Reverse funnel is fabulous. I really love how much I can feel of her emotions - her frustration at being late, her shame of looking ragged, and her raw anger at being duped.
I sold cutco when I was in college. I'm not really good at sales, but I did get some really fabulous knives for cheap. They definitely have a racket going, but I don't know that it's any worse than a place like Amazon where Bezos is make a gagillion dollars every 5 minutes, and the workers are paid and treated like shit. My husband used to work at one of the warehouses. It was awful.
Yeah, I have a friend in Seattle and she says half of her friends are employed at Amazon and 100% of them are absolutely miserable, so it's taken over as the local industry. And the company store, for that matter. History repeats itself? Exploited workers working at a place that skirts labor laws who are practically forced to shop with their employers seems vaguely familiar...
I owe my soul to the company store ...