What's wrong with the world today?

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

:-( People suck. My mom does too, sometimes. Here I am, on vacation, and she keeps calling the house.

First calls my cell phone. Says something intelligable. I go back to sleep. Then calls the house. No one picks up. I was dead asleep, so it didn't bother me. Calls my cell phone again.

"Sweetie, can you see if your dad is downstairs, he's not picking up."

AHHH!!! Mom! I'm on holiday, damnit!

So now I was awake and downstairs standing there as my mom is talking on the phone with my dad discussing whether she should bring a whole pizza pie home or just pay for slices.

-_-

Also, we need wi-fi operated appliances, or just appliances that connect to the internet and can be monitored/adjusted. That way, we wouldn't have to drive home from the airport to check to see if my mom left the stove on..
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http://www.wiredhome-weblog.com/50226711/outrageous_refrigerated_internet_oven.php

Found it. Kinda. You put your food in it during the day, and it refrigerates it and such over the course of the day. Then when you're close to home, you can call it or access it from the internet and turn it on to start cooking the food.

I like my idea better. GE better be working on it, damnit.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

https://www.clientcopia.com

LMAO!!!

[Feba]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

The fading of religion in life...
The replacement of religion with crap... (i.e. TV/Video Games/Music/Movies/Drugs/etc...)

I'd rather live in a country full of pot heads than one full of fundies.
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also, telera, clientcopia. google it.

[Telera]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Ouchies >.<
People working directly with customers have the hardest job ever. Resisting to hit or phyically/verbally harm the idiots/rude ones.

I vent my anger in my writing, usually. Just channel my frustration into my work and get a chapter done, or just one scene, or something like that. Games sometimes help, if I find something really difficult to just wail on for a while. Music is usually best, though. A good song and some good long writing does wonders for me.

Though... there was no salvaging my holiday spirit this year. I haven't felt excited about it once. Which kinda makes me sad, but after 5 years in retail, I guess that's what happens.

[Akashimo]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Ouchies >.<
People working directly with customers have the hardest job ever. Resisting to hit or phyically/verbally harm the idiots/rude ones.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

@YellowMage: ?

The fading of religion in life...
The replacement of religion with crap... (i.e. TV/Video Games/DVDs?/CDs/Movies/Drugs/etc...)

[Telera]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

The rounders the clothing hang on. She thought they were too close together for her to move, even though the 5 other people in the store were just fine. As well as everyone else who's been in the store *all fucking year.* She decided to bitch and bitch and then finally explode.

Made Carol cry. Made our customers uncomfortable and not really wanting to shop. Made me want to kill her.

Are we clear now?

[Mhurron]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

the woman went *apeshit* because the rounders were a little 'too close' and BAAAAAAWWWW

That might piss me off too if I knew what you were talking about.

[Pai Pai Master]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Comic books and rap music!

[Telera]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

I could rant, but I'm in the middle of a blessed 4 day stretch of days off and don't want to get too angry.

I'll sum it up with apathy and self-centered-ness. I work retail. I know there's times when the employees are rude and whatever, ok. But *I* am never rude to anyone, and what gets my goat is people like this:

*lady walks in*
Tel: "Hello! How are you today?"
woman: "..fine." (snappy tone, there)
Tel: "Is there anything special I can help you with?"
woman: "No. Do I need something special to be shopping here?"
Tel: "Um.. no. I just thought I could help if you did."
woman: "Well I'm fine!"

....yeah, here's the thing. If my corporate didn't make me talk to you, sweetie, I wouldn't, but they do, kk? So lets all just be good actresses and pretend we're civil, okie dokie?

Then there was the bitch that chewed out my ass't manager and made her *cry*. That seriously pissed me off. Carol was bending over backwards to help this lady, but the woman went *apeshit* because the rounders were a little 'too close' and BAAAAAAWWWW. That woman was making even the other customers feel uncomfortable. Two or three of them offered to file a complaint against the woman if only to help us since we couldn't do anything ourselves.

Carol is, no exaggeration, one of the sweetest people I have ever come in contact with. To see someone unleash their lame ass mood on someone like that crawls all over me in very bad ways. I wanted to break her fucking neck. But we can't even defend ourselves, no, we just have to stand and take it. Verbal and emotional abuse that would get legal action pulled down were it your spouse, but since it's a customer, you just have to bend over and take it up the ass.

I hate people. Working retail made me really see how utterly selfish the vast majority of society is. I like certain individuals, but by and large when I see people these days, I just want to get away from them. I don't want to be made to feel bad, or drug down because they think they need company in their anger.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Bump, because nobody likes having their post at the bottom of a page! I'll gladly settle for second from the top on the next page, once someone else posts their gripe. :D

Narrowly avoided a bullet on that one, too: I had just finished a rant that took a condiserable amount of time to type, and I'd hate for it to be majorly overlooked.

I'll post it later! Just everybody overlook this as you all would have overlooked my post! >_>

[Bolla]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Good question .. we should fix it our way, then it will mess up again.. then we will need to fix it again etc. I say we fix it till we die and let our children learn from us and fix it.

[Humar]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

whats wrong with the world today you ask? lets answer....in soong...
"No no stop the music stop the muuusic!!"(thought id throw in another Monty Python quote)
(ok about the song the first 2mins and 30 seconds isnt the song so if you just want to hear the song about the issues in the world then just skip to about 2:30)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u5tmnBeNv18

[Ameroth]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

It's down for maintenance for another half hour then everything will be fine.

Without having read any other posts, I've decided this one explains it the best.

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

"Pulling a Lago"

Is going to be my new phrase for not doing something.

"Oh man, those WARs totally pulled a Lago on casting Utsusemi, and now they're eatting dirt, lol.."