I really do think that his business will fail, the way it's going. People aren't getting their stuff on time, things keep breaking, and so people will take their business elsewhere. His lack of concern filters to me not having anything to say which filters to people getting pissed.
This is his own fault... I'm just getting paid to sell games and make apologies. I'll take that money while I have no other choice. I'm out of there come fall. I'd rather keep my 4-8am Target job than stay at the game store during the school year.
I have a story about why my job sucks. This is actually extremely minor as far as fuck-ups go for my company. One thing I do at work is change gas meters at people houses for various reason. One reason is a stopped meter. If the meter reader reports a stopped meter (the reading hasn't changed for a few months and the house isn't vacant) they send someone out to confirm this and then that person is supposed to speak to the customer and set up and appointment to have the meter changed. Instead, what they've been doing is just creating the job as a 6-10pm appointment and not telling the customer. So i get to show up at people's houses at 9:50 at night thinking they're expecting me when they have no idea what's going on. Last week, I had one such occurrence. I show up at about 8pm, knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm here to change the gas meter" and the customer immediately freaks out. Most people in this situation immediately realize that there is some sort of misunderstanding and calmly state that they never made an appointment or suggest that I'm at the wrong house, I confirm that i am at the correct location and explain the situation and they say they were never notified and they are either available right then and there and I do the job anyway or we reschedule for a more convenient time. Not this lady. Her immediate reaction is to yell "no, not here". I was a little taken aback, so I managed to give the usual spiel and said i was going to double check to see if i was at the correct location, as soon as I turned my back, she shuts the door locks the knob and the dead bolt. I confirm that I am at the correct location, knock on the door again to explain the situation and she won't even open the door, she yells through the door, "what do you want", I explain and she just tells me to go away. I love it.
I'm leaving for Japan later this week. I hope to have fun. But naturally fate decided that I can't possibly be allowed to leave without making my life miserable somehow, so now I have a dying hard drive. Again. Unsurprisingly it's the 1.5TB drive. Again. No doubt they won't replace it free this time. Fuck. Making a backup of data on a 1.5TB drive is super FUN when it's copying at under 20KB/sec. Yes, that KB as in Kilobytes. I won't have time to deal with this until after the trip.
A few days after getting back the dentist wants to charge me enough to rival the cost of my Japan trip to mutilate my teeth and make me even more miserable. All it will take is to come back to some sort of work-related disaster to make a perfect shitstorm waiting for me when I get back. I put odds on that to be pretty high.
The only problem you can't fix with a hammer is that you can't find any hammers.
Actually, even that can be fixed with a hammer. After all, if you had a hammer with which to fix the problem, the problem would be solved by default. All you need is a hammer to fix the problem.
Why do people think it's more rude to ignore someone trying to contact you indirectly from miles away via a shrieking lump of plastic than to ignore the company you asked to come over? I loathe telephones.
But seriously, the telephone leads only to rudeness from others and a necessity for me to talk to people I don't want to. I know our society couldn't exist without them (and I would be unemployed), but every now and then I think that sacrificing our way of life would be worth getting rid of the little plastic devils.
Skype requires an application to be actively running. FaceTime requires Wi-Fi. The rest of the Internet needs some sort of Internet connection, and unlike calls/texts, you can't be reasonably assured as to when/if the other person got your message. It still makes sense as a communication device, since not everyone has a smartphone (though that's changing more all the time).
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This is his own fault... I'm just getting paid to sell games and make apologies. I'll take that money while I have no other choice. I'm out of there come fall. I'd rather keep my 4-8am Target job than stay at the game store during the school year.
Sounds like you've got Macramé.
A few days after getting back the dentist wants to charge me enough to rival the cost of my Japan trip to mutilate my teeth and make me even more miserable. All it will take is to come back to some sort of work-related disaster to make a perfect shitstorm waiting for me when I get back. I put odds on that to be pretty high.
Does this sort of thing happen to other people?
I enjoyed the week's vacation from playing on the stupid computer. It allowed me to focus on more important things.
Heck, I don't even know what was on mine anymore. It could've been irreplaceable. I don't dwell on it. It's just less stuff to manage now.
What about "Oh no, I'm drowning in one million hammers"?
Blow them into outter space with a REALLY big hammer.
Actually, even that can be fixed with a hammer. After all, if you had a hammer with which to fix the problem, the problem would be solved by default. All you need is a hammer to fix the problem.
But they're hammer proof tanks.
Seriously, I don't know what I would do without my telephone.
How else do you plan spur of moment social gatherings???
I do not understand either of these concepts.
But seriously, the telephone leads only to rudeness from others and a necessity for me to talk to people I don't want to. I know our society couldn't exist without them (and I would be unemployed), but every now and then I think that sacrificing our way of life would be worth getting rid of the little plastic devils.