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Sep 17 2007, 02:35 PM
Tell me about it. I've been moved to a different area and while my boss does a good job of training, he is extremely busy (mostly because the turnover rate is high and he's the only one who knows how things work around here) and can't always help me, yet half the time he's the only one who can answer my question. There are times when I am about to throw my computer out the window because I'm frustrated over some stupid task.
Sep 17 2007, 03:02 PM
p-176, I don't know how they are phrasing those questions, but a good response, specifically to, "what time do you start?" is:
"when I get here."
Sep 20 2007, 05:43 AM
i work with f*cking stupid catty people. one of my project reviewers was trying to tell my boss that i had to given him some paperwork regarding a project - luckily, i was able to reforward him an email with the necessary attachments, with the message, i sent this to you 2 weeks ago.
this was the same guy who was asking me what time i got to work/could leave for the day.
and it's my birthday weekend - i should be happy. instead, i'm annoyed with coworkers, and i'm still unable to fit into more than 4 outfits in my closet 'cause i'm so fucking fat.
<trying to find happy place><almost there>
Sep 20 2007, 07:30 PM
p_176, good luck with finding your "happy place"
kittenb, I have felt that rage you speak of, today, while cleaning windows a second time because clearly wiping them with windex didn't clean them the first time - my boss can be a cunt she doesn't seem happy with anything I do. I keep trying to find my "happy place," but lately I tend to swing from feeling okay with my jobs, to sheer seething hatred. I've almost quit one of my jobs, not once, but twice this week alone... I think that one, I need a vacation (if I suddendly got a hefty bonus hah hah!) and two, I need a big change career wise. people shouldn't have to live this way. I think of all the time I spend at work and if I'm not happy, I'm really wasting my life and energies.
Oct 1 2007, 05:17 AM
muffy - thanks. i sort of found a happy place.....in theory i'm getting a raise soon, and i got some birthday money so i can buy new clothes (i cleaned out my closet for donations, and realized i have precious little work-appropriate clothes anymore). so sometime this week am going shopping.
Oct 2 2007, 07:43 AM
p_176, hurray for shopping and the possibility of a raise! I may hit up a thrift store soon just to get some new/old clothes I could probably use some myself. have fun
On my job front, well my retail job has yet another manager - we've had countless managers at this store. After two years of working there I'm really starting to not enjoy it as much because one of the co-managers kind of annoys me, she stays in the backroom all the time, which on some occasions I don't mind. But even when she isn't hidding in the backroom, I can't do anything like go to the bathroom and take a piss without informing someone (her) that I'm leaving the sales floor, I feel like I'm in 2nd grade again! I've been trying to find another job but I really want to go to grad school, maybe winning the lottery is in my future. I was on the MASS ART site last night and they require a $500 deposit for housing because that's money I just happen to have lying around. I feel stuck.
happy tuesday everyone.
Oct 2 2007, 03:44 PM
I was also thinking I would hit up a local thrift store soon too, haha.
I also have my own work frustrations...
I work in a computer store, and I'm the only female salesperson. Today a customer who I call "bluetooth headset man" because he is always wearing his stupid headset to make himself look important, came in and was like "Can you help me?" I said "Sure, what do you need help with?" And then he was like "Do you know your stuff, I need someone who knows their stuff. I need to know about all of the chipsets on every single motherboard because I'm trying to replace a fried motherboard on a Dell computer." And I said "anything I don't know I can surely look up for you." and he just said "actually, I would rather talk with someone who is more experienced." First of all, employees cannot be expected to know every single little detail about every single product in a store that stocks thousands of items. I could have helped him if he would let me. Also, if he didn't want my help, why did he ask me in the first place? Just to put me down. He obviously doesn't know much about computers (from previous experience in dealing with him), and he pretends to, but he doesn't. Bah, frustrating. Working in computers I have to deal with a a lot of customers who don't believe that I could possibly know anything about computers because I am female. It's very frustrating. Oh well.
anna k
Oct 2 2007, 06:17 PM
I just started temping at a magazine, and my boss creeps me out. He's in his sixties with a big belly and dyed-dark hair, and bugs me. Today, he passed me from behind and started squeezing my shoulders. I immediately shook him off, but he didn't say anything. I told my co-worker, who was there, but she said she didn't notice. I hate that he refers to me and the other temp as "the girls," or when he engages us in his stories that I don't want to hear, just antsy to get back to my work. I'm only there for a week and a half, but I work 9-5, and this guy is creepy and annoying.
"Do you know your stuff?" That's so condescending and prickish.
"more experienced" = has a dick.
Oct 2 2007, 07:50 PM
I once had a creepy old man boss too. He would come up to us and put his hands on our legs and wrap his arm around me. Once when he got obviously too close i stuck out my elbow and jabbed him in the ribs. Then he left me alone. I just felt bad for the other girls. If it's only a week and a half, then just grin and bear it, it'll be over soon! Maybe use some elbows?
Oct 3 2007, 10:24 AM
I once had a creepy boss as well, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. I felt at the time that in this day and age I couldn't believe that men still refered to women as "broads" in the presence of a woman! I don't think there is really a good way to deal with them other than find another job.
speaking of jobs, I am sending in my letter of resignation to one of my two jobs. Its an art gallery. I've decided while it is a fincial hardship, 1) said job is planning on cutting my hours. Why? you ask because I made a 'clerical error,' in tallying up the days totals. I've only been there a month and they keep saying I wasn't "properly trained." I was trained by their supposed "esteemed" gallery associate that the owner and his wife praise up and down. Also, I've worked retail, I've worked as a designer, at a photo studio where I was there alone on many occasions, and at a non-profit gallery for over 3 years. I can assure you this isn't rocket science. The gallery has no computers or cash registers, they're system of doing things is completely archaic and there's a huge margin for error. According to the owner, no one has ever made a mistake in tallying up the totals, which is completely bullshit. But because I made this error, I don't fill out the reciepts properly and the owner's wife feels there's no "connection" between us (which just made me want to ask him if I should hug her when she walks threw the door), they feel I can't be trusted. This has all suddenly happened since last Friday! no one needs that. It was only two days a week and I can probably get more hours at the retail job that at least trusts my ablities, until I find something else.
Oct 4 2007, 01:50 AM
I'm kind of aggravated at UW-Madison. TWICE in the span of a week a crazy/deranged (sorry, but it's the only word I can come up with to describe it) type person was running around campus with a gun. I mean, almost could have ended being a Virginia Tech situation. They sent out a mass email, and an ad on Facebook.
All good and well if you are a student, or a clerical worker who's in front of their computer. But..and I'm sorry to say this, nothing against people in offices....but who's in bigger jeopardy?
Um...I'd say it'd be those of us who TRAVEL THE ENTIRE CAMPUS, all day long on FOOT. OUTSIDE. We (well over 150 of us, if not more) were never notified. And it's not like it's not possible. We all carry alphanumeric pagers. How frigging difficult is it to send out a mass message on the pager system? They do that when things break down! But...NO, not if it's, oh, a CRAZY RUNNING AROUND THREATENING PEOPLE WITH A GUN!
In both incidents I knew NOTHING about it until after I got home and heard it ON. THE. NEWS.
And in one of the incidents, I found out that I had been close to the area where it was going down. (within about three blocks)
Oct 7 2007, 09:30 PM
treehugger, that's crazy. to think your place of employment wouldn't consider the saftey of all its employees.
I have a lot of bones to pick with employers lately...
I read this article, which now I can't seem to find to add a link.. but anyhow, its about how one should "clean up" their online image meaning if you've ever written something not 'upstanding' according to the norm (and what is the norm?)... or images of you not "satisfactory" to the general population or whatnot... you could lose your job or not get a job... oh and if you express views that are not in the same line of thinking of a job well...
I think we've finally become the plot of "1984." I'm sorry but what I do in my personal time is really no one's business, if it isn't directly effecting my job, meaning I'm not bad-mouthing my company or harassing anyone or doing anything illegal... what the hell does it matter to anyone if I want to write something, post it online and let millions of unsuspecting people read, listen or look at it?! If I feel its okay to put up online than I suppose I don't care if others read, see, or hear it now do I? Its not their business and I think employers have way too much power in this dwindling economy, they can treat us like shit and apparently spy on us and what the hell is one to do? Its "1984." and its fucking bullshit. I believe some sort of civil liberties and/or free speech is being violated here...
Oct 18 2007, 06:48 AM
govt job.....they took a YEAR to even advertise the job i finally have (project manager), yet some intern was miraculously promoted to project manager - and no one on staff except for 3 or 4 people even knew it was happening so it was a shocking announcement at the staff meeting the other day.
i realize now, more than ever, that no one is ever going to help me get training or experience - i have to find it all myself. :-/
Oct 19 2007, 03:26 AM
oooh, yes, p176. We get that kind of silly crap all the time. I've resigned myself to the fact that I will never be one of the glorified "chosen ones".
All I can do is try to get my college degree and hopefully be boss someday. Although it's probably not going to happen because they just made the boss's son a "lead worker". Total grooming. And this guy is the most disorganized scatterbrained person I know.
But if it made sense, they wouldn't do it. Blah.
Oct 29 2007, 06:12 AM
My boss and supervisor have gone on a 'business' trip to Cuba this week, leaving our other supervisor in charge, and the i guess top sales guy on a powertrip. He goes all crazy with the power, taking every possible opportunity to show off how he is in charge. It is very annoying. Also, with them gone to Cuba, I'm working 5/7 days this week, on top of school and the papers that I have due. Weeee.
Oct 29 2007, 08:45 PM
Well, thanks to some stupid guy in sales, who loves to download stuff and has a Youtube and chat room addiction, my workplace has placed very severe restrictions on internet use. This means no email, no surfing unless it's work-related (even on breaks), and if you get caught you get written up. If they'd get more bandwidth and better security, there wouldn't be such a problem, but apparently they can't afford it, and heaven forbid they actually talk to the guy about it. I hate it when people decide to take stuff out on an entire group, and not just the troublemaker.
Oct 29 2007, 09:49 PM
The publishing editor at my job is on vacation, and the stand-in is absolutely clueless, so is the new layout guy,
who is also dead late with the layout, and since I'm last in the foodchain and stuck with the last touch-ups, proof reading & editing
it pretty much SUCKS TO BE ME right now. I'm supposed to do about 20 hrs work in, oh, let's say 6 hrs???
And the stand-in then has the audacity to say "could you please be hasty about it, because we're running a little late on schedule".
WELL NO SHIT SHERLOCK, I've been waiting for it for over a week now, I mean "late" is 2-3 days late, not 10!
How can you even BE 10 days late? How is that even technically possible? I'm just bewildered.
Oct 30 2007, 03:51 PM
I started work at a retail job this week. I've only been there two days, and it's soul-sucking. However, the training was fine. I get to my first day,and my manager and assistant manager aren't even there. WTF? So, I have this moron (who kept wanting to call me "white girl") training me as the receptionist. And everyone kept running around saying "You're NEW!!" and rolling their eyes.
Then my schedule changed, and so I asked my manager this morning. She yelled at me. I got hired to work the weekends, but I thought I had this Sat off. I also mentioned that 6 days out of 7 is a lot to work, and she just gave me a look from hell. She now thinks that I won't be able to do the job, and glared at me all day. Not to mention when I was ready to leave, she said: "Sassygirl, GO!!!" I thought this was supposed to be a diverse company, but I'm beginning to change my mind.
Nov 8 2007, 02:30 PM
Some asshole guy I work with decided to yell at me for no reason. He's paranoid and annoying. I let him get to me and actually yelled back, which is so out of character for me. But he was shouting at me and I just couldln't help but think, who does this guy think he is? He likes to bully people around, but I have never really been bullied, and I am not about to be at this point in my life. I seriously need to get out of this job, I can't stand all the childish crap that happens there. I have never seen a group of adults so petty, and whiny.
I must get out.....
Nov 12 2007, 05:23 PM
Sassy - that sucks, being new is really hard, I remember from my job. I work at a computer store with all men and they were definitely wary of me when I first started. I hope it gets better for you!
Gingerkitty - Congratulations on yelling back, sounds like he deserved it.
I had to talk to my boss about Christmas holidays today. I am currently the senior part-time employee, also home is four hours away for me, as I'm a student. Last year my family was 45 minutes away and I came back to work during the holidays because getting home wasn't such a big deal, however this year is different. The other guy who worked with us last year who was a student got TWO WHOLE WEEKS off at Christmas to go home, all because he is the favourite and wanted to (he is no longer around thank goodness), and silly me, thinking that this meant that I might be able to get time off, asked to have the week between Christmas and New Year's off. My boss says he'll try but he doesn't think so. I told him I'd be able to come back for maybe two days, but then the amount of money I make in those two days won't even cover my travel, so I don't see the point. *sigh*. All I want is some time off. But apparently I'm not as special as the other favoured golden worker child. Bah.
Nov 15 2007, 06:59 PM
Hello Women,
For some reason my "search" option isn't working so i'm pre-apologizing if this topic has already been covered. i'm a publicist in the music/entertainment industry and as i'm sure you're all aware this career is particularly demanding (as almost ALL jobs are!) on my life. working so hard and not really having a "9-5" job leads me to neglect my friends, family, boyfriend, etc A LOT. and i dont even realize i'm doing it sometimes, which breaks my heart.
i guess my job happened really fast a few yrs ago and i became really good at what i do so i moved up the ladder quick. i'm in a senior position and have demanding artists/musicians that i work for and sometimes its not that easy to turn it off, ya know? but i do try...i'd like to try harder.
all that being said can anyone suggest a book on this topic??
Nov 17 2007, 03:47 AM
all that being said can anyone suggest a book on this topic??
I hear ya sister. I'm in the music biz as well. To make matters worse, so is my husband, at the same company, so when we get home the work continues. On the other hand, we understand each other's work issues so there isn't a problem there. As for books on the topic, I'm clueless, and so are most writers if you're looking for something relevant to your job. Books about the music industry in general tend to be poorly written and very one dimensional, I've found. On the other hand, if you're looking for something on the topic of how to deal with being pulled in a million different directions at once, and how to stay sane, I'm sure there's something out there, I just don't know what.
My way of dealing generally involves finding things outside of work which have NOTHING to do with music. As long as you aren't completely losing your mind you can find ways within the job to keep sane. And if not, you have to find something else.I was managing an indie label and eventually had to step back. I now work with downloads and neighboring rights/publishing which, strangely enough, I really like. The NR part anyhow. A lot less contact with musicians, which allows me to start liking them again.
Nov 19 2007, 10:36 PM
A book on work/life balance? Or just based on the music industry?
Lana, how did the Xmas talk go?
Had a weird spur of the moment work evaluation the other day. My bos just listed all the things I was doing wrong, and told me that I was "too snappy." I almost laughed. Because, about 5 minutes before she was yelling at me. Umm....
Don't really know where I stand with her, because it seemed that after she completely shot me down, she left.(After giving me a phony speech about how attitude was important in life...)
The weirdest thing? I applied at a different store in a different state (Portland..because I want to move there) just for the fuck of it. They called me tonight. I'm half tempted to take an offer. If it payes more, I'm getting the hell out of dodge. I really like IKEA, just not this store. Too many goddamn clicks. Plus, how awesome would it be to move?
Nov 22 2007, 05:36 PM
i just put in a 20-hour shift. yeah, that's right, 20 hours. apparently my boss was far more concerned with getting her four day weekend started than communicating with production to find out how many hours they were planning and scheduling our department accordingly. i tried early in the evening to reach someone to come in and relieve me at the 10-hour mark, but you know no one was about to interrupt their weekend to come back to work, even if it was (at the the time) going to be only four or five hours.
never mind that most of us, including me, are going to be back saturday anyway. i work with a bunch of selfish fucking cunts. that's okay though; next week i'm going to have a fat check. after 8 hours, overtime kicks in at time and a half, after twelve hours it goes to double time, and anything after midnight is a .25 shift differential, and i think holiday pay kicked in after midnight, which is double time and a half if you work that day, on top of regular pay. this totally justifies the $100 i just spent on boots i'll probably never wear.
Dec 15 2007, 11:13 PM
Dammit i hate my boss!
but was i out of line?
okay, so i havent actually started work yet.... which makes me hating my *future* boss even worse, but the thing is, am i just being over sensitive, is she, as i suspect, actually a total skankhobitch, or was it justified?
See, i went on holidays last week, and got my mum to drop in the paperwork. The boss implied that i would be starting on monday, so, after i returend from holidays (on the firday before) i called her to try and find out what time i would be required to start. Her response; "this isnt a good time. I'll call you back." end of conversation. as she hadnt said anything about when i was actually starting still, i took it as i saw it, which was i would start on monday. 2 days later (today), with still no word on what time she wanted me and the day before i
i was starting, i call her again. this time, conversation goes like this:
Me: "Hi it's (<3drums), sorry to interupt your weekend but could you please tell me what time i start tomorrow?"
Bitch from hell: "LOOK, I TOLD YOU THAT I WOULD CALL YOU. YOU WERE THE ONE WHO WENT ON HOLIDAYS, AND NOW YOU'VE INTERRUPTED ME AT A FAMILY FUNCTION, WHEN I SAID I WOULD CALL YOU!!! WHY DID YOU CALL ME?"
Me (very sheepishly):"um, i'm sorry, i though maybe you had forgotten?"
Bitch from hell: "WELL NO, I HADN'T FORGOTTEN! I'M IN CHARGE OF THIS BAKERY, SO WHEN I SAY I WILL CALL YOU, I WILL CALL YOU, AND YOU WAIT FOR ME TO CALL YOU. WHEN I GET HOME AND HAVE THE TIME TO GO THROUGH YOUR PAPERWORK, I WILL CALL YOU BACK, OKAY??!"
Me (practically shitting myself) : okay, i will wait for you to call me.
Bitch from hell: OKAY. BYE.
*end of conversation*
so here i am, not knowing when i start work or if i even have a job anymore, as all but one of the other times she has spoken to me she has implied that i am a huge hassle to her and i am stupid and annoying. So. Was it out of line for me to call, or am i justyified in wanting her to die die die!?
*btw* i'm new, and sorry if this post is sorta not what the thread is all about.....just lemme know. and also sorry for the MASSIVE rant-post this has turned into
, but i was like, crying, when i got off the phone and this made me feel a bit better.
Dec 16 2007, 05:28 AM
no...she sounds like a very unprofessional "boss"...I hope she gets her act together and starts to not expect her staff to be mindless puppets waiting for her jump. Yuck.
You're in the correct thread. Rant away.
Dec 17 2007, 03:36 PM
Treehugger's right. She should have given you a firm date when you were going to start and not yelled at you for trying to find out when that was, family function or not.
And if you need to vent about work, then you've come to the right thread. Welcome.
Dec 19 2007, 02:08 AM
I HATE overly modified drinks when I'm working six hours straight on the bar with a constant 12-15 drinks on my bar. How the hell do people expect me to get their double tall nonfat extra hot sugar free vanilla latte with no foam out to them within a minute or two when everybody else is ordering a drink with six different modifiers as well?!
And don't ever come up to me and ask me for a cup of ice water!!!!! CAN'T THEY SEE MY BAR IS FILLED WITH RED CUPS AND I'M DOING SOMETHING CALLED WORKING?!
And what's up with the customers that stare over the handout counter watching me to see if I'm making their drink right?! Ugh, bunch o' VULTURES!
If it weren't for the people I work with and the few regulars that come into my Starbucks...it wouldn't be worth it to work in an environment like that...
Sorry...holiday stress...had to vent.
Dec 19 2007, 09:17 AM
QUOTE(Debutante23 @ Dec 19 2007, 03:25 AM)
Sorry...holiday stress...had to vent.
you mean... you had to venti? ha ha, starbucks humor, exactly what you need i'm sure
drums, did you start yet? how'd it go with crazy boss?
Dec 19 2007, 06:26 PM
QUOTE(nickclick @ Dec 19 2007, 07:34 AM)
you mean... you had to venti? ha ha, starbucks humor, exactly what you need i'm sure
I don't mind
Dec 19 2007, 07:13 PM
I hear you Debutante! I too work at "giant coffee conglomeration" and I LOATHE it! Does yours have a drive-through? The modified drinks are even more of a pain when people are lined up inside and out. AARRRRGGGGHHHH!
Venti!! har-har
Dec 19 2007, 07:39 PM
QUOTE(octobersky @ Dec 19 2007, 05:30 PM)
"giant coffee conglomeration"
ha, I love that quote...mine isn't a drive-thru thank goodness
But we are sort of short on GOOD baristas right now which is harder on a vet like me who has to pick up the newbies slack. And it doesn't help when it's a Friday or Saturday night and there are only three people on the floor and ALL of you need a 30 min break.
So yeah, I HATE when there's too many freakin' modifiers on a drink. It's rediculous...they should just buy a machine and make their own damn latte at home, lol
I think the most difficult drink I've ever had to make was a Venti half decaf nonfat extra hot sugar free vanilla Caramel Machiatto made upside with one splenda no foam but with extra caramel and whipped creme. Oh and she wanted me to STIR it for her...
And Octobersky, have you gotten people who wanted their drink steamed to 200 degrees or higher? Syrup, espresso and burnt milk...yummo!(being sarcastic here)
And do you get the vultures too at your store?
Dec 20 2007, 03:33 PM
OMG that venti caramel thing would have just made me bang my head on the bar!!! I hate when people are so picky, like 1.5 splendas or some crap like that. What bugs me are the ones that come inside to get a brewed coffee and then what YOU to put their cream and sugar in it!! Are you that lazy you can't be bothered?
Yeah we get people who want their drink extra, extra hot and when I'm on bar I try to explain to them that any higher than about 175 or so it's gonna taste burnt and nasty, but there are still some idiots who insist - yum scorched milk
Oh my yes do we get the vultures - I love it when you are handing out the drinks one by one as they come up and you call the one drink and immediately they want to know where their other drinks are. Yes I can make 4 drinks all at the same time - I'm superbarista!!
The other one I love is when you call a drink three or four times and person cant be bothered to pick up the drink and leave it sit and then complain about it being cold. I've even had people who demand that their drink be brought to them!
Dec 20 2007, 05:22 PM
Wow, it's nice to know that my store isn't the only one, lol. Another thing that bugs the crap out of me is when they don't come by to pick up their drink and someone else takes it...apparently too many people in this world CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THEY ORDERED three minutes ago.
Oy, I had these two guys come in the other day and get six tall chai lattes, four grande capaccinos, a venti vanilla latte, three grande mochas, two tall cappacinos and four grande lattes. For the more than one order drinks I always write on one cup and put a X6 or X however many there are. One of the guys proceeded to write on all the cups asking me what each one was!!! And he's writing the abbreviations wrong! My poor bar person was SO confused. Chai's were written C-L and Cap's were written CAPCH, and mochas were written CAFM, and lattes were written LATES. Freakin' idiots! I had to help my bar person out because he had no clue what was going on with cups.
I figured he was writing the names of the people on them. I didn't know he was writing what the drinks WERE. UGH!
If I EVER see them come into my store again, I will make sure to write their cups AWAY from the register area.
Ha, then I came into my store today after having the day off and my boss asks if I wanna work...lol, I told him he's a funny little man and that I have to get back to doing more of my Christmas shopping, ha ha. Too bad! Tomorrow I open...oy, that should be interesting...veeerrrrryyy interesting...I know it's going to be gift cards galore!
Oh, I had a funny old woman come into my store who proceeded to by gift cards with a check. When I told her checks aren't acceptable for gift cards, but debit cards and credit cards are. She said, "but debit cards are JUST LIKE checks!" I wanted to laugh...
Ah well...it's almost over. Wish we could have gotten some sort of bonus this year like we did two or three years ago...guess corporate is being a pig this year...again.
Dec 26 2007, 01:24 PM
Holiday shopping is OVER!
And of COURSE we don't have anymore...you shouldn't have gotten gift cards a week before Christmas, dumbass!
Dec 27 2007, 09:05 PM
I have had a similar experience and I hated every minute I worked for that turdess. I left after 8 months. Every day I cried on my way home and drank myself to sleep.
My advice to you: RUN! screaming into the night. Find another job.
Trust your gut.
QUOTE(<3drums @ Dec 16 2007, 12:30 AM)
Dammit i hate my boss!
but was i out of line?
okay, so i havent actually started work yet.... which makes me hating my *future* boss even worse, but the thing is, am i just being over sensitive, is she, as i suspect, actually a total skankhobitch, or was it justified?
See, i went on holidays last week, and got my mum to drop in the paperwork. The boss implied that i would be starting on monday, so, after i returend from holidays (on the firday before) i called her to try and find out what time i would be required to start. Her response; "this isnt a good time. I'll call you back." end of conversation. as she hadnt said anything about when i was actually starting still, i took it as i saw it, which was i would start on monday. 2 days later (today), with still no word on what time she wanted me and the day before i
i was starting, i call her again. this time, conversation goes like this:
Me: "Hi it's (<3drums), sorry to interupt your weekend but could you please tell me what time i start tomorrow?"
Bitch from hell: "LOOK, I TOLD YOU THAT I WOULD CALL YOU. YOU WERE THE ONE WHO WENT ON HOLIDAYS, AND NOW YOU'VE INTERRUPTED ME AT A FAMILY FUNCTION, WHEN I SAID I WOULD CALL YOU!!! WHY DID YOU CALL ME?"
Me (very sheepishly):"um, i'm sorry, i though maybe you had forgotten?"
Bitch from hell: "WELL NO, I HADN'T FORGOTTEN! I'M IN CHARGE OF THIS BAKERY, SO WHEN I SAY I WILL CALL YOU, I WILL CALL YOU, AND YOU WAIT FOR ME TO CALL YOU. WHEN I GET HOME AND HAVE THE TIME TO GO THROUGH YOUR PAPERWORK, I WILL CALL YOU BACK, OKAY??!"
Me (practically shitting myself) : okay, i will wait for you to call me.
Bitch from hell: OKAY. BYE.
*end of conversation*
so here i am, not knowing when i start work or if i even have a job anymore, as all but one of the other times she has spoken to me she has implied that i am a huge hassle to her and i am stupid and annoying. So. Was it out of line for me to call, or am i justyified in wanting her to die die die!?
*btw* i'm new, and sorry if this post is sorta not what the thread is all about.....just lemme know. and also sorry for the MASSIVE rant-post this has turned into
, but i was like, crying, when i got off the phone and this made me feel a bit better.
Dec 27 2007, 09:09 PM
OK I am so sick of my job. Mostly because it is full of phonies who kiss up to supervisors and the supervisors are really not too bright. It's really sad.
Thank God tomorrow is Friday.
I hope to be gone by next year starting a new career teaching.
It's a wrap between me and adults!
Dec 28 2007, 05:37 PM
QUOTE(Debutante23 @ Dec 19 2007, 03:25 AM)
And what's up with the customers that stare over the handout counter watching me to see if I'm making their drink right?! Ugh, bunch o' VULTURES!
I always watch over the person making my drink in coffee shops like a vulture. I have to. I don't drink milk and I have to make sure they understood me when I ordered or I'm looking at a trip to the hospital.
Dec 30 2007, 07:02 AM
aww, sorry to hear about your super shitty job rosita, but mine has actually started being ok...i nolonger have any shifts with Bitch boss, and i get free bread, so i'll stay, at least for a little while...if it heads anywhere NEAR the shitheap tho, i'm outta there! With my sanity intact! (or at least, no more damaged!
) I just hope if i throw this one in i can get another job, they're few and far between my side of town
oh, and ((BUSTie)) hugs to all you other working girls!!
Dec 30 2007, 10:50 PM
I'm beginning to hate my job now. It's just the kiss ass coworkers. I have another bitchy boss who I'm pretty sure hates white people (she's black), and is constantly up my ass for everything. I'm a freaking receptionist at a clothing store. As my best friend put it, "Baby you're working at fucking clothing store, not CIA!" I got written up for calling in sick. The weird thing is that I followed the proper procedure. The only thing I didn't do was call my manager (after calling into the stupid sick line). What the fuck ever.
Hell, this job isn't even paying the rent right now. I cried today. I shouldn't be crying at work. I'm hoping that there were be more jobs opening up in the new year. I know I've only been there 2 months, but it feels longer.I even asked to go to the bathroom today, and she wouldn't let me. WTF??
I think I want to go back to doing non profit work, until I can get into grad school.
Jan 7 2008, 10:46 AM
My boss is a bully, who actually called me a liar yesterday. I was trying to do my job, and she was screaming at me. Fuck this. I need to go back to non-profit work. Yes, it doesn't pay great, but at least I'd be helping someone.
Jan 10 2008, 08:52 PM
My boss yells at me any time we are not at least one hundred percent efficient (making at least the standard amount of product for how many people are working on the line); but sets us up for failure at every turn.
Jan 11 2008, 09:54 AM
That sucks!
We had a total lame bullshit meeting about how the three of us (I'm part time with two other people) didn't understand our jobs, and we weren't acting professional enough. Whatev. I almost starting laughing. It's just retail people!!
Jan 13 2008, 07:28 PM
You and I must work in the same place, sassygirl. Only I don't work retail, I actually work a government job. All the supervisors are black and only favor black people who are snitches on other workers and one white guy who knows a lot about the computer system. If they could detach his brain from his body and pickle it somewhere so they could channel it's knowledge, they would, and feed his remains to the sharks.
I am really sick of the backstabbing bitches up in here. I don't really talk to anyone because if you express an opinion even if it is not work-related, it is considered insubordination. I am Middle Eastern and people make all these right wing comments about Iran and all the other "evil empire" countries and that is OK, I can't say anything, talk about a hostile working environment!
Anyway I am just here to save money/get out of debt until the fall when I plan to go into a teacher training program. Ugh the wait.
Jan 26 2008, 09:21 PM
Rosita, backstabbing bitches suck!! I'm sorry they're acting like asshats.
Fuck. I got to work today to find that my boss is hiring another receptionist. Now, I'm part time and barely making any money. She's hiring another pt person, and has promoted two people to full time. I don't know anyone that can live on 12 hours a week. I asked her what will happen, and she bitchly told me, "well sassy you hours will be cut." I'm just really concerned b/c my 90 day review is tomorrow....
Need new job like now.
Jan 29 2008, 08:38 PM
Rant: I get paid overtime, but if I work it during a week with a paid holiday, I only start getting overtime at 48 hours instead of 40 hours. I had a TON of work to do earlier this month, but I wanted to put off the overtime until the second week, so I wouldn't get screwed out of the extra money because of new year's day. I went down to the accounting office before I worked the overtime to make sure that my workweek was Sunday through Saturday. They assured me it was.
So I get my paycheck today and it shows that I only worked 13 hours of overtime during my really busy week. I know (and I have the detailed timesheet to prove) that I worked more than 20 hours of overtime that week. I go down to discuss it with HR. She tells me that my workweek is Monday through Sunday, so an entire day that should have been overtime was lumped into the week with a holiday, and I get no overtime for it. "It's in the company handbook", she says.
It's not like it's that much money, maybe $50 dollars difference or so. But FUCK! I feel like I got screwed over by my company. I did everything I could to make sure that I got paid for my overtime. This wouldn't piss me off so much except that this seems to happen every time I work overtime - something happens to screw me out of my money.
Luckily, I go to salaried on Monday. But gah!
Feb 1 2008, 09:53 AM
My review went crappy. I'm now searching for a new job--they're cutting my hours as well, and I can barely afford this job right now anymore to pay the bills.
Feb 2 2008, 03:09 PM
Feb 2 2008, 08:20 PM
(((worker busties)))
RANT: My boss sent me home on Thursday because I had a little fucking cold. She said she didn't want my germs at work. So I didn't work Thursday or Friday, and I feel fine. That's two days with no pay. Now what if I really do get sick? On Thursday morning, I was really tired and had to blow my nose a couple times, but no coughing, sneezing or anything like that. I was probably there for twenty minutes. I understand that others don't want to get sick, but c'mon. I wash my hands religiously, and I felt fine after a cup of coffee.
Anyway, I love my job, but sometimes my boss drives me nuts. She's a super caring woman - but sometimes that just gets suffocating.
Feb 3 2008, 11:19 AM
Completely the opposite rant of yours, puppykitty, though I feel your pain. We all get the sniffles, and we'd be broke if we stayed home every time.
But a coworker came in sick as a dog for a week-- sweating, freezing, wearing his coat, feeling miserable. He ended up in the emergency room, and his doc made him stay home for the next two coming weeks because (as he said in an email to a few people in his department) he has a "very contagious liver infection"! GAH! A woman from my office went down to the HR person (who has an office across the hall from quarantine boy) to ask if we need to worry or watch for certain symptoms, but she couldn't ask, because the HR person got sick and had to go to her doc to see if she'd gotten the same thing!
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Skip to comments.Bin Laden's son weds grandmother from Cheshire
Posted on 07/11/2007 9:48:29 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
To say they are an unlikely couple would be an understatement.
She is a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from a village in Cheshire, he is a 27-year-old Arab scrap metal dealer from Jeddah... who just happens to be the son of Osama bin Laden.
But now, after a holiday romance which started when he saw her riding a horse near the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Jane Felix-Browne and Omar Ossama bin Laden have married.
Mrs Felix-Browne, who has been married five times before, met Bin Laden in Egypt last September while she was undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Her new husband already has a wife and a two-year-old child - under Islamic law men are permitted to have four wives - while Mrs Felix-Browne has three adult sons and five grandchildren.
They married in Islamic ceremonies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and are now awaiting permission from the authorities in Riyadh to make the marriage official.
Mrs Felix-Browne, who will not be using her husband's name, is also trying to get him a visa so he can visit Britain.
At the moment she lives in Moulton - where she has various jobs including restoring houses and aircraft - and speaks to him every day over the internet
She said she was aware some people would be hostile to her marriage. "I hope people don't judge me too harshly," she told The Times.
The groom: Omar Ossama bin Laden, first met Jane Felix-Browne while horseriding
"I married the son, not the father."
She added: "I just married the man I met and fell in love with - to me he is just Omar. I hope people will take a step back and think what it was like when they fell in love.
"He is the most beautiful person I have ever met. His heart is pure, he is pious, quiet, a true gentleman, and he is my best friend."
Father-in-law: Osama Bin Laden
After their first encounter in September riding round the Pyramids, the pair got talking on a night ride the next day.
"This was the start of our intense friendship that culminated in our marriage," she told the Sun. "I saw him all day, every day. We rode together, ate together and talked non-stop.
"But we were never alone. Omar had little command of the English language, but there was chemistry there.
"We laughed all the time. We were falling in love.
"Omar said that when he is with me he forgets the world and all his problems."
Mrs Felix-Browne returned to Egypt in April, when she proposed to him. They married the same week in a traditional Muslim ceremony.
Friends of Mrs Felix-Browne laughed when she told them in the village pub she had married Osama bin Laden's son.
Regulars in the Lion pub in Moulton, Cheshire, thought she was joking when she said she had tied the knot with Omar Ossama bin Laden.
Landlord Jim Mellor, 62, said no one believed Mrs Felix-Browne when she first told pubgoers about the marriage two months after the ceremony in April.
He said: "There was a small group of us in the pub when she let slip she had married Osama bin Laden's son.
"Of course we all laughed and thought it was a wind-up. We all said 'pull the other one'.
"Jane was adamant though but I didn't believe her because I thought there would be a security issue about who she was marrying and she would be hardly allowed to tell anyone.
"We continued to rib her about it on and off over the next few weeks when she came into the pub.
"Although I doubted her I now have to accept it's true."
He said Mrs Felix-Browne, who he described as "very intelligent" and "always smartly dressed", had travelled to Egypt on a regular basis over the last 12 months to receive treatment for her multiple sclerosis.
Mr Mellor said: "I must admit I was beginning to have my suspicions about all these visits to Egypt. I thought there must be some other reason as to why she kept going over there."
He added she was a practising Muslim who did not drink alcohol. One of her parents is believed to have been a Muslim and it is reported she also uses the name Zaina Mohamad Al-Sabah.
Mrs Felix-Browne said British police had visited her to warn her of the personal security dangers of being married to the fourth-eldest son of the world's most wanted man. Bin Laden has a $25 million (£12.5 million) bounty from the US government on his head.
Mrs Felix-Browne believes she met her new husband's father at a party in London in the Seventies through a Saudi man she married when she was 16.
As leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden has been held responsible for the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US and has been linked with several other terrorist plots including the 7/7 London bombings.
Mrs Felix-Browne, who uses the Muslim name Zaina Mohamad Al Sabah, said her husband has had no contact with his father since they were both in Afghanistan in 2000.
Omar bin Laden is one of 11 children his father had with Najwa, one of his wives.
The terror leader is thought to have 17 children.
Omar has been ostracised by the extensive Bin Laden clan because of his father's notoriety.
"He told me he has had no contact with his father since the day he left him. I am sure he is sincere about this fact," said Mrs Felix-Browne.
"He has no knowledge of his father's whereabouts. He had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and was as shocked as everyone else when it happened.
"I don't want any of my family upset by my actions. I know for everybody who likes me there will probably be a million enemies."
Mrs Bin Laden': Jane Felix-Browne
The groom: Omar Ossama bin Laden, first met Jane Felix-Browne while horseriding
I just vomitted at the thought of their potential child.
She looks like Morticia Addams.
I thought the same thing...
that's not a bad thing!
This is her 6th marriage?? She's obviously insane.
She looks like Morticia Addams.
Well, except for the fact that Morticia was pretty hot, at least in the original tv show.
I've never seen a suicide bombers eye...is that what her's are?
Ummmm... What the HELL is a Muslim doing in a PUB???
Alcohol is forbidden, I believe she is in mortal danger of violation of Islamic law, isn't stoning to death the punishment for that? Not to mention, where is her Male Relative as escort???
/sarc (I think...)
Which, of course, is the endgame..
Her alimony checks must be a sight to behold.
Mark Steyn will have a field day with this story.
Ping to the homely groom on the REALLY nice hack horse pic in post 1. I've had friends go over there who said some of the rental horses are of really good quality. This one sure has a pretty head.
At age 51, I don't believe a potential child is in the making.
How many rugrats Binny has damn that we know of
The horse is by far and away the most sexually attractive of the three of them.
Fortunately, given her age I think she is not likely to have a child. Looking at him in his polo outfit it does not look to me like he is much of a practicing Muslim or at least a practicing Wahabi. Maybe he is all right. then again maybe this is a CIA or M1 plot to get Bin Laden and she is really on our side.
No, but I just don't see anything in their eyes, that is different from many others that aren't suicide bombers.
Uhhhh, care to rephrase that?
Looks a bit like a well-worn Lynda Carter, actually.
help me out here. Bin Laden's kids/family still walk this earth and breathe 02 because... I'm at a loss
Can anyone identify the insignia/symbols on Osama Jr.'s shirt and baseball hat? Most of the time it is some western product or team. One of the London tube bombers had a "New York" on his shirt front, looked liked a Yankees style uniform knockoff.
And Morticia here has Osama Jr. beaten. He can marry up to four wives? She has had six husbands. He better keep this a long distance relationship.
what wife # is she? They can have up to four I think.
Very, very interesting.
I can only imagine what HER sons are thinking, what with grandchildren and all.
(But then if you are "laden" with explosives what good is an armor )
Just another bored rich woman?
Some kind of Arabian or related, for sure.
The breed of that particular horse is: Arabian. They are some of the most elegant, beautiful creatures God has blessed us with. I could look at them for hours...and have on occasion. Gorgeous movers and pretty to look at.
Now, as to the other 2 humans? Whatever.
LOL! Funny this post just after another person talks how beautiful the horse is!
Can you imagine having Bin Laden as Step grandpa HELLO he be drinking your beer at Family picnic
OH GOD what waste of good beer on Bin Laden and his goat lovin family
I actually feel sorry for Bin Ladin's kids.. from what I understand, none of them are the radical assholes their dad is, most are pretty 'progressive' (not in the US Liberal sense.) Even if they converted to Christianity or Judaism, they will always have the stigma of their father.
No more "worn" than Carter was 10 years ago, I'd say. She looks perfectly fine.
Most definitely arabian. If you check out my profile page you'll see I'm a big fan of the breed.
Kind of a homely load for such an elegant horse.
Yeah... I just still think of her as Wonder Woman.
From what I understand, most of Bin Ladin's kids are pretty progressive, hell, his daughter is a model and pretty much every thing she wears would get her beheaded in Afghanistan.
Is that one daughter look like 10,000 maniac singer Natalie Merchant
You don't see a scowl of hatred in Mrs. Bin Ladin's picture?
God help us.
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Self-proclaimed liberal Tim Robbins, writer/director of the conservative-bashing pseudo-documentary "Bob Roberts," takes on the issue of capital punishment through the factually-based story of Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) who serves as spiritual counselor to convicted murderer/rapist Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn).
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Project Unit: ROMAN ETTIQUETTE AND TABLE MANNERS
Table manners are a set of rules that allow someone to engage in the "social ritual" of eating. Or they could be the means that excludes someone from social ritual. In many cultures, manners are a means of indicating to the host the honor of eating his or her meal.
In Rome, the plebians and the patricians ate with their fingers, like all Europe until around the Renaissance. In Roman times it became considered refined and proper to eat with three fingers, keeping the ring finger and pinkie clean while eating. Only an uncouth "commoner" would grab at his or her food with five fingers.
The Romans used towel-like napkins (mappae) to wipe food from their hands, an essential when using your fingers to eat! They also employed finger bowls to aid in the clean up. During the reign of Tarquinius Superbus, in the 6th Century BC, the Romans began to use their napkins as well for wrapping delicacies from the table to take home. It became considered unmannerly to leave a meal empty-handed.
Another custom we get from the Romans is the toast. The Romans had a custom of dropping a burnt piece of toast into a cup of wine (tostus = "parched" or "roasted"). Such a practice reduces a liquid's acidity, and would make an inferior and slightly vinegary wine more mellow and palatable. This practice of flavoring their wine, combined with another practice of having the host drinking the first wine poured from a decanter to one's guest's health (poisoning was a common way of killing off one's rivals, enemies, or spouses if an impending divorce was suspected), eventually became our practice of putting up a "toast."
Activity #1: Research and thought: In what way are Roman table manners the same and how do they differ from customs still existing in our culture?
Activity #2: The wealthy Romans lay on their sides, on couches. Why did they lie on their sides? Did laying on their sides help/hurt digestion?
Activity #3: Compare/contrast table manners of Roman wealthy and the Roman poor.
Activity #4: Do some research if you can into the social or religious significance of Roman table manners.


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Too Cute! Sweet, Spooky-Inspired Baby Names from A to Z
Halloween inspired baby names.
By LIZ BRUCKNER
By LIZ BRUCKNER
Happy Halloween!Choosing your baby's name is hard work. Not simply because they're stuck with it for life, but because it seems parents are perpetually looking for the holy grail of monikers: one that's pleasing to the ear without being overly popular.With that in mind, we present our roundup of (mostly) sweet Halloween-inspired names. Whether you have a soft spot for all things black and orange or simply want a handle that's unique, these options are anything but generic.
A: AutumnGIRL: Autumn refers to the autumn or fall season, derived from the Latin autumnus.This classic name is synonymous with spooky simply because it's the season Halloween falls in. PHOTO: FLICKR/ ARESAUBURN
B: BuffyGIRL: Diminutive of Elizabeth (Random.)Name your favourite little girl after everyone's favourite vampire slayerPHOTO: FLICKR/ NICKNGUYEN
C: CasperBOY: An English variant of Caspar: Wealthy man. In Persian; Treasure.Maybe naming him after "the friendliest ghost" will make him the best-tempered-baby. PHOTO: FLICKR/ JASON O'HALLORAN
D: DexterBOY: In Latin, Dexter means right handed.If you love the series starring Michael C. Hall, name your baby after his creepy (yet somehow charming) character.PHOTO: FLICKR/ KATYPEARCE
E: EdwardBOY: Meaning guardian.You know you love Twilight. Let's just hope baby doesn't give you any vampire-like bites.PHOTO: FLICKR/ ANAXOLOTL
F: FesterBOY: Meaning forest.If your baby's bald like the real Uncle Fester (The Addams Family), dress him up as a skunk for a built-in fun faux-hawk.PHOTO: FLICKR/ CLINTUS MCGINTUS
G: GlendaGIRL: A Welsh or Scottish name derived from a compound of words meaning holy and good.Name her after the Good Witch.PHOTO: FLICKR/ SHINGLEBACK
H: HermanBOY: From the Swedish Hermann, for soldier or warrior. Channel your inner Munster by dressing your little Herman in a green costume.PHOTO: FLICKR
I: IgorBOY: Of Russian origin, meaning warrior of peace Inspired by the spooky kids' movie of the same name, maybe your kid will grow up to be a scientist, too - minus the evil part.PHOTO: FLICKR/ NICHOLASJON
J: JackBOY: A diminutive of John meaning God is gracious. (As in O-Lantern - or the Pumpkin King from The Nightmare Before Christmas) Not one for kooky names? Jack helps you keep it classic with a side order of spooky spirit.PHOTO: FLICKR/ ♥KACYPHOTO
K: KittyGIRL: Kitty is a variant of Katherine. It means pure.What a purr-fect name for a sweet baby girl.PHOTO: FLICKR/ JOSE CHAVARRY
L: LunaGIRL: The moon. In Mythology, Luna is one of the names of Artemis the moon goddess.This lovely name is reminiscent of a Halloween full moon.PHOTO: FLICKR/ KCRAWFISH13
M: MorticiaGIRL: From the french word mort, for death.(Source: WikiNames)Your baby can share her name with the matriarch of everyone's favourite creepy clan, The Addams Family.PHOTO: FLICKR/ INNEEDOFHELP08
N: NinaGIRL: In English, means favor or grace.Nina, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer got bit by a werewolf. Save your little girl this fate on Halloween night by referencing the favor or grace theme instead by dress her up as Princess Leia (Star Wars)PHOTO: FLICKR/ FLIPSIDE3
O: OctoberUNISEX: Meaning eight; October was the eighth month on the Roman calendar. (Source: Wikipedia)April and June are common now. Give your baby this unique moniker.PHOTO: FLICKR
P: PiperGIRL: This name has a literal meaning.Maybe she'll fight evil like Piper from TV series Charmed.PHOTO: FLICKR/ WILSX4
Q: QuinnUNISEX: Meaning wiseWhether you have a boy or a girl, you can give them this Supernatural-inspired name. PHOTO: FLICKR/ MISH MISH
R: RavenUNISEX: Dark-haired or wiseThis modern name references a classic Halloween symbol. PHOTO: FLICKR/ IKARL67
S: SabrinaGIRL: Meaning legendary princess.Let's hope she doesn't grow up to be a Teenage Witch.PHOTO: ISTOCK
T: TabithaGIRL: Gazelle.The gazelle was anciently regarded as a symbol of graceful beauty. Tabitha is also reminiscent as tabby cat, which is a cute costume for a baby or tot. PHOTO: FLICKR/ BIBLICONE
U: UrsulaGIRL: Means little bearThink about little bears like this cutie - not the purple octopus monster-woman from The Little Mermaid - when you give your baby this name. PHOTO: FLICKR/ JENPILOT
V: VioletGIRL: Variant of Viola; Viola was one of the heroine's in Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night'. In Italian, flower.Like the character in Lemony Snicket's spooky novel, A Series of Unfortunate Events.PHOTO: FLICKR
W: WillowGIRL: Slender;graceful. From the willow tree noted for slender graceful branches and leaves.This nature-inspired name is so pretty.PHOTO: FLICKR/ NCBRIAN
X: XavierBOY: Arabic origins: meaning bright or splendid.A strong name for your Halloween boy.PHOTO: FLICKR/ KMROSELLE
Y: Yolando or YolandaBOY or GIRL: (Yolanda) Meaning violet (Source: ParentsConnect) Use the male or female form of this name. Either way, you'll be referencing a character from the Vampire Huntress Legend SeriesPHOTO: FLICKR/ CHRISTOPHERALLISONPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Z: Zelda
GIRL: Diminutive of Griselda: From the Old German, meaning 'grey battle' or 'Christian battle'.
Name your daughter after Princess Zelda, or reference the action-hero who saves her with this character and costume-inspired name.


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You could say Eva Avenue has the Midas touch. The visual artist, art philosopher, musician and journalist has lived throughout the U.S. but has returned to her St. Pete hometown, where she's setting up Gold Room, an installation at the Oleson Gallery.
Funded by an Awesome St. Petersburg grant and a year in the making, Gold Room is more than something to look at. It's also an art party and photo-op space that will be open to the public on Saturday, April 19 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.
I asked Eva to tell us a little bit more about Gold Room. She didn't want to say too much about the installation in fear of ruining any surprises, but here's what she was willing to share:
Gold Room is ... a gold room? That seems too simple. What else you can tell us about this?
I wanted the space to play with paint and props in a big way, fueled by the love I feel every time I come back to St. Pete. I get loose and wacky and then conceptualize and reign it in, then expand it again and tighten the visual impact some more until I have it in this balance where it becomes what I consider art. Hopefully it becomes art by opening day. I love saying when something is and isn't art—it makes some people mad.
One thing I'm ultimately looking to do is foster the poetic sensibilities of people. You can still look at things in special ways or look at things simply for what they are. I love how every piece of art is so different, like handwriting, because everyone has this specific lens through which they see the world. There's also lots of people who do neither, they just fog on through the day. So it's a time to focus for the sake of focusing. Everyone's an artist that night.
What inspired Gold Room? Why gold?
I was crouched in an alley in Seattle, in Pioneer Square, spraying objects gold because my photographer friend and I were producing a photo shoot for SSG Music with my favorite local band there, The Tempers.
Mind you, nobody in Seattle talks to you in public unless there's something wrong with them, generally. It's a hard, shriveled nut to crack. But as the sun bounced off the tall buildings and washed down the wall and just bathed all these gold objects in a brilliant, liquid shine, almost everyone who came down the alley stopped and talked to me and marveled at the succulence, and some wanted to do the same thing when they got home—spray some of their things gold.
That experience illustrated one of my favorite quotes: "Art offers the possibility of love with strangers." Walter Hopps, a curator in L.A., said that.
The room has been described as "a vessel for everything you never knew." Can you expand on this idea?
The simple answer would be because you've never been inside the Gold Room before.
That phrase is also this poetic, sad, romanticized sensation I carry around and manifest into my work. It doesn't mean anything specific I can put my finger on. I did two paintings in Albuquerque called "The Party You Didn't Show Up To." I think of those paintings when I consider the phrase "a vessel for everything you never knew." These two paintings gave you a sense you were missing out on something great, but it was inevitable anyway that you would not have gone because you did something else or went to bed early or maybe something terrible happened.
Carrying along that idea of everything you never knew, not knowing things can be wonderful. Peace, to me, is having no thoughts in my mind at any given time. I've become really good at it. I can walk around all day with hardly a thought in my mind, just noticing things. It's urban nomadic bliss.
People are encouraged to take photos in the room. Is more interaction with the space encouraged? Can people add or take away from it? How else do you suggest interacting with it?
People can, within reason, move things around if it serves their photo. There may be a climbable ladder in one room. If there's a chair, they can sit in it, if there's a table, they can lie on it, that sort of thing. If they want to drop acid, do their taxes, bring their favorite pet chicken, write a thesis on the room, dress all in gold, show up naked – I personally do not give a flying waffle!
I'm not really "encouraging interaction," but I don't care what people do, unless it's clearly ruining the space in some way. Common sense decision-making is what I expect. It's like any standard art show but I'm loose about the no-touch rules because I want people to use it for photos.
How long will the room be in existence? What happens after?
The plan is that we'll have a sign-up sheet at Oleson Gallery that night – photographers can sign up for an allotted time slot they'd like to use the space for a shoot that following week. It'll be open and closed sporadically throughout that week, depending on what's going on.
The following Saturday, April 26, John Taormina will have his paintings up for a birthday art show raffle, and Gold Room will still be there as a back drop. Then, I guess, down it goes and it'll live on in photographs.
Ultimately in billions of years the sun will slowly explode outward, melting everything in its path, and none of this will have meant much of anything at all, though it's absolutely necessary that we're here. We're a working part of the structure of existence—how cool is that? It's worth a Gold Room picture or two in the meanwhile. God bless St. Pete.
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Directv to be raising prices - thanks Dennis!
Posted 15 January 2003 - 01:35 PM
The last paragraph says that Total Choice w/locals will be around $39. I'm guessing it will go from $37.99 to $39.99. I don't know about TC+, TC Premier, etc. The article doesn't say anything about those packages.
When Directv restructured the packages last year, those of us with Total Choice w/locals and the Family Pack actually had a price decrease of $4 when it became Total Choice Plus w/locals, so I guess we can't complain too loudly. In my area, it is still cheaper than digital cable by about $5 per month for a comparable package.
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"The Raiders will be back. I have unshakable confidence, the will to win, and I just know that the fire that burns brightest in this building is the will to win. And we will win. We will win."---Al Davis. Rest In Peace, Al
Posted 15 January 2003 - 08:20 PM
totalchoice/hbo/starz $50 a month sounds cool If i could have it my way
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Originally posted by CARL O.
Well after the merger failed, Echostar had to pay Hugeh 600 million $, so naturally E* would raise their rates.But why would DTV? Hope they add more chn's.
The whole reason they had this merger proposal was because DTV is struggling financially. Now they're looking at ways to cut costs and boost revenue.
In that article they also said that DTVLA was going to file for bankruptcy soon. I personally think that DTVLA will go under, mainly because Latin American and Caribbean cable companies offer much better packages and pricing, and local channels, which DTVLA does not. C-Band systems are also very popular. Their main marketing pitch there has been picture quality (it's better than USA DTV) and accessibility from rural areas.
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The reason for the rate increase is . Your networks like lifetime , usa all want MORE money . They get money from ads . That's not enough . They need more . Cut out the commerials and a show would run 2 hours not , 3 hours as it is now .
I wonder if DirecTV can offer a package without Lifetime and charge me the old price or less? I usually block out Lifetime because it's feminist and sexist and always portrays men as being the scum of the earth.
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From what has been posted over at DBS Forums the rumor has it that Total Choice will go to 38.99......up a buck.....Total Choice w/Locals...to 41.99..... up 2 bucks....and a POSSIBLE bundling of some packs again...Like Total Choice + Locals+HBO for 50.99....dollar decrease.....Supposedly Total Choice Premier will stay at 81.99...no increase....we will just have to wait and see.....Ive been with them since 95 as well...no way in hell would I consider a switch...Ive been very happy with Directv
Total Choice is currently $31.99. I dont think it will go to $38.99.
Do you mean Total Choice with locals?
I just hope they keep Total Choice Plus with locals at $39.99 or if they need to price increase it, not more than a $1.
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I have to agree with Gary again
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"The Raiders will be back. I have unshakable confidence, the will to win, and I just know that the fire that burns brightest in this building is the will to win. And we will win. We will win."---Al Davis. Rest In Peace, Al


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The Hawkeyes, losers of their last three regular season games, learned yesterday that the school's all-time receiving leader, Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, was arrested on multiple drug-related charges. According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, police searched Johnson-Koulianos' residence and found marijuana, cocaine and prescription drugs.
Johnson-Koulianos faces seven drug-related charges and has "been suspended from all team activities," coach Kirk Ferentz told the Press Citizen. He appeared in court in Iowa City today.
Johnson-Koulianos broke Iowa's all-time receiving record this season and was a first team All-Big Ten selection. The senior led the Big Ten with 10 touchdown catches, including what proved to be the game-winning score in the Hawkeyes' 24-3 win over Penn State in October.
Iowa had uncharacteristic struggles with miscues and inconsistency this season, entering the year with BCS aspirations but tumbling to a 7-5 record and a berth in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. One constant this season was Johnson-Koulianos, who led the Hawkeyes in receiving for the third straight year.
The Hawkeyes lost at Arizona early in the season, largely because of two Wildcats return touchdowns and a blocked extra point. They lost to Wisconsin when the Badgers used a fake punt to overcome a 30-24 deficit in the final two minutes.
Then, after Iowa handed then-No. 5 Michigan State its only loss of the season, the bottom fell out. The Hawkeyes eked past lowly Indiana, then lost three straight games to Northwestern, Ohio State and Minnesota to close the season.
The Hawkeyes have a chance to salvage the season with a bowl win, but must topple a solid Missouri team to do so. Losing its best playmaker in such disruptive fashion doesn't bode well for Iowa's chances.
In other Big Ten Conference news ...
Tony Bleill says an extension for Illinois coach Ron Zook 'would be a colossal mistake.' (Champaign News-Gazette)
Opinion: New Indiana football coach Kevin Wilson has a real opportunity. (Indianapolis Star)
Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez recalls his first Gator Bowl experience. (AnnArbor.com)
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio seeks his first bowl win against Alabama in the Capital One Bowl. (The Grand Rapids Press)
New Minnesota coach Jerry Kill was active in his first 48 hours on the job. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
New Indiana coach Kevin Wilson was offensive coordinator at Northwestern from 1999-2001. (Chicago Tribune)
Ohio State's compliance department blew the whistle on Terrelle Pryor's Twitter ticket giveaway. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Tyler (Texas) Junior College running back Akeem Shavers committed to Purdue. (Indianapolis Star)
Wisconsin will get $2.47 million share for participating in the Rose Bowl. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)


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The SR 520 Evergreen Floating Bridge is unique because of its length, location over water and age. The floating portion of the bridge spans approximately 7,700 feet. These factors make the bridge vulnerable to closures. As with any structure that moves or floats, the SR 520 Bridge has a full crew dedicated to its maintenance and repair.
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Atlas Shrugged Part 2 box office: Still (barely) there on weekend no. 4
Atlas Shrugged: Part II, the critically panned second installment in a planned movie trilogy based on Ayn Rand's novel, is still playing in North America. (Image: Atlas Shrugged Part 2 Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart.)
Last week, I'd predicted that after plunging 85 percent on its third weekend out the John Putch-directed sociopolitical melodrama would be completely gone by now. I was wrong. At 70 locations, Atlas Shrugged Part 2 added $35,200, down 62 percent after losing 77 theaters, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. But here's another prediction: Atlas Shrugged Part 2, which averaged a dismal (estimated) $500 per venue this weekend, will be irretrievably gone by next weekend.
Worshiped by Libertarians and the American Far Right (which blithely chooses to ignore Ayn Rand's dismissal of religion and blind religious faith), the two Atlas Shrugged movies have failed to catch on at the box office – and, in the case of Atlas Shrugged: Part I, in terms of DVD sales as well. Each movie was budgeted at a reported $20 million.
Four weekends ago, Atlas Shrugged Part 2 had one of the worst domestic debuts ever for a movie in wide release (600-2,000 theaters). The following weekend, the anti-altruism, anti-government melodrama suffered the worst box office drop (65 percent) among the top 15 movies on Box Office Mojo's domestic weekend box office chart.
Atlas Shrugged Part 2 has to date collected a paltry $3.28 million at the North American box office. As I've mentioned before, the film's international prospects, much like those of its predecessor, are nonexistent. The critically massacred box office bomb Atlas Shrugged Part 1 finished its domestic (i.e., worldwide) five-weekend run with $4.62 million.
Atlas Shrugged Part 2: Censorship-induced box office bomb?
Right-wingers should accept the fact that Atlas Shrugged Part 2 bombed in the "Free Market" of their nightmares – the one that doesn't behave according to (idealized) ideological thought. In fact, using the Free Marketers' own ideology, it's easy to explain the frigid reception for the Ayn Rand movie adaptation at the box office.
The market rejected Atlas Shrugged Part 2 because distributor Atlas Distribution failed to come up with the required capital, the marketing know-how, and the necessary "product quality" (in the eyes of the market) to stir up interest for its release. (Read the comments section in this site's other Atlas Shrugged articles; many fans of the book have been very disappointed with the movie adaptations.) It's pure insanity to blame Atlas Shrugged Part 2's disastrous box office performance on the Barack Obama administration or some conspiracy of silence by the (imaginary) "Liberal Media."
Remember Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan's 2016 Obama's America? Distributed by Rocky Mountain Pictures – the same company that released Atlas Shrugged Part 1 – the 2016 movie became a sleeper hit (for a political documentary) this past summer, cuming at $33.44 million at the domestic box office.
Poor marketing strategies, an apparent lack of cash flow to plug their film, and a widely derided product – not anti-right-wing censorship by the Obama White House or conglomerate-owned media entities – are the reasons for the abysmal commercial failure of both Atlas Shrugged movies.
Atlas Shrugged Part 2 cast
In Atlas Shrugged Part 2, Samantha Mathis plays the enterprising Dagny Taggart (incarnated by Zac Efron's The Lucky One leading lady Taylor Schilling in Part I). Other cast members in the second (and quite possibly last) Atlas Shrugged feature includes Jason Beghe as Henry Rearden and Esai Morales as Francisco d'Anconia, plus Richard T. Jones, Kim Rhodes, and Patrick Fabian. The screenplay is credited to Atlas Shrugged Part 1's Brian Patrick O'Toole and TV writer Duke Sandefur.
Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart Atlas Shrugged Part 2 photo: Atlas Distribution.


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