I just lost my job, more or less.
A while before I was hired, our store was robbed. The girl there was working the closing shift alone at the time. Since then we've had two people on staff during closing shifts. Today they decided it hasn't been busy enough in the evenings, so we're not allowed to have two people on closing any more.
I'm just not willing to work there on my own at night. We're right by a liquor mart and in a relatively quiet area. We don't have a silent alarm or anything. I think it's dangerous.
We have five people who work in our store. I'll be the third to quit. The other part-time girl will quit as soon as she finds something else.
Oh, and fun fact: the girl who was robbed(quite scarily, with a knife to her throat) was still working there until today. And she told them straight out that she would quit the minute they took away the second person on close.
Why are the people on top always such fucking morons?
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I'm sure a few of you have heard about what's been going on in Madison, WI. Well, I ventured out that way today and covered what was going on around the Capitol.
http://www.wisconsininternetnews.com/2011/03/01/exclusive-photos-and-impressions-outside-wisconsin-state-capitol/
Hey folks. Drunkduck and its related history was brought up today in the latest Linkara review on Nostalgia Critic's site during a review about KISS.I'll have to check that out…
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/30001-kiss-comics
Relevant part starts around 13:40.
Why are the people on top always such fucking morons?There air's thinner up there.
Plus, it's hard to see down past their fat bellies. :(
I just lost my job, more or less.
A while before I was hired, our store was robbed. The girl there was working the closing shift alone at the time. Since then we've had two people on staff during closing shifts. Today they decided it hasn't been busy enough in the evenings, so we're not allowed to have two people on closing any more.
I'm just not willing to work there on my own at night. We're right by a liquor mart and in a relatively quiet area. We don't have a silent alarm or anything. I think it's dangerous.
We have five people who work in our store. I'll be the third to quit. The other part-time girl will quit as soon as she finds something else.
Oh, and fun fact: the girl who was robbed(quite scarily, with a knife to her throat) was still working there until today. And she told them straight out that she would quit the minute they took away the second person on close.
Why are the people on top always such fucking morons?
It's all about the money, if they get robbed they can claim insurance. If they pay two people they have to make up the shortfall. I used to manage a large store and the company directors were asshats. Always trying to force us into doing illegal stuff to save money but doing it so if there was any fallout the store managers took the hit. I asked why once and was told…
"Shit rolls downhill."
Wow, four pages pencilled yesterday… buuut, they were mostly easy! The thing I'm doing now has a lot of repeated panels so that takesout some of the work (just write in pencil "paste panel X from page Y here" haha) plus two of them were actually these crazy weirdo page things so no need to rule out backgrounds or any of that. Plus I had a "zoom out from the pupil" page so most of the panels on this one will be black.
So yeah, actually more like 2 pages of work, heh.
Today two more to go, then I need to layout the next short comic.
Everything is hypnosis. Its all hidden in plain sight.
Everytime I ask a person "Have you been hypnotized before?"
I either get:
1) I saw this stage hypnotist show where people cluck like chickens and bark like dogs… blablabla…
2) I saw this hypnotherapist to help me quit smoking / lose weight / etc. etc. etc.
3) No. I dont know what hypnosis is all about… blablabla…
All of em are clueless. lol!
AAAAGGGHHHH!!!! JUST GOT A JOB AS A DECKHAND ON A CRUISELINE FOR 3 MONTHS!!!!HOLY SHIT, MEGA!!!Wow! That'll be interesting work Pit!
You might be a bit too tierd after the working day to do comics, I'm sure you won't mind too much with all the interesting stuff you'll see. Hope the work's not too hard!
I knew a girl once who did hairdressing on cruise-liners, she thought it was a fantastic job.
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Oh dear, another Quackcast recording… Gotta get prepared!
Soon Skool and I will need a staff to do this for us. ^_^
I can see it now… certain mods will be tasked specifically with writing up our feature blurbs and our scripts for the whole thing! And the writers of the funniest comics will do our jokes! The whole thing will be a huge success!!!!!
…but if we do that, may as well get someone with a better voice to do the speaking too. Skool is great, but there could be some improvement on the Ozone end of things… I remember Bekefel had a great voice… I need people to rehearse to be Ozoneocean :)
—Hey, someone needs to write a short radio play for us! That'd be sublime :3
AAAAGGGHHHH!!!! JUST GOT A JOB AS A DECKHAND ON A CRUISELINE FOR 3 MONTHS!!!!HOLY SHIT, MEGA!!!
That sounds great! And like either hard or annoying work… but maybe worth it, especially if you get days off on shore days and stuff!
I have an xbox friend who went to work on a cruise (lighting tech) for like 8 months… he really had nothing to say about it other than it was kind of boring. I got the impression that he didn't really do much to seek out the fun though.
Oh dear, another Quackcast recording… Gotta get prepared!
Soon Skool and I will need a staff to do this for us. ^_^
I need people to rehearse to be Ozoneocean :)
I would rehearse but my accents always break down out of idiocy (and my australian now always just turns english).
We have to be careful not to make too much work for ourselves with notes and stuff! They don't all have to be super-informational advice comprehensive topic things, we'll run out of those sooner or later anyway. :]
thanks guys! it's not really going anywhere to exotic, it stays in U.S. waters, which is fine by me, but we'll be going to places i've never been too, from florida to martha's vineyard, which i hear is nice to see. living in new england now i suppose i oughta. but im looking forward to the job itself and hope it leads to good things. the description was this :
"Deckhand: Deckhands participate in ship operations. This includes steering the ship, docking and anchoring maneuvers, handling lines and gangways, and standing security watches. Deckhands are all involved with general maintenance aboard the vessel and are responsible for the loading and unloading of passenger luggage and ship stores."
i actually went in for the Steward position, which is more housekeeping and waiteressing stuff, but the interviewer saw i had firefighter on my ap and suggested the change, so it comes in handy man! i'm very stoked aobut this, i've always had a little thing for the ocean and it's not like we'll be going far out, but im happy for the opportunity. i even gave my Chief a heads up about it and he already said it's cool, so i just gotta spread the word and get my ducks in a row and then im outa here. since i'll be making some money, i can hire someone to help me with my art too i think. cant drink for 3 months though. ah well, i can do it.
—Hey, someone needs to write a short radio play for us! That'd be sublime :3
I studied radio drama for a while. Looking into some BBC radio dramas may be a good place to start. Some funny stuff and some interesting things like soap operas. Main thing would be finding good actors. Dont just accept volunteers. Make sure they suit the part. I just scrapped mine because of the guy who wanted to do it. No acting skills but he thought he was amazing. Strong accents can ruin the entire thing. Making a radio drama in Northern Ireland and expecting it to be understandable to the rest of the world is like expecting a quadruple amputee to paint the Sistine chapel ceiling.
I think Oz knows better but was playing to the crazy notion that we all sound like greased up rent boys.LOL! :)
I'm off to bed, just finished next week's Quackcast recording and I have an awful headache (so no accents this time), but I love that comment!
Yeah, silly posh is the easiest accent to mangle. Regional British stuff takes practise and it's very tricky. These days my Aussie accent is too set in its ways so it's much harder for me to do good imitations.
@Same, you should do something for us, a short, one man ply? The Northern Irish accent is one of my faves.
Has anyone ever had that moment in their lives where what everyone is telling them and what's reality is completely conflicting?
And has anyone ever wanted to deviate from the art world and comic world out of sheer frustration only to realize that no matter where they go, they run into constant and rather blatant reminders of why they should do comics?
As if it's on some "Spiderman No More" type shit?
THAT's what's driving me crazy right now. Not knowing what's real right now, whether or not I should become a mailman and give up the dream.
Other than that, I want to beat Snookie to death with rubix cube. I'm a dude who appreciates the greatness of thick booty, especially ones that does that little clap when it— *ahem* anyway, that chick is just boot fugly. And got famous for getting punched in her face for not keeping her goddamn mouth shut.
Soulja Boy? Snookie? Getting famous for mediocrity?!
I should be the biggest comic artist in the goddamn universe if people are giving out golden stickers for being completely devoid of talent and actual worth.
In the immortal words of Jim Cornette:
"Fuck this company."
Dear jerkface/teacher,
NO in fact, i can NOT put any more pressure into my linework~!! oh, why?
Because apparently you just CAN'T get it through your thick skull that i have a problem with my shoulder -__-
I can barely operate a stapler nowadays, much less put any more PRESSURE on anything. HARUMPH >: /
I don't have to quit my job after all! : D
Our district manager managed to convince the big boss man that our store should be the exception to the "closing alone" rule!
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In other news, I have to make a clay mask for my art class and I can't decide between a melting man and a fish man.
Wow, Ozoneocean! I didn't think I could have heard such a painful English accent! Where're you from? Have you ever heard and English person?
…it's really weird how other countries think we're really posh.
No we dont. Other countries know youre all secretly chimney sweeps.
In other news, I have to make a clay mask for my art class and I can't decide between a melting man and a fish man.
A half-melted fishman! A comment on pollution of rivers or something :D
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Today's result, two pages pencilled. Good enough. I need to write another short comic though.
The wifes parents bought me a pullover for my birthday. I don't like it. Everyone's like "omg your so hooot" but i just feel like a douche.
I'm going to continue wearing those types of clothes, because the wife said that i can buy a rally car, only if i dress like that more often.
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