I like to take photos of things. Mostly peoples. Mostly pretty peoples, if I'm honest. But sometimes toys, or dogs, or maybe a tree. Y'know, interesting stuff.
I shoot a few burlesque shows, but that's just to kill time between photoshoots with models, where I can control the light and the pose and the magic.
My photos will have the tag "my photo". Otherwise, it's stolen from the vast wilderness that is the internet. I usually source pics from Model Mayhem, Flickr or We <3 it.
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The boss has just hit me with
From next week, you’re only in 2 days a week.
So. That’s excellent then. Not like I needed that money for mortgage, bills and that. Not like I’ve a family to support or anything.
29th April 2013
Notes: 7
One of my favourite things at work is when someone orders custom cables. Like, these SATA cables started off as a boring black. Now they are some sort of sexy braided rainbow! And heat shrunk on like a motherfucker! But people don’t want premium products. They just want the cheapest. So its rare that I get to bust out my craft skillz. Sad face. #modding #pcs (at Kustom PCs)
Like, from the point of view of a small business.
*Hypothetical* situation ( wink ):
A customer in the UK can send back a computer mouse, in a completely mangled box, torn to shreds, with the underside of the mouse scratched to hell from customer grinding it on the desk for a few days, all the documents and paperwork and driver cd and lovely shiny Zowie sticker crumpled, torn or missing….
And get a full refund.
Because they “didn’t like it”.
Now, hypothetically, the small computer shop that it’s been returned is unable to re-sell the mouse at full price because it’s so worn.
And is unable to return it to the manufacturer, because it’s not faulty ( and if it was, in this condition, the manufacturer would send it back as “customer damage” ).
So, this small business is only going to lose money on it.
It’s actually ILLEGAL IN THE UK for a distance selling company to charge a RESTOCKING FEE ( provided the item is returned within 7 days of customer receiving it ).
Your big companies, your Dells and Microsofts and Scans and whoever, they get away with charging restocking fees. It’s illegal, but no one minds.
They get away with not refunding your postage costs.
They are able to refuse a return.
TL;DR = the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
And component manufacturers REALLY NEED to start putting pronunciation guides on things.
Like, some of them, I just don’t even know where to start:
Benq, for instance. Is it Ben Queue? Is it Benk? I dunno.
Mionix… Me on icks? or My own icks?
Zowie … Zow ee or Zoe ee?
Radeon… RAY don, or Rad ee on?
Saitek = Sigh Tech? Say tech?
Gelid? I don’t even…I just don’t ever say this one out loud. ¬_¬
And then you get some mentalists who pronounce;
- SATA as Say Ta.
- ASUS as A Zeus.
- Phobya as Phoobie.
- And a guy who used to work here who couldn’t say Akasa…..only Akaska.
I’m very tired, so it’s likely that these thing are annoying me more today than they actually do.
Excuse the shitty quality photos….my phone isn’t big into the whole photography thing.
But this is what I’ve done today.
Most fancy vinyl plotters will do all the hard work for you. But not ours. Fuck, I’m just thankful I don’t have to pump a foot pedal to make it work…It’s prehistoric and shite.
So, lining up two colours is difficult fucking business.
And I think it turned out not too bad, eh?
I wish I was pretty enough to stay at home and be a cam-boy.
Someone pay me for nudes plz?
I’ve been in just under an hour and already I hate everything and want to die.
and I’m trying with all my might not to dance, because there are customers in the shop and they can see me…..
and he was all
“tsk. Typical, innit? Bloody computers…Christmas isn’t stressful enough” etc etc
And I pulls out
“Cheer up………………………..It’s not the end of the world!
”
Work Christmas party tonight. Bear in mind, it’s just me and the boss at work. So, we’re also having the repair company that rents space from us join in. And the bosses dad. And a guy who comes into the shop quite often.
And by party I mean, we’re sitting at work eating a takeaway.
Grim.
But then, if it was an enjoyable thing, they wouldn’t have to pay me to come here everyday, eh?
The toilet at my work. ¬_¬
- Camera: HTC Desire C
- Focal Length: 3mm
So I’m the only one
- manning the shopfront,
- and packing the internet orders,
- and answering the emails,
- and dealing with all the school kids,
- and somehow managing to eat my lunch ( I’ve had one triangle of sandwich so far..stuffing it in my mouth just now )
And I was hoping today was gonna be a nice easy relax.
‘Sake.
Whenever *he* fucks up, I act really dumb, and have him explain slowly, and in detail exactly what he’s done wrong, and what he’ll have to do to fix it.
I learned it from Columbo.
and write a book.
I was Googling about to see if there were any laws regarding sabbatical leave, because I’d seen a job listing that stated a 3 month career break in your 7th year….
According to Wiki, sabbaticals are most common in the UK, and seen as an Adult Gap Year.
I have never heard of anyone I know getting a sabbatical. There are no UK laws requiring it. But, come on, I’ve worked here for 6 or 7 years and now I’m tired.
:(
Might try and break my leg or something. That’s sorta the same.
