Shipshape

How can you not see the ship going down?

Do you actually believe your own propaganda?

The commercials? The CEO?

They say the store made millions last year.

But, funny, none of the workers in the trenches got a raise.

Ask the dock workers,

The stockroom people-

Where’s the merchandise?

You know, all that stuff bought from China?

That now has tariffs on it?

Yeah, remember that?

The storage rooms are empty.

And then you pull the stock room people

Onto the floor to be cashiers,

But now the meager truck loads get unloaded

And are just piled up

Instead of being stored properly, orderly.

Can’t sell what’s not on the shelves, can you?

Can’t find it in stock if you just shove it any old place.

But since the store manager hides in his office

Counting the days till he can retire,

His assistant store manager gets to channel her Mean Girl Energy

And drive out the HR rep! Take over the role!

Hard to complain to HR

When it’s the assistant manager that’s the problem, isn’t it?

All rather tidy, hmm?

Meanwhile the schedules are all screwed up

Because Mean Girl can’t math

And changes the schedules after they’re set

Because she likes messing with people.

But she found the time to hire seven people

Who “don’t do the cashier thing”

So just, what, walk around? And tidy things?

But only on one floor.

The other floors can go hang.

Hard to take breaks when you’re the only one in your department.

Did you ever try to steer a rudderless ship?

Maybe the chocolate kiosk

Should start making special brownies

So you can Chill. The. Eff. Out.

Here, I found a few unopened boxes-

They look like deck chairs.

Maybe you can go about rearranging them

As the ship goes down.

Advertise them as Extra Buoyancy!

Fits Two Per Person

In Case of Emergency!

I’m sure you’ll make room for Jack

As you’re all bobbing about out there

Wondering where it all went wrong.