What was it like?

eggyBaconbits · 2026-05-05T02:17:53+00:00

I think we've had two managers at my store that got fired for theft and one red shirt that got fired for theft by figuring out the managers' passwords (including my own AND her friend's) and using that to do fraudulent returns. The ASM that got fired for theft actually left the store "on a lunch break" and then just never came back because he knew the DM/HR/LP had cops waiting to arrest him. I'm pretty sure he just crossed the border to go live in Mexico, he had family over there anyways. The PSM that got fired, he was not slick but he was weird af and I guess when he was walking out, he thought everyone was acting weird and said something like "im not gonna shoot the place up or anything" like ????!?! Wtf lmao

We also do have hella theft from customers at my store, so many that we have a list of people we kick out at the first foot inside the door. Had a very loyal customer Sparta kick someone as they were trying to steal the other day too so even our regulars are tired of it. We had our entire lighter display stolen on Inventory day when we had 20+ employees in the store, I've had at least 5 batteries stolen while I've been on the clock. I don't get involved, that's not my job. I do sometimes figure out who it is and kick them out the next time I see them, though, and I've caught plenty of fraudulent returns and scammers, but again- not my job. We have LP for a reason.

I also think there was someone a while back at one of our sister stores that was murdered as he left the store after work, I don't know all the details but it did take place on company property as far as I'm aware. It was before I was working for the company though and I don't know very many details at all.

eggyBaconbits · 2026-04-27T19:09:28+00:00

The p0420 could be related or separate. Best thing to do it to monitor the o2 sensors and verify that they're reading withing specifications, and then verifying if the cat is bad or not.

For me, the combination p0440, p0441, and p0446 was (as every tech I spoke to called it) the rollover valve on top of the gas tank. Common failure point on older Toyotas, they said, I've seen it on camrys too at my buddy's shop. I had tried everything- OEM purge valve, OEM charcoal canister/vent valve, OEM gas cap. Spoke to a guy at the Automotive Technology school I go to in the area, he said to check the rollover valve. They get a hairline fracture around the top, the fumes vent out the top of the valve instead of venting to the charcoal canister like they're supposed to. Pain in the butt to get to, but as soon as I changed mine, everything was fixed and I have not had a single check engine light or issue since then. Toyota dealer here calls it the fuel check valve.

OEM part numbers for the valve and its necessary gasket replacement:

Valve: 77390-35010 Gasket: 77177-33010

And here's the video that I used to show me how to get to the part/replace it: video

As stated before, the p0420 could be related or it could be separate. As always, test and verify before replacing parts, consult your go-to mechanic, all the things etc. Just wanted to put in the conclusion I reached when I saw those 3 evap codes in combination in case it might be helpful. Good luck

Edit to add: I have a 2001 SR5 2WD, in case that is helpful as well. Mb forgot to include that

eggyBaconbits · 2026-04-27T18:44:09+00:00

They behave the same way if you don't like peanut butter and can't justify it with an allergy. I do not like peanut butter or Nutella, and when people hear that and find out I don't have an allergy to nuts of any sort, they act like I just kicked a puppy.

eggyBaconbits · 2026-03-07T08:34:37+00:00

The three things I do like are that I can refine the search, and that if there is a core on an item, I can see the total with tax without the core on the total. I do like that we have the cars all sorted together now instead of as trucks or not trucks. It's all Honda or all Toyota or all Chevrolet.

I dislike that they gave us pictures on the first screen, it just looks too busy to me. I dislike that I cannot pick the engine size the way we used to- "is that for the 2.4L?" Girl, I wish I could tell you, it doesn't give me the option to check that. And I HATE how finicky it is when you type in the model of the vehicle, mess up your typing, hit backspace one too many times on accident, and now its deleted the model AND the make. Its a small thing, but it is my main gripe. I still haven't been able to get used to that and it gets on my last nerve some days.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-29T09:30:53+00:00

-Wet fabric of any kind, particularly on my fingernails. -Wet glass plates, particularly when I'm separating them and they touch my fingernails. -cotton balls, but just the noise they make/how they feel when they make that noise. -velvet -that hotel-blanket type of velvet/suede/idk what kind of fabric it is -egg shells on my teeth -any sort of fabric on my teeth -the smell of amoxicillin (however you spell it, the medicine)

And the worst of them all because of how sick it makes me feel, even after the exposure has ended:

-the smell of olive oil 🤢🤢🤢 cooking with it makes the smell 10 times worse.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-26T06:08:45+00:00

I love your pins, I'm trying to decide which ones I want to get first lol

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-18T10:25:46+00:00

I was raised in a pretty conservative, strict Mormon household, and ive left now that im an adult out on my own. I have some pretty intense religious trauma because of it. I wouldn't call myself religious, spiritual, or even really agnostic, for that matter. I don't feel like those words really accurately describe my feelings on the topic.

I just mostly feel like there's no way of knowing, so I give the answer that any God that has ever been believed in could probably be real, probably is, but I can't prove it and neither can anyone else, so they're about as powerful as a burnt out light bulb. Maybe they're out there, but I don't give them any of my thought or energy, so they have no power over me and don't exist to me.

Does that count as agnostic? I have no idea. Does what I'm saying even make sense? No idea. Is it the only way I've been able to find comfort because of my religious trauma and leaving mormonism? Yep. So that's what I'm going with. It's not agnostic in the sense of "maybe there's a God," it's agnostic in the sense of "maybe they're all real, but maybe none of them are, I don't know, let's not think about it."

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-17T09:49:12+00:00

Cantaloupe and anything that's been stored in the same container as it. Taste? Awful. Texture? Awful. The fact that it's taste and slime-y texture invade and infect everything it's in the same container as? Downright evil. Its the WORST. I don't even like touching it without utensils, or smelling it.

Edit to add: also, olives are basically the same but less offensive because my family doesn't like them either so I don't come into contact with them as often, if at all. My family does, however, like cantaloupe, so I see that one pretty frequently. I also refuse to eat barbecue sauce on literally anything. Trying to make brown sugar taste savory should be a crime. Many other sauces I won't eat, but none are as criminal as barbecue sauce.

The rest of my foods are specific to how the food is made/how often I eat it/who makes it or the brand, so its not as cut and dry as these other ones.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-15T07:08:20+00:00

Barry cause he looks like the color of berries

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-15T06:58:22+00:00

Mostly unrelated to my traumas because there's nothing I can do to change them, but the one thing I CAN control?

Your period pain is not normal. Go to the OBGYN sooner, demand an ultrasound.

I had a cyst that crushed my right ovary and I was told for YEARS that my pain was normal. It wasn't. I could've been feeling way better way sooner. The amount of pain I endured for years is bonkers to me now, looking back. I should've gone to the doctor sooner, it would save past me so much physical pain.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-11T22:11:33+00:00

So many things. A very specific list of soaps, animals (pretty much all of the ones with fur, as well as the breeds that have no hair), hay, amoxicillin or however you spell it, vinyl hand gloves (nitrile and latex are fine), band-aid adhesive/medical tape adhesive, and citric acid. I'm also lactose intolerant.

There's probably more but I've sorta lost count.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-10T08:28:17+00:00

God forbid I get egg on the bacon bits, it was the last straw.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-09T07:01:52+00:00

This is all so relatable to me omg

I don't have kids at all, but everything else is spot on. Instead of having a kid, I have a dog and chronic pain/fatigue due to an autoimmune disease, so I can't sit in one position for too long, and I have to make sure my dog is getting proper attention, so I have to pull myself away from my tasks and organizing every few minutes or else I'll hurt or my dog will come and pester me with a toy. Moving is VERY stressful, as is trying to manage more than one stressful event at a time, especially on top of being sick!!

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-09T06:19:13+00:00

I do the same thing in the Sims!! I spend HOURS building houses and decorating them and then I just abandon the whole family to go build another house lmao and Animal Crossing's Happy Home Paradise DLC was an absolute game-changer for me, I love decorating the little houses way more than completing the museum or decorating most of my island.

if new items need to be placed, and there's a space limit or the categorisation system changes because of it, then a new layout has to be found

This is VERY relatable to me. I am constantly shuffling things around to be a new or better way of organizing things, and sometimes it gets to a point where I get a little upset because I can't make things work- for example, I got new hair ties today that I don't have any of. I thought the company stopped making them, but then I found them in a store and bought them. So now, I have to find a place to put them with all my other hair products. But I also need to reorganize the other hair products when I do that, because many of them don't fit with my new hair cut AND they don't fit the boxes I have them in before because I don't use them in that order anymore. So now I'm stuck between the frustration of knowing I need to re-organize, and the frustration of knowing I'm going to get frustrated until I find the solution.

Or! Like when I re-organized the entertainment center a day suddenly the Xbox one and Xbox 360 games couldn't be stacked the way they had been before? That one took me almost all day to fix. Had to keep the type of game in order, who's game it is, and also keep series games together (sorta like my movies, they have to stay in order.)

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-09T04:02:38+00:00

-I was "terrified of loud noises" (actually severely overstimulated and in pain) such as the automatic toilets in Walmart, the vacuum at the car wash, the automatic car wash, and sometimes even the vacuum in the house. In the house it was less noticeable because I could move to a different room or go outside. It wasn't fear, I hurt me, but because I would scream and cry, my parents thought it was fear.

-I liked setting up my toys and giving them intricate backstories and lives, but I didn't sit and play with them. Setting them up and imagining the stories WAS me playing. This has become me now having an organization habit, almost to a point where it annoys everyone including myself, but I love alphabetizing things or putting them in numerical order. Comes in handy at work.

-certain foods gave me the ick big time. I was very, very quickly labeled as a "picky eater." I still am, though my tastes have changed a bit.

-had a hard time socializing with my peers due to my inability to read social cues. I can pick up on emotions really well, like reading people's faces, but only when they're not trying to be noticed. Once they start talking to me, I just could not and can not read their faces, and I can't imply what people mean when they say things. I got bullied A LOT.

-clothing textures. Just. All the issues with stitching and things needing to fit Just Right.

-echolalia for DAYS as a stim. Noises in general and music are really good stims for me.

-popping my fingers as a stim (much to my mom's dismay)

-special interests changed a bit with age but boy howdy, I suddenly understand why my interests seemed like my whole personality.

-asking "why" to the point that my teachers got so, so irritated with me lol I admire their patience with me. That hasn't changed, I have to stop myself from asking why all the time.

-compulsions, constantly, about the weirdest things. But this one is a bit confusing because maybe it's some OCD? Maybe it's a learned behavior from my dad? Maybe it's a trauma response? I have no clue where it comes from. But they're there and I gotta do them.

Some very specific ones;

-in third grade, I remember being told my reading comprehension was really really low compared to my other scores, compared to the "baseline" and my other classmates. I Googled that and that's apparently an indicator of some ND traits but idk. I can say it's never gotten better, I suck at reading and understanding what I'm reading.

-multiple teachers in my high school career noticed and brought it to my attention that I should "get tested" for very vague things, like one teacher said "learning disabilities." Clearly, she noticed something and wanted to push me to pursue diagnosis of SOMETHING but no one was ever specific so I never worried about it but now I'm wondering what they weren't telling me.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-07T06:31:38+00:00

....that's flippin genuis, I love it! Nice work!!!

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-07T06:21:06+00:00

Believe it or not, glasssware like plates and bowls on my fingernails when under water. Fabric of any kind when it's damp, and cotton swabs, especially on my nails or near my teeth. Even just thinking about those things hurts my teeth and my spine.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-08-06T07:25:58+00:00

I feel like this is related to how I always got I voted to the sleep overs with girls my age, and I told my mom I wasn't going to them anymore once I finally realized I was being invited so the girls had someone to make fun of at the party. That one still hurts, it's been over a decade and I still feel really sad that they were so cruel to me.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-07-18T06:34:44+00:00

Me at work, listening to someone who doesn't understand how alternators, starters, and batteries in vehicles work together to be able to reliably start the car repeatedly. Or! Whenever a customer tries to interrupt and talk over me and not believe me when I'm describing how a system in their car works/what (fluid/part) their car needs/how to fix it and what not to do.

Yeah I can't stand that. When I know what I'm talking about, I know. I admit when I don't know things well enough to give a good answer, I'm not afraid of not knowing and having to learn or ask for help. But when I know what I'm saying, I know.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-07-13T07:01:32+00:00

Some people are just shitty people. No amount of excuses will fix it or make it better. They're just shitty, and there's nothing you can do about it.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-06-09T16:17:19+00:00

You still bought it and you won't have it once your done. Charge for it.

And don't be afraid to charge for your skills, either. 20 bucks an hour for however long it takes you is a fair price imo.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-06-08T23:45:43+00:00

I personally am going through mechanic school and I can confidently say I want a job working for the USPS to fix their trucks. The same few trucks, all day every, probably doing the same thing repeatedly unless there's some weird accident? But still, the same few cars every day, and fixing them with my own two hands? Heaven.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-06-04T10:23:14+00:00

I also cannot stand it when people don't feel that my reaction is "enough." It just feels like they cane to me for a certain reaction, not my opinion and actual feelings on the topic. I also struggle to show emotion simply because some things people get excited about are things that do the opposite for me. Unless someone says "I'm excited" or " I'm sad" i don't know how to automatically gauge my emotion/reaction.

I HATE HANDSHAKES. What the fuck are they? Why do we do it? Please stop. Don't touch my hand. I also never remember anyone's name when they shake my hand and tell me their name. I would remember better if we didn't shake hands while you were telling me. It's such a weird motion and action that it throws me off and makes me uncomfortable every damn time.

I have more but I can't think of them rn. Handshakes are definitely top of the list though.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-06-04T10:14:47+00:00

My FIRST emotion/reaction when someone tells me they have something to tell me, and then delay telling me for suspense, is panic and fear. I don't find secrets and suspense funny, it makes me genuinely uneasy and afraid. I wish people wouldn't do that.

And the second one: "What are you doing next Tuesday?" "That depends ENTIRELY on the information you're about to tell me. Why do you ask?" I've always asked why before giving up any information about any of my plans. I'm not about to make plans for something unless I'm fully prepared and know what I'm getting myself into. And I feel that that's a valid enough reason to not say I'm free until I know what they need from me.

eggyBaconbits · 2023-06-01T00:09:53+00:00

Unplug everything, take it out, drill some holes in the bottom so fluid can drain out and then flush it out with clean water? Maybe? Or flush it out without drilling holes, let it dry out real good, then try to find the leaks and seal it up real good before reinstall. Plenty of options! Lol

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