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What the New Job Taught Me

Juniper Cole

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You learn the register before you learn anyone's name.You learn which regular tips and which regular explains why they don't.By the third week the till stops feeling like mathand starts feeling like a small, honest machinethat only ever asks you for the truth.I have worked jobs where nothing else did.

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