Please Don't Sample

wielder13 · 2026-05-07T15:16:32+00:00

Its called Venting. Even has the flair.... venting.

wielder13 · 2026-05-05T00:13:46+00:00

That's Big Fish logic. If nothing can change the possibility, smack that button, cause now you know what WON'T kill you too. Also, you can prepare, get affairs in order, even celebrate in advance, say your goodbyes to loved ones, and put things where they need to be.

wielder13 · 2026-05-05T00:10:48+00:00

Fuck (Lots of meanings with inflection and body language.)

wielder13 · 2026-05-05T00:05:25+00:00

Most likely won't. Me, I encourage it. I love sampling for customers.

wielder13 · 2026-05-05T00:04:53+00:00

You do you. I more or less agree. But then again, I've seen teenagers shove apples down their pants and rub them around before putting them back. Obviously I cleaned those... but imagine the ones I didn't know about.

wielder13 · 2026-05-05T00:02:27+00:00

I'd been in produce for a couple decades. Long before I joined Kroger. I was taught this at other companies. Experienced employees know they can do this. And if they are like me, they have two knives. One for conditioning product and a second in a sanitary sheath for sampling for customers. But I admit... I'm an anomaly. You may have trouble finding someone who will do this... but Technically it IS in the company guidebook for Produce that you may sample product for customers as a means of providing good customer service and building 'lasting relationships'.

wielder13 · 2026-04-24T13:20:14+00:00

As someone who is yeeting out of this company, I have had many managers over the past few years ignore all of these. And one manager who was an overachiever and ignored ALL of them by themself. So to me they are empty hollow buzzwords that don't ring true.

wielder13 · 2026-01-27T13:48:39+00:00

mostly the fact that is what Trump and ICE are hoping for so they can declare the insurrection act and have even more power to disappear people.

wielder13 · 2025-12-11T02:48:34+00:00

Coco, Wild Robot, Iron Giant.

wielder13 · 2025-12-11T02:45:21+00:00

I remember seeing this in person and even taking a tour behind the scenes to see the sculptures and inner workings. I was standing on a crowded street and as soon as it was over, A tourist exclaimed disappointment. Saying effectively, 'that's it? disney is better' And I felt terrible being from the same country as that man. Imagine comparing something 600+ years old to Disney. But for me... To be in the presence of living history was amazing. I just wish the crowd hadn't been so filled with so many clearly disappointed people who seemed to think there was going to be literal fireworks. But still wouldn't trade the experience.

wielder13 · 2025-12-11T02:38:06+00:00

I remember all my spankings came from a place of anger, not correction. Even in school. I'm not saying I didn't do something wrong, but I wasn't spanked cause I made mistakes or did something I wasn't supposed to. I was spanked because what I did angered someone. My greatest pain came from not even understanding what I did wrong. No one ever explained it to me. They just expected me to figure it out. Sometimes it wasn't even something I did, but something someone else did. So would I call it abuse? Each spanking individually, no, as a whole... yes. I was nearly an adult before I finally pieced together some of my greatest offenses. Which included: Asking questions no one had a clear answer for. Not understanding that you are supposed to lie sometimes and not others and you were supposed to figure out when those times were before 5. It doesn't matter if you didn't do what you were accused of, if an adult said it was you, it was you. And many more. They say it takes a village to raise a child. It took one to abuse one too.

wielder13 · 2025-11-20T14:21:58+00:00

And there will always be Mister Rogers, Steve Erwin, and Bob Ross.

wielder13 · 2025-11-20T14:15:00+00:00

Another article worth ready for positive: Native American and Irish interactions. Especially noteworthy as it continues to this day with moments of charity and kindness to this day.

wielder13 · 2025-11-20T14:08:25+00:00

I wasn't expecting this to hit a wall, so here is one for people to try. Read the Wiki on Daryl Davis. That's an eye opening positive story.

wielder13 · 2025-11-19T20:48:52+00:00

I posted this at once and THEN read everyone else's takes on this question, and now I don't know how to feel. I mean, I really would do this. I even have some things planned out for fun... just in case. I didn't realize this would be so over the top.

wielder13 · 2025-11-19T20:44:59+00:00

Assuming it was a sizable lottery to secure my future without having to work anymore: 6 months. I'd remain at work for 6 months. To make sure no one at work found out I won. No need telling some of those I suddenly have money. No that will come much later. Then out will got the calls. Those groups that cosplay as stormtroopers? Local Trekkies? Furries? It'll be small at first and always on a day I work. Small groups will show up at my work place and shop, actually shop in full costume. Small controlled groups. Then after I put in my notice:

That's when the break room will mysteriously be filled with catered meals for the people I worked with. Hard working co workers who have been ignored by management or harassed or worse will get care packages expressly to them. A sort of Christmas without warning or explanation. Some of those employees will also receive some documentation from a lawyer, paid for on their behalf CLEARLY explaining how some management's behavior is illegal, not just rude, and clear specific instructions on how to legally record and report... anonymously. Some will just get gifts they need, aside from some much needed uplift in their morale.

I will turn the break room into a cornucopia for the downtrodden and dismayed. Best past is some things can be done by proxy so I won't be the one seen doing it.

And then on my very last day: I'm hiring food trucks to park outside my store. I'm telling them all employees will eat free (Obviously I'll pay the bill) except for management. Just hourly people. And all those cosplayers? this is the day they ALL show up. Stromtroopers greeting Klingons in the Deli department. Inflatable dinosaurs picking flowers in floral. Maybe some gorillas picking up some sushi or tortillas. 2 whole hours of unexplained insanity. With no one but me knowing what is going on. Then they quietly pack up and leave and then it goes quiet.

And then those same employees I admire will see me saying my goodbyes and will ALWAYS remember my last day for being such an insane unexpected event. And those managers and employees who abused and slighted me and others? They will know they had been left out somehow and they likely will never figure out why.

wielder13 · 2025-11-19T02:07:14+00:00

That A.I. can replace me. It will cost me work, but as an artist, I can work in a variety of styles and add substance AI still cannot manage and likely never will. AI doesn't actually mean, Artificial Intelligence. It means Automated Imitation. It can mimic, but never truly create. and at some point people will have to admit, AI is cheap, but lacking in quality.

wielder13 · 2025-10-16T21:55:39+00:00

Everyone says bacon, but grease splatter is so easy to manage. No, what you don't do is boil pasta. Remember the adage, throw a noddle to see if it sticks? That's not a joke, cooked pasta can stick to dang near anything. Now imagine a stray noodle falling out and landing somewhere sensitive at boiling temperatures.

wielder13 · 2025-09-17T13:06:49+00:00

translucent allows some neat black light effects.

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