Next week, wannabe ruler Pete Buttigieg will hold a fundraiser at an undisclosed location in Portland. Or, as my local […]
Customer profile: Joe Joe Joe Joe
I wrote recently about one of the ways customers try to dominate or demean the wage slaves they interact with. […]
The ratcheting paranoia of my bosses’ carding policy
It started before I was hired. My employer had a “Card Under 40” policy, as is fairly common for businesses […]
Can they not go one minute without dominance games?
One of the things I find myself doing at work is watching customers walk up to the counter, realize that […]
“Leviathan is people:” I argue with a Hobbes-spouting righty on Reddit
A more-or-less typical-seeming righty Redditor, who seems to do most of his posting on r/The_Donald, went to r/anarchy looking for […]
A bleak Friday in July
Those of you who remember this side note from an old post: Also, why are Halloween lights a thing? And […]
It’s the little things: teensy floor mats
Part of this job involves standing behind a counter, often for hours at a time. The floors are tiled concrete, […]
That PodShare story
This CNN story was making the rounds on Twitter the other day: Housing costs have become so expensive in some […]
It’s the little things: uniform shirt redesign
I work at one of those places where we have to wear employer-provided polo shirts displaying the corporate logo and […]
In which two of our wannabe masters mistake cancer for scrofula
I think the most telling detail so far about this presidential race so far is that, when the incumbent promised […]
Ray of Infamy 