Belgium, actually
Things that frustrate us all
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My company has shifted all the HR and scheduling work to India. Now I keep getting emails where they confuse my first and last name. Imagine your name is Bob Smith and you keep getting emails for Mr. Smith Bob.
I just sent a second email to the scheduling person to remind them, AGAIN, of what my name is.
*sigh*
I just sent a second email to the scheduling person to remind them, AGAIN, of what my name is.
*sigh*
Just as long as they don't start paying you in rupees.
One of my front end managers tried to write me up the other day. She said I was stealing food from the break room fridge. Even claimed to have me on video doing it (despite the fact that there's no cameras in the break room, genius 
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Two things about that: 1) I do NOT steal food that has a receipt attached; and 2) If it DOESN"T have a receipt attached, I consider it fair fucking game. You don't own that food unless it has a receipt. If it doesn't, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. Eat it, take it home, throw it away, it's my call.
Besides, there's signs all over the break room that SAY any food without a receipt will be thrown away. So that's another reason said food is community property, free to be consumed by me if I so choose.
So she wrote me up. Then I went over her head, to the store director. Store director said this manager had no authority to write me up in the first place, then took one look at the write up sheet and tore it in half.
).Two things about that: 1) I do NOT steal food that has a receipt attached; and 2) If it DOESN"T have a receipt attached, I consider it fair fucking game. You don't own that food unless it has a receipt. If it doesn't, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. Eat it, take it home, throw it away, it's my call.
Besides, there's signs all over the break room that SAY any food without a receipt will be thrown away. So that's another reason said food is community property, free to be consumed by me if I so choose.
So she wrote me up. Then I went over her head, to the store director. Store director said this manager had no authority to write me up in the first place, then took one look at the write up sheet and tore it in half.
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Food that someone brings from home has to have a receipt too?One of my front end managers tried to write me up the other day. She said I was stealing food from the break room fridge. Even claimed to have me on video doing it (despite the fact that there's no cameras in the break room, genius
Two things about that: 1) I do NOT steal food that has a receipt attached; and 2) If it DOESN"T have a receipt attached, I consider it fair fucking game. You don't own that food unless it has a receipt. If it doesn't, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. Eat it, take it home, throw it away, it's my call.
Besides, there's signs all over the break room that SAY any food without a receipt will be thrown away. So that's another reason said food is community property, free to be consumed by me if I so choose.
So she wrote me up. Then I went over her head, to the store director. Store director said this manager had no authority to write me up in the first place, then took one look at the write up sheet and tore it in half.
Then they better leave a
ing note.Besides, why would anyone do that? Leave it in your own damn fridge!
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After the first time someone took my food, any future food that I brought to eat later would include a loogie.Then they better leave a
Besides, why would anyone do that? Leave it in your own damn fridge!
Don't look at me, I don't make the rules. 
And as I said, why would anyone bring food TO work? Leave it at home and eat it there! If you take it to work and don't leave a note, that's on YOU.
And as I said, why would anyone bring food TO work? Leave it at home and eat it there! If you take it to work and don't leave a note, that's on YOU.
Then they better leave a
Besides, why would anyone do that? Leave it in your own damn fridge!
OK, I have to admit, I feel like I'm missing some important information here.
Like, this is your fridge at work, right? The fridge that people would use when they brought their lunches from home so that they have something to eat at work? As Gary mentioned, I don't know why that would need a "receipt". A note with their name on it? OK, maybe, if that's the policy of your workplace. But in all the offices I've ever worked in, we've just put our food in the fridge, unmarked, because we were all adults and knew not to touch stuff in the fridge that didn't belong to us.
IIRC, you work in a grocery store, not an office, so maybe there's some kind of context I'm missing here.
Like I said, I don't make the rules.
Anything without a receipt, or note, gets tossed. I didn't make the law, and I don't ask questions. I know my place.
If I'm told to empty out the fridge, I'll do it. If somebody brings food from home, and doesn't leave a message (side note: when my coworkers do that, they always DO leave a note, and I will absolutely respect it), then it is absolutely fair game to get tossed. Or eaten.
@Avro Arrow, you answered your own question.
If you work in an office, it'll be obvious that ALL the food in the fridge will be brought from home, and you'll have no need of the policies that stores like mine have. But in my case, people will often buy food at the store and then stuff it in the fridge (sometimes leaving it there for days or even weeks at a time). Or sometimes take it without paying. That's why my store does this.
Anything without a receipt, or note, gets tossed. I didn't make the law, and I don't ask questions. I know my place.
If I'm told to empty out the fridge, I'll do it. If somebody brings food from home, and doesn't leave a message (side note: when my coworkers do that, they always DO leave a note, and I will absolutely respect it), then it is absolutely fair game to get tossed. Or eaten.
@Avro Arrow, you answered your own question.
If you work in an office, it'll be obvious that ALL the food in the fridge will be brought from home, and you'll have no need of the policies that stores like mine have. But in my case, people will often buy food at the store and then stuff it in the fridge (sometimes leaving it there for days or even weeks at a time). Or sometimes take it without paying. That's why my store does this.
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I like hot and spicy foods. I would usually dice habanero peppers from my garden in my bag of garden salad, and on my sandwiches. I worked in the Electric and Irrigation Water Control Room, with a separate refrigerator from the common employee break room. The other shift workers, in the Control Room, couldn't take the heat. My food was left alone.
Hey! Watch your language!
Then you'd love the grasshoppers I ate in Seattle.
Edit: The phrase "everybody knows" really needs to make a comeback.
For instance, there are signs near the hills in my neighborhood that say HILL BLOCKS VIEW. Well, fucking DUH!
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Being a non-standard size in a relatively small market is annoying as hell. I've reached the point in my transition where I need a sports bra for exercise, but most stores, even online ones, don't carry anything for flat-chested women with wide backs. Size calculators give out errors, filters give out empty results, and the like, and I'm really not keen on ordering something overpriced from overseas with a 2-month delivery that I'll have to replace when I grow out of it anyway. And then you go on reddit, and the top-rated comment on a post about your problem is that bras are a scam, and scientific studies prove that breasts are healthier and sag less if you exercise without a bra... I mean, I'm happy for you, but my chest still hurts like hell.
My house was flooded by Hurricane Debby in August. We haven't found an estimate for repairing it that is low enough so we decided to try to sell the house to someone who is willing to fix it up.
I've been doing what I can to make the house look better. I bought several plants a few months ago and one of them was a pink petunia. It was small but I planted it in a hanging basket and it actually grew pretty well. I fixed up one of the shepherd's hooks that was in the yard before and it looked great. I go every day and water the plants.
Someone came up in the yard of a family that was displaced by a flood and stole the petunia. I can't even wrap my mind around that.
I've been doing what I can to make the house look better. I bought several plants a few months ago and one of them was a pink petunia. It was small but I planted it in a hanging basket and it actually grew pretty well. I fixed up one of the shepherd's hooks that was in the yard before and it looked great. I go every day and water the plants.
Someone came up in the yard of a family that was displaced by a flood and stole the petunia. I can't even wrap my mind around that.
For whatever reason, the store split my order and shipped them out separately even though they appear to be coming from the same location at the same time. But get this, they both have the same tracking number. So when one showed up but the other didn't, store is saying they both arrived, seeing as how they have the same tracking number. 
How does that even happen?
How does that even happen?
It's spring.
So, new construction starts
So, new construction starts
I had an inoculation today
I HATE inoculations
I HATE inoculations