It's Another ACraigL Shirt Giveaway! [Unofficial]

@heartny
Nice. I’m in a toss up between my favorite Xmas present. I got a gift certificate for a massage and one to creative art studio. it’s a place where you can paint stuff, fuse glass, mosaic glass, or play with clay. I’m gonna take a class either in hand building clay or wheel throwing. I’ve done the hand building stuff before but not the wheel so I really don’t know which one to do. I love hand building stuff with clay but maybe I’ll enjoy the wheel even more.
So what restaurant did you get gift carts too?

@Star2236 Gift cards were to a local Italian restaurant and Texas Roadhouse. Your gifts sound nice too. I hope you enjoy them.

@heartny
You too.

@ybmuG Good eye!

@cengland0 MOST??

@ACraigL There are a few I don’t like. Well, maybe they are funny and good for other people but this is an example:

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/team-daydrinkers

I don’t drink so it wouldn’t be funny or appropriate for me to wear this one. Still a good shirt but on someone else.

@cengland0 I was just giving you a hard time. I am regularly surprised that people want to wear half the stuff I come up with. And after 7+ years of shirting I’ve only ever seen one of my designs in the wild (IRL, not insta)

@ACraigL I would wear most of your shirts. Some of them are very seasonal though. The turkey hand drawing with extended finger is one of my favorites but I can see myself wearing it only one day a year. By the time it makes it into the wash and ready to wear again, Thanksgiving would be over and the joke would be over too.

@ACraigL @cengland0
The turkey one is great. I’d wear that one all year round. I like funny shirts though.

@ACraigL @cengland0
Yeah, I get it, back in the day THAT was what I did and THAT’S also the reason I quit! SOBRIETY IS GRAND and I’m extremely grateful for it!

DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!

@Star2236 I worked at the hut for around 12 years- started in high school. I did a bit of everything at one time or another. The cat shirt is more me now

@speediedelivery @Star2236 I worked at a Pizza Hut one summer when I stayed at my aunt’s house in WA and took a college class at UW. The manager was an egotistical moron who always came in and played the same song on the jukebox :
/youtube Mac Davis - It’s Hard to Be Humble

@Kyeh @speediedelivery
Wow 12 years, that’s a long time you must have really liked it?
@kyeh I had a super weird boss their too. He used to hang out with us (the kids) and drink his beer he brought in when we were slow. I had a few super cool bosses too.

I remember one night another kid and I went into the freezer to get the cheese sticks and spilled it all over the nasty floor. Our boss would have been so mad that we wasted an entire box so we just put them all back in the box and didn’t say anything. That night my friends came in and tried to order them. I kept telling her she didn’t want them but she didn’t get it and was like “yes I do want them”, finally I had to spell it out to a group of 10 of my friends. I assured them that the rest of the food was okay to eat.

@speediedelivery @Star2236 Oh, man - the ways that bad management screws things up! At least those probably would be decontaminated after deep-frying but yuck!

@Kyeh @speediedelivery
They didn’t get fried they just went through a breadstick heater I didn’t eat them for a while to make sure they were gone

@speediedelivery @Star2236
Ohhh - blechhh! How awful!

@Kyeh @Star2236 Overall yes I liked it. I learned many life lessons there and would not change many things if I had to do it over. Parents were appalled when I briefly considered staying there or at least the industry instead of continuing college. I went from painfully shy and trouble talking to strangers to finding small talk to be polite and social. Now I am the awful one that will not shut up. I still work in retail and like it. I am debating whether I should apply for a job this week that would be exciting and new but pull me away from direct retail.

@Kyeh @speediedelivery @Star2236

Having to deal with Karen(s) in direct retail isn’t enough to pull you away?

@Kyeh @MarkDaSpark @Star2236 I have been lucky so far. A few here and there but I can pass them off to the next level pretty quickly. I have more problems with just plain stupid or idiots usually in coworkers or management. I doubt if I would gain much there. I do think I would be working on projects and then implementing them. I am working on a set of questions to find out more.

If I apply and manage to get selected the overall benefits are marginal. Six day schedule to five but longer commute. I currently work shorter days so I can plan things outside my schedule rather than take time off for appointments. Higher insurance payment will equal or exceed the small pay increase. A bit better retirement based on the pay increase. I am interested in the actual job and work that needs done but if I am stuck with a committee of idiots and office politics daily I would not be happy. I would be working remotely so I might be able to limit some of those issues.

TLDR: Many things to think about if I want to apply for a new job.

@MarkDaSpark @speediedelivery @Star2236 That IS a lot to consider! Good luck on the decision.
I worked in restaurants throughout high school and college and except for a few situations like that Pizza Hut one (only a three-month job) I also got a lot out of it. I was very shy too, and it was great to discover that interacting with strangers didn’t have to be so difficult. I realized that it’s kind of role-playing, and once I got comfortable with it at work, I was able to carry it over to my personal life. I was lucky to work my longest stint at a beloved local single-owner restaurant with an owner who really cared, and it was like a family to most of us.
TL;DR - working with the public can be gratifying in the right job!

@Kyeh @MarkDaSpark @speediedelivery
I really liked working at Pizza Hut. I enjoyed the commodity and when it was slow they let me do other jobs like make pizza and stuff. So I kinda learned to do it all. I’ve always been a very outgoing person (my mom would say a little to loud and abrasive for work situations at times) but working with those crazy customs did help me to work with the crowd at Outback (for a year, waitressing is not my thing) and them eventually to move on to the psychiatric field. That’s where I needed to keep my mouth shut at times, to management and patients.

@eric1024 I got one a while ago, fun hobby, especially if you’re a tinkerer. Let me know if you have any questions!

@ACraigL I’m excited - I’m definitely a tinkerer. I actually got two - the Ender 3 V2 I got a few months ago and finally just got around to putting it together and tested it for the first time. And I backed the AnkerMake M5 on Kickstarter which was just delivered a few days before Christmas. I’m excited to try that one out now. Will do - thanks!

@compunaut
Have you ever seen the movie The Ref, with Kevin spacey and Dennis Leary? “Ugh slipper socks” it’s absolutely hilarious. I think of it anytime I use my slipper socks. They do keep your feet amazingly warm.

@cutiecupid15

@ACraigL WOW! What a surprise. Looks like 2023 is starting better than the awful December I had. Thank you for doing this! I hope it’s okay to wait and see what prints from this derby before I choose my shirt.

@caramelarrow No worries. Congrats!

@ACraigL @caramelarrow His Thanksgiving one is a classic.

@ACraigL How awesome - thank you so much! Happy 2023!

PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!

@eric1024 My pleasure! Shirt has been ordered!

@ACraigL voted for both. Especially appreciated the Firefly shirt. Congrats on both being in the fog (again)! Good luck!

@ACraigL @ybmuG Same - voted for both - love the Browncoat University one! Shiny!

@ACraigL
if you can’t find them I will gladly volunteer to fill in!

@ACraigL Congratulations! I have your Seussyfish shirt and a couple others. I’m one of the people who got and laughed at Ross’ Spudnik costume on Friends, so Seussyfish is right up my alley.

LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!

@eric1024 Yay! I think I only had 3 FF shirts in my catalog at the time. I’ve added another since

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/browncoat-university