You're doing it wrong!
I've already posted this guy but I shall post it again.

When I was in high school, I worked part-time jobs to fund my CD/fashion/partaying habits. As you do. I worked at a newsagency for a year, and was bizarrely made redundant because they'd accidentally hired too much staff. Oh well, no matter. I easily got another job at another newsagency.

This other place required me to start at 7.15am in the morning to help open the shop, which I'd never done before. No worries, right? WRONG. My new boss was the most pedantic, anal man I have ever met. There was a constant furrow in his brow and lines like trenches in his forehead.

I was told to put the poles that hold up the doors at the front of the shop away. OK, sure. After a bit of fiddling around, I pulled the fucker out and started marching to the back of the shop.

My boss appeared, grumbling, "No, no, no, that's not how you do it."

He marched me back, took the pole off me, and PUT IT BACK into the entrance.

"You have to push the pole up...like this... swing it out to the side, gently now... and pull it out." So he did.

Then he put it back in and made me demonstrate to him that I knew the intricate art of pulling a pole out the shop entrance.

Once I had mastered this, i started marching back to put it away. Again, I was stopped.

"No, no, no," he snapped. "Don't carry it like that. Carry it like THIS, with your hand here and your other hand here..."

I had been lectured for a good ten minutes, with active demonstrations, on HOW TO PULL OUT AND CARRY A POLE. Which is funny, because we were only given about fifteen minutes to open.

It wasn't until that afternoon when we were cleaning up when he told me HOW TO SWEEP THE FLOOR ("No, no, no, hold the broom THIS way and sweep like THAT") when I frantically rang my friend (who owns a video game shop) and begged him to give me a job.

I ended up working a cushy summer holiday job at a video game and talked to nerds all day, instead of being pestered by a man who stresses about poles and brooms. Oh, and apparently that newsagency has gone bankrupt. Result!
(TheChicken Five hundred thousand points from Gryffindor, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:29, 2 replies)

false advertising
Wasn't it a newsagents rather than a newsagency?
newsagency = reuters
newsagents = papers crisps fags
(pescatore, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 13:24, closed)

not pedantry.
My poor mother in law is unbelievably timid. Outspoken children could probably make her cry quite easily.

She took a part time job in a shop with such a pedant / anal boss. Wouold you believe they actually gave her a bollocking for standing the broom the 'wrong way' against the wall when she was finished. Unfortunately , her shyness prevented her from telling him to do the obvious.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 16:12, closed)