On looking busy...

Today was a big day for me. I normally am confined to the fabric department, but today we had so many people assigned to work in the fabric department that I got to get out for a while. I got the put up returns. This consists of pushing around a buggy full of stuff people don't want. I like this job because it allows me to cruise the entire store looking for places to put stuff. It's a bit like a reverse scavenger hunt. It also makes me look extremely busy and important. After I had emptied my cart, I thought about something. It seems likely that you could spend the entire day doing nothing but pushing around a shopping cart. You would look busy, so people would probably leave you alone and "let you work." In the pilot episode of Scrubs (my favorite show), Dr. Cox gives JD some advice about surviving in a hospital--he tells him that if you push around a "stiff" all day, people will leave you alone. I think a similar thing might be true at my store--if you push around enough random stuff all day, people pretty much leave you alone. So there you have it.