Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The Moaning, Groaning, I just want to Vent thread

Moving is stressful
I try to do a little bit everyday
Today I dropped off a huge bag of clothes to the local charity

I was supposed to bring boxes to the post office but it's raining and I don't want to be drenched while walking the 5 blocks

Rubbish week at work.

There is a ZERO percent chance of me going out tonight ... No matter how much this man asks me

First world problems, but:

My LCS is getting out of the comic business. They've always been a used bookstore first, and then had comic subscriptions business that ebbed and flowed, but now the US exchange rate has finally forced them to drop comics altogether. I've been shopping there for over 20 years, so it's a bit sad. They also had the advantage of being a few blocks from my house, and opened at 8:00 am, so I could pick up Wednesday's comics on my way to work and read them at lunch.

The only other game in town is inconveniently located downtown, doesn't open until 10:00 most days, and has exorbitant mark-ups on their books (guess in the long run it was a smart move for them, but stinks for me).

I'm sorry to hear that, Dave. I know how an LCS can be much more than just a place to buy comics.

DX

Only one thing to do, Dave: you've gotta' start your own comics shop.

Ha! The very first thing my wife said to me when I told her it was closing:

"You are NOT opening your own comic shop!"

She knows you so well

Mrs. Dave doesn't have to contribute a (Canadian) penny to this venture. That's what GoFundMe and Kickstarter are for!

That's hysterical

Yeah, the brick and mortar stores do seem to be in a bit of trouble. Sigh.

To add to my previous rant. We were given a letter on the 1st explaining the situation and what the transition would look like and were assured that our pull lists would be filled until the end of the month.

Well, I arrived today to find no new books and a notice that due to people not clearing out their files, they've decided to stop receiving shipments immediately. So no new comics with no advanced notice at all. My subcription starts at the other place at the first of June, but now I have to find the missing stuff from this week and next in the interim. I recognize they are in dire straights, but feels like a kick in the teeth to a long-time loyal customer.

Wow ... I know things are hard, but that's a terrible way to exit

Ugh.

Related: our favorite Friday Night Nachos joint has undergone managerial overhaul. Price hikes, portion shrinks, and in a hilariously petty turn, they've decided not to give out free chips when you come in. You've gotta' pay for them.

They literally printed on their new (less diverse) menu that they'll be adding a mandatory charge to all bills this summer because the state has hiked Minimum Wages.

Y'know... all I can say as an ex-server is, quit whining, Management Clowns. Raise prices outright, like everyone does, and deal. Stop pinning your woes on people who are trying to make a living in one of America's most expensive cities.

I could go on for 20 paragraphs, but you get the picture.

mr_cleome and I sat there on our (likely last-ever) visit, glumly picking at our tiny, now-crappy portions of food and noticing that we didn't even recognize any of the servers anymore. They probably all quit in disgust or got sacked.

Sigh, it's sad when favorite places experience such a big negative change.

Especially when businesses think cost-cutting is the only way to go. Not everyone has to compete on low prices.

My own little vent - I'm involved in organizing a fairly big event, and am in charge of publicity and communications. I'm good at writing messages but hamstrung by lack of creative talent. The target audience apparently hates the organizing institution, and our team lead seems to think that everything can be solved by spamming people with emails thrice a week - but I've said again and again since the start, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO COMMUNICATE WHEN THERE ARE NO DETAILS TO COMMUNICATE??? We even got feedback directly that people were offended that we communicated the event price without including a detailed agenda for the day or the dinner venue...

... and he still says, "don't bother with the details, just send an email again. Anyway, every time we send an email some new people register."

:bangs head on wall:

Engage with your target audience and, in the absence of being able to provide any information, get your audience to let you know what *they'd* like from such an event. Be sure to put your leads e-mail addy for all that great feedback!

I thought of that (great minds think so much alike ) problem is, he is even more up-to-date on his emails than I am... and will just forward everything to me!

That's when you setting up your autoforward rule to return them straight back comes in handy.

And plaster his name everywhere so everyone goes to him. I like how you think!

Yep, and this place was never going for dive bar clientele anyway. Dive bars can be fun, of course. But this has always been a spacious, well-lit room with stuff for families on one end: even a little playroom for kids. On weekends, they even turn part of the space into a mini-dance studio. Maybe keeping those extras will keep bringing customers in. I just won't be among them.




I wonder how many new people register each time versus how many want to kill someone.

In my last few months in the Philippines, I also came to develop some favorite hang out spots... The ambience counted for as much as the food and drinks. I'm sorry this place has changed so much, cleome.

This event I am helping organize will be done in a month, and all I want is for it to be over

Summer tourist traffic. Today I had a "sudden decel event being recorded". Why? because at mile 92 on I20 I topped a rise at 68 mph in a 70 mph zone and traffic on the other side of the hill was at a dead stop. Why? Because some dumbasses FIVE EFFIN MILES UP THE ROAD had been pulled for drunk driving and open containers. When I finally got there the traffic was opening up and their forties and empty bombay sapphire gin bottles were on top of the car. There was no wreck. Cops weren't diverting traffic. Just fuckin' lookyloo's slowing everything to a damn standstill so they could gawk at the people on the side of the road.

At least I was smart enough to go through Chattanooga and Knoxville and not Atlanta. Had another sudden decel event there YESTERDAY not because I was doing anything wrong, but because some pissy little wannabee fast and furlorn decided to cut me off and fill the space between me and the car in front of me. Buffer zones are there for YOUR PROTECTION, dumbass. Not mine.

I'm not sure how it happened, probably sunspots or something. BUT my multi-year art block suddenly ended a few weeks ago. I pulled a bunch of small, never-completed roughs out of mothballs, and got them assembled, corrected, sealed... the whole thing. I borrowed $60 on credit and updated my art account (same one in my sig line) so it'll show all the stuff I've uploaded.

Also, I raced around like a Filing Demon for almost two weeks in my little corner "studio" space: Organized, cleaned, improved... the space is looking better than it has in a long time.

So... the venting part: last month I'd tested out our old scanner to make sure it would work. I was all psyched Friday morning to finally upload my newly completed stuff. BUT... all of a sudden the scanner and my Mac aren't on speaking terms anymore. Tech support couldn't help... the manual couldn't help... and the Mac store never returned my message.

So, for the day after Thanksgiving, my organization has a skeleton crew. If you have off, you get paid. If you work, you get a day off at another time of your choosing (within 60 days) So, in one of the departments on my floor, this new woman started. She was the only one in her department. She said how she was told that she could also have taken the day off if she wanted to. At about 10 (we start at 9) she says to me and another person working "You won't tell anyone if I leave right?" I thought she was joking, but later when I brought the mail over to her, she was gone. So in effect she is getting 2 paid days off.

I'm thinking that she might not last too long.

I would hope so. Someone that dishonest is not good team/organizational material.