The Nihilistic-Optimistic Novella, serialized for your reading enjoyment! http://www.leopoldmcginnis.com/ Leopold McGinnis. Mark and I spend half an hour in the lunch room discussing the poetry of it all. Mon, 27 Dec 2007 7:38:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php It is my last day at Electronics Pit. I vowed to walk out in the middle of my shift today. Yet still the Golden Calf sits on the shelf. Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:38:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Five days later Mark comes into A Touch of Opulence. It's my third day there. I show him around. He is on his 15 minute break. "So, do you miss widgets yet?" Mark asks. "Fuck widgets. Wicker baskets are where it's at these days." Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:40:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Mark pulls the videotape out of his black denim pack just far enough for me to see it as he comes into the store for his morning shift. He grins. And I grin back. Operation Get Me Fired is in effect. Tue, 4 Dec 2007 7:02:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php In my mind Tom Davis and I are just two losers who work at a widget hut. But lately it seems as if Electronics Pit has become Mount Olympus and Tom Davis and I are two gods locked in a mighty, epic struggle over the known world. But this is Tom's fantasy...and I feel as if I have been appropriated into it. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:57:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Lisa is in a bad mood today. She radiates irritation - maybe bristling on the edge of despair. Tue, 14 Nov 2007 11:45:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Now that the place is dead and we're alone again, I think I should tell you... Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:25:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Today is the last day of my cash suspension. It has been like a summer vacation. I've been able to laugh off all the cash bullshit, because I knew I'd just be gone after four days. But now I'm dreading going back to the floor. Cash hasn't been all shits and giggles, though. During the first few days I was periodically seized by a terrible panic that the next cart would pull up and inside, glistening. golden, hideous, would be the Golden Calf - sold by somebody else! Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:00:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php I'm talking with Kim and Rajeet in the Home Convenience section when Chris comes storming up and starts waving a piece of paper in my face like a crazy person. "What the hell is this?" he demands. "I don't know. You're waving it too fast." Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:30:45 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Like I predicted, this week "The Futura: The Ultimate Home Entertainment System" appeared front page on the Electronics Pit home flyer. There was nothing else on the cover - just that and the typical flash caption that tells you how you can save by spending more... Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:10:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Let me give you a tour of the staff room... The staff, or lunch, room is located in the top back area of the storeroom, accessible only through an extremely narrow stairway with slanted, coffee stained, linoleum steps. In fact, two people cannot pass on this stairway without brushing shoulders... Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:08:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php It's hard to imagine anyone wanting to be like Tom Davis. Tim does and I think that says enough about Tim in itself. But I'll tell you a little more anyway... Tue, 1 Oct 2007 22:40:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Like a bad self-help book that makes sweeping generalizations about the differences between the sexes, all those on the floor of Electronics Pit, hustling and bustling, moving and shaking, dodging and squeaking and conniving, are men; and all those at the tills, smiling and servicing, are women. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this structure had been developed at HQ after a quick read through Men Like Wars and Women Hate Penis. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:20:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Of course, they'd fire me for this sort of stuff (the book and the anti-cheer), but I've learned it actually takes quite a bit of work to get fired...even without a union. Getting hired, that's the hard part. Staying hired, now that's easy... Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:20:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php People say I have a bad attitude. Not everyone. Mostly management types. But I'm not even sure I know what that means. As far as I can figure, it means I don't have what is considered the 'appropriate' attitude. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:05:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php Tom Davis is such an asshole. He caught me in the back room writing on this pad and chewed me out. Tom Davis!! Officially, my rank at Electronics Pit is higher than his! I could squash him like a bug! If I cared. Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:05:23 MDT http://www.redfez.net/leopold/store/Bad_Attitude/read.php