Showing posts with label suggestions box. Show all posts
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03 February 2009

Suggestions box #1: retribution

It's always been my goal to incorporate something of the readers into The Last Clerks, and in that inclusive spirit I put out this entreaty for comments that also gives folks the chance to contribute something to the canon.

I'm sending a call out to those of you who have ever worn the nametag, asking for a truly terrible story from your experiences. Something that you have, ideally, buried for months or even years trying to forget. When a customer did something obnoxious and you had to let them get away with it. When a manager gave you a browbeating you surely did not deserve. When some thoughtless store policy got in the way of you just doing your job quietly and without complication.

Sound off in the comments section, and if your tale is deemed the most sorrowful, I'll insert it into the mythos, rewritten with a desolate, violent ending in sparse, laconic prose.

Get to it!