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This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 21:10, Wed 31 May 2017. | |||
I hate you Netflix. Hulu is better anyway. | |||
My job title is 'Wardrobe and Scenic Assistant Manager'. Straightforward, right? I'm in charge of wardrobe and scenery... Well, this year, I'm also Master Electrician, Rigger (in the theatrical sense, not the Shadowrun sense), carpenter, painter (not scenic artist...just 'painter'), props master...I've always done more than one person's job, the entire time I've been working there. One of the reasons they hired me in the first place is because I had such a diverse background that, as they told me, "If you didn't already know how to do the job, you could learn in pretty short order," for any position in our department. Well, this year, I'm the only returning full-time technician. So, I'm doing ALL the tech jobs, apparently. Basically, I'm the department's technical director...except without a staff to assign jobs to (there are technicians...they just have little or no experience to speak of...so I'm not sure which jobs I can give them because I don't know if they can do it, or if I'll end up having to stop what I'm doing to walk them through what I ask them to do--or worse, think it's been done and turn around and have to re-do it because they did it wrong...) I think I've more than proven I'm worth way more than what I'm getting paid, thanks... | |||
This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 15:06, Fri 02 June 2017. | |||
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Ok, cool, you still got your character sheets from the last campaign y'all played in? You do? Awesome. Yeah, come on. Game starts at 6:30 sharp. They show up at about 7:15, take forever to get settled in, and raid the fridge while we're sitting there waiting for them. Finally, they sit and we start. Since I designed this campaign to be able to accommodate a revolving door of players, it was fairly easy to take out the one No Show and deposit these two. I was in high spirits because we had gotten rid of a disruptive influence at the table - you know the kind - a guy who always uses meta knowledge, doesn't roleplay, always getting honked off about something immaterial, and just a general pain in the butt and the last few sessions had been enjoyable because the stories were getting told and, more importantly, we were making PROGRESS. Progress as in, we got more than three pages into the story before Mr. Disruptive whizzed all over everything. So the Gypsy's Wayfarer Gate opens and deposits these two at the location where we left off in our last game and they proceed to just muck everything up. My two regulars are trying to ascertain whether they're friend or foe and they just clam up. No voluntary information. They just seemed lost as to what's going on - which is expected. We have a standing rule that we put into place because people would just constantly flake on us: "You don't show up, you get left behind." Instead of just trying to get caught up, they just sit quietly and start copying what my two regulars do. It takes them over an hour to walk down three streets and investigate one guard shack. So, feeling a bit of a bottleneck, I expedite things and move them ahead without delay. "Nothing on this street, nothing on this street," basically ignoring my whole plot line and a bunch of dramatic story element points to get them to their encounter with a patrol since that marks the midway point. They engage the three Soldiers and two Clerics (I added one extra of each because the two revolving door kids are higher level) and after they all roll Initiative, both of the Revolvers look at me and go, "How do we fight?" Me: "What?" Druid (Her): "Like, how do we fight?" Me: "You've got combat stats on the second page of your character sheet. All your weapons and stuff should be notated there." Druid (Her): "I don't have any of that written down." Spiritualist (Him): "Yeah, me neither. We didn't know where to find it." My Boss: "he gave you the Equipment book when you made your characters. I was standing right next to him when he showed you where to write everything down." Other Guy: "Yeah, plus it's all on the website, as well." Druid (Her): "No, I mean, I looked, but I didn't see any of that stuff anywhere." Me: "Alright." *goes to my Boss' bedroom to retrieve the Equipment book I lent him* Me: *starts showing them AGAIN where stuff goes and what to put down for damage and such* After all was said and done, the Druid asks what time it is. Me: "It's 8:45." Her: "We should get going anyway. See ya, guys. Same time next week?" I mean, I realize that these two haven't actually DONE combat before because their characters came in during a big story arc that didn't necessarily have any combat encounters, so yeah, I understand not knowing HOW to fight because they've never seen it before, but not actually WRITING THE STUFF DOWN and THEN trying to pass the buck and leaving freaking sucks hard. | |||
This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 00:53, Wed 07 June 2017. | |||
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I hate you. That is all. | |||
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Or you're the last person to know what's going on within your group of friends? ever felt like they only talk to you because you're the one with the money? Are you always the one who initiates to hang out, but always get blown off anyways? Are you the third wheel when talking in a group, being left behind? Ever needed to vent to them personally and they don't answer for nothing, however you see them posting online via social media almost every minute of the day from their cellular device, but when they need a friend at 2 am, you always answer? Yeah, that's me. I'm getting quite tired of this rollercoaster of fake friends. It's not that it upsets me, it more so makes me irritated and hate the human race. End rant. | |||
This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 14:13, Wed 02 Aug 2017. | |||
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This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 04:11, Thu 17 Aug 2017. | |||
And I'm not okay with no pain medication, so I've been taking the meds, but it's powerful stuff and I really *REALLY* don't want to flirt with an addiction, so even though I'm able to call to get a refill from the doctor, I don't want too, even though I'm out. Bah fruiting humbug! | |||
My other brother is one of the kindest, patient-est, level-headed guys you'd want to know. His family... I love them more than I love a lot of things. They're losing their house in the Texas flood. I feel so damn helpless to do something about it. And it just makes me feel like the **sholes of the world get to go on with great things in their lives, whereas the good get trod upon by the bootheel of random chance. | |||
I'm really bored, and physically tired. I worked by butt off the past few weeks and am getting a little home-vacation for the rest of August. Anyway, onto the actual vent; I really want to start ANOTHER new game! I know! It's hard to resist doing that, but it's only wise to refrain. I can hardly keep up with two games in my worst seasons. I don't know what I would GM anyway. I'm just the in the GMing mood though, ya know? The games I play in have all sort of slowed or petered out. At least nothing new to read for the past week. I'm bored though. Don't get me wrong! It's a relief to be bored and not stressed out with things I have to do. Not having money makes it easy to find time at home though. Dang it! That's not worth going into, but yeah, money is the bums right now. Not going to focus on that though. I am literally doing everything I can right now short of getting myself into trouble. I guess time to fill in some details about my campaign worlds nobody will probably read, but hey, somebody might. | |||
Yes, I know people call in "sick". But there's no stinking reason why this is the second time I've been on rotation without a secondary management, or even someone with a basic key/ over ride ability on the schedule past 6pm. Morning crew had people, 3 to be exact. My only saving grace is that I was able to convince someone to come back in, on overtime, to help me close down the store. Yes I understand that I know the most of all the floor managers. I know the ins and outs of the system just slightly less than the current assistant store manager 1. THAT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE. All this is doing is getting customers upset because they have to wait as I run from one side is the store to the other. As I stand using the only master key in the place as the secure doors are open, all while I'm being called for overrides that no one else can do. We have a reputation for being a bad store, how do they expect that image to change when this situation is "intentional". I'd be looking for another job but I'm here, ALL THE TIME, to the point where customers are calling me "the night manager". I don't want to be the night manager, I want to see my kids more than 15 minuets a day as they head off to school. I know change jobs, nothing around here pays remotely close to what I make, wife does not get any kind of benefits so can't count on that for any kind of smooth transition. I know, we can not afford to hire anymore. The lack of people is the base of ALL the issues. You can not make the problem go away without more physical bodies. End rant, my "lunch" is done because the floor is crying frantically for help. | |||
This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 02:46, Sun 17 Sept 2017. | |||
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This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:30, Thu 28 Sept 2017. | |||
I feel like stuff. Just rotten and stressed. | |||
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