#sanshia

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Taiwan, 1999 Sanshia, Taiwan. 台湾 新北市 三峡区 三峡老街 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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Sous Vide: Afrikanisches Bobotie im Glas mit Knoffelbrood

Sous Vide: Afrikanisches Bobotie im Glas mit Knoffelbrood

Rezeptvorstellung von Reiner Grundmann

Bildquelle: Reiner Grundmann

KRAUTJUNKER-international – ich durfte wieder etwas kochen, und dieses Mal etwas ganz Besonderes. Wild ist toll, ich koche es immer wieder gerne, weil neben dem Schreiben und Fotografieren ganz oben der Genuss im Focus steht – ich darfs ja dann auch essen, und im Gegensatz zu anderslautenden Behauptungen sogar noch gut…

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Tales From Bed Bath & Beyond

So I’ve decided to start a little series called “Tales From Bed Bath & Beyond”.  For those of you who follow me you know I’ve been working there for almost 4 years now. And honestly this store is one giant mess. It wasn’t always like that mind you.  But it is now.  My sister says I work in the real life Superstore (never seen the show but I’ll take her word for it).

I’m writing these little tales 1. Because so many incidents happen I can never remember them all, 2. One day I’ll probably wanna look back on these, 3. I’ll have a ton of stories to tell me niece and nephews, and 4. For @ladysnowstorm​ because she LOVES hearing all about the Bed Bath and Beyond drama.

This first post I’m just gonna give some background so anyone who wants to read them will have an idea of the set up.

Alright lets start with the store and the ranking. So in BBB it goes:

Store Manager (can tell what this is by the name)

LOD aka Leader On Duty (just the senior who is currently in charge because the store manager can’t always be there)

Senior (head Managers of the store)

Department Supervisors (the managers of each store department)

LEAD aka I have no idea what that stands for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (they are just Department Sups but just without the extra responsibility)

Associates aka the bottom of the food chain

Maintenance (change my mind these guys are the bottom of the food chain)

*There are other parts and stuff but this is all that you guys should know

See I’m an associate. Officially. However I’m treated as a manager and most of the managers obey me so hey I am a manager just without the title, the pay, and well the actual authority.

Now I work at the largest BBB in the world located in NYC. It’s 3 stories tall PLUS the warehouse. Customers only have access to 2 of those levels.  The store is so large it is divided into smaller departments. I’m sure other stores do this but they probably don’t have it divided up so much. Anyways they are:

Frontend which includes

Checkout

Customer Service

Home Delivery

Cashroom

Hardside

Seasonal

Seasonal Electronics

Small Appliances

Kitchen Basics

Pots and Pans

Utilities

Soft Side but really called Lifestyles

Vacuums

Cleaning

Tabletops

Closet and storage

Bath

Candles

Rugs

Towels

Shower Curtains

Bath Essentials

Bedding

Bedding

Furniture

Window Treatment

Frames

HBC aka Health & Beauty Care

okay this ones obvious but beauty stuff

and some random cleaning

Gormey Foods

food

Registry

Baby Registry

Wedding Registry

Also Luggage

And Fancy Dishes

Inventory Control

damaged products and such

Warehouse

where extra stuff is kept

Office

People who answer the phones

Secretary stuff

Human Resources

Scan

they order stuff for the building

LP aka Loss Prevention

they deal with stolen stuff

full of a bunch of idiots

Training

they train the staff on well anything

Okay well I think that everything that matters really. Anyways I’m part of the Frontend Staff! But not only that I’ve every department of the Frontend. Which is well a lot of work.  Plus I’m backup to the office. Just means I answer phones and am generally bored out of my mind 99% of the time.

So now that you know about the ranks and the building set up what about the most Important part. The people!

Seniors/LODs

Sha-tanna - my favorite LOD she’s the bomb funny thing though we actually could not get along to save our lives and it wasn’t until I started working in the Cashroom that suddenly we worked great together. Go figure.

Darnell - used to be my Frontend Manager and we got along great until he was promoted and the power went to his head. He won’t shut up at all. Is always talking and is generally considered the most annoying guy around. You can literally hear him from down the hall. But all in all he’s not the worse boss and sometimes I like him but sometimes I wanna strange him.

Anthony Illarti (we just call him Illarti cause there are a ton of Anthony’s in the building) - he is a bitch. Just putting that out there. He’s a bitch.  He’s rude to people, says the most inappropriate things, frankly he doesn’t know how to work with people. But he can be a good boss?  I mean considering most of the people we work with are terrible he’s not the worse? IDK how to describe him. He’s like 80% of the time terrible but 20% good so yeah...

Quincy - he has no idea what he’s doing like ever.  I usually end up telling him what to do because OMG he cannot handle anything.

Twed Jacket (I can’t remember his name so shoot me) - thinks he know everything doesn’t know anything and fucks shit up trying to boss us around and just GETS IN THE WAY. Like holy shit just go you make our lives SO MUCH HARDER. Just GO.

Kathleen - a stupid fucking cunt. Yes yes I said that. I know.  I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt but HA she proved everyone else was right about how awful she is. She literally knows NO ONE’S names. Only the people she hates. If you tell her no at anytime she will find a way to DESTROY you. She also knows nothing, can’t count, forgets to do her job all the time like remembering to lock the door. I cannot say anything good about her. She is the worst.

Managers

Joey - he’s bath and lifestyles. He’s a good guy. Kinda short, gay, and an annoying dude but in a fun way.

DeShaw - hardside.  Freakishly tall, really reliable, and a good guy.

Ronald - hardside. We don’t really talk. He’s okay-ish at his job.

Alex - HBC. Is kinda like that annoying little brother type.

Steve - HBC okay so he’s not a manager but I swore up and down he way and then I found out he wasn’t so he’s going on this list cause he SHOULD be.  He teases everyone all the time like ALL THE TIME. It can get annoying.

Victor - bedding. He was Frontend but couldn’t hack it. Being honest here.

Rochelle - bedding. I know nothing about her at all. We’ve spoken like twice.

*There are some others but I cannot remember their names so not important here or to my stories.

Frontend Managers (there are so many they get their own section)

Ms. B - customer service only. She’s a good boss but she also hates me. I have no idea why. Also I actually like her.

Shelina - frontend only. Okay ya’ll this is the person I will talk about the most. She’s THE BOMB. The Badass MVP. She actually runs the entire frontend cause everyone else is stupid idiots and have no idea what they’re doing. Like at all. She makes the schedule, orders products, sets up everything, puts away the products, I mean it she does EVERYTHING. I work with her a lot. She’s taught me everything I know. Literally the best person and I love her. You guys are going to hear SO MUCH ABOUT HER.

Dumescus - I hate him. He tortured me for months. Bullied and treated me like shit. He flirts with all the women and if his flirting doesn’t work well he hates you. He literally has a group of girl squeal at every word he says.  He does nothing even though he’s given all the responsibility and treated like he’s in charge of the whole department. Only thing he actually does is fix the registers.

Tiffany - we started at the same time and are friends and as much as I love her she has no idea what she’s doing. But she does have one of the biggest hearts. She’s fed me when I planned on going hungry to save money. And she has a positive attitude. She technically a department sup but she doesn’t act like it. She is a good person and a good friend but she panics at even the slightest pressure. She acts like a LEAD doing on the basics of her job. The Bare minimum.  She seriously need to start acting like a leader.

Celeste - a LEAD. I like her as a person. She’s also the best person to close Customer Service when you’re in the Cashroom. She’s also the youngest LEAD. And the thing is when I started she used to be a badass LEAD. She was great at her job used to give it 110%. I honestly don’t know what happened. Now she does nothing more than the bare minimum. Hell she even stops me from doing the other parts of my job to make sure I “stay on a register”.  Even when we have 6 open cashiers and no customers. I like her a lot but whatever happened to her she stopped being a great LEAD and just fails all the time.

Jessica - a LEAD. The gossip Queen. A very likable person.  But being likable doesn’t mean you’re a great or even good boss. She does nothing. When she started he was so eager to learn but no she disappears to gossip with people. Never comes back and just does the basics. It’s sad really. All the potential just wasted.

Sanshia - a LEAD. I hated her, I liked her, I hated her again, now I like her again.  She was for the longest time the most hated LEAD. She was a bitch to everyone and no one wanted to work with her. Something happened and now she’s actually good to work with. Not that she does anything more than the basics. Seeing a pattern guys? Everyone does the basics and pons off their work onto others if given half the chance. Sanshia is no exception.

Kenisha - a LEAD. A literal baby who cries when she doesn’t get what she wants, throws fits, and is just petty. Funny thing is she’s proven she can actually be good at her job she just chooses not to.  She is actually the most hated LEAD right now because of how horrible and childish she acts. It’s just terrible.

Marsha - she gets her own spot because she secretly runs the whole store. Her offical job is head of the office but really she’s girl Friday.  She makes sure everything is running and knows everything. Frankly she’s the bomb and a lot of people are terrified of her. IDK why. I actually have a total crush on her... She so awesome and pretty.

Now I could talk about all the associates but I’m not going to because the staff is ridiculously large and they come and go so often that there’s not too much of a reason to bother.  But you’ll hear more about then as I tell you guys about what happens at my store.

There’s also other people in other positions I could mention and I have a ton of stories to tell you all ready but I’m not gonna cause they’re all stupid people as you’ll learn soon enough.

Okay so I know I just threw a lot of fact at you thanks if you’ve stuck it out this far but from now on all my Bed Bath and Beyond Tales will be fun stories or awful things that happened. Eh we’ll just see what happens.

[charleschuang]

Discussion of the origin of our ancestors/Carlos Pueblo

It is very difficult to discuss the origin of our ancestors and we take it

for granted for some unproven theory. I watched a You Tube video

of 2016 from Taiwan about the research of Taiwanese ancestors that directly

challenged the official theory, Taiwanese were Chinese. Actually, the talk

show speakers have pointed it out more likely Taiwanese are the part of

Austronesian, the Pacific Islanders. Why Taiwanese starts paying attention to

where he is from? It is because that he doesn’t like to be Chinese and falls into

the conclusion of Taiwan is a part of China.

 Even nowadays the school education is very common and popular, people still

is unable to search his ancestor’s origin. I can track down up to two generation

above me and that’s it. It was because that under Japanese rule in Taiwan, 1895

to 1945, there was a registry of family which was prohibited to open to public by

the Nationalist Chinese regime due to the reason to cover up the fact of Chinese

colonization of Taiwan after 1945 and before 1895, the Manchu Dynasty for almost

200 years, Kuoxinya Cheng’s Dynasty briefly, and the Dutch rule before. I can’t go

that far and there is no such need in my life to do such search.

 One year, I believe was 2013, I went back to the birth place of my father, Sanshia,

Taipei, Taiwan, to do some research of my family root. I selected my grandmother’s

side of registry. I suspected that my ancestors were not Chinese because that if

they were, they wouldn’t be in such poverty condition. All my ancestors were struggling

to be survival. It is true that I have not met any of my father’s side of the family. He was

the first one to be literate.

 Therefore, there is no way for any of us to go back the record before 1900 in Taiwan.

I estimate that would take at least 5 years for the Governor General’s office of the

Imperial Japan to start the family registration plus the fact of illiteracy in my family

history. It is not important for me to find out my family origin instead that I should

ignore the Chinese claim that Taiwan is a part of China. It is not true even if I have

some Chinese blood. Taiwan is still Taiwan.

[snapshottaiwan]

Snapshot, Sanshia, Taiwan, 隨拍, 三峽, 台灣 by Bryan Suen

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Taiwan, 1999 Sanshia, Taiwan. 台湾 新北市 三峡区 三峡清水祖師廟 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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Südafrika in Franken: Springbock mit Rooibos und Salat

Südafrika in Franken: Springbock mit Rooibos und Salat

Rezeptvorstellung von Reiner Grundmann „Springbock, three-five-seven, approaching Kapstadt” So oder so ähnlich tönts aus dem Funk im Cockpit der South-African-Airways – und hat diese Airline das Tier schon lange aus seinem Logo entfernt, so hat man den Rufnamen – Vergleiche anderer Airlines wären da die Rufzeichen „Quality“ oder das alte aber schöne „Flamingo“ des Nürnberger Flugdienstes – bis…

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Tales From Bed Bath and Beyond

I am VERY good at my job. I helped train 2 of the last 3 managers. I am in fact not a manager even though most of the new people usually think I am for the first few week of the job.

Because of this I am both punished and used. They want me to do stuff for them above my position but when I do they say I should not be doing that. Do to this I rarely do anything outside my job anymore. I may know how but I don’t do it.

I’ve mentioned Shelina on multiple occasions usually saying how amazing and great she is. But the thing most people don’t seem to get is how much she does for me. For example when she makes my schedule she puts a ton of thought into it. When she’s away on vacation she moves me to customer service and while I hate it there it’s better than the front end where I’m treated like shit. In CS I usually get left alone and only have to deal with crazy customers. She schedules my cashroom days on days that I’m not with her because I’m off the floor and away from everyone.

I get a phone call from Shelina (she calls me to vent on her way home) and I learn that the reason I’m not scheduled for 7am like normal tomorrow is because she didn’t want them to use me! She knew that Sanshia was supposed to open and can’t do it herself and didn’t want me to do it. Also she’s totally going to call out tomorrow so Illarti is gonna want me to do it so she refuses to let them use me and scheduled me for an hour later just so they could suffer!

Seriously I love this woman.

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Snapshot, Sanshia, Taiwan, 隨拍, 三峽, 台灣 by Bryan Suen