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OK...this is gonna sound stupid, but my local Starbucks has ticked me off!

(PLEASE, PLEASE do not tell me that my problem is that I'm going to Starbucks. I really don't want to have that debate here, which is why I brought it to the Haven.)

I'd been going to that place for YEARS to the point where I pretty much had my designated chair in the corner. They'd had a wonderful manager and great staff for all that time, and the only time I had a "bad" experience was when little concerts were held in there (I want my own music, not that stuff).

A new manager started this year, and twice the store was closed early with barely any notice. The first time, the new manager did this and frankly I couldn't see a single reason for it. It was only by 10 minutes or so, but it was still a little irritating. The second time was tonight, and this time by a full 30 minutes because of "short staffing," "wage budget," and "getting the employees home on time." I would've understood better if I were the only one in the store, but there was a big group there, AND other people kept trying to come in as the store was closing.

Which kind of ticked me off...I know when I worked in retail, if we had EVER demonstrated that kind of attitude, my boss would've torn us a new one. I get how important making plan was, and I've worked second shift too. I realize it's worse in food service, but still, the customer always came first, and we would have done what we had to to make sure we fulfilled our commitments.

Given this, and the constant turnover that seems to have happened ever since the old manager left, I'm not sure I want to go back to that store, at LEAST not until evening. And I want to send a comment card in about that...yet I feel like if I do, it's going to hurt feelings and that if I do go back in there after sending off a comment, I'm not going to be welcome should I go during earlier hours. And what if corporate is making managers do that, and this guy couldn't control it? (Though I doubt it since this NEVER happened before the other guy was let go.)

Should I find a way to communicate this to corporate? Maybe on the phone instead, where I can maybe ask what the policy is first, and ask that it be handled delicately? Should I just stop going to the other store at night? But if I do that and don't say anything, how will they know what the problem was? (Yet if I say something and someone figures out it was me, will I have burned my bridges forever?...ad nauseum.)

Sorry if this sound stupid. But maybe it doesn't...it's weird, but I can be flexible at work, but once I get OFF work, it's like DON'T screw with my hangouts or things I like to do.

Anyone know what the right thing to do is here? Should I just deal with it quietly without saying anything, or no?

myth busters is extremely annoying these days.
a show started at 3:00 pm and was scheduled to go until 4:00 pm. i had to got out at 3:50 pm so i could get to a shop by 4 pm.

every myth that they tried to bust was sensationalized so that the final shot that concluded the resolution of every myth was shown only at the end of the show.

there was a "jump into a dumpster from a height" myth, and there was a "divers explode it they lose pressure in their deep diving suit" myth etc.

the show proceeded with the setting up of the myth tests and it showed all the precursors to how they would test the potential myths.

at the point that they were going to show whether a person could really survive a fall into a dumpster, they showed the dummy falling from a building, and at the split second it landed in the dumpster, the video was cut, and we were directed to the myth of a deep sea diver exploding if a valve blew out in his deep diving suit.

at the point where they were going to release the pressure inside the suit to replicate a valve failure, the grant person said "three!! ! two!! !! one!! !" and then he twisted a valve to release the pressure, and then that sequence was cut and we were returned to the dummy falling into a dumpster routine.

it was just a replay of the "highlights" of the myth setup, and i saw it only 15 minutes before, but i was now being subjected to a replay of earlier clips in the setting up of the dummy falling.

and again, a split second before the dummy hit the pad in the dumpster, the vision was chopped off and we were returned to the diver myth, where upon they replayed the highlights of the setting up of the experiment that was to test that myth that i had already seen a few minutes before.

again, when the grant character said "three two one" and twisted the valve, the vision was cut and an ad came on.

then i noticed it was 3:50, and i had to go, so i did not see the culmination of any of the myth tests, and i was enraged and i am glad there was not much traffic otherwise i would have been overwhelmed with dissatisfaction and i would have had to pull over and calm down, and i would then have missed my appointement as well as the final results of the myth tests.

Me again. Master ranter.

I give up. Trying to be social has just caused me more pain and trouble than it is worth. It's not even worth the prospect of achieving happiness eventually. I resign myself to being alone, misunderstood, ignored, and forgotten.

I know I've said this before. Every time I mean it. Yet as soon I forget the pain of trying, I forget my promise to give up. And the cycle repeats. But this time, this time might be the difference.

People are selfish. Maybe I am too, thinking that people will occasionally think of me.

If man is a social animal and I am no longer social, does this mean I'm not a man nor an animal?

P.S. I'm still tired.

Why do people have to be such jerks to each other?

Honestly, I think its because they can't be funny so they try to get a laugh out of bringing down other people. I'm so sick of seeing all those people who yell dumb comments to people on the street. Thanks for ruining this beautiful atmosphere jerk! Go buy a nintendo wii if you're so bored and leave the rest of the world alone.

people suck. the last 2days-

A lovely old lady i was talking to suddenly realised her purse was missing and when we went to security they saw on the cctv that 3 young women had followed her from the post office (getting her pension) and then surrounded her in a shop so they didnt notice as they took it. It had some personal things in it but was nowhere to be found and nothing could be done about the people who did it. she was shaking and upset and i almost cried. people are just disgusting. i can't get my head around it.

I was with somebody in a shop and they saw a woman shoving a very expensive dress up her top so they told the manager who was nearby, the woman saw and came over shouting her head off trying to start a fight and waving a hanger in their face as though they were in the wrong:/ grr. Then all random other women of the same ethnicity as the woman (but who didnt know her) came over to stick up for her (even though they had no idea what was going on) and started saying we think we're so pretty because of our ethnicity. wtf has that got to do with anything. WE werent the thieves and WE werent the ones being aggressive towards a perfect stranger. bastard people piss.me.off.

A woman today was dragging her toddler around by it's arm and shouting at him every few seconds even though he did nothing wrong and was a very happy looking quiet child. He offered me a lick of his slobbery lolly and before i even had the chance to humour him she shouted at him again- he was only trying to be nice. now he's probably going to grow up to be a horrible person who sucks just as much as everybody else

This will be the fifth time I've had issues with my University's financial aid and loan department this year alone. Right now, because of an issue with credit numbers due to an illness earlier this year that had me hospitalized, I have been taken off of financial aid. I have to submit an appear form reguardless of the fact that I've had many documents and doctors speak to University staff about what exactly had been going on. Even after that, they have probable cause (yes, they told me this) to deny my financial aid.

If I don't get financial aid I will not be able to attend the University this coming year. I honestly don't know what I'd do with myself if I didn't have school to take up all my time....likely sit in a room and read textbooks on my own.

Honestly. Medical reasons should be void of this clause.

Today my mom keeps acting irritable around me and telling me things like "you're in a funny mood" and "you're being overly emotional". I mean, it's true that I'm sulking, but I'm certainly not being "overly emotional". Besides, she of all people should understand that it's getting close to "that time of the month" for me.

Some girl I went to high school with had a baby a few days ago. This is her third child, and she turns 25 next month. I don't think she'll stop with this one either, as if she wasn't white trash enough.

So for the last however long, she's been posting on Facebook a lot of stuff which we the people can live without knowing/seeing. Do we really need to know your second son is learning how to potty train? Did you really find it necessary to post pictures of your newborn naked and lying on a scale? Etc...

f*****g OCD can go f**k itself.

I am really, really annoyed at the fact that everyone here seems to diagnose fictional characters, celebrities, and historical figures with Asperger's. Just because a person acts kind of "off," is an introvert or you can identify with them doesn't mean they have Asperger's. I can identify with Sookie from True Blood, but that doesn't mean she has Asperger's. You can identify with someone who is neurotypical.

today i had to destroy a "pair" of jeans that i liked.
i was wearing a pair of stupid damned running shoes that are very bulky, and when i went to take my jeans off, my shoes became stuck halfway up the legs of my jeans and i could not pull my shoes out of the legs of the jeans.

so i tried to push my feet back down the leg shafts but i could not do that either.
i pulled as hard as i could to get my feet out of my jeans legs, and i even tried to slide a finger down inside my jeans leg to take my shoe off, but i could not do it.

after a few minutes i was exhausted and gave up and sat there defeated and still wedged in my jeans.
i became enraged and felt imprisoned so i jumped my way over to where some scissors were and i cut them off.

what a stupid pair of shoes!!
i felt like suing the makers of the shoes, but they have no brand label on them.

My rant is that I'm sick of being alone. Probably a rant many of you are familiar with, but I'd still like to share. I hate having no friends, and furthermore, I hate that I don't have any social skills. I just wish I could converse with people normally and have something to say at least some of the time. I'm sick of being depressed and wanting to die because I'm a social outcast.

Going back to plan 'A' : smoke, drink, eat cheese and pie, have heartattack

sorry i did not see this.

i do not know. they were up to their chests in water, so i would imagine that their whole bodies got wet.
i forgot about "waders". i do not remember what they were wearing. do waders rise to their armpits?
if not, then they the water and them were intermingled.

I hate having a weird pregnancy obsession. And it isn't like I even like babies. Basically, I feel a very strong obsession to get pregnant, and I hate it. I only try treatments like going to fertility doctors because the meds that I did try to treat the obsession don't work, and the one that did, I became tolerant to it and then I would have to keep upping the dose. Unfortunately there is a 'ceiling' to how high a dose you can have.
So now I have the obsession back in full force, and fertility doctors cost a lot. (I don't have fertility problems, I just go there to get artificially inseminated. The sperm and procedure costs a lot.)
Unfortunately, many people see this as a 'voluntary' action (having a baby) instead of for me it not being voluntary.
It is exactly like suicide in this sense, that even though suicide is 'voluntary,' it isn't exactly 'chosen' but forced as a solution by a mind in pain.
It feel like a worm digging continously in my head, this has been going on for 3 years. I have been hospitalized for feelings of suicide twice because of this, because I am mentally exhausted. I can't bear to see pregnant women at work, and I can't bear to hear people talking about their kids, because it can trigger the dispair.
What's worse, is that nobody has ever heard of this kind of thing. Not the shrinks, not the therapists, nada.
I am low income, so the doctors and such are very expensive. But I do it, or I commit suicde.

I feel like I am in Hell.