The Bar

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:08 am

Good morning. I need a double of daytime nyquil can someone set me up? I will be back over here in the sick room.

Jason

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:08 am

((((((rj))))))

hey baby....

MWAH!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:10 am

LeChatNoir wrote:Sputnik, I gotta say, Your avatar just tickles the shit outta’ me every time I see it. Gomez looks so pleasantly surprised.

Crypto had a monster childhood crush on John Aster. . .

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:11 am

GuinivereElise wrote:Morning Purple: I'm as well as can be expected this grey monday morning. although i got a bit of good news: once my potential hiree gets his driving record back from the DMV, I'LL BE ABLE TO HIRE HIM!!!

YAY! *keeps fingers crossed* (Though why d'you need a DMV printout for what I thought was a stationary job?)

GuinivereElise wrote:how are YOU??? feeling better, my sickie widdle one?

I'll survive. I'm sure this cough is gonna take the rest of the month, and possibly longer, to really go away, but the sinus headaches and most of the stuffiness are all gone. I really ought to rouse myself enough to go make use of the hot-tub gift certificate I got as a wintergift...that'd help, no doubt.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:13 am

Martiansky wrote:Sorry to be a newbie....but what's the Meet and Greet?

ON thursday (two days before teh burn) everyone from eplaya who wants to gets together at the Barbie death camp to put faces on avatars and legal names to login names.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:16 am

ach. purple, you should SEE the shit we have to go through to get this stupid little retail job:

1)personality survey, then, if you pass:
2)interview, then, if you pass:
3)application, then, if you pass:
4)approval by regional manager and HIS manager, then, if you pass:
5)drug test, then, if you pass
6)background check, then, if you pass:
7)driving record (they check for things like vehiclular homicide, DUI, things like that), then, if you pass:
8)you MAYBE get hired.

all this to work for mininum wage plus commission.

it's sick, really.

and all of those things take a couple of days or so to process, you know? It's not a fast process, by any means. I've been working solo since Jan 1.

Hmm...

drink. No, many. Plural. DRINKS...

whiskey, please?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:19 am

LeChatNoir wrote:In the book Undaunted Courage, (if I'm remembering correctly) it talks about Lewis and Clark (along with York... a very important and oft forgotten member of that expedition) being able to hear the roar of the Pacific some 50 miles inland. Now, to this day, that ocean is still making just as much noise, but just 50 miles from it and try to hear the waves. It's still there, but it's both drowned out by the subconscious drone of autos, planes and factories. We tune it out along with all the other white noise that pollutes our ears every day.

I read in a book (Colis Wilson perhaps?) that arabs were able to see stars during the day. I actually sat and watched the sunrise and watched Sirius and trained myself to see it for that morning at least--but you really have to look right at it. Wiered.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:25 am

GuinivereElise wrote:ach. purple, you should SEE the shit we have to go through to get this stupid little retail job:

1)personality survey, then, if you pass:
2)interview, then, if you pass:
3)application, then, if you pass:
4)approval by regional manager and HIS manager, then, if you pass:
5)drug test, then, if you pass
6)background check, then, if you pass:
7)driving record (they check for things like vehiclular homicide, DUI, things like that), then, if you pass:
8)you MAYBE get hired.

Bleh. And the interview before the application? Man, that's backasswards.

GuinivereElise wrote:I've been working solo since Jan 1.

Hmm...

drink. No, many. Plural. DRINKS...

whiskey, please?

Certainly, dear. *hands over the Jameson's*

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:25 am

Bambi of Finland wrote:*Bambi runs outside and promptly returns with a basket of laundry* Y'all think if I throw this into the hottub and turn it on high , my clothes will get clean? It'll be fun anyway...

Watch out for felting.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:26 am

GuinivereElise wrote:ach. purple, you should SEE the shit we have to go through to get this stupid little retail job:

1)personality survey, then, if you pass:
2)interview, then, if you pass:
3)application, then, if you pass:
4)approval by regional manager and HIS manager, then, if you pass:
5)drug test, then, if you pass
6)background check, then, if you pass:
7)driving record (they check for things like vehiclular homicide, DUI, things like that), then, if you pass:
8)you MAYBE get hired.

all this to work for mininum wage plus commission.

it's sick, really.

and all of those things take a couple of days or so to process, you know? It's not a fast process, by any means. I've been working solo since Jan 1.

Hmm...

drink. No, many. Plural. DRINKS...

whiskey, please?

Why dont you apply for the Ranger job here? Hmmmmmmmm?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:27 am

cowboyangel wrote:Sory about all you folks in the snow....I'm headed for the beach...it's not very warm there today (low 50's) but the ocean is a friend

Going to No. Cal beaches isn't the typical holiday at the shore.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:35 am

helitack wrote:
GuinivereElise wrote:ach. purple, you should SEE the shit we have to go through to get this stupid little retail job:

1)personality survey, then, if you pass:
2)interview, then, if you pass:
3)application, then, if you pass:
4)approval by regional manager and HIS manager, then, if you pass:
5)drug test, then, if you pass
6)background check, then, if you pass:
7)driving record (they check for things like vehiclular homicide, DUI, things like that), then, if you pass:
8)you MAYBE get hired.

all this to work for mininum wage plus commission.

it's sick, really.

and all of those things take a couple of days or so to process, you know? It's not a fast process, by any means. I've been working solo since Jan 1.

Hmm...

drink. No, many. Plural. DRINKS...

whiskey, please?
Why dont you apply for the Ranger job here? Hmmmmmmmm?

well, I can think of a few reasons, not the least of which is that a I don't want to live in the middle of the desert...

I need a bit more action that that, heli-love...

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:36 am

OK, it was just a thought

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:41 am

bullD wrote:good morning fishy, is this the bar? Can I get a very large coffee to go?

Here you are all french pressed. I hope you brought your own cup--MOOP ya know. We do have a fine collection of chipped rejects if you didn't.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:42 am

no worries, Heli... the thought was loverly...

besides: I've heard you rant about the place!!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:42 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
LeChatNoir wrote:Sputnik, I gotta say, Your avatar just tickles the shit outta’ me every time I see it. Gomez looks so pleasantly surprised.
Crypto had a monster childhood crush on John Aster. . .

By which she means the actor of almost that name, and not someone from the hotel family.

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:15 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
bullD wrote:good morning fishy, is this the bar? Can I get a very large coffee to go?
Here you are all french pressed. I hope you brought your own cup--MOOP ya know. We do have a fine collection of chipped rejects if you didn't.

ahhh, just returned from a ride. How about just filling my water bottles. Thanka dear.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:26 am

shit we have to go through

that is totally fucking insane. I'm appalled. The fucking balls. All that shit for min wage retail? A person who would go through all that automatically fails my personality test. A person who would go through all that must be high, and thus fail the drug test. What kind of mouth breathing robots do you end up hiring there GE?

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:30 am

stuart wrote:
shit we have to go through
that is totally fucking insane. I'm appalled. The fucking balls. All that shit for min wage retail? A person who would go through all that automatically fails my personality test. A person who would go through all that must be high, and thus fail the drug test. What kind of mouth breathing robots do you end up hiring there GE?

um, GE might have had to go through the same...

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:33 am

I am loving your fucking avatar Stuart. I just watched Anchorman this weekend and all I could think throughout the whole movie was "More Cowbell".

Jason

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:34 am

Rian Jackson wrote:
stuart wrote:
shit we have to go through
that is totally fucking insane. I'm appalled. The fucking balls. All that shit for min wage retail? A person who would go through all that automatically fails my personality test. A person who would go through all that must be high, and thus fail the drug test. What kind of mouth breathing robots do you end up hiring there GE?
um, GE might have had to go through the same...

We already know about her though.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:46 am

ouch! Ouch!!!

yipes...

ummm... well.... Stuart, when I had been unemployed for a couple of months, living (quite literally) on rice and water for over 2 weeks and about to be evicted in a city where I knew only one other person (who was living with me and would have been evicted too), just about anything is worth going through.

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:47 am

Guin rocks!! We missed you!!

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:47 am

whew! I need a drink of fortitude or something. I just finished the 'first installment' of my story and am sending it to her now, that amazing woman I told you about who edits the free press here in town..... I'll keep you posted on how she blows me out of hte water......

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:49 am

Hiya, Giggles! How ya doing today?

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:49 am

please don't misunderstand. I think we are living in a horrible state if folks have to jump through those kinds of hoops, suffer that kind of outlandish humiliation, in order to get a gig that keeps you living below the poverty line. My heart goes out to you. Fucking personality tests. Fuck. What a bunch of fucking corporate snake oil.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:49 am

Enjoying the sunshine! And you, Ms. Sky?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:49 am

WOW! thanks M!

I missed being here...

hey, I got a new toy... I brought it here, so we can use it in the hottub...

it's a rubberducky. A RUBber ducky. The kind that vibrates.

OOoo, and it's PURPLE.

enjoy.

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:52 am

I'm doing lots better, thanks Giggles! I really think all that green thinking you sent this way is working! It's warm (35+) and snow is melting!!WOOHOO!

"Rubber ducky, you're the one...you make hot tubbin' lots of fun"

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:55 am

so, when you get hired in at the bottom level at your store GE, after having passed the test gauntlet, what kinds of responsibilities do you have?