Work13 / 17
The WorldTJ9001The RoadTJ9001Elegy for Mrs. Abbot, Room 14Imre HorvathWhat I Taught Without Meaning ToImre HorvathThe Boy Who Hated ReadingImre HorvathChalkImre HorvathWhat the Job CostsDawit BekeleWeatherproofDawit BekeleNight ShiftDawit BekeleWhat the Mill KeptSaoirse DoyleWhat the New Job Taught MeJuniper ColeBreak RoomJuniper ColeLimerick for Register FourJuniper ColeInventorySoren VanceClosing ShiftJuniper Cole
66

What the New Job Taught Me

Juniper Cole

Free verse · Work

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.

← Previous← → move · Esc leavesSwipe to move
Up nextBreak RoomTen minutes, and I spend four of them