AO3 put a limit on tags. and I was reading the comments (and commenting) and found some neat things to read from that.

My "use people's bookmarks to find fic" has been a pretty good strategy.

I updated the tags on my stories just because I figured and changed the rating on some and then checked the stats since I don't pay attetion.

The story with the most hits is Biogenesis (Smallville) with 365 (I mean these predate AO3 and are short works that are more character studies so not expecting anything great).

The story with the most kudos at 11 is Variations of a Kiss (Smallville), it's been bookmarked twice and it got kudos yesterday.

I kind of feel bad that they have so little kudos. But the summaries are basic, I didn't use too many tags and they are older and there is only 5 of my stories on A03. I'm pretty sure I lost a few others. I never wrote much.

It's really cool to get a kudo in email because it's like -oh! someone found it! and they liked it!

I haven't written anything in a long time and there's just no inspiration or stories I want to tell so I just don't.

Sunday at work a used condom was found in the men's dressing room.

It's not the first time a used condom has been found in the store. People have been caught having sex in the fitting rooms before and, I didn't know this, but a couple holiday seasons ago a couple was caught ON THE SALESFLOOR (in a corner mind but still on the salesfloor) with the chick giving her guy a blow job.

It's gross. It's gross seeing it, it's gross dealing with the aftermath.

I've read a few fanfics where there is public sex like in a bathroom or a fitting room or the library stacks or something and my reaction is always NOOOOO!!!!!! No please no. At the least have them do it in a car in the parking lot. Or a parking garage. It's more private. (Fun Fact: One of JEB Bush's sons got caught having sex with his then girlfriend in a car in the parking lot of the "other" mall in Tallahassee. Which I guess is better than JEB's other son who was stalking/harassing his ex).

We also had a bunch of call outs on Sunday so they were people who got off before we closed if they could work later and those who worked until close if we could take a half hour lunch instead of an hour. It wasn't mandatory and I understood why, if we are under too many hours then next month our hours will be cut. You would have thought they were doing this for some arbitrary reason the way some people complained.

Schools started here today. Which hopefully means the end of the kids department getting completely destroyed. Saturday I was trying to do recovery in one area and had to give up and move to another section of kids because too many people were still shopping and as soon as I got something looking nice it got messed up again, like you couldn't tell I had done anything.

Yesterday it seemed to be Obvious question day. I had a customer who was holding some Small Girls clothes and asks me what size a small is, I wasn't sure if she had the little girls of the older girls and she tells me she's got the 7-16 size girls. I told her a small would be 7/8, and she asks me "so a 7 is the smallest size".

I had to try very hard not to be sarcastic when I said "yes, 7 is the smallest size in the 7-16 sizes".

And then later someone asked me about open fitting rooms so I directed them to the one in Juniors, referred to it as juniors and she says "oh you have a juniors department? where is it?" So I give her the directions again, but kind of downplay the fitting room part. I was pointing because we were over half way from it- all she had to do was walk to the end of the building and it was the corner the walk way deadended in, she'll see the clearance and where the fitting rooms are and that's where it starts (at least on that side). She then asks where I said the fitting rooms were.


Which is a little less frustrating than when someone asks if something is availble in a certain color and I say no it's only available in black (for example) and then they keep asking about different colors. Nope, not red, not white, not beige, only black. That's it.

My team lead left, well he got promoted.. our former manager (who is now a regional manager) recruited him to be a team manager at a store where he is based and our store tried to offer him more money and a promotion but it would have been more sales focused and he didn't want that. Plus moving gave him a fresh start where people would only know him as a manager.

The team lead that was supposed to switch into his place gave his notice. So now we are down an operations lead and a fufillment lead. Which is not where we want to be at this point in Q3. I don't know what they are going to do. I'm hoping they can get someone from another store to transfer in at one of the positions because we don't need 2 brand new people coming in.

Several other people have left. One person left because she didn't like how much she was getting paid (she actually told me at one point and I don't blame her for that) and she felt like she was constantly singled out by managers and getting in trouble. That was more her fault, when she first started she would wander from where she was supposed to and they were constantly having to page her to get her back to her area. Sometimes she was doing go backs but she would chat or whatever. And she would shop on the clock AND hoard stuff for herself. She got transferred to a different department and the wandering kind of stopped but I know she was still holding stuff to buy and getting talked to about that. So she developed a rep and then didn't do anything to correct it.

Racist Co Worker is quitting! I think next week is her last day. I overheard someone saying she had changed her mind a few times but I think she has a definite end date and I don't think they'll let her change it. I'm sure I have other co workers who are racist but she is the only one who lets that come out at work.

So I've started watching The Expanse as well as Shameless.

I 've also been back on Tumblr so it's pretty much Shameless, Amos Burton, Supernatural , Witcher, and soem shows I don't follow but people I follow do so I see those.

Anyway it's got me in the mood for vids and I am trying to figure out where to start. There is stuff on youtube but it's... there's a lot of , basically scenes cut to go over songs but they have the dialouge all in tact. I do not like this. It's hard for me to process both the lyrics and the dialouge- especially when they are going on at the same time. But also I prefer vids that rely on the viewers knowledge of the source material adn editing to tell stories. I realize that something like Shameless might end up being more talkign heads at times but there is plenty of action in The Expanse!

So now I need to deep dive into Dreamwidth to find some vids.

I have, apparently, skimmed through all of Shameless. I've seen it mentioned, knew it was around, never really watched it. Watched some of the original UK show but not a lot. I started watching it and then just skimmed around mostly watching the Ian/Mickey stuff, which means I missed a lot of the show.

How the hell does Frank Gallagher get all the women? I'm very confused.

So now I'm poking around AO3 trying to figure out good stuff to read and I'm about to start poking around Dreamwidth.

I'm really intrigued by Mickey and his character development.

I'm tired. Why could I possibly be tired? I went from walking a decent amount to walking an insane amount at work---I'm doing about 30,000 + steps a day since moving to Buy online Pick up In Store (BOPIS) Picking person. I'm in the group text thing now as well. It feels all official

Also there's been more stress as people are trying to figure out things and we are realizing that we don't have staffing coverage. Today and tomorrow almost all the people working in BOPIS are off. Because most of us weren't scheduled for BOPIS when the schedule was made. I did notice the schedule was taken down so adjustments are being made. And there is the stress of trying to find things in the ever dwindling number of merchandise for some things. Like some areas look really picked over and some are super full and I can't even figure out the logic on most of it. And we have tons of new brands we are carrying since a lot of the ones we were carrying wanted us to order the same amount this year as last. (this has been happening since spring/summer).

AND we are now getting spring/summer items in but also winter items in. I don't get it but I guess we are being sent what we have.

I have way more customer interaction than I did picking fulfillment, not sure why. But it's getting tiring having to deal with customers who want to pay me for items instead of finding a checckout or wait in line. Or have them say it's so "sad" to see our store failing. It's not failing! Most of the items are going out the door we just don't have as much as last year so we won't have as much clearance.

The big focus is on BOPIS. And yesterday when I got in I got a call and was asked to pull a ship to home list, which I thought was odd becaue there wasn't that many items in the queue compared to the number of people we had. But I worked on my list and I could see there were questions about aging orders for BOPIS so I was tryign to get through everything as fast as I could.

Then the person who asked me to pull for ship to home found me and was like "you're going to hate me" and said when I finished I needed to switch over to BOPIS "Nick (the store manager) and I had a talk about it". I did not hate her, I was glad.

THEN Nick sends out this long text about how BOPIS is our #1 priority and most of our resources are to focus on that.

sooo.. that's how that went.

a brief Second Life rant

I get so tired of people who just act so helpless all the time and want you to spoonfeed them everything. They are in a store group chat and they obviously shop at the store and yet "can you send me a tp?" (TP is teleport, they are asking someone to send them a link to the store or a landmark to get there, instead of looking for a landmark in their inventory, looking through their teleport history or using search to find the store, or looking through group notices OR looking at the gruop profile, clicking on the group owner's profiel and finding the link in their profile). Or the person's account is years old, they talk about how they are a shopaholic in their profile or they do things like photography or like to decorate or sometimes even build and then act like they dont' knw how to do anything AT ALL .

I get there are things like bakes on mesh that can seem a little tricky but then people act like they don't know how to use an applier. "oooh I've never changed my skin..." but surely that person has used a HUD of some kind to change the pattern of their clothes or an AO or something.

I've even had people claim they don't know how to use search.

Or "Can someone send me the latest " No it's in the fucking notices, get it like everyone else did and go back and look in the notices.

Although I had a friend who said she couldn't seen notices because apparently there is a Firestorm skin that doesn't show group notices? or at least attachments or something. And once I spent a half hour trying to help someone use an applier and got more and more frustrated until I realized that this person had somehow never learned how to open a box (!??!) despite claiming to be in SL almost daily for months and had been shopping various places. And hitting up all the freebie places but apparently one of the basic steps to living in SL alluded them and it still took me way to long to explain how to rez a box, open it, take into inventory, find the folder, and then wear the items , use the HUD.

I now try to spend my time just helping people figure out Bakes on Mesh because I think it's easy and people at least have figured out how to work a mesh body to some degree in order to get to the point of trying to do Bakes on Mesh. I've found most people and notecards make it seem way more complicated than it is.

I found the Die Hard story I was looking for. I wasn't accidentally combining 2 stories I was thinking that the one story was really 2. So..now I just need to find the other story my brain has decided I need to read.

I saw The Old Guard and I really liked it, loved almost all the fight scenes. Had some issues with the way they were shot--- a couple times it was too close up and I wanted to be able to see more.

I feel terrible for saying this but I really wasn't impressed with Joe's love speech. I mean I liked the words , the words were fine, the delivery was... too rehearsed in a way. You know how in Ocean's Eleven Danny makes his pitch to Rusty and then asks if it was rushed? Joe's speech felt rushed. It felt rushed and like he was reciting Shakespeare or something... and starts hurrying instead of feeling more organic.

Anyway I went looking for vids for The Old Guard, it's a movie there's not a ton of material and I was just poking around on youtube and OH GOD they ALL use dialog from the movie over the music. I hate that in vids. Make your vid strong enough I don't need the dialog to understand what you are trying to convey. That bugs me and the talkign head clips over lyrics where if you know the source it makes sense to use that scene but there's nothing going on in the scene to actually convey what the lyrics are saying. I've watched vids where I have no or very little knowledge of the source material. I do realize there isn't a lot of Nicky/Joe footage to use and also that my No Talking over The Song is my personal preference I like vids where the song and the video do enough of the talking.

Apparently the game is on massive sale on Steam and is like $15 so now I own Witcher 3.

So Tired. So very tired. And it was just 6 hours today. Apparently I missed one of the busiest days we had yesterday so yay that.

Didn't get much of a break. Would rather been home reading. I really need to read The Last Wish instead of reading fanfic but I keep reading stuff and seeing the different variations of the characters, but I really need to read more of the book.

I have one more episode of the show and I'm putting it off until tomorrow. I wish the series was longer. Not 22 episodes or whatever but maybe 12 would have been nice, they could have developed some of the relationships more or showed more of what a witcher is. Although with keeping with just the story lines and "action" it's kind of how I prefer my video games.. (I skip the cinematics and get bored by the storyline, I Just want window dressing for fighting stuff....which I then do really really badly)