Current Complaints

[mjkoehler]

Work....big fucking shock from me. It's day 2 of the new job, and I have yet to do the new job. I am currently working both roles and trying to get my sucker...I mean replacement trained. Hard to do that when in the last 2 days I've been in 7 hours worth of meetings. In addtion to that, my replacement's 2 "previous" bosses are telling her she needs to work her old role for half a day and keep part of her old job after taking the new job. I....am.....so.....fucked. If she has to do this, it will take me WEEKS to get her trained instead of a week. DAMMIT not how I wanted to start. And my new boss is piased (thankfully not at me as she knows my concerns).

[red]

Why do I always buy the 'hot' salsa?  Every time I can feel the heartburn when I put in my shopping cart, but I always buy it.  BECAUSE it's sooo good that's why.  

:: drinks giant glass of chocolate milk ::

[SMc55]

Work....big fucking shock from me. It's day 2 of the new job, and I have yet to do the new job. I am currently working both roles and trying to get my sucker...I mean replacement trained. Hard to do that when in the last 2 days I've been in 7 hours worth of meetings. In addtion to that, my replacement's 2 "previous" bosses are telling her she needs to work her old role for half a day and keep part of her old job after taking the new job. I....am.....so.....fucked. If she has to do this, it will take me WEEKS to get her trained instead of a week. DAMMIT not how I wanted to start. And my new boss is piased (thankfully not at me as she knows my concerns).

Sounds like piss poor management. Does nobody have the big picture?

[dragonboy]

Typhoon at the weekend, earthquake this morning...am I safe here?  :'(

I've been worried about you db. How are things where you are?

Just sent you a PM Doc  :)

[Jenny]

friends are stupid sometimes.  it seems silly to put so much into an old friendship in hopes of rekindling whatever there used to be when the other party seems completely distracted.  i mean, this obviously isn't a real friendship if he doesn't care, right? then why the fuck do i try so hard to keep it? and how was it so right when he was home? how could i even think that our relationship would last? and how can college change so much of what you used to be? and how does he not know he's KILLING me with his idleness?  how can someone be that insensitive to someone who was (supposedly) so important? i don't get it, and i don't think i ever will to be honest.
:-[

[bethofftherecord]

people who are assholes.  ya.  i hate assholes.  

today's examples: first - dude didn't like his coffee - french roast.  i gave him another.  then another brew - sumatran.  he was still not happy.  then he yelled at me that our coffee tastes like crap (which it does not).  i don't like to get yelled at cause his life sucks and i happen to work at a coffee shop.  it is not my fault that he is an asshole and probably has a shitty life.  just cause i work in coffee does not make me an idiot and i don't deserve to get yelled at.  second - another dude comes in doesn't order anything, sits for 2 hours (while singing opera...what?), and brings in his own food and drinks.  i asked him if we could get anything for him and he said no, he sings in the opera and needs to practice.  i told him he could stay as long as he liked, but he would have to purchase something.  he walked out.  both of these idiots come in all the time and are never happy.  maybe they should go to starbucks instead of where i work.

upside - I made $16 in tips.  most customers are really nice.

[ratsprayer]

people who are assholes.  ya.  i hate assholes.  

today's examples: first - dude didn't like his coffee - french roast.  i gave him another.  then another brew - sumatran.  he was still not happy.  then he yelled at me that our coffee tastes like crap (which it does not).  i don't like to get yelled at cause his life sucks and i happen to work at a coffee shop.  it is not my fault that he is an asshole and probably has a shitty life.  just cause i work in coffee does not make me an idiot and i don't deserve to get yelled at.  second - another dude comes in doesn't order anything, sits for 2 hours (while singing opera...what?), and brings in his own food and drinks.  i asked him if we could get anything for him and he said no, he sings in the opera and needs to practice.  i told him he could stay as long as he liked, but he would have to purchase something.  he walked out.  both of these idiots come in all the time and are never happy.  maybe they should go to starbucks instead of where i work.

upside - I made $16 in tips.  most customers are really nice.

quad venti vanilla soy latte, please.   :)

[Kimbos_Evil_Bread]

people who are assholes.  ya.  i hate assholes.  

today's examples: first - dude didn't like his coffee - french roast.  i gave him another.  then another brew - sumatran.  he was still not happy.  then he yelled at me that our coffee tastes like crap (which it does not).  i don't like to get yelled at cause his life sucks and i happen to work at a coffee shop.  it is not my fault that he is an asshole and probably has a shitty life.  just cause i work in coffee does not make me an idiot and i don't deserve to get yelled at.  second - another dude comes in doesn't order anything, sits for 2 hours (while singing opera...what?), and brings in his own food and drinks.  i asked him if we could get anything for him and he said no, he sings in the opera and needs to practice.  i told him he could stay as long as he liked, but he would have to purchase something.  he walked out.  both of these idiots come in all the time and are never happy.  maybe they should go to starbucks instead of where i work.

upside - I made $16 in tips.  most customers are really nice.

My hearts out to you, I was a coffee jockey for years.

most are super nice but I'd get a couple that would stomp through the door in a gruff and say like:

"*sigh* can I... get...a....
icedecaftallskimdoublelattehalfcaffhalfchaiwithashotofalmondandaplaincroissantwithjam?"

Then be pissed when I ask them to repeat their order.

[.Walt]

off to work.

[ycartrob]

summer, the heat. It was 95 in Nashville today. Just hot. Cannot believe I spent 5 summers in the south (3 in Mississippi/2 in Nashville) without AC in car. People talk about seasonal affect disorder in the winter b/c of lack of sunlight. I get cranky and depressed b/c of stifling heat. I really love fall and everything associated with it.

[megisnotreal]

i hear you, tracy. i am sick of heat and humidity.

i am pissed right now b/c i just spent all this money fixing my piece of shit car last month and now it has a hole in the radiator. damn.

[bethofftherecord]

Just got word from my mother (who's out of town for the weekend) that my grandmother was just rushed to the hospital via ambulance.  She had a two week stay in the hospital about two or three months ago, and hasn't quite been back to normal since.  

My mother said it wasn't a stroke, but she thinks maybe a heart attack, still waiting for my uncle to call with an update.  

:-[

holy shit, red.   hang in there.  sending good vibes your way.

Hope your grandma is OK!!!  Positive thoughts your way!

coffee shop irritation of the day:  

a little girl barfed right outside the door at 6AM and i had to clean it up.  YUCK!!!

[red]

Thanks you all...She was supposed to be out today but had a bad night so she won't be out now until at least Monday.  :-/  She was doing really good the past couple days, but last night was not good at all I guess.

[bug]

sorry to hear shes still in the hospital but sometimes I think they send people home to soon anyway, so maybe it's a good thing that she was there when she had the bad night.  I hope she gets well soon and comes home :)

[MarkW]

Thanks you all...She was supposed to be out today but had a bad night so she won't be out now until at least Monday.  :-/  She was doing really good the past couple days, but last night was not good at all I guess.

Positive thoughts from England, Red.

[The Big Come Up]

This has actually been a complaint for a while now....but for some reason i feel like posting about it now. It's a long one, so stay with me.
It all started about 6 months ago when i first started to really talk to this girl I'd known for a while. We had a class together, and we became pretty good friends, and both of us had really similar personalities and senses of humor. We talked almost everyday for good periods of time both in class and over aim, and as time went on, we'll let's just say seeing her became the highlight of my day. I wanted to hang out with her more outside of our everyday routines and classes, but she tended to hang out more with a really good buddy of mine. I was fairly sure they were pretty close to "best friends" and that's about it. So as the school year winds up, me and the girl are getting along great, and I was starting to sense she may wan't to hang out with me a little bit more as well. Next thing I know, my buddy and her are dating.

So about two months have gone by since that happened, and I've been moving on and accepted that those two were most likely very happy. It changes however, a couple of nights ago when i'm at a friend's house with the said buddy from before. Let's just say he was much more in the mood to share his feelings later in the night *cough*, and he tells me and the few other friends that he doesn't like that hanging out with her takes away time from being with "the guys", and that the fact she doesn't like him hanging out with the guys all the time pisses him off. I'm sitting there, the only one who wasn't really ummm "messed up" at the time, just thinking, I would so much rather be hanging out and laughing with her than a bunch of guys every night. I guess time will tell how things end up. A buddy who I told this whole tale to said we we're a bit like jim and pam from the office...but who knows, things have a way of ending up right in the end right?
time to cue up "by my car".....

[The Big Come Up]

Thanks you all...She was supposed to be out today but had a bad night so she won't be out now until at least Monday.  :-/  She was doing really good the past couple days, but last night was not good at all I guess.

I feel for ya red. I'm dealing with illness in my family right now, and the key is keeping the faith. praying for you man.

[vespachick]

I can't post to "post random image here".  I keep freezing up every time I visit.  :(

[red]

I have to work tomorrow and it's supposed to be beatiful, but no, I'll be stuck inside on a Saturday.

>:(

[bug]

I decided to have my yardsale tomorrow and I put up signs for it.  Now I really don't want to do it but I kind of have to.  I hope I make  bunch of money.