But I was trying to be polite and not mention it.
I woke up feeling sick - dizzy, light-headed, nauseous - but went to work anyway. Two cashiers went home sick, and we were understaffed to begin with. A store full of customers who just make you shake your head ("Excuse me!! Excuse me!! I've looked everywhere for such-and-such. Don't you have any such-and-such?!? What kind of stupid store is this that doesn't have such-and-such!?! " And you have to try to think of a diplomatic way of saying "Um... You're standing right next to it." Without adding "Dumbass...") (And the kind of people who rip open packaging, then complain that our merchandise looks messy, or who rip apart a nice display of sweaters, rooting around and throwing them everywhere, then complain that they can't find the size they want. (One of our staff had just spent two hours folding and straightening that table, and this warthog destroyed it in under 5 minutes. Rinse and repeat. All day long.) )
Anyway.
I fell asleep on the couch minutes after posting last night. Madman woke me up and dragged me off to bed at 11:30. When the alarm went off at 6 this morning, I hit snooze, and kept hitting it until 7am. If I hadn't had to get up for work, I think I could have slept another couple of hours...
Today was better. Marginally.
At least I wasn't dizzy and nauseous...
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Friday, November 19, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Why is Bloglines trying to make me nuts?
Because I swear they are.
First they were going to close down at the end of September. I put off dealing with it until the middle of the month, then finally switched all my feeds to Google Reader.
I don't like Google Reader nearly as well.
(Why do I have to tell it to mark the posts as read? Isn't just reading them good enough?)
(And why do they put all blogs whose titles start with "The" under "T"? Suddenly I had to look for "The Panopticon" under the T's, instead of under the P's where it belongs.)
(And I think some of the feeds didn't transfer at all. And with the 200+ blogs I try to follow, it was easy to miss the fact that some of my favorites hadn't come along for the ride.)
Then Bloglines announced that they were extending the deadline through the month of October.
Ditherer Supreme that I am, I had to decide whether to keep reading Google Reader, or use Bloglines for as long as they lasted. Decisions, decisions. I decided that I might as well continue to make the best of it, and stick with Google Reader, since I was going to be stuck with it forever anyway.
Now Bloglines announces that some other company is going to continue the service unchanged. So I've switched back to Bloglines.
But, after several weeks of ignoring them, I'm now almost 2000 posts behind. Some of them I read on Google Reader, but since Bloglines doesn't know that...
*sigh*
First they were going to close down at the end of September. I put off dealing with it until the middle of the month, then finally switched all my feeds to Google Reader.
I don't like Google Reader nearly as well.
(Why do I have to tell it to mark the posts as read? Isn't just reading them good enough?)
(And why do they put all blogs whose titles start with "The" under "T"? Suddenly I had to look for "The Panopticon" under the T's, instead of under the P's where it belongs.)
(And I think some of the feeds didn't transfer at all. And with the 200+ blogs I try to follow, it was easy to miss the fact that some of my favorites hadn't come along for the ride.)
Then Bloglines announced that they were extending the deadline through the month of October.
Ditherer Supreme that I am, I had to decide whether to keep reading Google Reader, or use Bloglines for as long as they lasted. Decisions, decisions. I decided that I might as well continue to make the best of it, and stick with Google Reader, since I was going to be stuck with it forever anyway.
Now Bloglines announces that some other company is going to continue the service unchanged. So I've switched back to Bloglines.
But, after several weeks of ignoring them, I'm now almost 2000 posts behind. Some of them I read on Google Reader, but since Bloglines doesn't know that...
*sigh*
Monday, January 18, 2010
Still making progress.
Though working is really cutting into my knitting time, sadly.
I've finished the sleeves. Yay for finishing the long slog of moss stitch.
Though seriously, I don't mind moss stitch, or its cousin seed stitch. Since I knit Continental, it's no harder to knit moss stitch (or ribbing either, for that matter) than it is to knit garter stitch.
If, at this moment, you're thinking "Oh, no! Continental purl is hard!", then you're obviously new around here, and have missed my previous rants.
If you think Continental purl is hard, then someone taught you wrong. Follow this link for Easy Continental purl, or just click on the Continental purl label over in my sidebar. Someday I'll do a video (if I can figure out how to hold the camera some other way than in my teeth...), but in the meanwhile I've got a short photo essay showing how easy the purl stitch is. (Do not be fooled by the arthritis-inducing contortionist version that will pop up in a Google search. That video is a cruel cruel joke.)
Okay, end rant.
So, the sleeves are done, and I've got one of the fronts underway. I would have liked to do both fronts at once, but at 260 stitches each, my needle just isn't long enough to accommodate that many stitches.
So, I'm back to the engaging cables. This sweater is just flying along.
And a random tip - I had to make two attempts at casting on those 260 stitches. The first time, I ran woefully short of tail in my longtail cast-on. So I started over, grabbing a second ball of yarn, tying a slip knot in the two ends, and using yarn from the second ball as the 'tail.' It means a couple extra ends to weave in, but that's still easier than making multiple runs at 260 stitches.
I've finished the sleeves. Yay for finishing the long slog of moss stitch.
Though seriously, I don't mind moss stitch, or its cousin seed stitch. Since I knit Continental, it's no harder to knit moss stitch (or ribbing either, for that matter) than it is to knit garter stitch.
If, at this moment, you're thinking "Oh, no! Continental purl is hard!", then you're obviously new around here, and have missed my previous rants.
If you think Continental purl is hard, then someone taught you wrong. Follow this link for Easy Continental purl, or just click on the Continental purl label over in my sidebar. Someday I'll do a video (if I can figure out how to hold the camera some other way than in my teeth...), but in the meanwhile I've got a short photo essay showing how easy the purl stitch is. (Do not be fooled by the arthritis-inducing contortionist version that will pop up in a Google search. That video is a cruel cruel joke.)
Okay, end rant.
So, the sleeves are done, and I've got one of the fronts underway. I would have liked to do both fronts at once, but at 260 stitches each, my needle just isn't long enough to accommodate that many stitches.
So, I'm back to the engaging cables. This sweater is just flying along.
And a random tip - I had to make two attempts at casting on those 260 stitches. The first time, I ran woefully short of tail in my longtail cast-on. So I started over, grabbing a second ball of yarn, tying a slip knot in the two ends, and using yarn from the second ball as the 'tail.' It means a couple extra ends to weave in, but that's still easier than making multiple runs at 260 stitches.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Countdown to &?%*@?! Christmas
If I get through Christmas without punching a customer, I'll be fine...
I'd like to know where some of these people work - I'd go there and trash all their stuff, and see how fast they arrest me for vandalism. Seriously. What makes some people think they have a perfect right to rip open packaging (destroying it in the process), pull out the contents, then wad them up and stuff them any old where? (Or throw everything on the floor and walk on it. That's always good, too.)
Bastards.
I'd like to know where some of these people work - I'd go there and trash all their stuff, and see how fast they arrest me for vandalism. Seriously. What makes some people think they have a perfect right to rip open packaging (destroying it in the process), pull out the contents, then wad them up and stuff them any old where? (Or throw everything on the floor and walk on it. That's always good, too.)
Bastards.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Black Friday is over. Bring on the beer.
Dayum!
Whenever I start to have hope for the human race, a day like this comes along. Wolves and warthogs would have been better behaved than the packs of so-called humans I saw today.
Attila the Hun could have ridden in with his horde and pillaged the store, and I guarantee less damage would have been done.
What gives people that kind of sense of entitlement? Who raised them? (My mother would have beaten me ragged if I'd ever shown even half that much disrespect for the store's property and other customers. And I would have deserved it.)
It was really hard to keep smiling when dealing with people who should have had some sense slapped into them.
(Wow - I'm not usually so violent. But after today - I swear I'm going to ask Madman for a cattle-prod for Christmas... )
/end rant
Whenever I start to have hope for the human race, a day like this comes along. Wolves and warthogs would have been better behaved than the packs of so-called humans I saw today.
Attila the Hun could have ridden in with his horde and pillaged the store, and I guarantee less damage would have been done.
What gives people that kind of sense of entitlement? Who raised them? (My mother would have beaten me ragged if I'd ever shown even half that much disrespect for the store's property and other customers. And I would have deserved it.)
It was really hard to keep smiling when dealing with people who should have had some sense slapped into them.
(Wow - I'm not usually so violent. But after today - I swear I'm going to ask Madman for a cattle-prod for Christmas... )
/end rant
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Well, I won't be doing THAT again...
/begin rant
I just got off the phone with Knit Picks customer service. Not happy.
I had ordered a set of DPNs from them (and let's pretend that it wasn't because I have start-itis so bad that I'm buying more needles because the ones I already have are all full.) and ordered 4 skeins of fingering yarn to go with the needles. (Yep, no problem with start-itis here...)
The plan was to combine color A and color B into one pair of gloves or mittens, and color C and color D into another. Color D was really an also-ran - it was the only one that looked like it would work with color C (which I loved.)
Today I got an email saying my order shipped. Guess what? Colors A, B, and C are discontinued (even though they're listed in the catalog as "NEW!") so the only color I'm going to be getting is the one that I didn't really care about.
I've ordered from Knit Picks lots of times, and have always been happy. The only time there was an issue with something being out of stock, I got a phone call from a very helpful woman in customer service who went to great effort to help me find a substitute for the missing color.
So when I got done reading the email, I got right on the phone to customer service, thinking I would get someone helpful.
Nope.
The woman I talked to was not responsive at all. Through the whole call, she was just waiting for me to stop talking so she could say goodbye. The only things she said were "That's already processed." when I gave her the order number, and "You're getting a refund for $x.xx" when I pointed out that if I'd known I was only getting the one skein of yarn, I would have canceled that skein, since it was useless without the other color (and would have saved $1 on the shipping, since that one skein pushed my order into the next shipping category.)
There was no "I'm sorry" or "What can I do to help" or any of the other phrases I would consider the bare minimum for 'customer service.' Almost everything I said was met with total silence.
I'm not upset about the items not being available (disappointed, but not upset) because I know that these things happen. What's bugging me is her "so what?" attitude.
Not a good way to do business.
/end rant
I just got off the phone with Knit Picks customer service. Not happy.
I had ordered a set of DPNs from them (and let's pretend that it wasn't because I have start-itis so bad that I'm buying more needles because the ones I already have are all full.) and ordered 4 skeins of fingering yarn to go with the needles. (Yep, no problem with start-itis here...)
The plan was to combine color A and color B into one pair of gloves or mittens, and color C and color D into another. Color D was really an also-ran - it was the only one that looked like it would work with color C (which I loved.)
Today I got an email saying my order shipped. Guess what? Colors A, B, and C are discontinued (even though they're listed in the catalog as "NEW!") so the only color I'm going to be getting is the one that I didn't really care about.
I've ordered from Knit Picks lots of times, and have always been happy. The only time there was an issue with something being out of stock, I got a phone call from a very helpful woman in customer service who went to great effort to help me find a substitute for the missing color.
So when I got done reading the email, I got right on the phone to customer service, thinking I would get someone helpful.
Nope.
The woman I talked to was not responsive at all. Through the whole call, she was just waiting for me to stop talking so she could say goodbye. The only things she said were "That's already processed." when I gave her the order number, and "You're getting a refund for $x.xx" when I pointed out that if I'd known I was only getting the one skein of yarn, I would have canceled that skein, since it was useless without the other color (and would have saved $1 on the shipping, since that one skein pushed my order into the next shipping category.)
There was no "I'm sorry" or "What can I do to help" or any of the other phrases I would consider the bare minimum for 'customer service.' Almost everything I said was met with total silence.
I'm not upset about the items not being available (disappointed, but not upset) because I know that these things happen. What's bugging me is her "so what?" attitude.
Not a good way to do business.
/end rant
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