theveryhornycaterpillar:

• A customer pleads to be let in after closing time. They only need one item. They only ever need one Item.
• A customer is looking for an item. You do not sell the item. You have never sold the item. You do not know what the item is.
• An item does not scan. “It must be free” the customer jokes. You look at them, their mouth hangs open as they laugh. They have too many teeth. 
• You ask your colleague how their day is going. They look back at you their eyes hollow and devoid of hope. You nod in understanding. No more is said.
• A security barrier goes off. You look around but there is nobody there. There is just noise.
• You say good morning to a customer. You hope it is still morning. You are no longer sure how time works. 
• Colleagues  disappear as they move on to better things. You do not know where they go but sometimes you see them months later. Their eyes are bright and their smiles real. You know better than to question these things.
• There is a man. He comes in every Wednesday. You have never seen him buy anything.
• You see an actor from that happy show years before. They are looking at deodorant. They look sad. 
• You go to the stockroom to find an item. You look around but there is nothing. The system says you have thirty two. The system always say you have thirty two.
• You walk through the warehouse. All you can see in every direction is Christmas trees. It is July.
• They ask to speak to a manager. You look around- there are no managers. you cannot remember the last time you saw a manager. What does a manager look like? 
  

breelandwalker:

I was ahead of schedule on my way in to work, so I stopped to get breakfast at a Wawa (a popular chain of large convenience stores/gas stations on the US east coast).

As I was coming out, a small crow wheeled right over my head and perched on the corner of the awning in front of the store. He puffed his feathers and shook out his wings and regarded me with one bright black eye. I know a messenger when I see one, so I minded my manners…and ignored the odd looks from the people around me.

Me: Good morning.

Crow: -polite caw-

Me: -taking a piece of donut from my bag- Would you like some breakfast?

Crow: -tips his head the other way and flaps a few times-

Me: Here you go. -tosses the piece onto the ground just below the awning-

Crow: -hesitates, looking between me and the bit of pastry-

Me: It’s all right, it’s for you. -takes a step back for good measure- Go ahead.

Crow: GRAWK! -glides down from the awning, pecks up the snack, and wheels once over my car before flying off-

Me: Give my regards to your mistress, fella.

Lady in the next parking space: …..What kinda Halloweentown shit was that?

Me: -big smile- Any witch worth their salt knows you should always be polite to crows. -hops into car and goes on to work-

mostlysignssomeportents:

Gary Cohn is Trump’s chief economic advisor. He’s a former Goldman-Sachs banker with a net worth of more than $250,000,000. In his latest appearance, the quarter-billionaire explained to the press that Trump’s tax-plan (which will transfer billions to the wealthiest 1%, e.g., Gary Cohn) will save two-child families earning $100,000/year about $1,000 and that they can use this money to buy “a new car.”

Other things the quarter-billionaire thinks we can do with $1000: renovate our kitchens, take a family vacation, and “increase our lifestyle.”

Notably absent: subsidize our kids’ education after the schools collapse. Subsidize our parents’ eldercare after social services for the elderly collapse. Replace our cars after our roads fall apart. Feed ourselves after our laid-off breadwinners find themselves without any unemployment benefits.

Donald Trump will save $125 million, personally, if these cuts go through.

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/29/let-them-eat-cars.html

inkskinned:

oh, the sun will raise and the world will turn without you, yes, but my dear, the world would exist without you. what of the kittens in gutters you would have saved. the words you would have written. the places you would have held in your hands and made different. oh yes, we are all impermanent, but without you, my love, the world is something less.