Random Fail: First World Problems

[Kalmado]

Reminds me when I worked at Frys and when they finally started issuing a credit card that had zero perks (not even a 0% on purchases) they wanted us to target poor and minorities that their 28.99% card can help them build credit as a selling perk.

The crazy thing to me is this specific company's credit card has the best perks I've ever heard of for retail. I don't get why they want to be shady like that, other than it's monkeys wearing suits in a boardroom that have never done customer service in their life and they think buzzwords and catch phrases are what gets people to buy.

[Astylla]

I agree. My friend is the parts manager so he's not necessarily directly effected by sales, but somewhat is by service. However, he states that it's morally deflating watching the nonsense that goes on every day. Side note to piggyback on sales methods, the department store I just left wanted us to sell the store credit card as a "rewards card" and use the exact verbiage, "Are you earning your rewards today? If not we can get that going today for you." Never outright saying it's a credit card unless asked. During my interview I was told I was being brought on because of my sales experience and to help the associates learn better sales techniques. When questioning the sales methods presented by corporate, I was told it must be said in that way because that's what corporate wants. Noped right the fuck out. I'm not going to be that sales guy. Would rather work minimum wage while finishing my certs and degree that be that piece of shit salesman.

Oh the stories I could tell in my 4 years in service here dealing with sales/finance. I'll miss the people though as most are good people
( service side) but as I'm cleaning out my desk/cubicle I'm ready to move on. It was a great experience here for an awesome company but yeah the down and dirty of it is not appealing.

I feel for your friend as Parts is always dealing with the shitstorm. I have to ask though what company tried to feed you that bullshit because that's definitely fucked up.

[Kalmado]

Oh the stories I could tell in my 4 years in service here dealing with sales/finance. I'll miss the people though as most are good people
( service side) but as I'm cleaning out my desk/cubicle I'm ready to move on. It was a great experience here for an awesome company but yeah the down and dirty of it is not appealing.

I feel for your friend as Parts is always dealing with the shitstorm. I have to ask though what company tried to feed you that bullshit because that's definitely fucked up.

The store is under the corporation Bon Ton. The store director (my boss) was basically a nice guy, but corporate monkey that towed the line.

Regarding my friend, it's complicated. He practically opened Saturn and was parts manager there for almost 20 years. A (once) mutual friend of ours became service manager. About two years before GM sold Saturn the service manager started becoming very lazy and would use his good looks and charm to get his way. He also did questionable things regarding records and what not but the assistant store director was doing it too. When GM came in to evaluate the dealership service had a lot of issues. At any turn he could, the service manager blamed parts as the problem. When approached by GM about whether (my friend) would stay once the dealership was turned into a GM/Buick dealership he said no and took his unemployment. This was roughly in 2011 I want to say.

Fast forward to 2015 and my friend is running parts at MINI and is happy/content/comfortable. Once a very large dealer bought the MINI rights they switched up some of the management. My friend was fine and his spot secured. He gets told there will be a new service manager. You guessed it, our old (at one time) friend, and he's been doing the same crap as he did before. As I said, it doesn't directly effect my friend (for now), but his morale is low and he's at a point in his work life where he'd take a job he's happy at over more money.

[Xno Kappa]

Just finished my follow-up for my sleep study. Out of 391 minutes, I slept 140. Out of those 140 minutes, only 55 were REM sleep. Ambien here I come!

[Anoat]

My town's Gumby's Pizza closed unexpectedly today Fuck.

[Astylla]

Just finished my follow-up for my sleep study. Out of 391 minutes, I slept 140. Out of those 140 minutes, only 55 were REM sleep. Ambien here I come!

Ambien has some fucked up side effects so watch that stuff carefully. Is this sleep apnea related or just inability to sleep ?

[BerenTebogo]

Ambien has some fucked up side effects so watch that stuff carefully. Is this sleep apnea related or just inability to sleep ?

I think you mean ambien has some extra fun side effects.

[Astylla]

I think you mean ambien has some extra fun side effects.

Depends who you ask lol. I know my husband had issues with it and someone else I knew started sleepwalking and other random shit. They tried to give me that when I couldn't sleep after my carpal tunnel and I shot that down immediately. I'm extremely sensitive to medication usually so I was not risking it.

[Melena]

Depends who you ask lol. I know my husband had issues with it and someone else I knew started sleepwalking and other random shit. They tried to give me that when I couldn't sleep after my carpal tunnel and I shot that down immediately. I'm extremely sensitive to medication usually so I was not risking it.

I just said the dreams were beyond insane. Only issue I had was my body got addicted to it and it took me about 2 weeks to be able to sleep without it.

[Xno Kappa]

Ambien has some fucked up side effects so watch that stuff carefully. Is this sleep apnea related or just inability to sleep ?

Right now they're treating it as insomnia since I didn't have enough sleep time to accurately judge any apnea. According to the report I had two episodes where I stopped breathing, but it didn't meet the length for the definition. I have a pretty high tolerance to medications, so I'm not stressing the ambien. Doctor said if it doesn't work after 30 days, then we're dropping it altogether and moving on to something called balmsera(sp?). It's supposedly pretty effective and leaves no physical dependence on it, but my insurer dictates I try a more routine medication first according to the doctor since it's expensive.

[arus2001]

Just hopping on the train of people frustrated at co-workers that are lazy/incompetent, but somehow manage to not get fired or receive preferential treatment. Shit sux.

[Yuri-G]

we have two teams at work in two different geographical locations. long story short: our boss here is a tough-but-fair hardass who is very nice but will not hesitate to chew you out should you screw up. she holds us all to very high standards and we perform (because if we didn't, we wouldn't be here).


the other site... LOL. routinely just forgets to do stuff, screws it up, they're not necessarily bad people but the attitude is just so freaking relaxed, and their manager is fine with that. drives all of us up here nuts.

[Astylla]

Ordered in my usual Chinese food and shortly after eating started breaking out in hives and stomach started churning like I was going to die.

An hour and two Benadryl later at least the hives are subsiding slowly..the stomach pain however..UGH. Kill me now.

[Kalmado]

Ordered in my usual Chinese food and shortly after eating started breaking out in hives and stomach started churning like I was going to die.

An hour and two Benadryl later at least the hives are subsiding slowly..the stomach pain however..UGH. Kill me now.

Kung Pow Squirrel cooked rare?

[Astylla]

Kung Pow Squirrel cooked rare?

Haha I think that may have been an improvement.

Seriously though I order the same thing - Mongolian beef- spicy and house chow mein ( shrimp/beef/chicken) at least 3 years without incident. I did notice this time the oil from the Mongolian dish was more plentiful and where some landed on me is where my hives started.
It's just so fucking random.

I know I'm stressed about starting my new job but I don't think it's causing everything. Just bad luck

[BaneTheBrawler]

Its toe the line. As in toes.

Also speaking of dealerships, my toyota dealership keeps dropping the ball on maintenance. I took it in after i hit some debris back in December. It started rattling again almost immediately after the appt, despite specifically mwntioning undercarriage damage as a concern. I thought it was the heat shield. Had them look at it during my last oil change. Was fine for 20 minites, started rattling again. Went back, turns out it was a broken weld on the catalytic converter, and they should have spotted it. So its comped. Fine. The next day, i run out of wiper fluid. Now, you may not think thats a big deal. It is. We salt roads here, and its still winter, and theyre supposed to check levels during oil changes.

[Anoat]

I don't think I've ever run out of wiper fluid, and it's never been replaced according to the charts when I get service done. Hooray again for Florida living?

[Tokitoki]

I check and fill my own washer fluid.

The people doing the fluid level checks are more concerned with oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, steering fluid, etc. They generally aren't looking at your washer fluid. I don't think I've ever had them refill my washer fluid or even pay attention to the reservoir. I say this because my car's reservoir falls and they haven't tried to fix it.

[Astylla]

I check and fill my own washer fluid.

The people doing the fluid level checks are more concerned with oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, steering fluid, etc. They generally aren't looking at your washer fluid. I don't think I've ever had them refill my washer fluid or even pay attention to the reservoir. I say this because my car's reservoir falls and they haven't tried to fix it.

That's a serious fucking fail on not catching that issue in the catalytic converter, man that could have been nasty. All dealerships aren't created equal as we have people drive 2 hours or more to service their car/purchase because they don't trust others locally. Leaving here I at least have some solid knowledge what to look out for.

In theory they SHOULD be refilling it but yeah it's a common complaint here at Acura/Lexus but again being a luxury brand you come to expect people being clueless and needy lol.
Honestly it's always good to have EXTRA on hand , I always had a spare bottle in my car and at home when living in cold snowy areas.

I think the best complaint I dealt with was when we didn't refill the reservoir with ice melting washer fluid because they were going to Tahoe and "could have died because they didn't know we used regular ". Seriously we are in the Bay Area California- why the fuck are we going to assume just because you drive an AWD vehicle you are going to the snow.

[Fondue]

I bought some of that rainX wiper fluid but that was 8 months ago and I've been too lazy to put it in