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		<title>Gotta love our customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is an odd day &#8211; the company I work for went into receivership yesterday, and my job and those of 224 other employees are in limbo. We&#8217;re temporarily laid off, which makes this post somewhat bittersweet to write. 
The customers in our store were always a mix of the eccentric, the entitled, the sweet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=448&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Ireland&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A co-worker came up to me today, looking perplexed as some &#8220;items&#8221; had been left sitting on a book display, for no apparent reason.
She&#8217;d left them there in case the person who left them behind came back looking for them.
Unremarkable you say? Something that happens all the time. Well maybe, until you see what the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=444&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, new crazies&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/new-year-new-crazies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>romdjoll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I rescued my list of work-related weirdness from my work fleece yesterday&#8230;and I&#8217;m going to try to make a post out of it.
Here follows the highlights of the &#8220;New Year, New Loon&#8221; experience so far (unless you&#8217;re me, in which case it&#8217;s the lowlights):
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		<title>Sundry stuff&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/sundry-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ooops, I seem to have fallen off the blogging wagon lately.
To make up for it, here follows an epic post on good books, odd customers and sundry other items of interest I came across in the past few weeks.
Firstly the good books:
I just finished reading Lorrie Moore&#8217;s The Gate at the Stairs, having dragged the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=424&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day one&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;went better than I expected. Having conked out last night, long before midnight. I got up at 7 am and cranked out an impressive 2,100 words before leaving for work.
Since coming home this evening I&#8217;ve racked that up to 5,126 &#8211; and because I&#8217;ve done over the 5k, I am hereby rewarding myself with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=405&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I can&#8217;t shop under these conditions&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/i-cant-shop-under-these-conditions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Has to be my favourite quote from last week at work.
Poor customer, wanting to buy two US-published guitar magazines. They tallied up to around the €12 mark and he was most unhappy. I explained to him that the retail price of the magazines is set by the magazine wholesaler, and not by us, and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=381&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is how you open a door&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/this-is-how-you-open-a-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>romdjoll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have ranted and rambled about the annoyance of constantly being asked for the restroom key by our customers who do not bother to read the sign on the door telling them to ask for the key at the coffee shop. 
What I did not go into in that rant and ramble was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=316&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retail frustration #18464731</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/retail-frustration-18464731/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or thereabouts. 
I work in a bookstore. We sell books. Therefore one would assume that most people who come into the store like reading, from this comes the not-too-unreasonable assumption that they can read. 
It may be a bad assumption. 
Several times a day I see people standing in front of the locked bathroom door, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=295&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deranged and demanding&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/deranged-and-demanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>romdjoll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some dispatches from co-workers.
Firstly, the deranged:
Customer comes into the shop (evidently having worked up a full head of steam), marches to the till, slaps down a Collins World Atlas, and informs the hapless bookseller at the till that he is going to sue the shop.
She is puzzled by this and asks why.
His response? He bought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=247&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some things never change&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/some-things-never-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>romdjoll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when you were a child and some grown-up accused you of lying because you had a black spot on your tongue?
I used to think this was a uniquely Irish Catholic phenomenon but it seems there are variations on it globally. I also thought, like the whole notion of  a place called limbo full of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cawbaw.wordpress.com&blog=1334579&post=245&subd=cawbaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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