What I see. What I think. What I make up.
If you’ve read my blog before, you may remember me mentioning Soul-Crushing Perspective Lady. I see her come in now and again, trading cans and bottles for a nickel each. Yesterday she came in with bags and bags of cans and bottles for gas money to be able to get to the free community hospital. It […]
Read More Social Safety SieveIdiot Child with Brass Balls In this country (USA, FYI), there are certain substances that require you to be a certain age to purchase them. And when you are younger than that age, it can be difficult to obtain those things. A few of those youngsters come into the store in groups, pick out some […]
Read More Some more people I meet at workI made it to a coffee shop, so here’s what I would have posted yesterday! I had an especially frustrating day at work. It’s nothing new. Everyone has frustrating days at work. I felt like I was spinning my wheels, getting nowhere, feeling particularly useless. It’s not through lack of hard work. I ran my […]
Read More Do you work for the Red Queen?I’m in a position at work where you could safely describe me as a peon. There is nobody below me on the ladder. When anyone in the company shits, it usually falls on me. So I’ve been a bit torn by how the manager of my store talks to me. If he has a problem […]
Read More How should a manager behave?Early last week, while I was doing my damndest at work while fighting off whatever horrible disease I’d carried home from traveling, another employee walked off the job. He was in the middle of doing something outside of the store and just left. He was AWOL for the rest of the week. Nobody heard from […]
Read More The Hardest LessonI work at the Mistake Store. Want to buy candy? Want to buy sugary sodas? How about chips or pizza or hot dogs? We’ve got that. Cheeseburgers fresh out of the microwave! It doesn’t even cross your mind, but you’re now one step closer to heart disease and / or diabeetus. Do you want to […]
Read More The Mistake StoreI know, let’s arbitrarily shift time one hour forward. Why? For a reason, I’m sure. Something to do with farmers wanting more hours to work in the daylight, if I remember correctly, which I’m sure I don’t because it’s Ass O’Clock in the morning and I had to wake up even earlier in the morning […]
Read More Daylight Savings: The Dumbest Idea*If you get the two references from the title of this post, I love you* I’ve got little time today to discuss much of anything, so I’ll discuss only one person who I’ve really noticed at work recently. On this blog, I will call him Boris the Soviet Love Hammer. He’s not actually Soviet or […]
Read More The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Boris the Soviet Love HammerI know that I promised to write up a review of Stephen Blackmoore’s new book Dead Things, but I still need a little more time to think and edit the post so it looks all profound and stuff. Instead, I’ll tell you what I made last night. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. This is something I […]
Read More A little bit of everythingThe title of this blog might give the impression that either the company I used to work for or the company I currently work for are doing poorly and will soon go out of business. Not the case. Just saying. I think they’re stable and doing fine. But, like anything, there are things that can […]
Read More How to ru(i)n a business… And some more people I meet at work
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