Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-14
MAN 'SSTORY WHO GOT FIRED FOR
 4 LIVING
Paid a Salary to Be Called by Department Store Managers and Discharged Before Cross Customers,

"Yes I have held lots of jobs in my time" said the gentlman in the fancy waistcoat to the other three at the table.
 There was a note of boastfulness in the waistcoated ones statement.
 q guess there isn't city of any size in the country that I haven't been in at one time or another" he continued and I suppose that in each of them I had enough experi- ence to fill a book like one of Hopkin- son Smiths. I ain't had no time to. do any writing, though, so you ain't seen my name around these book stores.
 The waistcOat person meditatively cIinked the ice in his high-ball glass. Another member of the party made the usual motion, and the waiter, who was lowering near, moved away. So the speaker resumed:
 "I guess one of the best jobs ever had with Carson, Pirie, Scott 6 Co.,. Chicago. All of you fellows have heard of Marshall Field, and I guess you've heard of Carson, PiTie, Scott, too. They play in the big league in Chi and their store is as hobby as any of 'em along State street. My stay with them people was certainly. pleasant"
 What did you do for Carson. Pirie, f Scott? asked the man who works in the Muheim building.
 T got fired"
 "Oh. yes, but-er-what was the nature of your duties while you work | ed for the store?" was the inquiry of l the real estate man.
 T got fired, said the waistcoated man again.
 The other three looked at the for mer employe of the Chicago store. q know it sounds kind of funny to say that I got fired when you ask me what my job was, but it's the straight goods, just the same. That was my job, getting fired There was a pause, and the waiter bore down upon the table. Then the Chicago man spoke again. T wasn't connected with any par ticular department. was a free | lance. but my work brought me in touch with all of them. | was young then and I liked my work, for it was easy.
 1 If a woman came into the store and began to rave to some floorwalk- | CT that the goods she paid for and CrdeTed delivered to the house two l days before had not shown up yet, and that she was going to do her l trading at Mandel Bros. in the future, | the flOOrwalker would say to the | clerk that made the sale: Have ROg- | CTS step down here for a moment l "I was always waiting for such a l message, up in the office, and down l I would go to the department the | kick came from.
 ''The floOrwalker looked pretty cross. and I would put up a stall that l I was scared to death. I would final l ly tell him that I had forgotten to send them out. Then the floorwalk- I CT would get sore. He would go way ! up in the air and give it to me good
 and proper He would tell me that 1 I did not have intelligence enough to | work for first-class establishment,
 and that I was fired; that they l wouldn't need me after Saturday. l This would make a big hit with ! the woman. The flooTwalker would | hand her a little furnace by-pToduct | and jolly her along until she con-
 scented to keep on trading there, and
 maybe bought some more goods that morning.
 Then I would go back to the of- l flee and wait fir another call. In a | little while I would be called to an- | other department and hear the same
 sort of a story. If I d0 say it my
 self, my acting was first class and if
 given good support, I could always i pull off a great scene I would al-
 ways admit that I was to blame for
 the mistake, whether it was for senG. ! ing the wrong goods or selling poor
 stuff. and I always got fired. I had ] to take a lot of fake sass from some lightweights, but I got gooa money
 for it. I did nothing but get fired ali
 day. It was a snap"
 How did you happen to lose the
 position?" asked the real estate man.
 We'll" said the Chicagoan. it was
 this way. T was called to the silk
 department to get fired for putting a | c. O. D. mark on some goods that had already been paid for, when a i call came at the same time from the Turkish rug department. The silks were nearest so I went there first. 1 tAS 6ds bOOh AAAlC a ilLtAc Lilllt lU llFG me and I stopped in the music depart ment to speak to a friend, afterwards, so that I was late in getting to the Turkish rugs.
 The flcorwslker was pretty sore. Where have you been?' he says to me. Mrs. Potter Palmer was just in here and she had grouch. I called you and you didn't show up so she went away. sore.
 q told him that was being fired by the head of the silk department but he was so sore that he couldn't listen. He told me was fired with out any sooling I appealed to the powers higher up but they did noth- ing for me. They told me had been forgetting my lines and maybe had not been sticking close enough to the job. But 1t was a good one while it lasted"