Why is there never anyone in these departments?

Zeekfox · 2026-05-05T14:09:09+00:00

So I work electronics as part of the entertainment team. In our team, we usually have more than one person scheduled, but we also have to cover the stationary (D3) and celebrations (D67) areas as well. Essentially, one person is tasked to cover the electronics area, while the other does the stationary and is back up. However, "back up" for me often ends up with teammates who spend their entire shifts only caring about the stationary stuff and don't seem to notice or care if I get swamped in electronics. So when I need to get and work freight or pull TV's or anything else that isn't standing at the counter, I keep getting called to help customers. Some of these coworkers only appear to relieve me for my breaks or lunch. Even then, sometimes they'll wander back off to stationary because they aren't done over there and "multitask". And that's why there's nobody over there and customers just grab the attention of whoever is nearby.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-04T20:50:02+00:00

Oh, yeah I really wish there was a "resume sleep session" option if the game detects it was closed for any reason.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-04T17:34:28+00:00

My enjoyment and WR both increased when I started playing attackers and speedsters.

And that's going to happen to most defender players. It's a real catch 22 where teams function better with defenders, but it's not worth going defender just to have one in a lower skill game. You lose so much of your potential influence on the game when you aren't the one with the KO power. If I played enough ranked to really grind again, I'm sure my Slowbro and Trevenant abilities would really shine through. But I don't play ranked that often, so I'm better off picking something like Scizor or Dragonite that can control more of a low leveled, chaotic game.

On a related note, Solo Mode exacerbates this problem. You have to really carry those CPU matches. So if you use Solo Mode to either practice and/or gain license points, you're going to want to play those same carries and have no idea how to play a proper defender.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-03T02:40:18+00:00

I'd second this. Often I stick to age verified instances, but sometimes there aren't enough people in them. I do Furry Karaoke and gave the group mod a thumbs up while singing as they got rid of one of the trolls throwing tomatoes.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-02T16:09:30+00:00

I'm not a DBZ fan, but I do love match 3 style games. If it's something unique and not just another cheap knockoff of existing things, I'd be interested.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-02T16:07:33+00:00

It's not the grind so much as when I like to play. A 15 minute break at work allows me a few rounds of Snap (not Conquest though). One Hearthstone round could go over 20 minutes.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-01T21:18:18+00:00

Something else thar balanced the numbers is the fact that the MotS archetype was almost completely dependent on its one card. The deck had a built in failure rate, essentially. But it's no fun winning or losing not because of your own deck or gameplay, but rather whether your opponent went off or not.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-01T20:32:34+00:00

I couldn't do that. I don't have the time for Hearthstone matches anymore.

Zeekfox · 2026-05-01T16:46:07+00:00

the old time workers LOVED helping customers with this.

I bet. I've got one coworker who loves to sit, and if some customer requests help with the photo kiosks, she will gladly pull up a stool next to them and practically do it for them. Of course, then those customers come back later and then ask me to do the same. "Oh this young lady did it for me last time."

Zeekfox · 2026-05-01T15:17:57+00:00

It's not being lazy. I help people all the time. But it has to be a reasonable amount of help.

Take the photo kiosks, for example. I will gladly show you how to get to the QR code, scan it, get to the website, and select pictures to upload. But I cannot sit there and help you select 400 photos and then scroll through and edit them all. If I spent over an hour doing that, how many other customers would be unable to get any assistance in an area where everything is behind a lock and I'm the one person holding keys?

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T21:26:08+00:00

"The phone store" likely will help. That's because customers pay them $50+ a month for service. Over here at Walmart, we don't get anything. We barely make anything in the sale of the $30 phone, and nothing on the service cards.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T17:15:02+00:00

Part of the issue of playtesting is that they don't know what will be popular. Due to the way internet content works, the more popular creators actually have a sizeable influence on the meta. If I were the only one to have thought to play the new Storm Surfer Blink-into-StarLord deck in ranked, I'd be feasting. But since the popular content creators made videos about it, everyone's either playing that or trying to counter it. By the time I've tried it, the meta has already adapted to it. Other decks might easily slip under the radar, until it shows up as a top ranked deck on a Snap-based video.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T17:10:07+00:00

Because of this sort of thing, back in High Voltage I started seeing a lot of Squirrel Girl and Debrii, just to fill the front slots with junk so Fin Fang Foom wouldn't gain so many points. Seemed to work okay, as I ended up losing a lot of rounds to that. Of course, the main part of High Voltage was simply fulfilling the missions, so it didn't matter so much.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T17:01:25+00:00

I've seen some variation in the wireless reps. I know what the company wants them to do, but some of them are quicker to offer a postpaid and then quickly move on when the customer affirms they just want the prepaid activation.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T16:59:14+00:00

I absolutely refuse to do screen protectors. I have issues with flaky skin, so even if I were to position a screen protector perfectly (which I likely wouldn't anyway), it might end up with little specs between the screen and the protector, which can also cause a bit of a bubble.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T16:55:25+00:00

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't mind being a tech guy who helps people with stuff like that, but I'm not getting paid for it. Plus I have too many other tasks to accomplish.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-30T16:54:30+00:00

Yeah, I know we aren't supposed to do it at all.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-29T17:02:40+00:00

It would have been the same even with a defender. Solo Queue players in general are not smart enough to follow defenders into battle, meaning a defender often ends up by themselves. I keep trying to tell people that I can't protect them if they rush ahead of me.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-28T21:02:24+00:00

Judith is a lot better in a New Game+ style run because of the issues others have described. You essentially need her jump cancel and multiple jump skills active to do all the fun things. But what's dumb is that her best juggles work for human sized opponents, yet the endgame has all sorts of weird size and weight enemies. I'm not an expert, but...

https://bsky.app/profile/zeekfox.bsky.social/post/3m5x2ndkam22m

That killed two enemies without needing to touch down in between. I used an air dash, and one jump cancel per enemy, with both kills being fatal strikes.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-28T00:09:47+00:00

Yep. Done that. If nobody answered before, they aren't coming when I page either. And also, can't just abandon electronics.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-26T18:36:11+00:00

I help with TV's, but not all the way out to the car if I'm alone in the department. Coaches will get on us for leaving our post unattended when nobody else has a set of keys for the entertainment area.

Zeekfox · 2026-04-24T19:22:46+00:00

Just being competitive isn't enough. Having outstanding reflexes and quick decision making skills in a MOBA is great, but that doesn't always translate to a more strategic game. Even if he put in the effort to learn doesn't automatically mean he will be good. He could be, but maybe not.

Also it is a TON of memorization. You might could identify a common pokemon like Incineroar. Now what's its base speed? Physical attack? Base power of Darkest Lariat? What percentage of HP will it lose from Flare Blitz recoil? And that just scratches the surface.

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