Acanthus
09.27.11 | 10/10 album art
Take it from me, I've got 4yrs experience here... if you hear a story where a manger of a Pizza Hut is murdered it might be me. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I'm going to go wash my clothes, put my piercings in, and pretend like I've got a job worth caring about. |
TomArnoldsArmpit
09.27.11 | YOU'VE GOT PLUGS YOU CAN'T MAKE MY PIZZA. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I do not, I've got 13 piercings and not a plug in sight! |
toxin.
09.27.11 | This reads as :
"I really have to quit my job." |
TomArnoldsArmpit
09.27.11 | If you have a pierced eyebrow, then I hate you and will kindly ask that you please fuck off back to 1998. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | Never work at a pizza place. Step 1. |
TomArnoldsArmpit
09.27.11 | Also, people with pierced eyebrows deserve to be delivering my pizza (which I will not tip for). |
pizzamachine
09.27.11 | Very interesting list! I've actually never worked at a pizza place myself. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I don't, so no worries.
@xtoxin - I do sir, but I'm also in a transitional time, trying to get a new place to live causes me to need the money. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Pizzamachine - I've had some good times, but this one makes me want to become homeless again. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | Loled at 8.
Apparently, what helps to get service jobs like this is to leave off any higher education you might have gotten, because it makes managers think you only want to work there temporarily before moving off to better things (which is probably true, haha). They also don't want smartass employees that might talk back, haha. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | That's very true, often I ask a simple question like "Hey how many of this do you want?" and I get a long talk about how to do my job, which wasn't what I asked. I wanted to work at the call center and get some phone experience but, get this, if you score to HIGH the company sends the application to the store; I'm too good for the call center apparently.
Before Hot Topic sucked as much as it does now I worked there, considering going to apply at Spencers because that place is still tolerable. |
MO
09.27.11 | This list would've been helpful 10 years ago. |
Mordecai.
09.27.11 | how does this list not have Pizza by HORSE the band? |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | Because tbh I've not owned anything by HORSE the band, nor do I really like them really.
@MetallicOpeth - I know right man? I've only done pizza, a grease monkey, and retail. |
pmmets07
09.27.11 | good read |
Vesper
09.27.11 | That's why I find it hard to apply for some service jobs, because I hate the idea of trying to make myself sound stupider just to get a job. You'd think they'd appreciate having a smart worker...
Haha, I applied to Hot Topic the summer before I began college, and I was told by the manager that I was the highest-qualified applicant she'd ever seen. Half the applicants don't even finish filling out the two-page form... -_-
Good thing she turned me down (since I could only work summers), because Hot Topic got even shittier after that. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | I would sooner mow lawns than apply for retail or a pizza joint. |
Satellite
09.27.11 | the words "successfully" and "at a pizza place" probably shouldn't be used in the same sentence |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | I've always somewhat wanted to work at Hot Topic to throw people off with my un-goth-ness. And to make fun of mallcore kids. |
Hyperion1001
09.27.11 | I want to work at a record store but the only one near me is 45 min away and that's just not worth it.
Was thinking of being a pizza delivery guy cause i like to drive and listen to jams, that couldnt be that bad. |
Satellite
09.27.11 | the music they blare 24/7 there, though, man... |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @pmmets07 - thanks man, this just kept buzzing in my head all day at work.
I would have loved the job had it A)been more music oriented, I had customers come in just so I could rec them new bands and B)if I had a car and wasn't being a stupid, still in love guy.
I'd like to move out've the service industry but it's hard to find a niche to start from. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Hyperion1001 - every delivery guy I know smokes weed in between drops, they really seem to like the job but it ruins their cars mostly. The record stores here are insanely hard to get into, you've got to drop a lot of money there before they'll consider you valuable enough. |
Hyperion1001
09.27.11 | Yeah i know it'd fuck my car up early but i don't care as long as i like the job. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | Well then give it a try, they seem to always be hiring and sometimes you can make really good money doing it. My buddy listens to audio books all day when he delivers. |
Satellite
09.27.11 | "I'd like to move out've the service industry but it's hard to find a niche to start from."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/college |
Vesper
09.27.11 | I thought of working at the record store for Hospital Productions in Manhattan, but I found it too difficult to not laugh at the pile of unsold For Which He Plies the Lash vinyls, and I don't think Dominick would have appreciated an employee of his sniggering at his work, haha. |
Spec
09.27.11 | This isn't a pizzamachine list.. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Satellite - I'm in college, this is my third year. Sadly, maybe even more so than this list, nothing there grabs my interest; so far I'm just attending to learn new things.
@Vesper - Yeah that might be a bit much for some people, though surely Manhattan has more stores?
@ Spec - no sadly, be he did comment!
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BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | Starbucks bra Also what angel said, I would like to add my bro-king credentials to manly up the Hot Topic into a legitimate establishment. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | My local HT has a lot of un-goth kids, they've turned the store into a bro place...
Starbucks is actually my goal atm, just waiting for a few more things to click into place first. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | You'd be surprised at how few there are, Acanthus. Hospital Productions is the only even remotely underground metal record store that's any good here, and is still very limited because it's mainly geared at its own releases. Generation Records is good for punk, among other things, but it only really carries more well-known releases of alternative music. There are tons of record stores in lower Manhattan and northern Brooklyn for everything but *darker* music. It seems most of that market has moved online because they can't afford to have a brick and mortar store, sadly. Some of the DIY metal/punk venues in Brooklyn are having trouble staying afloat because rent in gentrified areas (read: hipster-fied) is becoming too much to handle. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | You can come work for me when I open up the American version of Helvete. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | If I worked at HT, id wear a cutoff Hvis Lyset Tar Oss t, nike shorts and knee high socks. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | Dude, we could bro it up so hard and pummel some scene kids to Burzum. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Vesper - that's actually really sad. I love being able to find things online but I'd kinda had this dream of a cool store that I could walk into and they'd have music that I could just die for...
@Balls/Angel - the one guy I miss working with rocks hard, he'll switch over the radio until he finds actual metal (Burzum being one of the bands he'd play). |
Vesper
09.27.11 | Yeah, my dream is that one day, if I ever make a shit ton of money, I want to buy out a factory, convert it into studio/apartment spaces that I'll rent out at relatively low rates to musicians and artists. You'd have to apply to me directly with samples of your work, so there's no talentless riffraff tainting my most metal of communities. There will be a mini-venue on site, along with practice rooms, a record store, and a bar.
The likelihood of this happening is close to zero, but I can dream... haha.
If you've ever heard of The Brewery in LA (an old beer factory that's been converted into a rent-controlled artist community), that's kind of what I'm going for, but oriented towards Satan-worshippers, hahaha. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | Yeah dude if we see any kids wearing Design The Skyline gear we'll scissor kick them to death. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | That'd be pretty sweet I must say, and dreams like that are great to have! The only thing I've had close to that is when my buddy got back from touring and was sick of the industrial night we have here; we were getting ready to rent out a warehouse, buy the alcohol, the whole works and have another underground type club scene again. Sadly it didn't make it to the actual doing stage, as the nights picked up once the let me start promoting it.
I think there needs to be more of places like the one you dream of having, because they'd be great for the scene in general.
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Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Balls - Please, oh please do. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | That's one way to fuck up some comb-overs. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | I am blessed with having a great speaking voice and rallying spirit of one said Hitler sans the anti-semitism, me and you Angel will go state to state having metal seminars, discussing and revising the metal dress code, getting buff and taking shit from no one instead of being bedroom dwelling humorless faggots, the power of positive thinking, the power of rocking hard, and the merit of said 'black metal swag". We metallers are a dominant species, we must be physically, emotionally and socially capable of fucking shit up as well as anyone else. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I actually think that'd be pretty great, it'd be fun at the very least. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | Beautifully stated. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | I'm tired of the metal race being stereotyped and led by obscenely tall humorless sociopathic motherfuckers that uniformly sit down and cross their arms, or super skinny or super fat shmucks. No we must make Manowar and our ancestral viking or celtic savage or Attila The Hun ancestors proud. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | Yeah, I'd definitely do it, if I can ever manage to raise the funds and find enough people interested in actually living in a community like that, haha. I might put up a Kickstarter one day, who knows, haha.
I think it would do wonders for the metal/art community to have a creative hub like this without all the elitist and divisive bullshit. Basically, it would be putting Balls' positive attitude, lol, into some kind of physical form.
Well, at least, your industrial nights picked up in exchange for not having your own DIY space. You could still do that, though! :) |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | Here in the States there's a real lack of classic metal physiques I'll give you that. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | I honestly might have to move to Atlanta soley to work at The Earl, that is my definition of a cool place even if it is awkwardly segregated as fuck. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Vesper - I think you should definitely pursue it, I think it'd really take off well! We still want the space, jsut have to wait a bit for money to come in. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | Why realize your passion into something productive when you can swag the fuck out and tear shit up? |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | Yeah, at least there's kind of a scene here. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | UFC fighters like Dan Hardy and Josh Barnett are krieg metallers, we need to find other athletes/celebs to help endorse it, except fuck Ncik Cage's son.
But seriously Angel The Earl left such an impression on me. Need to get the fuck back there. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | Yeah, I went in the other day before the WitTR show. The bar they played at was basically right next to the Graveyard. |
Kimm
09.27.11 | What are your 13 piercings? |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | I enjoyed longboarding around that area. Steep hills, alot of fucking trees and bar called The Graveyard. Not sure how much poon that place gets but it is certainly legit. Also bro you got to go to Brunswick Georgia for the Hippie Hostel. Goin back up in Novemeber I hope. Tree houses, weed, great people, outdoor showers, epic times overall. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | "We still want the space, jsut have to wait a bit for money to come in."
Therein lies the problem for me, too, lol. Moneymoneymoney.
Is there anything happening at The Earl around Christmas? I can time my parental visitation with something interesting, haha. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | Hard to say this far out, but we could just go anyway for the fuck of it lol. The only shows coming up there that I'm interested in going to are Kvelertak next month and Melt Banana in November. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Kimm - Right ear: three upper cartilage CBR's (not a spiral), one earlobe ring. Left ear: Industrial, 3 earlobe piercings. Face: Septum, Labret, Tongue. Body: Nipples.
I'm wanting to get a few more, just waiting.
@Vesper - Yeah money is always an issue, specially on minimum wage. |
Hyperion1001
09.27.11 | Find a show not at a 21+ bar so all us southern sputnickers can get it together would be awesome. |
Trebor.
09.27.11 | I thought you were gonna teach me how to make a pizza :( |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | Anybody in the Georgia area must go to the hippie commune in the forest with me. Truly a life altering experience. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | I can teach you if you really want to know. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Trebor - I can if you really want to? And Angel would probably make an amazing pizza! |
Vesper
09.27.11 | "Body: Nipples."
I don't know exactly why, but that made me lol really hard.
Yeah, any extra money I have goes straight to shows and tattoos, so savings are kind of nil for me, haha.
SOUTHERN SPUTNIK CHRISTMAS, YES. |
Kimm
09.27.11 | Which was the most painful? For me it was easily the industrial, which I actually had to take out and have redone. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | Hey Kimmm ever gonna come down to Florida to party with me and Pitt? |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | I was saving up for a bike once, but then I started collecting records... |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | @Kimm - my industrial was my first one, since then it's been broken open at least 5x but has healed remarkably well in spite of all of that. I don't really consider them painful anymore, as I look forward to the needle but when my earlobes were done they had to use two needles and that was remarkably eye opening. I loved when I got my septum pierced though, got to look in the mirror with this needle sticking through my nose; it was surreal.
@Vesper - I've got ideas for more tattoo's soon, but I have to temper that with work since I'm anal about cleaning them. |
Hyperion1001
09.27.11 | "SOUTHERN SPUTNIK CHRISTMAS, YES."
FUCKING YES SO MUCH |
thediamondcanopy
09.27.11 | I worked at a pizza hut for about 5 months before going to college and I can honestly say that was some of the most fun I've ever had making money. Our RGM didn't give a shit about anything so I could make whatever I wanted and as long as I did all my short shifts well by the end of the night, everything was cool. Especially closing, when you have the whole store to yourself. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I envy you then, because here is not like that at all. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | I'm forsaking tattoos until next year, because there are so many goddamn shows through December that I can't miss, haha.
I'm not too anal about tattoos. I was pretty anal about my piercings, but I haven't had any of those in a while, since I realized I'm much more of a tattoo person than a piercing person (I really love that anticipation right before you get pierced, though). |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | It's one of my favorite feelings, and I'm a blast to tattoo apparently; I giggle and laugh when it hurts, especially when the clean it after. Can't help it, it's just what I do. I've got more skin for tattoo's, and all mine are hidden atm so for jobs sake I've stopped the piercings atm. |
AngelofDeath
09.27.11 | I want some more tattoos but yeah. |
BallsToTheWall
09.27.11 | I feel when Pit gives me a tattoo we will make a youtube video of the process and finish. |
pizzamachine
09.27.11 | Tattoos are cool but not for me! |
Trebor.
09.27.11 | I agree
Piercings freak me out though |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | It took me a few years before I got mine, I suffered for them in the end but they've been well worth it. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | Hahaha, you're weird, Acanthus. :)
I have a really high pain tolerance, so I just closed my eyes and lay perfectly still when I was getting my collarbone tattooed, and the other tattoo artist in the shop came over at the end to congratulate me, lol. |
Waior
09.27.11 | this sounds just like my job man
luckily it's just interim before i flee the country but i empathise |
TomArnoldsArmpit
09.27.11 | What kind of pussy can't handle getting tattooed? Good lord. I feel more pain when I stub my toe or wipe my rump too hard. |
Apollo
09.27.11 | list is hilarious and quite accurate
but the moral of the story, is don't be a prep bitch. Be a bartender. I bartended for 4 years, made awesome money, got to learn how mix drinks and when you control the alcohol, you control the restaurant |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I'm waiting until I turn 21 and then I'm going to hit p my bartender friends, get some tips, and go from there.
@Vesper - I've not had my collar bone done yet, though I've had one of my tats get close. My sternum and armpit were fun, as was my side. My next piece will be my spine, then my other side, then my leg. |
Vesper
09.27.11 | Lol, what do you have in your armpit?
I always thought that was a bit of a funny place to get a tattoo, because of the hair, haha. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I've just got an upper rib piece that reaches a few inches into it is all, no cool eyeballs in my armpit or anything. |
BigHans
09.27.11 | Ive worked in the restaurant industry part time on and off for years. Alot of this is true. Ive rarely been a cook at these places, but Ive seen this stuff happen to many people. |
Apollo
09.27.11 | word. Being in the kitchen always looked like hell to me. The cooks work there asses off for less than half the pay. |
pizzamachine
09.27.11 | "list is hilarious and quite accurate"
yeah someone should feature this |
BigHans
09.27.11 | if you work in the restaurant industry and dont work for tips or are in management youre basically stupid. Not saying that to be mean, its just that the line cooks work much harder than everyone else and get paid half as much, if not worse. Servers and Bartenders work hard too but there is a bigger payoff. |
someguest
09.27.11 | be like the guy at taco bell and take a shit in the refried beans |
BigHans
09.27.11 | Taco Bell always has a high class employee base. |
someguest
09.27.11 | aka blacks |
BigHans
09.27.11 | no, more like moronic high school kids or 35 year old losers who cant get a better job because they fucked their life up. |
someguest
09.27.11 | well around here
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pizzamachine
09.27.11 | lol Taco Bell has a bad rep |
MO
09.27.11 | that's cause it gives you the turkish blends |
alachlahol
09.27.11 | im sure the employee base of any establishment would be well improved by the inclusion of a battle hardened dorm room warrior like someguest |
someguest
09.27.11 | taco bell used to give me the runs but now it doesn't
prob died a little inside or something |
someguest
09.27.11 | yes alachlahol |
BigHans
09.27.11 | I worked in fast food when I was 15-16 and I was an absolutely terrible employee. Whats sad is I was one of the best there. |
someguest
09.27.11 | they had fast food back then? |
BigHans
09.27.11 | Just got started. It was right around the time I invented McDonalds |
someguest
09.27.11 | you and roy croc were bros |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I've got my jobs down pat, just the new regs and constant micromanaging makes me want to walk out right then and there; I'm not doing anything difficult, I should be able to do prep work without being walked through it after 4yrs. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | And since Balls brought up Starbucks I applied there last night, would like to be a barista fag for a bit. |
MO
09.27.11 | I used to work at Subway. Hated it, so glad I never have to go back to fast food. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | I actually would work there but I like the food, and I really hate working where I like to food. |
BigHans
09.27.11 | Acanthus, seriously dude if youre in college and working the restaurant biz you would make at least 4 times as much money bartending than being in the kitchen. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | :/ looks like I've got something to talk about with the owner tonight then, as more money would be welcome (just got a new place to live). |
tarkus
09.27.11 | I would get a job, and its legal for me to do so, but its hard as hell to get hired, especially at my age. |
BigHans
09.27.11 | well, not at Pizza Hut. Talking about a place like Fridays, Chilis, Applebees, any busy restaurant that has a bar, any local bar that tons of people go to. When I used to bartend at a place called Green Mill (which is a midwest chain kind of like TGI Fridays), I would make an absolute minimum of $100 in tips per night. Often went over $200. I know some people that have made over $500 in a night bartending at certain places. Im pretty sure youll never make more than $12 an hour being a prep/line cook at most restaurants, at least where I live. |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | Oh sorry for the confusion; tonight's my industrial club night so we're talking actual venue here.
I've also got friends who work, albeit mostly in the dish area, at the high class restaurant in town I need to hit up.
@Tarkus - assuming your under 18 go for local, family owned stores/Starbucks. |
tarkus
09.27.11 | I'm planning on trying to get a job next summer. |
someguest
09.27.11 | don't work until you have to because once you start you never quit |
Acanthus
09.27.11 | They come in handy for sure, good luck!
@someguest - that's true, still nice to have money though |