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The Asian employee quota has been met for Sherwin-Williams paint stores in the Capital Region district, and I
am that quota. I will only feel that my career is on the line when another small-eyed, yellow-skin comes along.
But don't get me wrong: avoiding the title of "stereotypical Asian" is no easy task. Today, for example, something slipped that should not have slipped... It's a regular practice for stores to request product from other stores, should they be currently out of stock. Today we receive a call from a store relatively close to my home, which needed four gallons of a specific product. As I open the trunk of my car, my coworker talks about regular work related stuff. "I never knew that's what the company did. I just always assumed he bought it for thinning down some-oh, God, Justin..." "What?" I look at him, and notice him staring into my trunk. That's when I see it, too: Amongst the clutter of a jacket, shoes, a snow brush and such, is a single package of instant ramen noodles. D'oh... |