u/Medical_College_6732

>You know that one associate in the break room that insists on blaring their music or just has to have that conversation on speakerphone for everyone else to hear? Yeah, don’t be that disruptive associate here.

Is it *one* associate at yalls stores? Cause it's eeeeeeverybody at mine. Probably even the ones wearing earbuds on the floor (which is a clear majority).

I asked our People Lead if we could introduce the workforce to the concept of headphones, so -- god forbid -- we could all have a quiet space. She said we could only make people turn their stuff down/off if the content of it itself was offensive. It's all just YouTube videos and Skype/Discord/Zoom/whatever calls, so it doesn't apply. I got in the habit for a while of taking my breaks down the hallway and just sitting on the floor (out of anyone's way walking around back there) till I was told doing that could get me DA'd. "Go sit in your car" bitch I ride a bike.

Anyway, /rant. But are the people like that at yalls stores few and far between, like the passage I quoted suggests?

I'm in my pick run (today was my last day of Digital! So amazingly grateful to be out) and this lady asks me where the chocolate syrup is. I tell her it's on the aisle with the coffee. (I imagine many of us do this, remembering aisles not necessarily by their number, but what's predominantly on it. The coffee aisle, the cereal aisle, the pasta aisle)

She just sorta blinks at me, and then says "CHOCK-LIT SYR-UP" like I don't speak English or something. I guess she doesn't like this answer, so I tell her there's also some by the ice cream. Instantly "no, honey, I was just there, there's not." Okay, I guess it might be empty ther... "NO, it's not there."

/breathe out

I pull up the app and type in Hershey's syrup, cause maybe we really are just having a failure to communicate. I show her the picture and she's all "yeah, that's it, where is it."

It's on the coffee aisle, ma'am. Three aisles that way.

She furrows her brow and starts to walk away, but not before I catch pieces of a rant about how "why would you put it in a place no one would EVER look for it, who ever heard of coffee and chocolate syrup"

Howdy! I'm a Pacific Northwest transplant, lived in Pgh for 2 years now. Big baseball fan but haven't made my way to the ballpark yet. (I don't actually live in the city, and I don't drive either, so getting there isn't the easiest thing in the world)

But anyway, with my beloved Seattle Mariners coming to town, this is the time! I've already got tickets squared away, but I don't know much about the ballpark itself. Anything a first-time attendee should know? I can't really think of too many specific questions I'm afraid. It looks from the website like the doors don't open till an hour before first pitch, which seems quite tight.

The one thing I know I'd love to know is about getting a scorecard. I love keeping score when I attend in person, and with scant little time to explore before first pitch (I'll be at all three Mariner games, maybe the getaway day game on Thursday will afford a little more exploration time, after the game?) I'd love to make sure I can snag one. Are the vendors outside the park? Inside the park? Anywhere in particular to go?

What about an Uber home after the game? Is the area safe? Are they easy to get? Should I arrange in advance? (Costs a fair bit more, but often worth it) Any knowledge or experience is quite appreciated, as is anything else you may find it useful for a first-time attendee to know. I've only ever been to one MLB stadium aside from Seattle (Twins, and it poured down rain that day, so the experience wasn't much I'm afraid).

I mostly dig the game but man, this is really pretty immersion-breaking for me. During cutscenes and missions everybody's all lovey-dovey and family (Drack barely rises above "a bit miffed" that I sacrificed his people to save the salarian Pathfinder) but it seems like every combination of squaddies is needlessly rude and hostile to each other in the dialog that comes up when traveling in the Nomad. Having that dialog is not a terrible idea (if you're gonna have maps so large you need a vehicle to traverse them), but maybe could have been handled a bit more even-handedly?

I guess Jaal is probably the nicest, but even he has some barbs.

It's always 1 of 2 reactions.

"What are you fuckin shitting me? How the fuck can you not have carts? This is a load of shit. Fuck you."

and/or

"Must be kids joyriding 'em."

Every time.

Totally get being disappointed if you need one and one isn't available, but the vitriol is wild. Also, is it really so impossible that a busy Walmart might have 6 or 7 different people with mobility difficulties already shopping?

There never seems to be a good answer here. I just say sorry, you're welcome to wait for one (we have a broken one that still works as, y'know, a chair). Few takers.

EDIT - yall can we maybe ease up on the fat shaming? Really not the point here.

I've noticed this even in threads I posted, but also in popular ones with lots of comments. I know a vote of -5 usually gets a comment collapsed; I won't lie, I often open them anyway just to see what spicy take got expressed.

Sometimes, though, they're perfectly decent comments (sometimes even with upvotes) and I'm wondering why this is. Is it something setting that I have enabled and could turn off? I don't particularly enjoy comments being collapsed or hidden at all; I just scroll past if I find them objectionable.

I don't really know where to begin. I'm someone with a very soft speaking voice. I tend to also speak slowly, considering my words as intentional and correct before I say them. Although don't misunderstand; it takes but fractions of a second. I'm not standing there stupefied for palpable seconds at a time, I just have a low "words per minute" when I speak.

I believe in what I say, and usually quite emphatically. But no one ever seems to have the patience to hear it. I know we have only our one life to live (my apologies to any Hindu redditors) and some high-stress environments do require rapid communication, but I tend not to put myself in those environments. Sometimes I make a concerted effort to be louder and faster and it just feels so inauthentic. It's not *me*.

I don't feel any anxiety by the idea of talking to people (frankly, I'm continually surprised by how common this is) but I still tend to avoid it because I'm always talked over. I don't think people take me fully seriously.

You know how when you learn a new language (I love to study, and language is one of my great academic loves), it seems like native speakers speak it impossibly quickly, when really it's just that they're fluent and you're not? It's kinda beginning to feel that way in my native language (which is indeed English) now.

Everybody's so rush-rush-rush, even other quiet people I've known.

It isn't just about interpersonal dynamics either, though it kinda all reduces back to that. My work and even some of my leisure activities seem to be driven to be as fast as possible. Nothing can ever be left to just develop, it has to happen *now*. I don't like to call myself "slow" as that word is a bit loaded when used to describe a person, but I'm definitely more cautious and deliberate than the world around me.

I guess this wound up being more of a vent than a question, but I suppose I'll just ask does anyone else identify with the feelings I've expressed? If you do, how do you handle the turbocharged world around you?​

Never seen such a blatant example of "rules for thee, not for me." This coach (she's never been my coach) feedback'd me about a month ago for wearing shorts that were too short. (And letter of the rule, she was right. No hard feelings about that, in isolation)

Just now I'm heading back for lunch and I see her setting a mod in electronics while wearing a spaghetti strap top.

It's so tempting to call her on it but what good would come of that?

I'm on modified duty for a workplace injury and they've got me door hosting till I'm cleared by a doctor to return to full duty. Gonna be at least a month.

Today there was this woman who pushed through the gate with a giant kiddie pool. I haven't quite become as hardline as some of the job-coded door hosts about that alarm going off, so I just told her "come through if you're gonna come through." It really doesn't bother me that much personally, and the AP coach has never addressed this with me -- frankly I've gotten close to fuck-all in terms of actual training.

So she comes through and just keeps coming through. I ask for a receipt, and she yells over her shoulder "My daughter has it!" and just keeps going out the door. I said something about how "that's not how anything works, but I can't stop you" (I don't think this was loud enough to be heard, but I'm not certain). She just kept going.

Then about ten minutes later she came back in. "HEY I TOLD YOU I WOULD COME BACK!" I don't remember her saying that, but at this point this is just weird as shit. So I get on the walkie and ask for AP. The front-end coach (my old coach in digital, in fact) comes on and ask me what's happened. I explain the situation to her.

And the response she gave me was an admonishment (a cordial, civil one, but an admonishment all the same) not to confront people on their way out the door. Which I already knew. She later came by and said "Don't worry about it, cause they're (gesturing toward the AP office) watching."

I'm sure that's true, but if reporting a customer's odd and suspicious behaviour, including literally walking out the door without a receipt for product, is not something I should pass up the chain, then what exactly is the point of me?

Going from ~600 picks a day in digital to pretty much just standing around all day is kinda jarring. No shade at all to the job-coded door hosts, especially as they tend (at least at my store) to be people with mobility issues. It's just not for me. Can't wait till my elbow's better.