[x]Blackmoor Vituperative

Sunday, 2011-08-21

The Mugs of August – Circuit City Oktoberfest 2006 mug

Filed under: Art,Food,Work — bblackmoor @ 21:39
Circuit City Oktoberfest 2006 mug

I am going to post a photo of a coffee mug every day in August, and talk a little bit about where we got it and why I like it.

In 2006, I worked at Circuit City for six months. It was my first job in Richmond, and the beginning of our new life up here. Sadly, I immediately saw that the handwriting was on the wall. The company was woefully mismanaged: it was clear that the people making decisions in upper management had no awareness of what anyone working in the company actually did. I was hired during one of the brief upticks in what was obviously a years-long death spiral. Circuit City became the first of a series of companies on my resume which are no longer in business.

I did get this swell Oktoberfest mug, though.