Kinko's Anarchists (was Re: IMF/WB and the WTO ruling)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 28 17:46:11 PST 2000


W. Kiernan wrote:


>Yeah but when you walk up to them in their black shirts in the store (at
>least they're too cool to run away when they see you coming, like the
>guys in the red shirts at CompUSA do) and ask for service, say to look
>up a particular book on that computer thingy and see if it's in stock,
>first they don't change facial expression, not a bit, and second and
>most important they pause for just an instant before they turn to the
>keyboard or cash register or whatever. The straight face and that
>eyeblink pause definitely disconcert some customers, I've seen it, who
>may, I think, overreact a bit when they label it "surly" or
>"uncooperative", but for others of us, that pause is what we're paying
>for.

Why the pause? Is it the drugs?

Doug



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