Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
13 Jul 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Steve’s lone remaining outpost: scooping salads into plastic containers With the promotion of Edgar’s mom to deli manager, this means that the part time fuckup Steve is now into his fourth administration. Having arrived on the scene before D...
11 Jul 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
During a work related trip to NYC, our conference ticket just happened to include — I’m not sure how or why — a paid excursion in the form of a “food tour” of Manhattan. Though my job only tangentially relates to the food industry, and not a...
10 Jul 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The sixth and seventh columns of the new items spreadsheet are dedicated to cost and retail, respectively. Cost obviously doesn't appear on their shelf tags, and there's nothing they are doing within the Orchestra system that involves these numbers...
6 Jul 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Liberty Avenue remains his least investigated outpost thus far, for obvious, business related reasons. Though in many respects still his favorite to visit, because it is so chill, there’s not enough going on to justify driving over there more th...
3 Jul 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Still, there is one aspect missing thus far from his repertoire with the Healthy Hippie Market, somehow, even eight months into this experience. And it will take the Palmyra crew to begin resolving this oversight, however indirectly. When word begin...
29 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
He hates to see Dolly go. She was one of his earliest and most vocal champions, and this isn't something he takes lightly, or will ever forget. Also, as a sidebar, it's worth noting that she was continually trying to hook Edgar up with her daughter,...
27 Jun 2023 34 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Profile” by Paul-Henri Bourguignon January 1 OSU gets smoked in the Outback Bowl, quite naturally, only scoring a season-low 7 points to South Carolina’s 24. January 2 John Cooper is finally fired as head coach of the Buckeye football team. The YWC...
26 Jun 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Once a week, after going through the invoices, Edgar emails the department managers, spelling out what they could have ordered cheaper elsewhere, and/or should have for possibly some other reason, like quality. The vendor and the item number are aft...
22 Jun 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Would that 4 Hour Workweek guy recommend spending a ton of one’s time on the phone? Glenda Jackson seriously doubts it. As the current accounts payable person for Healthy Hippie Market, fully hemmed in up here at the Bellwether Snacks headquarters –...
19 Jun 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The Hobart ScaleMonster program is Edgar's clunky if just barely passable portal into adding and editing items on the deli and produce scales, at Southside and Palmyra both. While Liberty does have one all-purpose scale in back that everyone uses, i...
