It's that time of year again. this is a bit late, so we're gonna have to hurry it up. i want to get all the info out before i go off on vacation next week. so sorry for the lateness.
last year went pretty much ok. 2 people got shafted, and i'm not really sure if they ever received anything from anyone, so this year i will have to make it up someway to you guys if you decide to join again. 2 gifts this year. ok, now that that is settled.
I really don't have much to say. everyone pretty much knows the rules as it's already year 5 of this. there is only a couple of rules that i am strict about:
POST A FUCKING TRADELIST!!!!! because once we start taking names and info, your PM's won't be answered if you don't have one. I am not in the mood to keep asking people to do it and them not do it out of laziness. Just keep that in mind. And i won't ask you for one either. it's up to you to figure it out.
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS ASKED OF YOUi I hate having to ask numerous times for pieces of info on 3 separate occasions just to get all your info. so please do this. thanks.
All PM's have been sent. if you didn't receive one please contact me immediately. I'm sure i got everyone though. Thanks. Shipping due dates have been entered. Please if you can try to send off by those dates if at all possible. And please send me confirmation as soon as you've sent them. Just so i can keep track of who got what and when. It's mostly so i can keep track of who's sent so far and hasn't. Thanks
Mike
and now the rules: .............................................................................................................................................................................
VC Secret Santa 2012 Rules
Your Moderator will be Mike D. (controlthebleeding) 1. Everyone interested in participating must PM Mike (controlthebleeding) their following: • Name • Address (please place on one line only and not on three.) • Avatar name and original name registered under (your login name when logging into the board, this issue comes up every year because people switch names a lot and often, myself included, started my account with a different name…and when trying to track somebody down it can be impossible to find them) • (if you participated last year) the person you had last time, if you remember (to give you somebody new to buy for!). • The link to your trade list. (if it's a google spreadsheet, please make shareable) • Size of shirt just in case they have clothing in mind • If you’re willing to ship overseas/US to Canada, etc…(this will probably drastically increase your monetary involvement, no skimping on the gift value if you spending most of the agreed amount on postage, only agree to do this is you can afford to do it.) Send this info by the end of the day (wherever you are) Thursday, October 18, 2012. This will be the cut off date unless we have an odd person and from there we’ll accept requests to take the missing spot. • Wait for confirmation
below is the preferred format i would ask of you all as it's going into a excel sheet:
Name: Efrain Jordaci
Address: 2495 rockford lane, fleetwood mac, fl 95857 USA
Avatar/screen name/og screen name: riffrafff2 (aka slimeball 2)
tradelist: googleblahblahblah393848i$@@@@@
shirt size: L
Yes, i'm willing/No i'm not up to sending overseas
2. Buy a gift for the person you get spending no less than $15 and no more than $25 (unless you really want to). These gifts can be vinyl, music related or just rad things you think they’ll like. It can be a few small things or one big thing, whatever. Don't send anything gross or crude (NO PORN, unless you know the person loves porn). If you don't know what your person likes, look up some of their posts and use what you've learned about them from this board as a guide. If you have questions ask around, or we'll ask for you. If you want to participate, you need to have a trade list; post the link in your signature so that your Secret Santa can get ideas of what to buy and what not to buy for you. There is no excuse not to have a trade list. Any person without a trade list will not be allowed to participate. No exceptions. So even if you don’t have time to catalog your entire record collection, create one (they’re free, another reason for no excuses) and name a bunch of your favorite bands, movies, whatever, just to give people a hand in looking for a gift for you. If you have a google spreadsheet, PLEASE MAKE IT SHAREABLE so your Secret Santa can view it. If you don't it's like you don't have one at all. entries with no type of tradelist will go unanswered.
4. Pack up and send out your gift no later than November 20. Unless you specify that you’ll agree to send packages to other countries, we’ll try to keep people to mailing within their own country, as easy cheap delivery confirmations don’t work for the USPS’s international Mail…but there are more deluxe forms of tracking, but all of them raise the price considerably for international mail. Pick the type of shipping most appropriate or affordable(in the US please remember media mail can ONLY be used for audio recorded material, books, video recordings on whatever format, ie: this is media, breaking this rule could cause your box, should it be inspected to be deemed mail fraud and not delivered, and if you’re lucky returned to sender, but most likely will be thrown away!). This is assuming that all people outside the US will use their countries equivalent delivery confirmation tracking information. • And this is very important: ALL PACKAGES ARE TO BE SENT WITH SOME SORT OF CONFIRMATION OR TRACKING. Send the tracking information to your Secret Santa Moderator once your package has been sent, so we have a idea of who is sending what and when, also save your receipts just in case!!!! Everyone please use my address as the return address. Please be sure to put VC Secret Santa, ATT: Mike De Los Santos, 2602 Burly Oak Drive, Austin, TX 78745.
5. This year is same as last year. This year please include 1 or several (you choose) cd mixes with music you think said person might like. Hell send them music they might not have even heard. You never know. they might be turned on to something totally new they never even thought of listening to. Also include with the gift a piece of paper with three hints about who you are. It can be anything you want, your hometown, your favorite band, something anyone familiar with the board could figure out. Or, be vague…this is part of the fun!
6. When you receive your gift: • post what you got in this the main thread and guess who sent it to you. • PM your Secret Santa Moderator that you received your gift so we can mark you off our list. This is a must. I don't want to have to be PMing people daily to see if they received their gifts. Once its been noted, please, please say THANK YOU. There's nothing more thoughtless than not at least giving a “thank you.” It's rude to say the least!
7. If you don't receive your gift by December 20th, PM your moderator (me) AND post in the main thread (do not create a new thread) This means there has been a full month of allotted shipping time. We'll find a way to punish that person. If it arrives after that, we'll forgive them.
8. If you don't like what you got, feel free to swap with someone else, re-gift or sell the item.
9. On Jan. 1 (or shortly thereafter) we will reveal who everyone's Secret Santa was.
10. All new Boardies. Rather than completely disqualify you from participating, we need you to go through a few extra hoops in order to participate. All new board members (aka if you have less than 1000 posts, less than a year old, or have never participated in Secret Santa) are required, after all initial info is entered, to send first. and have a shipping date a few weeks shorter than regular members. This is for good reason. We ask this so there's a less likely chance of anyone getting ripped off. Secondly, we ask this so your package arrives in a timely manner because once your package as been confirmed upon arrival (again, please send with confirm so we can track it) by your recipient, we will then allow your Secret Santa to send your gift. Hope you understand. *= not including those who deleted their accounts and re-joined, were part of last years Secret Santa gift exchange, or are longtime members but don't post often (again, we know who you are).
**Note to any future Secret Santa’s from overseas. We must have a even # of Secret Santas across the pond or have people willing to send overseas. Please remember to note that in your initial email/PM so we put people together in this instance.
***I also ask, once this starts rolling to have everyone hide who their recipient is until after everyone has received their gifts and figured out their Secret Santa or till we announce the list... it makes it more confusing and fun
This list of rules is not set in stone, feel free to make more suggestions and we'll alter it accordingly. This can be really fun if everyone holds up their end of the bargain.
Also if people want to start PM’ing me their information listed in point #1: • Name • Address (please place on one line) • Avatar name and original name registered under (your login name when logging into the board, this issue comes up every year because people switch names a lot and often, myself included, started my account with a different name…and when trying to track somebody down it can be impossible to find them) • (if you participated last year) the person you had last time, if you remember (to give you somebody new to buy for!). • The link to your trade list. Don't PM Mike till you have one. If you dont, i will delete your PM. • Size of shirt just in case they have clothing in mind • If you’re willing to ship overseas/US to Canada, etc…(this will probably drastically increase your monetary involvement, no skimping on the gift value if you spending most of the agreed amount on postage, only agree to do this is you can afford to do it.) • Wait for confirmation.
Except Bullmoose isnt taking pre-orders on stuff. They just put up a list of what is coming out, the SRP and the pressing info. Stop throwing a completely legitimate business doing things the right fucking way under the bus because you are just going off of what someone else said that was misinformed.
I don't consider a pre-order to be the information that I am looking for. You guys...when did I mention a specific website?
I have never been to either of those websites. Get back to me with some actual info if you feel like chiming in.
Oh, and I find people with pre-orders for items they don't even know they will have yet to be sketchy.
I went ahead and said something to him, essentially, "If working in a hostile work environment and being an asshole is your prerogative than leave me out of it, we're not friends, so when you talk shit it's not joking around, it's just you being a dick."
He's under the impression that he works harder than everyone and that we don't meet his expectations as coworkers. I basically told him he doesn't work in our crew and has no say in how long it takes us to do something. I don't cut corners at work because that shit gets dudes killed around here, kind of a lot.
I expect he'll still run his mouth amongst his buddies, as long as he's not bringing me up amongst the shop when I'm off work than they can have their little secret tree house conversations. Next time I won't be cool about it.
It's scary to think someone is taking notes from me
And yeah, the gossip thing is HARD, especially since in my case I worked my way up the ranks, so many people I'm reasponsible for used to be my peers, and of course we talked
I think Daegor is right. I'd leave it alone for now. See what happens with the new foreman. I've been around plenty of shitty inter-office politics and it is always best to keep your hands clean.
Against a guy like that there is almost no way to come out clean. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Haha.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Opinons are like....
I don't have an account there and I should sign up for some bashing. I've yet to post on DF either, but I think I'll get on that this week as well.
"Well, I been growing more and more frustrated with the button sticking and went on YouTube to check for possible fixes. I found one that was spoken in a foreign language, and saw as the poster put a drop of liquid on the home button and pressed it numerous times. He did this twice. I assumed it was rubbing alcohol, so I grabbed my bottle of rubbing alcohol, shut off the iPhone, and added a drop to the button. Pressed it about 30 times, added another drop, pressed it again, wiped the phone down and booted up the phone. I tried using the home button in various ways and it worked perfectly!!!!"
This worked for me. Lots of fixes on YouTube if you haven't tried fixing the button. Also, if you plan in buying this you can probably fix it!
if you're just gluing cut up records to IKEA stuffs, you could just sell the cut up records and send directions with them. don't sweat sending tables in the mail.
http://www.the1stfiv...out-in-november
New EP. Expected to be out on November 13th on digital and vinyl.
Amazon and SoundStage Direct have pre-orders up. Although the cover art on SSD is incorrect. D'oh!
http://www.amazon.co...heninhotline-20
http://www.soundstag...l-records.shtml
I'll hold out to get it directly from the band.
daegor reacted to blanchardoswald in Alexisonfire farewell tour
daegor got a reaction from somethingvinyl in Should I Confront A Trash Talking/Kiss Ass Coworker?
daegor got a reaction from BiscuitsNGroovy in IVWT is closing
daegor got a reaction from drds89 in IVWT is closing