Onyx's blog: "Rambling thoughts"

Ok time to chew some a$$ about the general public once again. For those of you who have read my previous blogs you know what I do and why I write these. For those who dont...... go read the other 5 I have posted. Today we start out with a basic question of upbringing. I know for a fact that most people were brought up by their parents that when you get something you put it back where you got it from. WHY is it that once you enter a public place you cant do the same thing? How many times have you been out shopping and as you walk down the ailse at the store you find items that have no relevance to that area. case in point, you are walking through the toy department and on the shelf next to the Barbie Dolls you find a package of raw round steak. hrmmmm last time I checked, raw meat was only a toy for ugly children so the dog would play with them? You pass by that steak without another thought. BUT do you realize that that steak just raised the cost of everything else you buy, not just in the store you are in but everywhere. Once that steak has broken what we call the cold chain it has to be thrown away. sooooo there goes lets say 6 bucks tossed in the trash. while over in housewares someone has decided they no longer want the bacon they picked up 10 minutes ago on the other side of the store. Do they take it back to the place they got it? NO they leave it siting right there next to the spatulas and whisks. another 3 bucks down the drain. This happens so often I could walk down any aisle at any time and find one item or another that doesn't belong in that area. Yeah if you decide you don't want those really cool shoes you found 20 minutes ago in the shoe department while you are grabbing some shampoo, those can go back to the department they came from and be resold. But my point is if you don't want an item fine save it until you get to the front and hand it to the cashier, telling him/her "sorry I decided I didnt want this" wont get you tossed out of the store. We would rather have extra items at the front that are unwanted than finding a package of salmon stuffed in the clothing racks for two days. (been there done that, EWW) SO please think before you drop that gallon of milk off in sporting goods, or that package of frozen peas off in the garden center ( no they wont grow when planted) that every item that cant be resold because it is no longer safe to sell, will raise the price on everything else you buy. My store alone probably throws away $3,000.00 a day in items that are no longer sellable. from milk to cheese to meat and frozen veggies. Ice cream, fish sticks, to eggs. I know I don't want to buy an item that is supposed to be frozen and it was left out and thawed out then refrozen. Please think b4 you drop, it might save ya a few pennies in the future. ~Onyx~

Ok ya'll time once again for my ranting and raving of the stupidity of the public. This time is a common sense thing beyond most. Last night I had a customer come up to me and complain that we were out of an item and he figures that we should be instock on every thing 24/7. Umm ok and that would mean that the stocking faries have to work double time right??? Common sense is when you go into a store at 11 at night that more than likely they are gonna be either out of a popular item or very low.... Gee maybe because we haven't had a chance to stock it yet? The size of a store is only so big and can only hold so much merchandise. even in the stockroom in the back. soooooo I am betting that these stores have to have deliveries of said merchandise to replenish those items sold daily. hose that have worked retail know that most places get freight every other night... well Wally World happens to get 2 or 3 trucks a night. Yes a night. which means it has to be removed from said truck so it can be stocked. ( which goes back to get outta the F@ckin way of the people pulling the pallets) I'm sorry if you were really looking forward to having that specific type chip and dip but if you wait until 11 at night there is a good chance that you may have to chose sumthin else. Also. when you go into a store on a saturday, at 2 pm and there are 10 people in line in front of you and every register that is in the building is open DONT BITCH! Its not my fault you choose to shop when everyone else does. Common sense guys.... take what you can get, if you dont want to deal with the large amount of ppl shoppin in one place then go to aonther place... BUT dont expect for them to carry as many varieties of merchandise because they dont do the volume of business the larger companiies do....... OK I guess that it for my ranting and raving for today lol Have a great day everyone

Ok ya'll this one is a little bit different. There are tiems we have all needed something for a specific occasion that we KNOW we will never use again. Case in point, I'll use Superbowl as another reference. You have 50 of your closest friends comming over to your 1 bedroom apartment for the game and all you have is a 27 inch TV you snagged from your parents 10 years ago when you finally moved out. You decide that you have a choice you can pay rent for the next 3 months, and eat. or you can go out and buy an new 41" Flat screen TV to wow all your friends. TV wins. As you head to the store (Friends in Tow) you decide that along with the TV you are going to need more plates, cups and dishes. You head to the Deli to order 10 6' subs. that should feed 50 ppl right? You pick out your TV and new dishes and head to the checkout. Actually remembering that you have a Large item, you brought a large truck to tkae TV home in. You pay for your items an head home. Two weeks later, The game is over the food is gone the dishes( minus a few) are washed and repacked into the box as best you could, and you borrow said truck to bring TV back to store because you never really intended to keep it after the game. When you get to the store, even though the employee at the service desk is smiling she is thinking " yeah I am SURE that Tv is really broken" She gives you your money back for the TV, the dishes,( you said they didnt match your dining room)and glass ware. After you get your money and head home you are excited you can still pay rent this month and get something to put in the fridge besides the left over deli subs that you will be eating for the next 3 weeks. Do you realize the process after you leave the store. That employee that took back your stuff will now send them to claims. The dishes being a breakable item are more than likely marked down to Zero in the system and the store takes a loss. The TV will be turned on at the store and found to work perfectly, although the remnants of the sub sandwich someone tossed at the screen will have to be wiped off. Tht TV will now have to be resold as a discounted item and the store will once again take a loss. Then people wonder why the price of items seem to be going up at the store. This is a VERY common occurance. If I am correct ther are places you can go, for almost anything, that will rent yes RENT items to you for any occasion. Yes it is possible to RENT a larger TV and dishes. You may not think about this when wanting that 41" TV in your living room. But did you really want to spend that much on a TV to keep it and put yourself in debt that much?? There are other items you would never think of that this happens to quite a bit. BBQ Grills... ya know you have that big ole BBQ for those same 50 friends but dont need one that big the rest of the time, Camping gear.... lets just go buy it and then bring it back used and dirty and smelling like campfire. Oh but you never used it right? oh well you get my drift..... So when buying an item that you dont really intend on keeping think about what happens on the other end and YES we KNOW you are lying when you bring it back.... Just tell that employee that you are a fuck nut and had it for what you needed it for and are done. So next time you buy something that is an occasional item ( Tent, BBQ grill,Big screen, sheet sets for mother-in-law) think about if you might need it again or just that once.... and RENT it ya pin head! Thanks again, ~Onyx~

Hey there everyone sorry its been so long since I added to this conglomerate of bitch sessions.. been busy dealing with the real source of these... the public. Today i think one of my top gripes is gonna be people who drive small cars and think they must be magic. For those of you who have ever moved a household you understand that when moving you have to transport items from one loacation to another. Most people use a large vehicle, either a truck or a van or rent a semi. LARGE being the opt word. WHY is it that when people go to the store to buy said large items they bring the smallest car they have and not only buy the biggest thing possible but insist that this item and 5 friends who came with them are going to fit back in said car. Case in point: Its weekend before superbowl and you decide you want a larger TV to watch the game. So you hop in the car and drive to your local TV retailer. Since its a big item you decide to take your 3 largest male friends to help carry this said TV. You go into the store, spend 30 minutes hmmmming and hrrrming and deciding on just the perfect TV. You find a wide screen 41" that will look awesome in your living room and decide thats the one. You pay for the TV and as you and your 3 largest friends are leaving the employee that is helping you out to the car out of courtsey, notices you are walking towards the Silver Honda the size of a postage stamp. The employee looks at you and looks at the Tv then looks at the car....... "I dont think its going to fit in the back of your car" the employee states. "sure it will!" You reply. Soooooo for the next 45 minutes you and your big friends an this lucky employee try to fit this TV in your car. You take it out of the box ( and if the employee wasnt with you would leave it in the parking lot) you try in the trunk, in the back seat, straped to the top, and finally decide it wont fit. One of your hair brained friends says " we could take out the seats and get it in." so now as the four of you are trying to remove the seats to get this TV in the Employee now steps back and watches with Awe. 2 hours later and about 8 busted knuckles later you now have this TV crammed into our Honda. The seats are in the trunk and tied in. As you look at your vehicle you realize that now there is no room for you or your friends to get in the car. You have 4 choices: A: you can squeeze in the car and leave your friends there promising to return to get them. But then you realize if you dont have them with you, ya cant get the TV OUT of the car. B: You think you might be able to fit one friend laying along the top of the TV against the roof of the car but yet again can the two of you get this beast out at the other end. C: You ask the employee who has been secretly laughing hysterically at you. if they deliver. or D: you give up Pull the TV out and then ask one of your beefy guy friends if you can borrow his truck to move it in..... Why in the HELL didnt you do this to begin with. I have seen this more times than I can count. From Foutons to Dressers to TV's remember if you are heading out to buy something large think about how in the hell you are going to get it home. Enjoy ~Onyx~ Next... Buying something you dont really intend to keep.

OK well lets see what kind of crazyness we can come up with for todays shopping nightmare. How about this one.. When you are driving down the road and a very large, very quick moving truck is comming right at you do you stop in the middle of the road?? NO you move to the side giving them as much room as you can because you value your life. Same should go when shopping. When you see these poor employees pulling a FULL pallet of Cardboard boxes along and you can actually se the sweat popping out on thier face, I'm betting its not because its 102 outside. Those pallets are very heavy. I'm talking upwards from 5000 lbs. Soooo when you seethem comming at you DONT STOP in front of them. Move to the side or be run down w/o any sympathy. They also can not stop on a dime. Now I understand some may think."I'm the one shopping here. I pay them." well yeah but if they cant get the frieght to the floor you cant buy shit. Next gripe is most stores have stockers who stock overnight when there are less customers if it is a 24 hour store. Now to stock these items they have to be delivered to the propper area. Then these boxes must be opened. Dont go into a store at 3 am and bitch that you cant get to anything because of the boxes in the way..... the item you want is probably IN one of those boxes. again you cant buy it if it cant be stocked. This one was one given to me by a comment. Why is it that you KNOW you are goingto need a shopping cart when you enter the store. unless you have 10.00 in your pocket and need toilet paper and butter and thats it I am beting you will need a cart. In every store, every grocery, every place you purchase items if they have baskets I am beting they are right as you walk in. GRAB ONE. And last for the day When you are shopping, if you accidentally drop and break something TELL SOMEONE! NO you wont have to buy it unless they specifically state you break you buy. But you know the mess it makes when someone drops a bottle of shampoo and instead of telling someone they set it back on the shelf, not the bottom shelf mind you but the TOP so it has to run down through ALL the other shelves and on to ALL the other merchandise. Please. its things like this that can actually raise the cost of items in a store.... when all those other items are covered no one will buy them and they are sent to claims. most items are not returned for full value if they are only dirty. We try to clean them up but depending on the item it may not be possible. The next reason your price goes up is if someone who is unaware of the spill falls in them the company may have to pay for that injury. every injury in a store eventually comes out of profit. and thats the main reason a store is in business, for profit. soooo you have an accident to make up for that loss the prices can go up. So once again think before you shop........ thanks Onyx

Ok for those who have talked to me and those who know me I work for a very large nationwide retail company. And working for them for the last 10 years I have asked my self this question over and over. When people go shopping is there an invisible sign on the front of the store telling you to leave your brain in the car? Here are a few reasons I ask this question. WHen you are pushing a shopping cart thru the store and you see something you want to look at, are you one of those who leave the cart in the middle of the main aisle while you walk down to look at this something. Do you realize that in doing this you are not only leaving any and all valuables open for the taking but you are also blocking the aisle for every other shopper in the vicinity. Now if you take the name of this blog and put into the context of what I have just told you, do you stop your car in the middle of the road and get out to go look at something on a side street? I bet not so whats the difference????? Here is my next question. When you are pushing a shopping cart thru the store and every other shopper seems to be going the other way have you ever thought maybe you are ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE AISLE??????? When driving in I would say ALL 50 states you normally drive on the right side of the road so why must you choose to push your cart on the LEFT side of the aisle. Gee maybe thats why everyone is looking at you like you have two heads. I plan on adding these from time to time as they bother me on a regular basis at work. so if you find them funny or to be true from either side of the shopping cart leave me a message and possibly any additions I can add to the LONG list of stupidity when shopping Thanks all, Onyx

I don’t know why I picked this day of all days to vent this out of my system once and for all. I am a mother of 3 beautiful girls, when I met their father all was wonderful, until he started his drinking and staying out all night with his friends. Then it became his co-workers after work. From there it became some chick he met at work. When he stopped coming home and stopped caring I figured that was probably a good way to say its over. I was with him for 9 years. He is the father of all three of my children and now believe it or not we are pretty good friends..... Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t be able to live in the same house with him again or even the same state w/o killing him but since e are now 3000 miles apart I figure all is good and move on with my life. Next up would be an older man I met online and had a halfway serious relationship with until he decides to tell me he’s going to stay with his wife and make things better.... well now wasn’t that fun. For a while I kind of drifted in love limbo.. not really looking or even wanting anyone to love me when I found the most perfect man. Again online, we talked for quite a long time before we even met. This time I actually tried to set him up with a friend. but that didn’t work. We talked for about 6 months before we even mentioned meeting. I was going to meet up with a bunch of the females from the game system where we met. I was packing and heading to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and planning to meet up with him on my return flight. We did met up, in the Houston Airport, where I changed flights from one to another and he had a ticket on the flight from Houston to my home. We had talked about him coming out to visit to see how things would work out. It ended up that his few weeks stay turned into us getting married a year and a half later. All was wonderful and as far as I knew still was when I started noticing things that should have drawn up a red flag to me months before. He stopped coming to bed when I did. I work nights and so I was only home 3 nights a week anyways. He would stay up till who knows when talking to his friends and chatting with some female friend. Every time I got close enough to the computer his conversation with her would vanish. It was more like I didn’t exsist when he was on line. He joined a chat room that she was in and at one time asked me if I wantd to join it also. At the time we had only one desktop and one laptop computer. The Desk top was very slow and the games and graphics of this chat room would load very slow so I told him that it was ok I didnt ned to join. Later on after I started noticing him change I also joined the site. We purchased another laptop and I was able to get on the site also. When I did I noticed on his profile that no where did it say he was not only married but I thought happily. When I looked deeper into his profile I was noticing that this one woman was on his page more than anything else. Well I got curious, and looked up her information also. That was a big mistake. From everything I found out it seemed that she had no clue I was ever in the picture. To shorten things for the sake of those reading it seems that once again my heart was broken by a man who couldn’t tell the truth. I confronted him about this and he told me that yes he has deep feelings for her and that he wasn’t sure what to do. Is it always the one who give a chance for love the one who gets hurt? Moving ahead I guess he is still with her in the sense that they are a couple even if they don’t live in the same place. I wonder if she knows the things he has said to her were first said to me? Or that the whole time he was talking to her he was lieing through his teeth. I don’t plan on giving out any names because one or the other is also on this site and I will let him live with the guilt of breaking my heart and leave her to the gullible non knowing that I was even in the picture. ~~~~~Onyx~~~~~