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Volmarias posted:More fun is Goon Spotting, seeing AmberPOS screens in the wild. The fun of meeting Goons, without having to actually meet them or let them know you're aware of them! irl remote viewing happening itt
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Leperflesh posted:That's OK I definitely don't qualify as "from YOSPOS" at this point or probably ever, but also meeting goons is gross, why would you ever do that? mang i got several IRL friends that i regularly hang out with from this dumb website
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ive literally met like 20 people from yospos over the years and we always have a great time
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only yosposter i've met was a guy i was friends with in college and shortly after. haven't actually seen him in a decade, and it looks like he caught a ban last fall for being a piece of poo poo, so gently caress that guy anyway edit: i suppose there are probably others since i used to go to a lot of goonmeets, but i wasn't aware they were yosposters if they were
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tbh I think everyone here is pretty cool and I would mostly just be embarrassed about my extremely corporate life, however that said I can absolutely take my beers so I'm sure it would work out in the end
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also if I wanted to get face to face with a weird nerd I would simply turn my monitor off!!!
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the truth is that I've made several good friends on SA and I've met probably six or so IRL Hey another funny tech poo poo i just remembered: when I was in high school (in the US) I did two semesters of "library aide" as a class becuase I didn't need more credits or whatever and the major project at that time was sticking little magnetic strips into the spines of all the books in the library. Boring poo poo so we would wait till someone came in the library and try to stick a strip to something they left unattended like a backpack. Then we figured out that the sensor by the door only turned on when someone walked across the mat, like there was a pressure sensor under the mat. So we stuck magnetic strips to the actual big gate thing you walked through right at the end of class and from that moment onward the thing would go off every time anyone walked through it. The librarians had to turn the whole thing off after an hour of that poo poo and then the next day we peeled off the strips so now it worked again and then we told them we just turned it on and it was fine. But we weren't assholes so we never did it again. Just let them live with the loving thing going off all day for no reason and then work perfectly thereafter lol
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oh lol I remember those things. I worked in an electronics shop as a teen and we used those, if you pulled one off the strip and palmed it, you could fling it dead flat and it would stick to the back of you colleagues shirt and they set the alarms off whenever they went near them. putting them sticky side up on the floor by the break room was another popular source of entertainment if you got enough of them in one place though they somehow cancelled out, I'd occasionally walk out with a reel of like 30 in my pocket with no problems I guess the moral here is to go big and steal a lot at once, though it seemed to depend on the type of gate in use.
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i've never had a bad experience with the goons i've met although one did turn out to be a giant piece of poo poo and is now permabanned.
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talk about video game school where you learn to tighten up graphics in the interview thread reminded me of when sony made that reality show where the grand prize was getting a job as a video game tester like it was some otherwise unobtainable dream job, and not the game industry equivalent of being a burger flipper at a fast food chain
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The_Franz posted:talk about video game school where you learn to tighten up graphics in the interview thread reminded me of when sony made that reality show where the grand prize was getting a job as a video game tester like it was some otherwise unobtainable dream job, and not the game industry equivalent of being a burger flipper at a fast food chain they did 2 seasons of that, it was hilarious because the final challenge in the first series was basically the ending of the wizard only with uncharted 2 instead
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Leperflesh posted:the truth is that I've made several good friends on SA and I've met probably six or so IRL did high school libraries have a huge problem with students stealing books?
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The_Franz posted:did high school libraries have a huge problem with students stealing books? doesn't matter, what matters is the pta thinks they do and that the school admin is doing something about it
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The_Franz posted:did high school libraries have a huge problem with students stealing books? I have no idea but I would imagine only certain specific books, but a lot for those specific books. It was a high school library so the fiction section was mostly classic fiction like you'd get assigned in an english class but it did have a little section of sci fi and fantasy. There were also the usual sorts of things that horny teenagers target and take? Really though I'm sure it was just a school district wide imperative, the admin bought the stuff and decreed all schools to use it.
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i think a lot of libraries rather have the problem of people leaving with books they forgot they hadn't checked out yet.
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some people will steal anything if they can get away with it, especially dumbass teenagers the public libraries here use the same type of thing, and people still steal books and other media.
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like there's actually valuable books that can get stolen, there's people who just prefer not to bother with library cards and needing to return things, and there's people who get a thrill from shoplifting most people are honest and even more people are honest if you just give them a small push towards honesty, just the barest little nudge in the right direction
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having a room in the house called the "computer room" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPbmizOjfUc
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Improbable Lobster posted:Make it easier to do the right thing and most people will it's so much easier to be nice to people folk who just go through life being dickheads for no reason confuse the poo poo outta me 
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Sagebrush posted:You know what's some stupid tech poo poo? Those electronic shopping cart wheels that lock when you take them out of the parking lot Agile Vector posted:yeah, the pick-up app defaults to substitutes and then, if you remove the option, the picker subs anyways i remember one time picking up the curbside order at the grocery store i apologized b/c i had a a couple boxes of cat litter and a few cases of soda or something and they instantly said "naw it's fine, i like doing this a lot more than rounding up shopping carts"
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I just remembered Scantrons, and also dittos the lovely wonderful smell of a fresh purple ditto
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i remember one time picking up the curbside order at the grocery store i apologized b/c i had a a couple boxes of cat litter and a few cases of soda or something and they instantly said "naw it's fine, i like doing this a lot more than rounding up shopping carts" Ironically, when I worked in a grocery store, I liked rounding up shopping carts. No one bothered you, you worked at your own pace, you could visibly see the progress you were making, fresh air.
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Volmarias posted:Ironically, when I worked in a grocery store, I liked rounding up shopping carts. No one bothered you, you worked at your own pace, you could visibly see the progress you were making, fresh air. I've always felt like this had to be the case. on nice days I will sometimes not return my cart just because I would've loved a chance to walk around outside when I worked a register (it was a drug store photo lab though so we didn't have any carts to retrieve)
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Volmarias posted:Ironically, when I worked in a grocery store, I liked rounding up shopping carts. No one bothered you, you worked at your own pace, you could visibly see the progress you were making, fresh air. i imagine cart wrangling is a lot less fun in the current era of giant suvs with terrible sightlines and smartphone-using drivers
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when i worked at a grocery store i almost always had to do that in the rain or snow, yeah. it sucked
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Corla Plankun posted:I've always felt like this had to be the case. on nice days I will sometimes not return my cart just because I would've loved a chance to walk around outside when I worked a register (it was a drug store photo lab though so we didn't have any carts to retrieve) Please do return them, I enjoying being able to bring big loads (ladies...  ) at a time, chasing a cart at the very edge always felt like a waste.FMguru posted:note: only applies on days that arent blazing hot or pissing down cold rain Also correct. Smartphones weren't an issue at the time but SUVs had become prominent and drivers have always been terrible. Heat loving sucked but I was always fine doing snow, the front manager understood it took a while and that we got cold so we could just go inside and warm up for a bit and bullshit, which is the ideal situation for being paid 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i remember one time picking up the curbside order at the grocery store i apologized b/c i had a a couple boxes of cat litter and a few cases of soda or something and they instantly said "naw it's fine, i like doing this a lot more than rounding up shopping carts" i can totally agree with that. when i did carts it could be miserable, hauling 20 lbs. bags in specific items would be way better. heck, i already did that with my mom as a kid so i knew the store Volmarias posted:Ironically, when I worked in a grocery store, I liked rounding up shopping carts. No one bothered you, you worked at your own pace, you could visibly see the progress you were making, fresh air. those parts were nice, especially slow days when you'd get it just so. the rough days were because the store manager wouldn't staff up when we were short, so I'd end up rushing during weekend peak and he'd give me poo poo because one or two other guys didn't show and i was barely keeping it stocked FMguru posted:note: only applies on days that arent blazing hot or pissing down cold rain argh, our dress code required black jeans or slacks below a certain temperature, so you'd start a morning to afternoon shift in the summer, temperatures would rise, and you'd roast on the blacktop
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i kinda liked bagging. the front manager was decent and when we got self-checkout the few people that dared use them were easy to bag for at their cautious pace i also was proud of my fast sorting and packing. it's like a race to get people out the door and everyone wins
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Volmarias posted:Ironically, when I worked in a grocery store, I liked rounding up shopping carts. No one bothered you, you worked at your own pace, you could visibly see the progress you were making, fresh air. that and helping people out to the car. People would always be like "sorry for bothering you" and i was just like "this is the best part of my job" Just walkin slowly to some old ladies car to help her with her bags and talk about the weather and how things cost more than they used to.
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polyester concept posted:when I worked as a grocery bagger as a teen we also had to offer to take the groceries out to the customer’s car and load them into the trunk. that poo poo is unheard of now lol. sometimes we even got tips hell yeah
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last weekend i bodge fixed my old landlords' old car well enough to get it to pass a smog check. it isn't really fixed but it'll last another two years. they were extremely grateful. helping old people out is a great thing to do and absolutely better than running some dumb cash register for 8 hours in a row
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not really funny but boxee was really good for a very short period of time. it consolidated a bunch of streaming services really well it kinda lives on in kodi plugins i guess but its not really the same
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:not near there (un?) fortunately! its a date
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echinopsis posted:its a date closest I've been is Australia like 6 years ago but you never know!
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look if the world's ending but you have like 17 days to kill, come over
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echinopsis posted:look if the world's ending but you have like 17 days to kill, come over that is a deal my man
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