Hello friends, Happy New Year! My last few weeks have been spent celebrating with friends and family, and contracting every available cold and flu virus, as well as generously passing them all along. Thank you for your patience!
In Episode 21, James tells us about his retirement plans from the grocery business and a little about his career.
The Crackpot Podcast features James LaFond, a full time writer, urban survival expert and former wage slave, and Lynn Lockhart, some strange lady.
The night of this late morning recording turned out to be my last night at work, related in The Ghetto Grocer’s Last Trek
00:50 James' impending retirement from the grocery business
07:50 How easy is it to sabotage a workplace
10:30 Litany of James' physical ailments (incomplete)
11:15 Truth about the holidays in retail food
12:15 Retail food is a failed business model
15:25 James still has to fill out time cards
16:00 Prank job application
21:20 James draws attackers because he walks with a cane
28:30 How did James get started in the grocery business?
44:15 Looking ahead
48:09 Quotation from Markings by Dag Hammarskjold
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Funny supermarket stories. We used to have food fights with the food still in the cans.
CS has a great wardrobe accessories for a dapper old gentleman such as yourself hobbling off into the sunset.
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All the best,
BC
Thank you!