I applaud the assistant manager at my Joann store for their attempt to talk me into reapplying to keep working when the store moves, but the corporation has added so many stupid things we have to do that the job isn't fun anymore.
(Ex: We HAVE TO ask for the customer's phone number/email EVERY transaction and if our email captures are consistently under 70% we can be written up (or even fired I think, but I'd have to double check that)) I used to love coming in to work and chatting with the customers. It was a fun job. Now I hate it, I dread getting up in the morning and having to go in. So no, I appreciate the attempt to get me to reapply, but I won't be doing that. And I don't care if the manager decides to not do rehires because I don't plan on coming back. Will I miss the employee discount? Yeah, a little, but I don't really use it much currently anymore so...I'll just stock up on essentials (polyfill and storage containers) before my employment ends and be just fine.

i totally get hating to have to ask customers for information - we have to ask for their rewards information (but customers can input that into the pinpad we have for the credit and debit cards)... but then if they don't have rewards, corporate wants us to have i think like 7% of rewards transactions be new sign-ups. i think our rewards transactions have to also be like 70-73% of all our transactions.

and then corporate has thrown in a monkey wrench - the store is offering a credit card that we have to ask rewards customers if they want to apply for. i feel the timing is out of step with the customers - they have too many cards already, they feel they won't get approved, they know they have bad credit, OR - they're credit free, they're paying down a huge amount already - there are so many reasons for "no" replies. they do keep track, but it does seem like they have low expectations for credit card apps, like at least 1 day for the entire store.

so i get your hesitation

Oh. There's no hesitation. I ask every person for their phone number, which is how we have to look them up, if they don't have one in the system, 90% of the time they don't want one in there (and tbh, I'm not really clear on what the point of our is, supposedly it's for ads and coupons, but I'm in the system and don't get anything extra that I wasn't already getting just by signing up for the coupons through the app or the website email sign up so...) and if they have one, cool, if they don't have one either I'll add them or not depending on what they want.

And zero hesitation about not reapplying for when we move either. I'm so over the bs of it all.

y'know, i'm also in the JoAnn's system, but for some reason the ONLY emails and texts i get is from the Smiles reward thing.... every once in a blue moon.

and it seems like most of the people that i ring up are in our rewards system as well. the reasons for not wanting to be in there are they get enough emails and don't need more, they don't come shopping enough, or they don't have an email.

and signing up for Michael's rewards starts out by giving you back 3%* towards rewards, and when it adds up to $5 or more, you get vouchers. and you can also do returns without a receipt.

*when you've spent more than $300 in a 12-month time frame, you get 6% back in rewards. that's where i am, and i started getting the 6% only a few months after they'd updated the rewards system XD Having a store credit card will get someone 9% back in rewards.

i ask everyone. it's really not my fault if the person says no XD

Must resist the urge to buy things I don't need and that I'm skeptical about simply to satisfy my curiosity.
Specifically "diety identification" divinations/readings through "psychics" and "mediums" on Etsy. xP
I mean...back in Feb, I did buy one out of curiosity mainly because it was pretty cheap (I think only $10) and didn't require me to provide information like my name and birthday (which I don't like to disclose). And it was...interesting, and some of the information seemed very intuitive(?) idk how to describe it. I know these things are generally very broad and general so they'd apply to a lot of people, but they mentioned something about old and likely celtic ancestors wanting to reach out and connect to me, which was actually around the time that a friend and I had decided to start learning irish. But part of me is curious to see if I got different readings from different people if anything would be the same at all or if it would all be completely different...
>.>

Mad props to the Disney movie club. Most companies will cancel/remove your subscription/membership automatically after a few months if the card you have on file expires and you don't update it to the new one. Not disney. It's been like 2 years. I still get the reminders every month for the movies even though they don't have an active card to charge. You'd think they'd eventually give up.

Getting exceptionally nervous about a (very,.for me) expensive spine piece I ordered for Halloween because it's been about a month since the last message from the artist and it hasn't shipped, but idk, I feel awkward about messaging to check on the progress...like in their info it did state approximately 1 month to make it and I don't want to come across as rude or impatient, I just want to see if they're working on at all even. Idk. I just am starting to get nervous that it might have been a scam. But if that were the case, why would they have been so communicative initially? Ugh. Hoping it ships soon and I'm just worrying for nothing. But did find a different, yet similar, alternative so it'll be fine I guess. Minus the over $200 loss if I was scammed. xP

Aaaaaaaargh >_< I hate human psychology. And I include myself in this because I really ought to be able to disconnect myself from emotional reactions when I intellectually know that people are reacting based on their own incomplete information and biases.

This whole Unity debacle is just driving me crazy. People having emotional reactions based on misreadings -- it's even growing into conspiracy theory territory! -- are going to cause more damage to indie game development than Unity themselves ever would have.

Even after the community got what they wanted, they continue to believe that Unity is the BBEG that got exactly what THEY wanted. And instead of praising them for correcting a misstep, a noisy group continues to say that Unity is terrible for this whole thing and that they were manipulating everyone the whole time to get an outcome that they couldn't have gotten away with if they had just come out with it up front.

Even smart people that I trust keep spreading the misinformation that Unity was trying to introduce a retroactive fee. That was never true, even in the very first poorly-communicated incompletely-thought-out pay-per-installation announcement that started the whole mess. They were never going to charge for past installations; even in the worst case, the past installations only counted toward reaching the threshold, not toward how much in total fees you would owe. It was only ever going to be based on new installations that occurred after all of $200,000/12 months in gross revenue, 200,000 total installations, and January 1, 2024 were met.

And I know I've ranted about this before, but the final result is actually WORSE for indie developers. With the refinement that Unity had previously announced, where it was only counting unique devices instead of counting every single installation, it was a progressive fee: you would only have to pay for the number of sales you made after hitting all of the thresholds.

But now, it's a trap -- now as soon as you hit $200,000/12 months in gross revenue, no matter how many unique users you have, no matter how many installations you have, you have to get a Unity Pro subscription, which costs $2040 per developer on your team per year, or else you're in breach of contract and you aren't allowed to use Unity anymore. There's no grace period where you just pay a small fee per new user that starts playing your game once you've reached the cutoff... just immediately bam, you have to have a recurring subscription for the rest of time.

And we're in this situation because that's what we asked for. Unity could have stayed with the progressive fee and offered the same deal that they did for Pro to Personal users -- a choice between a per-unique-user fee or a revenue share arrangement. (And the revenue share arrangement that they're offering for Pro is very competitive -- it's half of what Unreal Engine charges.) But because of Internet backlash, we've got this hard cutoff, and they can rightly say that they took this route because it's what the community demanded.

I'll say it again: I really fear that FUD is going to cause more damage to indie game development than Unity themselves ever would have.

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So occasionally I dye my hair. Recently went a darkish fuschia. Have never gone blonde, have never desired to go blonde.
Had a disgusting unhoused patron who always stinks like dried piss and thinks he's God's gift to women tell me to never go blonde.

Am seriously considering going blonde...

anyone got any advice on how to apply eyedrops w/o the use of a mirror
going fucking nuts bc i have to apply one of these 6x a day

Lay on your back and close your eyes. Hold the tip of the dropper above the inner corner of your eye. If you're off a little bit, the shape of your face will let gravity pull the drop down into place. Then open your eyes and blink a lot.

If you've got something to lean on for balance, you can probably tip your head far enough back to get the same effect while standing or sitting.

figured out a way to do it by placing a finger on my upper lid and aligning the dropper with my eyelashes while using another finger to pull my lower eyelid down.


ty for the advice, though, coda. it'll probably help someone else.


i inherited my dad's rosacea and somehow it affects my fucking eyes / eyelids. awful.

Thank you Coda! I have to put in eye drops twice a day now and I basically do it until I taste it bc I can't tell if they're in :')

Just a huge shout out to the plumber/maintenance person who is finishing up with fixing my bathtub faucet leak. (Which turned into a much bigger fix that involved fully tearing out the wall and rebuilding stuff.) They weren't able to fully finish today and I got home to a vicegrip attached to a piece of the exposed plumbing stuff...idk the term for the bit, and a very kind note explaining that I can take a bath (but no shower yet), and instructions on how far to turn the vicegrip to get hot water.

He was also the one of the five total plumbing professionals I'd seen in total that was the nicest to my cats, he just laughed off Batty acting tough and hissing at him and actually got a kick out of Shade, who kept going in to check up on him and wasn't even scared of the big shop vac.

i have covid, and my laptop just decided to crash itself. it seems as though everything is possessed by mildly discontented spirits of horses in this behavioural contest of what is incredibly stupid!

I am trying to recover mental energy. Maybe browsing this forum will help with that. Maybe it won't. But I would like if it did.

Really hoping my friend still has the page layout he was working on for a possible adventure book for Derpy because I want to upgrade my instax mini camera (er...buy a new and better one) for this year and actually start physically documenting stuff and I recall liking the design layout he'd made for it and would like to maybe modify the colors a bit then buy some lightweight card stock and run some test prints.
...and then see about getting some art for custom covers for the book (gonna do just a simple disc-bound set-up for it).
Woo!

shower doesn't work here.
what a shit day.

Aaaaahhhh, why do I always misplace stuff? Really hope I can find the misc jumprings container and that I have like...6 of the pink I need because it's looking like the company I bought them from isn't gonna re-stock that color (I've been waiting like 6+ months so far) and none of the other pinks from other brands match or are close enough to get away with. xP
And I'm already far enough in the project that re-doing it with a different pink, while not impossible, would be annoying af because it's basically finished minus the 6 pink rings I need.