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Unfortunately that is not an uncommon occurrence.I'm a electronic engineer student at college (long story, i'm 26 and a long way from graduation) and i intern at the electronics lab ( i clean the labs, prep the benches, fill ever tray assigned to each team with the electronic components to be used in that class, etc)
I got another guy, who simply stopped coming in one day.
Fair enough, its not a lot of cash, there isnt a lot of control and they dont really care as long as you are in the lab when there's a class happening so that you can open the classroom and mantain order lest the professor and his students decide to plunder the electronics cabinet without authorization or someone blows up a 5 thousand dollar osciloscope.
I got a bad knee cap, it hurts like hell so i come late or sometimes i warn my superior that i can't come and he understands it, i don't like snitching on someone if it aint bothering me directly.
Guess what? Dude who stopped coming has the balls to call me out to my boss, claims it`s me who isn't going to work, i get very mad, i was threatened with being dismissed, and if that happens i couldn't afford my rent and continue my degree.
So i go to work, spent the past weeks befriendly the cleaning staff, treating them like humans, learning their names, offering them unlimited access to my microwave, fridge and water cooler in my lab office.
Then i started asking about if they saw the guy, if he`s coming, etc.
I got enough evidence to prove he wasn't going and with witnesses to boot.
So today the professor calls me out again, i casually mention the lab is getting tough to take care of it, he mentions i should ask the guy to help me out, etc, i use the fact he brought him up to mention everything, i even provide names of the cleaning staff that could back me up, etc.
He looks shocked and angry, starts messaging the guy, i go back to work, 20 minutes before my shift ends and the Mfcker is supposed to come, he enters, pale as a ghost and very worried.
I pretend nothing has happened, so i end my shift and go home, on the way back i pass my boss's office and ask what happend, he said he didn't use my name, but he screamed at him about it.
This has not ended obviously he will try to start things again, i don`t know why he has such a hard on for me, but i don't care, if you try to be nice and polite, people will usually see it as a weakness and exploit it,
It's a sad statement, but it's true in my case.
They are revising our local Walmart, replacing the flooring with just polished concrete and rearranging the almost everything. Things there are in disarray and also they are no longer selling paper towels, toilet paper, home cleaning supplies, fruit juices, and probably a lot of other stuff I have not tried to find yet. And a great many things are no longer where they used to be. It's no longer a quick shopping trip; it's a recon mission.
They are revising our local Walmart, replacing the flooring with just polished concrete and rearranging the almost everything. Things there are in disarray and also they are no longer selling paper towels, toilet paper, home cleaning supplies, fruit juices, and probably a lot of other stuff I have not tried to find yet. And a great many things are no longer where they used to be. It's no longer a quick shopping trip; it's a recon mission.
No, what they are doing now is not the usual "move the frozen burritos to a different freezer so that people will have to look around" but rather "get rid of whole aisles so that people will be bewildered." I went to Publix today to buy fruit juice.The good old rearrange the place so people make more impulse purchases
If you don't mind spending a bit more than walmart specials, look at Rowenta fans....nearly silent, even at full speed.Now I what they mean by hot as Wadewitz. No air. One broken window that is taped shut. The other two open and have no screens . All flying critters welcome to come in to Mr. Hess's classroom. I am going to invest in some fans.
Brilliant!