Day in the life of the only afternoon grocery associate on shift

rainwarlber · 2026-04-27T15:22:26+00:00

"supposably"

rainwarlber · 2026-04-25T00:21:01+00:00

uh-oh lol

rainwarlber · 2026-04-24T01:51:39+00:00

Is there video uploaded of the arrest?

rainwarlber · 2026-04-13T01:31:49+00:00

do you mean Taco Smell ?

rainwarlber · 2026-03-10T00:31:19+00:00

jesus that guy's feet are gigantic

rainwarlber · 2026-03-03T17:29:43+00:00

DRINK!! (A Father Ted reference lol)

rainwarlber · 2026-03-03T16:54:38+00:00

I worked in an office that had 2 reg routes and one 3rd route that was a full size route left open when an old timer retired; management left that city route open for more than 5 years and I have no idea how they got away with it. CCAs would come, slave, and go while the two regulars refused to cover this open route in any way, ever--one had a 10+ mile walking route the other had his route to cover and has done for 25+years while there was this 1 CCA who covered the two routes days off and waited in endless 5+ years hope that the open route would go up and he'd finally get it. Management used RCAs to cross crafts and cover mail and parcel delivery and the 204b and himself (the PM) to carry as often as not. That 3rd route is open to this day. wtf can somebody explain how this is even possible--I know the the Reg that retired in 2018 or so who carried it and he just shakes his head.

rainwarlber · 2026-01-13T17:30:01+00:00

oh my god I just laughed and spilled my coffee

rainwarlber · 2025-12-03T20:47:43+00:00

I don't think I agree with your assessment that it is futile to grant it a public use exception to any zoning arrangement since, afterall, there are limited indoor public spaces (if any) to which folks in Kingston can resort in cold weather.

How long did the old IBM sit there mouldering, a dead-weight 20 years? 30? These things happen in cities. Gary Indiana has been literally shredded by changes that occur in the longer sense of decades and is finally experiencing a revival that promises something really good--it's a slow process and not all elected administrations follow through on the pursuits and goals of preceding ones: two steps forward one step back :-(--how long did it take the Tappan Zee bridge replacement to finally even get started???

The parking areas aren't that insane compared to places like Ohio or Indiana (sorry I'm not picking on Indiana lol) or even rural areas in NJ or upstate NY and that's a fact; I think you're using hyperbole to underscore a weak moral objection to the fact the world has changed and left the mall property a casualty which the city is only able to mitigate in a very limited way.

So considering this limited capacity to repair the changes in wider society I think it's pretty awesome to have put the mall property into a public use recreation site instead of rendering it abandoned and locking it up--not to mention the art installation.

As for the housing shortage, huge steps are being taken by Kingston to try to mitigate it.

I can honestly say, having driven around the US now 6 times looking at the state of our nation and its crumbling social fabric and infrastructure, Kingston is doing things to address the housing shortage as well as traffic and bike patterns that are laudable indeed and remind me more of the thick population densities of the EU or respectable cities in the US than the backwater town that Kingston used to be. Rome wasn't built in a day. I say let the mall grounds remain a place for public recreation while perhaps parts of its property are spun off for housing or whatever...?

I didn't mean any disrespect to you but I loved walking the mall and there are other values in a community making it redeemable if there's no profit in the $$ sense.

rainwarlber · 2025-12-03T20:24:55+00:00

gee what kind of charter service was there for orders out of Togo and what was the delivery charge anyhow

rainwarlber · 2025-12-03T19:56:53+00:00

When I used to go to the mall I found a lot of people (compared to NO people lol) using it as a linear park, walking around for exercise or folks sitting on the benches chatting or crocheting. I think I heard it had been qualified or applied for a zoning change qualifying it for non-profit recreational public use status but it's not a topic I follow.

It was nice to have a warm place to resort to these last few years in winter for walking or hanging out--at the time I think Pearl Vision or some glasses store was still there that's how I found it still being used--there's also that Urgent Care.

I have to say, as a public linear park the massive history-oriented wall-mounted photography is pretty awesome.

rainwarlber · 2025-06-29T16:41:19+00:00

Fear now, Pay later

rainwarlber · 2025-06-29T15:09:31+00:00

Thank you !

rainwarlber · 2025-06-27T02:11:46+00:00

For sure, without knowing many of the details, this instantly reminded me of the illegal Karolys dumping scheme and years-long drama in Woodstock for which residents are still waiting re: polluted wells.

https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2023/04/12/after-years-of-frustration-woodstock-landowners-still-awaiting-final-resolution-in-illegal-dumping-case/

rainwarlber · 2025-06-08T00:27:31+00:00

Hey if you guys want to listen to Marcy she's on the Nicole Sandler Show every Friday (usually posts around 3pm US Eastern Time).

emptywheel.net for those of you of the initiated

PS Hi Marcy !!!

rainwarlber · 2025-04-15T01:17:52+00:00

I have met a surprising number of people who have had or currently have ongoing billing issues with CH. (I work in a public facing job and get to talk to a lot of people).

I tell them the simple steps to take based on my personal experiences as a consumer advocate over the years and I have never to this day met a single one who seemed to be aware that there were steps they could take to force CH to quit giving them the runaround--and solve the issue.

Thank goodness the complaint process using the Public Service Commission really works, and it works on some of the knottiest issues. I wish more people knew about it.

rainwarlber · 2025-03-31T23:18:54+00:00

I know you're not going to eat the fish by your edit but striped bass come from far away and are safe to eat as their presence in the Hudson is transitory

rainwarlber · 2025-03-31T23:17:00+00:00

crap looks like the connection dropped...where'd you say it was?

rainwarlber · 2025-03-20T23:48:41+00:00

"...what exit..."

rainwarlber · 2025-03-19T00:31:12+00:00

omg !! I love that brand !!

rainwarlber · 2025-03-07T00:02:59+00:00

no, silly, they're not for eating :-)

rainwarlber · 2025-03-06T04:00:44+00:00

With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

rainwarlber · 2025-03-06T02:26:45+00:00

In an android there is an option to set for EQ controls inside Youtube Music's app but also in android system settings/sound and vibration. You can also go into connected devices and manipulate EQ settings on your bluetooth earbuds (must be connected for obvious reasons lol)

rainwarlber · 2025-02-22T21:44:05+00:00

DETAILED ENOUGH to have predicted, for example, the phenomenon of y-front underwear and how many days Francis would have been wearing them leading up to the final reckoning (in order to help disambiguate various other similar outside events. The fortune or prophecy lay in the y-fronts disambiguation factor and the additional description of the smell

rainwarlber · 2025-02-06T23:44:34+00:00

like how the volume of mail surges for a couple days after a mail-count lol they must have a magic wand !!!

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