Air your Grievances
 

Happy Festivus!

It's time to air your grievances

My first one is to facebook for conquering social media in a way that killed my favorite forms of it leveraging my own laziness and narcissism.

Next the practice of using thinner paper towels in restrooms to save money - if I can't pull out a single sheet with a wet hand, I will grab wads and defeat your presumed savings.

Obama care - it's great that people can be insured but having 3 different insurance companies in one year - because insurance still is mostly ties to employment - has been a neverending bureaucratic nightmare. Give me national healthcare

More grievences may follow

I loathe the trend of ever-narrowing toilet paper. I have big hands. 'nuff said

Lack of F'n posts here. Get with it people.

I'm on a 2 man team with enough work for 8 and a company with an "Over promise AND over deliver" mentality. The manager they brought in who was doing a great job of at least running interference with customers so I could concentrate on getting through the pile of work I didn't have time to do got an offer from a company he's been trying to get in to for a long time, so he left after 3 months. So now I'm doing my job AND his job while temporarily back under a micromanager who is doing nothing but adding more paperwork to my day.

Those stupid internet "news" stories that start with something like "This homeless man was given extra soft toilet paper, we followed him to the bathroom and guess what he did next. You won't believe it!"

Lame!! Stop it!

Coworkers who don't do their work and go on vacation, meaning that work is passed along to me when I know nothing of their projects.

So far, Moonliner is the only one who has aired a legitimate Festivus grievance, i.e, one targeted at the participants in the celebration. I second his grievance.

Oh, and buy my book.

A Child's Christmas in Queens

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Happy Festivus!

I miss this place...or rather, I miss the time when this place was in its heyday.

I miss this place, and the heyday version of it.

I have more grievances than is appropriate for Festivus.

I also have more to be thankful for than most.

One word:

SPAM.

Not the type trying to sell something legit, but the kind that says "click here to see your ticket/receipt/rewards/to opt out/see my picture" to make you try download a virus. I never fall for it, but the sheer number of them I get at work is annoying. And the fact that there are people out there that get a kick out of causing someone that much pain is nothing short of what the KKK or Taliban accomplish. A-holes.

And of course how FB has just about killed our homey little chat rooms....

I recommend SpamBayes to rid yourself of them pesky messages. After a week or so of training it's been spot on for me.

Rude thoughtless people. I've been working retail over the holidays and I've got a whole laundry list. In no particular order.

When you're checking out get off your cell phone. It's rude to just nod at the cashier.
If you're checking out now is not the time to attempt to search the internet for a coupon.
Don't put your drinks down on the furniture. You don't do it at home don't do it here.
Why do you feel the need to wander around eating an ice cream cone in a furniture/home goods store? And don't get me started on letting your kids run around with them.
Yes we sell harmonicas. If you open one and let your kids blow on them here's a hint you're about the 300th parent who did that so god knows what they'll get.
Furniture displays aren't anchored. They are also not a jungle gym for your kids to climb up to the top.
When the store announces it's closing in 10 minutes that doesn't mean shop for 15 more minutes then wander to the check out. I've got a whole lot of other work to accomplish once we close and you holding me up doesn't help.
Interrupting me when I'm quite obviously helping another customer or, my personal favorite, snapping your fingers for me to heel will not make me help you any sooner, in fact it will slow down the process.
This is a retail store not a bazaar, we don't bargain down our prices.
It's on clearance because it's not in the best shape, you don't get an extra discount on top of that.
If we tell you we can order something we are not going to sell you the floor model because, well other customers might like to see the merchandise. And we're not going to give you a discount because it was on the floor either.

Thanks, but I only have this problem at work and can't run unauthorized programs on my work computer. But I'm glad to see people fighting back! We just switch to a better IT, and they are slowly upgrading us. Hopefully they will get this under control soon, and I'll mention spambayes to them.

Yes!! This is totally me, wrenching out reams of paper towels because my wet fingers tear little half-moons out of the bottom sheet.

I also admit turning into a cranking dervish on some of those disneyland towel dispensers where you push the black lever down to dispense a portion of towel. We don't have them here, so it's a novelty. I think my piece of towel eventually stretched from Adventureland to Bear Country.

CLickbait is possibly my worst peeve. I also think that if you discover something is clickbait, but it has a worthy Youtube video as the subject of the spammy page, please post the youtube link, and not the one to the "OMG YOU WON"T BELIEVE" page.

I'm confused... You mean your first name isn't Strangler??

That list made me laugh out loud. As an ex-customer service person, all of that is spot on the mark. Love it. Together, lets write a Erma Bombeckian book all about the Retail Life.

And now MY peeve (I don't know how Festivus works, but I love to vent).
Facebook doesn't let me format text, so I love, love, love coming here and being able to give my sentences the nuance they need. ...and smilies to peeve Alex. :p :snap: :cheers: :evil: :rolleyes: :D

:D :D :D

Happy Festivus 2015!
(it's still the 23rd as I write this, so not technically too late)

Well, Happy Festivus 2015 to you to!

And I still hate spam! Now I get 20 a day trying to sell me fake brand watches! At least that's what they say they are selling, I never click to see if it's true...

That's wise of you. Never click anything in a spam message--not even the unsubscribe link.