I Love Walmart!
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I'm a Sconnie. I've eaten at the original Culver's location many times.
Good burger, but I believe the general consensus is that Culver's is not the pinnacle of the butterburger style.
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to eat there anymore.
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Every hot dog you eat takes 39 minutes off your life. If I remember right a burger like the one in the picture is about 55 minutes off the end of your life. Doesn't sound like much but it adds up to years eventually.
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Why would I want to live another 55 minutes if I can't have a burger?
FYI: Fatburger is a different chain.
Quote: Dieter
I'm a Sconnie. I've eaten at the original Culver's location many times.
Good burger, but I believe the general consensus is that Culver's is not the pinnacle of the butterburger style.
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to eat there anymore.
Is there a chain restaurant that does it better? I haven't been to Wisconsin in over 10 years.
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Why would I want to live another 55 minutes if I can't have a burger?
FYI: Fatburger is a different chain.
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That is my thought too. Why live longer if you can't have what you desire.
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I'm a Sconnie. I've eaten at the original Culver's location many times.
Good burger, but I believe the general consensus is that Culver's is not the pinnacle of the butterburger style.
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to eat there anymore.
Is there a chain restaurant that does it better? I haven't been to Wisconsin in over 10 years.
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I'm not sure it is still on the menu, but Jack in The Box had an astonishingly good butterburger. Right now, they have a smashed burger superior to the Big Three Chains. I prefer their custard to their burgers but I can't eat both in one seating.
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I'm a Sconnie. I've eaten at the original Culver's location many times.
Good burger, but I believe the general consensus is that Culver's is not the pinnacle of the butterburger style.
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to eat there anymore.
Is there a chain restaurant that does it better? I haven't been to Wisconsin in over 10 years.
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Preference is subjective. I know I used to get SuperSonic Double Cheeseburgers, and thought they were preferable. I don't think those are butterburgers.
These days, I generally get a Wendy's biggie bag, if it has to be fast food.
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I'm a Sconnie. I've eaten at the original Culver's location many times.
Good burger, but I believe the general consensus is that Culver's is not the pinnacle of the butterburger style.
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to eat there anymore.
Is there a chain restaurant that does it better? I haven't been to Wisconsin in over 10 years.
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Preference is subjective. I know I used to get SuperSonic Double Cheeseburgers, and thought they were preferable. I don't think those are butterburgers.
These days, I generally get a Wendy's biggie bag, if it has to be fast food.
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Sorry, I was referring to butterburgers. I thought maybe Wisconsin had a few chains that did them.
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I'm a Sconnie. I've eaten at the original Culver's location many times.
Good burger, but I believe the general consensus is that Culver's is not the pinnacle of the butterburger style.
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to eat there anymore.
Is there a chain restaurant that does it better? I haven't been to Wisconsin in over 10 years.
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Preference is subjective. I know I used to get SuperSonic Double Cheeseburgers, and thought they were preferable. I don't think those are butterburgers.
These days, I generally get a Wendy's biggie bag, if it has to be fast food.
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Sorry, I was referring to butterburgers. I thought maybe Wisconsin had a few chains that did them.
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The superior butterburgers are not from chains.
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The superior butterburgers are not from chains.
Of course not, I don't think any superior food comes from chain restaurants.
On second thought, McDonald's French Fries may be as good as any French Fry when you get a good batch.
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The superior butterburgers are not from chains.
Of course not, I don't think any superior food comes from chain restaurants.
On second thought, McDonald's French Fries may be as good as any French Fry when you get a good batch.
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I found a hair in my McDonald's fries and informed the manager. He gave me a new order of fries that somehow tasted Worse than the first order with hair in it. Perhaps THAT was/is the secret ingredient??
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The superior butterburgers are not from chains.
Of course not, I don't think any superior food comes from chain restaurants.
On second thought, McDonald's French Fries may be as good as any French Fry when you get a good batch.
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I found a hair in my McDonald's fries and informed the manager. He gave me a new order of fries that somehow tasted Worse than the first order with hair in it. Perhaps THAT was/is the secret ingredient??
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Interesting. I have noticed a lot of bald people working at McDonald's lately
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The superior butterburgers are not from chains.
Of course not, I don't think any superior food comes from chain restaurants.
On second thought, McDonald's French Fries may be as good as any French Fry when you get a good batch.
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I found a hair in my McDonald's fries and informed the manager. He gave me a new order of fries that somehow tasted Worse than the first order with hair in it. Perhaps THAT was/is the secret ingredient??
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Interesting. I have noticed a lot of bald people working at McDonald's lately
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Not where I live, mostly teenagers and barely English speaking employees with acne all over their faces. I asked to sub out the Soda for a Coffee w/ cream and splenda and it took the drive thru worker 3 tries to figure it out!
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Not where I live, mostly teenagers and barely English speaking employees with acne all over their faces. I asked to sub out the Soda for a Coffee w/ cream and splenda and it took the drive thru worker 3 tries to figure it out!
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Don't get sick, eat at the Chick! The thing I like the most about Chick-Fil-A, after the chicken, is the way the employees are all taught to communicate and present themselves. Perfect English even if they are from some other background, clean and in uniform, no mumbling or shoegazing.
After mastering that, then they are all candidates for better jobs than fast food.
+ One near me has covered parking!
- One has lots of items locked in cabinets that they have to open and walk to the checkout! For socks!
+ One has brand new carts
- One has parking so gravelly that everything falls out of your cart
- None have 24 hrs anymore
- None open Christmas anymore
- One has all self-checkout with 90% closed because they won't hire people to watch over them for problems
I once loved Walmart
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Not where I live, mostly teenagers and barely English speaking employees with acne all over their faces. I asked to sub out the Soda for a Coffee w/ cream and splenda and it took the drive thru worker 3 tries to figure it out!
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Don't get sick, eat at the Chick! The thing I like the most about Chick-Fil-A, after the chicken, is the way the employees are all taught to communicate and present themselves. Perfect English even if they are from some other background, clean and in uniform, no mumbling or shoegazing.
After mastering that, then they are all candidates for better jobs than fast food.
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And that is why the average Chick-Fil-A unit does twice the business of the average MCD despite being open only 6/7 of the time and Chick-Fil-A not having near the breakfast business MCD does. They decline like 98% of applicants for Operator positions. Think about that! Harvard and West Point probably have a higher acceptance rate.
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And that is why the average Chick-Fil-A unit does twice the business of the average MCD despite being open only 6/7 of the time and Chick-Fil-A not having near the breakfast business MCD does. They decline like 98% of applicants for Operator positions. Think about that! Harvard and West Point probably have a higher acceptance rate.
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Is that how they do it, with selection and they pick people who are like that coming in the door? I assumed it was training, where they teach you these habits that you are not likely to learn anywhere else in the present day.
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And that is why the average Chick-Fil-A unit does twice the business of the average MCD despite being open only 6/7 of the time and Chick-Fil-A not having near the breakfast business MCD does. They decline like 98% of applicants for Operator positions. Think about that! Harvard and West Point probably have a higher acceptance rate.
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Is that how they do it, with selection and they pick people who are like that coming in the door? I assumed it was training, where they teach you these habits that you are not likely to learn anywhere else in the present day.
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I think "Operator" may mean "Franchisee". (Happy to hear otherwise.)
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And that is why the average Chick-Fil-A unit does twice the business of the average MCD despite being open only 6/7 of the time and Chick-Fil-A not having near the breakfast business MCD does. They decline like 98% of applicants for Operator positions. Think about that! Harvard and West Point probably have a higher acceptance rate.
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Is that how they do it, with selection and they pick people who are like that coming in the door? I assumed it was training, where they teach you these habits that you are not likely to learn anywhere else in the present day.
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I think "Operator" may mean "Franchisee". (Happy to hear otherwise.)
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Sort of. They do not own the store so they are not a franchisee. They are more than a GM as they spit the year's profits 50/50 and do put in investment but low 5 figures not mid 6 like a franchise. Thus it is a hybrid called "operator."
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And that is why the average Chick-Fil-A unit does twice the business of the average MCD despite being open only 6/7 of the time and Chick-Fil-A not having near the breakfast business MCD does. They decline like 98% of applicants for Operator positions. Think about that! Harvard and West Point probably have a higher acceptance rate.
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Is that how they do it, with selection and they pick people who are like that coming in the door? I assumed it was training, where they teach you these habits that you are not likely to learn anywhere else in the present day.
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I think "Operator" may mean "Franchisee". (Happy to hear otherwise.)
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Sort of. They do not own the store so they are not a franchisee. They are more than a GM as they spit the year's profits 50/50 and do put in investment but low 5 figures not mid 6 like a franchise. Thus it is a hybrid called "operator."
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That makes sense.
There seemed to be confusion about the difference for in-store position hiring vs selection for "Operator", "Owner Operator", or "Franchisee". (Their website seems to mix the terms a bit non-specifically.)
I haven't heard anything about a 98% rejection rate for fry-cook candidates, for example.
I drove by one time and saw a long line of applicants as they were holding a job fair. I'd estimate the line was 80% minority, but two weeks or so later, on my first visit, the workers were over 90% white. It's the only I&O I know of in a rough neighborhood, and it was apparent they didn't hire locals.
Quote: billryanWhen I loved in Henderson, a new In and Out was opening in a rough section of the East Side, almost near the Boulder Highway strip.
I drove by one time and saw a long line of applicants as they were holding a job fair. I'd estimate the line was 80% minority, but two weeks or so later, on my first visit, the workers were over 90% white. It's the only I&O I know of in a rough neighborhood, and it was apparent they didn't hire locals.
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My guess is they did hire a bunch of locals but two weeks later most of them were gone. I remember when Four Winds Casino opened in 2007 and 100% of their valet crew was local minorities. A month later it was almost 100% White women. I asked what happened and the manager told me the original people they hired only came in two or three times a week and they caught a bunch of them stealing stuff out of the cars they parked and that was that. If you're going to hire local minorities you have to keep hiring and keep hiring and keep hiring until you eventually somewhere down the road get a bunch of them that're going to come in every day and not steal from you. Just a fact of life.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: billryanWhen I loved in Henderson, a new In and Out was opening in a rough section of the East Side, almost near the Boulder Highway strip.
I drove by one time and saw a long line of applicants as they were holding a job fair. I'd estimate the line was 80% minority, but two weeks or so later, on my first visit, the workers were over 90% white. It's the only I&O I know of in a rough neighborhood, and it was apparent they didn't hire locals.
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My guess is they did hire a bunch of locals but two weeks later most of them were gone. I remember when Four Winds Casino opened in 2007 and 100% of their valet crew was local minorities. A month later it was almost 100% White women. I asked what happened and the manager told me the original people they hired only came in two or three times a week and they caught a bunch of them stealing stuff out of the cars they parked and that was that. If you're going to hire local minorities you have to keep hiring and keep hiring and keep hiring until you eventually somewhere down the road get a bunch of them that're going to come in every day and not steal from you. Just a fact of life.
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They might just have not been qualified for even these kinds of positions. I was hiring for an office position once and had tons of applicants. It was far above "fry cook" but half of them I would hesitate to hire for that. The woman I did hire was a former Burger King manager. She told me how some people you got in there could not even handle sending the burgers and buns down the fryer and toaster. All one had to do was send a few more burgers than buns to account for doubles. Alas so many could not even grasp that. I had one dummy who got chemicals in his eye because he was filling the sprayer in a blowing wind looking right into it. We lost like half the customers on his route within months.
And we wonder why we have to tell people not to eat Tide Pods(r).
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: EvenBobQuote: billryanWhen I loved in Henderson, a new In and Out was opening in a rough section of the East Side, almost near the Boulder Highway strip.
I drove by one time and saw a long line of applicants as they were holding a job fair. I'd estimate the line was 80% minority, but two weeks or so later, on my first visit, the workers were over 90% white. It's the only I&O I know of in a rough neighborhood, and it was apparent they didn't hire locals.
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My guess is they did hire a bunch of locals but two weeks later most of them were gone. I remember when Four Winds Casino opened in 2007 and 100% of their valet crew was local minorities. A month later it was almost 100% White women. I asked what happened and the manager told me the original people they hired only came in two or three times a week and they caught a bunch of them stealing stuff out of the cars they parked and that was that. If you're going to hire local minorities you have to keep hiring and keep hiring and keep hiring until you eventually somewhere down the road get a bunch of them that're going to come in every day and not steal from you. Just a fact of life.
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They might just have not been qualified for even these kinds of positions. I was hiring for an office position once and had tons of applicants. It was far above "fry cook" but half of them I would hesitate to hire for that. The woman I did hire was a former Burger King manager. She told me how some people you got in there could not even handle sending the burgers and buns down the fryer and toaster. All one had to do was send a few more burgers than buns to account for doubles. Alas so many could not even grasp that. I had one dummy who got chemicals in his eye because he was filling the sprayer in a blowing wind looking right into it. We lost like half the customers on his route within months.
And we wonder why we have to tell people not to eat Tide Pods(r).
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I knew somebody years ago who worked in what was then called Personnel Department, it's called something else now. Human Resources maybe. She said by far their biggest problem was getting people to come in every day. There was always people calling in sick or having some other excuse and it was always the same group of people. They generally worked an average of three days a week when they're supposed to work 5. 90% of them were women and they would have every excuse in the book short of they got kidnapped by aliens. Biggest headache job she ever had she hated it. It's the truth that 80% of society has always been dragged along by the 20% who are extremely productive.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: EvenBobQuote: billryanWhen I loved in Henderson, a new In and Out was opening in a rough section of the East Side, almost near the Boulder Highway strip.
I drove by one time and saw a long line of applicants as they were holding a job fair. I'd estimate the line was 80% minority, but two weeks or so later, on my first visit, the workers were over 90% white. It's the only I&O I know of in a rough neighborhood, and it was apparent they didn't hire locals.
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My guess is they did hire a bunch of locals but two weeks later most of them were gone. I remember when Four Winds Casino opened in 2007 and 100% of their valet crew was local minorities. A month later it was almost 100% White women. I asked what happened and the manager told me the original people they hired only came in two or three times a week and they caught a bunch of them stealing stuff out of the cars they parked and that was that. If you're going to hire local minorities you have to keep hiring and keep hiring and keep hiring until you eventually somewhere down the road get a bunch of them that're going to come in every day and not steal from you. Just a fact of life.
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They might just have not been qualified for even these kinds of positions. I was hiring for an office position once and had tons of applicants. It was far above "fry cook" but half of them I would hesitate to hire for that. The woman I did hire was a former Burger King manager. She told me how some people you got in there could not even handle sending the burgers and buns down the fryer and toaster. All one had to do was send a few more burgers than buns to account for doubles. Alas so many could not even grasp that. I had one dummy who got chemicals in his eye because he was filling the sprayer in a blowing wind looking right into it. We lost like half the customers on his route within months.
And we wonder why we have to tell people not to eat Tide Pods(r).
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I knew somebody years ago who worked in what was then called Personnel Department, it's called something else now. Human Resources maybe. She said by far their biggest problem was getting people to come in every day. There was always people calling in sick or having some other excuse and it was always the same group of people. They generally worked an average of three days a week when they're supposed to work 5. 90% of them were women and they would have every excuse in the book short of they got kidnapped by aliens. Biggest headache job she ever had she hated it. It's the truth that 80% of society has always been dragged along by the 20% who are extremely productive.
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Do you consider yourself in the 20% that are extremely productive?
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Do you consider yourself in the 20% that are extremely productive?
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I worked just about every day of my life because I'm self-employed and I even work every day in retirement. I worked for hours today, just as I will tomorrow. I even made money for an hour which I don't consider work but it definitely is. I make money everyday at an online casino. I consider people who don't work at something everyday to be fairly useless and a burden on society.
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Do you consider yourself in the 20% that are extremely productive?
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I worked just about every day of my life because I'm self-employed and I even work every day in retirement. I worked for hours today, just as I will tomorrow. I even made money for an hour which I don't consider work but it definitely is. I make money everyday at an online casino. I consider people who don't work at something everyday to be fairly useless and a burden on society.
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But someone who sits around all day playing roulette online is a productive member of society? As opposed to the guy who sits around playing video games while his Bitcoin investment quadruples.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: EvenBobQuote: billryanWhen I loved in Henderson, a new In and Out was opening in a rough section of the East Side, almost near the Boulder Highway strip.
I drove by one time and saw a long line of applicants as they were holding a job fair. I'd estimate the line was 80% minority, but two weeks or so later, on my first visit, the workers were over 90% white. It's the only I&O I know of in a rough neighborhood, and it was apparent they didn't hire locals.
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My guess is they did hire a bunch of locals but two weeks later most of them were gone. I remember when Four Winds Casino opened in 2007 and 100% of their valet crew was local minorities. A month later it was almost 100% White women. I asked what happened and the manager told me the original people they hired only came in two or three times a week and they caught a bunch of them stealing stuff out of the cars they parked and that was that. If you're going to hire local minorities you have to keep hiring and keep hiring and keep hiring until you eventually somewhere down the road get a bunch of them that're going to come in every day and not steal from you. Just a fact of life.
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They might just have not been qualified for even these kinds of positions. I was hiring for an office position once and had tons of applicants. It was far above "fry cook" but half of them I would hesitate to hire for that. The woman I did hire was a former Burger King manager. She told me how some people you got in there could not even handle sending the burgers and buns down the fryer and toaster. All one had to do was send a few more burgers than buns to account for doubles. Alas so many could not even grasp that. I had one dummy who got chemicals in his eye because he was filling the sprayer in a blowing wind looking right into it. We lost like half the customers on his route within months.
And we wonder why we have to tell people not to eat Tide Pods(r).
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I knew somebody years ago who worked in what was then called Personnel Department, it's called something else now. Human Resources maybe. She said by far their biggest problem was getting people to come in every day. There was always people calling in sick or having some other excuse and it was always the same group of people. They generally worked an average of three days a week when they're supposed to work 5. 90% of them were women and they would have every excuse in the book short of they got kidnapped by aliens. Biggest headache job she ever had she hated it. It's the truth that 80% of society has always been dragged along by the 20% who are extremely productive.
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That's why I never really tried to get back into management. It drains you. Once I was on a crew with a woman who said 12 days PTO a year was not enough. I told her that meant she was calling off once a month, and how would she like it if one day a month she got to work but was sent home without pay. That was years ago but meanwhile I have to burn almost 50 hours PTO the next 6 weeks so I don't lose it. Some guy used to see me in the hall and said, "Bo, you are ALWAYS here." I was like, uh, I have a full time job so yeah.
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That's why I never really tried to get back into management. It drains you. Once I was on a crew with a woman who said 12 days PTO a year was not enough. I told her that meant she was calling off once a month, and how would she like it if one day a month she got to work but was sent home without pay. That was years ago but meanwhile I have to burn almost 50 hours PTO the next 6 weeks so I don't lose it. Some guy used to see me in the hall and said, "Bo, you are ALWAYS here." I was like, uh, I have a full time job so yeah.
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At my last job in Vegas I was getting six weeks paid vacation. I don't think I ever used more than two weeks in a year. Just didn't have time as there was always things that needed to get done. I probably lost over six months of vacation in my career because I wouldn't just take random days off. I only used it when I had an actual vacation scheduled with the family.
I woke up to a box on my steps that felt empty. Rather than sending them in the envelope type of package, it was sent in a 12X24X6 box with one bath mat, not two. I called Walmart, and after a ten-minute wait, they promised to send one more unit immediately.
A Fed Ex truck shows up and drops off the two dozen socks. Around 2 PM, I got a notice that my laundry detergent had been dropped off, but the picture shows it was dropped at a location that was not my own. I made another phone call to Walmart, and after a short delay, the CSR told me the photo of the dropoff didn't match the photos for other dropoffs so that they would ship another. I'm a bit disturbed, so I told her I ordered it today because I have laundry to do. 5 PM, a Walmart delivery driver brings me my bath mat, again in an oversized box. The driver asked if I ordered an empty box as it was light.
At 7:15ish, another driver brings me my jug of laundry powder.
9PM, the guard at the front gate called me to tell me a non-resident had just dropped a package from Walmat off at the gate, saying it was delivered by accident.
Losing money on every sale but making it up with volume is not conducive to maintaining a profitable business.
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Do you consider yourself in the 20% that are extremely productive?
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I worked just about every day of my life because I'm self-employed and I even work every day in retirement. I worked for hours today, just as I will tomorrow. I even made money for an hour which I don't consider work but it definitely is. I make money everyday at an online casino. I consider people who don't work at something everyday to be fairly useless and a burden on society.
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But someone who sits around all day playing roulette online is a productive member of society? As opposed to the guy who sits around playing video games while his Bitcoin investment quadruples.
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I don't know anybody who does that. I'm at the online casino for probably 20 minutes a day total, sometimes it's much shorter than that. Depends on how long it takes me to make my goal. Anybody who would have to play all day has no idea what they're doing. Yes if you're making money in a legitimate fashion you are considered a productive member of society. If you have to wait for somebody to give you a handout, like all your good buddies there across the street from you waiting for there new socks and for you to bring them their bagged lunch, you are not a productive member of society you are a drag on it.
Quote: billryanI ordered a set of two bathroom mats, the uj-shaped ones that fit around the toilet, a jug of Arm and Hammer detergent, and two dozen pairs of socks. They were expected yesterday.
I woke up to a box on my steps that felt empty. Rather than sending them in the envelope type of package, it was sent in a 12X24X6 box with one bath mat, not two. I called Walmart, and after a ten-minute wait, they promised to send one more unit immediately.
A Fed Ex truck shows up and drops off the two dozen socks. Around 2 PM, I got a notice that my laundry detergent had been dropped off, but the picture shows it was dropped at a location that was not my own. I made another phone call to Walmart, and after a short delay, the CSR told me the photo of the dropoff didn't match the photos for other dropoffs so that they would ship another. I'm a bit disturbed, so I told her I ordered it today because I have laundry to do. 5 PM, a Walmart delivery driver brings me my bath mat, again in an oversized box. The driver asked if I ordered an empty box as it was light.
At 7:15ish, another driver brings me my jug of laundry powder.
9PM, the guard at the front gate called me to tell me a non-resident had just dropped a package from Walmat off at the gate, saying it was delivered by accident.
Losing money on every sale but making it up with volume is not conducive to maintaining a profitable business.
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Lesson learned, never wait till you're almost out of anything to order it if you are depending on delivery. I always stock up on everything. I have six bags of cat food. I have 6 weeks worth of canned cat food. I have 200 lb of cat litter. I have four bottles of spray cleaner. Kleenex was recently on sale for a buck-a-box and I bought 35 of them. On and on, I have multiples of everything that I use on a regular basis. I have at least a year's worth of canned food for myself. I have two chest freezers in the basement and a stand-up freezer upstairs with enough frozen food for God knows how long. Everything is a game and you have to stay a couple steps ahead of it at all times.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: billryanI ordered a set of two bathroom mats, the uj-shaped ones that fit around the toilet, a jug of Arm and Hammer detergent, and two dozen pairs of socks. They were expected yesterday.
I woke up to a box on my steps that felt empty. Rather than sending them in the envelope type of package, it was sent in a 12X24X6 box with one bath mat, not two. I called Walmart, and after a ten-minute wait, they promised to send one more unit immediately.
A Fed Ex truck shows up and drops off the two dozen socks. Around 2 PM, I got a notice that my laundry detergent had been dropped off, but the picture shows it was dropped at a location that was not my own. I made another phone call to Walmart, and after a short delay, the CSR told me the photo of the dropoff didn't match the photos for other dropoffs so that they would ship another. I'm a bit disturbed, so I told her I ordered it today because I have laundry to do. 5 PM, a Walmart delivery driver brings me my bath mat, again in an oversized box. The driver asked if I ordered an empty box as it was light.
At 7:15ish, another driver brings me my jug of laundry powder.
9PM, the guard at the front gate called me to tell me a non-resident had just dropped a package from Walmat off at the gate, saying it was delivered by accident.
Losing money on every sale but making it up with volume is not conducive to maintaining a profitable business.
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Lesson learned, never wait till you're almost out of anything to order it if you are depending on delivery. I always stock up on everything. I have six bags of cat food. I have 6 weeks worth of canned cat food. I have 200 lb of cat litter. I have four bottles of spray cleaner. Kleenex was recently on sale for a buck-a-box and I bought 35 of them. On and on, I have multiples of everything that I use on a regular basis. I have at least a year's worth of canned food for myself. I have two chest freezers in the basement and a stand-up freezer upstairs with enough frozen food for God knows how long. Everything is a game and you have to stay a couple steps ahead of it at all times.
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Even when I don't rely on delivery, I don't like to wait until the cupboard is out of toilet roll to go get more.
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Even when I don't rely on delivery, I don't like to wait until the cupboard is out of toilet roll to go get more.
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I have at least a year's worth of toilet paper. Probably 2 years worth of baby wipes. How did I ever live before I discovered those things. LOL
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Even when I don't rely on delivery, I don't like to wait until the cupboard is out of toilet roll to go get more.
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I have at least a year's worth of toilet paper. Probably 2 years worth of baby wipes. How did I ever live before I discovered those things. LOL
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There is a great contrivance for moistening a bit of toilet roll, so that you can easily have a moist cleansing wipe without worrying about clogging the plumbing.
I have figured out that I can just get a drip from the tub faucet most of the time. This cuts down on baby wipe usage.
Over the weekend, I made a list of meals for the week and ordered them for delivery tomorrow. For toilet paper, I buy six to twelve rolls at a time and order one case as I open the next. I buy wet wipes by the case, so I always have that option.
I bought a case of Oche De Lupo recently., but that's only because it is hard to find in the West.
