Lightning Flik

< should remind ^ of HHH. < was the biggest support of HHH till his return after the quad failure. < no longer HHH fan.

Well, geezus. I could've talked about how I'm seducing an employee (work experience at that) and all, but I wasn't in the mood to talk about THAT part of my life.

Ah. Ok. Thanks a lot.

Ok. I found out that it IS a graphic that someone is using. The graphic is called sharkf5.jpg. It's coming from that perticular site. However, what is weirder is it's only happening on my own computer that the site is asking for a password. I'm currently using my father's and there was no pop up. So there you go.

Perhaps. Still weird that it is asking people who aren't using it though.

I know it's not you Dames. No worries. Just as Barron said. Don't fix it without giving the boards at least a 24 hour warning period. Ok? But seriously, I just got hit with it in the WWE boards now. I don't remember which topic, but Iw as just asked yet again. Perhaps a virus has landed onto the server of TSM? Just a guess.

^ likes Alan. < is not billingual. Just knowledgable in a language, but can't really speak it.

Uh, I was just told that I couldn't get a job at any Blockbuster. That's what makes it super weird. And yah, GS, I'm just sticking to my shifts from now on. That was bullshit that I went through and I ain't going through it again.

Just wondering here, but is everyone getting that www.comictwist.web1000.com asking for a password thing? Like it's a thing that pops up on the screen asking for password and ID and yet, I've got no idea what it's for. I heard a couple people getting it and apparently I ended up getting asked. Weird thing is though, I got asked during my recent topic that I just created. Which is weird since I'm certain there are no links there. Anyone knows what's up with this? Edit: Happened yet again when I accessed my topic of I Quit Blockbuster A Month Ago. Only place it's happening.

^ has weird thoughts. < can only speak brief two year old Japanese. < is happy. For most days.

^ called < single brow "mono"-typish.

Get the latest version 4.1. That will fix that problem. And no worrying about losing your saves, it's just a new .exe file. That's all.

^ does not acknowledge the cuteness of Choko. Therefore, must have cuteness. Hence, ^ still submits to Choko. < can't translate.

Sorry. *shrugs* When I tell something, I usually end up dramatising a thing or two. Natural storyteller is what I'm told I am. Although, I just told it like it was. That was in a nut shell what I went through. It's something I don't understand either, but it's a flaw of mine I guess. I'm the type of guy who once gets doing something, wants to do the best of it. Even if I'm getting shitted on. Funny thing about patience and I, I've always been told I don't have much of it. At least by those who know me well. Strange really, but oh well. Happy you think so. The AM at the new store said the same thing. She doesn't understand why he would say that, and was completely baffled at it. I still put it on my resume of course, since it's where I've been working for the last three years. *laughs* Heh. I've been on that part myself. Heck, when I was like 10 I had a job at my Grandmother's flower shop and guess what? I got fired. No, not kidding. It didn't happen exactly like that, but I pretty much did. So far as I've been told by the AM, it was bullshit what he said. Her exact words, no less.

^ didn't receive the HATRED. ^^ ask around about Dagual. If anyone remembers, most will remember him as a conceited little bitchy prick. < admits that < probably was that back then. Cause that was markism talking.

Considering I've had a weird bit of recent events, that I thought I'd just throw out there. You know, just see what you guys think and get reactions to it. Most of you won't read this as I'm writing a long story, but meh. Considering everyone posts up stories about their lives, it's only fair to do the same with me. ------------------ At the end of June I was given a very solemn promise from my family that we would be in the process of moving by the end of the month. For me, I was quite happy with that fact, and took it as a great thing. I mean, we've been planning on moving for a few years now, and I was looking forward to getting to know a new place. So I decided to mention it to my job as heck. I still want to work for Blockbuster. I mean, I was getting paid a decent amount (took me 3 years to get to that), and I really enjoyed my job. Little stress (besides the idiotic customer) and if a rental's been in the store for more than 21 days from it's release, I rent it free of charge. Besides, I like interactiving with people and this got me to interact with all sorts of people. Well, I mention it to my boss about the whole situation and he was totally cool with it. All I needed to do was give him the address of where I was supposed to be moving to and he'll see that I get a transfer. A week passes and I'm finally notified that it is assured that we were moving and I even knew of the location of where I was moving to. We had everything planned out and I couldn't have been anymore happier. I mention this to my boss and he said he'd take care of it. Of course, I don't bother checking with him as I'm trying to get all packaged up for the big move. I don't really have a lot, but it's the cleaning and stuff that really causes a nasty little bite into ones time. I might want to mention that I'm a little frustrated with Blockbuster as we've got a new policy guideline in place that I'm following a lot better than anyone else was there. My biggest problem with the policy? Guess who's the one who's getting his ass handed to him for the littlest of errs. I understand that they are trying to gain great excution, but I'm not really sure why it was me that was getting treated as such. Add to the fact that they were constantly using me as the "call shift guy" I wasn't able to book some nice time off for myself. Sure, I was only on part time, but I was still being called in far too regularly to be "part time". Well, another week goes by and (start of July 7). And I mention it to my boss that I'm hoping he's got my transfer all in order. He gives me the weirdest look and says "your moving? Since when?" At first I thought he was joking, hell, I even asked if he was jesting me. He told me very seriously that he wasn't and that he hadn't gone through with any sort of transfer. Well, ok. New policy and all, he must've totally forgot. So I leave it at that and continue on trying to make sure that we're ready for the move and continually making sure that I'm totally into how the new policy at work is done. Fast forward to July 14th. I was planning on having a nice relaxing day off and enjoy myself as I had plans. From there I was called into work. Now I had plans and wasn't about to drop them (I had had plans screwed up one to many times because Blockbuster as of late) and I told them I wasn't coming in as I had stuff I wasn't able to correct. Well, I was told by the shift leader these exact words "look I'm not asking you, I'm telling you that you have to come in." I was taken aback and told him flat out "look, I've got plans of my own and I'm not about to scrap them. I'm sorry." Of course, then I was dropped this lovely little line "dude, Kirk's fiance was taken to the hospital. I've got to cover it." I hesitate as my own plans had been set in for quite some time, and I mention that. He replies, "I know it sucks, but even I had my own plans and I'm here tonight as well. You just have to accept it." Now I came in, as I liked Kirk (no matter how much either of us bash each other with insults and words) and figured that hey, I liked his fiance too, so I figured I should do it. So I decided to scrap my plans and go into work. Biggest fucking mistake of my life. When I got there, the assistant manager (the ONLY manager I cared for at this point) told me that my job for that night was simple. Getting the customers out as fast as possible and making sure that all the returns were ran, as I'm soloing it that night on till and no one else can help with returns. Now the AM leaves as his shift is over with and tells encourages me to do my best as that's all he asks. So I'm thinking to myself "great... We've got three other people here, yet I'm stuck doing two jobs that should be done by three people." The three other people were doing various pulling tasks and most would be gone in two to three hours so I really was stuck all alone. Unless you count my shift leader. As he's making sure that he can process the new releases and PEP (Previous Enjoyed Products) out for rental and sales respectively. I'm taking care of returns and lineups of people as best I can, and I must say that I was doing a damn good job. No lineups and the return box was getting less full. But after all the other employees had left, I hit a snag. And it wasn't something that a customer did, nor something I did. My shift leader took it upon himself to say that I was servicing the line too fast and that customers weren't able to understand any thing I was saying to them and thusly, I was hurting my additional sales and helping the customer efficiently. My reaction, "look, we need to get these people out so that we don't end up with a lineup as I'm the only person who can use a till since you are processing." Next thing I know, my shift leader basically kicks me down a couple of pegs when he says "Look. I want you to take your time and make sure that the customer understands everything and so that you don't say it so quickly." ...um, excuse me, I know that when I get excited I speak quite fast, but I never had a customer say that they needed for me to repeat a damned word. So I slow down at his behest. Of course, he has just finished up with the processing and now it's onto mangerial duties (counting tills and such). So I take his advice and slow down with handling of customers. About twenty five minutes later, I have a lineup of about 10 people and I ran into a problem that is taking some time to straighten out as the customer wasn't being quite too helpful and nor was the person that had left a note about the problem on the account. I get a call from the office where my shift leader is and he starts chiding me to hurry it up, which I tell him right back that I was working on my current customer as fast as I could. About five minutes passes and the resolution hadn't been given yet as I was still working to explain to the customer the problem and what was being done about it. Well, my shift leader decides to phone me and so I told him that it would still take some time to straighten out the mess, and he replies that he'll be done in a bit. I continue helping the customer as the problem kept getting worse of a mess to fix up. My shift leader comes down and soon begins to help people at the other till and proceeds to help them get out of the store, to which I was thankful for as this problem wasn't resolved until most of the 10 people had been helped. When I finally solved the said problem with the customer, not only had I managed to resolve it fully without a problem, I actually made the customer walk out of the store tens of times more pleased with me that I went that extra mile to make everything go right. The customer even apologized for taking up so much of my time, and of course, I told him that I was just happy to fix things up. He was so chipper leaving that I was quite pleased with myself. For all of three minutes. I help one more customer and after he leaves, my shift leader comes down on me for doing my job. He then turns around and tells me that I should be getting the customer out fast as possible and not trying to make additional sales. I should be more concerned with making sure that the customer is out of the store asap. Needless to say I was confused and I told him as such but he just said that I want you to get doing your job right. No questions asked. Needless to say, I just about walked out of the store at that very moment. I finished my shift though and went home. I admit that I've been pissed off before, but that erked me to no end. I've never had my credentials for doing my job so scrutinized in my three years working there. I mean, I was just critized over EVERYTHING I did. Why all of the sudden I'm doing so bad didn't make any sense to me. It still doesn't. Well, a couple of days later I'm packing at home when my parents just get calls from all the people who were supposed to be helping us move that they wouldn't be able to. So that means that it's only the intermediate family doing the move. To make matters worse, my boss never did apply my transfers and even though I had repeatedly said I couldn't work the last week, I was told that I would be anyways becuase I never wrote on the "days off sheet" that apparently we had for over a year, but I was injuried lots over the last year and I never used it then so was like "wah?". Also my transfer to my new store was mistakenly given and had to be redone and there was no guarentee that said new store be willing to take me on. Needless to say, I was going to blow. That came on Sunday, July 20, 2003. That night I was called by that same shift leader who bitched his ass off at me. He told me that apparently we had a test that we needed to get through and I was quite certain that I was never told of this test (I was informed but at a "victory BBQ feast" we had for getting the most donations for Children's Miracle Network, they decided that was the best time to tell - I just remembered that today) and of course, I didn't have what we should have studied for. Just so you know, the test was an evalutation of how we were doing with the new policies, and oh yes. Did I mention that although I'm coming in for it, I wasn't getting a dime? No, I'm not kidding. Again, I was losing out on MY time. Of course, I just blew up after I got off the phone. I was told that I had to still take the test. I knew what the test was for at least, so I began trying to recall as much info as I could so I would be able to pass the test. With the amount of shit that got raised about my performances as of late, I figured that I had to pass or I might lose my job. Considering being fired from you job doesn't really look all too impressive on your resume, and it's the place I've been working for the last three years (meaning that my previous jobs are just too old to be of any use on the resume) I decided to make sure I remembered everything I could about the new policy. Well, needless to admit, I was up all night. I probably would've done fine and should've just slept on it, if I wasn't given the impression that I was about to fired. Next day, I called my AM and told him that I had not studied as I didn't have the sheet for what we needed to know. He told me that instead of wasting my time and his that the test will not be taken. With that convo done, I immediately went "fuck this. I spent all night freting that I'm losing my job over this because that's how I've been treated as of late, I'm STILL having to work this weekend even though I've mentioned it time and time again I'm moving, and my transfer is FUCKED. Forget this shit." I went into my Blockbuster (as I had to pick up groceries at the nearby Safeway) and told my AM that I was quitting. Plain and simple and I told him the reason for it. He was sad to hear me go, but could understand. Of course, I have to give a note thing to my boss, but hey. No big deal. Anything to stop this bullshit. I'm at my wits end and I wanted out. With that I bring in my resigning papers and give them to my boss. He tells me he's sorry to see me go and that I was improving with at work. ...yeah, I'm about as clueless with that as you are. But here comes the part that just downright blows me away. "You do know that you won't be able to use us as a reference, have Blockbuster on your resume, or expect to work here again because you quit." I still don't get how he could be straight forward about this. Considering that even thought I quit, I can still use them on my resume if I want. What's to stop them? Well, I was like: fine whatever, I'm just happy it's over. Suprisingly, I felt a lot better after quitting. I've been happily unemployeed for awhile now and just started looking for a new job since I'm now settled into a new place. Well, guess what. Low and behold, my parents returned from a local Blockbuster and guess who was "enthusastically" wanting to meet me? The assistant manager. She was told of what had recently happened to me and could sympathize where I was coming from. Although, she was kind of blown away by all the stuff that happened and then told my parents she would be interested into meeting me. So I was like, ok, fine. Headed down there, resume in hand (meh, might as well, nothing to lose). Let me say that was the weirdest few moments of my life, as I handed my resume in and talked a little bit about the whole situation better. From there I talked shop with her and then was told that I had a guarenteed shot at getting a job. So well, I'm most likely working for Blockbuster once again after just a little under a month of quiting from them. Small world eh?

What gives? And Dames is getting guilible: If you are paying that much, sign him for two years to make it last longer. Also it probably was an "off" match. Not really much you can do about it. It happens every so often. Dames guilible? How absurd! We all know that he'll believe a fall from a foreign object. Considering how often Triple H does it and TNA, it kinda becomes a certain mindset.

Feud and heat wise on the uppercard and higher is good. Just keep it up. As for the advertising max it out, same with merchandise (as you'll gain a little more money). No worries about it being on Easy. I played Easy for the longest time myself. As for people to hire give advanced offers, usually I'd say go with whoever is the highest in overness. However, I suggest that you make advance offers to Mattitude (which will end up becoming a written contract offer, but the pay off will be worth it). Other than that, it's up to who you can seriously use. As for the 8 workers just hire nobodies and don't use them. That way you can then get out of the contracts because they are fed up with you. Make sure you hire sucky guys that you don't need so that you don't feel guilty about letting go a talented superstar.

...wtf??? Chyna in hiding? ...ok, has Sean gone off the deep end now? Sorry, I forgot to add: And he's gone off yet again too?

You can't do Weekly PPVs and TV show. It'll kill your PI. Just trade off one for the other. You make more with the TV shows. Trust me. Oh and make sure that when you do monthly events and TV shows that you adjust ticket prices to reflect what your finacial advisor tells you. Just in case it doesn't happen automatically. To wage war against the WWE, you have to have the more talented roster and the more over roster as well. Not only that, but sign away some top notched players from the WWE if you can. Yes, it might be over your budget, but it does make a dent in them and adds to your roster's overness which always helps. Also try and keep your roster hiring at a certain level Sophie says. Unless Adam FINALLY changed it, it actually will also effect your PI drop (it used to anyways). A little bit more knowledge about you game would also help. Like who's over, what's not working, that kind of thing will help me make more improving suggestions than the ones I've mentioned.

^ gets laughs from < ^ apparently has never heard of Dagual. EVERYONE hated him. Shit, Dagual was a mark that had almost enough hatred that no one cared for his ideas and was pretty thoroughly despired anytime he did make a reply. He almost decided that he'd rather stay away from smarks in general and just be a mark. So Dagual left but in time returned and became a decent member of the board. < be that poster.

Not meaning to really argue with you, but I do have to point out. A) It's a little bit of a complicated the way you had it. If some of it gets used, that's better than nothing. Besides, I think the way you had it was shot down, not the actual thought process behind it. B) Considering most of the text isn't written by him but actually by Dames and other match reviewers, I find that it's kinda hard to say "oh, it's full of grammatically errs." When technically it's partly as much the match reviewers faults for errs as his if there is any (which there is, but God only knows if I'll find it). So you can't just slander him with that comment. It would go to all those mentioned. C) EWR was done out of fun. So I don't judge him. I won't judge him until TEW comes out and I find out whether paying for the game is justifiable or not. Because, asyou said, he's doing this as a job now.

^ has same ideals about n00bs. Although < doesn't like n00b wild hate. Regular hate works just well.

Considering he's the one programming it, he knows his own liabilities better than us. Hence, I can't find him on fault for that Game. If he can't program something in as complex as it some ideas can be made out to be, then it probably will just be too much of a hassle. It's no different than any company saying or doing the same thing (surveys by THQ, but rarely implementing everything suggested). Edit: I'm not about to suggest stuff of Adam personally as I only know of him through the EWR game and boards. Hardly a place to judge a guy who constantly gets told by EWR fans that he doesn't really do much when he tries his best.

Personally, I understand where YNA is coming from. Heck, I went a step further as I'm not happy with the product as a whole. I stopped watching two months ago (week 9 actually starts this Smackdown). I'm investing my time, albeit free time, to watch WWE shows. And if that is the best stuff they can come up with, then I'm watching/doing other stuff. Most of YNA's problems is what I have a problem with RAW. Smackdown I'll admit was decent 8/9 weeks ago, but if I settle with mediocre, how does that tell the company that I'm not enjoying the product? How do they know I'm displeased when I'm wholefully supporting the product, since they do not listen very well to the fans? And frankly, if I'm giving up my free time for them to entertain me, and they fail, they (along with I) are wasting my free time. If I have to spend a little more time and money towards a different product (TNA and RoH are some I'm looking into) to illustrate that I am displeased with the WWE product (as my dollar not being spent to them means something in the small end), then I shall.