It is interesting to find that I don’t have to be ‘on’ any more. For me, before I was engaged, before I was in a serious relationship, I treated every interaction as a potential. A potential friendship, a potential date[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Inspired by an email from Tracie: “we have meetings at my store to go over numbers, what’s going to change, and to remind us what we signed up for when we took the job. Just the normal boring stuff they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been happening with more frequency. Whoever is making the decisions in home office as to how to categorize books for where they’re supposed to be placed in the store is really screwing the pooch. Seeing how many miss-categorized[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve had some bad smelling people walk into our store recently. Really bad. So bad you can smell them across the store bad. I’m pretty sensitive to odors and this guy had me hiding in the stockroom for fear of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a reader send me an email about how the company sent out some communications about a high profile CD release from artist “X” and the album tentatively titled “Strange.” I don’t think they really needed to go through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I still don’t know what to think of this S’mores frappuccino. I’ve had it at least ten times and the only instance of me enjoying that drink was when a new hire in the cafe messed it up.
There are many times people think the extra stock we keep in the back is cleaner and kept better than what’s on display out on the sales floor. I’d say that most of the time their assumption is correct. For[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An email from Tracie: “About once to twice a month we have meetings at my store yo go over numbers, what’s going to change, and to remind us what we signed up for when we took the job. Just the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If I’m grumpy I want to stay grumpy dagnabbit! Black Friday is the best day to be grumpy too.
There have been many store meetings I have participated in. And when I use the word “participate” what I really mean is “fall into a state of half consciousness.” Some of those meetings will be instructive. Some of those meetings[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another story sent in by Jessica: “I had a gentleman come up to me asking about books on wood fire stoves. After much digging in our system, I told him we didn’t seem to have any in store and offered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Half of my coworkers are sick. If they aren’t sick yet, they’ll catch whatever bug is going around by the time you finish reading this sentence. I blame all of these spring vacation weeks schools are having. All the kids[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Someone shared a funny story about people stealing perfume and/or cologne samples from magazines to use in lieu of actually bathing. It doesn’t work. I recommend some soap, hot water, and some sort of shower type thing. After thinking it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
