Issue 30, Remnants

Someone Else's Ivy, New Nonfiction from Amy L. Clark

by Llalan 03.01.2010

Let’s get WORKING! The first piece in Fringe’s themed issue – Working – is Someone Else’s Ivy, an essay close to my heart. This is not so simply because I published it, but because I have lived the life she writes about: food service. You needn’t have swirled whipped cream on someone’s mocha before to appreciate the description of the job, though. In fact, you don’t even need to have customer service experience. All you need is to want to be able to do your job the way you know the job should be done. That is, not necessarily how your boss wants it done. Amy Clark’s tale of a worker’s revolt is the stuff dreams are made of.


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  • Jill Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    I LOVE this piece. It captures the atmosphere and attitudes, what’s great and what’s awful about working in food service in general and coffee shops in particular, SO WELL. Thanks Amy, for writing about what so many take for granted.

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