I-Mockery Chat (Lube up those lips)

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

Damn, Kit, it sounds like you live in a B-movie set, what with the neighbors, the stores and the people. You should write a gothic novel.

Pop up and scratch and sniff. My favorite page would be the garage sale pooper page.

[Kitsa]

lol colonel flagg

this stuff happens to everyone, I just talk about it.

I also look for a particular china set, but I never find that. Have to do all that on ebay

[Tadao]

Yeah, she saw some of the glasses in the thrift store and they were the same ones here ANGELIC grandmother had. It turned into ebay after awhile.

[Kitsa]

I mainly do thrift stores over flea markets and yard sales now because I just hate people so damn much.

[Tadao]

I hear ya lady. I think the longer we stay out of work the more we avoid people. I've always hated the general public when I work, but I didn't mind being elbow to elbow with them while I was out trying to do my thing. Now a days, I'd rather go to less populated areas.

[Kitsa]

Maybe. Dunno, I was developing quite the attitude problem when I was working at the hospital- but then again, I think the hospital politics, pointless caste system and general backstabbing were doing that to me.

[Tadao]

That's everywhere. My last 8 years was in grocery stores. I pushed not taking disability as long as I possibly could because I thought I would wind up killing myself for being less than human, which I was almost successful at.

[Kitsa]

My doctors told me to stop and do Disability 10 years before I actually did. Didn't want to have to go that route.

[Tadao]

I finally got fired for showing up to work late all the time. Fatigue finally caught up with me and I had to admit defeat. I still have 6 months to go till I can get Medicare and get the meds I need. Right now I have to beg the state for help, and they hate doing that.

[Aaarg]

What position did/do you hold in grocery?

[Pub Lover]

Originally Posted by Aaarg

What position did/do you hold in grocery?

I don't think I can give up gay jokes.

[Tadao]

Well the first 6 years I was a baker turned bakery manager. I quit that place due to politics and moved to the beach. There I got involved with a local Health Foods grocery store. I worked as a stocker/cashier/weekend receiver. The hours were all over the place and my pain causes me lack of sleep. So I got fired for being late all the fucking time. I was bound to happen sometime, I just never knew when the end would finally happen.

[Tadao]

Weekend reciever

[Aaarg]

Ah, that sucks. I definitely know about having a variable schedule. Last week I was the receiver all week (coming in at 4am, leaving at noon). This week, I've been night stock (9:30pm-5:30am) but on Friday I'm the closing manager 2:30-10p.

Have you generally made enough money to sustain yourself, for the most part, in grocery?

[Tadao]

Not in a Health Food store, but if you go for the main grocery stores, you make enough to live and the higher you climb the fatter the wallet. You get a dept manager position and you make bank, stay the fuck away from Bakery though. They are the money losing end of the store. Every store has to have a bakery and bakeries cost more than they make. The health plans though, grocery stores have some of the best health plans.

[Aaarg]

Yeah I've been in grocery on-and-off for four years just about. I was wondering if it'd hurt as a fall-back plan.

I plan on moving across the country in some direction soon, and I'm just trying to figure out if I'll be able to support myself working grocery until I figure something else out.

I've been offered store management positions before but I'm preferring to stick to the fake management option.

[Tadao]

There will most assuredly almost always be grocery stores. It is a great thing to fall back on. Plus there is at least 1 grocery store in every tow/city in America.

[Aaarg]

Yeah, which is always nice. And I figure I have experience enough and more references with grocery store management than I would ever require, to get my foot in the door and make a little more than what most people start at.

[Tadao]

Not if the are union.

[Aaarg]

Unless it's the same union I've been in for years.

Is UFCW nation-wide?

[Tadao]

Ah, both of mine were non-union.

[Dixie]

You look like the kind of guy who doesn't like onions.

[Tadao]

I luv onions :o

[Tadao]

I'm hard pressed to name a food I don't love.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by Tadao

I'm hard pressed to name a food I don't love.

That would explain this:

I was fucking huge. I think my asshole ripped a little.