Entries Tagged as 'now that's management'

maybe if was hawaiian shirt day?

April 11th, 2008 · 50 Comments

alexa in texas works in a graduate lab of five students. one friday, she says, “our advisor came in around 9:30 a.m. looking for us. no dice: except for one poor guy, we were all out. when the hard-working crew finally rolled in around 1:30 (or, um, 3 p.m.), they were greeted by this inspirational […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · lab rats · nice and subtle · now that's management · office · texas · university

in-game placement would have scored much higher in user engagement

January 21st, 2008 · 61 Comments

at the circuit city in bradenton, florida (which i envision something like this) one anonymous employee reports that much of the staff’s downtime is spent obsessively playing guitar hero 3 in the store’s break room. they even have a 42-inch wall-mounted flatscreen expressly for this purpose. or at least, they did, until about a month […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · florida · now that's management · retail hell · visual aids

more like hardly working

January 9th, 2008 · 130 Comments

mara in minneapolis ( average temperature in january: 12° F/-11° C) says the worst job she’s ever had was at a local thrift store – and not because of the crazy customers and their indiscreet use of the fitting rooms. no, like many workers, the crazy person driving mara crazy was her boss — […]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · crazy boss · minneapolis · now that's management · retail hell · temperature

now finish up them taters, i’m gonna go fondle my sweaters

November 2nd, 2007 · 473 Comments

writes tessa, who works at a restaurant in albuquerque: “the day manager left this note for the night cook, who does spend all night smoking, watching TV and calling his girlfriend on the business phone.” (i’m sure this note will absoutley set him straight.)

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Tags: albuquerque · just a thought · now that's management · restaurant · smoking · spelling and grammar police