Corporate Comes to Call
At exactly 11:13am on Thursday morning, The Shop’s corporate cavalcade rolled into the parking lot. “The mother ship has landed!” I hissed into my headset. As…
Of Daydreams and Die Cut Machines
Tomorrow is going to be a big day at The Shop. Corporate is coming. As so are the company’s investors, which means that the future of…
When Did I Become Invisible?
Standing up at Reggie #1, wishing the Handsome-and-Potentially-Heterosexual-Male-Customer in line would notice me, I can’t help but wonder: is this what it feels like to be…
Otherwise Known as Career Development
It was the moment every Sales Associate dreads. I was up at Reggie 2 (which is what us happenin’ and gangsta-inclined associates call the second cash…
Monday Morning
“Go to Walmart!” she concludes, which is exactly what I was going to say. We always send our problem customers to Walmart.
Kat Echevarría Richter 