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This thread is a creativity game. Basically, what you do is start a story then the next poster picks it up. We continue forever.

I woke up not knowing what in the hell happened. It was dark, very dark and I started to get scared. I have been afraid of the dark since I was kid. I heard a rustling to the side of me. Where am I at I thought?

I thought back to the last thing I remembered.....
 
(...Is that I fell asleep playing DotA. We lost because half of the team left. Heheheh...j/k)

I was falling asleep in my room with the door open, lights on. I then woke up to a strange voice that seemed to rise up right next to me. I got up and noticed the door was closed, and then suddenly I fell unconscious again. All I could hear was laughter of....
 
a low abient voice, chasing my thoughts through every corner of my fears. The hair on my arms raised as I hid beneath a shroud of my bedding, and shook silently as I waited for the voice to pass.

Fear in its purest form. I focused hard trying to awaken, in hope that this was all a dream. Just an illusion of my own mind.

I began fumbling around confused, franticaly trying to reveal where I lie. Ojbects and shapes I cannot distinguish with my eyes. Am I dead?
 
But the darkness shrouded away and I woke up hearing someone call "Johnny? JOHNNY!!!!!"

Gah, just another dream. I wake up at my computer desk and look at the man who woke me up. Friggin boss. Wiping my drool I stare at him as he repeatedly shouts out of that piehole of a mouth of his.

"You're being paid to work, and this is not working!"

I didn't bother to answer that there was no need for me at the moment. I handled program messages--messages that a specific program sent to another specific program. I had to make sure it got there. Thing is, there WAS no message to deal, and there hadn't been for months. Anyway, like I said, there was no need for me, though the Boss would like to believe that.

"I can fire you, you know."

Oh, not THAT again. He's said that since the dawn of time it seems, and yet it never happens. I wonder why. Well, the Boss now walks away and I sit back down in my cubicle and stare at the monitor. No program messages. Time to go back to sleep. So I closed my eyes, and another dream wandered in. This one, for some reason, felt quite real, like it was going to happen soon. I was....
 
in the World of Warcraft. Damn I knew I had been playing that game too much. It is an eerie experience being in the Video game. The wierd thing is it feels natural to be there in the dream. The secret to controlling dreams is to realize without waking up that you are in dream....
 
then think that you have all kinds of crazy superpowers...
 
But when you wake up, you realize that your super-powers are gone! Boss near my desk, i stay like a normal man working and see that there are no messages, oh well... a game of DotA never hurts. But when i come on battle.net a surprize was waiting. Guinsoo Released a new version of DotA and everyone was playing it and i didnt have it! NOOOOO!! Then i search on as much sites i know with no succes and suddenly i fall asleep...
 
then i woke up, whoa... i hadnt gone to workr for two days, gonna get fired now i thought so i said f it and...
 
fire me. LOL like they could live without me. Even though I was prone to frequent spurts of eccentricity they still had to understand I was the best employee they had. So, I shook the thoughts of my precient dream from my head and made my way to work. As a Wal Mart manager who worked his way up from the ranks of cashier I had to be there on time. The only problem I had was I could never focus completely on my job as my thoughts were often about how I did not fit here. Not exactly here - but now - not in this time or place, I always felt I was wrong for this time.... As I made my way to work I thought about....
 
how i could beat the third level in comand an conquer then all of a suden and without warning a loud noise came up"warning warning prepare to be abducted!!" next thing i kew i was caught in a beam of light and was 300 feet over the walmart(hey i can see my house from here :) )and then i was on board this stangly colored ship...
 
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  • Varine Varine:
    Luckily I live in an age with electricity so it's way fucking faster, but when I was just a boy trying to find my place I had some hardcore chefs that made use do things like that by hand. It is WAY easier to get right by hand because you control it and can feel it, but it takes soooooo much longer. And on the scale a modern kitchen requires... I serve 400-500 guests on average per day right now, if I had 100 then we could do things way better
  • Varine Varine:
    But we can't do that. In the winter yeah, but I HAVE to get people through here right now so I can afford the staff that we CAN do that. We have about 100 days of summer, and if that summer doesn't make us what it will, then I can't operate the other most of the year with my staff. The owner is talking about closing two days a week to cut down on labor, I told him he should cut down on vacations and it did not go great. I do think I won though, I have to keep my fucking core staff and they have to be gainfully employed
  • Varine Varine:
    Sure some of them might take a second job, but I can't just cut my entire staff to unlivable hours, nor can I can cut them off all winter if I want them to come back.
  • Varine Varine:
    And also, there is no fucking way I'm pulling these hours come september. I only do this right now because I have to, the second I don't have to be the one doing it I won't be
  • Varine Varine:
    I have a 5 person core staff in the kitchen, not including me or Chef Ben
  • Varine Varine:
    Though two of those people are likely not making it this year. One of them has been replaced, the other I am kind of trying to. He's being a giant bitch, today I had to get onto him because in the three hours before I left he had taken like thirty minutes for cigarette breaks
  • Varine Varine:
    And he was also complaining to me the other day that he was out of weed so couldn't smoke any before work that day, and was confused about why I was annoyed he was telling me, his boss, that he is smoking weed everyday before work.
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  • Varine Varine:
    Like yeah I can tell. I don't need to fucking know.
  • Varine Varine:
    So now he's getting scrutinized and will not be top of the list. I know I don't have the smartest people but I do expect them to have some common fucking sense
  • Varine Varine:
    I did do a rare thing for me and hire a girl last month without warning. Everyone was made at me because I started her at like 21, but she worked with me before and I was like don't care. She made 19 at her old job and I wanted her to come work with me, she is the best
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  • Varine Varine:
    I'm going to get her a raise at the end of the summer. She wants to go to school again, but I want her to still work with me so.... she kind of can just tell me what the price is. I can go to 25 if she keeps up. I need to get her onto line more, that's what she wants, but I need her where she is and it's not fair that she doesn't get the little bit of raise that comes with it. She can do it no problem, I've worked with her there.
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    It's just hard to move and train people unnecessarily right now. And also the line fucking sucks, it's not any more fun. This is turn and burn so I have the bankroll, and everyone suffers for it
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    Eventually we'll get it balanced, we'
  • Varine Varine:
    we're starting online orders and stuff, but I also turn that off all the time because I barely keep up trying to be the best at Sysco shit
  • Varine Varine:
    I think it's gonna be a good fall and winter though. We're going to have a good staff, they will get along, they will be able to manage the workload and the complications, they know how to really cook this year, like every person on line knows their steak temps. Some of them use thermometers a lot and they don't always use them right, but they do know how to do it. Failure, especially in this field, is the only way to get better. They'll get it
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    They won't get feel down while they do the thermometer, but we didn't have an instant read probe when I was learning. Like they did but god knows how off it is, you HAD to do it by feel. Even if the chef was fine with me bringing my own, it takes too long. Poke and know
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    420 threads in the Artificial Intelligence forum :)
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    Happy Monday!
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    and then it was Tuesday!
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    Do we want to use this instead of chatbox https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ :)
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    fyi I am going out of town to lake somewhere in bfe texas for the weekend will be gone Friday morning to sunday afternoon for a paranormal thing and some rest peace
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    cool take it easy
  • jonas jonas:
    I recently had an experience with a waiter that really brought down @Varine's point about them being in sales. The first waiter just asked "anything else? deserts?" and when the table shook their head said "ok" and left. Then the other waiter came in and started going off describing the deserts and you could see the heads turning, and they finally got a bunch of deserts
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    :p
  • jonas jonas:
    makes sense if you consider that the tip is basically a commission on sales

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