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 Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 7:31 pm
Don't worry about it, snowman. Lately, work is hitting me with anywhere between 8 and 10 hour days . . . so I haven't been active as much either. The guild is dead. At best, it is just a place to say hello to old friends. Just as I always feared . . . I prevail over a graveyard.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 7:20 pm
Not that it addresses the entire issue, but are you able to clock all of that time?
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 7:46 pm
I appear to be. If I don't think I am getting paid, I'm a HUGE stickler for not working. Seriously . . . i've had to fight several times with the previous manager/owners on this. It's illegal, immoral, and downright wrong to be told to work without being paid.
Last week I had something like 47 or 48 hours on the clock.
It doesn't help that the wife is pissed I'm not home a lot. I get that she loves and misses me, but yelling at me about my job doesn't do me any good.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:54 pm
That's good, at least.
My position is salaried, so no overtime, but I'm hoping this effort will result in a bonus/raise. Now if only it would end...
I hope she comes to appreciate the difficulties of your situation.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:45 pm
There is always something to stress. Right now we are stressing that the store is getting an inspection tomorrow. A big one. I will be on-hand since I've been in that location the longest. that means my knowledge is best of just about everything. We will see how that goes.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 8:51 pm
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 6:51 pm
It did indeed. The only things we lost points on were not our fault. So we went from a failing to a Gold Standard (second highest). That made people feel better. Of course, now the new regime is gaining steam, meaning that we are able to start working on getting people to do their effing jobs, instead of sitting around and vaping all ******** day.
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 5:09 pm
Glad it went well and that things are becoming more orderly.
I really don't understand vaping. I get that not having the ash/tar is beneficial, but nicotine itself is a problem, and the diacetyl causing popcorn lung is terrible.
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 9:24 pm
I don't even pretend to get it. I just find myself even more disgusted by it than smoking. It doesn't make sense, but to me . . . I am acutely aware that every breath I smell the sickly sweet scent of that stuff, my nostrils are filled with the breath of the person vaping. That disgusts me more than anything.
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 7:25 pm
I can understand that viewpoint as well. The thing that bothers me is the etiquette, b/c so many feel they can do it indoors just b/c the smoke won't perma-stain the walls/ceiling/fabrics. Honestly, smoking/vaping/whatever just needs to die. Medicine knows it bad for you and everybody around you, but the big companies...
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:34 am
As with most of our culture here in America, we have reached near the end of the capitalist extreme version of economy. What is right, just, appropriate, and fair all falls to the wayside in favor of that which can be purchased. From material things, to intellectual property, to lawmakers and government itself. everything has a price, and to those lucky few that have the funds to make those purchases . . . this is a golden era.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 8:32 pm
Such is the problem w/ capitalism without morality. Any government or economy can fall into corruption, though others are more flawed from the outset and thus more likely to crumble.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 7:00 pm
stare Nothing like societal entropy.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:54 pm
It's bound to happen with rampant relativism; nobody is willing to accept a standard for morality beyond what is convenient for them or "feels" right nowadays. while morals and their effect on society are difficult to quantify, over 50 years of decline has borne its fruit.
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:56 pm
Similar to the non-existent division of church and state.
Society is ruled by laws, which are in turn a set of defined rules to relegate behavior and appropriate punishments for violating those behaviors.
These rules are based on a common morality (don't steal, don't kill, etc).
This morality must be agreed to by a majority of people, and when large groups seek morality, they need a moral authority.
Moral authority inevitably has to do with belief, as most people seek out a deific code for moral conduct to either direct or reinforce behavioral norms.
Those norms are inexorably defined by the church that directs the largest portion of the populace.
Thus the Church cannot ever be truly disassociated from the state.
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