“Marketing Assistant” a.k.a. Sign Slave

Chelsea Christensen

Hired under the pretense of a “marketing assistant,” my short-lived summer job consisted of me standing on a busy street corner holding a “Lunch Special $4.99.” As an insult to injury, the required dress included a long-sleeved black shirt with “Wingtown Grill” plastered on the back of it, to be worn for 2 hrs in the heat of a long summer day.

This sign the owners so cleverly created consisted of PVC pipe and a tarp cloth. Seems fine at first, but add 40mph winds and a wind tunnel and you have me with a bloody lip, hurt pride, and an audience of cars at the intersection honking, pointing, and laughing at me. Needless to say, that job didn’t last long.