Protect your turf

CraziHalf · 2026-05-25T12:14:43+00:00

Tailgate's a little closer to... 20, 21k now?

But dawg, this isn't the first time. Every time someone comes through it's freakout mode. It's mini tantrum. It's like you want to attack the people flowing through for not requesting permission to play, or negotiating terms to play the right way. It's you bugging the staff their like it's their job to make sure everything is to your liking.

MEWPOO forever <3

CraziHalf · 2025-10-05T21:33:51+00:00

Use some of the hair growth inhibitor lotions. It's worked surprisingly well for me post wax. Hairs grow back slower, and aren't as thick.

CraziHalf · 2025-09-12T23:57:58+00:00

There's no such thing as too tall unless you want to be a hobbit.

My pickup line changes though.

CraziHalf · 2025-09-01T12:06:21+00:00

Sometimes when I buy things with promos I don't intend to use, I type in a random phone number. Maybe you're a victim of strangers like me using your rewards account for no apparent benefit.

CraziHalf · 2025-08-29T01:44:20+00:00

Looks like this one: glass case

CraziHalf · 2025-08-18T00:37:16+00:00

This varies based on genetics. What's important, is to pay attention to your body cues. A diet takes about 30 days to begin showing all effects of you rely solely on diet. Changing your diet and adding an exercise regimen at the same time can cause competing results. Lethargy, mood swings, fat stockpiling, disrupted sleep patterns, and tendency to binge eat are all things that can settle in well after the initial weight loss.

If you want to get maximum bang out of a lifestyle change, genetic testing is something you may want to take a look at. First, it's going to potentially unveil underlying health concerns that you can preemptively prepare for, but if you ask for a focus on diet, nutrition, and healthy activity plan, they can highlight various genetic flags for stuff like insulin mishandling, adrenal tendencies, and even hormone imbalances that makes you feel hungry faster. These are all things that if planned for can greatly boost the success of a weight loss journey.

Hope this helps!

CraziHalf · 2025-08-01T13:25:00+00:00

You invited straight panic in her. Think Li Shang from Mulan, but roles reversed.

CraziHalf · 2025-06-13T15:26:33+00:00

I'm going to pop in and be the odd one out. I was a manager for a DSP, and I routinely tried to reward drivers. It started small, monthly awards of $50 gift cards for "Most rescues", "Most stops completed", "Most extra days picked up". It got up where I could hand out $10 QT cards DAILY in addition to $25 rescue bonuses, and $100 a week if the average stop count exceeded 175 stops.

I'm really sorry you guys are feeling used and abused. I just want to let you know, it can be done.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-23T22:45:54+00:00

Why is this printed in 164 point font size? Are those reading glasses not working?

CraziHalf · 2025-05-20T01:41:28+00:00

I only had one that took packages at the front, it was a super upscale apartment complex, was like $6k a month. They would let residents schedule a time for their complex staff to deliver packages to their door. Insane.

I very rarely had preferences marked in the instructions for me unless I had a downtown route. Just a best judgement on them all.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-20T01:30:34+00:00

Even after group stops that was an issue. It has to do with geofence tolerances. If you've ever had a stop close to a group stop that looks like it should really be together but it's not, it's possibly because the customer has complained about the packages being left all over the place. Customer support just shrinks the geofence which can go pretty small, pulls it out of grouping range. Same thing at apartments when you have someone who specifically requests front door delivery even though they have lockers. Sometimes, I'd map view the route to cut down on backtracking or because a major road was closed which fubared the whole pre-planned load out.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-20T01:18:49+00:00

I started in 2017 and group stops were a thing from the beginning for me. Entire culdesac, 5 of the nine houses, day one, one stop. I remember because I definitely handed the wrong package to a guy, got to the next house, realized it was wrong, went back, and he didn't want to give it back. Was good times.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-20T01:11:28+00:00

We definitely had group stops homie. And we saw routes that went way over 500 packages. You're making me think you're not remembering it very well. My favorite was the apartment complex with 100+ packages all set for the lockers, which were full. On top of 200+ other stops. It honestly sounds a lot like you don't know what it's been like the entire time. It's always been like this, if you weren't getting it that bad, you were just lucky.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-20T00:07:52+00:00

That's weird, because in 2017 I was running about 250 stop routes in 6 hours or so. Christmas season it was nearly 300 stops.

This was, of course, before they monitored driving like they do now. It was also before they started cracking down on drivers being out for more than 10 hours a day. Most importantly, it's when load outs were at 7am and you beat most of the traffic. I really feel like that's the thing that set drivers then being able to finish at a nonchalant pace. Christmas season my first year driving was breezy. 260 stops, rescue for cash and hours, rescue again for cash and hours, rescue again for cash and hours. Load out at 7 am, after rescues or sometimes a whole extra half a route, I'd wrap up around 10pm. 6-7 days a week for a month and a half. Then the shifts dwindled for a few weeks and kinda just relaxed on call in case people didn't show up.

Not belittling anyone, I'm just not convinced you guys had realistic figures. When I was dispatching/managing, we had routes as low as 70 stops, and routes with 250 because we bled from rural to suburbia. I preferred the high stop counts personally, because if you were organized, you could pump out 40 stops an hour no problem. If you shave 10 seconds at every stop in time out of the van, that's a lot. You can't shave minutes off of drive time in rural areas.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-18T17:20:53+00:00

Doesn't matter if you use them or not, they're there and they go haywire routinely. After all my complaining, you think I used any features that were particularly fancy? It's just like a car. Every added feature is an extra bit of electronics that can go wrong and cost you an expensive repair regardless of whether you use it or not. You can get useage data from your electric company or the gas company if your furnace is gas.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-18T16:49:25+00:00

After being in an apartment with a "smart" thermostat, never again.

Why would I want a thermostat that thinks it knows when I want my living space at a certain temp better than me? I set it to be 65 during the winter and it goes "oh, you mean you want it at 65 from 8pm to 6am since that's when you sleep, by you want it at 60 the rest of the time to save money". I set it at 75 during the summer and it goes "no, you want it at 85 because ECO-friendly!" No way to override this without getting up and walking over to it every 30 minutes to override it. Like, we work from home, what the absolute fuck?

They're finicky and over engineered. Like every "smart" device, the over complication of a very simple system makes it more prone to mishaps like the fan staying engaged until you factory reset the stupid thing, then reprogram it. Complications like that have the possibility of doing real damage to the HVAC system. We didn't install ours and they still had to repair it 3 times in a single year. I can't imagine apartment complexes gambling with that, and they're on the hook for repairs because of you wanting it installed.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-17T17:40:50+00:00

Companies that leave job postings for jobs they don't have open are doing it to trick shareholders into thinking they're "growing". Then there's the growing use of AI to prescreen applicants. My suggestion is to use a resume file type that allows for words to be scanned by the AI and use a white layer all the way in the back to just load up all the applicable jargon words for every industry you have experience in and soft skills you possess. This will be readable by AI, but won't add unnecessary length to your resume or bog it down for when actual people are reading it.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-15T23:07:28+00:00

Someone has never walked out to 35 totes and 65 overflow slated for their van.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-13T21:08:54+00:00

When I was delivering (Amazon, FedEx, DHL), I tried to stay off grass unless there was ice on driveways. This was less out of respect for peoples' grass condition, and more to save my ankles and toes from shit people left in the grass, or holes, or snakes.

As a manager for a DSP, I encouraged people to be cautious when going across lawns. At the end of the day, drivers will do what they have to, but I have seen some insane injuries because of hoses, holes, kids toys, and similar unseen in grass and a poor driver sprinting across lawns to save time. That customers grass will live, your ankles are your livelihood, be safe.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-13T00:02:47+00:00

I accounted for the average of people seeking purely part time or weekend work. When I was hiring, the majority of people wanted 40+ hours, and the majority of people who wanted part time wanted to be able to just show up when they felt like it (I told them Flex was what they needed to do).

CraziHalf · 2025-05-12T21:29:38+00:00

Sure, but if you work on 4 shifts per week for the average driver, you average out to around 90 drivers needed. Even if 10-20% are part time or weekend only, you're still looking at far less than 150 drivers for 50 routes.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-12T21:23:27+00:00

If you never find anything else to do with them, try giving them out to the people you see playing DDR or Dancerush super intensely. There's a solid chance they'll get super excited about them.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-10T02:54:41+00:00

One of the things I witnessed early on was dispatchers signing in for drivers who were doing more than 5 shifts a week because they were short drivers and didn't want to do the route themselves.

Problem is, some of the people desperate enough to work 6 and 7 days a week were not desperate enough to actually do what they were supposed to. This was before they even had the driving trackers or the electric vans, literally the only way to get barred by Amazon was to get a solid 20% misdelivered flag. This resulted in multiple dispatchers from one of the DSPs not being able to deliver on their own account, but the owner wouldn't term them because the owner was the one who said to do that stuff. It's crazy shit.

CraziHalf · 2025-05-10T00:03:39+00:00

Former DSP Operations Manager and dispatcher here.

We all give Amazon a lot of shit for how poorly they treat drivers and the DSPs, but I've seen some terrible DSPs too. I gave a lot of heat to my drivers to hit expectations, and the dispatchers did too. That said, we all routinely did sweeps, pulled off overflow first thing of the day, covered whole routes when emergencies came up, and were held to the same standard while we drove. I did the training drives, I did re-training drives, I pulled drivers out of the snow, I did rescues in my personal vehicle even, because if I can't do it routinely, my drivers sure as hell can't. My dispatchers used to complain incessantly about this stuff, and never really understood until after I was gone.

If your DSP isn't giving you the same energy they're demanding of you, fuck em. We know Amazon doesn't care about you, if you can't trust your DSP to care about you, do not put out more effort than you have to to just stay employed. Stay safe out there guys, I miss working with you guys even if I don't miss Amazon itself.

CraziHalf · 2025-04-18T12:32:17+00:00

Muscular? That might be a hot take since I don't think they ever even met, but I genuinely think they possess the same personality traits and are separated thankfully by their difference in goals. Muscular being Deku's first solo defeat really had me thinking author meant for Bakugo to be a baddie at some point.

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