Stuff

[cybermule]

When I got out the shower the other day, after another blast up Pen Y Fan, I picked up my scratchy grandma towel that must be nearly as old as me, and realised that the rise in body exfoliation products must be really highly correlated with the tendency to soften-the-fuck out of everything with fabric conditioner.

I got a great parcel at the end of last week. The chocolate is long gone, the spices will soon be consumed, and the Big Red chewing gum will last me for months, even given my unprecedented luxurious chomping of two sticks simultaneously when I first got it. Thank you amiga500.

I really don't like working with the public sometimes - they're demanding and stroppy. One woman came and shouted at me because she thought the canned music was awful. One thing I've noticed recently is the number of people writing into gardening magazines complaining about the lack of knowledge displayed by staff in garden centres. This annoys the fuck out of me. I'm paid minimum wage, rather like someone in Tescos. People come in and ask me all sorts of questions. Not just about plants (which I have about a 95% answer rate) but also on what vegetables to grow, strimmer accessories, books, garden furniture, and so on. All of which eventually get answered - if not by me, then by one of my specialist colleagues.

Now, bearing in mind the minimum-wageness of my job, what do people actually expect from me? Would you go into Tesco and expect the shelf stacker to choose your food, tell you how to cook it, select a suitable accompanying wine, then pick out some clothes that would be suitable for the sort of entertaining function you were planning. No, you would not. So why expect it from me? Seriously, customers, start paying more than a couple of quid for a tray of plants, and you might just get enough profit pumping through the system for Wyevale to employ people who are motivated enough to care.

Or then again, maybe not. Either way, you get what you pay for in lifethis consumerist artifice.

In other news, some asshat also posted comments on Octomule's LJ wobbling at me for leaving the sprog unattended in the bath. They posted the same comment twice, coincidentally stopping just after I turned on the IP address stalking function. I hate anonymous comments, especially based on selecting half a dozen random words from 3 paragraphs.

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

What are Wyevale like otherwise? Could you go and work for a small independent place, or aren't there any left? Would that be any better?

Has Dobbies appeared in the South West yet? They're the garden-centre branch of Tesco and appear to have the clear goal of stamping out Wyevale (they've already seen each other in court).

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

I notice the same thing with towels. My little sister told me you shouldn't rub your skin with a towel after washing because it's bad for it, but then asked me what exfoliant I used because my skin was so nice and soft. Ha!

Most cosmetics are bollocks, fabric softener included.

[scarybex.livejournal.com]

and realised that the rise in body exfoliation products must be really highly correlated with the tendency to soften-the-fuck out of everything with fabric conditioner.


lol, you might be right there!!

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I just saw Octomule's LJ...whoops, someone read that a bit the wrong way eh! Wonder who the commenter is - I don't like anon commenting :/ How is the little guy doing now? Dad ok too?

[mallt.livejournal.com]

I read it too... any rational human being could understand that *someone* was bathing the little fella... just not someone who could take the scary bad away as well as Mummy could!

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

I think its an interesting example of the assumptions different people make when filling in the gaps of a story. Now I'm wondering what makes the difference - I know I'd assume Dad was there because I know the family and if Mom wasn't there, Dad certainly would be. But for a complete outsider?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

They're ok - people I work with are nice, and the job is fine. Just a bit of a plant supermarket, really. I think my long term plan is to go and work somewhere more independent. They're often more specialist, which would be interesting. The pay would be unlikely to improve, but it would be nice to feel a bit more involved.

I think Dobbies are around - maybe Cirencester? Them and Wyevale are sworn enemies.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

They all make me itch. Which means I have to buy more cosmetics to sooth the itch. To be honest, I mostly feel like I should just stink.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - didn't they just? I don't actually mind people questioning the way I look after the little squib - that's one reason we picked such feisty godmothers... I WANT to be questioned and pulled up on things. It was mainly just the anonymous commenting that peed me off.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I thought so. I can see how it might be misinterpreted, but then you don't know myself or my family that well, and you looked on the positive side. I think it was a combination of instant judgementalism, stupid phrasing, and not being willing to own up that made me a bit hostile and sarky.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I just said to Mallt that she didn't know me that well, but was inclined to think we weren't daft. I was just a bit concerned that someone was lurking around on that journal ready to troll at us, to be honest - if anyone had put a comment mostly like that under their account name, I'd have reassured them. As it was, I felt that they needed to be told to go piss up a big point stick :P

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

Stinking is under-rated.

[pippinvixen.livejournal.com]

I just saw the octomule comment, how lame can you get? Your response however was genius!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Heh - thanks! I was mostly peed off at the mode of delivery - I genuinely would appreciate people pulling me up if they think I'm mistreating the sprog. But not in an anonymous Buffy-speak comment.

When are we going to get to meet you. 0ct0pus keeps mumbling about it, but is hopeless on arrangements :)

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

I haven't had to deal with a lot of it, but I have had it most certainly didn't like it which is why (amongst other things) 99% of my posts are a bare minimum friends only these days - things like that unnerve me, especially after I found I'd been put in the Urban Dictionary, and non too nicely :/

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

Indeede :D

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

What git did that? Most of the Ben journal posts are locked, so I was really unnerved that someone pounced on that mistaken public one.

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

I still don't know to this day, someone who knew me, and from the way it was worded, in real-life, not just over the net - it was around the time my friendship with 'A' dissolved which kind of fitted with what was said really.