Honestly it's less that Rush were libertarians and more that they went all in on teenage humanism and never grew out of it and naively embracing Ayn Rand was part of that.
I mean, they certainly are not fond of the sounds of salesmen
I just want to note I set Imi up for a joke here, and he totally left me hanging
So, customers like to switch price tags, so we try to put only one price tag on each item (no spares). Our Customers also like to open two-dollar bags of toys and take out individual toys without paying (reasoning that the store makes the same amount of money either way), so we put tape on anything of that nature. Anything that opens and closes, or is in multiple pieces, like a vase with a lid, we have to tape, because otherwise our customers will steal whichever part doesn't have a price tag.
Also, we have to tape up puzzles so it is impossible for any piece to fall out, because apparently kids like to open puzzle boxes and pretend the pieces are confetti, and can only be stopped by tape because children can't undo tape.
Also, customers going into the "employees only" part of the store where I work and telling me to do stuff like put a two-dollar price tag on a five-dollar suitcase because, "the price was wrong, so I took it off. Please do your job right", as though I was the person who decides the price of the stuff instead of the person who puts the price tag on the stuff.
Those doors (separating the twin worlds of Production and Retail) swing open easily, so we can get the carts out into the store without causing stuff to fall off and break, and so we can get the empty carts back to production to be filled.
I mean, I get the physical way in which they get into employee areas, especially if there aren't locks for job expediency.
I mean, how do they mentally decide that invading your personal space is the right choice above asking any of the other employees that aren't trying to hide from them.
That's just so terrible and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.
My work usually has the sweet peace of repetition, of patterns and regulations, of me knowing exactly what to do and how to do it. I quite like my job most of the time.
I would just prefer that the worst parts of your job be the mere requirements of the position rather than the inherent selfishness that lurks in all humans.
Every once in a while, the retail side is understaffed in the morning (the two hours before opening), so production has to send people to make up the difference. Sometimes it's been me, and that's been okay, putting items on shelves and organizing a shelf full of candles.
It once stretched to a half hour after opening on my turn, but the customers were okay that day. Helped an elderly gentleman find the rest of a set of national park cups (he gave me a couple of state quarters "one collector to another"). Saw a mom explain to her little kid that he had to pay for things instead of taking them, and no, he couldn't buy the store itself so as to have all the toys in the store, becauase that would take too much money.
Seems that the more reasonable or chill customers like the early and late hours, and want to avoid the crowds that come around noon.
Saw a mom explain to her little kid that he had to pay for things instead of taking them, and no, he couldn't buy the store itself so as to have all the toys in the store, becauase that would take too much money.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The Goodwills in my area get around the price-tag-swapping thing by just writing the price directly on items
Thankfully it's with a crayon or something that usually wipes off once you've gotten said item home
come to think of it, i dont really have a good idea for how easy/hard it is to perform a song, on account of playing no instruments
though i assume it hinges less upon technical complexity than upon memorability and overall "performability"
like, i remember someone in the youtube comments for a choral piece by Ligeti talking about how the piece was a total nightmare to perform because it's dissonant qualities made it easy to get lost and once you got lost you really had no footholds back into the music?
i realize that i basically said "i think how easy a song is to play is based on how easy it is to play" in an obfuscated way, dont blame me, im practicing for my career in academia
I haven't had to play an actually difficult song that requires that sort of work in the last, oh I don't know, 8 or 9 years or so, but here's my take.
In choral situations, yes, the most important thing is to never, ever lose track of your part. You can make some mistakes note-wise, and it won't be that bad because, if you're lucky, no one else is making the exact same mistake as you at the same time. It's only when the section's messing up a part on a whole that things get dicey. But if you end up behind the beat, you can generally hear that in the recording, and if you sing before or after you're supposed to, that's just the worst. It's also important that you blend into the rest of your section because you are functioning as one part of a collective instrument called 'Sopranos' or 'Tenors', and if you're not blending, then the instrument is functionally out of tune.
But for smaller groups, like a capella or ensembles, the technical bits are very important, especially if you're a lead instrument and especially if you're doing a song that everyone knows. You are, most likely, the only person covering that one part, and it's generally a part that people paid money or time to see, so you have to make sure that it's what they came to see. So you have to be good enough to play it close enough that people don't raise a fuss, and that takes skill if, say, you're asked to recreate the Hey Arnold theme perfectly. You can fudge it a bit more if you delve into improvisational stuff, but your improv still has to be good enough to prevent angry mobs and such
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
but i could be wrong
though i assume it hinges less upon technical complexity than upon memorability and overall "performability"
like, i remember someone in the youtube comments for a choral piece by Ligeti talking about how the piece was a total nightmare to perform because it's dissonant qualities made it easy to get lost and once you got lost you really had no footholds back into the music?
for me, anyway.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead