Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

colette, pay rates at whole foods range anywhere from $7.50/hr (front end) to $13/hr (seafood) to start. i took a second job there when towga went back to school a couple years ago. it was easily the most soul sucking job i've ever had. but you gotta do what you gotta do.

xpost- i don't want to get into it because i'm almost at the point where i may need to go back there.

self-loathing, RISING.

sry dude

Still a temp. position open here! ;)

but yes, EVIL TEXAN UNION BUSTERS WHO OUTRIGHT LIE TO THEIR EMPLOYEES.

On the plus side, your network of weed suppliers would expand exponentially.

I've probably said this before, but back in the day a couple of my musician friends got some rad temp gigs (usually one or two day things), the best of which was a job judging amateur jingles for a cat food company. Meaning, people called in and sang their jingle submissions on an answering machine and these dudes narrowed it down to a few finalists.

Beyond the obvious joek value, apparently it was kind of fascinating how 80% percent of the submissions gravitated to 5 or so common melodies (nursery rhyme stuff, existing jingles, etc.).

On the plus side, your network of weed suppliers would expand exponentially.

this is 1000% correct. i wound up covering shifts at the evanston, gold coast, and lakeview stores due to store meetings and community events and at each place i was approached by someone looking to sell me pot. at my regular store (river forest), pretty much anyone in the produce department had a half of ounce of weed on them at any given time.

ha ha

"half of ounce"

i think i've been living among the ukrainians too long.

"They [the FTC] are quoting rahodeb in some of their legal documents and no doubt seek to embarrass both me and Whole Foods through these disclosures," Mackey says on the Web site.

mission accomplished.

Through the company's Web site, Mackey says he posted comments under a pseudonym because he had "fun doing it."

same reason he reviewed his own book on amazon with 5 stars?

Beyond the obvious joek value, apparently it was kind of fascinating how 80% percent of the submissions gravitated to 5 or so common melodies (nursery rhyme stuff, existing jingles, etc.).

Lisa: Mom, I want to honor Bleeding Gums' memory but I don't know where
to start.
Marge: Maybe you could get the local jazz station to do a tribute to
him, huh?
Homer: Jazz, pfft. They just make it up as they go along. I could do
that: dee dee-dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee --
Marge: That's "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
Homer: OK, then, this: doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo --
Marge: That's the same thing; you just replaced "dee"s with "doo"s.
Homer: D'oh!

More soul sucking than working at whole foods = working at starbucks.

haha

Both have decent benefits, though, I hear.

not that you can ever get time off to use them!

ok, i guess that rules whole foods out, if it's like half the hourly rate of temping (i'd be way too grossed out to work in seafood...but do they pay more to work in cheese?) i just figured since it's like 5 minutes from the house, it might be less painful than going into the loop for miserable temp work.

i'm looking at idealist a bit, but i kind of have a bit of guilt applying for anywhere i'd actually like, knowing i'm moving to boston next june. is that being silly?

holy crap, you guys are right. it's really hot outside!

wow, like 3xposts. you guys are fast. xxxxpost, i don't need benefits because toby's good them through NU.

new clif bar flavor of 'banana nut bread' = not bad!

i would temp over working at whole foods UNLESS you find that temp work isn't steady enough & you want something you can schedule.

it's special hot today. Extra special hot. I'm worried about my kitties.

sweet tater, i'm jealous you learned how to make a shirt, that's so cool! where are you doing it? you're not in chicago, are you?

WHERE ARE MY GODDAMN ALLEN WRENCHES?????

xxpost- i'm not going to explain how wfm screwed me out of my benefits but it does involve a shitty way to treat employees and some shady business practices.

xpost- cheese is part of the specialty department which would cover cheese, chocolate, beer, and wine. pay is better than produce or grocery team, not as good as meat or seafood.

i moved from chicago to minneapolis. i am in minneapolis now. i am way excited that i made a shirt!! i'm going to make a dress next - both are the same built by wendy pattern.

i like cheese chocolate and wine, but not people screwing me over.

wow, a dress sounds kind of hard. i just looked and the chicago parks department has a sewing class, but it doesn't give any sort of description about what's involved. any experiences with CPD classes?

new clif bar flavor of 'banana nut bread' = not bad!

True! I luv Clif bars.

I read "CPD classes" and thought, Proper Takedown of Disrespectful Bar Patrons 101 or How to Make That Illegal Search Sound Legal (Advanced).

i'm actually pretty good at the first one, even without a badge.

2x jvc almost exactly

colette, to be fair, i was a front end supervisor so about 25-33% of my job there was dealing with angry customers. and the getting screwed over comes from the fact that "team leaders" (department heads) have their quarterly and annual bonuses based on how much of a surplus they have in their budget. every other department can affect this surplus by pushing items. for example if the grocery team is budgeted to do $60k/wk in sales does a good job of pushing high margin and/or sale items and wind up selling $65k/wk they have more lee-way in regards to staffing. front end does not sell anything so the only way my boss could control the budget was by manipulating salaries/benefits/time cards so there was usually a pretty high turnover rate in our department.

ok, i'm going to go spend $20 on a cta pass and ride around on busses for the rest of the day, it's offically too hot to stay in here anymore.

but i think i'll shower first. i didn't shower yesterday and i'm so stinky that the combination of old sweat, old spice, and new sweat has my pits smelling sweet and pungent. kind of like marijuana that was bagged before it was fully dried.

Awesome. Kr and I were approved for our apartment. It's right around the corner from her studio, at Montrose and Wolcott. We'll have to deal with a couple of months of construction noise behind the building, from the Montrose renovation project, but once that's done, I'll be able to walk to the el in 2 minutes. The apartment itself is awesome, too. Lots of brand-new fixtures. Also, there is a sun room.

Congrats jaymc, sounds awesome.

i haven't taken CPD classes but friends of mine love their CPD yoga class! if it's cheap i think it would be totally worth it. i will say though that my sewing experience has been:
1. sewing as a young girl, mostly by hand. some basic sewing machine stuff taught by my mom.
2. deciding to teach myself how to follow patterns & such
3. buying amy buter's "in stitches" b/c the patterns are VERY EASY to follow.
4. made a shitload of potholders from that book
5. decided to move on to more challenging things
6. decided to tackle "real" patterns, started with an easy shirt.
7. The Dress!

yay for john & kr!

hooray new apartment!

Thanks, although I am feeling a little ":/" since the landlord told Kr that both of us had credit problems. I don't know what my credit history is like at all. I've never had a credit card, so I'm assuming this is entirely based on paying bills late, which I do not because I can't afford to pay them but because paying bills is a hassle and I am lazy. (Now that I have auto-pay set up through my bank, this rarely happens anymore.)

I've never had a credit card

This might be your credit problem!

Hmmm.

2x, I had the same issue because I never had one before last year.

I guess I've never seen the point. Maybe I will want to buy a car someday?

Or a house, or get a loan...

Yeah.

bah. Only grownups do things like that.

I didn't have one until a couple of years ago, and I only got it to buy (and pay off right away) big things infrequently, just to build a little credit. I have no idea what my credit is, but I'm hoping that + my car have helped out.

My guess is it's b/c you don't have a credit card. i don't know how late you pay bills & such, but they typically don't report those to the big guys all the time unless it's more extreme circumstances.
why not apply for a credit card w/ a low credit limit to start with & just have it to build credit?

Yeah, you are definitely going to want a credit card. That can be a huge blow to your credit score as far as potential lenders are concerned. Sounds counterintuitive, but its true.

i dunno... every late bill i've ever had shows up on my credit report, for the last 10 years or so.

how late is late though?

After I left college I got screwed over by roommates of mine. Basically I graduated in May and moved here for my job in June, but the apartment lease went until the end of August so my two roommates stayed there all summer. I set up all the accounts to switch over to their names, all they had to do was sign a paper and mail it back in. They never did and never paid any of the bills for June-August. I had no idea until I was contacted by collection agencies in October. Amazingly only one of them showed up on my credit history and I was able to rectify it.

I don't want to talk about credit cards. (un)Fortunately, I'm signing up for another online community that is all about that.

after the due date. I dunno, maybe they don't all report late bills the same way, but AT&T will nail you to the wall for every penny. They'll give you bad credit while they're charging you for services you didn't actually use.

why not apply for a credit card w/ a low credit limit to start with & just have it to build credit?

Because I are a dunce when it comes to finance. I don't even know what "building credit" means!

I don't mean to make excuses, I'm just saying. I suppose I'll look into it.