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Adding to this because I worked last Sunday:

So, I'm just minding my own business, doing what I'm supposed to do and my manager comes up to me and asks if I'm ask the customers about the carryout service we offer. For reference, we'd just had a guy come through, I asked him if he would like help out, and he declined. I told my manager that I did and he said no. She said that she didn't hear me and again tells me that managementwill send me home if I dont ask (Sorry honey, but I did. I can't help if you can't hear). She then proceeds to tell me we have to use a specific phrase when asking and also said that this was not a her thing, but a company thing.

I only ever get scheduled once a month (I've received 4 of those "notice of possible employee separation" because of it) and she seems to come after me every time. This woman watches me like a hawk for no fucking reason. Instead of talking to bagger next to me who hadn't asked if she could help the customer out to their car at all during the 4 hr shift, she chooses to give me a talking to purely because she didn't hear me ask one guy even though I did.

I also think that the phrasing thing IS a her thing because I've been to dozens of other locations for this company and absolutely no one has used that phrase. Most of the time they don't fucking ask (which, according to my manager, they should be sent home for but none of the locations seem to be grossly understaffed).

I'm officially transferring to a new location for my job

For a little background, I work in customer service and was hired by the company back in July of last yr and did my training at another location since the one I'm currently at wouldn't open until October.

Training went great. My assistant CS manager was going to be the assistant CS manager at the new location. She was amazing, always on top of things.

When it was time to go to the new store, everything was fine until a few weeks in.

Rude coworkers treating me like I'm incompetent, management telling me things months into my job I should've been told in training. The whole shitty shabang.

2 weeks before Thanksgiving, I put in a time off request that sat there for 2 weeks untouched. I was put on the schedule for the 27th (I hadn't been able to seen the schedule for that week when I put in the request). I didn't do anything abt it because I had faith in management that they would do their jobs and at least look at the request because I couldn't possibly be the only person taking time off for the holiday, especially since my assistant CS manager already knew I was going out of town.

Boy was I wrong.

I received a call 2 hours into the shift that I couldn't be at because I was in a different state asking me if everything was alright since they hadn't seen me. I told them everything was fine and that I was just out of state. I also explained that I had put in a time off request 2 weeks in advance. She tried to tell me that maybe it was denied and I told her no that it was sitting at pending for 2 weeks. I honestly think they didn't notice I wasn't there until I had to do carts.

After that, I wasn't scheduled for a while and received a message of "possible separation" due to the fact that I hadn't worked in a while. Not my fault. I have no control over my schedule. When I called to speak to my assistant CS manager since she was really the only one who gave a damn abt me, I was bluntly told that she had been promoted and didn't there anymore.

Then, when I finally got scheduled again, I met our CS manager. She'd seemed nice enough at the welcome to store thing, but I hadn't seen her since. I was just doing my job and she comes over, asking me if I'd been trained on our carryout service. I say yes. She tells me that if I continue to not ask people if they need help out to their cars, she's gonna send me home. Mind you, the customers that we'd had come through were either big families or decently fit guys who barely had anything. So, out of fear that I was still being watched (I was on the complete opposite side of the store from her when she came over) and would be sent home, I asked EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. who came through the line if they needed help out. And guess what? People laughed at me. You know why? Because it's ludicrous. If they look like they need help, I'll ask, but if it's people who obviously don't, what's the point?

From then on, she continued to treat me like I didn't know what I was doing and today was no different.

Today, I was scheduled from 1:30pm to 5:45pm. I get there, clock in, and she tells me I need to do a store sweep among a billion other things before I had carts in half an hour. So I go get the broom and begin working. Then I get called back to the front to do a pickup order.

By the time I'm finished with that, it's 4 mins into my cart time, so I put up the broom. As I get ready to go do carts, she stops me and asks if I did the store sweep. I say I got through part of it and she asked if i swept the front of the store. I say no because I was called by the girl at the CS desk to do a pick up order. She asks me what time I got there, even though she has schedule papers right in front of her in her hand. I say 1:30. She says ok and leaves and I go do carts.

My mom was shopping at the store during this time and she said whe she was leaving, the CS manager looked as if she was standing guard by the door, like someone was gonna escape.

Everyone I've ever talked to about the company who has also worked there has also had a horrible experience.

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reblog and put in the tags a song that you know exactly what it is from the first millisecond of it being played

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Don't you just hate when you have a really good idea but it goes away before you can write it down only for it to come back, but not all the way, when you see an actor you had as a face claim for a character doing an interview for his new movie

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Oh boy...

I was tagged by @twstlibrary !

YOU HAVE TO FIST FIGHT THE LAST FICTIONAL CHARACTER IN YOUR CAMERA ROLL, HOW FUCKED ARE YOU?

...well then 🥲

❤️ TAGGING: @xialatvs, @theorphanprince, @shiny-jr, @187-mg and who else wants to!

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It just occurred to me that I completely forgot about this post and also forgot the idea I originally had (sorry @smol-feralgremlin and @thehoodedsweater ). But that's OK! I have a new one!

It's called Back of My Mind (pretty much cause I had that Billie Eilish song in my head) and basically these 2 actors were a couple while they were working on a show back in the 2000s and early 2010s (CSI: Miami mainly because the male actor's face claim is Tim Speedle's actor Rory Cochrane). She did well in Hollywood while his career kinda tanked after he left the show. They reunite years later and she ends up casting him in her new movie. He thinks that everything I going to go back to the way it was, until he meets her boyfriend...

I'm not usually this bad at summaries but it's also 7:22 in the morning and I've hardly had any coffee.

Anyone wanna hear an original idea of mine?

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Hold up. You're telling me that Oscar speeches are only supposed to be 45 seconds total (this is not each if u have multiple people who won) and this jackass Adrien Brody got to have nearly 6 minutes just cause he wanted to while multiple winners didn't even get to speak?! And this isn't the 1st time he's told them to turn the music off so he could have a longer time than others.

Complete asshole.

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I want a girlfriend who will listen to my rants and my fic ideas without slapping me across the face for talking too much but I'm single as fuck

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I'M SORRY TEEN VOUGE THE FUCK YOU MEAN MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG IS DEAD?!?!

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10 people I'd like to get to know better

Last Song: Ascension by Natalie Holt (Loki S2 Soundtrack) *I'm working on a fic...*

Fav color: Blue, specifically royal blue

Last book I read: Some book abt NYPD Blue

Last Movie: Henry Danger: The Movie

Last TV show: CSI: Miami

Sweet, Savory, or Spicy: Depends, but usually savory

Relationship Status: Single

Last Google: Saddest MCU scenes (again, I'm working on a fic)

Looking forward to: Graduation and DragonCon

@jojovauseman @baronafanas002 @thehoodedsweater @thestorieswesay

sorry I'm late to this!

tagged by @melodymunson

10 people I’d like to get to know better

last song: Hammer Horror by Kate Bush

fav color: purple

last book: Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (I haven't finished it yet)

last movie: Hatchet (2006) (I'd never seen it before)

last tv show: Bob's Burgers (definitely a comfort show for me)

sweet/savory/spicy: I have a sweet tooth like no other

relationship status: married <3

last google: 'what do morel mushrooms taste like?' (the things we look up for fanfic, istg)

looking forward to: finishing my Egon x OC fic, getting my learner's permit, the end of winter, being less tired and moody all the time, developing my video editing skills, engaging in other hobbies more often

tagging: @ghostsfungitwinkies @loserboysandlithium @taire-the-disaster-gay @haroldramistwinkie @gr00vyashley @raccoonboywrites @songbirdmunson @rafescvntyclubgf @elegantpaperoperatormaker @eerielamb

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I mean, she's not wrong.

I've been a Once fan for as long as I can remember. When I 1st started the show, I actually liked Rumbelle. I thought they were cute.

But after countless rewatches, including the current one I'm doing, Belle has really begun to irritate me. It's nothing against Emilie, she's great. Belle's just *angry groan*.

She just never accepted that he was the Dark One and nothing was gonna change. Even from their 1st kiss, she was trying to rid him of the darkness (correct me if I'm wrong, I kind of avoid any Rumbelle-centric episodes, including Belle's 1st episode).

Belle should've just made up her mind about Rumple instead of flip flopping constantly.

In S5 e16, when Belle arrives in Hell and Rumple informs her that she's pregnant and that he "sold" his second born to help Baelfire, she acts as though Rumple made the deal while knowing that she was pregnant.

Just going off flashbacks in the series, Rumple made the deal at least a decade before even meeting Belle, let alone falling in love with her, marrying her, and getting her pregnant. Also, Rumple didn't even know the deal was still a thing until Hades revealed that the guy Rumple made the deal with was in Hell, and then transferred the deal to himself.

The only people that deal affected until Rumple found out about Belle's pregnancy and that the deal still existed was him and Milah, yet Belle acts as though Rumple made it to purposely hurt her.

Belle without Rumple: A likable, capable character with tremendous potential who behaves like a normal person

Belle with Rumple: The most obnoxious twat of a character you had the displeasure of watching

Rumple without Belle: Confident (relatively), Complex, 300 layers of characterisation, Showstopping, Immaculate, Grind him up and snort him kind of perfection

Rumple with Belle: A shell of a character, hollow, disturbing, static noises, call him a ghost because he's trapped in limbo

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This is so true 🤣 I have nearly a thousand just laying around my house. Only 1 of them is near full.

Writers don’t use notebooks, we collect them. They’re sacred artifacts, filled with precisely three pages of notes before we abandon them for a new, shinier one.

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Thinking about writing a Once Upon a Time continuation/self insert fic using Morgana as the villain (the one from the 2010 Sorcerer's Apprentice movie)

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Had a dream last night that involved the dude who played Harvey Dent/ 2 Face in the Dark Knight. Prior to the Google I did a few mins ago, I had no idea who Aaron Eckhart was. I've also never seen the Dark Knight.

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I’m starting a picrew chain because I’m bored.

blog vs blogger!

tagging:… @kirks-exquisite-vegan-pancakes, @marthtron, @backseatrhythm, @aimbuddylist, @aspartame-parent and YOU.

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Not me slowly getting back into Once Upon a Time and realizing that (unbeknownst to me at the time) Regina Fucking Mills was my bi awakening.

Specifically a S1 scene where she's in her office, wearing a gray dress (not the one with the jacket, but with the gold belt) and Lana still had the short hair.

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A man & his Ferris Bueller t-shirts