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[Curt McGirt]

Forgot, there's no way I can switch to delivery (running groceries out to cars), which I wasn't doing anyway. No way are you getting me going back and forth in the elements. I am not 16-21 like my coworkers. The NEW BOSS is even just 22. The only other guy my age is 56 but he's an Air Force Gulf War vet and been to prison. He's fit. I ain't.

[Log]

Curt, have you laid this all out to them? Like, let them know your situation and just flat out tell them that they can either work with you to find something that you can do or you'll have to walk. There's at least a chance that someone finds value in keeping you around there and will maybe find somewhere else where you'd be a fit. Of course there's also the chance that they don't bother, but then you can just leave. I just figure that way, there's maybe a scenario where you don't have to bother looking for something else.

[Curt McGirt]

I pulled the trigger on it. 

Yeah, I could have maybe -- maybe -- slid over to the only lower-volume, less-lifting job in apparel, but that means I'd have to stay and wait and deal with more bullshit and that stupid setup wearing me down. I talked to the employees and they said it sucked, that's all I needed to hear. The boss was fine with it; of course I held my tongue on how angry I was with the changes. The worst part was talking to all the kids and saying goodbye. I teared up. It sucked. Bad. 

I've worked retail since I was 16 and I just don't think I can hack it anymore. Maybe find another janitorial job. I don't know. Record stores and book stores don't exist anymore. Barnes and Noble is there, so there's that. I go to places like CostCo and they lie and stick you in as a dishwasher. Restaurant is harder than retail. I can type, I can work a computer, but it's not like I know how to write code. I'd have some kind of desk job. Fuck it, I'll wear a suit and tie. This is just so humiliating feeling. I've quit every job I've ever had, and here we go again. 

On the plus side, I don't have to work Black Friday and Christmas season. Maybe if I reapply in six months I can go through this all over again. 

[zendragon]

If your shoulder is that bad you should look into applying for disablity

[Curt McGirt]

No, this is a very old injury, and it doesn't bother me aside from the arm-raising thing. I mean if I could do the job then I'm not disabled from it. Unless...?

Anyway this brings up the interesting side note of Walmart and their own injury practices. One of my colleagues literally fell out from heatstroke on the parking lot and I think hit his head? Anyway, he applied for workman's comp and got exactly 

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36 dollars and change

out of them. Yep. 

[Doragon]

The inflation rates for both Canada and USA went further down. 2.0 % for Canada and 2.2 % for USA. Next is to get both even lower. 

[Zimbra]

I'm deeply annoyed that our insurance is totaling our car and now I have to go car shopping, but there have been two high points 1) They're giving us a little over $12K for a car we paid a little over $14K for a decade ago and 2) One of the lots that I went to had a 1991 Miata special edition with the British racing green paint and leather interior and I hadn't seen one in probably two decades.

The low points are that cars are stupid expensive nowadays.

[The Natural]

11 hours ago, Zimbra said:

I'm deeply annoyed that our insurance is totaling our car and now I have to go car shopping, but there have been two high points 1) They're giving us a little over $12K for a car we paid a little over $14K for a decade ago and 2) One of the lots that I went to had a 1991 Miata special edition with the British racing green paint and leather interior and I hadn't seen one in probably two decades.

The low points are that cars are stupid expensive nowadays.

How are you and your wife doing? Best wishes.

[Zimbra]

9 hours ago, The Natural said:

How are you and your wife doing? Best wishes.

We're doing alright.  Kate got her sutures out yesterday.  One small part of the wound wouldn't close so they steri-stripped it shut til her next appointment but overall she's healing well.

How are you holding up, bud?

 

 

[twiztor]

On 9/24/2024 at 10:22 AM, Curt McGirt said:

Has anybody else had to walk on a job because they changed the entire layout of how you work, to where it's super difficult and makes no sense? Because I think my new boss just did that at Walmart. I mean it's not like I can't find another job, and I'm part time anyway, and they could transfer me to another department. But if this is as bad as it looks I'm out. 

i worked for a place around 6 years. Bounced between first (8am-4pm, 6a-2p) and second shift (12p-8p, 3p-11p) a couple times, was promoted up to manager and shuffled around departments a few times. I am pretty versatile and flexible. Ended up stepping out of management and returned to "regular" workforce.

6 months later, they announced a restructuring. Instead of three shifts and 24/7 production, they were switching to two, 10 hour shifts, 4 days a week. A fifth day if overtime was deemed necessary, but they stressed that those situations would be exceedingly rare. If you're like me, you immediately do the math. "so we're going from 168 hours production a week to 80, and you don't foresee any issues?" They doubled down on the overtime statement, then announced the only available hours. You could either work 4am-3pm or 3pm-2am (1 hour unpaid lunch now mandatory). I will never forget how they worded this proclamation. "This will take effect 2 weeks from now. If you can't make either of these shifts work for you, we'll consider that your resignation."

FUCK. OFF.

told my manager that my last day would be the day before the new shifts took effect. They were mandated to working overtime (12 hour shifts 4 days a week, plus an 8 hour shift on their 5th day) for the next almost six months. 

[Log]

Love that companies do stuff like that and then complain that "No one wants to work anymore!"

 

[Zimbra]

If you can swing it, everyone should just walk away from at least one shitty job in your life. 

No more freeing feeling than being able to say "this sucks and I'm not doing it anymore" and dropping your nametag on the way out.

[Cobra Commander]

using Duolingo, wondering why Zoe Perry is going ads for RoyalMatch. (RoyalMatch is an app game that says it has no ads, in the ads it runs on other apps). Zoe Perry was in Young Sheldon, it's not like she ran out of money or she has to pay a debt to the Yakuza.

[Zimbra]

It's hard out there for a working actor and residuals ain't what they used to be.

[madl]

19 minutes ago, Zimbra said:

It's hard out there for a working actor and residuals ain't what they used to be.

Lol, she just finished a 7-year run on a highly rated sitcom.  Google says she was making $150,000 per episode at the end of the run. Even if thaf’s incorrect, it is probably not far off. It’s safe to assume she got paid very well for those seven years. 

[Cobra Commander]

"It's either being the only non-influencer doing ads for phone apps or asking my mom for money"

(Zoe Perry's mom being Laurie Metcalf, if you didn't know)

[zendragon]

I mean Whoopi is out there doing adult diaper commercials 

[Zimbra]

Wish y'all could have seen my face when the lady in the office right next to mine at work told me she broke her desktop barometer and then vacuumed up the mercury.

(She didn't, it was an ethanol barometer and she just doesn't know what mercury looks like)

[Cobra Commander]

at least some people are handling things with less caution than me using a toothpick to try and get dust off of a computer fan, only to stick the toothpick a little far towards a running fan (I didn't fuck up the fan or the toothpick). The desktop computer core is a bit old (like "can't get Windows 11" old) and it's possible there was other stuff causing fans in there to overwork and it's not all dust

when I was an idiot kid, I once stuck a hand in the back fan of a dryer because I thought that money lost in a dryer ended up back there and that hurt. Probably not as much as when I ended up putting one of those kids desks on a back patio only for it to fall off (that one left a scar that is still under my hairline). At least setting that pizza box on fire when it was on the stove was a victimless crime.

[Zimbra]

My dumb childhood injury was climbing up on top of a barstool at my babysitter's to get something out of a cabinet, falling (naturally) and taking the corner of an opened drawer right between the eyes.  Did you know that there's a vein right there?  And that it will shoot blood like a damn water gun if you tap it?  And how scary it is to shoot blood from between your eyes when you're like 7?

[Cobra Commander]

I had to narrowly avoid the experience of having "Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung playing from two different sources at the same time (KROQ's Roq of the 80s HD2 channel was playing it at the same time as the video was on MTV Classic)

[Death From Above]

I was blessed as a kid to be made of flubber or something. When I was in high school I jumped off the roof of my house because Mick Foley jumped off his garage. Even he was smart enough to set up some sort of padding. Not me. Walked away with *nearly* a sprained ankle that felt better within an hour and not a scratch.

Now I'm 43 and about six months ago I pulled a muscle in my back sleeping. SLEEPING. Nowhere is safe.

[Death From Above]

Oh I also got a couple new shirts

[Matt D]

On 9/27/2024 at 12:00 AM, Curt McGirt said:

No, this is a very old injury, and it doesn't bother me aside from the arm-raising thing. I mean if I could do the job then I'm not disabled from it. Unless...?

Anyway this brings up the interesting side note of Walmart and their own injury practices. One of my colleagues literally fell out from heatstroke on the parking lot and I think hit his head? Anyway, he applied for workman's comp and got exactly 

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36 dollars and change

out of them. Yep. 

Hey Curt, how’re you holding up?

[Curt McGirt]

20 minutes ago, Matt D said:

Hey Curt, how’re you holding up?

I'm alive. Nowhere near good but I'm doing a good job of pretending. Like always. 

I'll have more news to come in the next week; over the next two days I'm just gonna try to get some control going. There isn't any other option.