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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 24, 2016 15:19:22 GMT -5
Yesterday I did something that I've never done before. Marijuana has been fully legal here in Oregon for about a year. Yesterday after work I stopped in at a clean, well-lit store on one of the main thoroughfares of southwest Portland, a store that until recently had housed a New York-style pizzeria. I showed my ID to the lovely young lady at the reception desk to prove that I'm of legal age. Then I was allowed in to the inner sales room, which had display cases and shelves full of glass canisters with dozens of varieties of marijuana, edible items, concentrates, paraphernalia and t-shirts. I spoke with another lovely young lady whose job title is "budtender". I'd already perused the shop's inventory on the web, so I told her which strain I wanted and how much. She fetched the canister with my strain and used large tweezers to pull out nuggets and put them on a scale until the right weight was reached. Then she poured my nuggets into a small plastic cylinder like the ones that were once used for film and attached a label with the strain's name and its THC and CBD content. As I paid, she gave me a punch-card so that when I've bought from them a certain number of times, I'll get a freebie. Also, since this was my first visit my purchase was discounted 10%. That was nice, because although there is no sales tax in Oregon, marijuana is taxed at 25%. Altogether, buying pot was a quick, easy, pleasant experience - the way it should always have been, and the way it should be everywhere. Best of all - the strain I chose is called "Bruce Banner". I wonder if they carry Mary Jane Watson.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 15:41:56 GMT -5
Or Weed Wylie.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 24, 2016 15:47:24 GMT -5
As drawn by Grass Green. As seen in Hi and Lois. This is getting ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 16:01:38 GMT -5
For some reason, I've never liked the term "pot." Weed, grass or marijane, though ... I'm good.
Not that I've touched the stuff since some friends & I visited the roof of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis before heading off to a show by Guided by Voices & Those Bastard Souls circa 2000. High, indeed.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 24, 2016 16:09:27 GMT -5
For some reason, I've never liked the term "pot." Weed, grass or marijane, though ... I'm good. Not that I've touched the stuff since some friends & I visited the roof of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis before heading off to a show by Guided by Voices & Those Bastard Souls circa 2000. High, indeed. We always called it dope, too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 16:40:23 GMT -5
Oh, yes -- dope. I'm probably too apt to use that to refer to individuals I don't esteem particularly highly, but it can certainly perform double duty.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 24, 2016 16:57:19 GMT -5
For some reason, I've never liked the term "pot." Weed, grass or marijane, though ... I'm good. Not that I've touched the stuff since some friends & I visited the roof of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis before heading off to a show by Guided by Voices & Those Bastard Souls circa 2000. High, indeed. We always called it dope, too. Dope's always been crack and/or cocaine to me. Where I grew up in St. Louis it was weed or dank. Pot was predominantly a white man's term and I didn't encounter it much until I went to technical school in a predominantly white suburb west of the city limits. Cigarettes were also "squares".
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 24, 2016 17:02:00 GMT -5
Yesterday I did something that I've never done before. Marijuana has been fully legal here in Oregon for about a year. Yesterday after work I stopped in at a clean, well-lit store on one of the main thoroughfares of southwest Portland, a store that until recently had housed a New York-style pizzeria. I showed my ID to the lovely young lady at the reception desk to prove that I'm of legal age. Then I was allowed in to the inner sales room, which had display cases and shelves full of glass canisters with dozens of varieties of marijuana, edible items, concentrates, paraphernalia and t-shirts. I spoke with another lovely young lady whose job title is "budtender". I'd already perused the shop's inventory on the web, so I told her which strain I wanted and how much. She fetched the canister with my strain and used large tweezers to pull out nuggets and put them on a scale until the right weight was reached. Then she poured my nuggets into a small plastic cylinder like the ones that were once used for film and attached a label with the strain's name and its THC and CBD content. As I paid, she gave me a punch-card so that when I've bought from them a certain number of times, I'll get a freebie. Also, since this was my first visit my purchase was discounted 10%. That was nice, because although there is no sales tax in Oregon, marijuana is taxed at 25%. Altogether, buying pot was a quick, easy, pleasant experience - the way it should always have been, and the way it should be everywhere. Best of all - the strain I chose is called "Bruce Banner". When I tried it, it was an opportunist thing. Alcohol and I work fine together so I never sought anything else out. But the job I had back in 2011, my supervisor smoked. And in discussion when he found out that I had never tried it, he offered to bring me a joint of a top notch strain. After the kids went to sleep my wife (who has had it before) and I smoked it. Not the experience I was expecting from what the entertainment culture has told me about weed and the high schoolers who I hung out with that were smokers, and super cool and laid back. Might as well have popped a couple of my son's adderall and it would have had the same effect. Never really was interested after that. But not saying I wouldn't give it another try once it becomes legal. Cause I felt paranoid the whole drive home with that joint in my car and we even went out and smoked it in the shed, and I was still worried. Being illegal usually keeps me from doing things.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 24, 2016 17:12:07 GMT -5
Never heard 'dank", or heard anyone seriously use "mary jane". The word "pot" was passe when I started toking; it was "grass", or "weed", or later, "herb". 20 years later the word "pot" came back. I guess for some people it never left. More recently I've heard "tree".
Never heard "squares" for cigarettes either. I don't recall any slang terms for cigarettes except "fags" in Britain.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 24, 2016 17:17:47 GMT -5
Also, my joke to the budtender when I first walked in and saw all the different strains on display:
"When I started, there were two strains - 'yes, I've got some', and 'no, I'm out'."
Not entirely true - there was Mexican, Colombian and Thai Stick, in increasing quality order.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 25, 2016 10:07:43 GMT -5
Unemployed Guy Rant I've had a number of interviews over the past month or so, and I have come to find that there are certain stock questions that are asked, particularly during phone interviews, that I have come to hate.
The first is: "Why do you want this position?" Sure, it seems pretty innocuous, but they should already know the answer, which is: "I've been out of work for six months now, I'm completely caught up on Game of Thrones, and I'd like to start putting money in my bank account again on a regular basis." I'm not going to blow smoke up your rear telling you about how great it would be to work for your company, because, unless your company is Google, Apple, Microsoft, or some industry-defining organization, your company is just another employer that happens to have an open position.
The second is: "It says here that you were a supervisor at your last position, but this position doesn't have any direct reports. Are you going to be happy with that?" Yeah, if I applied for it after reading the description, in which it was explicitly stated that this was not a management-level position, I'm OK with it. It's as though they want to find a reason not to hire people, rather than realizing they are getting someone into their organization with a whole lot of experience and skill at a lower pay point.
Lastly is: "You made $X at your last position, but this position only pays $Y. It seems a little below what you are used to, so why are you interested?" As with the first response, unemployment only lasts for 26 weeks, and after that, my income becomes $0, so anything greater than $0 is a win. Stop assuming that it's all about money, as commute length and/or distance, work/life balance, and other things may be playing into my decision-making process at this point in time.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!
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Post by Confessor on Aug 25, 2016 10:33:51 GMT -5
^^ I think company's concerns with the latter two points come from a wariness that you're just after the job as a short term fix and then you'll leave as soon as something better comes along. If that happens, they will find themselves having to re-advertise the job and go through the rigmarole of interviewing candidates again in 3 - 6 months time. That may not be how you're viewing it at all, but I think that's what makes companies wary of folks like you that are applying for jobs below your management level and/or pay grade.
The first point about them asking "Why do you want this position?" is a personal bug bear of mine too. I want your stinking job because I need the f%$@ing money, you dumb $#&%!!! If I could lay around at home watching TV all day and still get a regular wage paid into my bank account, I would! But I can't...and that's why I want this job.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 25, 2016 10:36:30 GMT -5
Unemployed Guy RantI've had a number of interviews over the past month or so, and I have come to find that there are certain stock questions that are asked, particularly during phone interviews, that I have come to hate. The first is: "Why do you want this position?" Sure, it seems pretty innocuous, but they should already know the answer, which is: "I've been out of work for six months now, I'm completely caught up on Game of Thrones, and I'd like to start putting money in my bank account again on a regular basis." I'm not going to blow smoke up your rear telling you about how great it would be to work for your company, because, unless your company is Google, Apple, Microsoft, or some industry-defining organization, your company is just another employer that happens to have an open position. The second is: "It says here that you were a supervisor at your last position, but this position doesn't have any direct reports. Are you going to be happy with that?" Yeah, if I applied for it after reading the description, in which it was explicitly stated that this was not a management-level position, I'm OK with it. It's as though they want to find a reason not to hire people, rather than realizing they are getting someone into their organization with a whole lot of experience and skill at a lower pay point. Lastly is: "You made $X at your last position, but this position only pays $Y. It seems a little below what you are used to, so why are you interested?" As with the first response, unemployment only lasts for 26 weeks, and after that, my income becomes $0, so anything greater than $0 is a win. Stop assuming that it's all about money, as commute length and/or distance, work/life balance, and other things may be playing into my decision-making process at this point in time. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! I can empathize, Captain. I have no patience for managerial culture nonsense. "What would you say are your greatest quality and your greatest weakness?" "Do you work well with others?" "Where do you see yourself in five years"? "Well... I'm an outstanding lover and my greatest weakness is redheads; I work really well with others when they do their job and keep their mouth shut, and in five years I want to be in your seat. Does that cover it?"
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 25, 2016 10:43:37 GMT -5
The first point about them asking "Why do you want this position?" is a personal bug bear of mine too. I want your stinking job because I need the f%$@ing money, you dumb $#&%!!! If I could lay around at home watching TV all day and still get a regular wage paid into my bank account, I would! But I can't...and that's why I want this job. "I've always dreamed of working in a tackle and bait shop. Already as a kid I'd wake up at night, wishing I could be older to spend my days collecting earthworms and grubs for an eager clientele of fishermen. And among all the possible shops I could have considered, none came close to "McCrosky's Tackle, Bait and Cold Beer". This is literally my dream job".
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Post by Confessor on Aug 25, 2016 10:46:58 GMT -5
I have no patience for managerial culture nonsense ... "Do you work well with others?" Oh yes, the "Do you work well with others?" or "Are you a team player?" question really winds me up as well because it so obviously depends on the team you're in. If my co-workers are a bunch of back-stabbing a-holes or witless incompetents or are just plain unfriendly, I could be the most easy to get along with guy in the world, but I'm not gonna be able to work well in that team. And anyway, who's ever gonna answer that question with, "Nah, I'm an entirely self-centred kind of guy and I only play by my rules to get what I want." Obviously everyone is gonna say, "yes, I'm very much a team player." That's another reason why such questions are the height of bulls**t in an interview situation. Man, just typing about this is making me angry. I do not envy you The Captain for having to go through the interview process.
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