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  • Important Public Service Announcement....

    For the 984 billionth time...Just because we run out of an item does NOT mean we are practicing bait and switch!!!

    We started our huge Back to School ad on Friday. For this ad we received two pallets of wide-ruled one subject notebooks (72 cases per pallet and 24 notebooks per case), and one pallet of cheap two-pocket folders (64 cases per pallet and 100 folders per case). For those less inclined to crunch the numbers, let me give you an estimate of how many folders and notebooks we had: A fuckton.

    We were mucho busy Friday and Saturday and sold out of our stocks of the notebooks and folders. To the five douche nozzles who huffed with righteous indignation that we were practicing "bait and switch" and "deceptive advertising, all I have to say is "Were you born stupid or did you just choose to be stupid?"

    Believe it or not, people, sometimes many people, come into the store before you do and buy large quantities of our sale items because they intend to use them in some manner. It does not mean we intentionally under-ordered just to screw you over.

    I really wish I had visited the local salmon derby the other day. I could've got some nice specimens to slap a few morons around with.
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  • #2
    here, you can have mine...
    I don't go in for ancient wisdom
    I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
    It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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    • #3
      So is fuckton metric or standard?
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      • #4
        Quoth Kusanagi View Post
        So is fuckton metric or standard?
        You call imperial "standard"? *sigh*

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        • #5
          IPF, may I use the "fuckton" measurement?

          Oh, and I have a couple of extra salmon lying around too. Here you go:



          Sorry I don't have more, I used a lot of them the other night to take care of a jerkface.
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          • #6
            Sure, go right ahead! I likes coining new words.

            And oh, I just remembered that one of the "bait and switch" ass bonnets (another new word ) was pissed off because we didn't have and red, blue or purple folders left of the folders that we had on sale. A lot of the schools around here specifically request certain colors of folders and notebooks for each of the different subjects (red folder and notebook for math, green for social studies, orange for reading, and so on). All we had left were yellow, orange and green folders.

            WTF? Back in my day we had a wildly radical solution for distinguishing which folders and notebooks were for which classes. We called it "writing the name of the subject on the folder or notebook."

            Le sigh. I guess the kids have to learn those important lessons about micromanagement sooner or later.
            Last edited by Irving Patrick Freleigh; 07-23-2007, 09:33 AM.
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            • #7
              When I was at seniors (high school) our lessons all had different colour books for the most part. I always assumed it was so that the departments couldn't steal each others blanks and/or to make the ordering easier. Made our lives easier as well, cos when you're rifling through the packed bag looking for a book you just have to go for the colour.

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              • #8
                Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                A lot of the schools around here specifically request certain colors of folders and notebooks for each of the different subjects (red folder and notebook for math, green for social studies, orange for reading, and so on).
                That's so they don't have to teach the kids to read and write.

                Le sigh. I guess the kids have to learn those important lessons about micromanagement sooner or later.
                How else will they learn to be managers and develop systems that lack common sense and no-one understands but them?
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                • #9
                  Their are several reasons as to why specific color folders are required for specific subjects.

                  One of which is for the teacher. If every student has a specific color folder for that class and they are required to have the folder every day - the teacher can glance around the room and see a sea of folders in the same general color.

                  It also part of trying to teach basic orginization habits to students. If Math is always red - then it is always easy to find their Math folder.

                  (sorry I was once an education major)

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                  • #10
                    Oh noes! These people are stealing my organization ideas!

                    I tend to go with a theme for my folders and notebooks. One year I did all horses, one year I did colors, one year I did funny pictures... For notebooks, now that I'm in college, I get a notebook with the number of classes I have on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and another for the classes I have on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For example, if I have 3 classes on Mon/Weds/Fre, I get a 3 subject. If I have 2 on Tues/Thurs, I get 2 one subjects. All separate notebooks have separate colors. Makes my life sooooo much easier. I also write all the subjects on everything I own, so it helps me remember what color/picture goes with what. (I'm a little anal-retentively organized when it comes to schoolwork...)
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                    • #11
                      Quoth cinema guy View Post
                      How else will they learn to be managers and develop systems that lack common sense and no-one understands but them?
                      An easier way would be to sit in Mr. Supra's World Cultures class. You get all the micromanagement you can stand. He would actually have us label our quizzes and tests. For example, IIRC, Q-2/7 would mean that the quiz was taken on February 7. Even better when you had to put that, along with a -2, or -3 if it ran over to additional pages. Didn't stop there, all of our homework and other assignments had those stupid designations on them. He was the only teacher I've had who did that--a nnoying as hell, and I'm glad I only had him for one class in high school
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                      • #12
                        My high school (a college prep magnet) was really anal about MLA headings and things like that our freshman year. "You're gonna NEED THIS in college!"...and then I got to college and realized no one cared how I headed the paper if it was for a general class assignment (of course term papers are another issue entirely). As far as organization of your folders goes, though, Mead got me good! I have used Mead 5-Star folders since I was 10 and I'm now 21 and starting grad school in August. You'd think Mead would send me some kinda "customer reward" coupon or something ^_^ I'm REALLY anal about that. I CANNOT start the semester without a fresh Mead 5 star zipper binder with the dividers labled with the subject. I must also have Bic mechanical pencils, pens, and white out pens. Yup...the sales pitch worked on me!

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                          Sure, go right ahead! I likes coining new words.
                          Yay!! Thank you!


                          Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                          WTF? Back in my day we had a wildly radical solution for distinguishing which folders and notebooks were for which classes. We called it "writing the name of the subject on the folder or notebook."
                          It makes sense to you and me and everyone else with half a brain in their heads. If you're out of specific colors, just WRITE THE SUBJECT on the folder. I've been doing that for years. It's worked just fine for me so far, and I'm in my third year of college. No need to throw a hissy fit.
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                          • #14
                            Ugh, I've been having to do that with my DnD notebook (since I'm storing drawings along with character sheets); the little coloured tap protectors are almost unreadable, so I just colour code it as normal; "hmm, Quintessa wears a blue dress, so she'll go in blue, and Valentine worships the sun god so she gets sunny yellow! Yay! ^_^"
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                            • #15
                              Fortunately, yesterday we got in three more pallets of folders, and they turned out to be right at the front of the truck as you open the door. We took them off right away and put one of the pallets out on the floor.

                              As for the notebooks, we didn't get our entire order, due to the ever popular "vendor issues". We may not get any more in until the 30th, which is a hell of a long time to go without the notebooks that EVERYBODY needs.

                              On the organization thing, I understand that teaching kids how to organize their stuff is a good thing and all, but is it really such a big deal if the kids have football players or cartoon princesses on their notebooks and folders? Is it really worth it to throw parents into a tizzy muttering "OMG OMG OMG I can't find any blue notebooks or blue folders and if little Jimmy doesn't have them for math class he'll get in trouble OH NOEZ"?

                              It just isn't such a huge deal to me, and wouldn't be if I were a teacher, but then again I'm not.
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