It is illegal in the US to discriminate based upon age. Trouble is proving it.
Things that frustrate us all
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I hate having to buy foods in such large quantities that they go bad and I have to throw them away before I can consume it all. Everything these days seems to be "family" sized. I am just one person!
A similar thing occurs with non-food items too. It seems the varieties of items I like only come in giant packs. I don't want to spend many hours of wages for a year's supply of laundry detergent in one purchase just to get the kind that doesn't make my skin flare up.
A similar thing occurs with non-food items too. It seems the varieties of items I like only come in giant packs. I don't want to spend many hours of wages for a year's supply of laundry detergent in one purchase just to get the kind that doesn't make my skin flare up.
Just now when I checked my mail, I found two misdelivered items: an Amazon package that was supposed to go to the building next door, and a piece of mail that was delivered to the right address number but the wrong street. I mean, what kind of people are Amazon and the USPS hiring these days? Delivering mail and packages to the correct address isn't exactly rocket science.
I don't know about that. Having been a delivery driver, if the customer fat fingers their address when typing, it's easy to be a block or street over from where the customer resides.
Also, and I think I've mentioned this before, the number of customers who don't know their address when asked, just baffles me.
They have to pull out their phone or wallet to get it.
It shouldn't be that hard. I know mine and the street address for the store.
I can see someone forgetting a phone number, since some people have multiple numbers...but your address? How many homes do you have to keep track of?
You've never been in military service. I would get a month-to-month rental in VA Beach after each overseas deployment to live off the ship on my own dime. Live somewhere 3 months deploy, come back, live somewhere else for a few months, deploy again.... repeat cycle. I also had a mailing address for the ship, but would change Divisions and Work Centers on the ship. When the ship went from the Atlantic/ Med we had a Fleet Post Office in New York, NY; then we went around Africa to the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Persian Gulf and the address changed to the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, CA. Those that stay in, re-enlist and get assigned to a new command or ship also get to start the mess all over again.
I was once told by a lifelong resident of the city I live in that me knowing the names of random streets is a dead giveaway that I'm not a local because apparently lifelong residents only orient themselves by the nearest public transport stop and the specific route they're taking from there.
About 13 years ago I paid full price while buying a deluxe briefcase-style box set of THE MAN FROM UNCLE's complete TV series. It's probably out of print now. I only cracked it open once to watch the pilot as I had other concerns. This morning I was on the verge of selling several complete series, including UNCLE, so I gave each disc a visual inspection. Thanks to the poor/sadistic tight-as-@#$%ing hell design packaging, one of the first I checked out of a total of 46 snapped due to the pressure I used to free the Samuel L. Jackson thing. I barely got the rest free in turn. Can you say UNPRINTABLE?
I wonder if anyone else had similar issues with this fiendishly-designed box set. It's always the biggest box sets which find ways to break your heart. MAN FROM UNCLE's complete series is the Fredo of DVD.
I wonder if anyone else had similar issues with this fiendishly-designed box set. It's always the biggest box sets which find ways to break your heart. MAN FROM UNCLE's complete series is the Fredo of DVD.
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I worked as a postie for a while.
Badly addressed mail.Wrong street name wrong numbers and sometimes the wrong surnames(people using their maiden names etc.)
People moving in and out without a word to us.
I used to tell people that it said Post office on the side of the van and not the psychic hotline.
Badly addressed mail.Wrong street name wrong numbers and sometimes the wrong surnames(people using their maiden names etc.)
People moving in and out without a word to us.
I used to tell people that it said Post office on the side of the van and not the psychic hotline.
My husband's concept of time.
"Driving to the store takes FOREVER!"
(10 minutes)
"Let's go to the store! I'll be ready in 15 minutes." (1 hour and 30 minutes)
"Driving to the store takes FOREVER!"
(10 minutes)
"Let's go to the store! I'll be ready in 15 minutes." (1 hour and 30 minutes)
I'm told that Dorothy Parker was once asked to use "horticulture" in a sentence. She promptly replied, "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
That's why, for nearly 50 of my 63 years (i.e., ever since I registered for my freshman year of high school), I have strongly believed that Industrial Arts should not only be offered at all levels of education, from high school through Bachelor's degree, but should be part of the General Education requirement. Just one semester in the Industrial Arts department will (1) nip, in the bud, any developing contempt for those who make their living working with their hands, and (2) build consumer awareness, teaching people the difference between quality products and junk.
On my Spring vacation this year, my Sacramento stay was my first time in a Hostel. They provided bath towels, but no washrags. And when I asked about it, all I got was a smug "We're a Hostel, not a hotel." And so I made a rather time-consuming trip to the nearest Target -- a less-than-full-size location -- only to find that they only had washrags in 18-packs(!)
Last night gave me renewed acquaintance with an annual annoyance: live TV coverage of the NBA Draft. For pity's sake, watching paint dry would be more interesting than watching NBA teams pick new players! Maybe we need a new TV show, that involves betting on when a freshly-painted wall will be dry-to-the-touch.
Oh, and the last time I had "Millie," my 2018 Nissan Leaf, in the shop for something that didn't need more than a couple of hours, I walked to the nearest Denny's (a mile and a half away) for lunch.
("Millie" because she's "thoroughly modern.")
So, I think we will see a change as not all twenty somethings are this way. While anecdotal, I have observed younger 20s and late teens being far more interested in trades, labors, and hands on work. Many of the teens I've worked with are already figuring out some trade ideas they want to pursue.
It will be interesting to me to see this next generation.
Another source of frustration is spam-texts. What could possibly make these organizations think that a cold spam-text will get a donation out of me? Especially a cold spam-text that addresses me by a name that is not my own (and yes, I've had the same cell phone number for well over two decades), and includes characters that do not render on my cell phone?
Starting today, organizations whose first contact with me is a spam-text will be noted down in my database, as organizations that will never get so much as a dime from me. And even those with whom I have a prior relationship will be penalized. Severely.
Starting today, organizations whose first contact with me is a spam-text will be noted down in my database, as organizations that will never get so much as a dime from me. And even those with whom I have a prior relationship will be penalized. Severely.
College tuition probably plays a part in it. Why be saddled with all that student loan debt for the rest of your life, if you can go out and start earning a high five, low six figure income after being an apprentice for a couple of years.
It is also hard to have a construction trade job be completed by an AI chatbot, or outsourced to another country.
Just out of curiosity, is that really what Californians call them? I get what you're referring to, but I have never heard that term before.
I've lived in this apartment for a year now and I'm still getting mail addressed to the previous two tenants.
One of them was a letter from the previous tenants attorney saying that the class action lawsuit she was involved in had been settled in the plaintiff favor and that there was $1500-$2000 waiting for her to respond.
One of them was a letter from the previous tenants attorney saying that the class action lawsuit she was involved in had been settled in the plaintiff favor and that there was $1500-$2000 waiting for her to respond.