The Vent and Rant Thread

[Rumpelteazer]

Two weeks ago our real estate agent put up a sold sign over our door. Since then I'm going crazy from people asking if we're leaving and when we're closing the store. All of them find it a shame we're closing, some can understand it, but most tell me I should have taken over, some even get angry with me. As if I have 2 to 2.5 million euros in my back pocket to buy the building and restore it. And I don't even want to run my own business.

After a dozen or so of those customers (some just come into the store to ask and not buy anything) I get a bit cranky and short with people when they ask.

Just four (maybe five) more weeks of this, then we're closing the store. The new owner wants to start renovating the store and basement in September and we need time to go through everything, let colleagues get the stuff they want that's left over and remove any bookkeeping and take items we want to keep. What's left over we can leave for the new owner to deal with. We can live upstairs until just before Christmas if that is necessary.

[badgoodDeb]

Sounds exciting — but yeah, annoying as heck too. Hang in there!

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Two weeks ago our real estate agent put up a sold sign over our door. Since then I'm going crazy from people asking if we're leaving and when we're closing the store. All of them find it a shame we're closing, some can understand it, but most tell me I should have taken over, some even get angry with me. As if I have 2 to 2.5 million euros in my back pocket to buy the building and restore it. And I don't even want to run my own business.

After a dozen or so of those customers (some just come into the store to ask and not buy anything) I get a bit cranky and short with people when they ask.

Just four (maybe five) more weeks of this, then we're closing the store. The new owner wants to start renovating the store and basement in September and we need time to go through everything, let colleagues get the stuff they want that's left over and remove any bookkeeping and take items we want to keep. What's left over we can leave for the new owner to deal with. We can live upstairs until just before Christmas if that is necessary.

Maybe you should hang up a (large) sign that says:

"Unless you're going to give me $2.5M EU, to buy the building and refurbish it, etc. NO, I am not buying the business and not remaining to run it."

:-)

Hitch

[Hemmi]

I get it. I left a job I'd been at over 25 years to start over with a new job. I don't want to be in charge anymore. I just want to be a worker bee and I'm so happy doing what I'm doing now. I make more money, no more nights and weekends, way less stress.

Every time another position comes up, I'm pestered by coworkers about applying for it. Yes, it's a promotion. No, I don't want it right now. I'm quite happy where I am.

I guess I'm an anomaly. My current position is more entry level and no one stays for much longer than a year before they move up. I've been there 2 1/2 years and don't plan to move up for a while yet.

[ownedbycats]

The mayor of Halifax said there was a call for someone burning leaves with a friggin' blowtorch. "This is a clear violation of the no-stupid policy."

I am starting to think that pillories should make a comeback.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The mayor of Halifax said there was a call for someone burning leaves with a friggin' blowtorch. "This is a clear violation of the no-stupid policy."

I am starting to think that pillories should make a comeback.

A strong candidate for the Darwin award?

[ownedbycats]

something something infinite: hydrogen and human stupidity...

I've seen some wild conspiracy theories. Mostly about Marxists/WEF members/feminist gay atheists/the boogeyman starting the fires in order to push a 'climate change' agenda.

Never mind that it wouldn't have spread so badly if there hadn't been an abnormal drought after an abnormally mild winter (also all the deadfall from an abnormal hurricane). Yeah, think they got the cause-and-effect mixed up a bit...

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The mayor of Halifax said there was a call for someone burning leaves with a friggin' blowtorch. "This is a clear violation of the no-stupid policy."

I am starting to think that pillories should make a comeback.

And not just a little stupid! Pillories might be useful, but how about actual jail time for these idiots. (Here in BC, when we go to extreme fire danger, the fine is Really Large. But that doesn't seem to be sufficient. )

[ownedbycats]

At least for their own safety.

Not only because they'll happily burn themselves up in a fire. But the people who lost their homes in the fires might not be happy with them...

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

At least for their own safety.

Not only because they'll happily burn themselves up in a fire. But the people who lost their homes in the fires might not be happy with them...

Perhaps, burning at the stake should be brought back...

[Hemmi]

Flying today. Oh so many special snowflakes.

[issybird]

I've been shopping for shorts and bathing suits on Amazon lately and I must say I'm feeling rather affronted. Every time I do a search, and even when I include my preferred size as a search term, I get back a statement saying that based on what I've ordered, XXL will fit me best and they show me XXL results. I'm not XXL. I'd love to duplicate the shorts I'm wearing right now, just as one example, and I just verified and they're petite medium. Now I'm not saying that petite medium isn't larger than it was 20 years ago, but it's still not XXL. And why not show me the size I asked for? Maybe I have thinner friends?

What is Amazon doing, watching me? "Oh, my goodness, look at her put away that cheese. She won't be a medium for long!" Where's my tin foil hat?

I see the funny side of this, but it's also irritating. I'd love to make a manual change if I could, but clearly Amazon knows best.

[Martinoptic]

Clothing sizes in the UK, particularly for ladies have changed. What was a size 12 ten years ago is now size 16. Some retailers are worse than others. I feel your irritation Issybird.

[mlewis78]

Originally Posted by issybird

I've been shopping for shorts and bathing suits on Amazon lately and I must say I'm feeling rather affronted. Every time I do a search, and even when I include my preferred size as a search term, I get back a statement saying that based on what I've ordered, XXL will fit me best and they show me XXL results. I'm not XXL. I'd love to duplicate the shorts I'm wearing right now, just as one example, and I just verified and they're petite medium. Now I'm not saying that petite medium isn't larger than it was 20 years ago, but it's still not XXL. And why not show me the size I asked for? Maybe I have thinner friends?

What is Amazon doing, watching me? "Oh, my goodness, look at her put away that cheese. She won't be a medium for long!" Where's my tin foil hat?

I see the funny side of this, but it's also irritating. I'd love to make a manual change if I could, but clearly Amazon knows best.

If you start ordering in M, L or XL, it will likely start saying based on what you ordered it won't be XXL. I ordered some XL long-sleeved tees in 2020, which were oversized but comfortable. From then on it was recommending XL. I have always done best with XL for Lands End tops, but the particularly Amazon top I ordered, it was much larger. But it wasn't Amazon's own brand. I never know what size I really am when I order there, since there are so many different brands. I've had to send a lot of things back because they didn't fit.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

I get it. I left a job I'd been at over 25 years to start over with a new job. I don't want to be in charge anymore. I just want to be a worker bee and I'm so happy doing what I'm doing now. I make more money, no more nights and weekends, way less stress.

Every time another position comes up, I'm pestered by coworkers about applying for it. Yes, it's a promotion. No, I don't want it right now. I'm quite happy where I am.

I guess I'm an anomaly. My current position is more entry level and no one stays for much longer than a year before they move up. I've been there 2 1/2 years and don't plan to move up for a while yet.

I just want to be a worker bee, too. Do my work, go home and don't have to think about the shipment I need to order, or finish processing the shipment that came in, or go to a trade fair or a supplier on my day off, etc.

Yesterday to men came in from the neighbourhood newspaper (one of the free ones) and basically demanded that I tell them why I chose not to take over the store, because they wanted to write an article about it. I told them that since I've been getting enough angry reactions already that I wasn't going to tell them. Just the way they approached me, demanding as if they had every right to know and write about it (not asking me if that was okay with me) just rubbed me the wrong way. If they would have asked nicely I might have, but not this way.