Author: Retail Master
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How to: Tell a subordinate to bugger off
If you’re a professional manager in a professional environment, swearing at subordinates is probably something you’ve rarely done or never done. But, you’re human like the rest of the team. You’re not a robot. You eat, sleep, fart and piss like the best of them. Yet, somehow, the general population of your team thinks you […]
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Sentence of Suspense: The getaway
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year:
I ran like I’d never ran before, my legs were like jelly and my heart thumped rapidly inside my rib cage while I dodged the gun shots and leapt across the railway track, the sound of the train thundering past with it’s honking horn was deafening and… -
Sentence Of Suspense: Plummeting
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year:
I’d never flown before and I wished I’d kept it that way, I couldn’t hear myself think as the screams inside the cabin and the deafening roar of the failed 777’s engines filled what little air we had, all I could do was squeeze my wife’s hand… -
Ten Sentence Fiction: The Vacancy
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year:
Harold squinted out of the windscreen while hunched over the steering wheel. The window wipers whipped back and fourth, hopelessy battling at the monsoon that fell from the night sky. He stopped the car outside the hotel. It was a dreary building, 3 stories built of red… -
Ten Sentence Fiction: Ghost hostage
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year:
The house was dark and damp and rotting to the core. Woodworm had set in almost everywhere meaning wherever you happened to stand would almost certainly result in your foot disappearing through the floorboards. Victorian furniture lay unused, inches thick in dust and tangled in cobwebs. Ryan stirred… -
Ten Sentence Fiction: The Enquiry
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year:
Divorced and broke, self-employed Handy man George Gilmartin, was overjoyed when he got the phone call. He hadn’t had any enquiries in over a month, and he was struggling to scratch up enough to cover the bills, all while his ex-wife lived it up in Spain with… -
#Imageoftheday Worlds Tallest Cinema
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year:
Cineworld in Glasgow, Scotland is currently the worlds tallest cinema. With 18 screens over 9 levels, it has the seating capacity for over 4300 movie buffs. Personally visiting this cinema at least twice per week, I can honestly say it is the ultimate cinema experience. -
5 Great Word Processing Tools For Writing Your Novel
Originally posted on BookWorks:
Unless you’re the fastidious type of person who jots down all their prose by hand with paper and ink, or the pretentious, artsy type of person who owns a vintage typewriter and uses it regularly (guilty as charged!), then it’s probably been awhile since you’ve thought about just how easy the…
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