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  • April 3, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: I’ll Partition the Crap Out of You
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • March 13, 2014
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Choose Your Own Genius
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • December 18, 2013
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Store Meetings
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • September 19, 2013
    Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble
    by J.K. Appleseed
  • April 12, 2013
    An Open Letter of Thanks to the Guy With the Smirking Look of Disdain and Superiority When I Try to Upsell Him at My Dead-End Retail Job
    by Daniel Callahan
  • July 13, 2011
    Business Plan for Slutty Dresses
    by Jill Jaracz
  • February 16, 2011
    Interviews with People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Daryl Langford: Immune to the Crap
    by Suzanne Yeagley
  • January 26, 2011
    The Genius Bar
    by Dan Kennedy
  • June 27, 2008
    The Letters of Abelard and Heloise: Mattress Salesman and Customer
    by Marianne Hess
  • January 15, 2004
    An Open Letter to Two Young Women at the Clothing Store in the Mall
    by David Bulley
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