By early 1980 I had become seriously dissatisfied with working at Channel. View fullsize We had a new manager, and he and I did not see eye to eye, although it was probably more my fault than his. He admitted to me that when he learned he was being given the Harrisburg store, he was … Continue reading The PACE Test
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The Shopping Mall Looker
Amy was clearly agitated. View fullsize I had known her for several months and she was always cheerful and upbeat, but now something was wrong.As the story emerged, it turned out that this had been a long time brewing situation. The shopping mall that she and her friends frequented had a looker.They had only gradually … Continue reading The Shopping Mall Looker
The Sun’ll Come Out
Working at Channel Home Center in Harrisburg was not my idea of fun. And I never thought of it as a career. At the time in 1977 it was the only job outside of Richland that I could find, as I had experience working at my parents’ hardware store. Guess who is playing Annie? That’s … Continue reading The Sun’ll Come Out
A Badly Managed Business
Once I became a Channel group manager I frequently had to deal by phone with the head buyers at the Whippany, NJ headquarters. They were all idiots. View fullsize When we passed on the customer complaints to them that Channel’s prices were too high, they always shot back that Channel was not a discount store. … Continue reading A Badly Managed Business
A Very Merry Christmas
It was my first Christmas working at Channel Home Center in Harrisburg, and as I recall the present that Channel gave to all its employees that year was a bottle of wine and a set of wine glasses. The glasses were real crystal, the wine was nothing to write home about. Mateus, if I remember … Continue reading A Very Merry Christmas
The Fast Track Management Trainee
In case any of my former co-workers from Channel Home Center in Harrisburg should ever find their way to this blog, I’d like to point out that in the previous post one of the details I changed was where the events occurred. So don’t waste your time trying to figure out which employee I was … Continue reading The Fast Track Management Trainee