Entries
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Read One morning at about eight AM our team gets an (expected) email for new software. I’m personally pretty excited ...
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Read Two years ago, owls nested right in the middle of my city, and gained a small amount of fame. The building liter...
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Read That’s A Load Of Baloney Customer: *Looking surly.* "Is your meat halal?" Me: "Unfortunately, we're not halal, s...
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Read I worked for a while in the Delay Department of a rail company in the UK. At the time the company ran the East C...
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Read One of my first jobs after law school was a contract-to-hire position for a real estate litigation firm. It was ...
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Read Weight A Minute… Customer: "Now, I want everything in one bag, but I don't want the bag to be heavy." Me: "Uh…" ...
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Read Because Retail Workers Aren’t Human, Part 6 Customer: "If the store's not open yet, why is the door open?" Me: "...
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Read The Joke Didn’t Register I was shopping in the local Walmart, and the customer being checked out in one lane ove...
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Read Disk-Connected From Reality Coworker: "I had a boss who got angry one morning because he thought he'd saved the ...
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Read A Wee Bit Of Exaggeration I open the store at 6 AM. I go to the back for thirty seconds to get a new batch of Na...
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Read Mark My Words I was working as a lab tech before grad school. I put in my two weeks' notice, and the principal i...
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Read QR Code Red Me: "Okay, sir, there are three QR codes taped up on the glass there. The first one is for the onlin...
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Read Board To Be Wild However, the whiteboards were stacked in the hallway for the first few months. We were under ex...
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Read Losing Your Business Implies We Wanted It In The First Place Customer: "I drove here yesterday, and you were clo...
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Read Grounds For Concern The owner assured me that there was sufficient plumbing to the cold-water piping and pointed...
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Read Aisle Interrupt Their Flow Other Customer: "—Where's the ground garlic?" Me: "Sorry, sir, I am currently helping...
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Read Don’t Question The Slush Fund Customer: "Why was his slushie only 99 cents?" Me: "Oh, well, his store and mine h...
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Read HR-iffic Misunderstanding HR: "Hello, [My Name], thank you for making time for me today. I would like to discuss...
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Read Checking Out In Lane Terrible Two Cashier: *Handing over receipt.* "I love how calm you're being. I've seen a lo...
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Read Scholastic Hysteric My mom grew up dirt-poor, so I try to give her some grace when she complains about money or ...