Retail 101, Monday morning, All and Sundries

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Edmund is once again sitting on a stool behind the counter.

"Currying favor. It's a grand tradition. Call the person who curries favor well what you will, sycophant, lacky, brown noser - the fact of the matter is that the person who kisses up to the owner and the customer the best is the one who is going to get the promotions, the raises, and the days off when he or she asks for them."

Edmund stands up and favors the students with a smile that, by now, most recognize bodes ill for someone.

"Today you will break up into pairs and will be competing against your 'partner' for my favor. He or she who wins my favor will receive an All and Sundries gift certificate. How to win? Insult your partner, clean my shop, come up with a way to convince Baldrick to bathe, do something to make me happy. Succeed, and you win riches and possibly early dismissal. Fail, and you will be here for the entirety of today's session and I will send Baldrick to recite the grand tale of his great-grandfather's boil to you - the unexpurgated version."

Comments

Sign in, 7/31

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Collapsing sign-in, please

Re: Sign in, 7/31

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack Addy.

Re: Sign in, 7/31

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric Diggory.

Re: Sign in, 7/31

[fates_jaye]

Jaye Tyler.

Chatter

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Chat before the assignment. Pick your partner. Pick your nose. Do not pick your partner's nose.

Re: Chatter

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack looked around for a partner.

Re: Chatter

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow waved. "Hey, Zack. Want to be partnery?"

Re: Chatter

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Willow," Zack waved back. "Sure thing."

Re: Chatter

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric looks around for someone to partner with. And he's thinking of ways to gain favor while doing so.

Re: Chatter

[fates_jaye]

Jaye waves. "You're my partner now, hi."

Re: Chatter

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Am I?" He waves back. "You're not going to make me lick any buildings, are you?"

Re: Chatter

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair waited for his partner and looked around, trying to figure out what he would buy with the gift certificate.

Re: Chatter

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"So, do you think if we screwed up and he got to yell and criticize that that would make him happy?" Dawn looked around the store. "There's lots of stuff we could screw up..."

Re: Chatter

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"You know, that's probably a good idea." Blair smiled and bounced. "He does like criticizing people."

Kiss up

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Be creative. Think of a way to make Blackadder happy and make your partner look bad, or at least not as good as you. Take your time, show each other up, I'll ping in as soon as I'm awake and able to.

Kissing up for the adventurous

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

If you're really determined to make Blackadder happy, talk Baldrick into bathing. I'll be able to play this between about 9:00 am PST and 2:30 pm PST and again after 5:00 pm PST.

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow gave a little wave. "Hi, Mr. Baldrick."

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Baldrick gave her a gruesome smile. "'Allo, Miss."

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[fates_jaye]

Jaye's not here exactly for the bathing reason. "Hi," she says. "Did you know human spit is cleaner than Windex?"

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

"What's Windex, Miss?"

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Mr. Baldrick," Cedric says. "You should take a bath, sir."

Start them off slow and ease into it, Cedric thinks.

Re: Kiss up

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair walked up to Blackadder and tried very hard not to bounce. Which almost worked. "We have something to show you, man."

Re: Kiss up

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Edmund, who had been watching Dawn and Blair's efforts, only raised an eyebrow.

Talk to Blackadder

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Why? Masochism?

OOC

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

I'll be afk from about 2:30 PST to probably 5:00-ish or so.