We run a photography studio that caters to corporate clients: headshots, products, etc. When the studio is not in use, we also rent it out to other photographers. The distinction between these two sides of the business is made very clear on our website.
My assistant gets a call from someone looking for pricing for studio rental; he also asks about our availability for later this week. He then proceeds to:. In the end, I charged him my fee plus overtime for my day off and came in to do the shoot. What followed was five hours of mime work trying to explain poses and concepts. Luckily, the team was game for a laugh. My passenger sighs loudly and says:.
I work at a little mom-and-pop grocery store, where we stopped accepting checks as payment before I started working there.
I was on register on a Tuesday afternoon when an elderly woman came up with a few cans of soup. She fixed me with a stare that probably caused many young children to soil their pants about fifty years ago. A few hours later, I was pulled aside by management. She has dementia and shops using checks, then the manager calls her son, and her son pays her bill over the phone.
I was written up for not knowing this woman and the deal her son had made with the manager. While at work, I slip and land back-first on the edge of a stair.
