Mars In Virgo Goes To The Mall
YES i get that Pluto in Capricorn and the Zap Zone that is Uranus square Pluto = global financial fuqery, the credit crunch, mass de-leveraging, values morphing and debt being like a new kind of yicky veneral disease. We are all coming down off the Neptune in Capricorn credit bubble, reading about trillions of dollars of debt threatening sovereign stability is scaring us into being more cash-savvy and retail giants are having to adjust accordingly.
But for some of these retail giants, it’s their own damned fault, don’t you think?
As part of my 2012 Genius Excellence Plan Of Awesome, i attended two of these establishments today.
Retail Giant One – Officeworks. I think it is international. Like a stationery, office supplies warehouse sort of a supermarket. Inspirational on a good day, for peeps like me with NATAL Mars-Uranus-Pluto in Virgo and thus a stationery fetish.
So i was going to buy a shredder. When I finally located a “salesperson” (more like The Anti Salesperson) he met my request with a watery-eyed hungover sort of a look and gesticulated vaguely toward the West. “Shredders are over there,” he said with monumental disinterest. So I’m like, well i would like some help please as i want to buy a really top-end shredder, the kind that does credit cards, cross-shreds and you can put stacks of paper in at one time.”
“You won’t be wanting something that fancy,” said the Anti-Salesperson.
“I do want it,” I said.
“It’s too expensive for just a home office,” he explained. “What you want is one of the cheap ones but they’re not very good.”
Me: “Fine, I’ll take the best one you have. thank you.”
Anti-Salesperson: “You’re just wasting your money.”
What i didn’t say: I’ll waste my own fuqing money on whatever i want. I am on an efficiency frenzy with Mars in Virgo. I want this and i want it now, why won’t you give it to me? Why don’t i look as if i ‘deserve’ a stupid high end shredder? It’s not just about that though nor even my privacy concerns. I have natal Mars in Virgo sextile Neptune in Scorpio and my need for a high end shredder is motivated by obscure psychological purposes. Shredding is like how i meditate.
Anyway, i didn’t get a shredder. Looking around between Qi-depleting statements from the Anti-Salesperson, i noticed that the shop seemed cluttered with crap, badly lit and dirty.
The Anti-Salesperson shrugged when i left. I’d wanted to be upsold. People with stationery fetishes are easy to sell that sort of thing to. It’s like upselling a sex addict in a brothel. Yes, of course he’d like the foursome with the extended pole-dance in the Emperor Suite.
Retail Giant Two: Rebel – a chain of sports goods stores. In two seconds flat, Saggo Sales Dude (yes, I asked) comes bounding out, gleaming with zeal. Me: I’d like to get some new boxing gloves and wraps please.
Saggo Sales Dude: AWESOME choice. GREAT idea. Let me find you exactly what you need. I love boxing. It is THE best thing for strength, stability and cardio. What’s your favourite glove color?
And so on.
He let me punch him to check out the gloves. He gave me boxing tips. He basically was like seeing a motivational sports psychologist. Unbelievable sales experience, i actually don’t mind hearing the word “awesome” said ten times in ten minutes if it is about me aiming to use Mars in Virgo to get to be the fittest i have ever been in my life.
So yes, Pluto is in Capricorn and all but don’t some retail outlets churn out such crap service?
You think?
Saggo guys are certainly enthusiastic. Mine is always cheering me on and then bragging about my accomplishments to his friends. Except it annoys me and makes me feel like his trained pet performing on cue. Not as though I actually accomplished something, nooo he was the smart one purchasing the seal who does the tricks. I’m getting off topic…
I think by the time they get as bad as Example #1, the company is going belly up and everyone there knows it and couldn’t care less if you bought something from the people who sucked out all the profits they could and screwed over the employees.
I am the Saggo mother hen of a group of peeps volunteering their time and skills, and I am always egging them on and / or boasting about them. Just so the universe knows how amazing they are.
But maybe I should watch that, as it hadn’t occurred to me that they might think that I am making them feel like trained pets performing on cue. (I am seriously impressed with them, though, as I can’t possibly do all the things they do – my only contribution is to “convince” them to do their thing).
I’m sure many of those you deal with are very appreciative of your encouragement.
I hope they do, ArienScorp, because that is how it is meant. (I can’t for the life of me hold back or fake anything, best I can do is moderate it a bit).
But you have given me pause for reflection on just how I deliver that encouragement.
Did I really write “many” in that last post? ugh. I am sure your sincerity and kindness are felt by ALL of them. My Saggo likes to get a bit paternal sometimes and I didn’t like being treated like a child even when I was a child. Hate it now. Forgive me — just some oozing pass-agg against my Saggo coming out.
I love this post! lol Still chuckling!!!! xxx
Oh god, the guy cheerfully urging Mystic to punch him is too much!
Having been in service industries for most of my life, bad service makes me completely MENTAL, but I’m too well-trained (in good service) to be rude or to dob anyone in, so I shop online whenever possible, for REVENGE.
ps. Harvey Norman are THE WORST. I once counted 20 dudes in suits standing around getting fat while I tried not to drown in landline telephone options. Not one of them approached me. It was incredible.
Mystic wants sporting goods and a shredder. Your wish is my command.
Oh Charles,
That is the mother of all shredders !
I could go mental with de-cluttering, Do you know how much they charge to dump an old mattres at the tip !!
Hope your day/days is/are getting better hun, you had a pearler of a sh*tstorm yesterday…xx
Oh it was better today. I got a call, I have a job. The exact same crappy temp job I had before, but at a different company, right across the street from the old one. But it is better than getting evicted. Still, it might not be enough money, soon enough. It will be touch and go for the next few weeks.
So glad to hear you got work! Good luck with staying in situ, Charles xx
1. the due at officeworks was half right – those shredders do mostly suck. I dream of having a shredder but wont pay the hundreds for a top end one, but wont pay a cent for a piece of crap.
2. i had a sagg PT but he was always too sarcastic or whatever. the dude in rebel sounded rad!
GOLD! I too have a stationary fetish & super low tolerance of crap sales people. Being a forthright Saggo, I love spreading the word too. The best revenge is social: sign up to Yelp and Foursquare and add a tip that summarises the terrible sales experience AND the amazing sales experience. It will help other users avoid Officejerks or flock to said Rebel Saggo sales dude in droves.
Incidentally, for high end (read: mostly overpriced) stationary, try Kikki K or Top 3 by Design. They might have the designer shredder of your dreams. Otherwise, buy online and have it delivered to your door
Kikki K – they have “get your life organised parties” now, with Champagne, they’re celebrating bringing out the Virgo in all of us!
I’ve noticed more excellent experiences in hospitality – dining out after work in bars/cafe/restaurants- since Jupiter went into Taurus!
Staff want to help you pick the right pinot to add a sense of occasion to an otherwise ordinary and dull Wednesday evening. So chatty and friendly too. supporting local establishments after long work day = CapPluto.
Bahahaaaa! Mystic, I had a similar experience in Dick Smith (tech retail chain) except with a printer. I saw one on super sale in the catalogue but the dude who served me (nay, ‘dude’ implies he had some hint of coolness. He was a dick) said there was only one left in one store which was 300 kms away. Seriously, that was his answer. I was waiting for the ‘no, we’re outa stock on that one but we have a competitor’s printer that does an even better job for the same price’ kinda spiel. Nada. He stood there and looked at me. Silencio…
I actually asked him to sell me something else, anything that might meet my needs, but all he did was go back to looking at his computer for the original printer I’d asked about. Finally, he announced he’d found another store that had it in another city. Oh for fuq’s sake.
I left and went next door to Harvey Norman (HATE that place) but I got served straight away. A lovely old guy. I did the flirty ‘ooh, can you sell me this for the price Dick Smith had it on special?’ and made up some ridiculously cheap figure. Lovely old guy went ‘of course we can price match!’ and proceeded to carry the printer for me to his terminal where I got him chatting for ages about his wife and her hate of techno things. he never even bothered to check that the price I’d quoted him was accurate. It wasn’t. It was about $30 cheaper than the ‘on special’ price at Dick Smith which was about $60 under what Harvey Norman was selling it for.
Heh heh. I’m so naughty… but I’m a Cap so why not expect the best for the cheapest price? It wasn’t exactly criminal, just creative haggling…
But I shop online now. HATE retail places.
Very similar experience with the service at those two retailers, Equilibrium Girl. Just the other week I wanted to buy a netbook – Dick Smith couldnt be bothered, didnt want to answer my questions, told me that if I wanted extra RAM they could not install it for me I would have to do so myself, etc etc. WHAT!! who are these guys? Do they want the sale or not?
I generally don’t like Harvey Norman and didn’t want to go there – but the next nearest option is another 50k away, and bingo bongo – HN gave actual service, could be bothered to upgrade the RAM for me, answered my questions.
Must try the haggling…
Ok a bit unrelated, but I always thought those stores: Dick Smith, Harvey Norman.. all sort of sound named after the local Johns???
Like we have super powered, in your face names here in the US, mind they’re just Naff but like you get the point i.e. Office Depot, Bed, Bath and BEYOND, Costco, Best Buy, Whole (not half) Foods, Home Goods, DSW (Designer Shoe Warehouse), Guitar Center. There is absolutely NO mystery to the names at all.
Then the high end major retailers all sound like rich old NY grandmothers’ last names i.e. Neiman Marcus, Sak’s 5th, Macy’s, Bloomingdales. And the high end gyms sound like they’re sending you off to space i.e. Equinox, Spectrum.
What gets me all confused though is this place called Fry’s Electronics, they have people who KNOW what you need (coaxle cables, etc) but they are THEMED, like the one near me looks like a Tiki Hut complete with lamps, netting and coconuts – and they’re selling you a laptop?
Just saying.
But gosh I also LOVE MM’s post, so funny.
i love the idea of a tiki hut themed electronics store!
I was so perplexed when I walked in it, I was like uh..did I warp into another universe?
The same store has a naff refund policy. Once I was trying to return an unused new in box router I bought a week prior and they were trying to refund me the current sale price even if I had my receipt and had paid full. I was getting ready to argue when this Cool Cat Brother next to me suddenly slammed his fist on the counter and declared, “That is BOOOOL SHEEEET, give the woman her damn money!”
I was stunned, looked at him thankfully and just went, Yeah what he said.
Dear Mystic,
You could cheer that Sag up no end, by calling up and asking for the manager, or whoever gives pats on the back …and cheering him on for such an ”awesome” saleperson experience…or that might just be the kind of sh*t i do when someone is outstanding in their field…. (apoligies for the bossing/telling what you should do, aries sun bursting through) … you could always multitask whilst on hold..(shooshing now) xx
Too cute, goldy! An Aries apologising for being bossy.
Actually i make calls like that when i have particularly good service…i’m not an Aries, though. Does Aries 5th house Merc make it?
Speaking of Aries Merc, i did smile at a rude check out boy and do my best Piscean , “Are you having a bad day?” sympathy bit then said, “Well you have no idea what kind of a day anyone in this checkout line has had. To then cop your poor attitude on top of it.” He snapped out of it and said sorry.
GOLD!!!!
I love that post x
ditto
Some places do give bad service.
I would spend on a high-end shredder & saw an electric stapler once for five-hundred dollars and would buy that too if I had that kind of dough.
“Shredding is like how I meditate.” Too funny.
When the sales staff can’t be bothered, neither can I. My wallet and I leave and don’t usually come back. I suspect that retail management has no idea how many sales are missed every day by couldn’t-care-less staff.
The best customer service we’ve had recently was from Spreets, who kept us updated about a delayed delivery.
Just bought a book called, “Organize your Mind, Organize your Life-Train Your Brain To Get More Done in Less Time.”
Sexy. Hope it’s good. Read a book once called, “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life” which basically said in print & in pictures that drugs will turn your brain into swiss cheese. My boyfriend at the time showed his flat mate the pictures and he went off pot like that. (snaps fingers)
Crap service FOR crap is what really annoys me. The stuff we get foisted upon us and are then encouraged to think we desperately must have. Sheesh.
Life is quite cheering sometimes.
I forgot to say awesome post, Mystic. Also, my favorite tool is a cross-cut shredder from BigW of all places. It shreds the credit cards and everything.
I am however waiting for Mars in Virgo to have an impact. It’s telling me that I don’t like mess, but I knew that already. The mess, meanwhile, goes forth and procreates or something.
(Actually, I am sorting out my financials, to the extent of spreadsheeting budgets for the next 12 months, which will never work, but at least it looks neat).
Really bad service has to be one of my biggest pet peeves. Having worked in the retail industry – and loving it – there is nothing better than giving your customers what they need or want or whatever. I don’t know how businesses survive when people like this work for them (although I do understand turnover is somewhat high). Yes some customers can be rude, annoying, demanding but that is only sometimes. I would be more than helpful in those cases and it always seemed to work. Maybe the HR dept (who are clearly out of touch when they hire dudes like this) need to do a more thorough survey (including astro) when peeps start work. “Are you a good communicator, do you respect or even like other people (narcissists need not apply), what is going on in your 6th house? Hopefully Pluto in Cap will do away with stupid business setups and bad service like this leaving only quality establishments. My second house in Cap can but dream
And yippee for you Mystic re the boxing. Got me some fine boxing gear for Christmas and hired a treadmill. Loving this Mars in Virgo kick (which i needed) although it has been at a more glacial pace pour moi. Think this may have something to do with the Taurus in my chart. Too much earth stuff going on.
Really bad service is my pet peeve as well.
I moved to Sydney last year after a long time in Melbourne and I find the service in food and drink establishments to be so much better here. Water glasses are always filled and staff are mostly friendly and attentive.
In retail stores, for clothes etc I’ve found service to be about the same in both cities.
Except for the men’s suit department in David Jones. The Sydney city store was so bad I made a complaint to head office, which is something I’ve never done before.
It was like being trapped in an episode of Are You Being Served only I wasn’t laughing.
Food service here in the west is horrendous. In a lot of places If they bother to notice you let alone serve you they act as if it’s the most trying thing in the world. I used the have a sh*t list of places I would never return too… It became way too long.
Office works would rock if it was staffed by virgos.
Service in food establishments in Melbourne is something that drives me nuts. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it is fabulous, but the trend of having those ultra-hip, no reservation, wait-half-a-lifetime-on-the-stairs-to-get-a-spot-at-the-bar-before-waiting-some-more-for-dinner places seems to be making some service staff drunk on power.
Reminds me of my friend who went into a Birkenstock store once to buy a pair of shoes back in the Pluto in Sagg days. The officious sales assistant approached and asked if she could help.
My friend motioned to a pair of shoes she already knew she wanted and asked to try them on. The conversation went like this:
‘Are you a chef or a gardener?’
‘umm no’
‘Well I can’t sell you these shoes then. They’re for chefs and gardeners only’
‘Oh ok, I’ll go and buy them somewhere else then, thanks’.
And she did. The sales assistant couldn’t have cared less either.
you’re kidding, right?
Absolutely not! Birkenstock Melbourne CBD store about 7 years ago. We still laugh about it occasionally.
Ugh, my friend had a similar experience when she wanted to buy her first pair of Doc Martens. When she asked if they had them in her size the answer she got was “oh no, honey, those are men’s shoes”. I would have gone off in a bad way on that lady (probably tried the shoes on to make sure they fit and then left to buy them somewhere else, too), but she was too shy, so she just said okay and left.
This was probably two years ago and I still get angry when I think about it! Gender stereotypes + bad service + being plain wrong (sometimes I think about 60% of ladies under 30 have a pair) is like some unholy trifecta of rage-inducingness. Grrr!
I’m not sure my Mars is working. Or I am immune to Mars in Virgo—and I’m a Quad-conjunct Virgo!
Yes, I’ve done a little purging. Yes, I’ve continued my exercise regimen (but can’t seem to kick it up a notch). Yes, I’ve pulled out the bleach, but that’s only due to a mystery mold smell that I can’t quite get at the source of…ugh *sigh*
Yes, I’m working on major financial I-dotting, but also having serious ability to procrastinate on much of it.
Like I said. My Mars is broken.
although admittedly I was mopping the ceiling this morning (trying to get at spot I thought could be mold…)
but then again I was supposed to sort through a pile of papers and I have yet to do it
Hey Bluesky, my mars is broken too and I have Mars-Uranus-Pluto in Virgo!
Been procrastinating a lot as well.
Yes been eating well, exercising etc but I ALWAYS do!! not interested in taking it up a notch. Maybe Taurus transiting my 4th house cancels out the Virgo. Either way, I’m liking my new couldn’t be arsed attitude. Everything will get done in good time and when I feel like it
Chuckled about your ceiling mopping! I got up on my desk one day with sponge in hand to remove a very noticeable (to a Mars in Virgo) stain/mark. So satisfying!! It took me a couple of months to finally get around to it though.
btw–scowling had no effect whatsoever….mop and bleach worked a charm
Hahaha… Damn, if only scowling worked. I could do all my cleaning from the comfort of my sofa
Agreed MM! It was no surprise to me that Borders et al went kaboom. Blame online if they want but maybe here’s why. I buy all my books from Betterworld Books now…amazing service which has access to second hand as well as new books and so access to just about anything you may wish for. An absolute treasure trove! They also put money into funding world literacy programs etc. Totally awsesome! The service is friendly, personal and delivered with humour, even if done by email. A difference from the ‘look I am just doing this til I finish Uni ok’ disinterest I used to get from Borders staff.
I’m glad Borders went bust too. I know it was a huge bookstore but every time I went in to buy a specific book or magazine they never had it. Ever.
I asked a ‘sales assistant’ at a counter if they had a book once. He looked on the computer and said ‘Um yeah there’s once copy left, it’s out the back in the storeroom. Come back tomorrow and ask someone to get it for you”.
The only time I ever went in after that was to get a last minute birthday gift for a friend. Picked a book and lined up at the counter and was asked:
‘Do you mind paying for a bag to help save the environment’.
‘Oh, are the bags biodegradable’
‘Umm no’.
‘Does the money go towards saving the environment?’
‘Umm no I don’t think so’.
‘Well yes I do mind and you can keep the book too, I’ll go to Dymocks instead’.
I love Better World Books. I actually have a bit of a fetish for second hand books and old library books so I bought heaps of books there before I got a Kindle.
Kindle … oohh, haven’t got one yet. My Virgo work colleague LOVES her kindle. It’s kindle this and kindle that and read it on my kindle at the beach on holidays…
Love your Borders story!
What’s your opinion on Readings?
“like up selling a sex addict” lol, sooo funny, please please keep writing this stuff
lol thank you – but by “this stuff” u mean about sex addicts or bitching about bad service?
I suspect zaqua means the your use of very funny/ possibly smutty and acerbic similes slash anecdotes slash ‘hot/not service’ tales which made your point perfectly re: natal and transiting mars in virgo, and your “FFS is it that hard to not be a dick when it comes to service *now*, LoseRZ” Voice Of Discernment etc (personally I agree. But the effect might be diminished if every post was like that and other stuff you write is also fab). If any of this makes sense xx
or maybe the sex addict comment. I don’t know.
ha, yeah definitely the funny anecdotes
…or the sex addict stuff, whichever you feel lol
My dear Virgo friend has discovered a reception blackspot that means her mobile phone does not work at, or near, her home, which is about 4k from the centre of Melbourne. She has spent two days trying to extract herself from the contract with the provider and the customer ‘service’ is driving her crazy.
So I sent her this post.
And she fell about laughing.
Bless you Mystic.
I, myself, am frequently appalled at the absence of retail ‘service’ and have been known to rant on about it, usually by boring people with the story that many moons ago (early 80′s!) I worked in a hip jean store where we sold 52 (honestly) different styles of jeans, and were trained to recognise exactly which style/s would best suit different body types.
These days it seems that sales people in camera stores, for example, are not required to know the first thing about cameras.
Frankly, I just don’t get it.
Thankfully, though, there are wonderful exceptions – like Saggo-sports-dude.
Oh, yes, that reminds me too of when I worked in produce (pre-scanner days) and we had to memorize the price of every fruit and vegetable. This meant we of course had to know how to identify every fruit and vegetable. Not like today, when I have to shake my head sadly when the clerks don’t even know what a stick of ginger is.
Service, I remember service… When people used to try and sell you things.
Now I find that I have to employ extra charm to get information about whatever it is I want to buy. Professional shopping I think it’s called.
Yes, you need it at Big W, Officeworks for sure.. My shredder is from Officeworks and it does all those thing you require MM, works fine fyi! Mars in Pisces hub loves it dearly.
Mystic, PLEASE go shopping again and soon, LOVED that post. Also, you would be a kick arse secret shopper…
A shout for fab service to the lovely chic at Moss & Spy Chatswood to helped me pick out my frock for my 40th celebrations. Let me try on all manner of wildly inappropriate frocks (floor length / ornate beading) that were supremely beautiful but a tad over the top for a luncheon event. I go to swirl around like the Pretty Woman montage and ended up buying a dress that I looked banging in. At least I think that is what young fella said at the 40th after party….
Ah, Mystic, so accurate
The big end have been squeezing profit margins for years. They probably make -$5 on the shredder but 200% on the cartridges or extra warranty. The staff just want to sell what makes a profit. A strategy that is about to kill them.
Retailers will either be big and anonymous, but we won’t care because of price and we’ve done our homework on line, or small and specialized, like a themepark.
Where else on planet earth would Mars in Virgo go but to the mall?
My theory is:
a) Officeworx staff are OVER Mars in Virgo already. Working in an office supply/stationary shop during this transit would be xhausting. That’s why they are unengaged, uninspired, un-Virgo.
whereas,
b) Peeps at Rebel Sport have their Mars-in-Virgo and Plutonic-Seagoat ON and are doin’ it right. I think Mars in Virgo, like Pluto in Capricorn is more about long-term quality change that delivers results with intense concentration and focus (such as health, exercise, new diet regime, learning a foreign language and translating it).
I can hardly wait for new site, new moon, new neptune placement.
TVL! I was thinking about you today!
Bgem!! Hello hello! How are you? It’s great to see you. Wow, you have a new blog!
vl
I do! the after words is my pisces asc coming out!
it’s unexpected, layers and layers of stuff there, endless inspiration, glad you’re putting it out there. i really like your use of space, and images. each time i look i discover more.
i think it’s interesting that that you link it to your pisces asc – would you say it’s neptunian? i reckon so. thanks for mentioning about your asc coming out – it’s got me thinking. vl.
it’s like a commentary. i really like your writing! neptune is gonna be great for YOU!! vl.
I totally get the point you’re making and I firmly believe that the ONLY way retailers are going to survive is to provide brilliant service. Otherwise- you fools- I will continue to empower myself through online research and my various electronic payment methods to make the choice to buy elsewhere. I have trained customer service, sales and marketing techniques for years and I Still don’t understand why retailers don’t get it. It is rife in both Big and Small business. They need to be constantly reminded that the customer only spends when their needs are met AND they like you. I personally resent ( cue seething and writhing) HAVING to buy somewhere when the salespeople are shite and I have no other choice. And I too am obsessed by stationery, mega chemists and gadget/storage stores! Happy boxing therapy!!
Why are people so ready to whinge about shop assistants? Because they are there to serve us? They are our servants, therefore it feels outrageous that our servants do not treat us well? Far more important are the crap lawyers and judges and police and doctors and politicians. They have influence and power. When they are crap, we all suffer. Bored shop assistants are not anything to worry about.
True! And the multinationals,and resource giants extracting all they can and not supporting investment in low impact fuels etc…. but I dare to suggest that frontline service is a product of the greater economy structure… did you know Julia g passed a law to say its ok to employ someone for an hour and a half! Sold as a benefit to students working after school or whatever but these industrial relations laws continue to compromise the workers and their well-being…. I could go on with psychologica-economic theorizing but must sleep and survive my own frontline work tomorrow but that’s another story!
I feel if a person is getting paid a wage for something they agreed to do then they are indeed there to be of service. It’s all relative to a person’s (customer’s) experience whether it be a sales associate or a politician.
Doubt my massage patients would appreciate it if I yawned in front of them and then gave half arse pressure when they need therapy.
Mystic was kind. That person not only disuaded her from buying the company’s product but was condescending. Two points I’m sure she could have complained to mgmt about.
I disagree. Bored ANYONE is a problem. WHatever you do, regardless of the reason, a little personal and civic pride does not go astray, and wholesale loss of this as a social value may seem trivial in an individual but shows a crippled community. How can bored tired-ass people create a new paradigm?
I have clients in my job and I am happy to serve them. Thus my clients are happy and my bosses give me the clients, even the particular ones. This doesn’t demean me at all.
vv enjoyable post Mystic
there’s customer service and there’s fuqing brilliant service given with positive, intelligent and enthusiastic spirit…positive leadership needed from top down.
eg of good service picture thai monk in the tiger temple = anticipating tiger’s needs
on abc news site today
Shredder? Wanna Puppy M? I know you’re a cat girl but Mitzi the 16 week Russell foxy is driving me mental. The kids call her ‘Mincey’. Everything is now pet mince. Plastic a speciality..Free delivery.
OR ..got a new Yabby that was saved from Baba’s pot a few days ago. amazing thing. I don’t know why they have the scientific name ‘somethin-or-other destructor ‘ because it seams to be the ultimate Cleaner. Filtering and tidying. I’m thinking it can multitask as kid’s pet and feng shiu keep-it-neat guardian. Amazing colouring to boot.
Pet shop attendants can be a bit unusual tho sometimes.
Haha. Don’t rabbits also shred everything in site?
Maybe mystic could get a pet wabbit
I am shop shadowing you bought boxing gloves and wraps from rebel last week. Also keep reminding self to buy a shedder that works last one crap so I threw it away!
I have been wondering where my gloves are. Maybe this is my underwhelming Mars speaking to me? Maybe I will look for them today. *yawn*
Good Service is hard to find ….. ! Informed Expert personnel shoppers in demand!!! Satisfaction Guarantee!!!
your officeworks experience sounds exactly like what happened to me yesterday — went to snooty stationary store in rich suburb because theyre the only Filofax retailer in the whole area and the chick was stalking me acting like i was gonna steal, acting like my questions were wasting her precious time, and then shocked when i actually bought the $150 organizer.
A bit off topic – but I now know why, when I was a child, there was nothing I liked better than a brand new exercise book!! The crisp, fresh pages, my wish to not make any mistakes when writing can probably be explained by having Pluto and Uranus in Virgo (1st house). Yes?
And – have always made lists, written notes to myself…I actually think better with a pen in my hand! Oh, yes, Mercury in Virgo too!
u should check out the stationery fetish post in the archives…The peeps going crazy for the “sexy” red stapler were all virgo rising x
I’m Leo rising, so dunno about the staplers lol.
Mrcury in Virgo 2nd house is resposible for all the paper, books
pens etc I accumulate quite proficiently…
I find that when I need to ‘process’ emotions, writing is extremely
cathartic. All my thoughts written, read and evalued in a way that helps me detach from them. VERY helpful.
*Mercury in Virgo 2nd house
i read that for the chinese new year, its best to have your house clean, no clutter. Plus get a new hairstyle and clothes. I am attempting to give up sugar, not easy. But i am doing yoga more and walking. What else to do? Going thru isolation issues still. Saturn in 7th is a challenge. I am not letting my neptune square mars keep me as a weed addict. Have a lot more energy and drive with mars in virgo. Not into extremes just balance.
there are loads of posts her re the importance of uncluttering – it is an art and a science lol – always declutter before ANY new moon – see the Housewitch category for more
Bring on The Year of the Dragon!
I am ready!
Yes!!! Are you a ’64 vintage?
I will celebrate 2012 properly on Feb 4, which is also when Neptune moves into Pisces.
mystic totally there with you on boxing. seriously been having pangs to take it up. Might get proper east end after all. lol
There seems to be no pride anymore in Service (with a smile..not), of
having your customer delighted, to ensure a positive spending experience.
I evaluate how many arms & legs it took for me to spend the amount i have earned.
It must balance. It must be a 2-way pleasure. It must be equal energy spent or one feels ripped – off.
My solution is to only shop where the attitude is about your needs not theirs. IT has to be FUN to shop, it must be engaging. Preferred when there were tils for the money = more attention from sales personages.
Unfortunately peeps equate service with servitude. Not so, not at all.
One can take delight in the humblest of jobs or professions if they are holistically
interested in what they do. To be forever curious about your work helps, and liking the product.
I agree Pegs. I’ve always sought to give my best no matter my job and one day, when still young, it occured to me that I can choose to stay or go and in that it was empowering that it was my choice. As long as I chose to stay I was obligated to give it a good whirl (that does not say I didn’t goof off at times and literally do the twist on table tops… hee!)
Was a telephone operator many, many moons ago and someone was very rude and called me stupid so back then, we still had the plug in ~Operator~ “cord board” and I grasped the two cords connecting the call and simply yanked them out.
One of my more shining moments….(not…then I had to worry I’d be found out as the supervisor could easily come around and see who had taken the call).
Oh and hey, thanks for the tid bits on Essenza. Bamboo White Tea right now and it fills the air with a lovely fresh aroma. x
Nothing worse than a salesperson who cannot get the customer EXCITED and in the buying mood.
lol I have an Aries sun and I say awesome a lot