Another guy kissed my girlfriend.

[Jetfire]

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Lucky for Flux this guy is an idiot...he could have total spun the "kissing" thing into his favor by just letting FC re-act...but instead this guy keeps making bonehead moves.

I just hope FC isn't trashing this guy around his girlfriend...she could start to feel bad for him.

 

[Mr Awe]

Flux, I think you're doing fine. I think you're going through all of the normal reactions, "now whats", and wondering that is natural for a situation like this.

Keep helping her feel empowered. That's a good thing that will help her through out life. And for this specific situation, it really is key that she just ignores this guy completely. Cut him off cold turkey outside of work.

Don't worry, all will be well with this. Soon it'll just be something receding in the rearview mirror.

Mr Awe

 

[Mr Awe]

He does have the same job as the girlfriend though, right? I mean. Does merely the fact that your girlfriend is younger than this guy make her not a loser for having the same job?

I'll never begrudge someone who has a job and is making an honest living. However, there is a difference between someone who is young and just using a minimum wage job as a stepping stone and an older person who is stuck there. The younger one is developing skills for a better future while the older one apparently did not do that and, hence, is stuck at that level.

Normally, I would not look down on the older person. Who knows his background, obstacles, etc, and at least he's earning an honest living. However, it's his harrassing behavior that is the problem here, not his job.

But, to answer your question, yes, the age makes a difference but it's not what is making him a loser.

Mr Awe

 

[Kestra]

Yeah, I think it's a bit douchey to tear on someone for their job. Maybe there's a reason he hasn't achieved more, maybe not, but a job doesn't define who you are or your worth as a person.

 

[TheBrew]

Yeah, I think it's a bit douchey to tear on someone for their job. Maybe there's a reason he hasn't achieved more, maybe not, but a job doesn't define who you are or your worth as a person.

Exactly. Ask our resident meat department manager.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I wasn't so much trying to trash the guy based on his job. There are far worse jobs out there. I just think for a guy his age he should be moved on the bigger and better things. My girlfriend is only 5 months younger than I am, but I wish she would get out of there too. Its great that the company brought us together, but it's served its purpose and she needs to move on to bigger and better things. She has a major passion for cosmetics so I'm really trying to push her to pursue that.

And no, I don't trash the guy around her. I've seen what happens when a girl starts to sympathize with "the other guy" and its never good.

 

[nevermore]

Once again man, don't be afraid to make a big deal out of it, because it IS a big deal. Tell your goddamn manager. Get the guy fired.

It's not my manager to tell, its her's. Maybe if I still worked for the company I would, but even then I'm not an employee from that specific store so it still wouldn't be my place to tell him.

For fuck's sake, this is NOT harassment, and it has nothing to do with work unless he does something in the workplace. Work does not get to regulate the actions of employees outside of work. The manager has nothing to say about whether whether one of his employees is mildly annoying to another.

This guy made a pass at a girl, got turned down and occasionally texts her and you're all acting as if he's lurking outside her house with binoculars and a bottle of ether. If she wants him to completely fuck off, then she has to tell him to completely fuck off. Thus far, she has not done so; she has said she's not interested in a romantic relationship, so he has continued the platonic relationship. Boys are allowed to talk to girls who are "taken" (and "taken"? holy SHIT, is this the 50's?!) even if they sort of want to nail them.

 

[Amaris]

He is a 30 year old man working at RadioShack at the very lowest level on the pay scale making barely over minimum wage, with apparently no higher education past high school. He tried running a computer repair business and failed.

Jesus Christ, Flux, I'm 30 years old, have a high school education (some college), used to run my own computer business and if Radio Shack hired me I'd take it. This economy doesn't leave any room to really be choosy. At least the guy has a job. Millions of people, many with degrees and diplomas, can't say the same. We're not uneducated, braindead scum, you know.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

He is a 30 year old man working at RadioShack at the very lowest level on the pay scale making barely over minimum wage, with apparently no higher education past high school. He tried running a computer repair business and failed.

Jesus Christ, Flux, I'm 30 years old, have a high school education (some college), used to run my own computer business and if Radio Shack hired me I'd take it. This economy doesn't leave any room to really be choosy. At least the guy has a job. Millions of people, many with degrees and diplomas, can't say the same.

It's all part of Flux's need to be reassured of his superiority over this guy. "Well, my girlfriend wouldn't leave me for a 30-year-old working at Radio Shack, so I have nothing to worry about."

Yet we got a huge thread out of it anyway...

 

[Scout101]

Nope, she can afford to look down at the Radio Shack guys, she's got a Kinko's man now! Fun how he's also trashing him for not finishing college, given that Flux JUST got to the point where he can make that distinction himself...

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Yeah, I think it's a bit douchey to tear on someone for their job. Maybe there's a reason he hasn't achieved more, maybe not, but a job doesn't define who you are or your worth as a person.

Who cares? I'd trash on the guys job too. Oh woe, he wasn't given pampers as a child, only huggies. We should pay his way...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, I think it's a bit douchey to tear on someone for their job. Maybe there's a reason he hasn't achieved more, maybe not, but a job doesn't define who you are or your worth as a person.

Who cares? I'd trash on the guys job too. Oh woe, he wasn't given pampers as a child, only huggies. We should pay his way...

Wow, what does that have to do with anything in this thread?

I think everybody should have open relationships, chill out a little bit, and not be so upset.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Why does it matter when I finished college? My point is that I have at all, and he's quite a few years my senior and hasn't. I'm not so much trying to trash him and make myself seem superior as I am explaining that he and I are far from being equals. Yoda was trying to make it sound as if he and I were at the same point in our lives while at RadioShack, and that's not true. I'm not saying that everyone simply must go to college by the time they're 30, I just think being that age and working at a crap company like RS is rather...unfortunate.

And yes, I now work at what used to be Kinko's, but not only is it an interim job until I find work in my actual field, it's still relevant to my degree in many ways, and far superior in many ways to my job at RadioShack. I wish I had left that place much, much sooner.

 

[Guartho]

Jesus Christ, Flux, I'm 30 years old, have a high school education (some college), used to run my own computer business and if Radio Shack hired me I'd take it.

Don't do it J! Don't do it!

We're not uneducated, braindead scum, you know.

Nobody is before they work at Radioshack.

 

[Amaris]

Jesus Christ, Flux, I'm 30 years old, have a high school education (some college), used to run my own computer business and if Radio Shack hired me I'd take it.

Don't do it J! Don't do it!

We're not uneducated, braindead scum, you know.

Nobody is before they work at Radioshack.

I have applied to the three Radio Shack stores in our area. I check up on them often, and still no luck. So right now I'm trying to revive my computer business to bring in money. I don't have a degree in it, but I am very good, have a very high success rate for repairs, and am reasonable in pricing. If I can get my customer base back and use everything I learned from the first attempt, I think I can do it.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Jesus Christ, Flux, I'm 30 years old, have a high school education (some college), used to run my own computer business and if Radio Shack hired me I'd take it.

Don't do it J! Don't do it!

We're not uneducated, braindead scum, you know.

Nobody is before they work at Radioshack.

I have applied to the three Radio Shack stores in our area. I check up on them often, and still no luck. So right now I'm trying to revive my computer business to bring in money. I don't have a degree in it, but I am very good, have a very high success rate for repairs, and am reasonable in pricing. If I can get my customer base back and use everything I learned from the first attempt, I think I can do it.

Do the grocery stores, churches, etc. in your area have bulletin boards for local businesses? If so, post up flyers selling your services on the following points:

* Price -- You are no doubt undercutting Geek Squad, Radio Shack, and the other big boys.
* Quality -- Since you do repair either onsite, one at a time, or at your home, you can give each customer's problem your full attention.
* Service -- You're a friendly and independent computer repair specialist!

I always got business that way. Undercutting the other guys was always a big help, too, but people appreciated having just a "regular guy" look at their problem, rather than taking it to some shyster in a big box store looking to make a fat service charge off of them.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I seriously would recommend looking elsewhere for employment. The reason you're having no luck probably has to do with the company not making it's quarterly numbers, and generally not doing well. At least in my old district, and once the current DM took over anyway, they seemed to have very little discretion as to who they promoted to store management. Even once you got in there with a job, you'd constantly have your job threatened if you didn't make numbers, collect enough customer email addresses, sell enough iPhones or attach accessories or replacement plans. Sure, you get a bonus for every phone you sell, but the pressure put on you by management means you end up trying to sell the crap not to make the extra money, but to simply keep your job at all.

Going from RS to FedEx makes it all the more clear that the latter has their act together, and knows how to treat their employees. After only a week of working for them I can already say I am 100 times more proud to call myself their employee than I have been at any other job.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I seriously would recommend looking elsewhere for employment. The reason you're having no luck probably has to do with the company not making it's quarterly numbers, and generally not doing well. At least in my old district, and once the current DM took over anyway, they seemed to have very little discretion as to who they promoted to store management. Even once you got in there with a job, you'd constantly have your job threatened if you didn't make numbers, collect enough customer email addresses, sell enough iPhones or attach accessories or replacement plans. Sure, you get a bonus for every phone you sell, but the pressure put on you by management means you end up trying to sell the crap not to make the extra money, but to simply keep your job at all.

Going from RS to FedEx makes it all the more clear that the latter has their act together, and knows how to treat their employees. After only a week of working for them I can already say I am 100 times more proud to call myself their employee than I have been at any other job.

Nevertheless, Radio Shack is probably more typical of retail electronics stores than FedEx/Kinko's. You could have said what you did about Radio Shack and used Best Buy or Circuit City (BIH) instead.

 

[Amaris]

Don't do it J! Don't do it!

Nobody is before they work at Radioshack.

I have applied to the three Radio Shack stores in our area. I check up on them often, and still no luck. So right now I'm trying to revive my computer business to bring in money. I don't have a degree in it, but I am very good, have a very high success rate for repairs, and am reasonable in pricing. If I can get my customer base back and use everything I learned from the first attempt, I think I can do it.

Do the grocery stores, churches, etc. in your area have bulletin boards for local businesses? If so, post up flyers selling your services on the following points:

* Price -- You are no doubt undercutting Geek Squad, Radio Shack, and the other big boys.
* Quality -- Since you do repair either onsite, one at a time, or at your home, you can give each customer's problem your full attention.
* Service -- You're a friendly and independent computer repair specialist!

I always got business that way. Undercutting the other guys was always a big help, too, but people appreciated having just a "regular guy" look at their problem, rather than taking it to some shyster in a big box store looking to make a fat service charge off of them.

Oh yeah. I'll be hitting every cork board around here with banners and flyers. I used to offer free technical support but that became far more than I could handle as it was consuming all my time and there was no money being made, so I phased that out. In it's place, I'm going to start free classes, once a week (probably for an hour), where I can teach people, particularly senior citizens, how to use the computer, surf the web, things like that. That way, I get my name out in the community and my business gets associated with "that nice man who taught me how to use the internet".

I'm currently working on finding about 10 laptops (used but functional), so I can take these down to our community center (who I have spoken with and are allowing me an hour of uninterrupted time every week) and let the folks use them so I can teach more effectively. Since yesterday, I contacted one of my friends whose father used to own an office furniture supply store. He's going to get the contact information of his clientele and we're going to work in that direction.

I'm crossing every appendage I have that this will work.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Nevertheless, Radio Shack is probably more typical of retail electronics stores than FedEx/Kinko's. You could have said what you did about Radio Shack and used Best Buy or Circuit City (BIH) instead.

True, although I see no reason why a retail electronics store couldn't uphold the same level of respect and care for their employees that FedEx does. I'm just happy to be out of retail in general.

BTW, we're supposed to remind people that it is now FedEx Office...since we combined the print business with FedEx's ground and express shipping business...that and the name removes the somewhat negative connotation I think Kinko's has acquired. It's a lot more than just a copy shop now.