“Why’s he limping?” Another Monday morning and another question from the boss about Mark’s futile attempt to limp into the back without being noticed.

Jamie, as usual, found himself trying to explain away his colleague and friend’s weekend antics, “You know when he twisted his ankle running away from those PETA people a few weeks ago? Well, . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

“Boss, Mark is going to be late today.” Jamie delivered the news as he came through the door this morning.

The boss was becoming accustomed to this Monday morning routine. He wondered if he should even bother to ask what his talented but mouthy screen printer had got up to this weekend that would make him late . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

This morning, the boss looked out the window into the car park and, much to his relief, he saw both Jamie and Mark turning up for work. “Great,” he thought, “perhaps we’ll get that those t-shirts for the brewery out today.” But then he noticed Mark limping, apparently in some pain.

As they came through the door . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

Much to Mark’s relief, he was not fired last Monday morning. It was a close thing though and the boss was angry enough to tell him that he might just stay out of trouble if he considered wearing duct tape over his mouth.

This morning when Mark and Jamie arrived at work, Mark asked the boss why . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

Mark had a bad weekend. When he left work on Friday he wasn’t sure if he would still have a job this morning. We haven’t had an update yet but it’s not looking good.

On Saturday night at the Crown and Anchor Mark explained to Jamie why the boss stormed out on Friday afternoon, slammed the door . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

By now the boss is becoming accustomed to Monday morning staff absences, particularly as far as Mark goes. If it weren’t for the fact that Mark was a first class printer he’d have been gone two weeks ago after the blonde incident at the pub. But the boss reasoned that a Mark four days a week . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

We have another episode of Mark and Jamie’s weekend activities.

This morning Jamie arrived at the print shop alone. The boss knew right away that he was going to be short staffed because Jamie and Mark always car-pooled. As Jamie came through the door the boss was on him, “Where’s Mark?

Jamie expected the question and immediately answered, “Mark’s got . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

Jamie and Mark limped into work this morning.

Jamie started explaining as they came through the door. “Sorry boss, I don’t think that we are going to be able to pull a squeegee today.”

The boss couldn’t believe his eyes. He had just got their first decent order for weeks and now these two were obviously not going . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

The owner of a screen shop in the Maritimes decided that his artist had been working so hard preparing for the upcoming busy summer tourist season that he would reward her. He bought her an air ticket and a night in a hotel so that she could do a little shopping in New York City this past weekend.

On . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

As we all know, the “cotton crisis” has pushed the price of garments up quite a bit. One screen printer decided that she wasn’t going to pay the prices of the Gildans of this world anymore so she searched the internet until she found a small remote independent offshore factory offering a container load of really cheap . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

The screen shop owner we told you about last Monday didn’t have much luck finding anyone among the job applicants he interviewed, so he advertised again during the week and conducted more interviews this past Saturday morning.    

One applicant came in looking pretty sharp and confident. He handed over a very neatly printed résumé and right . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

This past Saturday morning the owner of a screen printing company was interviewing job applicants. He looked at the résumé of an applicant leaning on the opposite side of the table and said, “If you don’t mind me saying so, your employment history is a bit shocking. You’ve been fired from ten different screen shops!”

“Yah, I know,” agreed . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

A Canadian screen printer was down south this weekend at the screen printing show. She was looking for a new press and wanted to see all the options. At one booth she listened to the salesman’s spiel and then asked him, “If you are selling these machines way under cost like you say that you are, how do you . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

We don’t know what the owner of a large screen shop in Toronto (yes, there still are a few) did this weekend, but it put him in a foul mood. He came in this morning and decided that he was going to fire the first slacker that he saw.

He walked through the print shop, checked the . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

This past weekend a screen printer and a distributor got a break from the Canadian winter with a quick golfing trip to Florida.

Standing at the first tee, they agreed to play the ball as it lay for the round. The distributor hit a beautiful tee shot 250 yards down the middle of the fairway. The screen printer was not so lucky, shanking his . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

So on Saturday this screen printer wanted to get into a nightclub, but the bouncer said: “Sorry, bud, you need a tie for this place.”

The bouncer didn’t want to hear that screen printers don’t wear ties and he couldn’t even be bribed with free t-shirts for life. So the screen printer went back to his car and . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?

We heard about a screen printer who spent the weekend looking for camouflage fabric, but he . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend?