Ever since a little invention called Manga made it's debut in America, I am flabberghasted at what kids will do to these things.
While I do the section partially (along with a full-timer; I do the Graphic Novels, he does the Manga) I still have to cleanup the mess when he's off. And i've seen some real doozies.
The obvious ones:
It pisses me off to no end that these kids can come in, read likes it's the public library, and then leave the place like a mess. Oh, but whats this rant without a few doozies?
While I do the section partially (along with a full-timer; I do the Graphic Novels, he does the Manga) I still have to cleanup the mess when he's off. And i've seen some real doozies.
The obvious ones:
- Coughing, sneezing, or even drooling into the manga.
- Lying on the ground, taking up the space of the aisleway (and our aisles are barely 2 feet over the ADA requirements).
- Leave books on the floor, in adjoining shelves, or piled ontop of the manga shelves.
- Taking out entire series and reading them.
It pisses me off to no end that these kids can come in, read likes it's the public library, and then leave the place like a mess. Oh, but whats this rant without a few doozies?
- We have "Adult" manga. Pretty much, they have themes that would cause a soccor mom to have fits of rage. Many are wrapped for the express purpose of making sure kids don't see stuff like gay sex or a 10 year old boy sneezing high-school girls school uniforms off (I kid you not!!) Others simply are wrapped because they have cards or other crap. While my co-worker has manged a way to prevent kids from ripping off the plastic, kids will do the darndest to read them. Which results in damaged merchendise, Which means we have to return it. Which means a lost sale. And no refill of the title for 2 months. Did I also mention that one title has uber extreme violence, like faeries having their wings chopped off in battle?
- While I haven't had the priviledge of encountering said Soccor mom, i've been heavy handed to kids to the point I overheard one calling me a Dominatrix (heh, they know such words already in Middle school?). Mostly it's for ripping off the plastic and reading the manga, where I kick them out for breeching a security device (the plastic wrap).
- I've seen pages torn out, mostly from books where "Questionable images" were. In one manga, Bathhouse scences with near full-frontal nudity can be seen. Without plastic wrap.
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