Workplace stories.
Stories about bosses, coworkers, customers and the jobs that shape us.
The Delivery Log That Exposed My Partner
I had six hundred and twelve dollars in the Ashgrove Small Engine and Repair operating account on the Tuesday morning a woman from Cutter Parts... Read more
The Signature My Business Partner Forged
At 2:53 that Thursday afternoon, I was standing on the loading dock behind our store with both arms wrapped around a fifty pound sack of... Read more
The Register Log That Cleared Her Name
At 9:14 on a Monday morning, in front of eleven customers waiting for their prescriptions and two coworkers pretending very hard to restock a shelf... Read more
The Hardware Store He Tried to Steal
At 2:47 that Tuesday afternoon, in the fourteenth week since I broke my pelvis and my hip in my own receiving bay, I stood in... Read more
The Flower Shop She Locked Me Out Of
At 8:15 that Monday morning, four days after my last chemo infusion, I stood on the sidewalk outside Depot Blooms with my key in a... Read more
She Kept Her Father’s Shop and Won
The morning we buried my father, Dale Whitmer, the men who had worked for him for twenty years stood at the back of the funeral... Read more
The Waitress Who Bought The Diner
The first thing the new owner said to me, after he had owned the place for exactly four days, was that I should smile more.... Read more
The Hardware Store He Forged
For forty-one years my father stood behind the long oak counter at the front of Aldous Hardware, and in all that time I never once... Read more
The Floor Lead Who Recorded the Truth
Dennis Kroll had a way of tenting his fingers on the desk before he lied to you, like a man settling in to enjoy himself.... Read more
The Clerk the Camera Cleared
The morning Colton Ashby decided to ruin me, there were eleven people in line at my register, and he said it loud enough for every... Read more
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