Basically, PunditLisa is right. There are four local high schools serving the same area that our main client base lives in. Every 4 months some school or other is doing Catcher in The Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, one ofthe classics - parents decide they’re not going to go and buy a new book (God forbid, those Penguin classics are soooo expensive :rolleyes: )- and we, the only secondhand bookstore locally, run out of stock.
Don’t know how often a trend moves from down here to the states. Seems mostly it’s the reverse.
Buckler – glad you still have a job. You did the right thing by accepting responsibility for your mistake and apologizing. Offering to work for free for the day to make up for your error was above and beyond the call of duty, IMO. Your boss sounds like an absolute dick. Here’s hoping you find something better soon!
I, for one, assumed it was a biology class and “automatic organs” were the heart, the lungs, the pancreas, the disembodied whale penis on the shelf, etc.
Spanish law says you aren’t late to work until it’s more than 15 minutes
in my current job, I’ve gottes to work about 10 min late a couple of times thinking “ohGodI’mlate,I’mlatelatelate” - but nobody else gets in until 40min past
Either I’ll get rid of my “Alice’s rabbit complex” or just become as unpunctual as my coworkers, I guess!
It’s actually a reference to another Doper who has a disembodied whale penis on his bookshelf. Don’t remember who, unfortunately, but supposedly it’d be his weapon of choice if robbers broke into his home.
Alternative theory about calling you later to see if you still have a job (and I know I’m giving him a HUGE benefit of the doubt): He didn’t want to make that decision while mime-throttlingly angry?
…Or am I too generous?
Glad you still have a job. And you shoould be proud of your work ethic and adult sensibilities. Good on ya.
It’s actually a reference to another Doper who has a disembodied whale penis on his bookshelf. Don’t remember who, unfortunately, but supposedly it’d be his weapon of choice if robbers broke into his home.