Today I am grumpy. Things did not go as planned today. Thus, I will provide you with some whining. If you do not like my whining, neener neener!
1) I hate you, electric stove!
I hate you for not being clearly on or off, due to lack of the comforting hiss and flame of gas.
I hate you for not changing temperature instantly.
I hate you for heating up either way faster than expected or hardly at all.
2) I hate you, gravity!
I hate you for dropping things onto me off the top of the refrigerator.
I hate you for making walking so much less like flying than it ought to be.
3) I hate you, headache!
Where did you come from? Go back there!
4) I hate you, time!
I hate you for passing as I sit here and fail to do anything productive.
I hate you for making me get up early to go to work.
5) I hate you, biorhythms!
I hate you for making it possible for me to switch from a 7am-11:30pm waking schedule to a noon-4:00am waking schedule with one night's notice, yet making the transition back unbearably difficult.
6) I hate you, boxes that won't get unpacked!
I hate you for sitting under my desk, and for making the stairs to the patio unsightly.
I hate you for containing endless decorative obects that I don't know what to do with.
I hate you for making me feel like an evil over-consumer.
7) I hate you, carpentry!
I hate you for never coming out quite straight.
I hate you for always being harder than I think you will be.
I hate you for making me deal with things like studs in walls.
I hate you for not letting me put up my shelves in the bedroom due to some unexpected resistance, thus leaving me with the same number of boxes under my desk as I started the day with.
I hate you for how I put all these holes in the wall and have nothing to show for it.
8) I hate you, Walgreen's!
I hate you for not carrying my preferred brand of exfoliant.
I hate you for only having Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula in the stupid pump bottle, which is a waste of money.
9) I hate you, Cat-Away!
I hate you because you are Murray's bitch, and he has not stopped scratching up the carpet one bit.
10) I hate you, TV news!
I hate you for all the people saying "War on Terror" in all seriousness, and how do they sleep at night? I would like to declare War on Owies, please! I will not rest until paper cuts have been utterly destroyed!
Thus endeth the whining (Ed. note: yeah, right). Sometime soon, when there is a better day, I will make a list of things that I like.
Posted by hilatron at September 14, 2002 03:15 AMI also hate Walgreens. 21 years all work no play. Low pay, doing the job of 3 people. Mother was dying can't go home. Holidays were here and I had no small children. Had to work really really really hard. Decided to lose it all. Thank Walgreens your carring for a person mentaly state has a lot to be desired.
Posted by: ceil at September 16, 2002 08:45 AMi think maybe what murray needs is something he likes to scratch moooore than carpet. have you tried corrogated cardboard or a brand new, expensive upholstered couch? Cardboard makes a huge spongey mess, which is an added benefit over carpet rippage.
Posted by: tree at September 26, 2002 09:21 AMOh, yeah, he's got the cardboard, all right.
Murray's carpet scratching is not for scratching's sake alone, but to send a message, to wit: "I would like to go through a) the front door, even though I never go through that door, or b) the patio door, even though it is raining/you are about to leave the house/I just came in, or c) the closet door, because I wish to lurk in a dark corner now."
Murray, you see, prefers to express his needs through actions rather than words.
I am thinking that maybe the kind of scratching post that hangs from a doorknob will help solve this communication problem.
Posted by: hilatron at September 26, 2002 05:47 PMDISCRIMINATION FOR 8 YEARS BY WALGREENS IN THE CLEVELAND DISTRICT!!
DONT DO IT FOR THESE DISCRIMANATORY LIARS WHO CAN NOT WORK AS HARD AS YOU ON A GIVEN DAY
Posted by: nick at January 2, 2003 11:32 PMI hate you walgreens for giving me a lousy 3% raise for my twenty years of work.For a company that is the pharmacy america trusts, it sure doesn't trust it's employees. CRW would rather let the shoplifters run out the door than have a camera that would readily identify them. Discrimination goes on all the time at Walgreens, but they like to keep it hush hush and settle quietly than let it hit the media. I have seen managers inflate the price of stock at inventory to cover taking a huge dump due to shrink and inept managing. I wonder what would happen to a manager,(who is retiring this year),was to have the company find out what he has been doing all these years. What a dick! Maybe good old Chuck Walgreens looked the other way since his store made money. By hook or crook?
Posted by: Robert at June 26, 2003 12:50 AMWalgreens is a horrible place to work!I was a salaried manager who was paid for 44 hours a week,and you were always forced into working 50 plus hours without any compensation.I seen an employee get demoted because she had to have surgery and would be off for a few weeks.I have seen store managers who would try to fire employees because he didn't like them personally,and if he couldn't he would only schedule them for 8 hours every two weeks.I have been to meetings where the "big bosses" chear the closings and misfortunes of other companies.At these meetings they have broken federal copy right laws by showing footage of movies such as "Patton and Rocky"! When employees such as myself resign they cheat you out of your pay that they owe you!I have recently interviewed for a job and called the interviewer back several times expressing interest,I was told that someone at walgreens was slandering me,which is Illegal.At meetings the "big bosses"express how much money they are going to make in drug sales from the baby boomers.I have been forced to work alone,overnight in a store after it closed,which is in violation of MIOSHA.
But hey,thats life,and this IS walgreens!
"overnight in a store after it closed,which is in violation of MIOSHA."
It is also a violate of company policy.....your manager isn't supposed to let this happen.
Posted by: at August 27, 2003 07:13 AMI see you all work or worked at Walgreens. Does anyone here know if there is any way to obtain a list of all or most of the crimes and robberies that have taken place at Walgreens stores around the U.S.? I would appreciate it very much.
Posted by: april at October 2, 2003 10:41 AMI also hate Walgreen dearly.
I've only been working there a year and a half and it is hell.
They are sexist in the photo lab (even the uniform is made for a man). Even though I am second in sonority, I and the one other woman are only placed in photo when absolutely the other three men cannot work in it (two of them are pretty new also). They'd rather have a woman working the front cashier I think.
It's a horrible place and it's true they don't trust their employees and treat us like shit.
I also hate the customers because they are rude.
We got a coffe mug for christmas. It has the owners on it.
Posted by: Christy at January 24, 2004 02:22 PMYou are a bunch of dumb asses.... if you hate the company so much than quit!! why are you wasting your time and Walgreens' time??
Posted by: Kevin at July 23, 2004 09:53 PM