Entries from January 2009

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Harry Potter And The Checkout Girl

Within the Harry Potter universe, an invisibility cloak is used to make the wearer invisible. In my experience, it is not necessary to inherit a magical piece of clothing from your tragically murdered wizard father to become completely invisible; you just have to don a polo shirt and half-apron.
Something about wearing a uniform [...]

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Friday, January 30th, 2009

Tiny Lunchtime Goodies

On a quick break and couldn’t resist sharing some things that are keeping me amused today:
*New Manager-in-Training picks his nose. On the floor. In front of god, your mother, and everybody. It freaks me out. Not that I don’t get boogies, but I certainly don’t demonstrate their removal for my customers. [...]

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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Double-Blink, With Nuts

Near the end of a very long day, today, a woman startled me from my stupor. “Where are your peanuts?” she asked. I had to think for a moment, having just had a NSFW conversation with a coworker about, well, not peanuts, exactly, but something pronounced quite similarly. While I was processing [...]

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

/sentimentality

Taking a break from the sass for a quick sec to say that I am nominated for Best New Blog here. I know it is supercool to act like I don’t care, but I do. Not about winning, but about the squee-worthiness of being nominated. I am flattered that people are reading [...]

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

I’ll Take “FacePalm” for $800, Alex

My coworkers are a motley bunch. The majority (be it a slim one) of them are pleasant enough and somewhat intelligent. However, there are a few that really stand out in one way or another, mostly in their ignorance. Here is an encounter I witnessed on my first day on the job, [...]

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