Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
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...
15 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The fifth column on the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to package size. While not nearly the headache represented by brand names, these also need to be uniform. You couldn't spell out ounce half the time but abbreviate it to oz the rest; similar...
12 Jun 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Edgar wouldn’t say he’s gotten to know Christie extremely well just yet. They are on friendly enough terms, however, to chat briefly in passing about even non-business related matters. Or for him to become her desperation last resort when, as the da...
8 Jun 2023 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Even though rumors are swirling that Palmyra’s butcher, Nick, is on the hot seat, for some reason they hire one of his closest friends, Scott, as Southside’s meat cutter. Nick has been talking him up for months and they finally decided to pull the t...
5 Jun 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The fourth column in the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to brand name. A seemingly straightforward concept which is nonetheless much more labor intensive than he ever would have guessed. Having uniform brand names for every product in a line is...
2 Jun 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey
“He’s almost eighty now, but he’s got a mind like a calculator,” Duane tells Edgar, en route to the Bellwether Snacks headquarters, “and he still works, too: two days a week, like clockwork. You can count on it.” This trip across town wa...
30 May 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Though it's come a long way in the past decade or so, I still maintain that Charlotte, NC is the most boring city of its size that I have ever seen. Now, of course, any time you say something like this, a town's defenders are going to launch an off...
29 May 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Though its weekly sales amount to roughly half of what each of the other two are pulling in, one oddly colored feather in Liberty’s cap is that it is nonetheless the most profitable store. Palmyra and Southside both appear to be rising ships, with s...
25 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
One of Teri’s first key lessons for him concerns the addition of new items to their computer system. Months earlier, when they first began installing this Orchestra software, she arranged a blank Excel template twelve columns wide, sent this to all...
