Looking at trip prices for going to cali and car rental would be half of total cost
Omg you are a Karen in training! You are smart enough to understand the predatory business model of Amazon. You also shouldn't swear around children.
The owner sounds like he could be a dick, but you're getting upset about things you can control, which is silly.
The owner sounds like he could be a dick, but you're getting upset about things you can control, which is silly.
Where you looking at car rentals, airport? Try playing around with the location of the rental agencies. I've found many airports charge way higher rates. Boston and Denver are two I recall off the top of my head.
Started with airport. Tried different locations and similar prices.
How many days? If you get a decently cheap flight but stay for a week, odds are the car will be adding up.RTHKI wrote:
Started with airport. Tried different locations and similar prices.
At least 5.DesertFox- wrote:
How many days? If you get a decently cheap flight but stay for a week, odds are the car will be adding up.RTHKI wrote:
Started with airport. Tried different locations and similar prices.
Flights 300 round trip.
5 days is 70/day. 7 or more takes it down to 57/day
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I didn't even curse at him. I basically said FML and got reprimanded while also being overly charged for 'supporting small business'.RTHKI wrote:
Sorry mac, I love cursing but no
$140 pack of magic cards is a luxury item to a 10 year-old, not someone who has a career-oriented job and minimal recurring expenses.
It sounds like you two parting ways is for the better.
I don't own a business, but I have no doubt I'd be petty as fuck from time to time. I think it's part of the joy of owning your own business.
It sounds like you two parting ways is for the better.
I don't own a business, but I have no doubt I'd be petty as fuck from time to time. I think it's part of the joy of owning your own business.
Imagine how many indignant nerds comic book and game stores have to deal with. Imagine that some of the people who work there are probably indignant nerds themselves. I can hardly blame them for eventually fitting a cynical shopkeep stereotype. If it were me shopping there, I'd have just shrugged it off. It's been a hard last 1+ year for a lot of people. If I felt like it was nasty enough, I'd just stop shopping there. No need to review bomb, you'll probably feel a little awkward about that later on.
Anecdote I've probably relayed some years back, one of our people found a complaint some years back and was in the process of replying to it much in the way you'd reply to a personal insult on an internet forum. I had to squash that flat. I am not the company HR/PR person but I was definitely wearing that hat on the occasion. Their (our company's person) feelings were hurt, but they were in the process of giving us a black eye. Our company isn't the kind that relies on advertising to the public, or even where people just walk in and browse. Our business spreads in much part thanks to word of mouth from the people we do jobs for (and no, we're not an assassin's guild). We don't need office people bringing facebook snark to yelp, yahoo, google, whatever. It just looks bad.
It was about the only such review I've found (I try and keep track in case any of our people decide to make things worse again). It had a weird mix of specifics and falsehoods, though. We'd know if someone has been trying to call for a week to complain, unless they wrote down the wrong number. Probably not even worth addressing generically. The store's reply to the review you posted looks very generic and safe. I usually take these reviews with a bit of a grain of salt in the knowledge that the person writing it are probably going to try and make themself smell like a rose.
Anyway, I think you're probably overreacting. I'd feel chagrinned to let loose with profanity in a store. Even worse in a small one, and horrible in what's practically a toy store. When stubbing your toe on a hike? Probably more reasonable. A clerk asking you to kindly not should be taken in stride like a disapproving gaze from a librarian at any disruptive behavior.
e: I replied as requested. why you gotta leave a "screw you" in my karma? feels bad man.
Anecdote I've probably relayed some years back, one of our people found a complaint some years back and was in the process of replying to it much in the way you'd reply to a personal insult on an internet forum. I had to squash that flat. I am not the company HR/PR person but I was definitely wearing that hat on the occasion. Their (our company's person) feelings were hurt, but they were in the process of giving us a black eye. Our company isn't the kind that relies on advertising to the public, or even where people just walk in and browse. Our business spreads in much part thanks to word of mouth from the people we do jobs for (and no, we're not an assassin's guild). We don't need office people bringing facebook snark to yelp, yahoo, google, whatever. It just looks bad.
It was about the only such review I've found (I try and keep track in case any of our people decide to make things worse again). It had a weird mix of specifics and falsehoods, though. We'd know if someone has been trying to call for a week to complain, unless they wrote down the wrong number. Probably not even worth addressing generically. The store's reply to the review you posted looks very generic and safe. I usually take these reviews with a bit of a grain of salt in the knowledge that the person writing it are probably going to try and make themself smell like a rose.
Anyway, I think you're probably overreacting. I'd feel chagrinned to let loose with profanity in a store. Even worse in a small one, and horrible in what's practically a toy store. When stubbing your toe on a hike? Probably more reasonable. A clerk asking you to kindly not should be taken in stride like a disapproving gaze from a librarian at any disruptive behavior.
e: I replied as requested. why you gotta leave a "screw you" in my karma? feels bad man.
You're really bringing the "problem" back into "first world problems." Before today it was all like "package arrived but box had a dented corner, #fail."
maybe you could talk things out with one of your gundams over a japanese beer.
At my previous job some guy called in, I said hello and all that.
After the call he complained to someone else at the company that I didn't say hi. The idiot had me on his car phone while a goddamn train was going by.
I was mad/annoyed but didn't say anything.
Why you guys gotta make fun of macs gundams?
After the call he complained to someone else at the company that I didn't say hi. The idiot had me on his car phone while a goddamn train was going by.
I was mad/annoyed but didn't say anything.
Why you guys gotta make fun of macs gundams?
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You should have banned him from your Dildo factory.RTHKI wrote:
At my previous job some guy called in, I said hello and all that.
After the call he complained to someone else at the company that I didn't say hi. The idiot had me on his car phone while a goddamn train was going by.
I was mad/annoyed but didn't say anything.
Mac, take a moment to reflect on what you just wrote. Do you really want to be that guy who a store owner has to exercise "textbook de-escalation practice" on? Grow a thicker skin maybe.
Just because one line makes phallic byproducts doesn't mean it's safe for insertion.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You should have banned him from your Dildo factory.RTHKI wrote:
At my previous job some guy called in, I said hello and all that.
After the call he complained to someone else at the company that I didn't say hi. The idiot had me on his car phone while a goddamn train was going by.
I was mad/annoyed but didn't say anything.
I'm not defending him (I did suggest they might also be disgruntled nerds) so much as I am poking fun at you.
fwp: with under 2 million americans left alive who were born before 1928, there are fewer opportunities for "ok boomer" encirclements in social media by millennials and zoomers on one front, and the greatest generation on the other.
fwp: with under 2 million americans left alive who were born before 1928, there are fewer opportunities for "ok boomer" encirclements in social media by millennials and zoomers on one front, and the greatest generation on the other.
I think you need to go back and record you guys interacting
I think school needs to stop being virtual for your own good
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You know what? Since nobody here supports me in my dire personal struggle against the local comic book store monopoly, I am leaving. Good bye.
I would like to speak to your superintendent. I went out of my way to grab a relevant LotR Hearts of Iron 4 screenshot, but you deleted the post you made with the nazi hat and ring wraith robes.
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That's not funny. You are literally murdering me. Good bye forever. Please ban my account. I do not want to be a part of this forum any longer.
That's a shame, but thems the breaks I guess. Seems a steal of a flight, so $65 in car rental seems small potatoes, especially since it's travel anyway.RTHKI wrote:
At least 5.DesertFox- wrote:
How many days? If you get a decently cheap flight but stay for a week, odds are the car will be adding up.RTHKI wrote:
Started with airport. Tried different locations and similar prices.
Flights 300 round trip.
5 days is 70/day. 7 or more takes it down to 57/day
I rented 2 cars on a trip out west a couple years ago and seemingly saved a few bills because we had a corporate discount for Avis. However, rental pricing seems a bit of a rigmarole to nickel and dime you any way you cut it.
EDIT: Goddamn is it a racket. Put in a test rental near me for 5 days of a standard size car and it estimates $622 with taxes, which also includes a $75 discount for pre-paying. Using my work code, the same specs comes out to $260 total. Adding on another day even only adds 9 bucks in taxes.
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Ya I was going to suggest using a corporate code. You can find them all over online. Comcast is always a good one to throw out.
I think advice that a lot of people would back but not necessarily follow themselves is that before you hit submit, think if it's a post you'd like to see after ten years, or imagine if you'll still feel as angry. If not, then maybe don't submit.SuperJail Warden wrote:
That's not funny. You are literally murdering me. Good bye forever. Please ban my account. I do not want to be a part of this forum any longer.
Sometimes I'll get a reply to something I posted in the late 2000s and wonder what exactly I was on when I allowed myself to get drawn into the argument. It would be nice if google's delete all comments feature worked so I didn't have to bother. /fwp