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Read How To Destroy A Company: A Roadmap Our small-ish tech firm hired a new director who decided to enforce a mandat...
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Read Browbeaten Customer: "Can I get the price any lower?" Cashier: "I've already applied the student discount." Cust...
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Read Not What We Mean When We Say “Accepted In All Stores” Customer: "Do you accept Walmart gift cards?" Me: "No, ma'...
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Read Straight Outta Jones Street I manage the office of a funeral home. Names in the story have been changed. One day...
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Read Mother Knows Best, Father Knows Less Some parents come into our store demanding the new sold-out toy of the seas...
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Read The Sea-n Of The Crime It’s a hot day, and I’m having a stroll along the seafront. Nearby is a family with two y...
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Read See It, Say It, Sneezed It The man sneezes twice. Very common on the tube. Woman: "You need to get off the train...
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Read A Tankless Job Visitor: "How do they get the whales to come back in each morning?" Me: "Come back? From where, m...
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Read I am an autistic millennial. When I was young, I got a degree in Computer Science. Despite hundreds of interview...
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Read The insurance company I worked for had been making some monumentally stupid management decisions lately, and as ...
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Read I was inspired by this story https://notalwaysright.com/you-dont-have-to-sandwich-yourself-in-the-middle-of-the-...
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Read We Will Not Be Entertaining Closing Arguments When we do the five-minute announcement, we politely ask that all ...
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Read A regular customer walks up to the counter at the bookstore where I work and demands a manager. When the manager...
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Read A Fresh Coat Of Perspective Customer: "If you just focused on my order, it would be done faster." Me: "No, sir. ...
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Read Since my dad died, my mom’s been struggling a bit with cooking. Dad was the chef of the family, and she quickly ...
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Read Manager: “I need to talk to you about [coworker]. Every time I see her, she’s on her phone. Doesn’t she have som...
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Read Checked Out Of Shelf Awareness I'm walking into the library and overhear this short but sweet tail end of a conv...
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Read Send That Customer Where The Sun Don’t Shine Customer: "These solar lights are useless! I thought they were supp...
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Read When Your Opinion Cuts The Mustard Customer: "Excuse me, have you tried this mustard?" Me: "No, I haven’t, but I...
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Read A Paper Chase Employee: "What's this?" Me: "It's an e-ticket." Employee: "It's a WHAT? Ma'am, you need a real ti...