B!TC# IT OUT!

[JamesGunnels]

okay...so...anyone who works in retail knows how FUCKING STUPID! people can be. So, in Austin we have this bag ban law...I am totally for it. We have a sign that says we can no longer give away single use bags...now, for a lot of these people...they come in daily or a few times a week (It's a campus grocery store) and it really pisses me the fuck off when I see someone come in twice a day...buy the same shit, and take another bag when I am pretty sure they have accumulated a shit ton of bags. Some people may see this as petty, but it is so fucking stupid. You know that you need to bring your own bags...like you have to do at ALL grocery stores in Austin as of the 1st of this last January! I try to explain to them that I can't keep giving them bags and yet they buy so much shit that I have to give them one! ALSO!! fucking dumb ass bitches who see me at one register go to the other register because it is closest to where they are...yet I am closest to the door...they go to the other register (There are only two) I wait until they realize that I am not going to move from where I am logged into, then it's my fault when they look stupid for not realizing that the other register is not even logged into! and the rude fucking bimbos! OMG! seriously! STOP BLEACHING YOUR HAIR! YOU DON'T HAVE BRAINCELLS TO SPARE! I can't even imagine how some of these people got into UT! It's one of the best universities in the nation! Like this one bitch who was talking to her friend about the new Mercedes her parents got her...it wasn't the right shade of red...SO SHE MADE THEM TAKE IT THE FUCK BACK! STOP BITCHING!

on a side note! I am happy you found her!!!!

[Alveric]

For the found person. So many of these turn out badly, it's nice to hear of one that didn't.

[Fun123joker]

its not really a problem but a movie one night only thing of Doctor Who was sold out and my bro is such a big fan

[Dacora]

So I haven't been here in a long time due to life being such an asshole. Which in itself should be a bitch it out but I have more to rant about....

I got not long ago, I was promised I was going to be trained to be the assistant manager. It was far out of my way but since my mom and I where going to work together it was alright since we could carpool. Started the job, the already assistant manger is a bitch. She hates being there and lets everyone know it. She has no common sense and when I am able to figure things out she gets pissy because someone younger than her knows more about something.
She is also a two face and kisses my moms ass. But is a bitch to me when my mom is not there.
Well my mom had asked her something about splitting the tips one day and she could not explain it to my mom. We though it was supposed to be split between cashier (me) and the cook. But she expled it weird to my mom so my mom went and asked the boss above her just to clear things up.

I dont give a fuck about the tips. At the end of the day we are lucky to get 3 bucks total. Its not worth me worrying about. But the head boss told the assent manager that I had called and asked about it, when in fact my mom txted her and asked. The next day the assistant manager bitched me out and got pissed at me when I had NOTHING to do with it. Like I said I dont care about the damn tips!! So I was nice and said "My mom asked because it was not clear enough for her. If you have an issue tank to her." And she kept on about it so I ignored her.

Fast forward to about two weeks before Halloween. My BF and I had a night planned out so I told her I was not able to come in. She said put it on the calender. So I did. The weekend before Halloween she handed me the work schedule and she had me down to work. I told her I couldn't, I will be out of town and she goes "Well geez do you want to work?". So I said yes when I want to tell her to put it where the sun dont shine.

And now they have me working one day a week. ONE DAY. That is minimum wage. About 6 hours. That does not even cover my gas to get there. Also she had my mom work for her at a different time so I could not carpool with her. This started last week and I made a whopping 39 bucks.
So I talked to her this week saying if I cant get more hours I cant work because I am losing money working for them. She told me to wait until next week beofore I decide because they are going to cut the one damn day I work out for the winter since its slow. So I told her I was just going to find a new job.

Thing is there is no jobs where I live. Im in a small town with hardly any business. The nearest towns are about an hour away and my truck is 21 years old. Either I drive my truck into the ground even though its almost there, get a loan to move into one of the towns even though I have no credit and wont likely be able to get one or just live with my parents until my bf is ready for me to move in with him which wont be for awhile since he is having a hard time supporting himself right now.

I just graduated high school. I should be going to college and starting my life. Not already stuck in one place with no money and cant get out. I feel like no matter how hard I try I just cant go anywhere....

[Mermaid Lilium]

its not really a problem but a movie one night only thing of Doctor Who was sold out and my bro is such a big fan

Day of the doctor should go out 'live' on bbc america too as it's being shown simultaniously around the world including special showings at cinemas etc, so maybe check the listings and if I'm correct and it's on, you could make it a little dr who party at your house? =) That way it's still made a little bit special to celebrate the 50th anniversary! =)

[Echidna]

Just to update: Carly has been found, and is safe. I don't know any details, but I wanted to say thank you, mers, for your support.

I'm really glad it turned out this way!

[Mermaid Momo]

its not really a problem but a movie one night only thing of Doctor Who was sold out and my bro is such a big fan

Maybe you can check and see if any comic book stores will be having parties. I know almost all of the stores here will be having parties and it will be shown in some cinemas and not to mention the individual parties.


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[JamesGunnels]

So...would someone please be kind enough and explain something to me. I work for a student grocery/bookstore. We have these little black baskets with wheels that you drag around...they're right next to the door. HOW FUCKING DIFFICULT IS IT TO FUCKING DRAG IT BEHIND YOUR LAZY FUCKING ASS AND PUT IT UP YOURSELVES?!?!?!?! (not any of you, obviously, just in general.) Oh! And...if you decide that the milk you took out of the cooler wasn't something you wanted...WHY THE FUCK DID YOU JUST OUT IT ON THE FLOOR OUTSIDE OF THE FRIGGEN COOLER?!?!?!?! YOU OPENED THE DOOR ONCE ALREADY TO GET IT...WHY CAN"T YOU DO IT ONCE MORE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I hate people so much sometimes. Human evolution and respect seems to have completely halted.

[JamesGunnels]

So I haven't been here in a long time due to life being such an asshole. Which in itself should be a bitch it out but I have more to rant about....

I got not long ago, I was promised I was going to be trained to be the assistant manager. It was far out of my way but since my mom and I where going to work together it was alright since we could carpool. Started the job, the already assistant manger is a bitch. She hates being there and lets everyone know it. She has no common sense and when I am able to figure things out she gets pissy because someone younger than her knows more about something.
She is also a two face and kisses my moms ass. But is a bitch to me when my mom is not there.
Well my mom had asked her something about splitting the tips one day and she could not explain it to my mom. We though it was supposed to be split between cashier (me) and the cook. But she expled it weird to my mom so my mom went and asked the boss above her just to clear things up.

I dont give a fuck about the tips. At the end of the day we are lucky to get 3 bucks total. Its not worth me worrying about. But the head boss told the assent manager that I had called and asked about it, when in fact my mom txted her and asked. The next day the assistant manager bitched me out and got pissed at me when I had NOTHING to do with it. Like I said I dont care about the damn tips!! So I was nice and said "My mom asked because it was not clear enough for her. If you have an issue tank to her." And she kept on about it so I ignored her.

Fast forward to about two weeks before Halloween. My BF and I had a night planned out so I told her I was not able to come in. She said put it on the calender. So I did. The weekend before Halloween she handed me the work schedule and she had me down to work. I told her I couldn't, I will be out of town and she goes "Well geez do you want to work?". So I said yes when I want to tell her to put it where the sun dont shine.

And now they have me working one day a week. ONE DAY. That is minimum wage. About 6 hours. That does not even cover my gas to get there. Also she had my mom work for her at a different time so I could not carpool with her. This started last week and I made a whopping 39 bucks.
So I talked to her this week saying if I cant get more hours I cant work because I am losing money working for them. She told me to wait until next week beofore I decide because they are going to cut the one damn day I work out for the winter since its slow. So I told her I was just going to find a new job.

Thing is there is no jobs where I live. Im in a small town with hardly any business. The nearest towns are about an hour away and my truck is 21 years old. Either I drive my truck into the ground even though its almost there, get a loan to move into one of the towns even though I have no credit and wont likely be able to get one or just live with my parents until my bf is ready for me to move in with him which wont be for awhile since he is having a hard time supporting himself right now.

I just graduated high school. I should be going to college and starting my life. Not already stuck in one place with no money and cant get out. I feel like no matter how hard I try I just cant go anywhere....

finding work, sadly is hard everywhere. I live in Austin...the capital of Texas bla bla bla how exciting. It took me a year to find a job here, because as fucked up as it is...one of Austins things is, "Keep it local," I am from Canada....(well...born in Mississippi, raised in Canada) I had one woman actually ask me how long I have been in Austin...when I told her only a few months, she just looked at me and said..."oh...we'll get back to you."

I currently work for a company that sells all the books and other merchandise for the university. I have been here for a year and a half now with this company...and I am still considered a "permanent-temp" because they do not want to hire anyone on full-time so they are not obligated to pay for our health insurance. Also, temps are not allowed to park for free in the garage. We have to pay daily. That's 8 dollars a day..for however many days they have us working...which is normally only 29 hours unless it's during football season, then it could be 12 hour shifts for nine or ten without days of. What they do is pretty much illegal but, when you need the money you take it. I would not be here anymore if I could find another job. I hope you will be able to get out of your small town and start your life for yourself. I didn't move out of my parents place until I met my boyfriend. It's been a nice parent free three years lol

[sunrise]

This is going to be a bit of a rant, just a warning. I bite my nails, a LOT. It's not as bad as it used to be, but there's still blood involved on occasion, and the only reason I don't go to the doctor's office with infected fingers anymore is because I've learned to catch the signs of a beginning infection, and treat it right away. My thumb nail isn't even half an inch long, and I've never had any of my fingernails grow over the skin at the top. I've tried to stop biting a few times over the years, but nothing works for very long. If anything, actually having my nails "long" (two millimeters longer than normal) makes it harder to resist biting. This is a habit I've had, as my mom says, since I've had teeth, making it really hard to stop, but I really want to, and I'm really determined this time.

I haven't bitten my nails since, I want to say Friday, night. I hadn't been biting, since I was playing with modeling clay, and so I decided to keep that up. It's been three days now, and it's really frustrating, because I keep wanting to bite, and I have to keep reminding myself not to. Plus, I know that when my nails grow, they're going to dig into the skin for a while, which will be very annoying and uncomfortable. I guess I just needed to let this out, since it's been bugging me. Also, typing this helped me to keep my fingers busy, and when I wasn't typing, I was playing with a ball of modeling clay. Wednesday I'm going to see my neurologist about my epilepsy, but I'm just going to worry about one day at a time, or I'll never stop biting my nails.

[Thalassa]

Sunrise: you can do it! Ingrained habits are really hard to break, but you're on your way! A note: don't be discouraged if you backslide and have to start again. Each day you don't bite, each TIME you don't bite is a success and step towards breaking the habit.

Having something to do with your hands helps. I got a ring that I twist a lot.

You can do it! Take it from a fellow nail-biter! Used to be I'd bite them to the quick, too!

[SeaSister]

Sunrise, I feel your pain! I, too, am a chronic nail biter. I can't remember a time when I had long nails (if I ever did, anyways). Mine haven't gotten infected, thankfully, but they do bleed sometimes. I've tried a lot of things but nothing seems to work. Maybe I just need to put band-aids over all of my fingers all the time, lol. But that would look really bad and probably be annoying...
Anyways, just wanted to let you know that you're not alone! If you find something that helps curb the habit, please let me know!

[Aziara]

I bit my nails for years. For some reason I couldn't stand to bite them while they were painted, so I had to leave them painted for a while until I broke the habit. What really helps is having something else to occupy your hands, like a worry stone or something else small in your pocket to fiddle with.

[PearlieMae]

I made myself a bracelet for each wrist with the saying "Every bite is a choice."

And then one day, the nailbiting was done. Good luck!

[SeaSister]

Whenever I painted my nails I would just scrape the polish off with my teeth subconsciously... them continue to bite. :/

[deepblue]

Damn my lack of social skills. Damn being shy. Damn having had a life dealing with mental shit so that now that I don't as often, I have no idea what I'm doing. Learning to cope with a disorder means that, once the disorder is fading or in the background, I no longer really know how to cope and am learning all over. All this is the result of getting better, but still. Gah.

My boyfriend- who is hands down THE most incredibly awesome wonderful man I have ever met- really wants me to see and meet his friends. No pressure at all, but it's something he'd like. For all the obvious reasons that most people would have. He is, in fact, being his awesome usual self in not pressuring me.

The idea makes me feel nauseated because of the nerves. I'm not used to socializing outside of my small circle of friends and my clubs (goth clubs) which have long been like a second family and home. I'm far more at ease among them, but even there it's just...

GAH. Shyness. Social skills lacking. No idea how to talk with people I don't know quite well or instantly hit it off with. *headdesk* And the worst part is... for me, anyway, they already know a little more about me than I'd like. I have nothing to hide, but at the same time, some things are personal and when they asked him why I don't work... he was, as I'd expect, honest without too much detail. I'm on disability due to disorders, and he told them the basics, because they're his good friends, and they care about him and asked. And I have no problem with that. Except that I now feel at even more of a disadvantage- these people, I don't know them, and they already know something that makes me feel quite exposed. Something I don't tell people in person unless I've known them awhile. Except him, I told him, because he deserved to know if we were going to date and eventually be together. Which we are. And hence his friends want to meet me.

Sigh. And aaaaggghhH!

[Alveric]

Try meeting them one at a time in a setting of your choosing at a time of your choosing. If there's no pressure, there's no hurry. Works for me.

[JamesGunnels]

so...today as I walked into work, I was told by my coworkers that the head of HR needed to speak with me...well...I'm kind of crazy and always think the worst. I was pretty much panicking for a good 20 minutes when she walked in with this look on her face that told me the news weren't good. I figured that it had to do with all of us when we walked into the back office and she started to talk openly in front of everyone. She started by saying, "I talked to everyone this morning about this, and since you weren't here...I needed to tell you before you heard it from someone else, and I don't think that would be fair...we're laying you off...not just you...everyone who work in the market." Oh...and this is where I GET SERIOUSLY FUCKING PISSED OFF!!! AT&T wanted our building because it's prime location...we still have a lease in that building for a few more years and AT&T is willing to pay double or some fucking bullshit like that. The president and top VP, might I also add, are FUCKING ASSHOLES! The president was mentioned in the local newspaper for tax evasion, and he makes a shit ton of money every year, he's just a crooked old asshat. The VP doesn't care about the sales associates. He looks down on us, and if we try and tell him hi, he looks right past us and doesn't even act like we fucking live. He also made it to where all the temps were no longer allowed to park for free in the parking garage because we aren't fulltime and those spaces take up perfectly good "money" that could be going to the store....we make MILLIONS EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! So...that's 8 dollars a day per temp...it fucking adds up...we don't want to make money just to fucking GIVE IT BACK TO THIS FUCKING CROOKED BUSINESS!!!!!!!!! What makes me even more fucking pissed off is that they aren't even offering us positions in the company. I worked at the main store for over a year before I started working there and still they won't offer me a job...ONE OF MY COWORKERS HAS WORKED IN THIS DEPARTMENT FOR 10 YEARS!!!! It isn't fair to them! The bosses could careless whether or not we have a place to live or food to eat. Oh yeah...I can apply for unemployment, but I already make shit pay...so, I'll get what? Half of the 390 to 450 I make every two weeks? I cannot FUCKING SURVIVE on that every month YOU FUCKING EGOTISTICAL PIGS!!!!!! I FUCKING CAN'T STAND YOU WITH EVERY FIBER IN MY BEING AND DO NOT! WISH YOU THE BEST!!!!! YOU FUCK TOO MANY PEOPLE OVER AND COULD CARELESS!!! I HOPE THE COMPANY GOES BELLY UP AND YOU LOSE EVERYTHING BECAUSE YOU COULD CARELESS IF WE DO!

[Thalassa]

I'm sorry that happened to you. Unfortunately it seems to be the way many businesses are run now. My dad worked for a company for 20 years and they lay him off without a second thought. He got another job in a startup business and supported them through their tough times (5 years)...they just merged with another larger company and he got laid off once again with a paltry severance pay (enough to last a month). So my dad, who is a loyal and hard worker and well over 50, is out there looking for work around Christmas. It makes me upset that there's no reward for company loyalty anymore.

[Mer_Adella]

This is going to be a bit of a rant, just a warning. I bite my nails, a LOT. It's not as bad as it used to be, but there's still blood involved on occasion, and the only reason I don't go to the doctor's office with infected fingers anymore is because I've learned to catch the signs of a beginning infection, and treat it right away. My thumb nail isn't even half an inch long, and I've never had any of my fingernails grow over the skin at the top. I've tried to stop biting a few times over the years, but nothing works for very long. If anything, actually having my nails "long" (two millimeters longer than normal) makes it harder to resist biting. This is a habit I've had, as my mom says, since I've had teeth, making it really hard to stop, but I really want to, and I'm really determined this time.

I haven't bitten my nails since, I want to say Friday, night. I hadn't been biting, since I was playing with modeling clay, and so I decided to keep that up. It's been three days now, and it's really frustrating, because I keep wanting to bite, and I have to keep reminding myself not to. Plus, I know that when my nails grow, they're going to dig into the skin for a while, which will be very annoying and uncomfortable. I guess I just needed to let this out, since it's been bugging me. Also, typing this helped me to keep my fingers busy, and when I wasn't typing, I was playing with a ball of modeling clay. Wednesday I'm going to see my neurologist about my epilepsy, but I'm just going to worry about one day at a time, or I'll never stop biting my nails.

Sunrise, I know what you mean. When I was younger (since a baby till i was 5) I sucked my thumb. Once I was teased at school about it, I started biting my nails. Low and behold my father bites his down to the quick. If I had to guess he only has 1/2" on each finger. I never had long nails. And I wanted them so bad. I've stopped biting but unfortunately have started biting the skin around the nail. Not all the way around, just the corners of where the nail comes out. I can't help it! Sometimes I don't think i'm doing it until i see that i've bitten down so far that its bleeding. Or my other bad habit is that I pick at my nails. I have learned not to pick at the nailpolish on my nails, but its when you have a nail that was bent and is about to break, I will break it and then try to make it smooth out and equal again with my teeth or nails. I used to have gorgeous long nails that I could do a french manicure on, but alass three nails on one hand and two on the other broke the other day. I said "oh well, so Iwill have to come up with a story about how those ones are shorter".

One thing that I have noticed tho. If you want to make your nails stronger, harder, and grow is to take a clear nail polish, or any color that you want, paint your nails that color. Then every day just apply another coat. My Greatx2 Aunt did this and she had super long Elvira nails!

I would dare say that all the other advice you have gotten from these lovely mers is right. If you can find something to do with your hands, that helps ALOT. I work with clay, crochet, sew, write, play guitar, and am currently working on fixing my house up (redoing furniture and prepping walls to paint). Just start crafting and see how you quickly forget about biting