of proud of the fact that i am always nice to people working in sales.

I'm the same way, with waitstaff as well. But my experienced waiter friends always scoff and admonish me when I leave tips in excess of 25%. I'm juss tryin to be nice! They think I'm being walked on. But I'm not going to tip well if the waiter is going out of his way to be an asshat, which has happened.

[Alex C]

Unfortunately the conclusion is nothing quite that exciting. I thought it might be clear from my previous post that the point I was hacking at is that even when I'm in a foul mood I maintain my philosophy of being as nice to people as possible at all times. Sorry if my implications were not clear enough.

I love people like that. I mean, I abuse the hell out of them, but they're great to have around. Like the Mormon guy I know who everyone just uses as an emergency designated driver.

[jodizzle]

I worked an 11 hour shift today!  I am tired!  Also our trolley boy totally got assaulted by a customer (the dude punched him twice) for reasons I do not understand, but the police came and everything! I do not think it was the trolley boy's fault.

Also it has been raining. And raining. And raining.  The roads between Brisbane and Toowoomba were cut for a bit today from the rain!  Our trucks were late because they were not allowed through.  Hopefully I will be able to get to Brisbane tomorrow!  I will not be so sad if I can't get home.  Brett messaged me at like 2am this morning to inform me he had been dragged out of bed to dance in the floody river that was his street.  I am going to drown this weekend!  He told me to bring a snorkle!

Love Jodie

[Inlander]

Last gin & tonic season my little middle-class heart was broken because the magnificent Juniper Green organic gin is no longer being imported into Australia.

Just a few moments ago, on the brink of gin & tonic season 2008/09, I've ordered a bottle of it online. A steal (a steal, I say!) at A$50, including shipping.

Yesssssss.

[öde]

I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life.

[David_Dovey]

How old are you again, homes?

[negative creep]

What exactly is gin & tonic season?

[Inlander]

It's a magical time of year when people get drunk on high-class booze to try to make themselves forget about the crippling heat.

[AanAllein]

Be acidicly nice to them. Like, to the point where they feel absolutely ashamed at how miserable their lives must really be to complain about shit like this.

Yeah, I do pretty much this too, although the niceness is more supreme politeness. It's pretty effective, especially if you rephrase their unreasonable requests very politely and they recognise how rude they sound. It's also a good way to feel superior without yelling at them.

Jodizzle: which Toowoomba supermarket are you working at? I spent my last few years of school in T-ba. Glad to be out of there, I have to say.

Storms here are pretty nuts. Some wacky lightning going on. Fortunately neither my or my girlfriends' house has been damaged!

[negative creep]

It's a magical time of year when people get drunk on high-class booze to try to make themselves forget about the crippling heat.

Oh well, we don't get crippling heat around these parts, we just do that all year. Except without the high-class booze, because we can't afford it. Well, I can't.

[Eli]

@Eli: Do restaurants/coffee shops not reserve the right to refuse service to rude customers? Exercise that right!

I actually don't know. I was working with my manager, though, and she didn't do a thing. In her defense, it was really busy at the time and maybe she didn't want to deal with it because we had ten other customers at the time. We're located in a grocery store, so we have to follow both Starbucks and the store's policies.

I had been looking for jobs all summer and I didn't really want this one, but they asked me for an interview and right after told me I got the job. I accepted because I didn't know when the next offer would be and if I want to start college next year, I felt like I had to take what I could get. I'm wondering how long I have to stay until I can leave and not have it look like I'm a job hopper.

[valley_parade]

What exactly is gin & tonic season?

It's where you drink gin & tonics like a fancy dude.

[pwhodges]

I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life.

Who does? 

I went through school intending to read medicine, and chose my uni/college on that basis.  But I was persuaded to read Physics instead, which I swapped for Engineering Science after a term - this course included an optional module on computing.  Then I got involved with a friend who built (pipe-)organs, did some with him, and tried to get into that as a career - couldn't because of union rules on apprenticeship (it was entirely a closed shop at that time, and even the owner of the largest organ firm in the country couldn't get round it for me).  So I got involved with sound recording, and actually joined the BBC when I left uni.  However, for reasons too complex to list here, I left and got into computer programming after a couple of years. 

Now I still run computers, but in a medical context; and my main hobby is recording - especially pipe organs!  As John Lennon wrote in one of his songs: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

[negative creep]

It's were you drink gin & tonics like a fancy dude.

Yeah, as I said, that's what I do all year anyway. My (poorly worded) question was more concerned with the fact of that being a special season.

[Inlander]

You cannot drink gin & tonic in winter. It's just not done. Gin & tonic is all about long summer evenings, reading a book, chatting to the neighbours, and enjoying all the fruits of empire.

Um . . .

No, not that last bit. Hmm.