I have a second job now, which means I’m now working 6 days a week and still don’t have health insurance. I should be able to afford an independent plan, though – the second job is at a legal firm that specializes in immigration, and while I’m mostly taking care of file management [...]

I’m well aware that there are many overweight individuals who exercise and try to take care of themselves, whether or not they’re overweight due to personal habit or medical reason. My father himself is a bit overweight but still healthy, taking part in a workplace-sponsored health program in addition to folding more regular exercise [...]

The longer I work at this third-party shipping store, the more accurate my rule-set regarding the nearby population has become. Here are some of the things I’ve encountered lately.

There are individuals who do not know how to address a letter for mailing. I’m talking about people who have lived here their whole lives [...]

I have this theory that people who are out and about before 11:00 am, at least in this neighborhood, are crazy. The longer that I’m working retail the more first-hand evidence of this I collect. Want an example? Not two minutes ago I was waiting on our software to finish loading so [...]

I try not to judge people who come into the store, seeing as how I don’t really have data points to work with save for our brief interactions, but occasionally a customer is particularly chatty. Usually I get nothing more than mundane details about somebody’s life or comments about the news, but the other [...]

One of my housemates secured me a job interview at a company that, wonder of wonders, would be stable and career-oriented. At the same time, the cancerous rot that’s entwined with the franchise store I’m working at has begun to metastasize. I’m not going to go into any details until it’s all finished [...]

We rent mailboxes at the store, so we get a lot of people who mask their true address by renting a box for official correspondence and abandoning the box when they’re done with it. I’ve had to return child support notices and jury summons to sender and accept court summons for box-holders. Shady [...]

One sees some strange things when working retail.
An elderly man came in, smelling strongly of fried chicken and mumbling to himself while pulling a folded slip of paper from his wallet. I gathered that he wanted some copies made, but then he started to say “onion skin” to me repeatedly, how he needed the [...]