Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

I was never on the receiving end of this, but I worked as a cashier at a store that accepted EBT but didn't differentiate between food and cash benefits. if a customer brought food and non-food items to the register and hit the EBT button on the keypad, the system would automatically deduct food and cash benefits from the customer's account whether they wanted it that way or not. the only way to process the food separately was for the cashier to mentally tabulate the food total and type that in as a subtotal before the customer swiped their card, after which they would have to swipe their card again to pay the remaining balance for the non-food items. of course the supervisors explained none of that to the cashiers during training, so it was a huge, inexplicable mess when the situation first came up.

As far as I know it all has to do with what sort of merchant fees the businesses have to pay for each type of transaction.

Most of the time businesses can run my ATM / debit card (with a Visa logo on it) as either, and some places I ask if it's easier one way or the other. Like the food co-op prefers credit if it's under like $15 and debit if it's over. Some others have "we run debit as credit" signs and you only have the signature option.

oh (xpost to me), and since the government only authorizes a store to take EBT if it sells perishable food in two different food groups, our store created a "produce department" consisting of nothing but a little basket of loophole lemons, which slowly rotted while they fulfilled their legal obligation. I think I sold one lemon in the entire time I worked there.

but that's more lol than ia

I don't understand that at all. "Cash benefits" = welfare and EBT = food stamps?

Chase had a thing where you got cash back for purchases where you ran your debit card as credit (signature, non-PIN). I got about $60 back in less than a year before the SEC or something shut down the program.

"Initializing root folders" when I go to save an attachment from my work email. Argh. That process can take up to a couple minutes. Fuck.

web-based widget that I have to use to log daily returns. there's a 3-step process to rejecting items, and they all tie together -- change the qty to ZERO, select a reason for the rejection, and add comments if necessary.

every time I change a quantity to zero it gives me an error message saying YOU HAVEN'T SUBMITTED A REASON YET but if you submit the rejection reason first it says YOU HAVEN'T REJECTED ANY ITEMS YET and I'm just like okay whoever programmed this just likes creating error messages because this is some bullshit. simmer the fuck down and LEMME FINISH

Ha, our time tracking software requires entries be rounded to the nearest 10. If you enter a start and stop time that naturally results in a time entry already rounded to the nearest 10 and try to submit it, you get an error message saying that you have to round the entry to the nearest ten. If you re-type the entry exactly as it already was, you can submit it.

lol wtf

Toys that beg to be played.

I'm cleaning up, throw something on the pile, and from underneath, this dump truck starts rocking back and forth, yelling "All right, let's PLAY!"

It makes some honking sounds, some diesel noises while I pick up other shit. After awhile, it starts saying, "Are you still there? Let's PLAY!...... All right, I'll count to three. 1 - 2 -3. .... ... *Yawn* I'm getting sleepy. Wake me up if you want to PLAY...... ZZZ....zzzz.... ZZZZZ.....zzzz

This is especially fun late at night when I'm picking stuff up.

I would have the batteries out of that thing in nanoseconds.

When I was growing up, my father somewhat obsessively pulled all mechanical noise-making parts out of my toys (and would pull the squeakers out of the dog's toys). He would also complaint that The Electric Company was too loud and made kids hyper.

This weekend, I was watching a TV show in which someone else was watching Sponge Bob Square Pants and I nearly climbed the walls, that show was so LOUD and HYPER, and that was filtered through the show we were actually watching. I also hide all the cat's toys that make noise. So yes, the shrill, recorded voices of nagging children's toys would not nag long in my presence.

I was gonna say after that first paragraph, you got it honest in that regard.

2nd paragraph, rather

spongebob is the best

I would have the batteries out of that thing in nanoseconds.

Well. carl agatha, that presents another IA.

http://tintinwulia.com/tintinwulia/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/toy1_1.jpg

It's going to take more than nanoseconds.

son of a

I was gonna say after that first paragraph, you got it honest in that regard.

― Je55e, Monday, June 17, 2013 6:18 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ikr? He was also pathologically grossed out by grape gum, which if you will recall from the "Grapermellon" days, is another weird aversion of his I seem to have inherited.

pplains, you have my deepest sympathies.

spongebob is the best

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, June 17, 2013 6:20 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I could turn down the shrill the way you can desaturate a color in Photoshop, I might be able to handle more than 30 seconds of the show. The other time I was exposed to it was in NC when we were at Kings Dominion or whatever the big amusement park is down there and they were playing SBSP in line for a ride and I remember it being unbearable then, too.

Carowinds

That's right.

I got a little sad that you forgot that.

You'll be okay.

I was in a grocery store one time where this toddler was screeching her idiot little head off just to be making noise. She would use whole breaths to let out ultra high pitched screeches that gave me a fight-not-flight reaction. And her idiot mom's reaction? Total adoration: "What are you singing? Hmm? You sing really good, honey! You're a good singer!"

you should come hang out at my apartment for a weekend sometime

I get that kids scream, but it was the mother's ENCOURAGEMENT that stuck with me. Not just encouragement, but special-snowflake stroking.

And I'll come stay at your place the first weekend in July. Thanks.

I think she was just mocking her child.

She was not mocking her child!

I think she was just mocking you.

noize toddler

been semi-irrationally angry all dang day

TOO MANY PEOPLE

TOO MUCH BULLSHIT

NOT ENOUGH LOVE

I was like that yesterday, CZ! Sucks. SO mad at everything. Zero patience. I highly recommend 20mgs of hydrocodone + snuggling with a 3 year old and a lil grey kitten to pull you right out of that.

She was not mocking her child!

― Je55e, Monday, June 17, 2013 4:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IDK, there are exhausted moments where you resort to this kind of resigned half-sarcasm with a toddler because you know they won't listen if you tell them to stop. "Thank you for throwing all of your egg on the floor!" etc.

haha yeah definitely. ive said something along the lines of "oh you're throwing your trash/toys/food/clothes on the floor. well, of course you are. where else would they go?" a bunch of times lately but i always feel shitty about being sarcastic. way too close to bitter for my liking.

I feel confident that she was not using sarcasm. I understand sarcasm and I thought somebody would suggest I was misinterpreting her praise as sarcasm, but she wasn't being sarcastic. In fact, I think she said, "I sincerely love your scream-singing, Diamanda!"

Admit it you just hate children and parents.

TOO MANY PEOPLE

TOO MUCH BULLSHIT

NOT ENOUGH LOVE

OTM x3

--Bob Marley

haha

Not quite IA, rather just moderate annoyance: Called the bike shop to schedule service and the manager who answered was obviously trying to multi-task b/c he kept pausing and barely audibly counting: "Twenty, thirty, thirty-five, forty..... Yeh, so you can come in tomorrow, we're open, uh, and uh..... sixty, eighty..... and, uh..... so yeh, tomorrow is fine."

That's when you're supposed to mutter "Ninety-five, ninety, eighty-five, seventy..."

When I'm scanning site new answers and see a thread that looks like it might be interesting only to find out it's on ILM and the interesting concept/discussion point is the name of some band I've never heard of.

yeah I was really looking forward to that weekend when we'd all be vampires :(

Wings: classic or dud?

carl otm!

Carl, you can adjust your site new answers settings to not show ILM threads.

No no this isn't to do with not wanting to read ILM, it's to do with being disappointed that Is there a thread for playing God? and Thread of Disclosure are just about some boring bands.

There are quite a few that catch me every time:

• Life Without Buildings

• The United States Of america (Always get this confused with a similar gr8080 map thread.)

And I've slowly learned that Swell Maps is a band.

I get that with sports boards, some of those have great thread titles. I should probably filter them out as I have no desire to participate, but every so often you get an amusing diversion.