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I was in a pretty good mood and it was a slow night at my second job, so I spent alot of time reminiscing about some of the funny gags I have pulled at spot over the years.
-About two years ago, when spot was big on droning on and on about "SENSE OF URGENCY," I used to make fun of that catch phrase when it was recognition time at huddles. I would come up with synonyms for that phrase and recognize random people for working with an "AURA OF EXPEDIENCY" or a "CHARACTERIC OF IMMINENCE!" Lol the funny thing was we had a retarted blonde cheerleader of an ETL-HR who would always cock her head, ponder, and then nod in approval. Lol I can't believe she'd buy it.
-Continuing on with spot's trend of using catch phrases, I always liked to come up with my own borderline suggestive catch phrases...e.g. if I was good friends with like a middle eastern person, at huddles I would recognize them for their "Sense of Urgency" and their "Concerted Efforts" lol.
-That same ETL-HR had a bad habit of butchering any messages she was in charge of delivering to the team. At one huddle, she was informing us of next weeks "Hispanic Appreciation Day" and that Mia Ranchito would be catered in for the team. The sad thing was the way she phrased it..."Every month, WE HAVE TO have something planned in celebration of diversity, so this time we are catering in food." Lol me and the flowteam lead told her she needed to "CHALLENGE UPWARDS" on that one, because we should have diversity parties because we like to, not because we HAVE TO!
-My first year at spot, me and my buddies would write great team cards to ourselves and put other people's name in the "spotted by:" line. We would write ourselves glowing recognitions for doing the most trivial, asinine stuff, to mock the practice and to make ourselves look good.
-When I was made flow trainer and given a lot of extra responsibilities without ever getting the team trainer raise, I use to make it part of my itinerary to teach people box knife fighting skills and proper defense stances, formations, and lines of egress to properly guard against etl attacks. This was done as an obvious joke lol, nobody was ever put in danger. The box knife fighting was an obvious gag that I would use as a segway into knife safety, because I really did believe in teaching knife safety. However, I was very proud of my salesfloor pathing as a mode of egress, because I strategically developed escape routes to avoid management while getting to crucial areas of the store (i.e. time clock, side exits lol)
Most of these were done as a way of blowing off steam when things had only began to hint at getting bad and I actually liked my job and tried hard at it. Funnily enough, the worse things became and the more I despised my job, the less joking around i did.
-About two years ago, when spot was big on droning on and on about "SENSE OF URGENCY," I used to make fun of that catch phrase when it was recognition time at huddles. I would come up with synonyms for that phrase and recognize random people for working with an "AURA OF EXPEDIENCY" or a "CHARACTERIC OF IMMINENCE!" Lol the funny thing was we had a retarted blonde cheerleader of an ETL-HR who would always cock her head, ponder, and then nod in approval. Lol I can't believe she'd buy it.
-Continuing on with spot's trend of using catch phrases, I always liked to come up with my own borderline suggestive catch phrases...e.g. if I was good friends with like a middle eastern person, at huddles I would recognize them for their "Sense of Urgency" and their "Concerted Efforts" lol.
-That same ETL-HR had a bad habit of butchering any messages she was in charge of delivering to the team. At one huddle, she was informing us of next weeks "Hispanic Appreciation Day" and that Mia Ranchito would be catered in for the team. The sad thing was the way she phrased it..."Every month, WE HAVE TO have something planned in celebration of diversity, so this time we are catering in food." Lol me and the flowteam lead told her she needed to "CHALLENGE UPWARDS" on that one, because we should have diversity parties because we like to, not because we HAVE TO!
-My first year at spot, me and my buddies would write great team cards to ourselves and put other people's name in the "spotted by:" line. We would write ourselves glowing recognitions for doing the most trivial, asinine stuff, to mock the practice and to make ourselves look good.
-When I was made flow trainer and given a lot of extra responsibilities without ever getting the team trainer raise, I use to make it part of my itinerary to teach people box knife fighting skills and proper defense stances, formations, and lines of egress to properly guard against etl attacks. This was done as an obvious joke lol, nobody was ever put in danger. The box knife fighting was an obvious gag that I would use as a segway into knife safety, because I really did believe in teaching knife safety. However, I was very proud of my salesfloor pathing as a mode of egress, because I strategically developed escape routes to avoid management while getting to crucial areas of the store (i.e. time clock, side exits lol)
Most of these were done as a way of blowing off steam when things had only began to hint at getting bad and I actually liked my job and tried hard at it. Funnily enough, the worse things became and the more I despised my job, the less joking around i did.
