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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 13:18:33 GMT -5
I'm leaving this new Avatar up for a week and change it next Saturday to celebrate our Independence Day and so forth.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 30, 2018 13:48:40 GMT -5
Thanks Icctrombone. I just keeping looking at my swollen lip and thinking about my District Manager's words. "This was your decision. You chose to do that". As if I insisted on the right to follow suspicious looking people around the store, as if my company's policy is to stay away from shoplifters but I said "No! It's my right to put myself in danger!". His "I will tell anybody that your safety was my priority" was also spoken in such a manner that he emphasized the word 'anybody' leading me to understand that his "Following this guy around was Chad policy, not ours" is the story he intends to stick to on the stand if it does go to trial even though he knows I spoke to him six months ago with my concerns. I'm thinking about what I'm going to do now and I don't know what I should tell a prospective employer about why I'm leaving this company. I don't want to make it sound as though I'm more interested in leaving my old place than I am in joining theirs. ugh. I hated working retail for a ton of reasons. I just felt like I was at rock bottom, and my life was going nowhere going to a job like that everyday with what I personally considered lacking in personal gratification. Sorry if that sounds harsh for anyone that works in a retail job. Or any service related job like that. The situation you're in personally sounds bad, but I hope things get better for you. I remember working at REI in San Francisco. They were having a theft problem, and sooner or later they decided to have the employees start asking people to check their bags in at the front. This didn't go over very well for a lot of people, and folks started to feel like they were being profiled. The thing is, the people like me at the front lines were getting the brunt of the venom. Part of me felt like those people needed to get over it, and just check their bags in. Regardless, I didn't want to put up with that BS, so I just let people take their bags with them when I was at the greeter station. It just wasn't worth dealing with entitled customers. The higher ups usually never worked on the sales floor as much because they had a degree or whatever from the jump. As for you, I guess I would just try to put things behind me, and try to move on to another line of work if possible, instead of wasting resources on trying to get justice served against a stupid company with money that never has your best interests in mind regardless what their company line is. You just have to look out for yourself at all times. Doesn't matter what your supervisor says at any job. They don't care about you. By the way, try not to EVER tell someone that you're going to be lawyering up for any reason or taking legal action. I just don't see what there is to gain by tipping your hand if you don't have to. When you tell someone you're going that direction, they get scared. Then they start to stack up. One last thing. The security bit of your story kind of made me chuckle. The people that are usually hired as "security" at department stores or food stores even are a joke. I guess better them than you though. Reminds me of a fight in San Francisco that broke out at a Safeway between street goons. The security dude there basically shuffled around the chaos in a circle not doing anything, swatting the air like one would a fly for no reason at all. I guess he was surprised that he didn't just have to stand around doing nothing, and get paid that day. Unless you have someone that looks like a real life Luke Cage on your side, assume security doesn't exist at your store. I really appreciate the thought you put into this - although you've given me a lot to think about, a lot of what you've said confirms what I already know but needed to hear. Thank you so much for putting this into words. When shoplifters started coming into Michaels en masse and our Loss Prevention Officer (a guy who lives in a different province and I've met perhaps twice) sent out orders that from here on in, all employee bags were to be searched by management at the end of their shift. His reasoning was that most of the theft going on at Michaels was internal (I have no idea how he reached this conclusion other than by way of the fact that it was the easiest conclusion to reach) and regardless of the number of reports and footage we were sending him of people walking out of the store with carts full of items they didn't purchase, he still insisted that this is what we needed to do to address the problem. I hated doing it as it was absolutely degrading to the employees and - unless my manager were around - would "check" their bags by widening my eyes, vibrating my head as quickly as I could, stare intently at their bag for a few seconds, and then tell them that their bag check was complete and that they could go.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 30, 2018 15:11:54 GMT -5
I hated working retail for a ton of reasons. I just felt like I was at rock bottom, and my life was going nowhere going to a job like that everyday with what I personally considered lacking in personal gratification. Sorry if that sounds harsh for anyone that works in a retail job. Or any service related job like that. The situation you're in personally sounds bad, but I hope things get better for you. I remember working at REI in San Francisco. They were having a theft problem, and sooner or later they decided to have the employees start asking people to check their bags in at the front. This didn't go over very well for a lot of people, and folks started to feel like they were being profiled. The thing is, the people like me at the front lines were getting the brunt of the venom. Part of me felt like those people needed to get over it, and just check their bags in. Regardless, I didn't want to put up with that BS, so I just let people take their bags with them when I was at the greeter station. It just wasn't worth dealing with entitled customers. The higher ups usually never worked on the sales floor as much because they had a degree or whatever from the jump. As for you, I guess I would just try to put things behind me, and try to move on to another line of work if possible, instead of wasting resources on trying to get justice served against a stupid company with money that never has your best interests in mind regardless what their company line is. You just have to look out for yourself at all times. Doesn't matter what your supervisor says at any job. They don't care about you. By the way, try not to EVER tell someone that you're going to be lawyering up for any reason or taking legal action. I just don't see what there is to gain by tipping your hand if you don't have to. When you tell someone you're going that direction, they get scared. Then they start to stack up. One last thing. The security bit of your story kind of made me chuckle. The people that are usually hired as "security" at department stores or food stores even are a joke. I guess better them than you though. Reminds me of a fight in San Francisco that broke out at a Safeway between street goons. The security dude there basically shuffled around the chaos in a circle not doing anything, swatting the air like one would a fly for no reason at all. I guess he was surprised that he didn't just have to stand around doing nothing, and get paid that day. Unless you have someone that looks like a real life Luke Cage on your side, assume security doesn't exist at your store. I really appreciate the thought you put into this - although you've given me a lot to think about, a lot of what you've said confirms what I already know but needed to hear. Thank you so much for putting this into words. When shoplifters started coming into Michaels en masse and our Loss Prevention Officer (a guy who lives in a different province and I've met perhaps twice) sent out orders that from here on in, all employee bags were to be searched by management at the end of their shift. His reasoning was that most of the theft going on at Michaels was internal ( I have no idea how he reached this conclusion other than by way of the fact that it was the easiest conclusion to reach) and regardless of the number of reports and footage we were sending him of people walking out of the store with carts full of items they didn't purchase, he still insisted that this is what we needed to do to address the problem. I hated doing it as it was absolutely degrading to the employees and - unless my manager were around - would "check" their bags by widening my eyes, vibrating my head as quickly as I could, stare intently at their bag for a few seconds, and then tell them that their bag check was complete and that they could go. I believe you’re right. The fellow seems to act like a few I’ve come across in the past: their role is to address some problem, and the important thing for them is to appear to be doing something about it. They usually go for strategies that are easy, that don’t force them to challenge anyone but people from their own side, and that are usually absolutely inappropriate. As a song from Mes Aïeux says, “they only go after people who aren’t scary”.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 30, 2018 17:13:53 GMT -5
I'm leaving this new Avatar up for a week and change it next Saturday to celebrate our Independence Day and so forth. Ahhh, USA. Speaking of which, I saw a report a few days ago regarding two South Korean tourists that visited San Francisco. Their baby hit their head in their hotel room or whatever, and wouldn't stop crying. Concerned, they took their child to a local hospital. SF General to be exact. After a doctor checked their child, it was determined that he was fine. He stayed there a little while, and was effectively provided a nap and a bottle of formula. Then the parents left with their kid, and enjoyed the rest of their vacation. www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17506232/emergency-room-bill-fees-health-insurance-babyTwo years later they get a bill for 18k. Not even joking. Here is an article about it if you want to read up. This is one of the benefits I'd say of being an expat. I miss the USA and it's amenities a lot of the time, but the medical system there is God-awful terrible.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 18:50:45 GMT -5
I'm leaving this new Avatar up for a week and change it next Saturday to celebrate our Independence Day and so forth. Ahhh, USA. Speaking of which, I saw a report a few days ago regarding two South Korean tourists that visited San Francisco. Their baby hit their head in their hotel room or whatever, and wouldn't stop crying. Concerned, they took their child to a local hospital. SF General to be exact. After a doctor checked their child, it was determined that he was fine. He stayed there a little while, and was effectively provided a nap and a bottle of formula. Then the parents left with their kid, and enjoyed the rest of their vacation. www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17506232/emergency-room-bill-fees-health-insurance-babyTwo years later they get a bill for 18k. Not even joking. Here is an article about it if you want to read up. This is one of the benefits I'd say of being an expat. I miss the USA and it's amenities a lot of the time, but the medical system there is God-awful terrible. I understand your points and I totally loss of words here and thanks for sharing the travesty of this matter. Your points are well taken and understood it letter by letter.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 30, 2018 21:07:33 GMT -5
Ahhh, USA. Speaking of which, I saw a report a few days ago regarding two South Korean tourists that visited San Francisco. Their baby hit their head in their hotel room or whatever, and wouldn't stop crying. Concerned, they took their child to a local hospital. SF General to be exact. After a doctor checked their child, it was determined that he was fine. He stayed there a little while, and was effectively provided a nap and a bottle of formula. Then the parents left with their kid, and enjoyed the rest of their vacation. www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17506232/emergency-room-bill-fees-health-insurance-babyTwo years later they get a bill for 18k. Not even joking. Here is an article about it if you want to read up. This is one of the benefits I'd say of being an expat. I miss the USA and it's amenities a lot of the time, but the medical system there is God-awful terrible. I understand your points and I totally loss of words here and thanks for sharing the travesty of this matter. Your points are well taken and understood it letter by letter. Honestly not sure if you're trolling me with that response ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 0:26:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 0:27:40 GMT -5
Cool Video Here - Must Watch
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2018 3:10:09 GMT -5
I'm a big,big fan of poetry, but one of the most highly regarded 20th century poets that I just cannot get into is Ezra Pound. Recently, I was reading about Pound's life on Wikipedia, because a friend of mine, who studied his work as part of an English Literature degree, urged me to do so, and I notice that he came from the town of Hailey, Idaho...which immediately made me think of Slam_Bradley. I know Idaho's a big place, but is that anywhere near you, Slam?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 2, 2018 6:17:21 GMT -5
Lets not forget... ![](http://i.imgur.com/qQHrMJq.jpg)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 2, 2018 9:32:07 GMT -5
I'm a big,big fan of poetry, but one of the most highly regarded 20th century poets that I just cannot get into is Ezra Pound. Recently, I was reading about Pound's life on Wikipedia, because a friend of mine, who studied his work as part of an English Literature degree, urged me to do so, and I notice that he came from the town of Hailey, Idaho...which immediately made me think of Slam_Bradley . I know Idaho's a big place, but is that anywhere near you, Slam? Pretty close. Just a bit over 100 miles away. Which is close by Idaho standards. Hailey is a pretty cool town. It's in the Wood River Valley where Sun Valley is located. I don't make it there as often as I used too (my best friend and his band used to play there all the time about a decade ago. Also in the area is Ketchum, Idaho, the last home of Ernest Hemingway and where he is buried. Hailey was also known as the home of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Willis used to own The Mint in Hailey, which is where I saw Phillip Walker in concert.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 3, 2018 11:39:23 GMT -5
For those who may not be aware, Long-time CBR member and moderator and all-around mensch, Jim MacQuarrie has a cartoon in the newest issue of Mad Magazine (#2).
Give it a look.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 3, 2018 16:55:39 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 3, 2018 17:42:01 GMT -5
For those who may not be aware, Long-time CBR member and moderator and all-around mensch, Jim MacQuarrie has a cartoon in the newest issue of Mad Magazine (#2). Give it a look. That's like a consecration! Woo-hoo!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2018 22:28:15 GMT -5
We had our character generation session for the new D&D campaign we are launching tonight. First session will be in a few weeks once I finalize the first adventure now that I know what the characters are.
-M
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