11 years on the Temp

Poggers 11 years.
That a looooooooooong time.

@PineappleGod
Yeah! I was literally 18 when I joined this site and just started my last year of high school!

Woo!
This place is great- I hope someday I’ll being seeing my 11 years :3
(Also the snake is cute >:3)

11 years nice!!!
I joined GBAtemp in +/- 2003, but I lost my first account >_<

I find it interesting that due to my habit of making one of these blog posts every year (except one year I did one much later,) I can see the developments of my life. Often I remember where I was and the mindset I was in while writing many of those blog posts. I remember the details I would often omit or the details I would have to change to make my life seem better. It's refreshing to able to start seeing my blog posts becoming more honest, open, and happier in recent years. That life has gotten better for me and I am no longer in the same depressing life that I used to have.

@DaFixer
OOF, that's rough! But at least you an account now that you can be active on!

@Lilith Valentine: It's indeed interesting, i'm just thinking what I do on all those years on GBAtemp.
First come here for patches for GBA roms, NDS scene, then 3DS modding and now playing around with my switch
I must say that the last 4 years of my life was also very difficult and depressing, but know it's going better.

how do you feel about having an account older than the majority of everyone on the temp?

@CPG
I mean, not the vast majority but it's interesting just how old both my account and myself actually are. I've been around long enough to have been part of so many different eras on the Temp and to have been a pretty active individual in many of these eras. I didn't expect going from someone who just posted M3 updates to literally being what I am today.

Dude, you don't throw the truck because you want to; you do it because your only option is either to put up with co-workers who's behavior, especially when the supervisor isn't around, makes you want to punch them in the face, or throw the truck and not have to put up with their BS.

Also, good on you for quitting Walmart. I have the second Walmart Nightmares episode sitting on a Notepad document atm, I think I have some editing to do with it, but holy hell, when I get to some of my co-workers (and one in particular that got on my nerves for reasons that are both personal and how they affected things on the job), it's gonna get therapeutic.

If you can, get a job where you don't have to interact with people if you don't have to; literally the only reason I enjoy my current job is that I don't have to deal with some of the customers at Walmart that could be nice most of the time, but other times, they'd be freaks who'd stay at the store all day.

I'll be at 15 years in Jan

I've been a lurker since 2005, but didn't join until 2012. Congrats on your 11 years! <3 You're an O.G.

I'm 11 too, happy birthday!

@Silent_Gunner I actually quite enjoyed throwing the truck. It was better than filling one and far less stressful for me. I worked in a sorting center and I found the job pretty laid back and the managers were pretty cool people.
I am so glad to be rid of Walmart and it's kind of fun to be working in a Walmart but not be a Walmart employee. Just watching everything play out and thinking, "I am so glad that I am not doing that shit anymore."
I've been trying to get a job where I don't have to deal with people but they tend to get taken up before I can or have requirements I can't meet. Most of the jobs around here require experience and or at least a college education, both of which I don't have. Although, I tend to not want those jobs because they are like, "Requires 5 years of experience and a Master's degree" then only pay like 13$ an hour. Not worth the effort for so little reward and thus my journey has to continue.

I think I've been on here for the same length of time. It wouldn't be the same without you.

Congrats! It must be crazy to you that you are such a big part of this community

@Scott_pilgrim it’s definitely amazing that I became one of the most famous on the Temp from a throwaway account

@Lillith Valentine I just lost my job at Walmart on the 23rd, and it's a blessing in disguise. Yeah, it sucks losing almost half our household income, but it was really for the better. I dedicated 7 years of my life to Walmart. I was hired on as someone who just does returns in foods for my entire shift, and did that for my first 6 months. I don't even think the position had a job title at the time. Then I got moved (forced) into doing Unloading (Now it's called Cap 2) for a year and a half, and fucking hated it. Then I moved to doing Day Maintenance. I loved it, until last October when we hired this lazy piece of shit... Let's call him "Dakota". Dakota would stand around unless you gave him a task to do. If you said you were going to go do a task, he'd try to follow and "help" you do that task like a lost puppy. he was so shitty at the easiest job in the store, that the demoted him to cart pusher. Fast forward two months to December 2019; Dakota keeps going to his lunches and breaks without filling the cart rail inside first, so guess who they call to do his job? That's right... Maintenance. And I'm the only maintenance worker with a walkie, because my store is too fucking CHEAP to order more of them for the rest of my crew and the cart pushers. So I have to respond to every damn walkie call, spill call, bathroom diarrhea explosion, every dog shitting on the floor, every kid puking, etc (fun times). Fast forward to late March... Dakota catches wind that they aren't counting occurrences due to covid... So what's he do? Calls out 3 to 4 days a week out of his 5 day schedule. So I'm the one constantly being called to do carts. Think the front-end folks can help me do carts here and there? FUCK NO! They're a bunch of fat middle-aged women with an excuse for everything. So it's just ME. Now, I'm 37 and have a few health issues like asthma and fibromyalgia. It's hard enough for me to breathe normally. Now throw a facemask into the mix, force me to do a laborious job that gets me huffing and puffing, and set my torso on fire under my skin. That's what it's like for me to push in carts. Having to do that shit since October 2019 until now, all because of some lazy unfireable douche-canoe is very upsetting. I started getting snarky over the walkie about it when they call me up there, like: "This is really getting old." and "Yeah, I'm apparently the only person in the entire store who knows how."

So it was at that point that I stopped giving a fuck. I did the absolute bare-minimum of the job. Afterall, they were only paying me 77 cents above minimum wage after 7 years, so fuck 'em. My skill set is worth way more than what they can pay me. So good on you for leaving Walmart.

Oh, and Dakota's real name is Cody, fuck that guy.

Huh, your account as old as my sister lol

meanwhile i joined in 2017 as i never knew this site existed any time before then