Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Looks like I'll be back to posting here more frequently soon as I have one week left of my job. The job itself isn't horrible, but my route is and my manager wants to add another big box store that's 50 miles away on Monday and Wednesdays. That's easily 3 extra hours of driving and work added to my days. My bring home pay doesn't justify all those hours. I drive at least 400 miles per week to go to stores and work them. Honestly, some of the time it's a waste of my time to go into the stores because they've already been worked by salesmen or other merchandisers. He doesn't seem to care to understand that. There are two new grocery stores being built that will have to be merched too, and I'm sure he'll just add them to the new person's day that already has 15 stops.
On top of all that, we have to have (utterly boring) conference calls 4 mornings a week where we have to stop working and listen to the same drivel. It sucks and I will be glad to be done with it.
17 stores is a lot! I hope you can find something reasonable. When the money is crashing, people have to push as hard as they can. Our new money system can't happen fast enough for me.
Thank you. I hope so too. This job has had me in knots and stressed out. It's been rough.