An early Customer of the Day contender, though a weak one: “I’d like a breakfast burrito.” “Sorry, but this location […]
4. Prudence
One of the day’s first customers called up, a few minutes after leaving the drive-thru, to complain. I overhead part […]
3. That’ll be two social credits, please
More on the subject of job security: I’ve found it helpful to think of it as a currency. I get […]
2. Refuge in…
Last time, I mentioned that what I’m doing right now — jotting down a word or two between bits of […]
1. This could be the beginning of…
So here I am writing a few words between customers. There are a few reasons for this.
It’s days like this, when I see that one assistant manager is trying to give another assistant manager a written […]
Why I keep changing Google accounts
I have a Google account, of course. It’s easy to not rely on Google, but hard to do without entirely. I’m old enough to have had a Google account for years […]
Games like this are why I don’t game much on mobile
I don’t remember what prompted me to install a mobile game last week. I’d read a listicle about decent mobile games, but this wasn’t one of them. I assume that, while I was checking one of those games out, I looked at Google Play’s recommendations and saw this thing, blandly called “Wood Block Puzzle.” […]
Stupid tiddler tricks: the DefaultTiddlers restore button
TiddlyWiki’s startup behavior is easily customizable. You open up $:/DefaultTiddlers and put in a list of what you want to have open, and those are the tiddlers you have open. To make it even easier […]
No longer a Mild-Mannered Retailer
A couple of days ago, I renamed my blog tag “Mild-Mannered Retailer”, with which I collected my stories of work-related folly, chicanery, and bullshit, to “Mild-Mannered Laborer”.
I did this because I’m not a retailer any more. […]
Ray of Infamy 