As many of you may be aware, we are in the 4th month of a strike between the union grocery workers in Southern California and the 3 big grocery stores. There is one non-union grocery store here in town which means it has been PACKED all the time no matter when you go over there. The worst part is the parking lot - it's a madhouse.
Okay, I drive over there a little while ago to pick up a few things and I drive into the parking lot and my mouth fell open...they have 2/3rds of the lot cordoned off because they are PAVING IT!!!!!! HELLLOOOO!!!!!!! They couldn't have waited until the strike was over?!?!?!?!?!?! There is no place to park to start with and then they took over half of the spots away! I just wanted to scream. Let's take a crappy, unpleasant situation and MAKE IT WORSE!!!!!
(This was of course right after I find out that my husband has to work all weekend - INCLUDING my birthday night AND has to work on the 29th when I had a big BBQ/Oscar party planned at our house!)
Okay...I'm done bitching now...
Posted by Chris Lovelady (Member # 2540) on :
can you say anger and resentment!
1st step: i admit i'm powerless over stupid people- and that my life has become unmanageable.
god can and will if you let him!
chris
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Bet you feel better just getting off your chest! Wouldn't you have loved to be at the meeting when that decision to resurface was made?!! What were they thinking! Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
quote: and that my life has become unmanageable.
Chris, I don't know if I'd go THAT far...I've got pretty much everything else under control...I just have NO patience whatsoever with blatant incompetance and stupidity and it seems to be the norm these days. Have you noticed how everything in this country seems directed to the lowest common denominator?
Posted by Chris Lovelady (Member # 2540) on :
i know wht you mean!
i wounder what was thought process. i guess that is the way they disided how to spend all the money they are makin. sounds like they got you by the short hairs there where else could you go!?
after re reading my post i might have come off kind of sharp but i always have to remember that there are some things im not in control of and i cant get to upset. it is not what other do to me but how i respond to it.
good luck say how bout a local store..you know a hole in the wall..may cost a little more but maybe support you local small business man(woman)!!
chris
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
quote:good luck say how bout a local store..you know a hole in the wall..may cost a little more but maybe support you local small business man(woman)!!
I would be HAPPY to but this being Southern Calfornia, the big Wal-Mart has squeezed them all out of business.
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
i am so tired of f*&kin stupid people....they are everywhere and they must be stopped.
Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
Signed Contracts with paving companys comes to mind on THIS ONE! along with weather conditions.
Who do they think they are anyway? some Sign Co. with dead lines to meet? Or maybe imployees pay days!
YIKES it is like there are other people in this world
Don't worry Kimberly,these are the type of people who plan ahead in work AND grocery buying!
hope this helps
Posted by Delzell (Member # 1965) on :
Sounds like an excuse for a road trip to me Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
I know Pat, that's what my husband told me...that they must have signed the contract to do it last year but STILL...shouldn't they have postponed it?
Weather isn't too big of an issue except for maybe not doing it this summer when it is 120º.
Posted by Mike Pulskamp (Member # 3475) on :
Kimberly,
Thanks for going to the trouble to do your shopping at a store that has not locked out the hard working people that just are trying to make a fair living. This is a complicated issue that has long reaching repercussions.
Thanks!
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
lets see here, They repaved at a bad time for you because? they had too????
Because someone fell over a small crack and sued? OR some one triped over a hole and sued?
Or, They couldn't schedule a paver to work in the evening?
Or, they did it that day because it was maybe their slowest day of the week?
That paving job didn't just cost them for paving, The lost bizz they sufered.. The bad will it caused. All of that cost them lots of money.
How about the landlord. Maybe it was HIS demand to get it paved that day.
Or, maybe they paved it that day just to **** you off?
Posted by Terry Baird (Member # 3495) on :
At any rate Kim..."Happy Birthday".
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Thank you very much Terry...it's this Sunday.
Curtis...if someone sued them over a crack or a hole, they could have patched that small area.
I believe that my point was that it was going to inconvenience MANY, MANY, MANY people as opposed to just me.
People have literally been SHOT here in this town over this stupid strike and everyone around here has had it with the whole thing. Last week the stores rejected an offer by the unions to agree to binding arbitration. Let's hope that the newly scheduled negotiations that begin tomorrow will make at least a little headway.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Is it true that the big three that are striking are owned by the same parent corporation?
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
It is actually two out of the three...Ralphs and Albertsons are owned by Kroger which also owns Acme back east.
Vons is owned by Safeway Corp.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
Einstein said, "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Jane,
I think you hit the nail on the head...
quote: Wouldn't you have loved to be at the meeting when that decision to resurface was made?!!
I'll bet that meeting took place before the strike started....
I spent most of the summer putting up with several major road renovations here. At times it was almost impossible to get out of town with my sanity, but now that they're done, I'm glad the work was completed. The entire town looks better for it and the commute over nearby Mt. Moosilaukee has become much less perilous as a result.
BTW: I think they should make the orange and white striped barrel the official state flower. They pop up all over the state every spring....
Rapid
[ February 11, 2004, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: Ray Rheaume ]
Posted by Chris Lovelady (Member # 2540) on :
you know you may have brought up a larger issue..
quote:strike between the union grocery workers in Southern California and the 3 big grocery stores.
how much are the unions helping the workers in these united states? how many companys have been incoraged to take their companys to different countries? there were once formed to help the worker have safer working conditions child labor ect.
the big corporation are haveing to compeat with low wage workers in other countries. we as americans should consider our level of creature cumforts that we are tring to maintain and how far in debt we are going into. me included! i see the kids to day seeking the high paying job(Which are few and far between) but there is a lack of kids being incoraged into the trades industries(plumber,carpenters electritions....sign people)
it is my opinon that when the big corpoartion begin failing(and they will and are) it will be the small business man that will be called back into action.
just my opinon.
chris
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Happy Birthday Kimberly, like they say in the metropolitan area FORGETABOUTIT!
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Ugh..
Kimberly, no big loss here.. Safeway and Albertsons (and the Basha's and Smith's chains here in AZ) all stink anyway with their ludicrous pricing. I'm sure once the strike is done there, the prices will be going up even more. They've already increased here as a result of the strike.
Any time one of the big grocery chains opens a new store here, everyone has sales and cuts prices to win new customers or keep the ones they have. Once the novelty of a new store wears off, everyone then increases their prices over what they were before.
One morning on my way home from the bike trail I decided to stop at Albertsons to get a few veggies. $3 for ONE red pepper? Nah, I don't think so. I'll wait til I can run to Food City (a no-frills discount grocery store, no yuppies to be found anywhere near the place) and pay more reasonable prices for everything.
I usually wait til after 8 or 9pm to go grocery shopping, by that time most of the snowbirds have gone to bed and the boozers are firmly planted on their barstools and off the street. Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
I feel the same as you Kimberley...it makes me crazy at some of the stupid things I see daily.
I grouse too much (my wife says) but the older I get the more I realize that the "inept are also inert" (coined that muhself)thus making it easier to pass thru them with ease...still aggravaiting tho!
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
Ever notice how incredibly uncommon, common sense is becoming? Scary isn't it?
Happy birthday anyways Kimberly! I'm sure your Hubby will make it up to you. (He better!) hahahaa
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