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 […]
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 […]
