The world does NOT revolve around *you*. Working in an office above (or around) the mall does not make you better than the people who work *in* the mall, it does not make you more entitled or more intelligent, and it does not give you the right to be rude to the people who are *trying* to serve you. Please understand that mistakes and misunderstandings *will* happen, as the last time I checked, we’re all human.
Furthermore, getting angry at a cashier over things they have *no control* over is extremely frustrating. They can’t change prices, they can’t fire people, and they can’t change how a store is run. So, for the love of god, direct your anger towards those who have the power to change things. …The rest of us just work here.
PS: That said, I have no words to express how wonderful some of you are. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face every day, and making up – by far! – for the negative experiences I’ve had.
—A friendly, if not slightly irritated, Scotia Square employee
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2009.
Yeah…there are some real entitled winners who congregate in or around Scotia Square from the hours of 8-6 inclusively.
Just because your overpriced office space has a view of the harbour doesn’t make you better than the rest of us who don’t.
And no, working in a certain call centre in and/or around Scotia Square doesn’t make you a “professional”…those schmucks have the biggest attitudes of ’em all and they make 10 bucks an hour hawking useless shit over the phone.
That sure does make you better than anyone else working at the mall *eyeroll*
there’s a call center around scotia square?
didn’t know that, though I’m not about to really use that information to any great extent.
I’ve been working at the square for 5 years now and still can’t tell you more than 3 companies that reside in any of the office towers. What I can tell you is there’s a shit load of people ’round there every day. Enough to make me not want to take lunch at lunchtime…..so you’re bound to get idiots and assholes.
Hey hey now… some of us in there are actual professionals… I think the issue is on both sides, really. The people who are in the food court are okay people but I find there is an attitude, especially at MG’s (and especially at the juice bar) that they don’t like suits. I try to be as nice as possible, but it’s hard to be nice when you’re being a complete bitch. When I order something can you respond more than a grunt? I know at NSCAD you’re ahead of the curve and you sit around with your friends and decry what the “suits” do to the world, but not all of us are that bad.
Scotia Square has to be the worst!
I have been working mainly on Sundays and evenings but recently switched to day shifts, Yes i am one of those schmucks working in a call center.
Am I starting to see a trend that LTWWBers work in or around Scotia Square?
I’m one of them – shit, I didn’t know things were so bad in the Square, even though I eat lunch there nearly every day. Should I be looking for flying donairs or pitched pizza slices? Maybe a flung falafal?
So…4/5 top commenters at LTWWB all eat lunch together. Keep an eye out for each other sitting around the food court with laptops open, bitching away. You guys should totally hang out.
I don’t have a laptop with me, only an ipod and a BLT wrap from Treats.
I thought they only built Scotia Square so the city housing types wouldn’t have far to go with their shoplifted merchandise?
I work at MGs and rather like “the suits”. Just for the record. 😉
Scotia Square was built when downtown was an actual shopping area with nice clean streets and no fucking bums shaking Timmy cups in your face. It was actually a pretty good sized mall with Woolco, couple of restaurants, bars, theaters and shops years ago – before the offices took over. But that’s progress for ya – sort of.
I work around there too, and am glad that it’s there. Except for one particular cunt at Second Cup, pretty much all the staff are great. My faves are the boys that sit across from PG’s and oggle the women walking by. I remember one particular time when one of these smucks tried to talk to an unsuspecting female and she plainly told him to go to hell. It was entertainment at it’s best!
Thanks Sagi, I’d lost all hope on that place (love the sandwiches)… I’m usually not there with a laptop though and I can’t haul my desktop with me, although I wish I could.
I’ll be sure to be especially nice to all the suit wearing sandwich lovers in the future. 🙂
I love the older lady with the tattoos at Treats. She’s one bitching sandwich maker. The Chinese place was o.k. until they hiked their prices waaaaayyyy up.
Posting *your* words *like* this does *not* make your story *more* compelling.
Jesus, I also work @ the square. Christ, have us LTWWB Er’s been rubbing elbows without actually knowing it. We really do need to get together sometime to put some faces and personalities to these avatars. I can just imagine the bitch fest that would ensue
I said a certain call centre, asshole. I know there’s more than one there, and I know there’s only one that has the pretentious fucks who thinks they’re “professionals” when most can’t even spell “professional.”
I’ve always enjoyed the service at MG’s. Its been a while since I ate anything from there, but I was always a fan of their enthusiasm and how great the staff got along with each other; they looked to actually enjoy what they do and doing it together.
They make one amazing chicken caesar wrap there.
And I second what Burning Man says. Sagi can bring the sandwiches, TTFN can bring the tea and her motherly wisdom, Dino Jr. can bring the cigarettes and I’ll bring my lovely smile.
I also think Dr. Fever would be one hilarious dude…
Also: what happened to the guy who had all that tacky crystal light up thingies by the water fountain?
BTW: my mom works in dartmouth, yet goes almost 45 minutes out of her way to go to MG’s in the morning to get her coffee (she takes the bus)….she could get the 7:45 bus, but leaves at 7 just so she can get her coffee and then go over to dartmouth….so…MG’s must be pretty awesome.
I need not be in a suit… but I can’t believe how many are frequenting (and perhaps sharing lines in) scotia square.
We should have like a pin day or something….
no talking to each other… just have a bitch the next day to guess who is whom.
‘Course, that sounds way too organized for me to set up.
I should also note, I’ve only actually been working during the day for a couple years there…. rest was when the mall was closed.
I think it’s interesting TTFN thinks in the day of Woolco there were no pan handlers… I’ll bet in that pretty painted past there were no issues with poverty, no homelessness, no smoking of cigarettes, no drinking and driving, no gay community and no crime either. TTFN likely walked 50 miles to school up-hill both ways too *rolls eyes* Take another pill TTFN and just go on believing your own bullshit. How very entertaining!
As to the OP… what you’re experiencing is simple class division, real or imagined. There will always be a bigger fish around. Sorry it’s never ever you. You could improve your situation but it will require better education and some serious ambition usually seen only in “that other class” (of snotty rich people). Now hurry up and make my sandwich, peon.
I’d like to know if any bitchers here do not congregate at Scotia Square? Geez Louise!
I’ll be snooping around when I get my coffee this morning.
For the record: MG’s has the best flavoured coffee!
I don’t work anywhere near Scotia Square, but I go there for Rays on occasion. What I always find weird are all the guys who seem to conduct their businesses from the bank of payphones near the entrance closest to the bus stop.
And until I started going to Scotia Dental, I really had no idea how many businesses there are attached to that mall, I always just saw it as an awesome food court.
Also, I think that a pin for LTWWB would be a great idea. We could all wear them, and then have awkward staring run ins with each other in the streets/scotia square, and then try to figure out who was who later in a bitch.
The pins are a great idea, but for those times I come into the Square for lunch, I think everyone’d point me out pretty easily. My “suit” would be a dead giveaway.
Haven’t had lunch there in ages as all my current shifts start at HSC.
Let’s not invite Kay!
Good idea… I have NO desire to meet any of you bitches nor do I hang at the mall. I have enough jealous people around me all ready, thank you.
I don’t know what crawled up your ass this morning, Kay – no, life wasn’t a rosy coloured dream back in the 60s and 70s (it’s doubtful you were even alive back then)but there weren’t any VISIBLE bums – it didn’t mean they didn’t exist – it meant the cops actually made them move along. Now go give yourself an enema, darling, you really need it.
Good grief, Kay.
Whats the problem Kay, according to you none of us would ever confront any of the people we don’t like in person anyway. We’d put on a smile for you and then come back here to bitch, so you’d be fine in a real life situation with us.
I believe Kay’s been menopausal since birth.
Almost time for lunch… see you all in 15 minutes or so.
Sounds good. In front of the NSLC?
NSLC? Liquid lunch today TTFN?
…no time for pins on that short notice, so recognition by brown paper booze bags instead? That sounds great!
Be careful, though. I was at Scotia Square for the first time in months last weekend and I was treated to a show involving two high or hella-drunk girls who were dragged out, and I was surprised how many security people came out of the woodwork.
just that there’s the comfy chairs there.
I think I’ll go snag one now….
It’s days like these that I wish I wasn’t miles from home.
>sniff<
Have fun kids.
Hey, Miles, beer cans make great weed pipes.
i also see that we haven’t fixed the mobile version yet….tsk tsk. if there’s any way i can help andy, pls do let me know. My poor little down button will thank u. Anyhoo, don’t see any of you peeps so i’m headed back to the office. Suppose i should get SOMETHING done today.
Sheeeeaaattt! It would have been a riot if any of us actually did show up. We should designate a day, grab some of the chairs by the NSLC and eye each other warily. I’ll be the one trying to light up my long hemp jacket.
Hey TTFN: I remember the days of Woolco and SS actually being a decent mall to shop at. They had the BEST toy store with a model train set…man, those days were *awesome*
I bet Kay has a huge forehead and major horse teeth.
I was there today, and it was so funny, I think I eyed about everyone I saw thinking that it might be one of my fellow bitchers.
I am always amazed that people in customer service seem to write alot more bitches than people doing other kinds of jobs. I never see taxi cab drivers, cops or bartenders bitching, and they deal with worse people than waiters and clerks. hmmm….
I’d offer to bring the coffee and sandwiches, but I take my break an hour before most of you lovely (or, erm, bitchy?) people do. Hee.
@PK: The tacky crystal kiosk (was it called Oasis?) was only seasonal. After Christmas and all that, he left.
Thanks, NGF, hell, even I was there today, but not in the food court… I went to grab some vitamin water and back to work… brutal day. I like the pin idea, but you’ll probably smell me a mile away, as I’m usually eating Falafel at Ray’s.
Hey, Fever, if you hear someone hiss “BOOGER” in your ear, you’ll know it’s me.
I’ll just look for the stoned older lady.
Sorry but it’ll be the straight me. I don’t light up before 7 p.m. But you might see me buying a pack of Silver Zig-zags.
How about if I start shouting: “I SWEAR TO GOD I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY!!”
Fuck, I snoozed through this laugh fest. Must have re-opened my stitches. To add to the irony, I work at the square as well! NGF – shall bring my Parliaments.
PSSSSSSSSSSSSSST: It was two weeks ago until I realized turkeys couldn’t fly, TTFN. Tee-hee, you’re not alone!
PS: Never enough amazed at the audacity and narcissism of Kay. Gotta love that girl. ‘Cept I don’t.
i think kay is really a retired white guy who is 80 years old in diapers waiting to check out. it would explain the dementia aspect of thinking there are jealous people around “her”….and well, just the bitch’s demntia in general
and i don’t work at the square or go there ever. i spend most of my time in the darkside toiling at my desk while my illegal internet keeps me sane
I’ve settled on a rabid bunny bitter with albinism.
perhaps instead of a pin… we should all have a subtle signal so that if you see some weirdo staring at you… you can give the signal and you’ll know. It has to be subtle enough though that if you do it and they don’t react, it doesn’t seem weird.
something like scratching your left arm….. or something. I dunno, I’m just stoked that y’all are so close, yet so far.
A copy of the coast tucked under the arm, or read in a very conspicuous manner. I like the idea of not actually talking to each other though….just a nod/tip of the hat, acknowledging that you both know the world is going to be a better place because of your good works and hearty bitches.
Yeah, I don’t think any of us want to really talk to each other, but just to know that you’re out there. I like to have the time to think my thoughts out before posting them on here, and you can’t do that in real life.
TTFN: best. episode. ever.
Hey, Hammer, let’s not forget the ‘phone cops’.
“Oh, sure — cover for them!”
Darn, I would have brought a joint! Maybe two.
Dino would have a lighter lol
dear dr fever, im a nscad student and i assure you that none of us care about your suit or what youre doing in it.
I’ll bring the febreeze to cover the smell NGF lol
Maybe we should meet… I’d give you all something to think about… like how to respect other people’s opinions, how not to presume shit or give any credence to your “ESP” because all the shitty shitty pictures you’ve painted of me are simply wrong
Kay, your opinions do sometimes have valid points in them, however there is so much hate and anger in them that people are going to miss those valid points. And the other part of that is that your not respecting other people’s opinions with that hate and anger. Try putting shit a little more diplomatically correct and you will be heard way more..but that’s just my opinion
Ha, I just had this vision that LTWWBers of scotia square sync a time and date, then one day in the SS food court everyone down there that is a LTWWBer Freeze in motion for like 30 seconds or something and then go on like nothing ever happened. If their was enough people doing it it would be rather funny to see anyway
FA that would be funny. 12:15 and freeze ROFLMAO
I’ve been around there shopping lately and everytime I walk by the seats by the NSLC I look for people reading or holding the Coast and I wonder if any of the people are the ones from here. Any of you a tall, handsome black guy? Seen him a few times.
i’m tall and handsome but not black. more like nicely tanned (and naturally tanned; not that orange-peach-fuzz-bronze-spray-tan).
I’m kind of pasty, myself.
Not tall or black, currently not eating lunch at the square either. I like the freeze in time idea, except how would we look for each other if we’re not moving our heads?
hmmm….all make sure to freeze closer to the walls and facing towards the center…?? not sure on that one
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I bet Kay has a huge forehead and major horse teeth.
Posted by Nice Goin’ Fat on April 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM
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Personal Attack #4. (he seems to have fixated on this Kay person…)
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Darn, I would have brought a joint! Maybe two.
Dino would have a lighter lol
Posted by Nice Goin’ Fat on April 17, 2009 at 3:37 PM
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There is no way is hell you smoke dope. No way.
The purile crap this user spouts is what you all love so much?
Are you all into masochism or something?