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There's also the flipside of this relationship, in which customers screw around with me. This only happened in the days when I was still docilely trying to fulfill my official role as a paid servant, long before I learned to twist customer relations to my own advantage...
Roommates and visiting friends are another source of troublesome entertainment from the other side of the counter. If there's more than one friend visiting, a competition immediately starts to see who can make me screw up first. Once, distracted by a shouting friend, I let the blender slice into the cup I was holding. Half-churned vanilla and shredded paper spewed across the service area, covering me and my customer with sticky blobs...
...going to screw it up," he said smiling...
...actual disciplinary hearing was a screw job," he added in the letter. University officials refused comment on any aspect of the disciplinary hearings...
...likelihood the commission's new data will overshadow its recommendations on improving the NSC operation. The probe back through history has shown that the system has worked pretty well, according to one participant. "There have been screw-ups in every Administration," says this fellow. "In the end it comes down to people. Good people make it work. Get bad people and it fails...