This probably a requirement for her for food safety. It’s one of those things where you can choose to take the “risk” of putting your raw chicken with other food, but if the store did it, there’s a problem.
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It's not - the chicken (and all other raw meats) are already stored in sealed packages, and if it turns out a seal is broken you can ask for another to replace it. Plus, I've been going to this store for years, and across several checkouts and dozens of different cashiers - she's the only one who has ever done this.
You're right we've been a bit far from the topic subject, so here's one I didn't share earlier as it requires quite a bit of writing. Two month ago, I ordered an airbrush kit for my brother's birthday as he's going back to car/truck modelling. I made the order 26/05 (I'm french so I'll use this date format ^^) as it was a Sunday I expected it to be send on Tuesday so it will be presented on Wednesday while I'm at the office so dropped at the local post office (300 m form home) or, as the Thursday was a national holly-day and I took my Friday off, it will be either presented at home on Friday or Saturday; So far, everything should be ok, no delivery troubles to expect. On Monday, I get the validation that the package was in the hand of the carrier. Tuesday 10:00 AM, I get a phone call form the delivery guy: he's in the street waiting to deliver. I said that I'm not here so he can get get it back to the warehouse and the standard process can be done. A couple of a hour later, as expected, I get the mail with the link to choose between a reschedule or a local drop-point. Surprise, no post office drop option but what I'll call drop-store. No worry local stores offer to be a delivery point, there's several network like that in France. As I leave in Paris, there is at least 10 drop-stores within 200 m walk). So I choose a delivery point, the order will be drop the following day (Wednesday), everything is working better than I would have expected. I even received an opportunity to get an administrative appointment on Friday when it was expected at least 2 weeks later. I was available, I didn't need to stay for the delivery, so I booked it. But what I didn't know, was that, at this time, the universe hated me. Wednesday, I check the order tracking link and noticed that the drop was refused by the drop-store. I called the support line, they explained that it could happen when the store has too much parcel waiting to be picked. Ok, then I choose to get a home delivery on Friday (remember, Thursday was national holly-day) and maybe I could get my appointment anyway (wort case I'll get a new one later. Friday noon, no parcel delivered, I checked the link: nothing. I called the support, the delivery was not taken into account as to was too late when I asked. Ok, I asked to get a new drop-store delivery on Saturday because, you know, life. Saturday drop result: refused by drop-store. Ok, Same store same issue, no problem, let choose another one (300 m walk instead of 250, I can deal with that) for Monday. Monday drop result: refused by drop-store. Keep calm, just choose a new one, after all, my brother's birthday is still one week ahead. Tuesday, nothing. Wednesday, refuse by drop-store. Starting to get a bit directive with the person from the call-center, I get the warehouse number. The warehouse person was really wanting to help, we get a third drop-store. Thursday, nothing. Friday, refused !!! Get the warehouse again, I asked for a Saturday home delivery: bad luck, the next Monday is another holly-day and has specific traffic restriction for the whole week-end (big vacation crossing on the roads) so Tuesday delivery schedule is already full. Let's target Wednesday on the closest drop-store. Wednesday, nothing. Thursday, nothing. Asking for a new Saturday home delivery. Saturday, nothing. We're already half June and my brother's birthday was a few days ago. Obviously during all the previous failure, I created a dispute ticket in the carrier system. I called the call-center again but they only offer drop-stores the next town or more than 1 km away. I'm can carry a 10 kg big parcel by foot on such a distance but after such bad service, I'm not keen to do some effort when they didn't. After several exchange with different person I finally get the information I was missing from the beginning: The carrier and the drop-store network have a different so the drop-stores have order to refused parcel from this carrier fro weeks !!! In the end it will take me one more week to get the parcel. If they only told me it from the beginning, I would have a home delivery scheduled the first Saturday and everything would have been ended quickly. Initial transport: 24h. Last mile delivery: 4 weeks. The good news, is, my brother is enjoying his airbrush kit, and the universe seems to hate me less lately.
It's a unions-and-contracts thing. All the screenwriters in Whollyweird belong to a single union. All the Actors belong to a different, single union. ALL of them. No exceptions. (You literally cannot get a job as an actor or screenwriter in the US without joining the appropriate union). The writers were on strike. So the only contractually-legal way to get Solace made was to have the director and actor(s) write the entire story.
The point i dont understand is, why shouldnt a director not being able to write / rewrite the whole movie and is only able to write reshots. If that would happen here the people in charge would say: "You have a date and a budget now look how you get finished. We dont care if that screenwriter is on strike. Get that job done!"
Because that is what is written in the contract between all the various movie studios and the Screenwriter's Guild (formal name for their union). The penalties for breaching that contract are extreme. That's what happened with Solace, but the only way that the Studio could get it done without breaching the contract with the Screenwriter's Guild was for the Director and Actors in each scene to write the story.
I have been hounded for months by this one guy that wanted a field added to a report. I couldn't find the goshdarn thing anywhere, mainly because the database it's supposed to be in is new, but also because it is also off-limits to me (???) so I literally had to hack into the sucker to generate the report in the first place. I had enough of this crap so i called a meeting with the guy, his boss, and the people in charge of this blessed database. Turns out the field doesn't exist, and we shouldn't even be querying the damn DB because it is not ready for production. This dipstick has complained to my VP directly (4 levels above me) because I "took too long" to find a field that doesn't exist in a database I'm not supposed to be looking into. On the bright side the manager for the implementation team was quite impressed with my SQL injection skills
Only mostly true. You can't join the SAG until you've acted, you can't act unless you are in SAG (there are A LOT of exceptions for "independent" films/tv serieses). If you hire a non-union actor, there is a $50 fine for having done so. That actor now has all the credentials necessary for joining the SAG. Don't know if it is the same for the SWG. So, a lot of "new" actors get hired, pay the fee, join the union, because it is literally the only process by which they can join and/or continue to work on any large production.
Ok, now i get it. So those contracts dont allow anyone to write scripts etc. except the screenwriter. Thats some thing that wouldnt work here, cause any court would probably shove that into some Union representatives where the sun wont shine. There are only 2 Unions here that would get away with riudiculus demands, Pilots and train motormans, cause they are rather small and require special training.
Wow. That's ... special. A really special kind of stupid. Hopefully they smacked this idiot down hard, and fixed whatever holes you used to get into the database.
Yeah, American film sets are incredibly unionised and demarcated. If a cable needs taping down, you HAVE to call the gaffer - you can't get the nearest person to grab a roll of tape and do it. Same if a lighting stand needs repositioning. Lighting guy has to move it. Partially to ensure the job gets done "right" and limit liability, mostly to maximise the control the guilds have on set. As opposed to an Aussie film set, where it's often the closest person who gets to do the job. Yeah we have the same crew occupations (Gaffer, best-boy, etc) but if something needs taping down and you are the closest, you get the job. Specialist jobs (if it's electrical or lighting and something that ONLY one of them can do) get that specialist called to fix it (electrical, changing lighting,etc) but shifting a light stand will get done by a DP or a director, or a dolly operator or whomever. People who can't manage to tape something down by themselves don't tend to last in a work crew. We tend to have multi-skilled crews because we usually operate with a smaller crew, so they have to be able to do more. Even in the FX crew. Mouldmakers and painters and propmakers tend to be able to step in to take over in a pinch, as most of them have put in hours in those jobs as well.
If I got a nickel for each time in the last year I got a 404 error about something they told me to update (with a command line I am provided by those wanting said update... this error can be because they gave me the wrong address, or the wrong name of the program, or simply forgot to change the pre-production references to production ones), or a "that already exists" (yeah, people want me to "compile" a program with a name already in use by them...), I could outbid Mr Burns... And all I get told is to keep doing that.
Yep, plenty of story like that. Like that time I get the request to update the stores manager distribution lists updated after districts being rearranged and the retail VP almost asks for me being fired because I dare to ask him to provide the the managers' assignment so I can fully review the distribution lists. Or that one guy that constantly screw with an application so he will have admin rights on his computer (said computer that was frequently remastered because he screw it because the former IT guy granted him admin right). etc...
My last warehousing job ... Apple distribution warehouse. The IT crew ALL used macs. The warehouse crew all had pcs. They disabled internet access to them so we wouldn't 'waste time on the net' instead of working. This was 2006. Then they (apple) got hit with the "bad capacitor" issue (because FoxConn used the same cheap-arse parts suppliers as everyone else). I knew there was a way to find out which particular batch codes were "safe" and which should be replaced (returned for service) but without net access, couldn't show anyone how to do it. We had a pile of "main logic boards" (mobos) with blown electrolytic capacitors - spewing brown, foul-smelling gunk. the same issue that had hit PC makers a few years earlier. [All because of a stolen and INCOMPLETE cap design that got put into production by a rival] So I tried to log in as an admin - who should be able to access the net (and I got in, using "Admin" and "password" - the "IT" people hadn't bothered to change it). Then called up the "Bad capacitors" pages and all the relevant info for my supervisor. Told them what batch codes to look for, and where to find them on the components. One of my co-workers (who was also a mac person) "How did you know what to look for?" "This issue hit the PC market a few years ago. When I heard the description of "erupting" caps, I figured it would be a similar issue, so this was the first place I looked (badcaps.com from memory)." "You are such a nerd." One of the IT guys was down to check on something and noticed I had a browser open "How did you get net access? You aren't supposed to from these computers." "You didn't bother changing access passwords. Which made it a lot easier to find out how much of your inventory was cactus, btw." A couple of days later, that co-worker (who called me a nerd) was arguing with another co-worker about whether Star Wars was better than Star Trek. When they saw me listening to their argument, one said "Now we probably look like a couple of huge nerds, right?" "Oh, you have noooooo idea. It's Star Wars, by the way." Those two co-workers were named "Stewart" (but we called him Stewie) and "Brian" and yes, they were also huge family guy fans.
Having worked as a till-jockey for a good few years, sometimes you get incredibly overzealous about meat juice leakages because heaven forbid the package starts leaking after the customer has left the checkouts, you'll get both barrels for it, sometimes with attitude that you personally sabotaged the packet on it's way through the till so that it would leak chicken-water all over customers boot the precise moment they put their shopping in I buy these 'kid safe (locking-ish lid), reusable, eco-friendly' laundry liquitabs, it's also the best cost-per-wash price currently available, however the company does not make any refills for said containers, only smaller plastic tubs that are more expensive, and, you guessed it, the 'reusable eco-friendly bulk containers' Star Wars Prequel Trilogy </discussion>
The prequels didn't benefit from Marsha Lucas' editing skills. SHE saved Star wars from George's excesses. She had the rather unique ability to say "NO" to George and make him listen. They didn't stay married. :D The prequels had Rick McCallum - one of George's bigger yes-men as his on-site rep (for the majority of work done here in Sydney's Fox studios). So the reins weren't as tight as they could have been.
Well, to quote Fabius Bile: "If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy." I'm not sure if his movies have caused any actual fatalities, but I'm pretty sure everyone who has lost 2 hours of their lifespan to a Uwe Boll movie will remember that name for eternity
