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

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

"I don't know..." She was a bit too squeamish of leeches.

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"She could get you in free to the theatre," Cedric says quickly. "She works there. She's almost the boss. And she'd pay for dinner too. You'd enjoy a night out with a woman for free. And all you'd have to do is scrub the floor."

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

"I could give it a try. Shouldn't I ask her for out first? Give her a traditional dried frog posey?"

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"That might be a wise thing," Cedric says. "Impress but don't let her get a word in. Let her know you are the male and you are taking her out on the date. And then you can scrub the floor."

Re: Kissing up for the adventurous

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Alas for Cedric, clever though his plan certainly was, this meant that Baldrick was about to scurry off to catch some frogs to dry out for the posey.

However, the next time Jaye Tyler shopped at All and Sundries promised to be interesting.