{"id":10588,"date":"2009-12-18T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10588"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T23:20:44","slug":"two-turtle-doves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10588\/two-turtle-doves\/","title":{"rendered":"One Turtle Dove"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Glass Ceiling<\/strong><\/p>\n

I<\/strong> remember the moment I decided to stop wearing a suit and tie in public—forever. It was a couple days before Christmas and I dropped by the K-Mart to pick up a punch bowl for the office party.\u00a0 I was looming\u00a0 in Housewares<\/em> when an elderly woman approached me with a fistful of coupons.\u00a0 Alvin and the Chipmunks<\/em> were singing that insidious song through the sound system.<\/p>\n

“I want to file a complaint.”\u00a0 She said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t work here.”\u00a0 Me.<\/p>\n

“You’re not the manager?”\u00a0 She asked,\u00a0 insistent.<\/p>\n

“No. I’m not the manager.<\/em>”\u00a0 I replied, perhaps a little snippy.<\/p>\n

She glared up at me like…well…like I was lying.\u00a0 More than anything, I hate being implicated in an aspersion when I’m innocent. I’d rather receive three french hens every day for a year from someone I don’t truly love than be deemed a liar (unless of course, I actually am, in which case, I will simply deny until totally boxed in).<\/p>\n

“This is an Italian suit,\u00a0 lady. You need to find someone with a name tag,”\u00a0 I continued, perhaps a little prideful.<\/p>\n

“That lady over there said to ask\u00a0 you. That you were a manager<\/em>.” She pressed.<\/p>\n

We turned our attention to a\u00a0 squat woman in a burka, a rare sight in Richmond, Virginia in those days.<\/p>\n

“That lady over there doesn’t speak English.”\u00a0 Me, perhaps a little too loud.<\/p>\n

“I speak better English than you<\/em>,” the lady yelled back across the aisle.\u00a0 “I speak five<\/em> languages. How many you<\/em> speak?”<\/p>\n

Oh yeah.\u00a0 One of\u00a0 those<\/em> days.\u00a0 A blue light siren began twirling above my head and something inaudible was announced over the speakers, interrupting\u00a0 the chipmunk falsetto drone. I froze as a wave of shoppers began scurrying\u00a0 in our direction; something about cutlery<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“You don’t have this Foot Soaker in stock.”\u00a0 The elderly lady shoved a coupon under my nose as the herd surrounded us.<\/p>\n

“I know<\/em> I don’t, ma’am…Because…. I. Don’t. Work.\u00a0 Here.”\u00a0 Me.<\/p>\n

“She deserves a rain check,”\u00a0 Burka lady. “It’s false advertising if you don’t. Bait and switch.”<\/p>\n

“Yes. Bait and switch,”\u00a0 Elderly lady.<\/p>\n

“Bait and Switch!<\/em>”\u00a0 Somebody yelled from the mob. “Bait and Switch….<\/em>”<\/p>\n

About that time an employee approached me and ask Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It was a couple days before Christmas and I dropped by the K-Mart to pick up a punch bowl for the office party.\u00a0 I was looming\u00a0 in Housewares when an elderly woman approached me with a fistful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-investment","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":471,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/471\/blogoff-post-94-how-to-manage-your-manager\/","url_meta":{"origin":10588,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #94: How to manage your manager . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Problogger \u2018How To\u2026\u2019 Group Writing Project, From flippingHECK: How to manage your manager:Why should you manage your manager? 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