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  • I got a job at a book store!

    So in Oct. 2012 I left the library, mostly because the top manager yelled at me instead of waiting, cooling down, and talking to me. Also, the library made the Playboy Mansion sound like an LDS temple. At the library people would cum on medical books and make obscene phone calls to us.
    Anyway, after years of trying to get a job, and resorting for the past year of selling the jewelry that my mom left me after she died to pay any bills, I finally got a job at the only book store in town that isn't religious and isn't Books a Million.
    So far the managers seem nice. One manager bought bagals and Starbucks.
    I really can't tell about my future co-workers. I was passing a table that held a display of free stuff. Seems they had a Star Wars event on friday and there was free stuff, and I asked an employee if I can have some free stuff, after introducing myself, and she was talking to me like I was in elementary school.
    The company culture seems nurturing (for now).
    One thing I didn't like was when I had a phone interview I was told I had to push the bookstore MasterCard. At first I thought I had to personally push 2 a day. Today I brought it up with the other manager (who was doing to orintation) and he said the store had to push 2 a week. I will have to figure out how many exactly. I hate trying to get people to sign up for stuff.

    Oh, and one manager publishes Romance novels. She said she will get us a list. And they aren't self-published novels.
    Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

    Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

    I wish porn had subtitles.

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    Quoth depechemodefan View Post
    At the library people would on medical books
    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you speak with the Fraud department. -- CrazedClerkthe2nd
    OW! Rolled my eyes too hard, saw my brain. -- Seanette
    she seems to top me in crazy, and I'm enough crazy for my family. -- Cooper
    Yes, I am evil. What's your point? -- Jester

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    • #3
      Now that you work at a bookstore, maybe you can help me. I'm looking for a book. I'm pretty sure the cover is blue. It was on a show once.
      To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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      • #4
        Quoth Mr Hero View Post
        Now that you work at a bookstore, maybe you can help me. I'm looking for a book. I'm pretty sure the cover is blue. It was on a show once.
        there was a dog in it. And maybe a bird. I think the main characters name started with an A

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        • #5
          "Donahue talked about it back when he was on TV."

          Luckily I can send any questions about books to another desk

          Though no one told me exam books were behind the counter. Luckily I recognized them from when I worked at the library. When someone came asking for them, I knew where they were. Oh, now I have a new "sucky customer story" to tell.
          Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

          Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

          I wish porn had subtitles.

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          • #6
            I don't like selling credit cards, either, but--I really hate to admit it--my bosses are right: if I ask almost every single person I will get a couple a week. I just ask as part of a script (like years ago when they made us ask every person if they had a coupon). If there's a spark of interest I go into salesgirl mode. But otherwise, I ask say I did. But if I don't ask at all I don't get sign-ups unless the customer already wants to and seeks me out at the service desk. Usually re-iterating the benefits puts them over the edge to saying yes. After all, the free shipping forever was what got me to sign up. There has to be something about that Mastercard that will get someone interested.

            And congrats! I am shocked that a library could be so bad and glad you are out of there. No one should have to deal with bodily fluids on books.
            "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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