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Speak Your Mind

I had this disheveled-looking woman come through the self-checkout machines today. She looks at me and throws her hands-up. I am use to this reaction. People hate self-checkout machines. I offer to give her the personal checkout treatment. She makes the comment that “you guys sure don’t make it easy.” I hear comments like that [...]

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Poopin’

I use to hate pooping. Oh geez, not another crap! It takes forever and requires an entire roll of toilet paper. Soon as you stand up you realize you were not really done and have to sit down for another round. Forget crapping at work because that will use up your break. I could change [...]

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Personal Assistant

There are some people who work retail who like to constantly ask coworkers to swap shifts with them. These retail coworkers are typically the least reliable because they are unwilling to schedule their lives in advance like the rest of us. After much grief I have decided not to swap shifts with anyone unless they [...]

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Roving Key Machine

We got one of those key duplicator vending machines at work today. It was quite an ordeal. The receiving department did not know what to do with the giant lime-colored machine when it arrived unannounced. No one had thought out where it was to actually go when the installation team showed up to install it. [...]

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Puppy Rental

The retail store I work at decided we should be a pet store. New shelves went up and we now have dog toys and litter boxes. All we were missing were the puppies. Everyone loves puppies. This gave me a new business idea. The problem with puppies is that they grow up. Adult dogs are [...]

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