• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    True story:

    Dead Wednesday. I was working the front by myself.

    “I don’t know why I’m here, you can’t help me.”

    “Well, I know a lot, and I have a computer for our inventory and one for our distributor, if you can remember 1 or 2 words, we have a good shot.”

    “Yeah, but I don’t know the author, you can’t help me.”

    We went round and round like that for 10 minutes, finally dragged it out of him and found it in the distributor system:

    “How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People”.

    “Ordinarily it would take a couple of days to get this, let me expedite that for you, it will be here tomorrow.”

    He never picked it up. 😟