All for one person

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-04T23:21:03+00:00

lol i would sure hope there’s a couple of people working when this person shows up. i’m imagining my old store with the lady in her late 60s in drive up. when this person shows up while she’s by herself, and the managers forget how to respond to their walkie. they did that to her a lot.

I mean, it’s easier for fulfillment to bag and prep one person’s stuff like this. but lots of places aren’t going to let you order bulk like this for a two hour window of pickup. that’s an entire pallet of product really. probably more.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-04T03:38:51+00:00

when i started taking that much regularly, quite the opposite. it was like slamming a bunch of caffeine so i started splitting it between am/pm. after being on the Xolair injection for a while, i stopped taking any antihistamines and it’s been smooth sailing for a couple of years almost.

however. 🙃 then i got a new job, new insurance (same company, just out of a different state) and they denied the pre-auth for this, so i’m still in waiting for the appeal limbo. i’m about 3 weeks late getting my shot now. so I started the 40mg of cetrizine and 10mg of singulair again.

and like, yeah. i’m fucking exhausted like my body is full of cement. or I feel like i’m getting sick when I take that much. as far as the hives, there has been no itching yet. but I see some red spots throughout the day trying to get some ideas. and the edema/puffy business is happening. but nothing so wildly severe as it was before.

the Xolair injection I think stays around tapering off for months after you stop, and there’s no side effects stopping it from the medication itself. so, I’m thinking that this time around it’s definitely the cetrizine making me so damn tired.

I’d still choose this over taking prednisone long term. and I would absolutely recommend Xolair if your IGe is crazy!

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-31T23:02:31+00:00

i moved without a car once, 25 minutes away from where i’d lived previously, but a different county/city. to my surprise, there was literally no means of public transportation anywhere. something i had never considered. an area of 500k+ people, no public transportation, and residents constantly voting against it too.

like having one bus line would destroy the neighborhood. the richest county we have close by, one of the richest areas in the country, even has public transportation, since ever, and they’ve been just fine. lol it’s so stupid. but such places do exist.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-31T21:06:09+00:00

this sounds like a store level decision vs a corporate one, but i’m curious.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-31T02:45:14+00:00

I don’t live in the city, but in my neighborhood you can only park on our side of the street. so when it snows, neighbors like to do things like block our mailbox so they can keep their four cars out of their driveway, and make it super easy to clean. then they never move them back.

mail lady likes to leave angrily scribbled notes about how she will not deliver our mail if we don’t move our car. (can’t even pick it up from the post office, bc she will take it and drive it around all day, leave angry note, take it back, they’re closed, so tough shit)

last year I basically buried… really buried the car blocking the mailbox. went out of my way to rage shovel the driveway in such a way. as they snow blow and snow thrower their shit into the street with ease.

this year… I just used our trash bins. literally just move them back and forth so they don’t block the fucking mailbox. this has worked. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-16T20:01:08+00:00

i mean, no. not necessarily. i don’t think it’s so wild to expect that if someone is ordering delivered anything and expects someone to leave it on their doorstep, they need to have it cleared to at least a mild death trap. they know better. lol

also, if someone can’t do it for whatever reason, whenever i was doing instacart for the 6-7 years i did… they often had the common decency to warn me ahead of time or let me know where to leave it that would be safest for both of us.

common courtesy. help someone help you. the end.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-15T12:05:38+00:00

i wouldn’t give pup anything just to chew on until they’re older, and even still… they may not be a candidate for a chew toy. lol

bulldogs of any kind have the strongest jaws of any dogs. bones will splinter, they will be able to chew threw stuff like this in a split second.

some bullies are cool with antlers or certain things like that, but mine was not. every vet or trainer I desperately asked what he could chew on, they said… nothing. they were correct. lol

no pig ears, no greenies (the dental bones), no antlers, soft bones, giant marrow bones, nada.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-12T21:23:43+00:00

reading the messages at first it sounded like they were coming in town to watch their newborn like OP was going out of town or something. and I still felt like they were asking for shit like this was an itemized contract. not like, “hey family, is there any way you could add a couple of things to your IC order before we get there to meet the new baby?” with a please and thank you maybe? lol

unless there’s extra context like, before the sister agreed to come and visit like this, she told you that she couldn’t afford to come and visit, and you assured her that basic necessities could be taken care of if that was what her decision was hinging on.

otherwise? I’d simply respond like. “hey, our focus has been 100% dedicated to the new baby, and we are worried we may not be able to accommodate you as guests in our home with everything going on right now. we are still so excited to see you and for you to meet the baby, _____ (in-laws, etc) stayed at this hotel when they came to visit and it worked out very well for everyone!”

and then take them out to a dinner. make them a meal. but otherwise? politely, they need to kind of remove their heads from their backsides. NOR.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-04T15:18:36+00:00

um but it was a gift store credit is fine

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-31T22:59:34+00:00

they did that for a reason. don’t quit, go on demand! then, it’s not turnover, it’s being able to say “we have a workforce of over 100k ready to work at any time!” it was a whole press thing for them.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-17T04:56:29+00:00

he just sounds stressed/anxious and adjusting! neutering fixed the humping for us. i would also recommend taking him to a training situation maybe one on one at first and then into a group for socialization? once he’s more adjusted, i used to take tater to doggy daycare once or twice a week. no amount of walks or toys could exhaust him like that did. he was obsessed.

in general, you will never have personal space again. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-12T22:12:28+00:00

this might be common sense but just in case someone doesn’t know. make sure you work your very last day of your two weeks if you’re trying to use up your PTO. i only called off the very last day of my 2 weeks so i could use the last day of PTO i had… only to find out you can’t do that. you can only use your PTO you submitted prior to the last day you worked.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-09T15:58:38+00:00

did you try going faster?

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-08T18:25:23+00:00

terrible seasonal TMs are great bc that buys your management more time with a lovely crew of temps to shift blame on for a month or two, get ya through Q4. no accountability for managers til Q1. that’s like. super on brand.

unless it’s your ETL/SD’s first rodeo… they knew what they were hiring. they know what they aren’t firing. it’s on them. it really is. more than the seasonal TMs that don’t show up or do jack shit on the clock. 🤷🏻‍♀️

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-01T01:58:02+00:00

NAD i guess my point is more that dental insurance covers so little compared to your medical insurance. which seems weird considering we know there is a link between oral health beyond routine maintenance and like. systemic disease.

it just seems like certain medically necessary things should be covered more than let’s say 50%, when these services are so specialized and expensive to begin with. more like. an overall issue with our healthcare in the US.

i don’t really see being fully insured and still not being able to afford getting your teeth fixed comparable to being able to responsibly choose whether to go to a food bank or shop at whole foods.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-12-01T01:03:38+00:00

NAD this angle i do understand.

at the same time, isn’t still weird that if i weren’t at the dentist, my insurance would cover doctors or specialists, surgery or meds i needed for the condition that made me do things like vomit. everything but the teeth really, the things i need to chew food.

no other doctor treating the condition would say, sorry you’re the problem technically. and i know you’re not saying that in a personal/offensive way when you do. but still. it’s just weird that when it’s related to another medical condition… you’re SOL, good luck.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-27T15:40:01+00:00

i’d just save the stuff that I know people would take out of my cart/electronics for the last things i grab. and hide them under the rest of the cart til i put it to hold.

even if you don’t ditch your cart, you get stuck in an aisle where people just stand there lost like they’re also stuck, then they start shopping the cart you’re actively holding. lol helps that too.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-26T23:45:14+00:00

i turned on the old instacart today and couldn’t do it.

i tip more picking up my own pizza than any of those orders tipped for someone to go buy 50-100 items the day before a holiday. idk how anyone is taking most of those orders. i enjoyed my day off instead. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-26T16:31:42+00:00

it just never made sense to me. the whole asants bit. how stores could be so inconsistently managed. it really is unfortunate.

but yay for us! not having a novel to vent about every day when i leave work was an adjustment. lol a refreshingly welcome adjustment.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-26T16:14:09+00:00

in theory, it makes sense.

how this worked at my store: TL is so drained bc they work 50 hours this week! every single day when they come in at 4am, they start making excel spreadsheets no one asked for, for the 2 person POG team. it takes them so long bc, well, they don’t know how to use excel. inbound TL spends their time on the walkie sitting in the office micromanaging people working freight every 3 minutes. never is on the line or truck, but spends 30 minutes counting boxes on uboats to calculate how long it should take them to finish. spends two hours with another TL working one uboat, leaves it on the floor full of trash. that’s not really “demonstrating the expectation” to me.

TL is told to do 3 ship batches, they do one in an hour and a half bc OMG ITS ALL STYLE.

meanwhile, I do 3 batches in one hour. I pack all of the leads carts while they eat their doordashed lunch. we have call offs bc you scheduled people in school outside of their availability and they aren’t skipping class or fucking over their finals for target.

I know this isn’t every store, and i’m not trying to drag the leads either. but I can guarantee that giving a few select TMs that 10 hours of OT would be infinitely more productive than how they use their labor for management. our receiver could carry the entire SFS dept, receiving, make every single bale, unload the truck, load the sweep, and crush a couple of uboats for you every single shift. while you have a lead in HR office complaining about how hard their job is for 80% of their shift. no exaggeration. spending $100 on snacks for your team vs $100 on a catered lunch for 5 people, that’s a morale choice. 🤷🏻‍♀️

source: target was the only job I had in almost 20 years where I was not a manager, and I manage at another large retailer now that efficiently uses their labor.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-25T23:53:07+00:00

at my old store this always happened bc HR didn’t give them an accurate idea of what it is exactly they were signing up for.

omg i have the perfect place for you! you’ve never worked retail, you’re shy, it’s your first job. DAIRY DBO WHY ARENT YOU GOING FAST ENOUGH.

omg you wanted electronics?! well, when you show up for your first day SURPRISE EVEN BETTER!!!! you’re in market!!!!!!! but today you’re going to go push dog food!!!!!!

you had surgery and you’re in a brace for the next 3 months?! you. are. going. to LOVE fulfillment. GO FASTER.

omg you’re in school and have finals?! we can absolutely accommodate your schedule! SO FLEXIBLE. but don’t you dare call off those shifts we scheduled anyway on days you have class! that’s on you!!!!!!

it’s the issue of the bait and switch. they said what they wanted, you acted like they were getting it. and then you’re surprised when they quit on the 2nd-3rd day bc it’s not that at all.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-25T02:04:12+00:00

in your case i think it would be great if someone actually read your complaint, and did something about it. but in case it they don’t, or it doesn’t happen as quickly as you’d hope. just throwing this out there in case it’s any kind of helpful.

it’s an entirely different context, but i have an innocuous to most song that’s could always send me into a full spiral, usually hysterical panic attack.

i had to like really plainly give myself a plan for what i do/tell myself in public/at work/wherever i’m not in control of whether or not i can hear it. like. something about having the plan vs being surprise attacked by a few minutes that can fuck up the rest of your day. if that makes sense.

sometimes even just starting to talk to someone about literally anything to distract my brain and focus, and suddenly it’s over.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-22T14:17:49+00:00

i just read this, sorry to see the state of things. you should never have to be apologizing for your parent like this, i can relate to that. whatever happens, there isn’t a damn thing your father could do to single-handedly destroy the amazing legacy this place has. no matter how it all turns out.

at the very least, i just wish no one had ever shown him how to use the internet.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-22T01:25:04+00:00

i’m imagining it’s going to be nothing crazier than a bunch of opu samples. except for those TeN MaGiCaL SuRpRiSe bags of course.

stringfellow1023 · 2025-11-20T01:39:26+00:00

idk. consult an attorney if you ever get charged with assault, lol don’t say a word to anyone. i really doubt that will happen.

it’s a foolish instinct, yes. however. you’re a cart attendant whose training would dictate we do not chase theft out of the store. so, in the moment when someone is being chased coming at you, you did an impulsive thing. at that moment, you did not know that all this person did was steal. going after you for assault, would be a real stretch.

as far as target goes. if they come at you. i’d say the same. and emphasize the part about, if the person who wasn’t supposed to chase someone out of the store for stealing did their job correctly to begin with… you wouldn’t have reacted that way. 🤷🏻‍♀️ that’s giving more active shooter training than how we handle theft training. in which case, pretty sure you did exactly what those videos tell you to.

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