K-Mart is awful, OP is an asshole.
Done.
IIRC, you live in northern NJ near me. The Kmart in West Orange is simply disgusting. I don’t know why anyone shops there. The last time I went to that store was over two years ago. It took us over an hour to go from getting in line to getting out of the place. The store is also filthy and unkempt.
But the point of the poster you were responding to is not that they shouldn’t have taken the job, but that if part of your orders is to annoy people into doing things they don’t want to do, it’s a violation of everything we know about human nature to not expect and be prepared for some pushback.
Not that it justifies extreme abuse, and you’re right that the poor are much more likely to be in such a job, but I’m kind of inclined to agree with the previous poster who said it’s much like reacting to telemarketers. Granted, telemarketers are intruding on a personal space, but I think that’s a factor in increased ire, not the sole source to begin with.
And yes, I’ve worked retail. Not a lot, and not long, admittedly, but it’s there.
It’s why I go out of my way to shop at places that don’t have “loyalty” cards.
If enough of us do that, all those polkapussies will be out of a job anyway.
Obviously not as much as by blacks, but my point is that the word has come to just mean “guy” when it is used in the hood (mostly by blacks obviously, but often by hispanics and less so by whites), whereas faggot always means gay person, never just “guy.”
Oh, you know the place.
Thankfully, I do most of my shopping elsewhere, where folks are actually nice and apparently decently paid. I go to “Big K” a couple of times a month, mostly to let my son shop for toys out of his allowance (you can get some matchbox car collection if you spend $1 a week on them). It’s a step up from the dollar store, at least.
And if you do you’ll start breaking femurs.
Or start breaking femurs.
They could also choose to join the circus and start breaking femurs for circus peanuts.
I haven’t seen an assessment that cold since Clovis said “C’mon, just suck it up, we’ll be in New Mexico before you know it.”
People are talking about Urban Dictionary as if they endorse or advance these definitions. This ain’t Merriam Webster. It’s more like an open Wikipedia for street slang. Users post the definitions and other users vote them up or down.
It’s funny to note that the word in question has a measely six votes up and six votes down on Urban Dictionary. This means that the proposed definition is not particularly accepted and that it’s pretty damn recent (or has been ignored for about as long as it’s been posted).
I wouldn’t take that as license to use it, especially when it’s so fraught with potential interpretation. Uh, I mean misinterpretation.
What’s funny to me is that I am guessing that this lost time that caused him such tremendous aggravation probably amounted to an extra two minutes at most, which pales in both he amount of anger he carried over from it and the amount of time he used to write this up.
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I blame his wife for not marrying someone who would just man up and change the fucking tire.
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No shit, if it’s a slow valve leak, buy a new valve at Kmart or Autozone and replace it. Takes 2 minutes. Don’t fill your tire full of goopy shit that the guy at Goodyear is going to have to deal with and that doesn’t fix your problem. Instead of spending $8 on a can of fucking useless Fix-a-Flat, spend $14 on a 12V compressor and get some shit fixed!
Alternatively, if you’re too inept to replace a tire valve (is that possible?) and it’s a slow leak, just fill it up with air and drive to the tire place.
I dislike jerkwankers (continuing the spirit of compound insults) who don’t understand Schrader valves.
Actually, I have it on good authority that “nigger” has been used by some on gaming networks as a derogatory term for other (presumably white) players in exactly the same manner as the word “faggot”. Indeed, the terms were often combined to form the charming epithet “nigger faggot”.
There is, in fact, a loose “troll” “confederation” that calls itself The Gay Nigger Association of America, despite the fact that members are not particularly likely to be black or gay. Although it originally came from the title of a satirical short film, I interpret the adoption of this moniker as an ironic jab at the troglodytes who made casual, sincere use of the two terms a routine occurrence on certain parts of the internet.
Yes. I say ‘nigger/nigga’ dozens of times in a day, and I rarely say ‘fag’, so yes, I agree with you that nigger is used more often without it being meant to slur blacks.
The thing is, ‘nigger’ has had a very different journey than ‘fag’.
The words have simply evolved differently, but I do believe that ‘nigger’ is going to end up where ‘fag’ is. Like colander points out, nigger is already being used in the gaming community. But it isn’t used as seamlessly as ‘fag’ and its variations.
I don’t know how white people use nigger when they aren’t using it as a slur, but I know that black people call everyone nigger/nigga. White, black, Asian, whatever.
The word still holds a kernel of its origins, though. In other words, we realize it is a word that we ‘reclaimed’ and use as a term of endearment and we say it all day, but we don’t say it in front of Grandma, because she was around when they would still hose you down and sic the dogs on you while spewing it…
It has a unique history that still permeates when we use it. We took it back.
The way I hear the kids use ‘fag’ isn’t like that. If you are familiar with geeks and gamers and nerds and kids who think they are the haxor or whatever the fuck, you will notice they use the word as a place holder that has nothing whatsoever to do with being gay. You are a newfag or an applefag or a macfag or whatever. It’s not a contest of whether ‘nigger’ or ‘fag’ is used more often. I am sure ‘nigger’ is used a million more times without being used as a slur. The point is the way ‘fag’ is being used is just completely divorced from homophobia.
You have to immerse yourself in the slang of young people to really understand where I’m coming from.
Thank you. When some of these dolts learn to read they’ll see that the OP was commentary in response to the kfart employees actual actions. Nowhere do you see quotations from myself. The only thing I should have put quotation marks on was when I walked right past the security dink out the door. I did indeed say “good luck with that” and kept walking.
No, you don’t.
This Kaymart had 4 self check outs and they took them all out.
Um, no. the car was on the decline of a large hill with moderate traffic, so there was a safety issue in changing it right there. The tire was completely flat so moving the car may have damaged it.
I believe it has a slow leak (per the OP) with a possibly something else wrong. I changed the valve 3 weeks ago myself and it’s still going flat slowly. The Fix-a-Flat would allow me enough time to drive it to a shop.
Some of you have been on these boards long enough to know that if I meant a slur, I would have made a slur and wouldn’t step away from it. Punkfaggot in one word is not a gay slur.
No! It took 14 minutes to for her to get through 3 people because she kept doing her sales pitch, stupid card explanation, March of Dimes, email push, and slowness of work.
And they wouldn’t open up another freaking lane!!!:mad:
There used to be an auto parts store across the street there. But it went out of business in 2011. Musta been W’s fault.
Well, let’s look at another one-word name that’s been around for a very long time: niggerhead. It’s a descriptive word for the hummocks one finds in swampy areas. It’s one word, so it can’t possibly be offensive to anybody, right? Obviously it was derived out of the racial epithet, just as your stupid word was derived from the derisive use of ‘faggot’ or ‘faggy’ to denote someone who is gay or who is acting unmanly or stupidly. Just because someone says ‘hey, it’s one word and I say it means such and such’ doesn’t make it any less offensive.
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you have to show your sales slip to a security guard
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You think you can just waltz up into the dope and drop this controversial ass statement as if it is QED?? Just a declarative, glib, flip “**No, you don’t.” ** Hahaa. Hoo, boy, are you on the wrong board.
That topic was settled long ago. You do not have to stop for the guard at a public access store. And unless they have solid reason to believe you stole something it would be to their great detriment to try and detain you.
I walk right past these guys all the time, always have always will. I did have one follow me out into the parking lot one time. 'Sir? Sir? Sir!" Just kept walking.
I imagine you do have to stop at places like Sams Club as there is probably a clause in their membership rules. But that would still just be a civil matter that could affect ones membership status.
Well maybe he doesn’t, but I’ve had to. It’s one petty indignity among at least a guaranteed few in every day. So I comply, since I’m not Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
Welp. Get ready for twenty pages of, ‘why do you have to be an asshole to the poor old guy just doing his job? It only takes two seconds to show a receipt.’
I am glad to hear that ‘it’s been settled.’ Because, although most times it isn’t a problem for me to show my receipt, there has been times when I’ve gotten smug attitude from some loss prevention officer and I like knowing I can breeze past that asshole if I see fit.
It’s one of those deals where you don’t actually have to follow the store rules, but if you don’t it can potentially turn into an ugly situation which results in a lot of time lost for you as the Police decide you haven’t actually committed a crime.