This one goes out to all of my friends who are employed by safeway, and ofcourse, Travis as well. I've heard all kinds of stories and witnessed incidents which have drawn my conclusion that Mike, the manager of Kenmore Safeway, is a cock. There are no two ways around it. If you ever walk in to safeway and see some tall butch guy who is always frowning, that's Mike. He is ex-military and runs the store like the army. I'll bet you he goes to work everyday convincing himself that he is an undercover special op agent on a mission to infiltrate an elite terrorist network...undercover as a Safeway manager.
Now, even though this stiff-ass is always frowning, don't be fooled by it. He is extremely proud of being employed with Safeway. In fact, he brags about how his offspring are Safeway managers as well. Congratulations. Him and his successful offspring have done what every other moron has done who started out as a bag bitch 20 years ago...move up in the department. And Mike is really lucky that 20 years ago there was a position open for a bag bitch, because it was either that or working for the freak circus dressed as a clown while midgets dressed in leather and bondage chains sucked him off standing up.
Now, the confederate flag is up there because Mike practices "Selective Customer Service." In other words, he only helps jack-offs like himself. My buddy Travis, who put a freakin awesome tattoo on my back, bought a beverage and sat down at a Starbucks table and drank it. For those of you not familiar with the Kenmore Safeway, they have a Starbuck's Franchise stand in there now with tables next to it for your sitting and drinking beverage purposes. Now, Travis looks a little different than the average person, since he is a skilled tattoo artist, he's got them all over. Good old Mike walks up to Bryan, the on-duty barista and says, "You need to tell that guy to leave. He's going to scare away our customers." Bryan tells Travis he has to go and gives him a complaint card to fill out against Mike. Now, in my business, I don't treat one customer with more importance or care than another. It doesn't matter whether it's a $200 or $2 sale. I help my customers in the order they came in, with the same care. If I don't, then jackasses like me will tell everybody and write about it online, then people stop shopping with me. Word of mouth is a powerful thing.
The other thing about Mike is his power trip. He holds firing you over your head as a way to make you accomplish your task. He likes to think that he has the ability to ruin your life by terminating your job, or pressuring you to quit...from Safeway. In your fuckin dreams bitch. You run a damn grocery store. A GROCERY STORE!!! Get over yourself. It's good to have pride in your work, but steak's only good if it's not overdone. In your case it's more like a boca burger and you burnt the fuck out of it. There is nothing more that pisses me off than people's power trips over something as unimportant as a grocery store. It doesn't matter who's managing it, it makes no more difference to the customer than the last person who managed it. You're standing around watching people ring up my soda, and acting like you're saving the damn world. No one cares. Really. The only people who do care are the ones that want you fired. There's plenty of them out there. If you want to play games with your co-workers, why don't you start by playing hide and go fuck yourself.