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16 Oct 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
So this is but another example of the Hippie Paradox in action — you mustn’t dare tell them how to live, but they are certainly going to give you an earful about everything that’s wrong with your existence, unprovoked, and with evidence rang...
15 Oct 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Keep your friends close and your…smokers closer! It feels like a surveillance operation from the movies. The Feds lying in wait for an eternity, for a technicality that allows them to throw the book at someone. And that’s pretty much what th...
14 Oct 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
pristine view from a Healthy Shopper office Yet despite these hiccups, most of them sense that this company is definitely moving forward, and that the right pieces are slowly being snapped into place. Maybe the talks of expansion have comple...
13 Oct 2023 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
counting objects on a shelf: time consuming but not exactly complicated One of the central complaints right out of the gate is that the inventory is wrong. His explanation is what would seem on the surface a thoroughly obvious one: of course...
12 Oct 2023 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
but one of the many new war zones The next step is a day long conference up in Boone, near the Slingshot headquarters, where they’ve rented out some space in a nearby hotel. For this outing it’s the somewhat unusual crew of Duane, Karen, Des...
11 Oct 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Healthy Shopper Market on the brink of opening “My numbers better be good, ya hear?” Craig says in an old mobster’s voice, having approached Edgar in one of the grocery aisles. He has cocked his index finger and thumb in the shape of a gun,...
10 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Office art installation: a metaphor for the hippie mindset? The office water cooler sounds like a puking cat. These are the kinds of things one never notices — are maybe impossible to notice — in a more diffuse environment. He can’t even thi...
9 Oct 2023 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Dying days of a former superpower Southside’s closing fills them all with unspeakable sadness. Many walk around snapping photos of what is now an even dingier location, with the product stripped from the shelves, and various case lights no l...
9 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments crywork
Employees work hard to earn a salary that will enable them to support themselves. They live in small lodgings, leaving just the bare minimum for sleeping and hygiene, and food is brought in via vending machines as part of the dues they pay each mon...
8 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This sensation of reliving a previous experience, altered just enough to make it weird, isn’t limited to strictly the Liberty store. It continues to surface everywhere, and none more prominently than his current home base, Palmyra. The shuffli...
