We have to do everything in the store. We are revamping the website this week to put it on a new server with the bandwith to handle the anticipated greater demand after the show is on. It is costly but ultimately worth it.
But we also need to photo the new stuff to put up. This is a shot from the photoshoot that took place during the show where Lisa was modeling the Red Motorcylce Jacket. Katy is fixing her up and getting her ready before they shot on a cold blustery Feburary day.
We did some shots today when it was hot and there was a about a million bugs. We just need to get them on the website so we can start selling clothes.
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I don't know who Katy is so I'll be prudent. Va Va Vooooom!
I would say the same about your bride but, I think that would not be prudent. So I'll just say she must have poor eyesight. Just sayn'.
Trooper, must tell you, Lisa and your daughter have some killer legs! And those heels really show them off. Good choice.
Of course that is her talent!
Did I mention I want to do every guy on Jersylicious.
So fucking hot.
Bodies of death for days and days.
Yes, I know that Katy is not their daughter. There was pic of Lisa and Trooper's daughter, both had those same wonderful legs.
Titus,so you are all done with the Roids?
Troop, are any of the Tiara and Tantrum girls going to your party?
I love them, total divas
Titus demands an open marriage to the hindu or hindi or whatever you call them heathens!
Katy is Lisa's cousin and a character on the show. She has been working one day a week since we opened and the producers loved her so they made her a character.
Resulting in my regular workers getting very disgruntled to the point that they stole from me and quit.
You always get a lot of the bad with the good.
This is of courst the story of our first Christmas at the store and the elf costume where you first heard about Katy.
In the end it was most likely a good thing that the disgruntaled employees left as the new crew is a lot better. At least so far.
I give them six months.
Or until we start shooting again. Then they will be pissed that they are not on TV and it will start all over again.
Business is business. You're moving a product or service, balancing costs with customer service. Whether it's a bank, a software company, a restaurant, or a asphalt paving company, common sense and common courtesy will cover about 90% of your day.
The bitch in business is personnel issues.
TY, From what I know of your biz, you are the only testosterone in the shop. Whenever you have a lack of balance it causes problems. However, since it's women's clothing, you're inherently going to have an estrogen workplace..with the problems associated w/ that.
Envy is such a corrosive trait.
Your ex-workers didn't sign on in the expectation of being on tv, so they weren't made worse off by anyone but themselves.
Oh I know that guys.
But it is a human thing. When you do all the work you do think you should get some of the cream. I fought to get the other employees some more airtime but they turned me down flat. Fighting for them and a lot of other things that should have happened led the show runner to get the idea that he had to marginilize me and cut me out of the show as much as he could. When the network saw the footage they were pissed but the damage was done. He was eventually fired but what's done is done.
I am very sensitive that you can't ask someone to do all the shit work and then let someone else walk off with all the glory. You have to make up for it in some way. Money. TV exposure. Something. But resentment lingers on.
I know it is going to happen again in Season 2. Since I am not in charge there is really nothing I can do about it.
I don't really blame them too much. It is a natural human thing.
I feel much the same way. You would too. It's human. When you are an adult you get over it. Life sucks and then you die. If you don't like the way you are treated you can just leave and go somewhere else. Start your busines. Or your own blog. Whatever. You don't have to put up with it if you don't want to as there is always something else you can do. Just sayn'
I don't really stress about people who act the way a normal human being would act in the same situation. You just deal with it and move on.
You're a good manager, Troop, to recognize and accept human nature for what it is.
It's just that envy plays so large a role in public policy that it's frustrating. It's all Obama's got.
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Well that's the whole problem with Obama. He never had to run a business. You learn a whole lot about life and human nature when you run a business.
Ask windbag. He can tell you how it goes.
May you be blessed with more gruntled employees than disgruntled ones!
It sucks, especially, that folks stole from you. Jealousy etc. is an understandable, human-nature thing, sure, but stealing is just criminal and inexcusable. WTF?
Surely, you know people, if you know what I mean. Deniro knows people...
Trooper, you are a good manager and a good Blogfather, I don blame you for getting frustrated with all concerned. You are so right that one doesn't have to put up with anything, there is always a solution, but it's not always the solution one wants.
Which reminds me of the Rolling Stones "You can't always get what you want".
If Troop is such a good manager and good Blogfather and good all around guy how come he don't stroke me more often, huh?
Because he's not gay?
Oh never mind, that wouldn't account for all the Titus blogposts, hehe.
ricpic, what more could he get out of you w/ more stroking?
Sell it to him, bro.
Ricpic, if it weren't for all that stroking, none of us would even know who Molly Picon is.
Now take your seat. Allie's in charge here now.
Troop's link fixed.
I think I've told this story here before (I tell it everywhere) about the sandwich shop.
I had just left a job and was celebrating at the sandwich shop and I came in after the lunch rush so I actually got to chat with the owner for a while.
This is a tiny place, 4-5 people tops. Making sandwiches. And yet, in that tiny space, the entire gamut of employee dramas played out.
People are people.
I didn't look at the pic that closely until you guys started drooling... Wow! Your cousin's even cuter when she's NOT an elf.
I didn't know that was possible.
Hey, that cocksucker Meade commented on that thread. Thanks for reminding me - I haven't mentioned that he needs to go fuck himself lately.
Darcy was blushing in that thread...my all-time favorite avatar of hers.
If Troop is such a good manager and good Blogfather and good all around guy how come he don't stroke me more often, huh?
The 'k-why approach might work as chickenlittle's lubricant, but if RicPic is looking for more stroke to the poke, he might consider a more unctuous and oleaginous approach. Also, a little poetry prod goes a long ways.
Troupie, Troupie
I'm your groupie
Throw me now a bone
No little shmickel
To brine my pickel
Something to gnaw on!
I should put together an "Avatars of Darcy" calendar—I could clean up!
I'll buy one.
Trivia question: What was Darcy's first blogger avatar?
(blake is disqualified from answering)
What happens reader is that people lash out. In the only way they can. Very few people confront me face to face. They usually do it behind my back. I understand where it was coming from.
This employee tried to poison the new employees by talking shit. A lot of people are going to talk shit about us now that we have the show. My gut tells me to wade in throwing haymakers but I am told I can't do that kind of thing. So I have to swallow it. With a little measure of my self respect.
That's part of the compromise you make owning a business in this day and age.
A simple rule my old man taught me: Never say anything about a person that you have not said to their face. Most of my clients are attorneys. Often they will say to me, "I can't believe you said that to him/her directly." Of course, as you know, attorneys are the kings of talking behind ones back.
This teacher's pet stuff is horseshit. Everyone needs to be a team player, not an A-Rod. Stop keeping individual scores and just focus on our team here. It's a damn good team even though we have Charlie Chaplain as a manager.
It's often better to let stuff roll off your back.
Keeps the blood pressure down.
Allows healing.
And drives the real bastards mad.
Oh listen I am a big boy and this is not my first time at the rodeo. But I am just spouting off to my friends. I keep my own counsel on this stuff and don't blow off steam at the people I should blast.
To do that is a mugs game.
People suck. Once you realize that you are surprised. Every once in a while you might be pleasantly surprised but that doesn't happen that often.
I am Elmer J Fudd and I have a mansion and a yacht.
I mean once you realize that you are not ever surprised except once in a blue moon somebody is cool and does the right thing and then you are pleasantly surprised.
But don't hold you breath there Lloyd Bridges.
I don't even remember my first avatar, chick! :)
I thought it was the pinkish one?
But yeah, remember the old days? Somewhere along the way I've gotten old watching TY hit the big time.
Poop. (I mean about the old part.)
You have an elf working for you, so what could possibly upset your applecart?
@Darcy: 'Wings!
Oh yeah!
I've had 20 or so avatars, Darcy. I can't remember my first. It maight have been "In-N-Out Urge"
I have only one real friend in the world. Because he never challenges me. In other words I can go over to his house, have a nice meal, get mildly blotto, a good cigar, and not one competitive moment. This is what we mean when we say people suck. The infernal competitiveness. Of course what I've just recounted may not apply to you who are all well adjusted solid citizens ha ha ha ha. But it's true for me. People are so g-damned confrontational. And for what?
I have only one real friend in the world.
You're lucky to have that, ricpic. I don't. I even fight with myself.
@ricpic - we are not confrontational!
I have only one real friend in the world.
The key word, the one that makes all the difference in a world of illusion and pretense: real.
Allie Oop - you revised avi makes it look like you are drowning!
Here - I'll throw you a line:
A dog, a nun and an alien walk into a bar. The bartender......
...says - what'll you have, Mr. President.
Wait, right punchline, wrong set up.
ricpic, You appear to be an introvert like myself. We loathe the competition of realtionships. We want substantive friendships and don't want or need many faux friendships. Blogs like this are ideal for us because we can connect w/o expending too much energy. Additionally, introverts prefer the written word for expression.
Socializing for an extrovert requires a lot of energy being expended. And, so when we do exert that energy we need a reward. For extroverts it requires no energy to engage and the mere engagement is the reward..more is better for them. Extroverts are the majority and the currently considered exemplary in our culture. It always hasn't been that way. I've often said I was born to late, or maybe too early. Because the pendulum always swings.
Seriosly spinelli the vert you are is not an intovert!
Michael, drowning? How about a veiled harem girl? No? I might have to find a little Hungarian girl.
Is the guy who posts porno Pooh photos intimating I'm a pervert? Like all Irish/Italian half-breeds, you have more balls than brains.
Troop sure pitches a big inclusive tent here for an Irish guy.
My dyslexic barber thinks I don't visit his shop often enough.
He says I'm a haricot vert.
Hey everybody loves Poo porno stories.
It's the peeping in the windows and photos of cheating spouses is the pervert thing there buddy.
Oh and thanks again. You are one cool dude.
ChipS, You are a witty dude.
Trooper, Prego.
spinelli, I keep wishing I was a homicide detective. Please tell me that's stupid.
ChipS, Absolutely not stupid, but you have to have the right personality, not just the skills. I had to get out of criminal work because it tore into me, the victims just broke my heart.
You obviously have the intellect. However, you have to work your way up to homocide, w/ the variable being politics. I never was a cop. The criminal investigator job I worked for 4 years was for the prosecutors office in KC. That gave me a well rounded view of all crimes, from homicides/rapes/ robberies to drug/car theft/burglary etc. Cops often just gather enough evidence for an arrest. I had to gather enough for a conviction. The gap can be greater than one thinks. Beyond a reasonable doubt can be a motherfucker.
If you want some info and/or guidance, I'll be happy to help. God put us on this earth to help each other.
The first misspelling of homicide[homocide] was probably because I just finished a post on the Titus thread.
Thanks, Nick, for all that good info.
Prego
I had to look up haricot vert. I avoid them in any language.
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