bgriffin Wrote:
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> OMG don't put words in my mouth elcarev!!!!


I'm walking the line between hell bent and high.

HA! fan or google?

b, if you don't quit picking at us old people you're going to get a proper tongue lashing. You better straighten up, and right now, too.

I see it now. Thank you so much!

MDavisnowell Wrote:
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> cirmi, to see the bonus on your shop, go to My
> Current Shops and click on the job number. It
> will take you to a page where you can see a link
> called "Print/View Complete List of Shops for this
> Project". Click on that link and it should show
> you your shop and the bonus agreed on. If this
> doesn't work for you, call the company at
> 800-782-4299 and someone will help you.

Everyone needs to relax and lighten up a little.

LMAO bgriffin

My jokes aren't as funny as bgriffin's are. I'm sorry. I said what both people "really" wanted to say.

I Fixed it for you in bold!

bgriffin Wrote:
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> dspeakes Wrote:
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> -----
> > bgriffin, I know it was a joke. I just don't
> > have a sense of humor. And someone coming to this
> > thread who didn't happen to read my original
> post
> > would not know what it was that you "fixed."
> All
> > they'd see is that you quoted me calling the
> > people at Maritz old. The fact that they are up there in years doesn't matter because I just want to argue.
>
> My post was directly under your post. First of
> all, nobody reads quoted material more that to see
> what the poster is responding to. Anybody who
> reads my post is first going to read the "fixed it
> for you," then read the quoted part, and then if
> they're confused about what was fixed they can
> look about 1" up the screen and see what the
> original quote was. As I said, anybody who can't
> understand what I did fails at the internet. If
> there is a single person in the world who actually
> read this thread and seriously thought you called
> the people at Maritz old they need both a brain
> and a life.
>
> > The point of my post was to
> > give the information that a phone call would
> yield
> > a conversation with a human being, not a
> machine,
> > and you turned it into an insult against the
> nice
> > people at Maritz. I think it's great that
> Maritz
> > hires people who have life experience and
> manners.
> > You turned it into an insult.
>
> It wasn't an insult. It was a joke. Please remove the stick from your rear-end.
>
>
> > Don't play games with other people's words.
> > That's all I'm saying. If you had simply
> replied,
> > "Yeah, you'll talk to a real old person," I
> > wouldn't have had an issue with it. But you
> put
> > those words into MY mouth.
>
> That would have been maybe 1/10th as funny.
>
>
> > The appropriate response would have been for
> you
> > to apologize for doing it and beg me for forgiveness because I think I'm a god.
> >
>
> We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
>
>
> > My father is 89. He's an intelligent and
> > articulate person. So are the people at Maritz.
> I
> > don't appreciate people who think it's funny to
> > poke fun at the elderly. If you're lucky,
> you'll
> > get to be old someday. I wonder how you'll
> like
> > being mocked for it.
>
> I spent Super Bowl Sunday at an assisted living
> facility grilling chicken for the residents. I
> don't have a problem with the elderly and I wasn't
> poking fun at them. There is a higher percentage
> of retirement age employees at Maritz than there
> are most other MSC's. I made a joke about that.
> It wasn't a joke that was insulting. It was
> simply true. I think perhaps you are being just a
> tad bit sensitive, but it's ok, I won't ask you to
> apologize for that.

The deleted comment was an error in judgement on my part. ;(

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2014 06:28AM by Ishmael.

MD -
Thanks for helping cirmi while the rest of us were making faces at each other.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> YAY Bonus shops. They must not like me, lol. I
> do a lot of shops for them and they've never
> called me with a bonus opportunity.


Hmmmmm. I wonder why.

Although... as Lisa pointed out, "Maritz schedulers aren't allowed to use the Internet." (Would they know how? And if they did, would they still be using AOL, browser and all?) So anyway, I doubt they've seen your jokes at their expense. But maybe one of their grandkids told them.

And yes... another super-productive thread! Whee!

Lisa, I have incorporated your Jack Sparrow quote into my sig file....

Don, in Las Vegas.

Yes, I did say it. And so what if I did.

Maritz is my favorite. I constantly am offered bonus shops. None of the shops I do for them are hard. I've only had one scheduler to default on a promised bonus. That is really ok. And they pay twice a month. They are taking on new companies that they are shopping. I have done some shops for one of these new companies while another MSC handled it. The report to do for Maritz is somewhat shorter and less picky than with the other MSC.
I could do enough work with them that I would need to not take work from any other MSC and be quite happy financially.
BTW- Houston has had an actually pleasant cool weather season this time around. It is never REAL cold here but at least we've not been smothered with the horrible humidity that has been so common for the 20 years I've lived here.
BTW- what does the inventor of the internet, old Al Gore offer as an explanation for the cold we've experienced across the US this year?
There was an ice age in long times past. How did it melt? Did somehow the universe know in it's fore knowledge that the evil Americans would one day be driving their SUVs and that George Bush would be forcing his evil thoughts over the centuries throughout outer space to make it all thaw?
Just a wee bit of something to mull about in y'alls thoughts over this holiday weekend.
We all got up out of bed this morning, we're breathing, most likely have eaten some things today and with this forum some bodies are reading and somewhat paying attention to what we each are thinking and believing.
Please express what you think about my commentary.
Bye from the great state of TEXAS! (GO! SPURS!!!)

I think some people here need to learn to grow up and apologize when they've been told they crossed a line.

But apparently only the schedulers at Maritz are mature enough to exercise such manners.

You're all real proud of your little jokes and don't give a rat's ass that you have insulted me and the nice people at Maritz as long as you can all laugh about it afterward.

Somehow I'm reminded of frat parties all of a sudden. Bunch of immature drunks sitting around insulting anyone who's not in their little fraternity.

Wonder why in the world that image suddenly popped into my head?

Thank you, jpgilham, for "getting it" and speaking up on my behalf. Several people here were too busy defending their childish prank and laughing at the old folks to bother to consider why I might care what words are attributed to me. All they care about is getting their jollies at someone else's expense.

Real mature.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> YAY Bonus shops. They must not like me, lol. I
> do a lot of shops for them and they've never
> called me with a bonus opportunity.


Gee, maybe because you like to insult them publicly? I get called from them all the time.


Cause ===> Effect????

I think some people here need to hit the toggle button if they don't like what someone has to say. I wasn't offending them and I wasn't offending you. I was merely making a joke based on most of their employees being elderly. I wasn't making fun of elderly people. Those are two totally different things and if you don't have the intelligence level to understand the difference that is not my problem.

You seem to like picking fights with people and you seem to think everything you say is absolute fact and no one else is right. You've done this in multiple threads lately. You're sometimes quite obnoxious about it. You don't see anybody demanding an apology about it. Those that don't like it simply ignore you. I suggest you ignore the people who post things you don't like.

Also, I rarely if ever drink so the drunken frat party doesn't really apply to me.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> dspeakes Wrote:
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> -----
> > Maritz always assigns new shoppers by phone.
> > Likely they'll call you eventually, but you can
> be
> > proactive and call them and actually talk to
> real old
> > people.
>
>
> Fixed it for you


I've got to go with dspeakes on this one. When I saw your post, I couldn't tell what you had "fixed" and thought it *was* the original quote. And I'm pretty internet savvy (no, really!). So in that sense, I didn't get the joke, so I think it would have been way funnier if you had made is something like, "I think you mean real *old* people".

Whether or not the joke was funny or if the comment was insulting is a separate issue.

Then why, I ask, did you not simply look up an 1" on your screen to read the actual post if you couldn't figure out what I "fixed?"

bgriffin Wrote:
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> Then why, I ask, did you not simply look up an 1"
> on your screen to read the actual post if you
> couldn't figure out what I "fixed?"

Because people often aren't going to bother to do that. It would be simple and obvious to assume that you had fixed a minor typo, and that the quote itself was genuine.

There is usually a quick turn around time for shop requests. If you are eligible look for self-assigning shops.

A very large number of people understood it immediately. My guess is a majority of the few people who didn't, thought I actually corrected something an didn't even bother reading the quoted part.

I think I'm too old to understand this thread.

Be very, very happy about that because I sure wish to hell I was.

The only thing that might have made the original joke easier to 'get', perhaps; is if bgriffin had bolded, underlined, or italicized the key word. Otherwise, it really wasn't *that* difficult to understand. I mean, seriously... it really wasn't *that* difficult... maybe one or two beats to stop and look, if you'd only been skimming the forum up to that point. Sheesh. The winking emoticon said a lot, too.



bgriffin Wrote:
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> Then why, I ask, did you not simply look up an 1" on
> your screen to read the actual post if you couldn't
> figure out what I "fixed?"


PepGiraffe Wrote:
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> bgriffin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > dspeakes Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > > Maritz always assigns new shoppers by phone.
> > > Likely they'll call you eventually, but you can be
> > > proactive and call them and actually talk to
> > real old people.
> >
> >
> > Fixed it for you
>
>
> I've got to go with dspeakes on this one. When I
> saw your post, I couldn't tell what you had
> "fixed" and thought it *was* the original quote.
> And I'm pretty internet savvy (no, really!). So
> in that sense, I didn't get the joke, so I think
> it would have been way funnier if you had made is
> something like, "I think you mean real *old*
> people".
>
> Whether or not the joke was funny or if the
> comment was insulting is a separate issue.

Oh, so because a "large number" of people thought it was funny, that made it okay?

Let's not lose sight of who "started this" with the childish prank. I made a serious reply to OP's question and that serious reply has been turned into a joke. Thank you very much, bgriffin, and thank you all his buddies who are defending him.

But of course, because I stood up to him, I am the bad guy here. It is my fault for daring to say "that's not funny." I think I had every right to say that. To not say anything would have implied I agreed with the "correction" and thought it funny. Well, I didn't. I thought it appalling and rude. And I didn't make a big deal out of it, I just said I didn't appreciate him putting his words into my mouth. The rest of this BS is because he felt compelled to defend it. There was nothing to defend. What he did was wrong. It was wrong to misquote me and it was wrong to poke fun at Maritz like that.

Mocking an MSC based on the ages of the schedulers -- this is something you people want to defend and applaud? This is something you're proud of?

I find it frankly hilarious that bgriffin doesn't get bonus calls from Maritz. I busted up laughing when I scrolled back through this thread and found that post. I got a call from them just today offering me bonuses for some shops in my area, and bonus money added yesterday to two shops I wanted to do on a route next week. I also got two checks in the mail from them today.

So how's that working out for you, bgriffin, mocking the hand that feeds me? You might want to rethink that strategy.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2014 12:17AM by dspeakes.

This is seriously getting tiresome. Obviously you can't get past the fact that I wasn't insulting them. If a large portion of their employees were French and I said you could talk to a real French person would I be insulting them? I think you hit the nail on the head with this quote:

"I made a serious reply to OP's question and that serious reply has been turned into a joke."

Isn't that what you're REALLY pissed about. That your OMG SO SERIOUS REPLY IS TURNED INTO A JOKE AND I FEEL SOOOOOO VIOLATED!!!!!

And yes, you ARE making a big deal about it. Otherwise you would have simply replied that you felt it was rude and then dropped it. But you are defending yourself as much as I am defending myself.

As for Maritz. Considering their average shop fee is about $10 and my average shop fee for March was just slightly over $50, you can imagine how much of my income is related to them. Less than 1% March. So yeah, the whole hand that feeds me thing. Doesn't really fit.

Three days and 47 posts later and it continues? Isn't it obvious that bgriffin does not agree with you and feels he has nothing to apologize for? His joke was aimed at an entire group of people who do not even visit this forum. Meanwhile your insults have been hurled at anyone and everyone who is "immature" enough to simply disagree with you. At this point it seems you can continue to post and complain for another three days or three months and bgriffin is not going to apologize or you can take the excellent suggestion to just toggle him and be done with it.

How ironic that just in the past week I have thought how great it has been to have such a peaceful time without being visited by our frequent flying trolls. Apparently it has been too peaceful so contributing members have to get their panties in a wad and refuse to let it die. Who would of thought I'd find myself missing SammySly/MobyDick/TruthSeeker?

I gotta tell ya, these stupid argument threads are much more enjoyable when I'm not in them.

That being said, why does everyone have to take everything so seriously? This is mystery shopping. We're not launching missiles at the Soviets. Most people here are anonymous (If you're not, you're doing it wrong). Those sweet gammys at Maritz probably have no idea who any of us are.

Can't we all just calm down and realize that:
1) Not everyone is you.
2) Nobody cares if you're offended.
3) Not everyone thinks you're as funny as you do (I am guilty of this)
4) You are allowed to roll your eyes at jokes that you don't like and click "toggle User Visibility" so you never have to be unjustifiably offended again.
5) You are NOT required to voice your disdain for the things other people say that offend you because SEE #2



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2014 01:40AM by Hoju.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> This is seriously getting tiresome.

Regardless of my opinion on the whole rest of this conversation, I agree with the above.

Can we please just all shake hands, apologize to each other for the misunderstanding and/or agree to disagree and move on?

LisaSTL Wrote:
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> Isn't it obvious that bgriffin does not agree with
> you and feels he has nothing to apologize for?

Not true. I feel like I should probably apologize for the board being cluttered up with this BS.

I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony,
I'd like to hold it in my arms, and keep it company.
I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand,
And hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land!

I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company

Hey, let's argue about the average shop fee at Maritz. It's not $10, I'd say it's closer to $15 on the average. But you don't have to take the $10 shops so the average can be much higher, especially if you do a good number of the bundles and the bonused shops. I did eight unbonused shops today that were $17 each which is pretty much the average of my work for them that's not bonused. Now that we got that settled, would anyone like my Granny's recipe for spice cake?