Chronicles of Employment: HSN, v.2

[omegachimp]

The ice-specked winter wind howls menacingly at our backs, falling on our forces like the barbed whips of a vicious master on the shattered spines of his helpless slaves. Months ago (how it seems years!), we marched proudly into Moscow with liberty and equality on our lips - now we crawl ingnominously away with the nauseating taste of horse flesh

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Inquiring minds want to know...

[cfunk]

Is working for he home shopping network like being in the French Foreign Legion??

and bravo on the epic entry, by the way.

Re: Inquiring minds want to know...

[omegachimp]

Well, I think the survival rate is higher at the Home Shopping Network. From what I understand, the French Foreign Legion has the highest casualty-to-enlistee ratio of a military group sponsored by the developed Western world. I guess that's bound to happen, though, when you're commanding an army full of foreigners... Where the FFL is similar to HSN is in its desertion rate, which, again, is shockingly high. Few people make it through more than three months at the Home Shopping Network, and none of them like it (except for the poor souls that start off on the AT&T account, who treat HSN like it's the Elysian Fields; they've seen such horrors).

By the way, you seemed well-rested today. Congratulations.

[mae_jive]

i can't say i wouldn't know how daunting answering telephone calls at work is. i have not worked for the home shopping network but for a senior portrait studio, which receives calls from highschool parents, which on occassion are as aggressive as your invalid lady (i really like her). it is, of course, not the same thing, but my brief experience gave me a better appreciation of your entry.
which was spelendid i think.

[omegachimp]

I appreciate the empathy. You didn't work at Foxmar Studios, did you? That would be shocking (and maybe appalling, depending on the number of teenage moustaches you had to deal with during your tenure).

[mae_jive]

that is precisely where i worked(and still work, though it's more on call now because it is the slow season and they're over-staffed).
i suppose you've had your picture taken there?
teenage moustaches were the least of my problems. i haven't the time to properly list and illustrate the things/people that managed to test what i used to think was my boundless patience.

i did enjoy the aspect in which i got to make ties for the boys having their portrait taken, plainly because i felt pretty clever knowing how to make a tie.

did someone say teen stashes?

[plasticbags]

where are thee eldi?

[plasticbags]

come to wednesdaygiving in boca. where are you....?

[croadcore]

im in miami lets eat plantains together!