#thecrowtalky

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I like my fictional men messy and depressed and gay, thank you very much.

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Going back home next tuesday, can't wait to be surrounded by people who think those who are unemployed (6 millions) are lazy and parasites to society because there's jobs everywhere (365K) and if they were really looking they'd find work, again.

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Years ago I watched a fan animation of Saint Seiya that was pretty funny, and I've been trying to find it again recently. But I can't. It's nowhere, like I just dreamt it and it never existed in the first place (well, I suppose "saint seiya beach episode where Milo is gay for Camus" does sound like a fever dream).

You know what's everywhere when I look up "saint seiya fan animation" on youtube though?

Bloody AI SLOP. AI SLOP ALL OVER THE PLACE. FUCKING AI SLOP HELL.

I swear if the data centers don't burn the world soon, I WILL

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So sad that Castlevania doesn't have any twins. I guess I'll have to go back to the Saint Seiya fandom for my tragic twincest needs. :/

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One retail worker to another, I love to hear a good bitchin session 👀

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO thanks bestie ❤️

So for context, I work at a local nonprofit recycling center that has a "solidarity shop". Basically people give us stuff and we sell them for very cheap (we obviously do a lot more work than that but I'm keeping it short), generally three to four times less than the original price, but sometimes EVEN LESS than that. (Doesn't stop people from complaining that the second hand 50€ item we sell for 10€ is "too expensive" because it has visibly been used though. 🙄)

One day that lady comes in. She takes a lot of plates, and I have to count them because at the time we sold plates either by the piece, or in batches if there was a lot. It ended up being 34 plates for 27€ (if she had gone to a store, with 30€, all she could have bought was 12 plates. MAYBE 18 if she was lucky.)

She's shocked by the price, and claims that we're too expensive, because she can find cheaper plates at [giant organization with stores all over the country] and [some other organization i know nothing about]. So she puts them all back and leaves.

A few weeks later, we decide to change our prices. Instead of selling dishes individually or in batches, we'll sell them 3€ per kilogram. It's the first time our dishes' price change in years btw.

Not too long after that... The lady COMES BACK. She goes "idk if you remember me, I came to buy a bunch of plates not so long ago, but they were too expensive". I told her the change in price and she said "I know, it actually makes them even more expensive, I did a test at home. Can I buy them for 10€? It's for a small organization."

So I take a plate to weigh it, multiply the weight 34 times, and sure enough, the batch that was previously 27€ is now around 40€. BUUUUUT those plates have been in the shop for a good while now, so I offer her the 50% discount we put on items that have been there for 2+ months, making it 20€... And it is STILL too expensive for her. Smth smth [same two previous organizations] + [the business who's famous for selling things very cheaply thanks to worker exploitation and shit] are cheaper so she won't buy them.

So that lady. Came a first time. Claimed she could find cheaper elsewhere. Left. Came back later KNOWING we were still "too expensive" for her, just to bargain. REFUSED to pay even HALF PRICE for her plates. CLAIMED AGAIN we were too expensive and so and so were cheaper BUT THEN WHY ARE YOU EVEN BACK, GO BUY FROM THEM AND LEAVE US ALONE??? Like. Like the fucking AUDACITY in that woman.

AND IT'S NOT EVEN OVER YET BECAUSE SHE WAS LIKE "Oh i'm not the type to bargain, it's just that it's for a small organization you see 🥰" GIRL SHUT THE FUCK UP WE'RE A SMALL ORGANIZATION TOO, YOU THINK YOURS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO STRUGGLES ??? WE ARE JUST TWO EMPLOYEES EVERYONE ELSE IS RETIRED AND DON'T DEPEND ON THAT JOB TO EAT. WE SHOULD SUPPORT YOU BUT YOU WON'T SUPPORT US???

Also we checked. The current price of our dishes, 3€/kilogram ? It's the same as the big second hand organization she mentioned... When they're on SALE. WE'RE STILL CHEAPER SHE'S TALKING CRAZY

Oh and apparently she too worked in a solidarity shop or smth similar at some point, so it means she knows better than us what our prices should be.

Then she refused to buy the equivalent of 10€ in haberdashery for 3€ and claimed we "didn't know the value of objects" and left and I haven't seen her since. ❤️

She's one of those customers who likes to tell us that we would make more sells if we were cheaper !! 🥰 ... When the whole reason why we HAD to start changing prices recently, after TEN YEARS, was BECAUSE we didn't earn enough money. I swear people think we just decided one day we were gonna charge people more for funsies !! Or that we took that decision overnight, like- NO !! THE GOVERNMENT IS CUTTING NONPROFITS BUDGETS MORE AND MORE, WE GET LESS AND LESS FINANCIAL HELP, WE DON'T HAVE PROPER WALLS OR ROOF OF GROUND, WE WORK WITH MOSTLY VOLUNTEERS BUT WE NEED EMPLOYEES TO GET THE ORGANIZATION RUNNING SMOOTHLY, AND THOSE EMPLOYEES NEED TO BE PAID !! (Also to create jobs is one of our organization's goals) I'M SO SORRY IT MEANS YOU HAVE TO PAY 20€ FOR YOUR 30+ PLATES, KAREN. CRY ABOUT IT TO THE BIG BUSINESSES AND LEAVE US ALONE.

Also customers who bargain are the fucking worst and the phrase "you don't bargain at a supermarket, it's the same thing here" is quickly becoming part of my daily vocabulary. I swear they're not taking us seriously with this shit. We sell second hand items but we're still a real shop who takes pricing things fairly very seriously !!

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Communication management is fun until half of my interactions online is telling people the information THEY CAN FIND ON OUR FUCKING PROFILE

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I just saw a gay marriage where one of the grooms look like an elven KING, all in white with a cape and a majestic headpiece in the form of a butterfly in the back of it, and HELL YEAH THAT'S HOW MEN SHOULD BE DRESSING AT THEIR WEDDING!! I'M TIRED OF TUXEDOS. TUXEDOS ARE SO BASIC. SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL THE GROOM APART FROM THE BEST MAN OR THE WITNESSES. I SWEAR THE WOMEN ALWAYS LOOK SO BEAUTIFUL WITH UNIQUE DRESSES AND STYLED HAIR AND MAKE UP, MAKING SURE SHE STANDS OUT FROM THE GUESTS. AND THE MEN LOOK LIKE A GUEST WHO COULD VERY WELL BE AT A FUNERAL RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS WHAT PATRIARCHY AND HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA DOES TO MOTHERFUCKERS!!! THEY'RE RUINING WEDDINGS.

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Finding a job is too fucking hard. All I wanna do is buy a sword and an armor and become a pretty lady's most devoted knight who will protect her and kill for her and also cook nice meals for her. Is it really too much to ask for? 😔