Retailers Forum Magazine Sept. 2020 EMAG
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Monthly magazine for independent retailers, online sellers and retail stores across the USA. We feature informative articles and information on running your retail store as well as a large advertising section featuring the best wholesalers to source your merchandise. Now more than ever you need to be astute in the retailing business and for the last 39 years Retailers Forum Magazine has been at retailers sides. See our full site at: www.retailersforum.com with 1000's of free articles and info.
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When my commander was promoted to captain,<br />
he continued his lunchtime ritual of returning<br />
to our office to do crossword puzzles with<br />
his former staff. I started to notice that my new<br />
commander and his captain would allow me not<br />
only to take an hour for lunch, they allowed me<br />
an additional hour to participate in the office<br />
puzzle session. Of course, if some task arose<br />
that needed immediate attention, Iʼd stop playing<br />
and get back to work. The commanding officer<br />
(captain) let me have my free time, and I<br />
got several promotions. (In the military a promotion<br />
is also a pay raise.)<br />
Fred Blackbum rewarded my productivity with<br />
an offer to form a partnership, with me as managing<br />
partner. In contrast, my employer at the<br />
publishing company, Edna, berated me when I<br />
ran out of things to do. My job was to produce<br />
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the editorial<br />
content of the<br />
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m a g a z i n e s<br />
and catalogs<br />
by press deadline.<br />
I was<br />
given on a<br />
week of formal<br />
training on a<br />
computer program<br />
and<br />
taught the same system to an assistant three<br />
months later. After six months, I had learned all<br />
the shortcuts – all the editing tools and backup<br />
systems that the computerʼs software was designed<br />
to give me. My assistant, Charlene, did<br />
a lot of backspacing and retyping. So I had<br />
more free time.<br />
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