Monthly Archives: November 2008

The Cool People You Meet Working at the Container Store

Getting a Temp Job at a Store this Holiday Season, Is Harder than Getting into Stanford

OK, they said Harvard, but I’m in California, so what do I care? Anyway, that said … $8.50 an hour or a degree in engineering? “Nah,” said Sanjay McGupta, “I’m not into all that high-tech stuff, too much turnover. I want a four-week, $8.50 an hour job at the Container Store.”

DHL To Lay off 9,500, Promise Customers Will Still Get the Same Crappy Service

DHL lays off 9,500 and pulls out of Riverside, Calif. But really, if you’ve been to Riverside, Calif., it’s hard to believe it took them this long. In fact, the experience was so scarring, DHL is pulling out of commercial U.S. domestic shipping altogether. “Riverside, so mindnumbing, so full of meth and white trash, it killed all our hard-won German, almost Nazi-ish, militaristic morale,” said Dieter McGoebbels.

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