Years ago, I worked at Chesapeake Knife and Tool. We sold many "manly" things besides knives and tools, like Zippo lighters and straight razors. I learned a lot about people who shaved with straight razors. First, they were usually among the fringes of educational society. It took a strange person who, in an era of disposable razors, would ( Read more... )

OH from "wallinbl" on Ars Technica:

If you want to be upper management, you have to learn to see synergies. They're like fairies and the Easter Bunny - they're fairly hard to see and only true believers can actually see them.

So, I was reminded recently of a lot of stuff that happened at my old Crown Books. One of them was a skinhead cashier I'll call "Rich ( Read more... )

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I forgot to post this a few days ago but:

Takayla got a new job today! Well, she got it last week, but she doesn't start until today. To keep you up to date, up until June of last year, she was working for a shipping and travel company in Baltimore. She worked from home three days a week, and traveled to Baltimore twice a week. The company was really ( Read more... )

I wanted to reiterate a tale of sorrow and misfortune at the expense of one poor and lonely manager. I am not sure what happened to him, but I will disguise his name anyway, since this was 20 years ago, and I don't want him ridiculed any more than he was back then. It is my hope he has changed for the wiser ( Read more... )

... for sites that permanently lock your account out for "too many failed login attempts ( Read more... )

I have been cleaning up my den, and in the process, condensing collections of objects I have accumulated throughout the years. One of the collections that have I have been noticing is that I sure have a lot of unused business cards from the various places I have worked for the least 20 years. Most of them are in lots of 500, and in most cases, I ( Read more... )

While browsing through my den, I came across an aged, but barely used copy of Anton LaVey's "Satanic Bible." I have read it, but I hadn't opened the pages since probably 1991 or earlier. How I came across it is a rather odd tale ( Read more... )

So, I did bills last night. Things are not good. Two part time jobs I have had (babysitting and dog sitting) have all but dried up. This means that we're single income with takayla's unemployment trickling in up until December. She has only had one interview all summer, despite her applying to a lot of places (2-3 places a week ( Read more... )