Dids fwiw I was going by what I read in articles and thread not dynasty.

Btw how ******ed stupid are the Jersey shore *****

That 'did I overreact' thread is where a guy is grossly negligent and then tries to blame someone else

Boring thread, really

Would've loved to discuss the nature of Pi with this guy.

Nonsense. There is no lava cake 'mix.' Lava cakes come prepared, frozen, and already in their individual aluminum foil trays - they're only put on the conveyor oven to be warmed & then removed from trays & dusted with confectioners' sugar.

My sole motivation left in life is to bombard OOT with even more pedantic details of my peon wageslave job than pongo does, and with even less prompting.

THE GAUNTLET IS DROPPED. PRETEND IT'S A SWEATER.

i'm looking forward to the upcoming "i got robbed" tr

never let the truth get in the way of a good joke.

Our store is super hood and maybe one driver gets robbed once a year.

lame. getting robbed is a pizza delivery guy rite of passage

From the organic food thread (which is pretty funny to skim over):

"Seems idiotic that educated women prefer to work over having intelligent children."

looooooooooooooooool

so hipster to make a cartoon making fun of what a hipster is

That comic is nearly perfect, however plaid shirt banjo guy should be to the right of tatted up biker guy.

Just booked a dinner cruise around Vancouver for Valentines day, which leaves from Edgewater casino. Going to be the perfect set up for a fake out as I'll play it coy and when she sees us heading towards the casino she'll get all depressed thinking that's where we're spending the night until Boom. Boat.

It will be more romantic than that Saved by the Bell story arc which took place on a cruise.

I'm bringing this here to keep from derailing the fat people thread -

Cardo - I would be willing to bet money that I never referred to my employees in general as "losers at life". It is entirely possible I used that phrase in reference to some customers, and maybe you're mixing those up. I may have referred to a specific person in that fashion, but that person hasn't been in my employ for quite a long time anyway.

At any rate, I know the theme that you and Phildo are referring to, and my point was always that it was difficult for me to manage expectations for my employees because I probably want more than they are willing to give, given how much I am able pay them.

If it makes any difference to anyone, the feedback I received here certainly helped me figure how to better handle the people that work for me. The comments here in OOT did not fall on deaf ears.

esnow,

i don't know what specifically cardo is talking about in that thread, but i do recall you once posting a complaint about your lazy employees because you schedule their shifts to start right at opening time and were mad that they start working at the start of their shift instead of coming in early.

that's a pretty big disconnect from reality and makes people think you are a douche

Gorillaz supposedly breaking up,

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/0...az-have-split/

To address that specifically, there was the dynamic of how *I* behaved at my previous jobs that paid 50k a year or better versus the people whom I pay a much lower wage and me expecting them to behave similar to how I do.

This is a perfect example, though of how you guys helped me learn. What I have since done is start the paying shift before open so they will come in at the beginning of the shift and then open the store on time.

Once I dealt with the issue of people who thought that "as long as I am there before the store is supposed to be open" was acceptable, things have gone much more smoothly ever since.

One minute of searching does turn up "panicky little ants" and "basically children," though. Even if we grant that you didn't use the phrases Anacardo and Phildo mentioned, the character of your descriptions is pretty similar in spirit: Southwestern Dids.

ESnow is the dude that goes to parties with all 10s right?

That's completely fair, and I'll stick by those, especially given what I had to deal with this this week in wrangling people to get to work through the inclement weather throughout DFW this week.

To me, there's a huge difference between "panicky little ants" and "losers at life". "Panicky little ants" evokes images of herding cats or the falling leaf disrupting the workers line in the move A Bug's Life, and I'm pretty sure anyone who has managed people at all will at least understand the general idea. If they don't...man, they must be lucky to have always had the smartest people on Earth working for them all the time.

Wait - why *do* you need a goddamn comic book store open with an inch of ice on the roads in Dallas, again? How did you not lose money on labor? Are there way, way more desperately determined nerdlingers in DFW fighting their way through the snow to their booster packs than I ever would have imagined?

On the whole, my sales were quite good this week because the stores are located in areas with plenty of people living within walking distance. On Tuesday, the entire metroplex shut down and everyone was ready to huddle up and sit it out. By Wednesday, cabin fever was setting in and people walked or made a very short drive to buy books and games to while away the hours, especially when the forecast was settled on us all being frozen through the weekend.

DFW in particular has a very vibrant board gaming community, and this weather was a great chance for those people to grab a new game or two and play.

I know other stores who got killed by the weather this week, but their locations are not near any major foot traffic areas or residences, so it is unsurprising.