So I’m bitter about the Slog settlement because I’ve done so many Minute Men quests and I’ve never gotten the Slog. I did Arlen’s quests and I’ve never gotten the Slog. My map says there’s a freaking supply line set up to the Slog and yet I’m not allied to it as a settlement.
I have literally no other settlements to get except the Slog and for some reason I can’t.
I want the cute Ghoul settlement, dang it!
I’m gonna give a short rant about this “match water for $.84″ rumor going around the internet.
If you order this and expect it to be this cheap instead of the full price of an iced tea, YOU ARE NOT PAYING YOUR BARISTA FOR THEIR LABOR. YOU ARE ADVOCATING SLAVE LABOR.
A little extreme? Let me break this down for you:
Why are Starbucks drinks priced $3-6 if some milk, a teaspoons of sweetener from a large bottle, and some coffee should only cost maybe a dollar to make in just ingredients?
Because you aren’t paying for just the drink, you are also contributing to:
1.) Your Barista’s wages
2.) The Store Operations, including, but not limited to: electricity, running water, heating and A/C, the shipping of product, the purchase of product, fixtures and furniture, machinery (a blender costs over $600 guys), taxes.
3.) Your Barista’s benefits, including health insurance.
4.) The company’s profit margin.
5.) The fact that it’s a more quality product than gas station coffee.
When spreading these costly items between the HUNDREDS of people that come in and out the door each day, it only adds to a few cents per item.
So why are add-ons so cheap, say $.84? Because you’ve already paid for all of these things and now you’re just paying for the extra product and labor.
Free water is a courtesy you should be thankful for considering water is not free to the store (gotta pay the water company workers).
So, when you come to Sbux and order this expecting to pay only $.84, you are expecting to NOT PAY YOUR BARISTA. You are trying to get out of paying for all of these things.
“But Starbucks already makes $203948203984908239084902 a second, why does it matter if I don’t pay full price???”
Would you steal a car because a car company makes a lot of money? No? It’s the same concept. It’s a financial and a MORAL issue. Why do YOU think you deserve to not pay your barista? What have YOU done to deserve free stuff?
Think you still only need to pay $.84? Okay, enjoy your slave labor sugar water.
At work today I got pulled to cashier from working the Target cafe (because half our staff called out over three inches of snow) and this lady was buying a face mask for her husband. English was not her native language, but she was trying to tell me that her husband had some sort of allergic reaction to the last one he used and hoped it didn’t happen with this one. However, instead of just describing the either hives or acne he broke out in, she chose to say, “like the red bumps all over your forehead”.
Now, I’m someone that has struggled with breakouts and cysts on my face for YEARS and my face had cleared up for the first time in months recently and I was feeling pretty good about my luck. Until this woman smashed it all down. I understand that when you’re trying to describe something to someone in a language not your own, it can be hilariously difficult, however if this is something that was an embarrassment to your husband, why would you point it out on my face? Then keep talking about it? And her tone was definitely condescending.
There was that lady, and then the older black gentleman that, when I didn’t immediately settle a very aggressive dispute over who got in line first between him and another man, told me how dare I stare at him with my “ugly cracker face”. I’m staring perhaps because I’m stunned that in a civilized society you think it’s necessary to verbally assault a man that thought he’d gotten in line first. I was so stunned I didn’t know how to react because God forbid it’s 2015 and I’m in a safe suburban area and a man I’ve never met before is threatening mine and another stranger’s life because he couldn’t order his popcorn first. I’ve never in my life had someone threaten me like that, and I’m just really thankful Assets Protection was nearby to at least get the man to back away and leave. Over something so stupid.
I don’t know what happened, but everyone was just ridiculously cruel today. Not even Black Friday or Christmas Eve were guests so awful. I’m thankful I’m getting a week vacation to live-in nanny up north because I don’t even want to think about going back in for a while now.
~~~♥♥♥ School Rant Time, Everybody ♥♥♥~~~
So community college is really confusing because I get these huge assignments that seem like a big deal, like they want a ton of research and a lot of writing, but they’re also asking personal opinion questions. Like all the time. I spent my entire high school years getting it hammered into me to NEVER use “I” when writing a formal paper, and I always understood that that was exaggerated there were going to be cases when I needed to, but EVERY PAPER I’ve written so far has been based 80% around my personal experiences. So I spend weeks stressing out over an assignment or a paper or an exam being uncertain how much is wanted, losing sleep and making myself sick, only to get my grade back a week later with a perfect score and a professor’s comment that I put in so much more effort than required.
But… no??? I put in the effort you asked for, I paid $25 in proctoring fees three times a course as well as the gas money and driving time to get to a testing center, I did a less than par job out of confusion, and I’m getting a perfect score. I suppose I shouldn’t be looking a gift horse in the mouth, but at the same time this is giving me the impression that my work was not even looked over, that they just slapped a score on it. I want to know if what I did was what they asked for, was there room for improvement, there HAS to be something because Lord knows that wasn’t a perfect assignment, I will point out to you myself where things could be improved. I did not do A+ work, I did C+ with an impressive vocabulary, varied sentence structure, and spell check on.
This reminds me of a time in my English class senior year of high school when my teacher would assign us this packet with an exorbitant number of questions to answer about a book we were assigned to read. We had one week to answer over 200 questions and read a 300-500 page book, IN ADDITION TO our regularly scheduled schoolwork for that class and our other seven classes. It was ridiculous busy work that encouraged a ridiculous amount of cheating, but I got so fed up with it that I started slipping in answers like, “My dog smells like yellow”, “This pasta tastes like last week” and the teacher never noticed or commented, just a straight up 85% with no explanation.
Since when did mediocrity become the norm, when did it become okay to arbitrarily slap grades on things, to let people slide with doing crap work that doesn’t meet standards? What is that teaching them, because I sure as God’s omnipotence aren’t learning anything.
And this is the point when I start failing my classes because I become bitter and cannot respect them. I cannot respect a class that is absorbing so much of my thoughts and energy and happiness into the useless stress cloud it is forming. It’s consuming my life for no reason except to get the impressive statement that I went to college. I paid thousands of dollars and years of my life for this.
I won’t drop out because unfortunately this is where I need to be to mean anything to a society that pushes people into college that don’t need to be there, then dumbs down the system to accommodate the unprepared. But, God. It’s like high school 2.0 and I wanted to cry with joy when I thought I was done with it the first time around.
I just hope that 10 years down the road all this time, anxiety, and money meant something, or it just is forgotten and never looked upon again.
~~~♥♥♥ End School Rant Time, Thanks Everybody ♥♥♥~~~
