Archive - Icons - Previous 2/9/26 Guess who forgot to buy any decorations for Chinese New Year until a couple hours ago. Oops. Well, at least I got it done. Eventually. More dumbass customers this week. I feel like the last two or three weeks, the customers have been especially dumb and belligerant. And smelly. So many stinky people. This one guy came in smelling like onions, stank breath, and some vague other stinky smell I couldn't identify. Then there were at least three women and one man who smelled like they shit their pants, only one was elderly. And this one lady came in with what I can only describe as hot, rotting sausage breath. Does no one care if they stink anymore? Is this another thing lost to COVID? There was this one guy some weeks back who may have been the stankiest human I have ever encountered in my life. And the thing is I can't even describe to you exactly what he smelled like because even the stank was some new kind of stank. It smelled like nothing I have ever smelled before, but it was the most vile thing I have ever smelled in my life at the same time. And wherever he went, the area he left SMELLED like that for a disturbingly long time. He literally was leaving a cloud of pure stank behind him. You could follow where he had been in the building purely off of the smell. He was so ungodly stinky I actually had to force myself to not vomit while I was talking to him and I actually threw up twice after he left. The first time immediately after he left when I quickly went to the bathroom because I just could not keep it down anymore. And the second time when I went back to my desk area and walked into his cloud of stank a second time after he was gone. I nearly threw up at least two more times from accidentally walking into it a third time and from just thinking about the smell. Every now and then, I think back on how he smelled and I actually have to push back the urge to throw up again and I'm not even smelling it for real. I just cannot explain to you just how fucking disgusting this man's smell was. Just the thought of ever having to smell that smell again is enough to make me gag. And I'm just thinking, how the hell did this man get so smelly and also not care that he is so smelly? Does he not have the ability to smell? Does he just enjoy making other people suffer his stank? He had a wife, but it was pretty clear from other things about them it was likely not something she had a choice in, sadly. Not getting into that, just ugh. Looking back at my Writing stuff on the Listf page is a little sad. What the hell happened in 2023? Damn, I didn't get shit done that year. I can't believe it's 2026. My brain's been stuck in 2018 since 2019. 2/5/26 Redid the icon page, just so I can put even less effort into it. LOL. Another day, another "can I do a walk-in". All fucking day. At this point, 50% of the people I see are walk-ins because they would rather come in whenever they feel like than just schedule an appointment. I talked to a lady yesterday who said it was like that at her doctor's office too. She's schedule an appt and be early and there would be a long ass line of fuckers who expected to be seen that day with no appointment, and of course expecting to be seen before the actual appointments because they were "there first". When did this shit start happening? When I was a kid, if you didn't have an appointment, you'd be lucky if someone would even talk to you outside of an actual emergency. To expect to be seen ahead of people who did schedule an appointment...like what the actual fuck. I feel like this is another post-COVID thing where for some reason a pandemic happening where people had to stay inside slightly more than usual means we don't have to follow any social rules anymore. (Yes, I'm gonna be rude about it. Most of the people who were going "stir crazy" in their houses were not inside their houses a significant amount more than normal. They were just upset they couldn't do whatever bullshit on demand anymore. That's all that was ever about. Your screen time was already over ten hours daily. Be real.) But I am required to say we take walk-ins. One day this week I had about 80% walk-ins and mostly no shows. These groups overlap too. The few who do schedule an appointment will still just show up at a random time and date anyway. Because they felt like it. So I can never plan anything around my appointments at all. My favorite though is "I wanna do this today" "so have you started the paper work online yet" "no" "do you have your documents in person" "what documents" "your (PII stuff)" "no I don't do I really have to have all that to do this?" "YES" "but why". ARRGHHH. Another favorite "I have a picture of my important document you use that as proof I am me" "No I need to submit official proof" "but you can see it's real" "NO". Or the classic "I need an ID with a photo of you on it, an official one" "here's my social security card" "I can't take that" "why not it's official" "it doesn't have a picture of you on it" "but its from the government. what about my work badge? it has a picture" "That's not from the government. Needs to meet both criteria" "BUT NOT JUST ANYONE CAN GET THIS BADGE. DOESN'T THAT MEAN SOMETHING TO YOU?!" "No." And the classic "I already paid" "You can't pay until the process is complete. There is no advance payment." "But I paid (random price) online already." "That isn't the cost of this." I can never tell if these people are trying to scam or if they've already been scammed, or if it's a mix of both. But it's every day. Also answered some phone calls for the company unrelated to my department and some dude was going on about some shit with his account and how it's especially messed up because it's his birthday month, so shouldn't I see it's even more messed up that I am clearly scamming him?!! ON HIS BIRTHDAY!! IT'S THE GRAND CHAWHEE'S BIRTHDAY EVERYONE! MAKE WAY! Anyway, that dude had his account hacked, so I told him to call a diifferent number because individual locations don't handle that kind of situation. He was very upset I could not look into his account and fix it for him. Why would any random employee have access to all the customers' accounts like that??? This is why creating a surveillance state is easy. People on average literally expect you to just break into their accounts for them to fix their problems. Actively just not wanting any privacy or security. So bizarre. 2/4/26 Start of a new month's log. This is the 24th entry, four month of doing this. I am honestly still surprised this lasted longer than a month. Two stories for the day: A sixteen year old discovers social security numbers exist. The dad is disappointed she doesn't know what it is, much less have her own memorized. She is shocked each person has one because "that's so many numbers". I love parents who are upset when their kids don't know some basic shit and it's...dude, that was 100% YOUR JOB. Why are you surprised? Who the fuck was supposed to teach your kid basic info other than you? Every time though, and I've noticed this as a recurring trend, the parents are grandparent age. They are not the grandparents, they're really old parents. They seem to outnumber the "normal" aged parents of kids. So many clueless kids and teens with parents who are well into their 60s and 70s. Like, why the fuck did you wait till literally the last possible ovulation cycle the mom could've gotten pregnant on to pop out a kid? But these elder parents are always the ones most shocked (and angry, and may even make a scene) when their kid doesn't know something that would be absolutely something that a parent is normally expected to teach a kid. I know I'm just one data point, but these parents seem to outnumber the "regular" aged parents of kids and teens. I see so much online about how bad millennials and older zoomers are as parents because the next gen down is not doing well...but it still seems to be mostly be the final remnants of boomers and Gen X parenting...SOMEHOW???! Like OMG, won't get out of the government, won't retire out of the top paid positions, won't even stop having kids when nearly ready to collect social security. What the fuck. The teen who came in today, her dad (and he was definitely her dad, not her grandpa) had to have been mid-40s at least when she was born. This man was at least in his mid-60s at the youngest (I'm being generous) with a sixteen year old. How do I encounter so many of these? Anyway, the other tale for the day. "So, where are you from?" "Um, here?" "Oh, but you look Hispanic. What's your name?" "(Name)." "Really? That doesn't sound like a Hispanic name. Shouldn't it be spelled (Spanish version of my name) instead?" Sorry my name wasn't Latino enough for you. I guess I should've told her my name was Pedro or something. Also "hispanic" look. People always love to point out Latino/Hispanic is an ethnic group, not a specific race therefore it doesn't have a look whenever they have some bullshit agenda. But we all know what that look is. It's looking Native American. The US is just so good at having convinced average US citizens that nearly all indigenous people are dead that when they do see that look their brain defaults to "Hispanic". But that's what the look really is. I love the audacity of a white person demanding to know where I'm from like I don't belong and it's their land. LOL, go back to Europe. (I'm not even getting into the history of indigenous people being moved around all over the place from their original home lands by various colonizers for centuries either, so a lot of people aren't even on their "native" land and their native land could be on the other side of a border they're not allowed to even visit, but I'll be ranting for hours.) It's funny. I'm pretty light-skinned and I'm mostly white myself. But it doesn't matter. I am not white, not to any racist. So if I'm not white to them, then I'm not white. It's really that simple. Most of my childhood, the racial slurs used against me were all either Latino ones or Native American ones. The exact word choice just depending on what side of the border they thought I was "from". I can't believe that lady had the gall to tell me my own name should be spelled differently and more "ethnic" and not "white". LOL, I didn't pick my name. She eventually decided I must be from the Dominican Republic. I have no relatives in the Dominican Republic. Also, boss, "Go ahead and cancel your sick leave for the day you called out, since we're having you come in an extra day and you'll be getting the same amount of money anyway!" No, I don't think I will. If you want to me come in an extra day, that will be in addition to the pay you already owe me in sick leave. That's one of my benefits, and most of my benefits don't roll over to the next year. You aren't letting me take vacations even though I have PTO. I am using my sick leave when I'm sick and getting paid for it! The guy's been trying to regularly get me to come in on paid holidays too. You'll get time and a half! I don't care. I'm off. Fuck off. I was already pissed they called me in to work "a few extra hours", and then that few extra turned to a full eight hour shift in under 24 hours less than a week from when they dumped this shit on me and they're alredy talking about trying to get me to do a six day week another week. Sigh. I love how even managers at the bottom end of the hierarchy have the same rot inside them about trying to stop staff from using benefits they themselves are always using. I think what bugs me most about the leave stuff is how much we have is related to our time at the company, our position, and how much we work. I've literally earned these benefit. Why sort of asinine nonsense is it that I shouldn't use it? Haha. No. Archive - Icons - Previous