Don't eat the yellow snow

I see a red door and I want it painted black.....


"Australians have never had it better"

"Mr Howard! How can you say that! My childcare and grocery bills are bigger than ever before! and interest rates are high.... Also, when I eat, I get hungry again soon after! Then I have to poop! Also, My nephew has cancer! And my son is playing in the living room, and just broke a lamp! I have the sniffles! Summer is too hot! There are only 24 hours in a day!
No offense, but you're out of touch... If you can't get all of those SIMPLE things right, how are you going to lead our country? "



Sorry, I've been hearing that "Mr Howard" ad on the radio and TV for AGES now, and I figured if Labor were going to apportion blame for things that the PM can't control, I might as well add a few to the list.

Seriously, that ad shits me purely because it tries to exploit the ignorant for votes. There is a drought on. A pretty critical one. John Howard, although he is good, cannot make it rain.

I'm sorry, but if you were turning to him to break the drought, you might have a long wait. Maybe learn a rain dance yourself or something.

(And before you fuckwits jump on and say "Well, the PM can control interest rates by fixing a number of small things in precise amounts". Fuck you. I did economics too. I did WELL in Economics. Ultimately, market forces are in control, and there is practically sweet FA that J Ho can do about it)



But on to happier subjects,

Still been studying for the exams, just a little more than two weeks now until I'm done for the year and you better BELIEVE I'm excited.

Over the past week, I worked a lot more than I usually do (25 odd hours) which is about 10 hours up on what I have been working. And I found in that time, a lot more things annoy me than if I was working a few hours less.

The first one is the loop tape. Now, I'm sure I've mentioned the thing before, but to reiterate, it's basically a promo tape that we have on in store, featuring movie previews, store ads, game previews and music. All of these are arranged into a loop that plays through about once an hour.
This month's is PARTICULARLY annoying for a number of reasons.

-One of the songs is "WHAM - Wake me up before you go go". SO irritating. (And before you say, No Nick! I love Zoolander! That's an awesome song. Try listening to it 8 times in one day, then tell me how good it is)
-There is a clip for "Georgia Rule" which features Linsday Lohan screaming. That grates on my nerves.
-For some reason, the promo for Shrek 3 is on there twice, So about once every 25 minutes, I get the same promo. MOST of it is really unobtrusive, but there is one part where they spoof the war cry from the start of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant song". Watch this, you'll see what I mean. It bugs me NO end. Cuts through me like a knife.
-Two other lines, one in the "Meet the Robinsons" Trailer "Bake them cookies Lucille" and one from the Santa Clause 3 trailer (Yeah, I know, they made a third one. WTF?) Martin Short saying "Excuse me, did you just accuse me of being skillful and delicious?"
Fuck you Martin Short. You are NOT funny. NO!

Also; New brands of customers that annoy me.

- Customers that don't close the freezer. It happens more than you think. They will grab out their ice cream, and just LEAVE the fucking freezer door open. I assume they have closed it, and discover 40 minutes later that they just left it sitting open for all the other ice cream to defrost. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.

-Customers who will rent or buy something, or come to return something, but have a question for me, who will stand IN the security gates waiting for me to finish with my current customer. Meanwhile, the security gate alarm rings loudly every three seconds, but do they move? No. They just stand there looking like a dumb shit. "Is that me?" No. It's the other fuckstick just standing in the security gate, watching the world go by. Take one fucking step to the left or right already!

-Customers who either can't or just don't read. There is LITERALLY a BIG NEON SIGN RIGHT OVER MY HEAD with ALL the information you need to know. "How much is this?", "What are some new releases?", "What's in new?". ALL of those would be answered by using that apparently MAMMOTH effort to look up by about five degrees.


-Customers who will come in during rush, want a particular DVD, but instead of looking for it, they will wait in line for 5 minutes, and then get me to go and get it for them. Now, I will freely admit, that sometimes, this is justified. If you are looking for a limited release, hard to find foreign movie, or maybe a very very old movie, chances are we don't have it, and if we do, it will require me looking on the computer. That's fine.

Standing in line for five minutes, coming up to the counter and asking me if we have any copies of "Scary Movie" and me walking out to the Comedy section, and looking under "S" to find three copies of every installment, all lined up in a neat little row is GOING to piss me off. ESPECIALLY when it's during the rush.

- Customers who still cant master the New Release system. Now, we have a very complicated system where there are TWO covers for each DVD. A display cover, which is generally the cover you would get were you to go out and BUY the DVD, and a rental cover, which has bright orange bars with the store name and OVERNIGHT RENTAL emblazoned on it, promotional material, our phone number and a variety of other things. The two look very different. The display cover, is put on display, in front. The rental cover is placed BEHIND the display cover.

Now, If it's your first time, I'll be gentle. I'll hold your hand and I'll walk you through it. I mean, it IS your first time. You're probably nervous, your hands might be shaking a little, a bit of performance anxiety. I'll understand if you grab the wrong cover.

If you come in multiple times every fucking week, and ALWAYS insist on grabbing the wrong cover, bringing it up to the counter (again, especially in rush) and then looking at me dumbly as I explain the system and then walk out and collect the right ones. (Or, even worse, the movie is out, and have you get irate at me because "Well, why would you have the cover there if the movie isn't in! That's stupid." It's so that YOU can see what we actually have in stock doofus. If it's not in, you can get it next time. Otherwise on a busy night, there would be nothing but blank shelves.)

Have a think. Which one am I likely to give you to hire? The shiny brand spanking new looking cover with not a mark on it? Or the beat up, scuffed cover, that is plastered with the store name, and stickers specifying the duration of the hire that looks like it's been passed around everyone in the neighbourhood? Do you know why it looks like that? BECAUSE IT HAS. FUCKING GET IT RIGHT!



Man, That's enough ranting for today I think.

Back to the books. Smell you later.



(PS: I watched "Meet the Robinsons the other day, and this is EASILY the funniest part of the movie)

posted by Nick @ 11/09/2007 12:40:00 PM Comments: 0