"Maybe there'd be no difference between 500 employees and 500,000 employees if they all had similar jobs, worked at the same half-billion-square-foot store and were supervised by the same managers," he wrote.
Among other things, the role involves liaising with suppliers, checking where animals come from, supervising their care in store and overseeing the stores' adoption centres.
His duties included supervising the engineer stores park on the beach at Anzac Cove, as well as the construction of Jam Tin Grenades.
Leonard Riggio was a vigorous and hands-on manager deeply involved in many of the details of the company's operations, from supervising the selection of store locations to overseeing marketing plans and strategy on relations with publishers.
He reportedly was responsible for receiving drug shipments from Tijuana, storing the drugs in Mexicali and supervising their transport to the United States.
He has spent his life in the meat business, supervising the first Western Beef store, which opened in 1976 (Western and Big Apple have the same owner, Peter Castellana Jr).
The most common posting is for assistant store manager, with duties that include hiring, training and supervising a team of associates, managing daily activity on the sales floor and developing creative plans to spur store sales.
On Tuesday he will come to the store at 8 a.m., supervise a temporary crew of 30, and go home on Wednesday at 5 30 p.m.
The department store chains will directly supervise promotions, advertising and finances of the catalog and Internet units bearing their names, the chief operating officer, Terry Lundgren, said.
Issuing an initial ruling for the woman plaintiff, the court described the actual duties performed by the employee: "Hale spent forty percent of her time alone in the store, during which she supervised no one and she performed tasks typically done by a clerk.
