Too much power...

Power really seems to go to some people's heads.

For the first time in all the time that I've worked here we've sold more than one Glamour magazine a month. The rate we're going at the moment we're selling about 7 a day. Thanks to a wonderful promotion of free mascara for the ladies (Clinique nogal) with every June issue they buy and free caps for the men with every GQ they buy.

To promote this wonderful deal, we put up two big posters in the windows of the shop. This was the main mode of advertising that was bringing all this new-found business to the shop.

Unexpectedly, the big boss dropped in to check on us this afternoon. The first thing he does is tell us to take down the Glamour and GQ posters as they "don't look good from the outside".

W H A T ? ! ?

Does this guy WANT business or what? We dutifully took down the posters, firmly resolved to hang the damn things up again as soon as they bugger off back to Cape Town.

I got the distinct feeling he did it just because he could.