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IF YOU’VE BEEN KEEPING UP with the Gene the Jeweler series, you know that Gene doesn’t exactly train his people. And predictably, that leads to problems in his store …

In this episode, we learn about an employee we’ll call Tardy Jeremy. Jeremy’s chronic failure to come in on time is creating a “burning, shared, semi-murderous resentment.” 

Gene has talked with Jeremy about the problem “in passing” but hasn’t tackled it head-on. Still, he’s convinced that things will get better — somehow. He’s not at all ready to let Jeremy go.

Gene is, of course, a parody created by jewelry marketing specialist Jimmy DeGroot. The series is kind of like a jewelry-industry version of The Office.

But in many jewelry stores, these types of issues are anything but fiction.

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