[Gemme]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaMa'am

No, but the local hoity-toity office furniture store's chat feature on their web page was functional. I ended up finding one on ebay for about $450 though. Of course, plus shipping, it will be several hundred more. But it will be worth it for my back.

Wow, that's a fancy chair! I bet it's lovely, though. I thought paying $75 for my rolling computer chair was a bit much but I've had it for almost a decade now so it was worth it. As long as it works and you use it, right?

Originally Posted by nhplowboi

The Police Chief went and spoke to this mope and was shocked he admitted to this theft. Supposedly he still had the donation box and told him how much was inside. He then went on to provide the following excuse. I know KC has cameras everywhere and just thought I would get yelled at and maybe put on a timeout (something I often do with my shoplifters). The reason I took the box was because I came to the store to do a hand to hand drug transaction of 3 ecstasy pills. They inadvertently fell out of my hand and into the donation box. I did not have the money to pay my dealer so I took the box to get my pills back. Geeze Steve (the mope), I never saw your hand hover over the donation box, the only time I saw your hand near it was when you were carting it off.

If you are sneaky enough to take it out of my store to "recover your pills" , then sneak it back on in. My guess is that you would rather be thought of as a bumbling dealer than a mope who would steal from a child with cancer. Anyway the Chief is going to charge him. ^5

This is one example of why I hate people.

As for myself, I feel underappreciated. My company is essential so I have to work and I see notices in the few stores I do go into explaining the ways they are trying to help their employees. One company has even added a small surcharge to about half of their inventory and that money will go into a pot and be divvied out as a 'bonus' to their employees. There's gratitude there and in the signs people have put in their yards for first responders and in relief efforts in D.C. to help nursing home employees as they are right in the thick of it. It may not be "enough" as enough is different for each person, but it's something.

And I'm getting nothing. While having to deal with customers like Example A. Example A comes into the store, having passed TWO "Please wear a face mask" signs, and he does have one on. We have to walk to a secondary location and during the walk, the mask finds it's way down past his nose. Fine, the nose covering is for him so whatever. Then, as we make our way back into the office, the mask just kind of drops and there is nothing protecting me from his germs. Once he's gone, I can sanitize the counter and spray the air but I have to wade through his breathed on air in which particles hang for up to 3 hours and I can't wait that long. I have to clean between each and every customer. I hold my breath but who knows what clings to what and now it's on the outside of my mask so I REALLY can't touch it, because we all know we shouldn't but we do. Mostly subconsciously but there's a whole lotta face touching going on out there.

Then I feel bad because I still have a job and a third of my state does not but then I heard what someone I know is getting from unemployment and it's got me riled up again because this person is making more money sitting at home on their ass and being safe and contained than I am, having to deal with inconsiderate a-holes who say, "It's okay, I don't have it." You don't know, buddy! 25% of people that have COVID-19 are asymptomatic.

Then I feel bad again because those that were laid off need to save that money since they won't have a job to come back to when the extra $600/week ends in July, I think. Not sure if it's June or July.

Then I get annoyed at my employer again because they make it sound like they are doing something but everything "they" are doing has been mandated, so it's not their idea. They just don't want to get fined.

Basically, I am on an emotional roller coaster, up one moment and gratefule that I am healthy and employed...pissed off the next for a variety of reasons...and then sad, also for a variety of reasons. Rinse, lather, repeat.