unpacked robinhood posted:

Sad lions posted:

I'd consider financially gutting one's abuser a moral freebee, personally.

(Not that 'gutting' is even the word here)

Nightswimming posted:

"This is a music promotion, not a prostitution advertisement"

Double Muhammad posted:

/\ badass pix are <-that-a-way

http://i.imgur.com/JNGSGTR.jpg
I found a hat trick.

Shoe of all Cosmos posted:

No, all of it is 100% true, I swear as the sky is blue. I am poo poo at making up stories. I said in the very beginning in a previous post that none of what followed would sound real.

If you need a special license to rent 24-foot (or something) trucks, I have no idea how Francis obtained them, but I know he did because they sat in the parking lot while he forced his girlfriend and the landlord and like a few volunteers to unload the books while nobody else helped. James and about a million customers saw the landlord end up screaming at Francis to "man up and help". If you happen to know where the store is, you could walk in and ask any regular customer if there is yaoi manga hoarded next door, and they'd say yes. I promise.

My guess for renting the trucks is that only Francis and Diamond and one other person were there or something. Nobody knows how it happened and how he got the trucks is pure speculation. After the trucks arrived at Anime Dump was when the chosen volunteers started showing up to drive.

The manga company is Digital Manga Publishing, the real name, and they either specialize in or carry a lot of yaoi manga. There was plenty of regular manga mixed in but everyone at the store only referred to it by yaoi because it's hilarious. I'm sorry the habit stuck, but please believe me. I can even present a scan of the dirty, stomped-on contract between Francis and Digital Manga if you armchair skeptic goons want it.


It's real. Diamond is a normal, sweet girl who has severe problems communicating and just likes anime without being weird. Her family lives states and countries away, so I'm guessing she was a prime candidate to be roped in and abused and conned out of her money for six years because she had no safety net or anyone to give her an anchor to normalcy. She's safe now with her mother in another state though, as of June 2013 I think.

Some people mentioned taking $8 an hour for managing an entire store sounds suspicious, so let me reiterate what I said earlier. Anime Dump had just grown from a mall kiosk into a storefront and I thought there were good decisions being made. It was supposed to be my job to keep it going so we could hire more employees and get more payroll. I saw red flags from day one and stayed, because I had no concept of how bad a person Francis is, and like a normal person I expected a certain level of business intelligence from him that simply isn't there. Also, with manipulative, scummy people, they prey on your expectations of them having the ability to learn or change or have compassion to keep you coming back and forgiving them. That's how bad people get people around them to stay. Also if James and I left, the employees under us would get poo poo on especially badly. When we finally did, two others quit the same day.

Planet Piss posted:

Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't take $8 an hour to work at a place called "Anime Dump" at all. Can I assume you didn't have any/much work experience at the time? After you do retail for a while you learn to gtfo of situations like at ASAP, because people who make lovely business decisions never learn to stop making lovely decisions

Please keep posting though, I'm fascinated by the hideously disgusting and idiotic people you've chosen to willingly associate with.

Inspector Zenigata posted:

Yeah everyone who's desperate and poor is super goony, am I right? e-what's her name is pretty goony, I just mean when you're destitute and have zero options 8 bucks an hour is better than nothing.

Inspector Zenigata posted:

Yeah everyone who's desperate and poor is super goony, am I right? e-what's her name is pretty goony, I just mean when you're destitute and have zero options 8 bucks an hour is better than nothing.

Lady Arcadia posted:

I am enjoying the anime store saga, please keep posting

DicktheCat posted:

Re: Shoe of All Cosmos not quitting the anime store- You guys forget how loving strong the major geek fallacies can be. Also, she might just be a super soft-spoken person or didn't want to let down her coworkers. There are tons of reasons a person wouldn't be able to get out of a bad situation like that. If you don't believe it, read that anime boyfriends thread or the bad roommates thread. Sometimes people don't stand up for themselves.

DicktheCat posted:

Re: Shoe of All Cosmos not quitting the anime store- You guys forget how loving strong the major geek fallacies can be. Also, she might just be a super soft-spoken person or didn't want to let down her coworkers. There are tons of reasons a person wouldn't be able to get out of a bad situation like that. If you don't believe it, read that anime boyfriends thread or the bad roommates thread. Sometimes people don't stand up for themselves.

Planet Piss posted:

She does have a history of making extremely poor decisions as well though, so who knows?

What are the geek fallacies by the way?

Slime posted:

Here.

This honestly explains a lot. It explains so many things.

uglynoodles posted:

CelticPredator -- If it's just the trailer, I think you're safe. I'm not sure it's really possible to pirate an advert available freely to the public.

Also thanks re the comments on my old thread.

DicktheCat posted:

Re: Shoe of All Cosmos not quitting the anime store- You guys forget how loving strong the major geek fallacies can be. Also, she might just be a super soft-spoken person or didn't want to let down her coworkers. There are tons of reasons a person wouldn't be able to get out of a bad situation like that. If you don't believe it, read that anime boyfriends thread or the bad roommates thread. Sometimes people don't stand up for themselves.

Vindolanda posted:

I also think there's a strong inclination to disassociate one's feelings about someone in a business sense from one's personal feelings - for example, I was involved (not employed thank god) with a company where the owner was really an incredibly nice, fascinating man, who was enormously interesting to have a drink in the pub etc. with. He also happened to be one of the worst people to work with, in terms of vague goals, poor problem solving, poor anger management and so on, that I've ever met. Several employees told me that they kept meaning to leave, but would then meet him outside work and he'd be so nice and charismatic that they felt they were making a large fuss about nothing.

T.G. Xarbala posted:

If Shoe of all Cosmos is the sort of person broken enough to advocate a friend's animal diddling, put up with an abusive father who used to beat her for MUSIC PIRACY and then blackmail him about it,

DicktheCat posted:

Re: Shoe of All Cosmos not quitting the anime store- You guys forget how loving strong the major geek fallacies can be. Also, she might just be a super soft-spoken person or didn't want to let down her coworkers. There are tons of reasons a person wouldn't be able to get out of a bad situation like that. If you don't believe it, read that anime boyfriends thread or the bad roommates thread. Sometimes people don't stand up for themselves.

mr. mephistopheles posted:

GameStop's entire business model relies on nerds being willing to work for poo poo wages because VIDEO GAMES so it's not like this mindset is rare. When I worked there a decade ago my manager was salaried and he made like $12.50 an hour if he worked a 40 hour week, but he was basically always expected to work like 60+ so he was probably barely clearing $8 most weeks and they worked him like a dog. And we had a stack of applications like 2-3 inches high in the back at any given time. People are loving dumb.

Planet Piss posted:

I understand what you're saying here, but holy lol if that is the exact opposite of the Anime Dumper. At least from what we've been told anyway

Laocius posted:

Leave it to a goon to list "being abused" as one of a person's faults.

Inspector Zenigata posted:

I'd watch Toxic Nerd Nightmares, especially if Ramsey was the host.

mr. mephistopheles posted:

GameStop's entire business model relies on nerds being willing to work for poo poo wages because VIDEO GAMES so it's not like this mindset is rare. When I worked there a decade ago my manager was salaried and he made like $12.50 an hour if he worked a 40 hour week, but he was basically always expected to work like 60+ so he was probably barely clearing $8 most weeks and they worked him like a dog. And we had a stack of applications like 2-3 inches high in the back at any given time. People are loving dumb.