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Mike Hulsebus Photography: Two Offices in the Sky
Mike Hulsebus: An Office in the Sky
A building (which you may recognize from an earlier entry) at night with only one lit office.

The kitchen table complete with family fare nametag and boxcutters

Its pretty easy for Family Fare to get old fast. Five hours into my shift Friday they called me up front to help bag when it got suddenly busy. It happens from time to time, and I think I actually like bagging better than working dairy. Anyhow, I had been doing that for around fifteen minutes when things were starting to die down, so I was thinking that I'd go take my thirty minute lunch and then get back to things in dairy. Shortly before I could do this, the store director got on the PA and said "Mike from dairy to the upstairs office," so I went up and knocked on the door. He opened the door and was already talking before I could say anything: "Why are you still up front?!" he asked. Now I'd been up front maybe one or two minutes too long tops, yet the store director went on to give me a mini lectuce about how "labor is expensive," all bent outta shape for two minutes spent helping customers. Most days I don't even take my second, fifteen minute break; that's fifteen free minutes I'm giving to Family Fare. He doesn't seem to care. As a matter of fact, Mr. Laborsaver had me break up some boxes on Family Fare time and bring them to his car because his daughter needed them to move. I didn't, however, bring this to his attention. He finished up with "I can see from here that eggs need filling not to mention other things." Yeah, his office overlooks my department. I put off my lunch and went to go fill eggs. As a matter of fact, I never did take my lunch (there's thirty more free minutes to Family Fare).

Really the worst thing about it is that when I worked like this at Meijer people wrote letters, Meijer gave me gift certificates, the managers wife said that when she called she hoped she'd get me cause I was helpful and knew how to get things done, and I was generally thought of as a good worker. 'Round Family Fare I'm unappreciated and chewed out. At least the other people I work under are nice, appreciative, and understanding.

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