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Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Well, I took a little of my irritation out by writing the following review at Amazon.com.
It's Like Humor, But Without The Funny Part
I regret two things; the time I wasted listening to this CD, and the fact that Amazon doesn't offer the option of "zero stars" for a review. I'm not averse to "offensive" comedy, but I do have a strong objection to un-funny offensive comedy. This is nothing more than a standard-issue left-wing anti-religious rant trying to pass itself off as humor.
This is Sam Kinnison AFTER the funny-bone-ectomy. Juvenile and sophomoric, it substitutes a carpet-bomb of F-bombs for real humor, childish rants for sataire, and easy targets for anything resembling originality.
Profanity and "dumb Bush" jokes do not a comic superstar make, and this CD offered little else. This guy makes Limbaugh actually look funny.
Still, I suppose this CD will find its niche; those people whose previous sources of entertainment have been limited to going to the zoo to watch the monkeys fling their own feces.
11:56 PM
Whee--I seem to have finally powered through whatever was holding me back on "The Viscount's Hellions." 1138 words tonight, and I know kind of where I'm going to go tomorrow. Whew.
On the Idiot Co-Worker front, "N" is still trying to stir up trouble. He was talking to the guy who brought in the CD, saying, "Oh I wish I could've heard the rest of that." The music was playing, so I couldn't hear what the other guy was saying. Later, I suggested to "N" that he could just BORROW the stupid CD. This "First Rebel" routine is getting really tired.
10:51 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Subject: Idiot Co-Workers
Okay, background information. I work retail--not gonna say where, because then I'd be construed as "representing the company." But definitely a name pretty much anyone who's likely to be reading this blog would recognize.
The opening crew gets in at 6am, and the store doesn't open until 10. Up until now, we've had a lot of freedom on what we could have playing in the overhead music. We've had Eminem, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, all kinds of stuff...until last Friday, when a few idiots ruined it for the rest of us.
Something else you need to know...the overhead play is the same as the hold music. This will become important later.
On Thursday, we had Marilyn Manson. "L," the supervisor who was in charge of the morning shift, decided at 8 to shut it off, because that's when customers usually start calling. That got a little grumbling, but not much.
Then on Friday, we had some spoken-word stuff, really offensive. Ranting trying to pass itself off as comedy. Carpet bombing with F-Bombs, but that was only the beginning. Referring to the Pope as incontinent, saying that God is a child-molester, that children die early because they go up to Heaven and "service" God, who has a really big thingie. Stuff like that. I felt like I needed another shower, on top of the one I'd had just that morning. I can't imagine anyone actually finding it funny, except maybe people who go to the zoo to watch monkeys fling their own shit.
But I pride myself on NOT being the type of person who goes crying, just because they're offended. Hostile work environment--whatever--not going to let it get under my skin. So I ignored it as best I could.
Then, at a little after eight, "L" went over and shut it off. People started muttering. Apparently--though I wasn't directly there for it--a few people confronted her about it. At the meeting, she announced that since people were abusing it, she wasn't going to allow ANYthing with a Parental Advisory label on it.
So much for my Limp Bizkit. (sigh)
But of course it didn't end there. A couple of people--despite knowing that the overhead music is also hold music--kept at it. Saying that if they have to put someone on hold, they can hit pause if something offensive is playing. When it was pointed out that you can ONLY do that from the information desk, their answer was "well, don't put them on hold, then."
Of course, in the back office there IS no overhead system--unless someone has the music turned on at their phone, they've got no way of knowing what is playing. And the overhead music can be turned off in the stockroom, as well--it's done a lot. So someone would have no way of knowing WHAT music was being played.
Can you say...customer service complaint waiting to happen? I knew you could!
Of course, the people complaining are saying that it's just because "L" was offended by the CD in question. She didn't like it, but she put up with it for two hours before deciding that it was time to shut it off because that's about the time that customers usually start calling.
I tried to reason with some of them; what if the hypothetical caller was a little old lady on her way home from morning Mass, and she heard this? She'd be on the phone to Customer Care, they'd tell the regional manager, the regional manager would call the district manager, the district manager would call the store manager, the store manager would check the schedule and figure that it was "L" who was in charge, and she'd get a reprimand--or worse. But no, these people are insisting that it's because she's "religious." (She's from Utah, and therefore must be an absolutely devout Mormon. Like they haven't seen her gulping coffee with the rest of us!)
Uhm...do they not realize that they are at WORK here? They have no "right" to listen to offensive stuff while on the company's time and the company's dime. A customer isn't going to differentiate that this isn't being played overhead when the store is open--they're going to react to having to listen to it themselves.
Arrrgh! That self-absorbed entitled high school mentality really bugs me sometimes. Okay, a lot of times. None of these people has held down a "real job" I don't think--certainly none of them (except "N" who's a whole nother story) have spent any time in the military--they have no CLUE how good they've got it.
They could be working to Norah Jones--or nothing.
/rant
7:23 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2003
Winds of Flame is done! Done done D-U-N done! Woohoo!
Of course, now I'm trying to go back to The Viscount's Hellions, and the big switchy-thingie is HELL. I'm all blocked up. I have to find my way back into the story SOMEhow.
And after this is done, I'm going to try Holly's one-pass method to revise City of Sun and Darkness. Then (assuming it works) send it off to a publisher. Oh, yeah, I'm still trying to polish TGS (or TCS). So, with luck, I'll have 2 books in the mail by the middle of the year.
6:07 PM
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