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02/04/2008 20:06 #43181

Big Day Tomorrow
So tomorrow is a huge day, the whole primary, face of our future thing...and FAT TUESDAY! Do you think that will lower voter turnout cuz everyone will be drunk and partying? I will vote in the morning. Not that i have plnas yet for tomorow night but it is mardi gras you gotta go out right? Its like super good times. Except last year my car got ticketed and I didn't know cuz one tings leads to another i was prolly a little drunk and threw the ticket under the seat where I found it like a month later after it was overdue. So hopefully none of that! Do you tyhink drinking will lead to more hilary votes or obama?
lilho - 02/04/08 22:18
i will not be going out. last year, i was arrested the night of mardi gras! member peach?
twisted - 02/04/08 22:00
Ha!

There's already quite a turnout for "Dead Heads for Obama" :::link::: at the Warfield tonight. So he's got the stoner vote covered...
james - 02/04/08 20:07
Way ahead of you on this one Mike. I started "Alcoholics for Obama" a few months ago while on a bender.

02/01/2008 15:21 #43136

Rite Aid is Shit- Buffalo Style
Stupid Rite Aid in Buffalo, NY for like the third time since they took over have had our checks come late. We didn't get them today cuz of some problem. With eckerd they used to send them earlier in the week but we couldn't get them til friday so that made sure we always had them by Friday but RiteAid in Buffalo, NY doesn't do that and now for like the third time in 6 months I have no check today. This is despite working like 10 million hours to help out cuz of this whole stupid ridiculous transition to a shitty company with shitty computers and shitty everything. Let's see lets take away your sick days, lets take away overtime, lets take away vacation time, and lets not send your checks. Oh and lets take away any sense of like we trust you by hvaing to check everythign you do every second. And then lets not send you your check even on time. But you know what , we also want you to report if any unions come around cuz they are bad people and are gonna take away all that we already get (which is nothing!). Rite Aid in Buffalo New York hates unions. Rite Aid in Buffalo New York tries to convince everyone how bad they are and make us watch tihngs and read emails about how unions just take our money and get us nothing in return. Rite Aid in Buffalo New York is the biggest union buster since Sam Walton! I am prolly gonna be fired if they even saw I mentioned unions, they seriously have tons of emails all the time about watch out for unions, report eveyrthing you see to the hotline. It is like i working for freakin WalMart. Oh Eckerd why did you have to leave!

P.S. I know I could sign up for direct deposit but I refuse cuz they want us to and so I don't out of spite which I know just hurts me but still.
vincent - 02/02/08 11:15
Check out the pic of Britney in this article. It's the 6th one from the bottom.

:::link:::

Britney Spears Supports Rite Aid!!!!!!
paul - 02/01/08 20:23
What is better is that if you type rite aid shit into google it comes up as number one. Without even mentioning Buffalo.
james - 02/01/08 20:12
Toyota also provides benefits to same sex couples!
janelle - 02/01/08 19:41
Jason, Toyota and other Japanese car manufacturers provide benefits to their workers without being forced to do so by unions. If companies would provide good work environments, unions wouldn't be an issue.
enknot - 02/01/08 19:18
Ok, mike. So I just typed "Rite Aid Buffalo Union" into google, and your post is the number one entry... I haven't read this yet, but paul seems freaked out by it. I'll be sure to as soon as I get home though.
mike - 02/01/08 18:58
i am not the biggest union person as some of you know, but frankly companies need to provide some benefit and in response to jason, you know what else had a really great competitive advantage, southern plantation in the old south, noone else could grow crops as cheaply ro quickly, that doesn't make it good.
paul - 02/01/08 18:51
Ya unions suck, lol. Look how much I suffer doing union work.
jason - 02/01/08 16:39
Anyone know what Toyota's competitive advantages are?
hodown - 02/01/08 16:38
Mike- that blows. I once worked for Rite Aid as well and I totally back up your assesment of how shitty they treat their employees. You need a Workers Revolution!! Or a stiff drink. Either one..
carolinian - 02/01/08 16:26
It's companies like this that define why America is not competitive in the global marketplace. The business running smoothly should receive a higher priority than bullshit corporate politics and indoctrination videos.
janelle - 02/01/08 16:05
When and if you're ready to quit or be fired from Rite Aide, give all your co-workers information to whatever union is trying to unionize Rite Aid. That'll really make Rite Aid lose it when employees start reporting they're getting home visits from unions.

Oh, and if you want to be snippy with your union obsessed management, tell them that the best way to avoid unions is to have fair pay and good working conditions.

I'm not pro-union for most of human services because so much of what determines our work conditions and pay is the state, not the agencies. I would be sent to these trainings on "What happens when a union comes to your agency" trainings and they were so ridiculously over the top and untrue of how unions operate. My brother has been a union organize so I've gotten an inside on the good and bad of the union.

01/31/2008 21:26 #43119

Queen Fabiola
OMG there is an ex queen of the Belgians. (she married the king but when he died his younger brother became king and his wife queen) but she is still called Queen Fabiola. What kind of better life is there than being a queen and having the name Fabiola!!!!!!!


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She's the little fabulous one in the middle in gray!
imk2 - 01/31/08 23:55
ha! my kid's name is faben. i will now call her queen fabiola!
james - 01/31/08 22:14
Mike, you are the heir apparent to Queen Fabiola.

01/28/2008 23:00 #43073

I am mean to old ladies now!
So it has happened. RiteAid has broken me. The old ladies that ocme to my store love me and i do tons of stuff for them. Like this one lady only let me cash her out cuz she counts out her change and has me fill out a check for the rest when she buys her candy and 2 cases of beer every week. Another lady brings in like any paper work she ever gets or junk mail for me to go over and make sure it isn't importnat. Another lady just likes to stay and chat.

BUT NOT ANYMORE!! We got this stupid new Rite Aid computer system that is so slwo and dumb and stupid and does not let you take care of customers that like I am chained to a computer being angry for 12 hours a day! So like the lady i always cash out came in and i made her wait for like 35 minutes for me to cash her out cuz i was so busy and awash in problems and then i told her I cna't cash her out anymore and unless ehw ants to wait she is gonna have to let the girl who cashiers cash her out! I felt horrible!

Then the lady came in with this paperwork she needed to fill out for her insurance and I helped kinda but was short and mean about it and you could tell she felt bad aobut it but so did I! But seriousl y the wait time was like an hour at that piont (as compared to our old average of about 10 minutes)! And i was stressed.

I wokred like 60 hours last week and will rpolly do tons this week too cuz it is so carzy!!!!So word to the wise, don't go to the old Eckerd that is now Rite Aid in Kenmore for a few months until it settles down or else you will run into an angry angry clerk named MIke Visco with four service stars on his name badge. Do you think they will take away my award stars now that I am mean to old people! THEY CAN'T!!!!!!!! I hate what it is doing to me> I seriuly have no concern for people anyhmore czu i am too stressed at work. noone does. We used to apologize and stuff when things weren't ready or were wrong or wahtever now we are just like "Shut up whore! You'll get your drugs when you get them and you are gonna smile about it or I'm gonna smack you!" UGH!
jenks - 01/29/08 11:09
similar prayer?? is that a freudian slip paul?

paul - 01/28/08 23:11
(e:matthew) says he had a similar prayer. Maybe its a Ken-ton thing.

01/21/2008 23:24 #42982

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL
So it is a little early cuz I am off to bed, but happy birthday Paul. I don't know if the day can be better than this one, having tea with plastic alice in wonderland figurines but I hope it comes close at least.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BROTHER


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mrdeadlier - 01/23/08 14:19
Is that a Members Only jacket? ;)
metalpeter - 01/22/08 17:10
Happy Birthday. That is kinda scary but that picture looks like I have seen it before. I haven't seen that movie in so long the only part I remember is the Chesire cat.
ladycroft - 01/22/08 13:56
that is fucking scary!
joshua - 01/22/08 12:33
Wow - happy birthday Paul!
leetee - 01/22/08 06:46
awe, you guys were soooo cute!

Happy Birthday, Paul!
paul - 01/22/08 00:09
Thanks mike. I totally remember that day!