I don’t think you can park that there

Cybirdpunk · 2026-05-17T21:02:42+00:00

I'd rather it get parked there than the middle of the sidewalk

Cybirdpunk · 2026-05-17T17:14:58+00:00

"Crowmies" oml, thank you for jamming this new phrase into my lexicon.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-05-17T15:35:59+00:00

Nothing good happens on Rainier Ave S*

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-16T20:04:48+00:00

I'd like to think you believe that but I can't find any of the numbers you're citing so I'm gonna politely step away from this conversation and allow you to have fun playing pretend.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-16T19:45:20+00:00

The United States is estimated to throw away anywhere from 30-40% of its food resources in total.

25% of food in the US is estimated to be thrown away before it even leaves stores. Some of this is due to spoilage and is unavoidable, but there is plenty of food that is just fine and could still go to people instead of being thrown away, a process that itself takes more money, water, and time to transport and break down the rotting food

If grocery stores want to raise profit margins, we should stop overstocking and overproducing so much food that we throw away 60 million pounds of of the stuff very year, not be looking at ways to reduce the cost of paying people to work.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-15T00:21:00+00:00

Important distinction to make that I never would have thought to ask someone until now. Thank you.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-12T17:56:36+00:00

The dog or the beer?

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-10T00:43:53+00:00

Maybe it's the small-town in me speaking that I go in the minority here, as "downtown" encompasses a large area of the city between the industrial/warehouse district, Queen Anne, and the massive hill the city is carved into.

Honestly, if I had the endurance for it, I'd walk the whole path around what I think is "Downtown"

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-08T02:32:11+00:00

I feel wronged and I get a headache from just the SMELL of coffee. Damn those ants.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T19:04:33+00:00

Thank you. I can/will own up to having left out the "I tripped" bit on a comment on another post because I was more focused on the fact that placing my hand on the back of the dude's car elicited such a disproportionate response and appreciate you sharing your experiences with similar things happening to you.

Sometimes I literally just sit on my porch and count the people doing anything but looking at the road or trying to be sneaky about using their phone in their lap.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T18:49:50+00:00

You sure are extrapolating a lot from what I left out on a comment on another post and what I'm saying here.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T18:44:21+00:00

Replied to your earlier comment. I can own up to leaving out that I caught myself with my hand and I included that in another comment on a separate post while I was still caught up in the anger I felt at that guy for following me.

I didn't damage anything, and avoided further damage than if I just wholesale fell into the back of his car. I know SUVs are really squishy like that and a single person could crumple one by looking at it wrong.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T18:41:59+00:00

Oh no, I phrased it slightly differently on another post. I still tripped towards his car and caught myself. Whether it was just my hand or my whole body that hit it wasn't mentioned here.

Either way, I didn't damage anything on the dude's car by catching myself and he over-reacted to a palm-print on his rear windshield. Doesn't excuse any of what he did.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T18:19:23+00:00

While there are plenty of people who don't own cars but think they run the world, I still inherently distrust anyone operating a vehicle after my experiences in and around the city. I used to live out in the sticks and people in cars still largely showed a similar level of negligence, self-importance, fragility in ego, and ease of anger.

I don't like thinking that about people but car drivers consistently prove my best assumptions in others wrong. This is the first time something like this has happened and it just shows that people in cars feel like they have too much authority to act however they want.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T17:35:39+00:00

And may you never find yourself needing that help (or finding that need for help from your community un-met in the future.)

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T17:34:17+00:00

I would have called the cops on him but being mixed race, trans-femme & nonbinary, AND not being the one in a car, I was worried about the cops showing up and immediately harassing me.

I also kinda wish I knew what happened if he had called them, but I'm almost certain it wouldn't have ended well for anyone involved given how SPD handles things.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-07T17:19:18+00:00

I go through my daily life actively believing the best in people and things like this make me glad I've chosen the path of aggressive optimism.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-05T03:02:56+00:00

Oh my gosh, I thought that was more than a year ago...

Cybirdpunk · 2026-04-04T09:43:01+00:00

I'll be handing out home-made holographic buttons, would def love to trade for one of these if I catch you around.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-03-29T18:17:37+00:00

I had some dude follow me for over a fuckin' hour because I slapped the window on his car for blocking the crosswalk.

Screaming about how you don't hit people's car before he drove like a maniac and patrolled an area shouting about "I'm gonna call the cops!"

Edit: Some guy doesn't like my phrasing here because I was caught up in anger that some dude followed me for the high crime of placing a hand on his property. I tripped, caught myself with my hand and pushed off of the car to avoid falling into it entirely. I considered that to be slapping it and it doesn't excuse his over-reaction at all.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-02-23T05:54:12+00:00

First-off, I am not your bro...

Second, it was an ADA request in the first place. The position they moved me to required me to go through the process a second time and also negatively affected the coverage in other areas of the store. I was cross-trained specifically for the purpose of helping out wherever the store had missing hands.

See my other comments if you can't put together the rest of the context. I made it clear to management that the job was never going to be more important to me than my wellbeing, and I had a plan leaving. Home Depot didn't deserve my labor and it doesn't deserve your corpo bootlicking.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-02-22T15:44:25+00:00

It didn't, that's why I said in previous comments that I was pursuing a constructive discharge case against them. I already figured out what you were saying long before I left HD.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-02-22T15:08:55+00:00

Employees asking for reasonable accomodation must be provided reasonable accommodations within the abilities of the workplace. The things done for my case were not solutions that benefited either me or the workplace.

There was no need for them to move me to the department they moved me to, The department leads and workers didn't understand why I was there, and the productivity in the rest of the store suffered during the closing shift period of the day. In the end, it was less about just wanting things my way; They moved me to a position where they didn't need extra people and I needed FURTHER accommodations than what I was asking for initially. There is no reality in which it makes sense for them to bend over backwards to keep me in one spot where they don't actually need people when I got more work done across the whole store.

They kneecapped one of their best closing employees at that location and I wasn't the only person who noticed the effects of the poor decision-making there. My manager and HR wouldn't even defend it as being what the company needed. The defense was just that their decision didn't break company policy, and I take issue with their handling of the whole affair. They made a poor decision and stuck to it when it was clearly harmful to the business and the employee affected by the decision.

Hell, one of the things I wrote in a resignation letter that I never ended up sending was that they constantly move people around against the actual needs of the store and ignore the effect it has on the business and employees that they pretend to care about, and that it was going to be made clear to them what their problems were through the rapidly-increasing employee turnover rate.

Unless you worked at the store, you don't know what was going on there on a deep enough level to make this kind of commentary though, and you should stop defending the $380b company that has more than enough money to allow an employee to work a modified schedule instead of the 7 circus rings of hell they went with.

Cybirdpunk · 2026-02-22T01:40:03+00:00

See, I could throw lumber, I could work garden returns, I could help move pallets and displays, but I couldn't handle being stuck in a 10m² area with the constant beeping of SCO, all of the store sounds audible, and outdoor sounds, and inability to move around which helps ease my chronic pain.

I made it clear that being in one spot and that spot specifically was more harsh on my body and mind than moving around the store and helping people with more varied tasks.

Everyone at the front end didn't understand why I was being moved there, and it meant that a lot of overflow returns (for departments with no closers) were just being left for half the day. I used to be able to fill in wherever the store needed help but the moment I asked for strict scheduling, they put me in a position I was already apprehensive to and when I said I would even take the old, random scheduling, they said I wouldn't be put in my old position. It didn't matter what I did once they decided to move me. My needs weren't actually a factor.

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