The metal concert: the event where all rules are suspended

Yesterday I spent six hours or so at the House of Blues in Chicago listening to some great (and not so great) bands at the Summer Slaughter concert series. One of the greatest things about these concerts, besides the music, is that when guys receive their tickets, they essentially are given a license to grab, bump, grope, and [...]

A treatise on supervision and the training it does not require

Today I had to help one of my coworkers get on the computer. He, for some reason, did not take his computer courses back when he began working in the Garden Center in March (AKA someone didn’t take his courses for him), so now he had to sit through the monotony. I decided to look at [...]

Six Degrees of Separation? Not exactly.

As I was chatting with my old AP English comrade Travis, somehow he gave me this bright idea for a topic to discuss on my blog: how two random things almost always have similarities.
We arrived at this conclusion after he claimed that phone books and the Internet are similar. While my main contribution to that [...]

A truly random post

I have generated this “story” of sort by using a random paragraph generator and entering two subjects: Larry and Roseanne, two fictional characters. I generated nine paragraphs total, and here they are:
The desire stirs over a local nonsense. The crucial elitist balances Larry behind the paid screw. The sacked ink rots across the differential story. [...]

How to get stuff done: bring in mentally handicapped kids

My old boss had a problem. It was July of last year, and even though I had no knowledge of the promotion two of my coworkers and I would soon receive, she desperately was trying to find adequate replacements for us. Her solution was an odd one: in the next round of hires, bring in [...]

Somebody please humble me

As anybody who has been given the privilege of dealing with me on a daily basis knows, I think very highly of myself, and I am fairly confident that this will never change. Still, after spending 200+ hours with coworkers and managers, I am now begging for someone to please just humble me.
Many workplace stories [...]

A List

1) Work today was hilarious. The store director from the Grape Road store stopped by today to walk through the store with our store director since. Apparently our store director called the Grape Road one up because he needed help on figuring out what to do.
Apparently a visit from his boss Thursday and a visit [...]

Store director’s job is safe - for now

If the store doesn’t continue improving over the next thirty days, then our store director will be fired, but for now, his (and other) jobs are safe. It took a Herculean effort - two coworkers staying until 1 am and my boss staying until 2 am - to get the job done, but the rating [...]

A Late Night Update

So I went into work earlier tonight to ask my boss if I could come in early tomorrow since my parents were shopping, and while I was there, my boss told me that the store has to be “grand opening” straight before she can go home. In addition, all the toy BS must be stocked.
This [...]

I never knew corporate people could ever be so nice

So today our market director made a surprise visit one day before D-Day. Surprisingly, she treated me, one of the commoners, very kindly. The first confrontation occurred when she, for some reason, was standing where the GM center aisle and the patio furniture displays intercept. Instead of being bitchy (which, according to coworkers, she does [...]