So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

Harp · Oct 11, 2021

LizzieMaine said:
Looks like the part of the pharmacy where the hard drugs are kept. Hopefully the opioid pushers who break in to steal the Oxycocet will mask up.

At the hood CVS even relatively mild medication is kept under locked plastic panels due to addictive theft.
The more expensive liquor ditto, though even my preferred poison Evan Williams bourbon is kept locked
though its cheap by comparison to other brands. I usually ask a clerk to open Sessame, then the under age
kid needs to fetch the supervisor, who opens the case and brings the bottle to the front where he or she
usually rings the sale. At fifteen bucks a throw that soldier can stand at attention on the shelf without
all the drill and ceremony.

Fifty150 · Oct 11, 2021

LizzieMaine said:
Looks like the part of the pharmacy where the hard drugs are kept. Hopefully the opioid pushers who break in to steal the Oxycocet will mask up.

That's just the door where the pharmacist, pharmacy techs, and cashiers enter. I suppose that sign is just there for liability. Management institutes some sort of chain wide mask policy, and follows up by posting signs. In the event that some worker files a claim of some sort, the lawyers can use that to defend the company.

There have been robberies where the thieves specifically stole the narcotics. So now the narcotics are in a safe.

With most retail operations, employee theft is worst than theft from the general public. It's the people behind the counter stealing the narcotics, or directing their friends on how to jump over the counter and go directly after the narcotics. I've seen several instances of each. As no thief off the street will know exactly where to go and what to take, after they jump over the pharmacy counter.

Surveillance systems are in place. Usually in retail operations, it's an employee who informs a manager, that another employee is stealing. Sometimes the managers are part of the theft. I've seen retail operations where a large majority of the store staff was stealing, for years.

And you would think that pharmacist, with their degree and professional license, are paid enough that they won't steal. But each case is unique. Every employee theft involves some sort of motivation. Personal use. Coercion. Personal finances. There's a lot of prescription strength medications which are sold at street level. A large volume of what is sold on the streets, comes right out of a pharmacy.

LizzieMaine · Oct 11, 2021

We had a Rite Aid here that was robbed for opioids almost once a week a few years ago, once by a character swinging a big sword. He got points, at least, for style.

Edward · Oct 11, 2021

Hercule said:
As for Ms.: I seems that any more, at least in the circles we find ourselves in, we tend to refer to all the women we deal with as "Miss". Unless obviously and decidedly older or in a position of certain respect It's probably just laziness, certainly not out of any lack of respect. Even the 90 year old neighbor we refer to as Miss So-and-so. She gives me hell when I call her "Mrs ..." "Thats my mother-in-law!" she scolds me.

When I was at Grammar school in the eighties, 'Miss' was a generic honourific for a female teacher. If using her name and she was married, Mrs X was said, but in the same way as a male teacher would be called 'Sir' if not using his name - Mr X - women teachers were always 'Miss'. I suspect this probably evolved in a time period when women of the social class who became teachers commonly stopped working at marriage, and then it was simply carried on as an established practice. We had a French teacher who was widely known as 'Dinger', despite the fact that by the time I started that school in 1986 she'd not used her 'maiden name' Bell in twenty years. Half the kids using the nickname didn't even understand its origin.

tonyb said:
Yes, of course. But I’m confident that a singular person wishing to be referred to as “they” would blow their/its top if called “it.”

That's precisely the issue. "It" has been so long used as a pejorative, in particular as a calculated slight towards those perceived as not conforming to gender and/or sexuality norms, that I really can't blame those who identify as non-binary nowadays for avoiding it.

Fifty150 said:
The Angels did as well. Now it's simply HELLS. No apostrophe. So there are multiple hells. That's more in line with the Buddhist thought there there are many hells.

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To the best of my knowledge, the MC never did use an apostrophe right from their foundation in 1948. I've read all sorts of claims over the years that this was a deliberate marker of them being different than the AVG squadron who inspired the name (and the Howard Hughes film before that). Who knows? The HA themselves will tell you, if you ask about the 'missing apostrophe' "...it is you who miss it. We don't."

Lands' End clothing brand put theirs in the wrong place by accident - something that in more recent decades was spun into an advertising campaign, the line being that they retained it as a reminder to always keep an eye on the details. I often suspect it may have been an attempt to subvert trade mark laws (at least here in the UK), which refuse registration for purely geographical marks.

Fifty150 · Oct 12, 2021

LizzieMaine said:
a character swinging a big sword

LizzieMaine · Oct 12, 2021

First it's the random clown sightings, now with the ninjas. I ASK YA.

Tiki Tom · Oct 12, 2021

There is an actual business in our town with a sign that reads “Gymnastics and Ninja Training.” My wife and I went to the window fixtures shop next door. Going in I said to the salesgirl “I want to be a Ninja, am I in the right place?” This got me a big laugh from the salesgirl and an elbow from my wife.

Harp · Oct 12, 2021

Tiki Tom said:
There is an actual business in our town with a sign that reads “Gymnastics and Ninja Training.” My wife and I went to the window fixtures shop next door. Going in I said to the salesgirl “I want to be a Ninja, am I in the right place?” This got me a big laugh from the salesgirl and an elbow from my wife.

In my reckless youth I was a Kyokushinkai stylist whose primary dojo was in Tokyo; apparently Ninjutsu
was still taught in the provinces, enrollment limited but an American, Stephen Hayes studied there and
brought this style back to the United States founding a dojo in Georgia I believe.

Zombie_61 · Oct 13, 2021

LizzieMaine said:
First it's the random clown sightings, now with the ninjas. I ASK YA.

Maybe the ninjas were the clowns. Why, I don't know. Sneaky bastids.

Fifty150 · Oct 13, 2021

Tiki Tom said:
“Gymnastics and Ninja Training.”

Harp · Oct 14, 2021

Staff meeting email notices, ride the elevator down a few flights, walk the floor, turn a corridor,
and bam...ain't nobody there for the confab. Wait ten minutes and say the hell with it. Ahhh. Friday almost here.

tonyb · Oct 15, 2021

Dead car battery. AAA en route.

Trenchfriend · Oct 22, 2021

We had the Wisconsin-Germans food topic, a while ago.

So, do they the classic lunch dish "eggs & mustard sauce (with potatoes)"?

Hercule · Oct 22, 2021

65% (and more than an hour) through a mandatory "diversity" training. The scenarios, premises, assumptions, and conclusions presented are so ridiculous that I can't even fathom them not being offensive to the sensibilities anny reasonable person. Being subjected to this is, in my opinion, a prime example of workplace harassment!

tonyb · Oct 22, 2021

^^^^^
I wasn’t historically sympathetic to such perspectives, but my, um, perspective has changed.

I suspect that these re-education indoctrinations so many are subjected to these days serve mostly to alienate those who ought be natural allies. It’s insulting, really. It ain’t the way to win friends and influence people.

Harp · Oct 22, 2021

Hercule said:
65% (and more than an hour) through a mandatory "diversity" training. Being subjected to this is, in my opinion, a prime example of workplace harassment!

As a federal employee I get served this stuff on a regular basis: classroom lecture, scattered on line courses,
emails the gamut is just a waste of time.

Hercule · Oct 22, 2021

[deleted - this topic doesn't deserve any more of my time or thoughts]

Trenchfriend · Oct 27, 2021

Could it be, that some daily licorice is lowering the bodyweight significant??

The one from the North · Oct 27, 2021

Trenchfriend said:
Could it be, that some daily licorice is lowering the bodyweight significant??

Really don't know, but I'm more than willing to try!

Trenchfriend · Oct 27, 2021

The one from the North said:
Really don't know, but I'm more than willing to try!

I bought a mixed licorice box from Haribo, some days ago.
I'm slowly consuming the box over the days and the last days, my weight is sinking, which surprised me.

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