Radio Shack has been really obnoxious about the email stuff for years
― Nhex, Monday, 12 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I just had one of those, cash purchase of an overpriced-yet-undeniably-effective hair care product for one of my daughters from a salon I visit for no other purpose.
"What's your last name?" "Is it 'Dusty' Perry?" "I'm supposed to ask." "How do you spell your last name?" "Who normally does your hair here?" Ha ha ha, who does my greying, thinning hair.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 12 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Canada Goose Parkas
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 12 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency
Not to stoke any further IA, but it's possible that you are grossly overestimating the cut that your temp agency is willing to part with.
― Smoothie Operator (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Very true. I used to be temped for Accounts Payable jobs, so the most hilarious thing to me was knowing the 'big secret' of exactly how much the company was paying for my services because I was the one processing the bill! (Of course temp agencies never ever want their temps to know this stuff).
I recall more than one job where I got hourly $13, and the agency was getting $22, and that this ratio was pretty usual, so, I got more than half, but less than 2/3 of the payout.
However, and this really ticked me off, one job that was largely funded by taxpayer dollars paid me way less than half of the outrageous sum the temp agency got! I think I got $9 out of $25 bucks on that one! No business like soaking the people.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 12 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
temp agencies take that much?! damn.
― Nhex, Monday, 12 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
i guess companies will pay to screw people out of benefits
Most of the times I was ever offered to 'go perm' it was usually with a pay cut from what I had been getting as a temp ('but you'll get benefits') so, no, thanks.
One reason I did temp for a long time was that the pay rates had at least something to do with demand, whereas permanent positions tended to be successfully squashed. While it was humiliating in some ways to have the agency taking a lot of money for doing nothing but landing me the spot, that did save me a lot of dreadful human resources interviews and frankly, I just wouldn't have found those positions on my own. I also used to see the most interesting trainwrecks: places where I'd take over the suddenly vacated position of an embezzler, a revenge case, a blazing incompetent. Whole little histories there. The work of course was more boring than not so regular changes of scenery were helpful as well.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 12 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/
I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 12 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
omg XV is amazing, I have no idea what that is
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 12 January 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t53/baldie0522/doin-brum.gif
― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Monday, 12 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
baldie doin-brum.gif
― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Monday, 12 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
ia: egregiously bad service in restaurants. i'm sooooo chill and forgiving about minor food service slip-ups. i don't care if you smile. i don't care if you refill my water without me having to ask. if i don't say when i'm ordering that i'm allergic to XYZ food item (which would be a gross overstatement, since my food allergies are really trivial), it's a minor inconvenience but not the end of the world if the kitchen forgets to leave it off. i just want a baseline level of transactional ease if i'm gonna choose your place over other places. i had work to do last night and i ran out to get a quick takeout order so i could scarf down some food and meet my midnight deadline. i ended up waiting probably 40 minutes for a dish that at most would take ten minutes to cook from pre-prepped ingredients and assemble in a styrofoam box. and the restaurant was busy, but not slammed. it just made me very stressed out. which is my problem, not theirs. i don't handle stress well. 40 minutes is a long time to wait though.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
no i in yr a
so to speak
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link
the level of stress made my a feel i
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
_lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago_That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?
That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/
Whoa thank you, aps! I read the first few of those when it was first posted, but missed the great ones you pointed out plus my favorite, the one w/ Stoned Craig going "I'm hungry, Paw." (Which I've said a lot to various people over decades for no reason I can discern, so maybe it's just part of the collective human drive to say it.)
― Je55e, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
Stoned Je55e
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
OK that Brum story loooolOriginal Brum theme was instrumental but TIL there is an extremely lengthy modern version
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
bill gates the spider
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
News sites showing handheld video but blurring out the edges? I feel like I see something like this every week or two. Sorry, this is some really traumatic video.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dying-among-strangers-metro-victim-found-fellow-riders-who-tried-to-save-her-life/2015/01/13/98f6c37e-9b7a-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?hpid=z3
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
lately every time i watch some crappy viral video prank, i get IA imagining myself just out and about trying to run an errand and getting trapped in a viral video prank. like that dumb telekinesis coffee shop thing.*
*maybe the reactions are fake, idk.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
It's very likely my last dying words will be "Turn your phone sideways if you insist on recording this."
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's not because something is being blurred out, it's because people don't shoot in landscape and for some reason news organizations have chosen to present it like that. I think they should just reject all portrait videos.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Why can't phones just format videos in landscape regardless of the position of the phone?
― Je55e, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
camera sensor orientation? the actual sensor isn't square iirc, I may be wrong
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
those takeout containers with interlocking flaps - eating from them makes me ia bcz the flaps get in the way
i usually dump it out onto a plate of something but sometimes you can't & raaaaage
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Like Chinese take out containers?
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
if you hold it from the side you are holding down three of the flaps automatically
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Blurred margins - you'll also see this sometimes when shows re-run old 4x3 segments in their new 16x9 format.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
Was cutting up a carrot for some soup for dinner and lost about half of it to the 3 slices just rolling right off the cutting board and onto the floor.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Weather getting even worse and still not collected flat pack. Had stiff neck on Monday the one day this week when there hasn't been really bad weather, think it was actually calm and sunny.Snowed last night and now there's a major storm happening tonight and tomorrow.i was just hoping I'd be able to get this thing home on the bus. Which will be a load of fun in itself. Thing is about 5 foot or so long which means it's a bit awkward. Maybe will have to get taxi and I'm really broke this week.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 23:59 (nine years ago) link
xpI don't know your floors but you can rinse stuff off.
― nickn, Thursday, 15 January 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Having so much fun trying to get my cursor to keep things selected so it can organise them. Not sure where flaw lies is it a thing with Windows 7 or something.JUst tried to sort out a load of music on Foobar and instead of it clicking ad dragging a set of tracks it would just shift the highlight across other tracks or click and start playing on any track among several selected.Then just had even more fun trying to scroll up a page elsewhere on this site to try to click on the link to here. aaaaaargh
― Stevolende, Thursday, 15 January 2015 09:00 (nine years ago) link
These cutsey little browser messages that appear when a problem occurs.
For example, I guess Firefox didn't shut down properly last night, so now I've got it over here in the other window saying "Well, this is embarassing…" Like it somehow dinged my bumper as it was trying to back out of its own driveway.
The worst is Chrome. "There's no way you can see this PDF of your parcel map because we're Chrome and AWWWWWWW SNAP!"
― pplains, Friday, 16 January 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
while we're on computer issues - windows programs which, when you go to open a file, always take you back to some obscure folder on your hard drive rather than the last one you were on, meaning if you want to open multiple files you have to go through the rigmarole of locating the folder you wanted each time.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah that sucks. Why do they do that?
― carl agatha, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
there must be a 1337 way of stopping that. it's so frustrating.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
i can admit that i am irrationally angered by the npr program "invisibilia"i hate the way they edit itthe topics are just barely quasi-deep and today i learned the urgent lesson of "your fears aren't real" the style of speech exemplified in that program annoys meugh
invisibiiiilyaso precious, so deep
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
ok i feel betterdefinitely need to avoid this program though
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Ha Just 15 minutes ago I subscribed to this podcast b/c my therapist recommended one particular episode (not the fear one).
― Je55e, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
I do hate that but I also hate it sometimes when programs do what you suggest and default to the last one, e.g. if 99% of the files I edit are in a standard documents folder but one day I need to use the same software to edit some configuration file in an obscure location or something that e.g. Google Talk has hidden in its own downloads folder, and then next time I open a document it shows me that folder and not the standard one
in short, why can't software just read my mind
(but please don't actually read my mind either, it is full of junk and secrets)
xxp I just heard the first Invisibilia double-bill this week and kind of liked it - it was good for my walk home, where I don't want to think too hard about anything because I might have to check out for a minute and concentrate on not being hit by a car etc - but while the interviewees were interesting, the questions the presenters asked were so point-missingly "so, a bad thing happened. did that feel bad?", and at one point they were almost falling over each other to emphasise that they totally didn't know anything about this mental health gobbledegook because lol not crazy, I mean this stuff is for the crazies, right? and I felt embarrassed
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
(ok, I just checked and I've heard the Thoughts double-bill but not the Fear one yet)
i heard the thoughts oneit wasn't so bad tbh it contained some essential truths -- i guess it's the way they're delivered that makes me want to barf
mostly it's the radiolab-style my irritation is totally irrational
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
the radiolab guys make me IA so I can totally relate
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Me too. I thought this was way less irritating than Radiolab though.
― carl agatha, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
have not heard yet
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Radio lab cuts right through me, so so annoying.
― brimstead, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
wow i was thinking invisibilia was local because its ad spots sound so low quality. i already hate it without hearing it. i hate the radiolab style so so much.
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Saturday, 17 January 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
(how do you feel about people whispering on the radio)
― groundless round (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 January 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
I miss Tab so much.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:44 (three weeks ago) link
Fresca is still very much available.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:06 (three weeks ago) link
Coke Zero tastes the same as Diet Coke, just slightly less “sweet”
― brimstead, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:07 (three weeks ago) link
Is "Starry" just Sierra Mist repackaged?
We hosted a German exchange student many years ago. He thought the name "Sierra Mist" was hilarious, since "Mist" in German refers to animal dung.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:07 (three weeks ago) link
Fresca is still available, yes, but not in the UK. Tab was available in the US until 2020 but very hard to find.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:11 (three weeks ago) link
Surge came back a few years ago and I had it and was like "eww gross why did I love this shit in high school"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:29 (three weeks ago) link
the grocery store. god, the grocery store, let me do my boomer rant here
first off the stupid sodas are all "buy two, get three free", i live in a _city_ i _walk_ to the grocery store how the fuck am i supposed to carry FIVE 12-PACKS of soda? also nobody stocks my favorite brand anymore, which is diet mountain dew major melon, YES i know it's disgusting and i fucking LOVE IT, it's not feasible to mail order that shit though. they're also really obviously trying to drive up soda consumption by getting people to buy more soda than one ever has a need to have in a household, DON'T THINK I'M NOT ONTO YOU BASTARDS
and then the coupons, fucking coupon culture is noxious. they want you to scan some bullshit card with an "app" to get discounts, but their app is shit and their coupons don't work. i mean at least it structurally penalizes people who _aren't_ poor by making people go through hassle and inconvenience to save money.
now on top of that i go in and try to buy a box of cheerios some numbnuts (i can say that, i've had mine surgically removed) has decided it's a great idea to put fucking GENDERED LANGUAGE on all of the boxes, i have to go through a dozen before i find one in the back that doesn't have "DAD" printed on the front. god dammit you just can't get away from this shit, i spend hours upon hours changing my voice, take hormones for five years, lose my house, lose my partner, lose my friends, go through more shit than i can possibly fully account for, and then i go to the grocery stores and all of the cereal boxes are misgendering me. why? what fuckbythenavel in marketing decided this would be a good idea?
and the only people who get to complain about petty, insignificant shit like this are fucking fascists complaining about the "woke agenda". my day is filled with minor, petty inconveniences and the only people who get to complain are people who aren't facing any inconveniences at all. is that too meta? even if that's meta, it makes me irrationally angry that only assholes have the right to be irrationally angry about things.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 11 March 2024 18:28 (two weeks ago) link
fuckbythenavel??!?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:33 (two weeks ago) link
look if it was good enough for the good people of chester in the early 14th century it's good enough for me
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:24 (two weeks ago) link
Fair enough. Many a true word is spoken in Chester.
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 09:32 (two weeks ago) link
There's a new limited edition Coke flavor called Coca-Cola Spiced, which I expected to be similar to the limited Coca-Cola Cinnamon from a few years back which I liked.
Nope, it's fucking raspberry! In tiny print elsewhere on the label it says "Raspberry Spiced." Why you do this to me, Coke?
If you're going to make a spiced Coke, how about Coca-Cola Clove?
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 11:36 (two weeks ago) link
I donate blood pretty regularly. Sometimes there's an added promotion of a gift card or something to attract donors, and I figure "bonus!" because I'm going to be there anyway. But I've never actually been given a gift card!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:51 (two weeks ago) link
Things that make me rationally angry: Not being allowed to give blood anymore
Changing it from a lifetime ban to like, I don't know, a one-year ban? That's even worse, because then it's like, when was the last time you had gay sex? Like I'm sorry I'm voluntarily giving you my precious bodily fluids here, that's a pretty rude question.
Of course maybe there's now no ban at all and I just never got the memo.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:16 (two weeks ago) link
I think there's no ban on gay sex anymore (or whatever the catch was). For sure I know my wife was banned for 20+ years because she lived in Germany for part of the '80s (mad cow), but even that ban was rescinded.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:19 (two weeks ago) link
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 7:36 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
That sounds vile. I was skeptical of the cinnamon diet coke but I actually really liked it. Cinnamon is one of my fave flavors though.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:21 (two weeks ago) link
Since when is raspberry a spice?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:30 (two weeks ago) link
ever since the marketing department decided "spiced" did better with focus groups than "raspberry enhanced"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:38 (two weeks ago) link
I bought some “Christmas” flavored Bundiberg root beer a few years ago that was out of control with the Christmas spice, like drinking a cold candle
― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:55 (two weeks ago) link
Might as Well Go All the Way with new Coca Cola Spiced: Raspberries. Buy now!
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:11 (two weeks ago) link
lol no
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:14 (two weeks ago) link
"It's Coca‑Cola, only spiced. Coca‑Cola Spiced transforms the familiar into the extraordinary. Blending the iconic taste of Coca‑Cola with a burst of refreshing notes from raspberry and spiced flavors, Coca‑Cola Spiced offers an uplifting taste experience."
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:15 (two weeks ago) link
This sounds so weird. Why would they do that?? Raspberry doesn't go with spice! This makes no sense. I have to find some.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:16 (two weeks ago) link
Please do and let us know.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:34 (two weeks ago) link
I saw the raspberry Coke Zero at the store today and passed in favor of cherry Coke Zero, which is pretty bad, too, but I thought it would go well with the turkey sandwich I was having for lunch. I was right.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:11 (two weeks ago) link
Cranberry Coke Zero might have gone even better.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:13 (two weeks ago) link
I think that's called Dr. Pepper?
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:51 (two weeks ago) link
I thought Dr. Pepper was originally flavored with prunes?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:52 (two weeks ago) link