At any job, there are some basic rules specific to the line of work being done. These go beyond the basic get-to-work-on-time, don’t-steal-from-the-company and do-what-the-boss-asks type rules that are universal to all workplaces and directly relate to what the individual is doing. For example, somewhere in the basic training of Rite-Aid Drug Store cashiera there […]
Over the weekend, I got the bad news. The pre-amp on my tenor ukulele was not fixable. I think I was somewhat at fault, as it hasn’t worked since I replaced the connector for the 9V battery. I explained this to the nice guys as GuitarVille shop when I brought it in, and I was […]
At least we are getting one of the two. We are getting smaller government from the Federal Government down to local governments. That is part of the jobs problems. Public sector jobs (Government) are shrinking faster than the private sector can create new ones. If you take Government jobs (those lazy suckers that feed at […]
It is best not to talk about religion or politics at work. Leave them out of all interactions. I KNOW this, really I do. Religion and politics on social networks? They’re our bread and butter, right? My new workplace, as is becoming common amongst big companies, has it’s very own social network where employees can […]
I close my eyes and feel myself in another kind of vehicle. The seat vibrates beneath me and I imagine the rumble of the bus’s idling engine is actually the whir of a jet engine. The driver becomes a pilot when he announces, appropriately, “now departing, Line 112 to Edmonds Community College.” I keep my […]
I was there when it all started. It was the autumn of 2006. I was working as a subprime loan officer with the nation’s largest mortgage lender, Countrywide Home Loans. I was working on a deal to refinance multiple rental properties in California’s Central Valley that belonged to the personal friend of one of my […]
“Do you sell can crushers?” “Where are the GFI switches?” “Excuse me,” the smiling middle-aged woman asked me right after I had dispatched a customer towards a product that I only had a vague idea where it was, “do you have those little pieces that go behind a lighted vanity that make the screws fit […]
I live in the desert. It gets hot. Cooling of some kind is a necessity. When it gets to be 118 degrees outside, people tend to just melt away without it. Any type of modern day cooling system requires electricity.
I had to go back and reread the comment and the stream it was in three more times just to make sure I read what I read. I slept on it and read it again the next day. Maybe I took it wrong.
I don’t know why I was feeling so overwrought and nervous. It was just an orientation. It’s not like I was really starting real work yet. Heck, I wasn’t even reporting to what is going to be my regular store. For efficiency’s sake, they combine several stores’ new employees and have them meet at one […]
