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    I Called In Sick Today

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    As far as the "fake" niceness...more customers would be turned off if the employees said nothing at all and didn't appear to be friendly while putting together their burritos than what you're complaining about. And it is amazing how many lonely people in the world live for some stranger making conversation with them. I've had customers in the past that came in to use our services not because they really needed it but because they were lonely.
    You can be nice without forcing small-talk. I have never felt that the people at chipotle were rude or not nice. They put my lettuce on there with a smile, and happily ask me what kind of salsa I want (the hot one btw). They don't need to ask me about the details of my life in order to be nice. They aren't there to counsel lonely people, they are there to prepare mexican food. But also, what DJ said. The reason they don't back off when you don't engage them I think is because they are being watched and don't want to be reprimanded for not being nice enough.It's like they won't have enough pieces of flair.

    I Called In Sick Today

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    That's just shyness. Being an introvert has little to do with fear/dislike of social interactions. It's more about how you recharge at the end of the day. So you may be an introvert, but not wanting to talk to a burrito specialist is not why. SEMANTICS.
    You stick the animals, you. The point is that I much prefer to be left alone with my internal thoughts, and that's really why I go to eat lunch alone. I'm not particularly shy. I don't dislike social interactions. I dislike fake social interactions. I don't know this person. They are not talking to me because they are interested in my day, they are talking to me because someone told to, because they thought I would like that. I don't. It gets worse, too. While you are sitting down eating your burrito, engrossed in the internet on your phone, some guy comes by and interrupts you. "Hey man, everything goin ok here?". It happens every ten minutes or so, meaning that often I am asked this 2-3 times while I am there. I once was even tapped on the shoulder so that they could ask me this.
    I disagree. He is being thrust into the situation either way. So he might as well tweak the situation so that he isn't the one forced to talk. His short answers are producing awkwardness in both parties; an awkwardness that he wants to avoid.
    No I was creating that awkwardness hoping that they would want to avoid it and stop asking me questions. They don't care. But it really isn't their fault, it's the management's fault for encouraging this. I think a letter to the management may be in order.

    I Called In Sick Today

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    There is this burrito place near where I work that makes pretty good food. It's kind of recent chain; they've been based in santa barbara for a long time but recently expanded all over so cal.However, there is a major problem with this place that might limit how often I can go there: apparently they have trained up the staff to be super friendly and to make small talk with you while they make their burrito.Unlike Chipotle, where the workers hand the burrito off as it goes down the line, at this place one person walks with you all the way down the line adding what you want to the burrito. They always start out with the same stupid small-talk line, which is how I know they've been trained to do it.burritista: Soooo, how's your day goin'??vb: Was going well until I realized you were going to do this to me. Fine.burritista: Workin hard today?vb: just stop. Yepp.burritista: Cheddar or Monterrey Jack?vb: cheddar.burritista: Lookin' forward to the long weekend?vb: Oh come on. Guess so!burritista: Yeah, I mean its good for people who don't have to work that day!vb: you're really not going to stop are you, even though I've only given one word answers and keep looking at my phone. I give up. Oh you working that day?

    Random Religious Observations

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    I actually don't think "slavery" would be that terrible if we lived in a world where all parties loved each other. Pretty much every single character in "Downton Abbey" is a slave, since they all live on premises serving the Duke or whatever. If people could pay for US citizenship through indentured servitude or slavery, even in the "real" world, I'm sure that millions of people (maybe a billion?) would sign up right now. (And the real world is far from anything resembling love in the employer-employee or slave-master relationships)
    Ok, fine, you get both. facepalm.jpgspit_take.gif

    Random Religious Observations

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    The OT has pretty clear rules on treatment of slaves and a whole bunch of other things that were going on when it was written in like 1500 BC. What's even crazier is that people still bought and sold humans like 150 years ago, which is more than 3000 years after Exodus was written.However, the NEW testament is very specific on slavery, and has many sections, including the entire book of Philemon, written on how to treat slaves with gentleness, love, and forgiveness.
    Cannot decide between facepalm and spit-take.

    Mitt Romney Assaulted Student Who Was "different" In Prep School

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    This is where the story sounds fishy.I talked to my dad.and he is a big obama guy, but 18 year olds in 1965 woiuld never have bleqched their hair. The big hair statement back then was mohawks.Also isnt the supposed victim denying this story.
    Yeah, you could get your ass kicked for bleaching your hair back then, so no one did it. Also, didn't romney supposedly sodomize the guy too?

    I Called In Sick Today

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    There's a good chance the slowness is still because of the post rebuilding script. You can tell it's not done yet because the older posts still have quotes showing up improperly. If that's the case, it's temporary.

    Mitt Romney Assaulted Student Who Was "different" In Prep School

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    Thought this was funny:Mitt is being accused of bullying a kid in 1965.You know what Mitt did not do?Mitt Romney was not at Chappaquiddick. Mitt Romney has not been accused of rape. Mitt Romney did not have an affair with a mob babe. He didn't have an affair with an actress who committed suicide later on. Mitt Romney did not father a child out of wedlock. Mitt Romney did not support the tapping of Martin Luther King's phone. Mitt Romney was never a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Mitt Romney did not lie about his law school grades.Mitt Romney did not bully a young girl and push her.
    prove it!

    Mitt Romney Assaulted Student Who Was "different" In Prep School

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    I guess we might have different definitions of "picked on". I didn't ever hit, poke, tackle or bully anyone either. But I definitely teased people at some point from K-12. Did you not tease anyone either?
    I don't recall ever teasing anyone (at least not to make them feel badly, I tease my friends all the time, that's different of course). Part of the reason was probably that I was at the bottom of the social chain. There weren't too many people below me to pick on even if I were inclined to do so.
    Would you bet your life on that? Have you either done anything wrong? Are you a higher power? Is that why you're an athiest, because you KNOW the truth?
    Don't really know why the notion that I wasn't a jerk in school is so hard for you to swallow. Only religious people can be nice I guess? As for the bolded, the key difference between a scientific point of view and a religious one is that we entertain uncertainty where religious people value conviction. I don't KNOW anything.

    The Official Obama Scorecard Thread

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    It was explicitly about me. You asked me what my views were and why, so I'm not sure what you mean(?).
    I started that line of questioning because you expressed having trouble understanding the people who are against gay marriage.
    I dunno why I have that. It could be an evolutionary thing I guess, but I can't point to a single answer. I don't have any sisters so it's not because I know from personal experience that I'm not attracted to them. It's totally baseless though. My personal opinions (combined with similar opinions of millions of other people) on marriage and sexuality shouldn't stop 2 people from being able to legally marry. That was my only point regarding baselessness.
    It's not baseless. It has a deep history in evolution that goes back farther than humanity; its a nearly universal phenomenon among mammals. Many people trust these kinds of intuitions, and there's good reason to: the wisdom of the biosphere is built into them. Nature doesn't make baseless decisions. Your conscious, cognitive mind is not necessarily always the smartest part of you. Yeah, sometimes we need to override these intuitions because they are out of date and no longer relevant; but they shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. They are an important source of information that should be listened to and understood before being ignored.
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