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| Topic | Explain your nickname! |
| Aristoph 09/04/19 3:04:54 AM #10 | RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted... I am a password to my heart Shame nobody can remember it. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Do one eyed people blink or wink? |
| Aristoph 09/03/19 8:53:17 AM #2 | |
| Topic | I've been watching Babylon 5 recently for the first time, it's pretty good. |
| Aristoph 09/02/19 6:51:19 AM #5 | Yay! Another person who will understand just how fucking funny this picture is:  --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | My name is Buck, and i like to |
| Aristoph 09/02/19 6:50:16 AM #2 | |
| Topic | She smiled at me on the subway |
| Aristoph 09/01/19 4:35:49 AM #6 | Zangulus posted... Aristoph posted...KingArthur3D posted... Did...did you just have a stroke? O_o --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | I hate having a lazy d-bag for a boss. <rant> |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 11:54:52 AM #11 | twitterfriends posted... What happens to expired items in your gas station, do you get to eat any? Mostly they either get returned to the distributor for refunds or we just toss them. We don't have many things expiring before we sell them, though. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | I hate having a lazy d-bag for a boss. <rant> |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 8:57:48 AM #4 | green dragon posted... Just posting to let you know i read the story, but have nothing of value to say No worries, it's mostly just to vent. Like I said, the job is pretty solid overall. Just seems like every time there's a problem, it's because the boss couldn't be bothered to do something very basic. Like keep an instruction manual for a brand new piece of commercial equipment. >_> --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | I hate having a lazy d-bag for a boss. <rant> |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 8:56:01 AM #3 | FWIW, the manager also called me back when she woke up and saw my message around 6am. I told her what I'd done to fix it and she was very appreciative. And she said she was glad it was me because she didn't think anyone else there would've figured it out (or even tried to). I like the manager. She's pretty cool. But you can tell she's put up with the owner's bullshit for long enough that it's starting to weigh on her. :-/ --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | I hate having a lazy d-bag for a boss. <rant> |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 8:51:50 AM #1 | So I post a lot about my job working a gas station night shift, and the vast majority of the time it's an amusing anecdote or mostly lighthearted rants about my encounters with stupid customers. And all things considered, it's a pretty decent gig. The job is very easy. The pay isn't great, but it covers the bills and gives me enough extra to be comfortable. It's basically stress free. I never have to take any work home with me, so when I go home I can just switch it off and it doesn't bring problems into other aspects of my life. And I get to spend half my shift playing video games or watching YouTube and Netflix. The only real problem is the owner. He's incredibly lazy, kind of rude, and basically allergic to confrontation. So I went in to work last night to find that we'd gotten a brand new coffee machine. Seems like a pretty nice one, too. I asked the guy working the shift before mine how to work the thing, and he said he didn't know. Apparently nobody other than the owner knew someone was coming to install this thing until he showed up. The installer showed the owner how to operate it, and the owner hadn't bothered to show anyone else. It seemed simple enough to me, though, so I just shrugged and said I'd figure it out. Of course we don't make coffee in the middle of the night, so morning comes around and I go to brew fresh pots only for the machine to give me an error and refuse to do anything. There's a "smart handle" on the funnels that gets recognized by a sensor on the machine to indicate that the funnel is in before it will turn on and brew. The sensors are not working. This is around 4 am. I look around the store for a solid 10 minutes to see if there was an instruction manual anywhere with no luck. So what else can I do? I call the boss. He doesn't answer, so I call the manager. She doesn't answer either, so I start using our smaller standby brewer (which can only brew 1 pot at a time, takes about 10 minutes apiece, and we have 15 pots to do every morning...) to at least get something going. After about 10 minutes the boss finally calls back and I tell him what's going on and ask where he put the instruction manual. He tells me he didn't keep it, says I'll just have to make due with the smaller one and he'll call the installer later and hangs up. Well, frankly, I'm not spending 2.5 hours babysitting a tiny coffee machine. And I'm also not a dick, so I don't want to leave it still broken for the day shift to handle when they're going to be as clueless as I am. At least I have time to screw with it. They won't. So I spent the next 20 minutes digging around online and eventually manage to find a .pdf version of the instruction manual for a similar-but-not-quite-identical machine. Read through the troubleshooting section, learned how to program the machine (using literal hidden buttons not even marked on the machine to get into the debug settings), went through the ~12 steps of menus to find what I was looking for, and toggled the "Detect Funnel" feature to OFF. Worked like a charm, and the machine was up and running before the morning rush came in, and everybody got their fresh coffee. I'll be honest, I was feeling pretty good about myself for figuring it out. And I decided to text the boss as I was leaving work to let him know I'd managed to take care of it. Here's the "thank you" I got: Me: *explains what I did* Him: Awesome. I wish you did that before you woke me up though. Me (a bit ticked off): Lesson learned, I guess. You'll know to keep all the paperwork for new equipment, and I'll know when something goes wrong to just fix it myself. Him: Yea. Unless it's an emergency, just leave me a note. Since I'm getting old I can't fall back asleep once I'm up. Literally didn't even get a "thank you." It's worth noting that this guy is only in his 50's, and is in what you'd consider pretty good shape for a guy half his age. -_- --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Who's more powerful: Captain Marvel or Scarlet Witch? |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 6:06:16 AM #3 | |
| Topic | She smiled at me on the subway |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 6:04:58 AM #3 | KingArthur3D posted... That gif is bullshit. The folder icon doesn't have a piece of paper in it once the file is dropped in. What a disgrace. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | pizza without pizza sauce is an affront to god |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 6:03:18 AM #3 | I agree. Thought I do prefer light sauce. Lots of places basically make a literal pie with how much damn sauce they put in. I don't want my cheese floating. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | The gf was just passed up for the assistant manager spot at her job |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 5:52:16 AM #29 | Timohtep posted... she already does all the work of the assistant manager, but doesn't get the pay. Well there was her first mistake. Don't take on extra duties until you've been given compensation for said duties (or at the very least had it promised in writing). --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | What is the evolutionary reason behind us finding body odour repulsive? |
| Aristoph 08/31/19 5:46:50 AM #8 | BlockAddition posted... If you don't shower for a few days your body begins to neutralize the smell, No. It doesn't. It learns to ignore the smell. Everyone else still smells you, and it makes them sick. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | First night doing the overnight shit |
| Aristoph 08/30/19 2:08:23 AM #8 | viewmaster_pi posted... Mine's 10 to 6 at a gas station. Welcome to the brotherhood! My shift is 10 to 7. Get a nice laptop. Gaming and Netflix/YouTube is by far the most effective method I've found to pass the slow hours. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Anyone still play Warframe? |
| Aristoph 08/29/19 12:36:38 PM #5 | I loved the game, and played it basically non-stop for a solid 8 months or so. Literally every single day. I think my log-in streak was at like 295 days or thereabouts. But the Fortuna update had some issues initially, and I ran into a big one. When they first launched the Orb Mother fight on the Vallis, you had to do a short questline to initiate the fight. But my game would glitch on the first mission. After completing the 2nd objective, the game just refused to trigger the 3rd objective and we'd just be stuck running around the Vallis forever. Couldn't ever complete the quest, so I couldn't unlock the fight, and I just really lost the drive to play. I'd log in every day basically just for the really basic stuff and to keep working towards the 300/350/400/etc day rewards, and then one day I just looked at the icon on my desktop and realized I'd forgotten to log in the day before. I haven't logged in since. I hear there's been some great new content, and I never uninstalled it, so maybe I'll check it out again soon. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | what the actual fuck @ this trailer (nba 2020 my team trailer) |
| Aristoph 08/29/19 6:29:11 AM #8 | Rika_Furude posted...
They probably have about that many employees. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | what the actual fuck @ this trailer (nba 2020 my team trailer) |
| Aristoph 08/29/19 6:26:42 AM #6 | Rika_Furude posted...
So many likes? It's got 70k+ views and only 116 likes. There's nearly 10k dislikes. It's pretty clear people fucking hate this scumbag shit. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Amazon Prime is a utility at this point |
| Aristoph 08/29/19 12:00:37 AM #5 | Starks posted... Why don't you have it yet? I do. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Wow people do not like lootboxes at all. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 11:44:19 PM #25 | Game Devs: IT'S NOT GAMBLING! Also Game Devs: *literal slot machine* Yeah, these guys can go fuck themselves. I hope people finally wake up and stop buying this crap. Maybe, if we're really lucky, NBA 2k20 will bomb and the NBA will give their license to someone else. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Is it acceptable to legally change my name because... |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 6:14:02 AM #3 | I don't believe there are any requirements for being able to legally change your name. Go fill out some forms, probably pay a processing fee, and you're basically good to go. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | do you ever completely get over your first love? |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 6:11:20 AM #4 | Depends what you mean by "get over." I no longer feel empty when I think about her, and I would no longer consider dating her. But I do still love her and if she called me and said she was in trouble and needed my help I would be there without a second thought. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Why are you still using Chrome? |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 5:47:52 AM #13 | Peons, the lot of you. Netscape Navigator is obviously the superior choice. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Could something like the Tunguska event happen again? |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 5:18:25 AM #11 | OctilIery posted...
I suppose it would depend on a lot of factors. We can simulate things pretty well if we know what its general composition is. Whether or not we could determine that composition would vary wildly based on an untold number of variables. Of course the closer it got the more accurately we could figure that out, but it would also mean we'd have less time to do anything about it. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 4:42:42 AM #54 | sktgamer_13dude posted...
I go to bed at noon. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Could something like the Tunguska event happen again? |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 4:40:42 AM #7 | OctilIery posted...
Whether or not it's a surprise is pretty much irrelevant currently. Without literal years of warning, we don't have any technology to effectively destroy or redirect an incoming asteroid of that size right now. I guess at least you'd be able to say goodbye to your loved ones? --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Could something like the Tunguska event happen again? |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 4:03:56 AM #4 | Probably about the same odds as there was when it happened last time. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Leason learned |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 4:00:45 AM #5 | AirFresh posted... Puglia77 posted...Leason I'm starting to see a trend here... --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:57:29 AM #47 | sktgamer_13dude posted... AirFresh posted...sktgamer_13dude posted...TC is a big liar. Aw shit, bro. I don't want to have to deal with the alcohol police tonight. Why you gotta do me like that? Although I'm technically allowed to deny service to anyone at any time for any reason. I don't like your haircut? Get the fuck outta my store. :-P I kind of think I want to exercise that right if I ever put in my 2 weeks notice here. I'm gonna just spend my last few nights being a total dick to all the annoying customers I don't like because why the fuck not? They've given me headaches the whole time I've worked here, so I'm gonna give them one before I leave. >:-) --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:46:53 AM #37 | metallica846 posted... They can still go to bars till 2 am and get wasted sooooo what's the point? The bartenders technically have an obligation to stop serving someone who is too inebriated, hence the distinction between "selling" and "serving" in terms of cutoff times. Basically, if someone opens the container for you, it has been "served." If the container remains sealed, it has been "sold." Of course, most bartenders won't actually turn down a drink order unless the person is being belligerent, but that's the premise of it at least. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:39:43 AM #31 | dolomedes posted... Aristoph posted...I rarely know what day it is. One of the trials of working night shift. I'm technically on my "tuesday" shift right now. It gets confusing. Thankfully I only work nights, and it's always 6 nights a week, so my boss doesn't have any troubles with the scheduling. Honestly, I literally can't remember the last time I actually looked at the schedule in the back room. It's always the same for me, so I just show up and assume they're expecting me to be here. The other stuff you find ways of coping with. I pretty much set every single appointment/meeting/get-together/etc in my phone's calendar just to make sure I don't forget which day it is and miss it. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:29:49 AM #26 | Chicken posted... Would you have let him buy it if he slipped you a $20? Not a chance. People have tried. I've turned down tits before, too. biggernails posted...
Not just get myself fired. The store can lose their liquor license, so no alcohol sales at all. And likely would go out of business as a result, making every employee lose their jobs. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:23:31 AM #20 | SapphireTech462 posted... He was probably already drunk... She*, but yeah probably. They usually are. At least she wasn't the one driving, so she may have at least made 1 intelligent decision tonight. The driver didn't come inside, though, so I guess it's possible they were both drunk. :-/ --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:21:36 AM #17 | shnangyboos posted... I can only guess they thought a cut-off time was for weekends. I guess that's possible? But then logically you'd assume it would be the other way around, no? I dunno. I don't take anything for granted anymore when it comes to customer idiocy. They never cease to find new ways to astonish me with their stupidity. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:15:16 AM #13 | Politics posted... it's WEDNESDAY my dudes! Can't wait for Wintergatan's video this afternoon. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:07:21 AM #4 | Heineken14 posted...
I rarely know what day it is. One of the trials of working night shift. I'm technically on my "tuesday" shift right now. It gets confusing. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Me: Sorry, I can't sell you alcohol. The cutoff is 1am, and it's 3 right now. |
| Aristoph 08/28/19 3:04:08 AM #1 | Customer: ...but it's Wednesday? Me: O_o ...yes? Customer: So you can sell alcohol now, right? Me: ...no. The cutoff is 1am. It's currently 3am. We can start selling again at 5:30. Customer: But I just told you it's Wednesday! Me: I'm not sure what your point is. The cutoff is always 1am. 7 days a week. Customer: Well that's bullshit. Me: I'm sorry? I don't know what to tell you. We can't sell alcohol right now. Is there anything else you need? Customer: *leaves case of beer on counter and stomps out* So does anybody have any idea why this person thought the fact that it's Wednesday made a difference? I'm so confused right now. O_o --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | You wake up tomorrow with all the powers of Superman. What do? |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 9:42:54 AM #83 | Feline_Heart posted... It seems silly to assume that there are other civilizations out there. It seems equally silly to assume there's no chance that there are. Like I said, I'd have the ability to find out. So why not just go find out? It would be the single most significant discovery in the history of our civilization, regardless of which one happens to be true. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | You think aliens from outer space actually abduct us like we abduct animals from |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 9:33:00 AM #4 | I'd imagine they could figure that out by watching our various forms of media like everyone else does. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | You think aliens from outer space actually abduct us like we abduct animals from |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 8:49:37 AM #2 | ssj3vegeta_ posted...
Random nobodies would be far more indicative of the general lifestyle of our species than famous rich people who get everything they want handed to them whenever they ask. So it does make some kind of sense that they'd be grabbing less-than-affluent people, tbh. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Why do people avoid my topics? |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 8:45:18 AM #3 | |
| Topic | You wake up tomorrow with all the powers of Superman. What do? |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 8:39:50 AM #77 | Feline_Heart posted...
If you take every death as a personal failure, you will literally be insane within a month. The world got along fine (for the most part) before I became a super-being. Even if I now have the ability to do so, saving people from their own stupidity is not my job. If you prevent humanity from making mistakes, you also prevent them from learning from those mistakes. Like I said, I'd be there for major threats and unpreventable disasters. I'd be sure to clean up any large asteroids getting too close for comfort, or help minimize the damage from a major tsunami, or help stop a cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption. Things like that. But I'm not going to get involved in political bickering and douchebag world leader dick-measuring contests. If that's who the world has chosen to give power to, then that's their choice and I'm not getting in the middle of it. Besides, who says the galaxy is barren? I'd have the ability to find out for certain. And you can be damn sure I'm going to find out. And if I find anyone else out there, I'm going to tell Earth that they've got neighbors, too. I'd probably end up spending most of my time as a liaison between Earth and the other civilizations I find, tbh. I'd be taking messages from our top scientists and leaders to them and bringing responses back, attempting to cultivate communication and friendship. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | You wake up tomorrow with all the powers of Superman. What do? |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 7:41:02 AM #74 | I'd first go around cleaning up some of the bigger immediate problems on Earth, like the Amazon fires everybody's mentioned. Then once the immediate danger stuff is taken care of, I'd probably spend a week or so asking scientists what kinds of samples they'd like me to bring back from throughout the solar system. In return for bringing them samples beyond their wildest dreams, I'd task them with coming up with a form of galactic navigator beacon thing so that I'd always be able to find my way back to Earth. Once that's done I'd head off to explore the galaxy, checking back in at home every so often to clean up any more stupidity. But I'd make it pretty clear that Earth is going to have to fix Earth's problems on its own. I'm not fixing global warming for you guys. I'm not going to be the safety net that allows humanity to run wild with no caution or forethought. If humanity fucks up and ruins Earth, that's their problem. I don't have to be tied to this rock anymore. I will help it out because, y'know, it's my home and all. But sometimes you gotta accept that a family member just needs to be cut loose. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | *plays Warcraft Classic* |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 7:18:19 AM #3 | *plays WoW classic* *is upset that it's just like classic WoW* Somehow I'm not surprised. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | If I'm a fatty and skip meals cuz I'm not hungry it's okay rite? |
| Aristoph 08/27/19 7:16:36 AM #4 | If you're thirsty, drink something. If you're hungry, eat something. If you're neither of those things, don't do either of those things. I'll never understand why people have essentially stopped listening to their own body's mechanisms for maintaining itself. You have thirst/hunger/etc for a reason. It's your body's way of letting you know that you need to eat or drink because it's in need of some kind of nutrition. Same with "cravings" that you'll get. You get a craving for something specific because your body is in need of a particular nutrient and the thing you're craving is what it's used to getting said nutrient from. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | 9/11 is coming up |
| Aristoph 08/26/19 5:42:44 AM #40 | hockeybub89 posted... Do they have 9/11 in Europe? Yeah, but it takes place on November 9th instead. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
| Topic | Last time you rented a game in a video store? |
| Aristoph 08/26/19 5:29:09 AM #37 | Could've been practically any game that was released in late 2002/early 2003. I worked at a rental store, so I got to take games home for free the week before they came out. Ostensibly, it was so that we could "have a more informed opinion should anybody come in to rent and ask about it." In reality, it was just that I loved video games and I (as a standard cashier) had more sway in terms of store policies than the store manager because I'd been there 3x longer than anyone else in the store. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules |
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