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. […]
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. […]
Confidential to M.A.: I don’t doubt that your home state’s lottery commission mandates a customer-facing ad screen n its lottery […]
Confidential to O.L.: I would have been more likely to believe that you worked at this company’s Broadway location “for […]
Sometimes it isn’t customers or coworkers making my job harder or damaging my calm. Sometimes it’s phone scammers. The one […]
I’ve mentioned the register counter as a paperwork and memo display point before, but one day recently it saw slightly […]
Here’s how a company run by sensible people could have reacted to the recent change in the federal smoking age: […]
Confidential to P.H.: My tolerance for gratuitous snottiness doesn’t increase when someone claims to have worked for this company — […]
Here’s what a reasonable rule for employee purchases would look like: Stealing from the company is grounds for termination. It’s […]
Speaking of using cash as an advertisement, I took in a $20 bill the other day that had Harriet Tubman’s […]
Because sometimes it isn’t a customer, manager, or suit making my job less bearable… I was working five nights a […]