I read an article a few months back about how the job market has become so bad that many of us are taking jobs we wouldn’t have considered for pay we would never have tolerated. The result is that the average employee now working at places like McDonald’s and Walmart has a degree and more diverse work experience than their peers on the same job. This phenomenon must not have been the case at two local retailers.

I walked into the local Walgreens the other night and this was the first thing I saw:

I cast a glance over to the kid behind the counter. He just shrugged and smirked at me.

Twenty minutes later on my way out he warned me, “Don’t slip on that wet carpet!”
We both got a snerk out of it.

Earlier in the week I was at the supermarket down the street when I spied a display sign that didn’t quite look right:

Even if they had typed it correctly to read “PORTION” it still would have made me giggle the whole way to the register.

Now we know why people like Rush Limbaugh have a radio show.