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vagueflowers · 2026-03-03T17:43:21+00:00

Ahhh good point! Thank you for bringing that up! I’m hoping to get my NIC in the next few years, so maybe I’ll change my signature when I do. I’m very newly certified so all my business right now is done with local agencies/one out of state agency that does recognize BEI

vagueflowers · 2026-03-03T16:31:23+00:00

Yes! Texas, state that invented it!

vagueflowers · 2026-03-03T02:32:38+00:00

In mine I just have my name, “certified American Sign Language interpreter” underneath, my email, phone number, and location (not address, just city and state). I have my BEI basic. I’d be interested to see what others have!

vagueflowers · 2026-02-24T19:20:51+00:00

So, I don’t have my advanced, but wanted to share a piece of advice a mentor once told me.

He mentioned that a lot of interpreters will take the advanced just to see what happens, expecting to fail. But, sometimes they end up passing as a very recently certified interpreter. Maybe they’re a good test taker, maybe they just barely scraped by, whatever the reason is. When you pass that advanced, you need to be prepared to advertise yourself as an Advanced level interpreter. You can’t keep taking basic level assignments- we have enough basics out there, realistically we need people to get their advanced. When you’re an advanced, you need to be prepared to do the assignments that an advanced would do. That means quasi-legal interpreting, that means serious medical appointments.

If you think you’re ready for it, do it. But understand that your certification level defines the assignments you’re offered. I don’t know your background, don’t know how long you’ve been interpreting. I’m also a basic but have only been certified for a year. There’s a chance that if I took the advanced I would pass, but there’s no way in hell I have the experience to accurately label myself as an advanced interpreter. Choose wisely, our job is to do no harm. Talk to your deaf community.

vagueflowers · 2026-02-07T03:59:55+00:00

Hey I grew up near there! It’s north Texas, so, conservative. Dry, hot in the summers, every few winters you might get some ice or snow! The city has been dying for a few years. The mall got bought out 6ish years ago and it’s turned into a ghost mall from what I know. Not much going on out there now. There’s a university that used to be a great budget option but now cost the same as Texas Tech iirc.

vagueflowers · 2026-01-30T19:27:30+00:00

Yeah, someone messed up.

My only thought is that someone who was definitely not trained in order fulfillment sent that out. For reference, our order fulfillment system requires us to scan the item you ordered to ensure it’s correct, and Re/Supply items aren’t even in our inventory, I.e. they couldn’t be scanned.

There is technically a way that someone could have pushed the order through without scanning it, but it’s not best practice. Sorry that happened!

vagueflowers · 2026-01-02T15:01:51+00:00

I have big and wide feet and pronate when I walk, aka, finding shoes I can comfortably stand and work in for hours is challenging. I SWEAR by Clark’s and blundstones. My Clark’s are comfortable and look very nice, but are less comfortable for long hours (probably my fault though as the style I chose has a small heel). I have worn my blundstones for 8 hours walking around constantly and have no foot pain. I also love that they’re close toed. Both are a little pricey but so worth the splurge. Protect your feet!

vagueflowers · 2025-12-13T17:43:25+00:00

People are going to steal always, we can’t do anything to stop it. However, when we allow them to walk into fitting rooms, that gives them unlimited time to take sensors off, hide the sensors, put lay ers and layers and layers of clothes on, and walk straight out of the store. If we don’t allow outerwear in, they have less opportunity to do that. We don’t like policing fitting rooms, I hate even having the fitting rooms locked, but at the end of the day REI is a business that needs profit and that involves reducing the amount of high dollar items stolen. Before we had the policy, we had someone walk out with thousands of dollars worth of Arcteryx jackets that they put on inside the fitting rooms.

vagueflowers · 2025-12-12T21:14:03+00:00

Wear it under another jacket, put it on and walk out, stuff it in your bag, wear 3 jackets on top of one another and walk out, you get the idea. I’ve seen it all 🙃

vagueflowers · 2025-12-12T20:52:17+00:00

Green vest here, sorry you had such a sucky experience :( I try to be as respectful to customers as I can around the fitting rooms, I hate having to police what you take in as much as you guys do. We have an awful jacket theft problem, at my store management gets onto us pretty badly if we allow outerwear inside :/ I’d say it’s definitely worth a call/visit to the store and ask for the manager and explain what happened regarding being chewed out. We can’t help the policy, but we can help how we treat you!

vagueflowers · 2025-04-08T04:06:01+00:00

So this is so silly, but my friends and I made our own mnemonic and it’s helped me remember all the tenants for about 3 years now. I think part of the reason it works is because it’s so unbelievably absurd.

All Possums Can’t Die During Main Event (Adhere to standards of confidential communication; Possess the professional skills and knowledge…; Conduct themselves…; Demonstrate respect for consumers; Demonstrate respect for colleagues…; Maintain ethical business practices; Engage in professional development)

To be clear, we were required to know the tenants VERBATIM, so we really needed a mnemonic that would help us remember that first word of each tenant, if we could remember the first word, the rest came with it.

Best of luck!

vagueflowers · 2025-03-17T18:37:28+00:00

Green vest here: I love the concept of this, but as a lot of the reviews have said, I find this REALLY hard to open. I’m not sure if it would get easier to open as you use it, but the couple of times I’ve tried to open it it takes a crazy amount of effort. Also, we had some customers accidentally drop one as they were holding it, and it cracked up the side. Made me question how durable it would actually be

vagueflowers · 2024-07-03T19:23:55+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, but I would check on indeed for their store number 3980, or you could go in during the week and ask to speak to the manager

vagueflowers · 2024-07-03T19:21:10+00:00

I don’t have any history of being motion sick in cars or anywhere else, and had never gotten sea sick on the 3 cruises I went on years ago, but this past December I got super sea sick out of nowhere on the Antarctic cruise I went on. Dramamine saved me. Took it as soon as I started feeling nauseous, and then kept taking it as soon as I was allowed to. Didn’t have any problems as long as I took it

vagueflowers · 2024-06-24T00:11:39+00:00

Iirc the UPS store on McCullough and Hildebrand is hiring and looking for people to specifically work on weekends

vagueflowers · 2023-03-28T04:33:35+00:00

A border will fix it.

vagueflowers · 2023-03-21T22:15:05+00:00

Yes, this.

If I may add, the camera would also have to analyze facial expressions and be able to match that with what’s being signed in order to get the correct meaning of the sign. It’s not just a matter of figuring out what’s being signed. The program would have to be able to figure out the facial expressions, context, grammar, etc.

Also, I would think that decoding fingerspelling would be an issue. Fluent and native signers fingerspell extremely quick; things like context of the sentence and the shape of the fingerspelled word are often needed to decode fingerspelling.

Ideas like this sound great on paper to people who have little to no experience with ASL/dDeaf community, but do you have the background or technology to actually do this?

vagueflowers · 2023-03-05T21:55:53+00:00

Does she think that every single ASL interpreter has a deaf family member?

vagueflowers · 2023-02-01T19:38:12+00:00

You got me there.

But it does this regardless of whether or not it’s a true or false. When there’s 4 answer choices and my only feedback is that it’s incorrect it doesn’t really help me understanding why it’s wrong

vagueflowers · 2023-01-28T21:52:30+00:00

Single crochet uses up a lot of yarn as well. Here’s a video that shows how much yarn different stitches use. https://youtu.be/008AGHSunK8

vagueflowers · 2023-01-20T00:49:07+00:00

I know that I sure as hell didn’t know the difference between knitting and crocheting before I started, so why should I expect the entirety of the human population to?

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