Clerks were once a rare subject in literature.
Clerks were a kind of worker that seemed, like Bartleby, at once harmless and ominous.
Clerks have existed for ages.
Clerks didn't work the land, lay railroad tracks, make ammunitions in factories, let alone hide away in a cabin by a small pond to raise beans and live deep.
Clerks copied endlessly, bookkeepers added up numbers to create more numbers, and insurance men literally made more paper.
clerks to help you analyze those issues to bring up everything they can think of
clerks , otherwise known as "girl power".
Since clerks have had the opportunity to keep diaries, they've bemoaned the sheer boredom of their tasks-- the endless copying, the awkward postures, the meaningless of their work.
Retail clerks , for example.
The 1855 census recorded clerks as the city's third largest occupational group, just behind servants and laborers.
And the bodies of clerks were slim, almost feminine, in their untested delicacy.
They said clerks were "vain, mean, selfish, greedy, sensual, and sly, talkative, and cowardly."
The attire of clerks was a barb for the press.
"There were the junior clerks of flash houses-- young gentleman with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips.
and their groups of clerks started to exploit their superior knowledge of distant markets, and industries begin to require more and more bookkeepers
about uh basically Latino clerks uh set in in in uh a neighborhood and it's kind
motion picture named "Clerks ," and that's how people came to know me was as a writer director.
his many law clerks and through that experience of being able to listen to him up close for a year it struck me that I never heard him say a bad word
The division of the upper clerks of staunch firms, or of the "steady old fellows," it was not possible to mistake.
This fantasy that Whitman had of stripping clerks naked, exposing the clerk to his own inadequacy, I think only concealed a deeper fear
Not all of them were clerks , but the trend was clear.
I asked one of the hotel clerks to give us a recommendation for a church and he said oh yeah there's a really nice
We won't need supermarket clerks .
So I wanted to tell the check-in clerks , did you hear the news?
And in this, clerks just didn't seem to fit.
of men in this country than of the genteel dry goods clerks in this and other large cities."
He wrote this piece called "Broadway," where he's observing clerks coming down Broadway in New York City.
And the funny thing is the sense of clerks as being weak, unmanly, they looked thin and they didn't do heavy lifting
Cities began to acquire ever more sizable numbers of clerks , ambling down the broad avenues for men like Whitman to gawk and fret over.
was people in the supermarket who worked there the clerks the people putting the produce out and and I really learned from him that everyone has value that
Washington star you work your way up we interviewed secretaries and clerks before we even knew any any higher ups we got tables of organization of the
In those tense years before the Civil War, clerks were just a small and unusual phenomenon, a subject of anxious scrutiny.
When not doing writing for their job, clerks have cultivated their habit of writing about the job, or literally around.
By the middle of the 19th century, clerks in their workplaces begin to appear with the new regularity in literature and journalism.
So, he didn't like clerks .
unless they lifted boxes, this was perceived by clerks themselves.
At the time, you find a lot of clerks writing about going the gym.
The people who handled this were clerks .
over the nature of business, and that clerks might not be an aberration but the future.
before the oral argument you do research and you get your law clerks to
that sentence is worse-- then your hand gets-- Anyways, clerks were not super smart.
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story called "The Man of the Crowd," where he's observing this tribe of clerks , and it's composed entirely of overdressed dandies,
We are not going to be mere clerks who sit in a backroom and let you intervene with our audiences on our behalf, we are doing
After I made the flick, right, I make "Clerks ," and I make it on credit cards, twenty seven thousand five hundred and seventy- five bucks, and I was steamrolling toward
were pretty good at doing this it actually included a lot of other people people like you know clerks or family members people who are just there to
And rising to take these positions were clerks .
So one finds the office coinciding, then, with the change in the position of the clerks themselves.
The press took a lot of time, a shocking amount of time, leveling invectives against clerks .
This is quite nice, a quite loving portrait of clerks .
The growth of manufacturing led to myriad urban retail and wholesale establishments, which, in turn, required more clerks .