Winner gets the supreme satisfaction of knowing they impressed a jin.Monday, June 09, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
BEST. WEEKEND. EVER!
I LOVE my job.
I mean...
I
REALLY REALLY REALLY
(REALLY!)
Love my Job.
I Love my Customers too.
Well, 499 out of every 500 or so. ;-)
(Metaphorically speaking of course... I'm into cake art, I'm not a cake Tart! mostly)
My Weekend was Perfection.
This jin was soooo busy.
I had 2.5 hours of sleep Thursday eve
and 1.5 hours of sleep Friday eve
then worked until 8PM on Saturday
and I can still honestly say
I LOVE my job.
How effing awesome is that?!
You just need to look
(well, you need to taste too, but I can't send it thru the monitor yet)
so...
sit back
relax
pull an Al Bundy
and stick your hand in your pants if that's your thang
take a deep breath
and click thru these
pieces of jin
I mean...
I
REALLY REALLY REALLY
(REALLY!)
Love my Job.
I Love my Customers too.
Well, 499 out of every 500 or so. ;-)
(Metaphorically speaking of course... I'm into cake art, I'm not a cake Tart! mostly)
My Weekend was Perfection.
This jin was soooo busy.
I had 2.5 hours of sleep Thursday eve
and 1.5 hours of sleep Friday eve
then worked until 8PM on Saturday
and I can still honestly say
I LOVE my job.
How effing awesome is that?!
You just need to look
(well, you need to taste too, but I can't send it thru the monitor yet)
so...
sit back
relax
pull an Al Bundy
and stick your hand in your pants if that's your thang
take a deep breath
and click thru these
pieces of jin
Sunday, May 18, 2008
jin is:
First:
The FoodPorn:
Now:
The Game:
The FoodPorn:
Now:
The Game:
"jin is __________"
Pick ONE word to describe me.
Just ONE word.
Leave it in the comment section.
"I'm Listening!!! C'mon peeps... play with me!!!"
Pick ONE word to describe me.
Just ONE word.
Leave it in the comment section.
"I'm Listening!!! C'mon peeps... play with me!!!"
Thursday, May 08, 2008
A jin Never Gets Bored
(Sometimes she gets tired though)
Ahhhh... the scent of summer
wafting thru the air
takes away the winter blues
erasing all despair
allowing a gentle breeze
to slowly caress my hair.
Step back into the kitchen
for chocolate calls my name
once you taste my wares
your life won't be the same
'Tis my magick touch
Volition's not to blame.
Birds are tweeting, ovens beeping
there's frosting on the floor
I steal a moment, can't help myself
jin sneaks back out the door
In truffles and sunshine I indulge
Perchance resulting in new blog lore.
wafting thru the air
takes away the winter blues
erasing all despair
allowing a gentle breeze
to slowly caress my hair.
Step back into the kitchen
for chocolate calls my name
once you taste my wares
your life won't be the same
'Tis my magick touch
Volition's not to blame.
Birds are tweeting, ovens beeping
there's frosting on the floor
I steal a moment, can't help myself
jin sneaks back out the door
In truffles and sunshine I indulge
Perchance resulting in new blog lore.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Customers From Hell Volume X
"Pathetic Pastry Phisher"
I honestly believed I had heard and seen it all. That is, until last week. Thankfully (or not) I was given a rare yet fabulous opportunity to create another Customers From Hell post- just for you!
I do a substantial amount of my wedding cake business over the internet. There have been several occasions when I have never met, or even spoken with, the bride or the groom. Everything can be finalized right through this very monitor your eyes are glaring at! Have a strange request you're jinbarrassed to speak about? Email away! Bring it on! Paypal is our friend. (BONUS- I won't tell anyone you ordered 10 dozen anatomically correct gingerbread. ;-)
Upon checking my voicemail the other evening I came across a strange nearly inaudible message. After replaying it roughly 5 times, I managed to make out 3 distinct things:
1) that it was some type of operator assisted call
2) there was interest in a wedding cake
3) an email addy to reply to
Frankly, it sounded dodgy to me. I contemplated not responding, but that's just not how I do business. The next day I sent an email and attached a copy of our wedding cake brochure. I received a reply the next day. It mentioned the 'relay call' and a semi-detailed description of the wedding cake Mike Williams wanted to order. He signed the email "God Bless".
RED FLAG!!! RED FLAG!!!
Apologies to those genuine religious peeps reading, but I would have bet my life on the fact that anyone who signs an email with "God Bless" is only out to screw you out of something... er, in this case, screw ME out of something.
After sitting down & having a heart to heart with my buddy Google, I find that the 'relay call' is a free service for the hearing and speech impaired. Oh the toil my brain fell under... should I blow off the possible potential customer or should I respond one last time? What to do what to do what to do...
In the end, the only reason I responded one last time, was because if it really was a hearing or speech impaired customer I did NOT want to discriminate. Because that's just plain wrong and jin's can't do things like that.
I sent a short email with a base price quote. What I received back seriously pissed me off! One glance at the rest of the details confirmed that it was a goddamned phisher!!!! Trying to scam a wedding cake?! WTF?!!? Do criminals have ZERO boundaries? [Don't answer that I was being facetious.]
Had I replied back,
this is what I would have said:
Dear Mr. Mike Williams
aka nightoceanview@yahoo.com
If you honestly think I would make you a wedding cake to serve 300 people AND pay out of my pocket $700 shipping charges to your carrier by credit card YOU are the f@cking moron. I sincerely hope no one else on this planet falls for your scam, but should they be naive enough to do so, I pray you shall have all of your extremities chewed off bit by tiny bit by rabid creatures of the night until you are merely a torso left out in the freezing cold in a pile of your own feces.
God Bless,
jin
More info on the loser here. I'm also making all my labels to this post about the scam should any other unfortunate cake maker fall prey.
*****EDIT: 4/15 6.30PM
I received another email today! He claims he's still interested in the wedding cake but is having trouble with his 'nightoceanview' email account working properly. *HUGE jingrin* If per chance one of you messed with it after reading this... you are AWESOME!!! :-D
The new contact addy he gave is:
meruwa@live.com
I do a substantial amount of my wedding cake business over the internet. There have been several occasions when I have never met, or even spoken with, the bride or the groom. Everything can be finalized right through this very monitor your eyes are glaring at! Have a strange request you're jinbarrassed to speak about? Email away! Bring it on! Paypal is our friend. (BONUS- I won't tell anyone you ordered 10 dozen anatomically correct gingerbread. ;-)
Upon checking my voicemail the other evening I came across a strange nearly inaudible message. After replaying it roughly 5 times, I managed to make out 3 distinct things:
1) that it was some type of operator assisted call
2) there was interest in a wedding cake
3) an email addy to reply to
Frankly, it sounded dodgy to me. I contemplated not responding, but that's just not how I do business. The next day I sent an email and attached a copy of our wedding cake brochure. I received a reply the next day. It mentioned the 'relay call' and a semi-detailed description of the wedding cake Mike Williams wanted to order. He signed the email "God Bless".
RED FLAG!!! RED FLAG!!!
Apologies to those genuine religious peeps reading, but I would have bet my life on the fact that anyone who signs an email with "God Bless" is only out to screw you out of something... er, in this case, screw ME out of something.
After sitting down & having a heart to heart with my buddy Google, I find that the 'relay call' is a free service for the hearing and speech impaired. Oh the toil my brain fell under... should I blow off the possible potential customer or should I respond one last time? What to do what to do what to do...
In the end, the only reason I responded one last time, was because if it really was a hearing or speech impaired customer I did NOT want to discriminate. Because that's just plain wrong and jin's can't do things like that.
I sent a short email with a base price quote. What I received back seriously pissed me off! One glance at the rest of the details confirmed that it was a goddamned phisher!!!! Trying to scam a wedding cake?! WTF?!!? Do criminals have ZERO boundaries? [Don't answer that I was being facetious.]
Had I replied back,
this is what I would have said:
Dear Mr. Mike Williams
aka nightoceanview@yahoo.com
If you honestly think I would make you a wedding cake to serve 300 people AND pay out of my pocket $700 shipping charges to your carrier by credit card YOU are the f@cking moron. I sincerely hope no one else on this planet falls for your scam, but should they be naive enough to do so, I pray you shall have all of your extremities chewed off bit by tiny bit by rabid creatures of the night until you are merely a torso left out in the freezing cold in a pile of your own feces.
God Bless,
jin
More info on the loser here. I'm also making all my labels to this post about the scam should any other unfortunate cake maker fall prey.
*****EDIT: 4/15 6.30PM
I received another email today! He claims he's still interested in the wedding cake but is having trouble with his 'nightoceanview' email account working properly. *HUGE jingrin* If per chance one of you messed with it after reading this... you are AWESOME!!! :-D
The new contact addy he gave is:
meruwa@live.com
