Bitch and moan

[kill em all]

Bitch and moan!

[magicninja]

Iffy title for a thread man. I suppose if they let it stay. Ahh my neck hurts dammit!!

[alucard0941]

do you want to kill them all? ;)

[Kevin Taylor]

Sounds like a great name for a rap group.

[chas fisher]

um...ok...thats great!

[bigbuda]

Whaaaaaa, Whaaaaaaaa................... :rolleyes:

[Infectious]

Waaahhh! Girls don't like me...I think I'll go gay. My last girlfriend was a tramp and stepped all over my heart I'm gonna kill myself...or join an emo band!

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

I had to work an 8-hour shift on friday, and today, and then I have another one tomorrow, and then again on monday, and then again on tuesday, then I squeeze out a 5-hour shift on wednesday, before finally getting a day off. 6 days in a row, and 5 of them are full-shifts.. I think I might strangle one or two customers before the end of it.

oh yeah and a few weeks ago, my manager comes over and is all like "you wanna work christmas day?" and so I ask him "that's like triple time right?" and he says "yeah, it should be" and so I agree to work it, only because it's triple time, and I really could use getting paid for 24 hours when I only work 8... well, I just finally got my paycheck for that week just a few days ago.. and I only got paid a fricken $1/hour extra! I was/am so pissed!

[Andrew Sa]

I can just consolidate 6strngs...that sucks dude.
I have nothing to bitch and moan about...well not that I can think of off hand...umm....no thats it!

[Akira]

I had to work an 8-hour shift on friday, and today, and then I have another one tomorrow, and then again on monday, and then again on tuesday, then I squeeze out a 5-hour shift on wednesday, before finally getting a day off. 6 days in a row, and 5 of them are full-shifts.. I think I might strangle one or two customers before the end of it.

oh yeah and a few weeks ago, my manager comes over and is all like "you wanna work christmas day?" and so I ask him "that's like triple time right?" and he says "yeah, it should be" and so I agree to work it, only because it's triple time, and I really could use getting paid for 24 hours when I only work 8... well, I just finally got my paycheck for that week just a few days ago.. and I only got paid a fricken $1/hour extra! I was/am so pissed!

Dude, join a trade union.

[Cryptic Excretions]

I don't really have anything to bitch about. I go to work and enjoy myself and I come home, play video games, guitar, movies, macgyver and I enjoy myself. For where I am in my life I can't complain. Of course problems come along, but they're never really able to out weigh anything I've really got going. So there's that. While you're all struggling and getting by, I'm having a blast.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Dude, join a trade union.
technically I was supposed to join a union within my first 60 days of work.. and now I've been there for 4 months.. but none of my managers know that.. I think it's because I never turned in a work permit (because I had graduated high school, I didn't need one) but the union never contacted me. plus, that's just more of your paycheck that you'll never be able to see... maybe if this was some glamourous job where you got paid well, and was an easy job. but since this is a just barely over minimum wage, not very pleasant job to do, I don't think it's worth it.

[Akira]

technically I was supposed to join a union within my first 60 days of work.. and now I've been there for 4 months.. but none of my managers know that.. I think it's because I never turned in a work permit (because I had graduated high school, I didn't need one) but the union never contacted me. plus, that's just more of your paycheck that you'll never be able to see... maybe if this was some glamourous job where you got paid well, and was an easy job. but since this is a just barely over minimum wage, not very pleasant job to do, I don't think it's worth it.

Yeah, I suppose having them extra few bucks in your pocket is worth more than having your wage itself defended, and your working conditions improved (or upheld if they are already good). Hell, with the amount of complaining you've done about your job I thought you would have been planning to join a union...

[magicninja]

You gotta be 18 to join a union becuase of the contracts and stuff.
At least here in NM anyway.

[chucklivesoninmyheart]

http://www.staindsouls.com/band/photos/aaron/aaron070.jpg

Mwahaha!

hmmmm...an old friend died recently...pointed a fake gun at the cops during a robbery.By now his corpse has burst spilling liquified organs,maggots,carrion bugs lining the soft insides of a casket...beetles burrowing into the cold ground to feed on his bones and marrow.what a reality check.

wahhh!

[Lordathestrings]

...an old friend died recently...pointed a fake gun at the cops during a robbery...

Now, that's a loser!!! :p

[chucklivesoninmyheart]

The weird thing is,he was actually bright and smart when I knew him...thats all the info I have.Who knows...

[Hammurabi]

Some people commit suicide by cop.

[alucard0941]

I had to work an 8-hour shift on friday, and today, and then I have another one tomorrow, and then again on monday, and then again on tuesday, then I squeeze out a 5-hour shift on wednesday, before finally getting a day off. 6 days in a row, and 5 of them are full-shifts.. I think I might strangle one or two customers before the end of it.

oh yeah and a few weeks ago, my manager comes over and is all like "you wanna work christmas day?" and so I ask him "that's like triple time right?" and he says "yeah, it should be" and so I agree to work it, only because it's triple time, and I really could use getting paid for 24 hours when I only work 8... well, I just finally got my paycheck for that week just a few days ago.. and I only got paid a fricken $1/hour extra! I was/am so pissed!
where do you work?

[jeffhx]

ic cant play for ***t.... :( i want to play betterrr.... i wanna i wanna i wanna...

jeez...lol

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

where do you work?
safeway, which is a grocery store

[Infectious]

safeway, which is a grocery store
As opposed to SAFEWAYS which is a condom shop.

[Leedogg]

My office got moved while I was away over the Holidays. It's no worse of an office, except when I looked out of my old one all I saw was the hallway, and now I see some dude sitting at his computer. I'm still adjusting.

I got a sore throat on the morning of New Year's Eve and it ruined my plans of hanging out with my friends whom I haven't seen in like 2 years and partying it up where I went to College.

[Hammurabi]

I was going to complain about hl2 modding troubles, but now I'm euphoric.

I managed to get Valve's SDK to compile and run perfectly using only the free c++ express IDE, which they said was impossible.

[PonyOne]

As opposed to SAFEWAYS which is a condom shop.
and what makes me always chuckle about this is that the local Hispanic population has a habit of adding a possesive "s" at the end of the name of stores, i guess it's a leftover from where everything was named "Bob's Hardware" and "Johnnie's Diner" and crap like that. When people came up, they were learning to speak English, and got used to putting the 's at the end, and it's just been passed on and is now just kind of commonplace.

so you hear people say "i got it at Sav-On's," "there's a Chevron's right up the corner," "there's a sale at Target's" or "last night i went to Best Buy's." there's no Safeway down in LA (it's called Von's down here, but it's the same company, and safeway discount cards work there and vice versa) but i heard it in central CA, and Washington and Oregon... always made me smile.

"me and Chuy went up to Safeway's last night..."
"... oh did you now?"
"yeah man. you know. they've got some good stuff there."
"heheh."

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

there's no Safeway down in LA (it's called Von's down here, but it's the same company, and safeway discount cards work there and vice versa) but i heard it in central CA, and Washington and Oregon... always made me smile.
yeah, when I was down in LA a few weeks ago, I heard a commercial on the radio, and it said "vons, ingrediants for life".. it sounded so wierd to me because I'm used to "safeway, ingrediants for life"

but yeah, I knew they were the same company, I had to read like a history on safeway thing when I was doing the training in the beginning. :rolleyes:

[PonyOne]

but yeah, I knew they were the same company, I had to read like a history on safeway thing when I was doing the training in the beginning. :rolleyes:
What excitement! I bet you were blown away by the company's rich history :D

I had to do the same for the hotel I work in but it was a bit more interesting: it was a speakeasy during prohibition so we have a secret tunnel and a couple rooms that weren't in the plans registered with the city... the pool deck on the 5th floor used to have a bunch of slot machines, it was turned into an orphanage in the late 30's and there was a fire on the 7th and 8th floors that killed about a dozen children and a nurse, the gov't commandeered it during WW2 and turned it into a military hospital for wounded soldiers who were evaced from the pacific theatre, then it was a hotel again then it was the headquarters of a cult for a couple decades, and then it was a really expensive fat farm! now it's a super ritzy hotel again, right on the water in Santa Monica.

We're also a very popular destination for suicides. people figure if they're gonna take their own lives they may as well do it in a nice place, and well, our rooms do start at $450/night. it's kind of funny... the trained us on the protocol for when a body is discovered, and the front desk agent on duty (i.e. me) or the bellman are usually the ones that discover it when we go to find out why someone hasn't checked out after checkout time. always makes for an interesting day :( but that's why i get paid well.

[Hammurabi]

Wow, that's one helluva hotel.

How many bodies have you found?

[PonyOne]

Wow, that's one helluva hotel.

How many bodies have you found?
two. there have been like six since i started working here.

[Hammurabi]

Have any employees tried to sue the hotel for emotional damages?

Finding a body isn't traumatic, but I bet it's pretty easy to pretend it is if it makes you rich.

[magicninja]

and what makes me always chuckle about this is that the local Hispanic population has a habit of adding a possesive "s" at the end of the name of stores, i guess it's a leftover from where everything was named "Bob's Hardware" and "Johnnie's Diner" and crap like that. When people came up, they were learning to speak English, and got used to putting the 's at the end, and it's just been passed on and is now just kind of commonplace.

so you hear people say "i got it at Sav-On's," "there's a Chevron's right up the corner," "there's a sale at Target's" or "last night i went to Best Buy's." there's no Safeway down in LA (it's called Von's down here, but it's the same company, and safeway discount cards work there and vice versa) but i heard it in central CA, and Washington and Oregon... always made me smile.

"me and Chuy went up to Safeway's last night..."
"... oh did you now?"
"yeah man. you know. they've got some good stuff there."
"heheh."
Racial Stereotype!!! :eek: Damn you Ponyone!! :p

[kill em all]

I was just bitching in general, about nothing in particular, my life rules. But I thought I'd try emo for a day and I didn't like it. I wanted to right some emo lyrics, they came out like; "Bitch moan AHHHH!!!!! EVERYBODY SUCKS!!!"
No more emo

[Cryptic Excretions]

It seems as though I've finally got a reason to bitch to any degree. Not that I'm really bitching. It's more so a weakened mourn. I'm sick. Not too bad, just a nasty throat situation. It's lame though.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

dude.. that's kinda freaky... headquarters for a cult... and lots of suicides and deaths.. dude.. sounds like a place that would be haunted.

$450/night huh? so if I came down to visit, could you get me a room for free for a night or two?

[bigbuda]

dude.. that's kinda freaky... headquarters for a cult... and lots of suicides and deaths.. dude.. sounds like a place that would be haunted.

$450/night huh? so if I came down to visit, could you get me a room for free for a night or two?

Don't jump off any balconies while your there............. ;)

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Don't jump off any balconies while your there............. ;)
I think it's the spirits of the dead that are killing the people, and staging it to look like suicide

[bigbuda]

I think it's the spirits of the dead that are killing the people, and staging it to look like suicide

Maybe you should stay at a different hotel while your there..... :D

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Maybe you should stay at a different hotel while your there..... :D
are you kidding? I'm one of those thrill-seeker type of people! I think it'd give me a rush, to spend a night in the haunted hotel! :eek:

[Fenderalltheway]

Well thats pretty dam freaky! its a hotel practicaly made for comitting suicides...couldn't it be sued by like...i dunom or shut down because its mainly used to commit suicide or something?

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Well thats pretty dam freaky! its a hotel practicaly made for comitting suicides...couldn't it be sued by like...i dunom or shut down because its mainly used to commit suicide or something?
only 4 since he's started working there.. which is probably a few years if he's in management.. so if you get over a hundred people per night.. and then 4 suicides over the course of a few years.. I'm thinking that that is not the hotel being used "mainly" for suicides.

[PonyOne]

well, since we have 129 rooms, and on a general basis those 129 rooms turn over every few nights without a dead body showing up... it's not really enough for the hotel to be closed down. it's not our fault people kill themselves here...

which is precisely the reason no one can really sue us over it: if someone takes a gun up to their room with them they're breaking our policy. we could (and have) sued their estate and any survivors for the mess. if they take a bottle of pills well then that's their business, we can't stop people from taking up a bottle of aspirin or valium that they legally bought and owned; it's not our fault if you kill yourself with em.

...do i sounds callous?

[PonyOne]

only 4 since he's started working there.. which is probably a few years if he's in management.. so if you get over a hundred people per night.. and then 4 suicides over the course of a few years.. I'm thinking that that is not the hotel being used "mainly" for suicides.
....only about 9 mos. I actually got promoted to concierge today, coincidentally.... that's an extra grand or two a month :D yay!

over the years we've had a lot of them, last year was actually pretty quiet.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

....only about 9 mos. I actually got promoted to concierge today, coincidentally.... that's an extra grand or two a month :D yay!

over the years we've had a lot of them, last year was actually pretty quiet.
I don't even make a grand a month! how about letting your fellow guitar playin buddy share in the wealth? :cool:

I didn't get promoted today, instead, we had our district manager come by to check up on everything... so my managers were being doubly strict today... which completely sucked.. luckily I only had a 5 hour shift today. now they want me to thank each customer by last name everytime they are done.. for example "have a good day Mr. fuzzymoustache" and I'm supposed to figure out their names by having the checker kinda show me the receipt so I can read it off.. which is really hard to do, and even harder to pronounce.. then the customer ends up getting mad at you for pronouncing it wrong.. and they would have been happier anyway if you had just said "have a great day".. grr, my job wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep making up more rules off the top of their heads..

[PRSplaya]

But aren't you glad you've got a job. Make the best of it, and get used to working with ass holes. You'll be doing it for the rest of your life. So, learn how to deal with it now, and you'll be a lot better off. But like I said, be thankfull that you've got a job. ;)

[PonyOne]

But aren't you glad you've got a job. Make the best of it, and get used to working with ass holes. You'll be doing it for the rest of your life. So, learn how to deal with it now, and you'll be a lot better off. But like I said, be thankfull that you've got a job. ;)
Very, very true. Also, I know this is hard to remember - god knows i know it to be hard, i started worknig full-time when i was 16, and hearing it can seem stupid, but - you're 16, you just started working, your parents don't own a multinational multibillion dollar corporation they can just put you to work in, nor are you a young sports star or anything like that... when i was 16, i was making just over a grand a month and i felt worthless. I was thinking "man, how the hell am i gonna get a job that will allow me to pay rent, AND eat, AND put gas in my car, AND still have some fun?

The key I've found is to stick with it, but only as long as it benefiets you and you find some degree of enjoyment in it. i make good money, but, i used to make more... i was the youngest manager in the western US for VW, and I got to meet all sorts of bigwigs and sales gods and etc, all of whom were telling me that i had an AMAZING career ahead of me. and they were problably right. but you know what? I HATED THE JOB. i make less now than i did, but, i enjoy my life. you're just starting out, hell so am i, i'm 22, i've got many, many, many years of my life ahead of me... so you have plenty of time to figure it out. plus, when you get frustrated, and you feel like you're screwed, turn that frustration into energy when you're working on your school stuff and remember that you've got a leg up on practically the entire nation. you've got plenty ahead of you.

if you really want to you can come down here and have my front desk job :D but i'd stay up there. LA sucks.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

if you really want to you can come down here and have my front desk job :D
only if I get your jetta and hot asian gf too.. ;)

and I've been thinking about possible careers alot... I mean.. ALOT.. and I've just about come to the conclusion that I can either do something I enjoy, and struggle with money for the rest of my life.. or do something I hate, and be filthy stinkin rich... lol. actually, that's not entirely true, I don't think I'd really mind being some kind of doctor.. I would just mind all the chemistry and biology classes I would need to get there. and doctors get paid pretty well. lol. of course, I don't want to be in college for the next 10 years, so it would have to be something that would only take a bachelors, or possibly a masters. like a foot doctor, or chiropractor or somthing..

and yes, I am thankful to just have a job right now. in fact, I can sometimes enjoy the job. actually, I was just talking to one guy I work with today, and after talking for a while, found out he also plays guitar (and drums), and since we both have the day off tomorrow, we are gonna go jam.. actually, I've made friends with just about everyone there (I'm a friendly guy, what can I say?) it's really only just one manager that I don't like.. when he's not there, the job is fine. when he is there, I start stressing out and stuff, just because he already threatened to fire me once.. I had walked past like 2 customers without greeting them.. so he said something like "I just watched you walk past several customers without greeting them. do this again and you lose your job! ok? this isn't the first time I've had to tell you." when in actuality, it was the first time he had told me.. it seems like nobody tried to explain any rules to me when I got there, I was somehow magically supposed to know them without being taught.. anyways, yeah, it's just this one manager who seems to have something against me.. everyone else I've talked to thinks he is nice. it's not like I'm a slacker or anything either. I try to do my job to the best of my ability.. oh well, guess that's just how it goes. I suppose I can't get along with everybody (try as I might). thanks for your encouraging words though.

[Akira]

and yes, I am thankful to just have a job right now. in fact, I can sometimes enjoy the job. actually, I was just talking to one guy I work with today, and after talking for a while, found out he also plays guitar (and drums), and since we both have the day off tomorrow, we are gonna go jam.. actually, I've made friends with just about everyone there (I'm a friendly guy, what can I say?) it's really only just one manager that I don't like.. when he's not there, the job is fine. when he is there, I start stressing out and stuff, just because he already threatened to fire me once.. I had walked past like 2 customers without greeting them.. so he said something like "I just watched you walk past several customers without greeting them. do this again and you lose your job! ok? this isn't the first time I've had to tell you." when in actuality, it was the first time he had told me.. it seems like nobody tried to explain any rules to me when I got there, I was somehow magically supposed to know them without being taught.. anyways, yeah, it's just this one manager who seems to have something against me.. everyone else I've talked to thinks he is nice. it's not like I'm a slacker or anything either. I try to do my job to the best of my ability.. oh well, guess that's just how it goes. I suppose I can't get along with everybody (try as I might). thanks for your encouraging words though.

Wow, that sounds like some sort of prison. I'd hate to have some dip**** telling me off for not greeting every customer I see.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Wow, that sounds like some sort of prison. I'd hate to have some dip**** telling me off for not greeting every customer I see.
you gotta feel a little sorry for him though.. he's only about 5'1"-ish, asian, and probably that guy in high school that played dungeons and dragons in his free time, got a job in high school, took it extremely seriously, and eventually got promoted to manager at a grocery store, where he will probably work for the rest of his life. he's probably never had a girl in his life..

if that were me, I'd be in a constant bad mood too..

[Akira]

you gotta feel a little sorry for him though.. he's only about 5'1"-ish, asian, and probably that guy in high school that played dungeons and dragons in his free time, got a job in high school, took it extremely seriously, and eventually got promoted to manager at a grocery store, where he will probably work for the rest of his life. he's probably never had a girl in his life..

if that were me, I'd be in a constant bad mood too..

I don't feel sorry for him at all.

[magicninja]

Me either I feel sorry for you having to put up with him.

[PonyOne]

you gotta feel a little sorry for him though.. he's only about 5'1"-ish, asian, and probably that guy in high school that played dungeons and dragons in his free time, got a job in high school, took it extremely seriously, and eventually got promoted to manager at a grocery store, where he will probably work for the rest of his life. he's probably never had a girl in his life..

if that were me, I'd be in a constant bad mood too..
yeah, and then his little sister started dating a guy who's like a foot taller than him, white, lives in LA and is a totally cool guy who plays guitar and has a glamorous job, thus esentially saying "once you go caucasian, you never go asian"... what a sad existence :(

nah i don't feel that sorry for the guy. i've met so many guys that do that, they wish they were someone really big an important but they can't swing a big, important job, so they make their inconsequntial job into something much more magical than it really is. Rent-A-Cop Syndrome, i call it: you know the guys that wanted to be in SWAT or Specops, but couldn't make the cut? So they go and get a job as a mall security guard and act like they're guarding Fort Knox or The White House? God do i ever hate that.

I have worked with people that have devoted as many years as I've been alive to a $10/hr job and as such have lived a $10/hr lifestyle for 22 years. They don't do any sort of art or writing or anything creative, etc... I feel sorry for them on the one hand but on the other hand they've had 22 years to find something better.