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back to stupid pedestrian tricks - those directionally challenged folks who cross the street by taking a long diagonal path to get to the other side - just get across, please!
 
moevillini said:
back to stupid pedestrian tricks - those directionally challenged folks who cross the street by taking a long diagonal path to get to the other side - just get across, please!
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This is the standard migration pattern of the far far far from endangered Walmart Hippo. Most often they walk right down the middle of the parking lot drive lane, turning only slightly as their gimpy foot causes them to waddle off-course. Worst-case scenario is an entire familial herd bogarting the entire parking lot, strung out side by side like so many rotund paper dolls or pillsbury dough people, listing side to side in a feeble attempt at forward locomotion.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is the standard migration pattern of the far far far from endangered Walmart Hippo. Most often they walk right down the middle of the parking lot drive lane, turning only slightly as their gimpy foot causes them to waddle off-course. Worst-case scenario is an entire familial herd bogarting the entire parking lot, strung out side by side like so many rotund paper dolls or pillsbury dough people, listing side to side in a feeble attempt at forward locomotion.
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I like it when they see you and are like "I don't give a **** about you, I walk where I want."
 
heyhey said:
Fat Missionaries(LDS)

Every time I see one I think "somebody get that boy a mo-ped".
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I think they have fitness standards, no? Isn't the rule that you have to be Polynesian to be a fat missionary or something? Kind of like one of those special rules like tattoos and kava and all that?
 
bigb said:
I have a cousin who posts stuff like at least once a week. She'll post something like "I'm so sick of this ****". She's a drama queen though and I think she does it just for the attention.
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I hate that so bad...... and I hate the people that indulge them by asking about.
I always ignore the dumb ****s
 
There's a new trend among many distracted folks who cross the street without looking. And this doesn't just pertain to kids but to as adults as well. I dont understand it.
 
VINYLONE said:
There's a new trend among many distracted folks who cross the street without looking. And this doesn't just pertain to kids but to as adults as well. I dont understand it.
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Cell phones. Cell phones are ruining everything.

But I 100% agree, looking for traffic before darting across a street is pretty out of style right now.
 
Smugness

-an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements

-Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent
 
VINYLONE said:
There's a new trend among many distracted folks who cross the street without looking. And this doesn't just pertain to kids but to as adults as well. I dont understand it.
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Gameface said:
Cell phones. Cell phones are ruining everything.

But I 100% agree, looking for traffic before darting across a street is pretty out of style right now.
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we need more than "Don't text and drive" educational campaigns - - we need "Don't text and walk" campaigns too! Folks can't even look up from their damn screens. I saw a guy yesterday walk into a post and not even look up from his screen, he tried two more steps to get through the post before he realized the post wasn't going to get out of his way.
 
Gameface said:
Cell phones. Cell phones are ruining everything.

But I 100% agree, looking for traffic before darting across a street is pretty out of style right now.
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moevillini said:
we need more than "Don't text and drive" educational campaigns - - we need "Don't text and walk" campaigns too! Folks can't even look up from their damn screens. I saw a guy yesterday walk into a post and not even look up from his screen, he tried two more steps to get through the post before he realized the post wasn't going to get out of his way.
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Agreed. It's amazing watching pedestrians now.
 
VINYLONE said:
Agreed. It's amazing watching pedestrians now.
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In my current line of work I get several hours a day of watching this ****. Eventually I'm going to snap and run someone over. Anyone who's hiring hit me up for my resume.
 
franklin said:
^Y'all should try riding public transit in Utah. What a mess.
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Im sure it's the same thing out here...I'd probably bet on it.

Ok, adding to list:

People leaving the shopping carts in the middle of parking lot and not bringing them back to the corral. Walk it back....walking is good for you!
 
Rumor-mongering at work. Holy **** it is getting old all the rumors that start and spread at work. Recently we hired a temp supervisor to help us out while we tried to fill the open supe position. Within 3 days I had 4 people in my office at different time, 2 of them in honest to goodness tears, asking why I would betray them by bringing in a temp who was going to hire all of his friends and fire all of our employees as his buddies took all of our higher level hourly positions, like clerk, lead, IT tech, etc. I asked them if any of them had asked me or another manager if that were going to happen, they just said "no, I just figured". I mean wow, managing adults is not much different from managing jr. high schoolers.

Turns out the new temp supe just in passing mentioned that he knew someone from his previous place of employment who had used our warehouse management system before and he might encourage them to apply since he thought this was a nice place to work. That turned into he was head-hunting and preparing to fire everyone to bring in his buddies. What a colossal waste of time and energy for a bunch of so-called "adults" to engage in.
 
VINYLONE said:
Im sure it's the same thing out here...I'd probably bet on it.
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Considering we're new to the whole train thing, I highly doubt it. FWIW, several ex-New York commuters I work with (probably from New Jersey tbh) confirm.


LogGrad98 said:
Rumor-mongering at work. Holy **** it is getting old all the rumors that start and spread at work. Recently we hired a temp supervisor to help us out while we tried to fill the open supe position. Within 3 days I had 4 people in my office at different time, 2 of them in honest to goodness tears, asking why I would betray them by bringing in a temp who was going to hire all of his friends and fire all of our employees as his buddies took all of our higher level hourly positions, like clerk, lead, IT tech, etc. I asked them if any of them had asked me or another manager if that were going to happen, they just said "no, I just figured". I mean wow, managing adults is not much different from managing jr. high schoolers.

Turns out the new temp supe just in passing mentioned that he knew someone from his previous place of employment who had used our warehouse management system before and he might encourage them to apply since he thought this was a nice place to work. That turned into he was head-hunting and preparing to fire everyone to bring in his buddies. What a colossal waste of time and energy for a bunch of so-called "adults" to engage in.
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My wife works for the best in class consulting firm on this. PM if interested in saving your business.
 
franklin said:
My wife works for the best in class consulting firm on this. PM if interested in saving your business.
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Thanks but I squashed it good.



Fired everybody. Easy peasy.
 
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