Word: cashier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...can’t remember the last time I had a Snickers Bar, but on Wednesday, I cleaned out the stock of the Whole Foods in Manhattan’s Union Square. Despite the dubious glances from the cashier, whose excessively painted eyes seemed to anticipate the impending stomach cramps and the ogling from assorted overweight New Yorkers who licked their lips in jealousy, I proudly did my part to invest in Snickers’ future success. Still, it might surprise you to know that I am patronizing Snickers despite being...
...People with every imaginable skill are needed - bookkeepers and lawyers and park rangers and meat inspectors. Many of these are better jobs than the private sector offers. A "service worker" for the feds isn't a fast food cashier. She's a police officer protecting public safety. A "maintenance worker" isn't a janitor - he's repairing airplanes. The government especially needs scientists. The feds employ so many scientists of every variety that it's their No. 1 job category. (Yes, there are even more scientists than paper pushers...
RHYMEFEST BLUE COLLAR This Chicago M.C. was a janitor, florist and McDonald's cashier before scoring as Kanye West's Jesus Walks co-writer, and his debut brings a touch of working-class humility to a genre desperate for it. On Brand New, Rhymefest and West trade verses, with West rapping about his consumer lust while 'fest advises, "Skip the brand name/ I won't brand you," and he admits that West, who produced, "hook[s] me up as long as I don't ask him for too much." These Days interrupts two verses about the monotony of everyday life...
...time while also holding down a full-time job, so I went to Los Angeles this week to meet some of you who live this way. Sara Lopez was one. This petite Big Mac has been taking classes full-time at Santa Monica College, while also working as a cashier at the UCLA hospital cafeteria. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she only goes to school. On Saturdays and Sundays she works a full day. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday she pulls a double shift of school then work. This 21-year-old gets no days off. But she doesn?t seem...
Heather, a starling-eyed cashier at my favorite coffee shop, advised a radical change in muffin choice. “Live dangerously,” she said while swiping the Visa. Little did she know I was already in danger. At 6 p.m., I had yet to begin a research paper that was due the following morning...