"News!!!" written by Fellyconnelly on estrip.org

10/20/07 10:30 - 56ºF - ID#41723

News!!!

perusing the titles on yahoo news after signing out of my email often leads to interesting news.....
but this morning's tidbit of news was just the cats pjs!

HARRY POTTER SPOILER!!!!

and for all those link clicky persons (such as myself) i'll let you know the big suprise...

dumbledore is gay!

thats right... harry potter's beloved headmaster was a big homo!! ahh yes... the answers to all those pesky questions! the fashionable robes! the mysterious twinkle in his eye! oh dumbledore, i finally get you!!!

oh yeah and that fling with Grindelwald was explained too...

oh and then i just looked at jim's chatter and saw that he already posted this... so t his is a pointless entry... thanks a lot for bein on top of things jim!!

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10/15/07 11:23 - 53ºF - ID#41667

Entitlement

Well kids, today I want to talk to you about entitlement.

Take note of the following and very pertinant example that I have taken from my everyday life.

"I have given you guys a lot of money over the years so you better give me a good deal"

or

"You will give me a car charger for free or that will be a deal breaker"

or

"What do you mean I can't get that phone for free? I'm entitled to a free phone!"

You see, one thing that I have come to realize over the years as a sales person is that there is this nasty virus going around making people believe that they are entitled to much more than they are. I mean, I may be wrong, but I don't believe that anyone has ever approached the electric company and told them "Hey, I've paid you thousands of dollars over the past few years, so I am entitled to a free month of service!" Who has ever approached Time Warner Cable and requested free cable because of the amount of money they have spent?

It somehow seems to me that people have gotten a bit too big for their britches. About 95 percent of the people who come to me with these demands seem to be middle class white men (and sometimes women). They seem to think that they deserve the world.

They seem to believe that what they are doing when they demand that free car charger or that free phone is 'sticking it to the man.' Really they are just 'sticking it to the underpaid salesperson'

Verizon doesn't suffer from that free accessory. The salesperson's pay check sure does though.

I have sold phones and services and actually lost money on, just to make the customers happy, and they STILL have walked out of the door with the proverbial 'I deserved more" stick up their ass.

Just be nice and I'll be more than happy to help you out as much as I can. I will lose money for you.
That is all.

james writes at 03:48:20 10/17/07 - Comment #26483: I mean, this really is the logical end of the bend-over-backwards-for-the-fucking-customer philosophy that distant execs have been imposing on the underpaid grunts of the business. The customer is seldom right.

joshua writes at 10:07:17 10/16/07 - Comment #26345: That is sad, but yeah its true - entitlement is a big problem in our society today.

Its funny to me that the people with the most are usually the ones that feel the most entitled to free stuff.

fellyconnelly writes at 09:48:08 10/16/07 - Comment #26340: oh and incidentally - the store that i have the most problems with this is East Aurora.

fellyconnelly writes at 09:47:09 10/16/07 - Comment #26339: What really gets to me is that when people come in that don't seem to have lots of money, more often than not they don't argue! When I tell them what the price is, then they accept that without a tear.

Does this mean that in order to elevate my financial status that I have to start whining and taking money from other people's paycheck?

janelle writes at 08:23:01 10/16/07 - Comment #26335: Hm, I can tell you all about entitlement from my teaching assistant days where I had students insist that even though they were failing a class they out to at minimum receive a passing grade as they were paying for the class!

imk2 writes at 07:31:49 10/16/07 - Comment #26332: but if there was competition to the electric co and the cable company then there would be plenty of free stuff to go around.

mrmike writes at 06:55:31 10/16/07 - Comment #26330: Oh, the stories I could tell you about Time Warner, especially the Amherst office, the clientele is especially white, wealthy and whiny.

tinypliny writes at 05:23:01 10/16/07 - Comment #26325: This post rocks. So does jenks' comment. :) Hee hee.

jenks writes at 11:48:33 10/15/07 - Comment #26323: 1- love the new user pic
2- yeah, I hear you. I had a patient tell me the other day that I couldn't discharge him from the hospital since it's "his right to be in the hospital".
Ummmm, no it isn't. There is nothing wrong with you, and you have no insurance- it is not "your right" to essentially stay in a hotel and get IV narcotics for your imaginary pain.

But.... if patients make a stink, we don't "kick them out" (even though it is our "right" to)- instead we said "ok, fine. You can stay. But you get only ORAL pain meds, and a bland diet since you said you are sick to your stomach, and you are not allowed to leave the floor to go outside to smoke."

He went home.

But seriously.... why does everyone think they 'deserve' free stuff?
What happened to honest pay for an honest day's work? no free lunch? etc etc?

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Category: good times

10/14/07 11:36 - 53ºF - ID#41638

Do i ski? well ha!

I've been skiing about three times.

Ski trip #1 involved lauren and myself, and our friends Kathi and Kim. Kathi and Lauren being the great skiiers that they are, took off and left me with Kim. Kim is rather awkward and can barely walk without falling over. Somehow Kim and I were left at the bunny slope for two hours while Kathi and Lauren went and played. The damn tow rope seemed to dislocate my shoulder. Kim fell a lot.

Ski trip #2 was the following year. I brought my friend Kat out skiing for her birthday. We both did well and I even made it from the top of the mountain down without falling!

Ski trip #3 involved myself, Lauren and Kathi. the following pictures will tell the tale.
doing great...

yeah i can do this!

nope no i can't...

please take note that i have lost my pole, and apparently a ski. this was how the day went for me.

This post is actually a call for (E:strip) skiiers~! (e:jbeatty), (e:lauren) and i are psyched about skiing this year, and are prepared to set up an (e:strip) ski gathering! whatcha say winter sports fans?

fellyconnelly writes at 11:24:49 10/15/07 - Comment #26321: HOORAH! (E:STRIP) SKI PARTY!

I guess we should wait till the snow actually hits before we start planning. But a weekend ski trip (come January/February) sounds like good fun!

jbeatty writes at 07:27:14 10/14/07 - Comment #26263: As I was telling Felly earlier today, my friends from Syracuse and I are planning a trip to Jay Peak in northern Vermont sometime during peak season if anyone is interested. We usually do a few days + at a decent resort and get a chalet that can usually accommodate a large number of people. But that aside even doing a couple days or one day at a local place like Holiday Valley or slightly more east like Bristol MT would be a blast. I think an (e:strip) ski outting would be pretty cool. I guess it just depends on how much money/time everyone wants to invest. One day would be pretty reasonably priced if there were only a small handful of people. But if there was enough interest I am more than willing to pitch in and help set something up for a longer weekend.

drew writes at 06:21:09 10/14/07 - Comment #26255: I'm in! Love skiing, hot chocolate, wine and boardgames.

I just hope a beginner goes so I don't feel bad ditching (e:janelle) for some advanced slopes

jbeatty writes at 05:51:06 10/14/07 - Comment #26251: It's easy, just point the tips downhill and try not to have a yard sale.

janelle writes at 05:43:13 10/14/07 - Comment #26250: I wanna ski, I wanna ski!!!!

I just need to learn how =(

imk2 writes at 02:30:52 10/14/07 - Comment #26237: yes, i am totally in!!! jenks and i were talking about renting out a chalet and having a bunch of us split the cost for a long weekend. how awesome would that be, skiing all day, and drinking wine and hot chocolate by the fire and playing board games all night! i'm in, i'm in, i'm in!!!!!!!

james writes at 11:42:47 10/14/07 - Comment #26229: Skiing scares me.

Once when i was a child I was ill and had a high fever. In a fever dream I saw all these people skiing. One was dressed like a bunny. He looked fun so I went over to him. But when I got close I could see he was made entirely out of sugar cubes. They started melting really fast and out of the syrup was a burnt rabbit face.

So, skiing scares me.

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Category: randomo history

10/13/07 08:21 - 44ºF - ID#41624

a convenient truth

oh look everybody! the vatican secret archives has uncovered a document that shows how the pope WASN"T trying to murder the knights templars! he just wanted them disbanded for the sake of the church.

how very convenient! i bet this cleans up the reputation of the vatican huh?

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Category: good times

10/10/07 11:10 - 51ºF - ID#41584

i missed pizza for THIS?

sorry to miss the fun guys...

in exchange we went to our dance class wherein both lauren and i have managed to put ourself in such an amount of pain that we can't even stand to shower.

i think that i pulled something in my calf. and something directly above my knee. both on the left side. i'm so out of shape.
but we learned some great moves that hopefully when we can walk again we will be able to try and recreate!

we were going to swing by PMT mansion afterwards but we would hav elooked stupid crying and limping.

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10/10/07 11:42 - 60ºF - ID#41569

growly belly

Frozen pot pies linked to salmonella? COOK THEM YOU MORONS!

anybody else think that unions have gotten too big for their britches? i've been rather anti-union since my father got screwed around so regularly by his union.

(e:enknot) your baby is adorable! more pictures please!

last night i met with my boss, heather, and her friend carmello about doing this crazy fashion show/theatrical experience. it sounds like such amazing funness!

more on that later...

i have to get off the computer as lauren has to start writing papers.
and i have to start on my chores.

zobar writes at 08:43:40 10/10/07 - Comment #26064: When I was growing up, my dad was a nonunion carpenter getting paid better than union wages. His jobs were often shut down by union picketers for no real reason. My mom was a union teacher, and Phil Rumore [Jesus he's been at this a long time] was the only thing between her and the school board [, city, media, public, ...] Unions defy one simplistic label; the worth of one specific union is inversely proportional to the sliminess of each specific employer.

- Z

mike writes at 06:08:13 10/10/07 - Comment #26056: i love fashion show/theatrical experiences! In high school I was in our fashion show/dance party/show my junior year adn ran it my senior year! It was liek teh best time ever!

james writes at 05:57:52 10/10/07 - Comment #26053: Sorry, the recent UAW strike has been angering.

Without Unions blacks, latinos, and women would be making much less than they are now. Unions, in general, rock. Some unions, in specific, are doing silly, silly things.

I mean, how can you be mad at the people who invented the weekend?

libertad writes at 05:52:10 10/10/07 - Comment #26051: I love unions. IF there were laws protecting businesses from setting up in places like mexico and india then they would be even better.

If it weren't for my union I would have nothing. NO insurance, no right to be healthy, no plan for retirement, no dental or vision coverage and no days off. I will gladly pay my union dues and because it would be so uncool for a politician to send my job to India then I have pretty good job security.

Sorry. I just can't say enough how much I love my union. Are they perfect? No.

fellyconnelly writes at 04:56:37 10/10/07 - Comment #26041: word james. WORD!

james writes at 02:12:43 10/10/07 - Comment #26029: There are a ton of Unions that are big pains in the ass. Like the UAW. Seriously, there should not be a $70/hr job on an assembly line in this country. If farmers had a union starting way back when we would be paying them $100/hr to grow onions. Dinosaur industries should go overseas or be extinct.

have fun with chores.

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10/09/07 10:08 - 73ºF - ID#41556

the next day

now its time to put last nights rollercoaster of emotion away and pretend like monday night football doesn't exist.

i have a football hangover. without booze ever having been involved.

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Category: good eats

10/07/07 04:33 - 74ºF - ID#41537

foreshadow

i am currently soaking sliced bananas in rum.

this would be a hint as to one of the flavors of jello shots that i will be bringing to the (e:strip) halloween party.

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10/07/07 12:39 - 61ºF - ID#41531

buffalo rising? corn mazes?

REFRESH!

Yesterday we went to the Corn maze in wheatfield!

My cousin came to the house and picked up (e:lauren) and drove her up to my aunt's house in Niagara Falls. I met them there. Of course we thought it was just going to be the four of us. NOPE!

we had about 15 people by the time we were done... I show up and of course the perfect thing to do is drink before hand apparently, so we did.

The corn maze was awesome. of course (e:lauren) showed her heretofore unknown skills at exiting mazes. There was the question of whether or not she really was an indian tracker.

ALSO! i started working in the springville store last week. very interesting location i must say....

but one of my coworkers turns out to work for buffalo rising and i realized i didn't know what the beef was between estrip and buffalo rising, but that i should probably know before she sees my estrip bumper sticker next time we work together.

so please help... what is the beef?

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10/03/07 09:37 - 66ºF - ID#41481

Who rocks the party that rocks yr body?

We just returned from our first dance class.

Wednesday is more of a workout class for women. It involves all the top rocking, or the moves that don't involve getting down on the floor. so we did lots of dancing, and then we went and used the big yoga balls doing all these exercises that made my body cry. Then we went back to the top rocking. Oh and there is also up rocking, which involves jumping up a bit.

Once we get our strength up, we can then go to Monday nights, which is a women's class that is more about the actual floor moves. I think we are definetly going to need to hit the Wednesday night classes for a few months first.

Oh and Jim, I did find out that Tuesday nights are the basics classes for breakdancing that is a mixed class for male and female. Also the same class is Saturday at 3. So if you want, I'll defientely get you set up with them and all will be peachy keen!

Oh and Heather is also going to set me up with some people to do freelance graphics. I haven't done graphics in a while, so this is exciting!
Okay my arms hurt too much to type any more!