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[Rane]

The next one.

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This is meant to be a place where you can talk about anything without having to stay on topic. Feel free to ask questions, to talk about the things in your life you like to share with your fellow-members. Or just step inside for a while, have a coffe and a good chat!
You may feel free to post whatever you like as long as it is within the rules of the forum.
But if the conversation degrades to spam, you will be treated as though you are spamming anywhere else on the forum. This is a thread where you can relax and talk about personal things, but it is not to be used as an excuse to make pointless posts.
Please help to keep this alive and well and a place where we can meet and share.
Enjoy your stay here!!!

And the rules:

We had intended the coffee shop to be a nice place where people could talk about their daily activities and such, kinda like the Lurkers Lair on the Official Forums.
It didn't quite turn out that way though, people have been taking advantage of their freedoms in here, there has been a lot of spamming and even some flaming. We will not tolerate that any longer.
So unfortunately we've had to decide to increase the rules for this thread. Of course the normal forum rules still apply, but we'll elaborate here.:
1. No spamming.
We consider double posting and posting posts with only a few words to be spam. If you do that your post will be deleter or moved, do it too often and you might receive a warning for it.
We also consider chit-chat spam. This forum has a special chat channel for chatting, you're welcome to go there, and chat with other members or with the staff as we're always there, doing it in here is not allowed.
The address to that chatroom is:
W4O chat
And for assistence to use a chat like this, I recommend looking over this thread:
http://forums.waiting4oblivion.com/viewtopic.php?t=248
Or contacting one of the Administrators.
2. No discussion of accounts or warnings.
There shall be no more discussion about members, about accounts, about how many warnings you've gotten or anything like that.
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No posting of random nonsense, no posting of irrelevant things, no posting the same thing over and over just to get it noticed, no swearing or flaming.
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If you have a question about the rules of the forums, feel free to ask it to either a Global Moderator or an Administrator.
If you're unsure if something is fit to post here, it might be. Again best to ask a Global Moderator or Administrator.
If you're wondering how we think a Lair or the Coffee Shop should look like, what we do allow, then I recommend taking a look at the Lurkers Lair at the Official Forums.

Don't got much to add and I'm in quite the hurry now. Places to see, people to annoy and so on.

[Ibis]

Huge Congrats Dantrag!!!

A Product Specialist - that's a new one on me. My how the sales floor has progressed in the new century. taahhaaha

SOOO, when do we all get our extended employee discounts?? Yes I guess you would think of the Doomed One when taking a class like that. Wouldn't it be funny if you guys lived in the same city and met in RL that way? Trip.

Well think of me too when you attend that shoplifting class because I used to be a store supervisor and we couldn't even call in a shoplifter until they performed the entire 5 step program:
1. We watched them all the way from seeing an item being stolen or hidden
2. We had them taped on the video cameras for future prosecution
3. They passed the last POS terminal without attempting to pay
4. ......

wait, Doomed will be reading this too. Ahhh, we want to leave some mystery to life now don't we? But see if your store practically ties your hands behind your back in apprehension of shoplifters. Buuuut, if you could get all 5 steps in gear ... my my my - did all hell break loose. Such fun! The hunt!!!

[DoomedOne]

Dantrag, I hereby formally request you PM me the guide that the best buy employees use to identify shoplifters. Thank you, Peace.

Editted to remove all the info that I DO know and was about to disclose, no one gets to know my secrets. The only word of advice I offer is that most companies lose a lot of money in legal fees prosecuting shoplifters mostly because of countersuits, and would rather the shoplifter get away than them NOT have enough evidence. Evidence means a video showing them hide the item, and showing them completely walk out of the store without paying, as well as the actual stuff the person stole. Also, look out for suspicious people at the exit, people leaving without buying stuff, or people just hanging out there, if you see one, put the stuff back and leave.

There, one tip from doomed in the purpose of progressing socialist anarchy.

Disclaimer: DoomedOne does not condone illegal acitivites, including theft. The above was merely a hypothetical reasoning, naturally, and not meant for practice of illegal activities. DoomedOne would never steal. Even if inner fascist of certain mods thinks the above message in anyway proclaims the contrary.



This post has been edited by DoomedOne: Aug 12 2006, 12:01 AM

[Ibis]

Well, just remember Doom that some of those Pell Grants and Scholarships won't give you a dime of your personal allowance money until you've been in school for 45 days. I've encountered that before.

[DoomedOne]

Yes, Ibis, however I also have plenty of college moneyt from a college fund, although it seems like my mom doesn't understand 3000 dollars spending money is actually like... part of the total accumulative everything.

[Wolfie]

Dia dhuit gach duine!
Tá mé ar áis as an Gaeltacht!

(translation: Hi everyone! I'm back from the Gaeltacht)

So has anything happened here while i've been gone?

[The Metal Mallet]

Not too much, it's been going a bit slow lately, I think a couple new threads have come up. Fairly interesting I have to say.

[Ibis]

Ahhh ... Wolfie's been gone on vacation. And Minque. No wonder it's been so slow. Glad you guys are back now.

[milanius]

Heh, gaelic WB Irish Wolf !
Anyway, I'm feeling preety crappy, but that's nothing new. I'm not going to elaborate, because I even hate my own voice, whining somewhere in the back of me head.

[Ibis]

Dia dhuit gach duine!
Tá mé ar áis as an Gaeltacht!

(translation: Hi everyone! I'm back from the Gaeltacht)

So has anything happened here while i've been gone?

Yes I just noticed that that is Gaelic. How beautiful. When I read it I thought it was German. Like you'd gone to Germany. But then I suspicioned it was Gaelic sliding down the page again and Milanius confirmed it.

Milanius, you can tell what's bothering you if you want. Oh, I know ... gonna pm something to you right now that I hope will cheer you up. Gotta get it set up in Photobucket first. ***Goes off humming the first crashing bars of Morrowind intro music***

[milanius]

I got that PM and all I can say is OMGLOL I adore it ! (but no, I won't say what it is, hehe )
Anyway, the humidity is killing me again and the situation with me, being out of work, is at the same ol-same ol... but that's life, I guess. Employment is nigh impossible to find nowadays.

[Ibis]

I'm so glad you liked it. teeheehee Double ditto on the weapons!

Humidity is just a killer here in Florida in August. We just revert to the olden ways before air conditioning of living by night and sleeping by day. T'was the reason that Florida used to be such a barren, unpopulated scrubpine, tropical swamp....humidity, fever, mosquitos, palmetto bugs, alligators. Not for the flighty tourist back then.

I know it sucks to be poor. I'm not unemployed but we have very little excess money after bills. Yet as my hubby Cain points out .... if we didn't have our computers and internet and games .... we'd go stark raving drunk!! So we are all lucky enough to be tied to the world and each other, our international friends. That's cool, eh?

Oh hears an idea to anyone who wants to try getting rich by online gaming. Get this game called 'Second Life.' There's this Chinese lady who makes $10,000 USD a month selling virtual real estate to others in a part of the game called "Third Life" which is where they go on computers in the game itself and chat and exchange virtual real estate for profit. Maybe you could become a virtual land baron, Milanius.

[Dantrag]

I'm so glad you liked it. teeheehee Double ditto on the weapons!

Humidity is just a killer here in Florida in August. We just revert to the olden ways before air conditioning of living by night and sleeping by day. T'was the reason that Florida used to be such a barren, unpopulated scrubpine, tropical swamp....humidity, fever, mosquitos, palmetto bugs, alligators. Not for the flighty tourist back then.

I know it sucks to be poor. I'm not unemployed but we have very little excess money after bills. Yet as my hubby Cain points out .... if we didn't have our computers and internet and games .... we'd go stark raving drunk!! So we are all lucky enough to be tied to the world and each other, our international friends. That's cool, eh?

Oh hears an idea to anyone who wants to try getting rich by online gaming. Get this game called 'Second Life.' There's this Chinese lady who makes $10,000 USD a month selling virtual real estate to others in a part of the game called "Third Life" which is where they go on computers in the game itself and chat and exchange virtual real estate for profit. Maybe you could become a virtual land baron, Milanius.

I saw that on the news. There have been murders over this game.

But yeah, I should play it for like a year and then sell all my stuff to people and get rich.

[Ibis]

OMG!! Murders Danny? I didn't see that part. In China I hope. Not that I would wish that on them but I know the Koreans and Chinese take their gaming very very seriously.

It would be interesting to try, I suppose. But we tried Project Entropia out of Sweden a few years back, when it was a beta actually and played for awhile. But you actually put in a lot more real money than you ever see back at the lower levels of these games I think. I don't even want to tell you how much money we spent setting up a guild in Project Entropia but it was like a whole yearly family Christmas money present. Ahhh but we had a great time. You'd have to play constantly and be very shrewd and smart to make profits at these games, but I heard also that some people got fabulously rich selling parts of some discoteque asteroid rotating the planet in Entropia.

[Khajiit Overlord Rainer]

*walks in shyly*

Er...Hi guys Rainer knows he's been neglecting this place for a long time. But his new job has him working till 12pm (from 4 in the afternoon)

[The Metal Mallet]

Ugh, sounds awful. Just do what I do, think about the paycheck/stub. Sounds like you put in a healthy amount of hours so I would think you would be getting a fairly nice paycheck/stub.

What is it that you're doing that keeps you there till midnight?

[Khajiit Overlord Rainer]

Ugh, sounds awful. Just do what I do, think about the paycheck/stub. Sounds like you put in a healthy amount of hours so I would think you would be getting a fairly nice paycheck/stub.

What is it that you're doing that keeps you there till midnight?

Dishwashing.

[Ibis]

That's how my hubby Cain started out Rainer. And don't let those waitresses and cooks push you around either - they aren't your boss, they work for the same manager you do. If you want to move up in the kitchen staff and become sous chef or salad man or prep cook - then do that extra of THEIR work that they try to throw at you. But if you don't and finish the dishes too soon before your shift ends, just find your pace to finish on time ... or people will give you extra work and you ARE only working for ONE paycheck.

Just a little advice from someone who's worked 15 years in restaurants.

[minque]

Well, I got that Circuit City job. I am a Product Specialist. It sounds way more awesome than it is.

and I have to take a bunch of online classes about identifying shoplifters (I thought of you, DoomedOne ) dealing with customers, and knowing the products.

Hallo all! I´m back in Sweden now...hopefully I´ll be able to post a lot from now on!

And CONGRATS Danny to the new job! YAYY for Danny!!

Dia dhuit gach duine!
Tá mé ar áis as an Gaeltacht!

(translation: Hi everyone! I'm back from the Gaeltacht)

So has anything happened here while i've been gone?

Heeey my sweet irish friend! Very glad to see you again!

*walks in shyly*

Er...Hi guys Rainer knows he's been neglecting this place for a long time. But his new job has him working till 12pm (from 4 in the afternoon)

Congrats Rainer dear! Always a pleasure to see you around



AND it´s a sheer joy to be back again.....LOVE YOU ALL!!!

[The Metal Mallet]

Welcome back minque!!

How was your vacation? Hopefully you had some much needed RR.

[minque]

Thanks!
Yes it was great....wonderful weather, lots of swimming, sunbathing good food and nice ppl.....I do love Germany.......