Because I know some of you love to bash co-ops

[gordonzola]

and others just love to love them.


Verbatim: my favorite moment of this year’s Board of Directors meetings at my workplace.

"Tippy" the Tipping Ladder to be replaced by "Sturdy" the Rolling Ladder
New Item #1
(BOD member #1): Tippy was taken away despite the wall-poll in Tippy’s defense.
(BOD member #2): Any comments or questions about the new Tippy?
(BOD member #1): I don’t think the new ladder could be like Tippy at all.
(BOD member #3): We’ll call it "Sturdy".

Proposal: The BOD approves $462.21 for a new rolling ladder to be named "Sturdy"
Favor: Unanimous
Passes

Comments

[akki.livejournal.com]

Heh, did it take 4 months for poor Tippy to be retired?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

It probably took years from when Tippy should have ben retired. But no, the moment came quickly after the decision was made.

[epilady.livejournal.com]

Will there be a pro-Tippy rally in Rainbow's future? Will you need to post signs on the windows like they do at that other supermarket: "The 'Save Tippy' protesters outside our store are not employees?"

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

As long as the don't u-lock their necks to Tippy we'll be ok.

[goodbadgirl.livejournal.com]

This makes me smile. Tippy reminds me of 'Granny' the old ultrasound machine we used to have at the clinic. But then they retired Granny and she just sat in the storage room all sad looking......I liked Granny.

And even though this isn't a comment about this particular post I'd like to say that my senior superlative was "Most likely to be seen in traffic court." Thank you.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

my senior superlative in the school paper was "Done School for the Most" as opposed to "Done Most for the School"

[warhooligan.livejournal.com]

now I have "Its a Long Way to Tippy-rary" in my head.
not my fault, you put it there.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha. don't get me started on the cheese-pun songs then.

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

You're using cuteness to cover the anti-democratic principle at work in your executive override of the wall poll.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yes, we crafted that strategy over years of management trainings. clever, eh?

tippy...

[ctrhotpink.livejournal.com]

i was one who voted to KEEP TIPPY!!! it was always a nice challenge to stock top shelves while trying to avoid "tipping" to your death. i was quite good at it, really.
stury is just so...well, boring, to be honest.
R.I.P. TIPPY! you will be missed.

Re: tippy...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

we should have a mural for Tippy. "Tippy Presente!"

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

wow.

i bought a new parsley plant last weekend and named it thunder. this seems like an irrelevant comment, but really, what could i possibly say here that could be relevant?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Thunder Parsely? wasn't that a James Bond movie?

[magpiesf.livejournal.com]

so, im just curious enough to ask... what now happens to the seemingly somewhat beloved "tippy"? given the name, and current american trends concerning liability, its unlikely that rainbow will have a "win tippy!" contest open to the general customer base... so what will tippys fate be?

and i think "sturdy" is an excellent name for a ladder. it inspires confidence. "tippy" might make one nervous, but it sounds like a kind of relationship that reassured the users may have developed there...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

We donated Tippy to a children's playground in the Mission.

[kest]

My friends from Oly visited last weekend, and we had a hippie parody moment and achieved consensus that there should be apple pie, and I thought of you.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

awwwwww.

obligatory totally off-topic "hoo ha, i've added you to my friends' page" comment

[moebius-rex.livejournal.com]

Yah. The subject pretty much sums it up. I'm a fellow SF resident who's been lurking around yr journal for awhile now, mainly because you keep popping up in the comments to a few other people on my friends' list.

I can't help but wonder if wonder if we haven't met in person at some point over the past few years--we know a few people in common, I think....

Re: obligatory totally off-topic "hoo ha, i've added you to my friends' page" comment

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

sorry it took so long to respond. I haven't been online much.

Who do we know in common? Are we talking RL or LJ? we can take it off-LJ if you want. gordonzola@livejournal.com

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I love this post.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

awwww. Tippy still brings us joy.

[bureinato.livejournal.com]

Howdy, my LJ friend vestalvixen recomended your journal because I've just applied to the cheese department of the new health food store opening up in town. It's not a co-op, but a "new concept" that wants to combine aspects of a market type store with a trader joe's type store. We'll see if Denver is oversaturated w/ health food stores or not.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

good luck with the cheese job. you should check out anarqueso too!

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Is it the Sunflower wossit thing that Wild Oats is doing?

Just as an "FYI" thing, I have heard from others with first-hand experience that Wild Oats is not known for paying or treating its employees particularly well. I work at Whole Foods, and some significant portion of our staff is made up of people who fled WO after getting fed up with their management practices.

I think WF just filled a spot in our cheese department, but it wouldn't hurt to go apply. Are you only interested in working with cheese, or are you just generally looking for a grocery-type job?

(gordonzola will be so over the fact that I'm discussing the relative merits of Natural Chain Groceries Without Unions in his journal. I think he has already gotten his revenge, though - I discovered today that Son of Tippy, or Cousin of Tippy, is living in my garage. This made trying to install a light sensor on our back porch floodlight very interesting. Damn you, gordonzola!)

[bureinato.livejournal.com]

Yes, the sunflower place is where I applied. I think it's being started by the former owners of Wild Oats. They seem to want to compete w/ WO.

Mostly I want something that keeps me off of unemployment or at least out of the house a bit. My current plan [subject to change w/o notice] is to have a part time evening stable McJob and do temp work during the day. IT broke my heart & I have to figure out what I want to be when I grow up *again*. I'm still in that new & frantic stage of unemployment where you just flail around for a bit.

I applied over in the cheese section because that seemed like the thing I liked the most and could still sell. The problem with the bath stuff is I'd be inclined to tell people how they can make their own sugar body scrub and not pay a fortune for it.

So are there co-ops in the denver area? I'm a big fan of share colorado, but it's not organic and really heavy on the pork.

And since denver is a small city, do you know a guy who goes by the nickname akumagai or thesungazer?