u/TheShenanegous

I've been replaying the first game recently for probably the 5th time, and after 20ish years since first playing the game I finally found something about Goro that redeems his otherwise all-around big suck design.

By big suck design, I mean:

‐ his attack animation/range/speed

- his dorky wannabe superhero kid character model

- his character-specific door mechanism that makes you read the tip every time, because of his shitty attack, even though it's intuitive enough looking that you probably never would've needed a tip to figure it out. You will read tips, FOREVER, and you will LIKE IT.

- de facto tankiest character but he can never hit shit so he spends all his time with high defense being staggered

What could possibly make up for all of these flaws? Well, it turns out his weapons are fucking strong, some might even say "as fuck". Not only that, but their stat caps are comparably also quite fucking high, and their abs requirements remain pretty manageable up to level 5. This means that you can place a fairly strong synth sphere in them temporarily and gain practically all of the benefits without getting capped/maxed out.

Does it still suck to line up the needed 1 or 2 hits with him? Usually, and some enemies are just fucking hopeless (medusas are scary as hell). Do I enjoy his door mechanism now? I could write a strongly worded letter about how I do not, and never will.

Alas, as much as I would rather not play Goro in general, I've started using him selectively with the above in mind, and I'm seeing it ramp my damage output earlier than I experienced in previous playthroughs.

Curious if other people incorporate him like this, or if Toan gets the melee job done for most people like he did for me in the past.

Edit: just to be clear, I don't really mean I'm using Goro as the source that's increasing my DPS. I use him sparingly still. I've just noticed the stats on his weapons combined with how quickly they upgrade makes them great sphere material. Basically, if you use him occasionally to pick up the few kills he is good for, you quickly end up with spheres that make your other characters cracked. He's still not awesome in his own right, but he's worth rotating for that reason.

Obligatory this happened about six months ago, just posting it now because I've mostly mulled over the situation, and am just left feeling kinda bummed that it happened the way it did.

Somewhat important context to this story is that I was working in a dispensary. It was the first and only dispensary I've worked in, and also my first retail role. By the time things went arry I had worked there for a year and a half.

Being a relatively small dispensary, our shop consisted of only 7-8 people including the store manager. Our typical rotation was 2 (occasionally 3) people on at any given time, with half the team being openers and half closers. All but 1 person had been there since the shop opened, and as far as the responsibilities were concerned we were running like a well-oiled machine by the end of our first year open. That is, as far as our shop's local responsibilities went.

The company was comprised of 7 stores with teams of people hailing from every imaginable background. While under normal circumstances this might be positively seen as diversity, for a wantonly rapidly maturing cannabis industry it presents an endless set of hurdles. Two hurdles that are all too present are naming conventions (respect for them or lack thereof) and data entry.

Coming from a background in IT and engineering, I had within a couple months of starting the job been offered a side role by the owners of the company managing the e-commerce portals (Dutchie and Leafly) for all 7 stores. This consisted of configuring daily sales rotations for a weekly cycle, which largely meant parsing through the categories of inventory relevant to each day to ensure things were properly being assigned sales deductions throughout the week.

In my opinion, the company had never developed adequate training for the managers handling intake at the different stores, and this became a recurring frustration for me since I was the one tasked with ensuring things were accurate and "pretty." Worth noting here that despite there being different deals all seven days of the week, and despite new inventory having the capacity to arrive/be intaken any day of the week, I only worked 4 days a week. Friday through Monday.

The extra fun thing with this is that all of the store managers besides our own worked a typical 9-4 Monday through Friday. Essentially for half of my work week, Saturday/Sunday every week, the people that I'd need to communicate issues to were on their weekend. By the time they get back each Monday I would routinely have bitten the bullet and grinded through fixing their mistakes. This literally just reinforced the shop managers not caring, and I had to do it to not get yelled at by the owners.

Eventually, I received my first write-up for the deals apparently being improperly applied. I never actually received any clarification about what the item was that supposedly got missed, to add insult to injury, so I couldn't even defend myself. I tried reasoning with the owner that wrote me up because, truthfully, this was something happening in the days that I was not working, at stores I never physically went to. He didn't seem to understand that any time the deals got improperly applied, it was a direct result of someone entering the wrong information when they were intaking product.

Fast forward about six months, one of the budtenders who I regularly shared my shifts with (the coworker I alluded to in the title) had been back for a bit over a month after a 3 month paternity leave. Prior to taking leave he had been promoted to assistant manager, which not only left us in a weird position during his leave, but also created some weird dynamics upon his return when he quite frankly didn't remember how to do really basic parts of the job.

Things like repping the company cannabis, even just taking sales when customers walked in, stuff that came back to us in the form of bonuses, it all seemed lost on him. I literally overheard him talking shit about our brand to a regular. Then a week later our shop gets an OLCC violation because this coworker didn't ID them before selling them a 21+ item. A week after the violation, and coincidentally my last week of employment there, he came into the back office and joked to me about how he had just let a customer pass without having an ID, just because they were special needs and "being difficult." While this person was definitely over 21, the ID is the legal requirement and he knows that perfectly well.

Well, this is where I made my fatal mistake. Unbeknownst to this coworker, for several months I had a sort of personal side routine that I'd do at work on my breaks to clean my vape device. Essentially it just requires soaking metal components in Isopropyl Alcohol, and we had gallons of iso readily available in the shop. I got permission from the owners of the company before I did it for the first time since the iso didn't belong to me, and to make sure they wouldn't view it as a "company time" conflict. One of the owners had told me he was fine with it, and I did this several times over the course of about a year. On one occasion I even did a cleaning for my Manager since he has a disability that makes it more difficult for him to clean his. Never had any issues...

That is, until I wake up to an 8AM text message from the assistant manager on the first day of my last weekend, complaining about 3 stacked Dixie cups + a crumpled up paper towel that I'd accidentally left in the break room the day prior (which would turn out to be my last day) after finishing a cleaning. He apparently took such a major offense to my doing something personal on company time that he stopped to take a picture and send it to me with a 5 or 6 line "clean up your shit" text reprimanding me, rather than just tossing it in the trashcan 2 feet away. Worth noting that he never said a word to me about being bothered by my cleaning activity any time I did it.

The kicker? The reason I actually forgot to clean up after myself is because my assistant manager wasn't handling any sales until the last hour or two of our shift that day, causing me to have to rush at the end of the day to get out of the way of the closers. I was working the sales floor practically solo just because he didn't seem to want to get out of his chair. He never offered any explanation for why he seemed to be unavailable even when I had a line of customers backing up to the door.

Suffice to say I responded to his text in a way that accounted for his recent track record of mistakes, thinking that we were something along the lines of friends. I only meant to point out that it seemed silly to make such a big deal about other people's minor mistakes when he'd just made relatively big ones without anyone coming down on him. I really shouldn't have responded at all since there wasn't anything that I could realistically do at that point, but I guess in my grumpy "woken up early" state I felt the need to defend myself.

That was it. Never heard another word from the assistant manager, just came back to start my week and the owners told me I was fired for "insubordination", even though the person I was insubordinating shouldn't have had a job if the company respected the law.

TL;DR: got fired over 3 Dixie cups and a crumpled paper towel in the breakroom