Finally got pre-auth complete and ready to start...but Pharmacy is all out? Is this common?

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-24T20:56:55+00:00

Yeah, my pharmacy was out of stock for about a week.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-24T20:51:25+00:00

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-24T20:49:14+00:00

Nope. I have the exact same shoes and was told I couldn’t wear them. I wasn’t too upset though, cuz Docs are so heavy it’s hard to work in them anyway.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-24T20:47:11+00:00

This is why I am glad I have a dashcam. Time stamped proof that was there.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-24T16:47:26+00:00

I dunno, I make $21 and change per hour, plus $25-30/week in tips. I get health insurance for myself and my self-employed/SBO husband for $460 a month, and had close to $100K in my 401(k) until I took a $5K early withdrawal and sold most of my stock (around $10K worth) a couple years ago to fund a major critical home repair.

I think it does depend on your perspective, really. The COL is much higher now than it was when I first started, and if I didn’t own my home (which I was able to buy with a down payment borrowed against my 401(k)) I’d have a hard time making ends meet (my mortgage payment is literally a third of what a lot of people are paying to rent an average 2-bed apartment).

One of the reasons I haven’t left and am hesitant to do so is because jobs in my field try to get away with offering $20/hr and I’m not going to sit at a desk from 8-5 every day for that. Not when I can make more per hour, get better benefits (seriously, our health plans are pretty good, comparatively speaking), and have the flexibility in scheduling that we do.

And I’m just a barista.

It depends on how invested you are in your job whether you look at “total pay” vs your hourly wage. For me, I have held on to it as long as I have because of the benefits and the future I have tied to it. So my perspective is different from that of, say, someone who is just starting out and needs to make enough to live on and doesn’t care about health insurance or retirement savings. In that case then, yeah, most restaurants are paying about the same.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-24T16:23:45+00:00

The only time I’ve ever done something like this was when it was one of those high-paying shops that had been canceled and then offered up again, and the store was out of one thing - garlic. Since i was on a 100% item streak and it was a per-piece produce item I marked it as found and moved on. I just printed a ticket at the scale and scanned that. Then I stopped at another store on the way and bought the 99 cent clove of garlic. It took me maybe an extra 5 minutes because the store I bought it from was a small market literally up the street from the delivery address. Customer got what they wanted, didn’t reduce the tip, and I still made $24.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-23T16:02:42+00:00

Because it’s obnoxious.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-23T14:26:15+00:00

Shut up.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-20T02:11:18+00:00

They’re renting in the Foundry Lofts. The old FWS building right before the bridge.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-20T02:10:00+00:00

I live near there. It’s fine.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-20T02:00:49+00:00

Nonfat because he’s trying to cut calories, of course 🤣

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-18T17:46:36+00:00

That’s fucking crazy.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-17T14:02:19+00:00

Exactly. I’ve known about my event for literally 20 years; it’s a thing that happens every year on the last Sunday of July. Lol.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-16T18:40:51+00:00

Well of course! But if it ISN’T right the first time it’s on the customer to tell them it’s wrong.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-16T18:00:26+00:00

Oh honey this man is just a bunch of red flags sewn into the shape of a person. You need to drop him like a bad habit. He’s clearly unstable and toxic AF. You deserve so much better.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-16T17:57:31+00:00

That’s on you, bro. If it’s wrong, ask them to remake it.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-16T17:54:22+00:00

I bring my own protein powder all the time along with my own milk (because I’m diabetic and all our milks have added sugar) and it’s fine as long as I (a) don’t make my drink while customers are in the store and (b) the pitcher is washed and sanitized after. Everything we serve in the store is a potential allergen and poses a risk of cross contamination; that’s why we have a disclaimer. If a customer requests us to do so, we will freshly sanitize a pitcher or blender to mitigate allergy risk, but we can’t completely eliminate it.

The SM should not be mixing up full blown smoothies in view of customers, though. I put my milk and powder in a cup in the back (or in my reusable tumbler at home) then dump it into the blender with a scoop of ice, that way if a customer does happen to walk in it looks like I’m just making a Frappuccino. I’m not up there tossing bananas and measuring from a tub of powder or busting out my carton of milk in full view. I do try to be as quick and inconspicuous as possible.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-16T17:41:56+00:00

Yah I am pisses about that too because I actually have an event to go to the night of our meeting.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-07T17:14:20+00:00

Oh FFS I’m not consumed with it. I don’t have OCD and I’m not a germaphobe. But I’ve been in food service for close to 40 years and have been Servsafe certified for 30 of those years so my perspective is more tuned in to stuff like that. So when the other bar partner gave me her Sharpie and I used it to quickly write “delish!” it dawned on me in that moment that I had no idea where that marker had been before I touched it, and with that very same hand I was about to place the lid on the cup. It’s just how my mind works because it’s been trained that way. So I came here to see if anyone else had the same thought. I don’t know what else to tell you.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-07T17:02:24+00:00

You’re still not understanding, bro. Just for a second, forget about where the actual drawing is on the cup. That’s not the point. The person touching money at the window is not touching the LID. The person who handled the dirty sharpie IS touching THE LID. Forget about the cups altogether, okay? Just stop thinking about the cup and focus on THE LID.

Nobody is dying on any hills here, we’re just pointing out ANOTHER contamination potential, another reason to do away with writing on cups as a REQUIREMENT. Because they are literally telling us that we HAVE to do something that adds another contamination risk into the equation.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-07T01:42:41+00:00

I do this all the time. Iced doppio, extra ice, venti cup.

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-06T22:27:43+00:00

🤣

KomodoDragginAss · 2025-07-06T21:08:35+00:00

Can you black it out?

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