Official R. E. Steele

Sometimes, at the Fantastic General Store, we get sent products from corporate that don’t make sense for the location a store is in. For example, bathing suits being sent to the location in the Snow Queen’s territory. I can understand one or two bathing suits. Indoor swimming pools exist, and people do travel. But that…

At the Fantastic General Store, it isn’t fun when one of your coworkers calls off sick. It means more work for you and the rest of the employees who come in that day. But it’s also not fun calling in sick yourself. You already don’t feel good, and depending on how sick you feel, you…

At the Fantastic General Store, we have cold and flu season. You would think we wouldn’t, considering we live among people who claim to be wizards and genius scientists, but they get the common cold just like everyone else. And boy can sickness cause problems for us when it does hit. Has management been nearly…

At the Fantastic General Store, we sell clothes. Yes, they are more fantastic than the clothes you find at your average retailer, for example: ball gowns, military uniforms, mystical looking robes, space suits, suits of armor, whatever it is rogues wear when they go on adventures. But despite the fanciful nature of the clothes, we…

At the Fantastic General Store, all job descriptions carry a small sentence that says employees have to perform other duties as assigned. At first, this may seem like a minor detail. You were hired to sell weapons, so you are probably going to mostly sell weapons. But at some stores, you are also expected to…

At the Fantastic General Store, we have a reoccurring task of taking products back to where they belong. If a customer decides they don’t want to buy something, sometimes they just leave it in whatever section they made that decision in, regardless of whether that particular item belongs there or not. A child’s toy somehow…

Among the wares of the Fantastic General Store are shoes. Yes, shoes seem too normal for a store that specializes in supplying sci-fi and fantasy inhabitants, but even knights and space adventurers need shoes. There are certain procedures we follow when selling shoes too. Do the shoes match? Do we have a left shoe and…

At the Fantastic General Store, as is the case in most stores, we have a limit to how much product we can carry at one time. There isn’t an infinite void in the warehouse, though I wouldn’t be surprised if some businessmen, have considered hiring mad scientists to make a black hole for just that…

The Fantastic General Store has a ‘no pets in the store policy,’ unless of course the creature in question is a service animal. I don’t mind animals, so long as they are well behaved, but not all pets are. Most of us have dealt with snarling, yappy little dogs, who don’t seem to know their…

Instead of posting a weekly update on my progress, I decided to post something else, a short piece I have written on what it would be like to work retail in a fantasy ans sci-fi setting. I’m thinking about making this a regular post, so feel free to comment your opinion. Weed Killer Working retail…