Two quick things tonight... First, Neon City #2 was accepted by Associated Content today. Even though it took them almost a week to publish it, indicating that there's some sort of review process...and unabated stupidity being passed from one generation to the next, growing ever stronger instead of diluting down through the ages. O_o That's all I can really say at this point.  Just...O_

Another sample of my weekly Fred's Friday letter to my sales staff. I love sales and I LOVE THIS BUSINESS! We are among the highest paid professions in our field. Why? We generate revenue by educating...greater than when times are tough. Let’s give $100s for $20s and education the world on the PAIN OF NOT BUYING! I believe in you! Go teach, relieve pain, and give money back! Go team! His Servant

it's good to have insurance on your credit card they will be very careful and provide you with... the maximum security as best as they can Voicemail: Galactics answering machine: hi this is laza,...unblock my accounts now? Westpac: i have declined the $890 transaction and unblocked your accounts you may use your cards and access your accounts now. DO NOT GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD TO THE CASHIER

Here's one from this morning... Customer comes in to drop off a roll of APS film.  The cartridge is in the little plastic canister that it comes in when you buy it. I fill out an envelope with her name...can't you? And come on...the thought of anyone getting that stimulated in frakkin' Hell-Mart is almost more unnerving than witnessing the act itself. D: Now, excuse me while I go bleach my brain...

I have to deal with countless idiots and assholes on the best of days, but today was one of those days when almost every customer I got anywhere near was one or the other, or both. One of the worst was.....but I'll have to save that story for later. I need to get up extra early in the morning, and if I work myself into a rage (more than I already have, that is), I'll never get any sleep tonight....

... Service the customer even if they are not in your section. 4) Focus on the add-ons repeating what you want the customer to buy at the end, after clearly stating it at the beginning. Touch your customers’ tables more than any other server would theirs. This improves the customers’ perception of the service. If I was pushing “cheese sticks,” I would say…“Would you like to start off with cheese...

...service industry.  I could begin with statistics (servers make, on average, $2.13 per hour), terminology (running your server, 86, gratuity and its benefits), or just daily life (rants and raves of various customers). Hopefully this shall combine the above.   Beginning with: Tips.Are.Crucial. As previously stated, servers make around $2.13/hr.  That being below minimum wage, tips ARE our income...

... so I can't expect to make a dime from this. If I'm lucky, maybe ten or twenty people will ever see it.... Eh, maybe I'm just being negative because I've finished yet another day packed with idiot customers. Seems like half the people who come in to drop their film off for the send-out service can never find the drop box. Even after one of us points it out to them--"It's right over there, at the...

I'm fast approaching the point of just not being able to deal with ASS anymore. That's an acronym; it stands for Acquired Stupidity Syndrome, that phenomenon which sooner or later transforms normal, functioning...the store. They compare prices, they chat, they put one foot in front of the other, they don't drag their knuckles... put 'em in line for a register and they turn into complete yackashes. I hate my job

I have had the worst PMS ever today. I got angry at the wind. I've been so tired I can't even roll off the couch; although I keep imagining if I did, I'd resemble a boneless, gelatinous mass with a new...today. Time to think up some dessert. Incidentally, I notice my fox emote is not an accurate representation of my current Mood. I think it needs to be more, sideways - and a touch more gelatinous blob.