*sigh*
So, I work at a bookstore. It's a pretty big book store. And for the most part I enjoy my job. My fellow coworkers on the other hand, oy vey. But this isn't the place to rant about them.
1. We are NOT a library. Let me repeat that. WE ARE NOT A LIBRARY. If you find that there are no more available chairs at the cafe or in the little lounge area and you don't want to or can't sit on the floor, buy the book/magazine and go away or go to the actual library down the street. Don't complain to me that there aren't anymore seats.
2. No, there are no outlets or cell phone chargers in the cafe, or in any part of the store except for a few outlets that are in the bathroom. I don't know why we don't have them, could be safety since small children sit in the cafe or we don't want people sitting and not buying. I don't know. It's not my company or business. You have a problem, talk to cooperate.
3. Please don't walk into the store, come to customer service and then ask me to find 10 books, only for me to go grab them, put them in your hand and then you just don't buy them. Because you wasted my time (yes, having me find 10 books you're not going to buy IS wasting my time). Why? Because one, I have to clean up after nasty and lazy customers, and two, I could have been helping someone who would have actually MADE a purchase.
4. No, we do not price match our own website. Why do you ask? Okay, you know Amazon? You know how they have Amazon sold items and then THIRD party sellers who usually will sell something REALLY cheap? Yes, same with our website. We have stuff WE sell and we have third party sellers. So if you find a book on our website for let's say $3 and we're selling the book for $30, either you buy the book for $30 from our store, or you pay shipping and tax to get the $3 book. We need to make a profit, we're a business. That's what businesses do.
5. Stop leaving your children in the kids section without adult supervision. I'm not getting paid to watch your precious child. You need to do chores or shop without precious being in your way, find a family member or babysitter and leave precious home. Because I WILL leave your child in the kid section, alone, while I do what I'm being paid to do: clean up after you and your precious and sell books. Not babysit.
6. Don't give me attitude because your teenage precious waited until the day before to get the book they had 2 weeks or more to obtain for school. I have checked, we are out of that book and any bookstore near by is also, out of the book. So now, either go down the street to the library and hope they have it, or wait 7 business days for us to order and have the book shipped to us or to your house.
7. Please, for the love of all that is holy, learn to put your book back on the shelf correctly. If you remove a book from the shelf to look at, but decide you don't want it, fine. But it is SPINE OUT and you place it back where you got it from or in the general vicinity. Do not put your book back spine facing in, or lay it on top of the other books. Stop being a lazy bastard. I might get paid to work there, and straighten up, but I am not your servant to fix the place up because you are a lazy bastard or a stupid one. It's not hard to put a book back properly, there are many others placed on the shelf in the correct way. Remember the card match game? Do we need to have a little session of this again for you adults?
8. We have trash cans all over the store. Please toss your garbage in those cans. Don't leave your empty water cups, coffee cups, water bottles, crap you brought in from the outside. Again, stop being a lazy bastard.
9. I know you see Ivanka Trump's book on our shelves. Fine, you don't like the Trump family. No, I'm not going to remove her books from the shelves because you don't like the Trumps. We sell Fox News anchors' books. We sell Democratic political people books (Clinton, Obama, Bernie, etc), we sell Republican political people books (Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Trump, etc). We don't care WHO or WHAT wrote the books. Our job is to sell them. You don't like the person? Here's a wild thought, don't buy the book. I have to sell you books from authors I'd rather smack then read, but I still sell them. If I don't like the author, I keep shut and sell you it. If I don't like the political side, I keep quite and still sell it. Don't tell me, a peon, who to or not to sell because I don't care.
10. Please don't talk to me about political things. If I agree with your side, I might give you my thoughts on the subject. If I don't, I don't say anything. If you keep going on, you're going to get a 'okay crazy person, go away' only because I tried to be polite first by not engaging you in detail.
11. Not sure if our store is the only one, but...as nice as the painted rocks are and even at 40 I'm still a kid at heart, I am tired of finding your damn painted rocks all over the store. If you want people to find them and go on facebook, leave them outside. It's annoying to walk around when we close, to recover the store, and find multiple rocks everywhere. I don't know who started this or why, but as an employee, it's annoying and more work for me.
Trust me, working at this bookstore is more work and alot more time consuming then people know. It's not just helping you find a book. I have to toss out trash I find ON the bookshelves, or making the store decent again, or dealing with people who grab 20 books, and leave them here and there. So, don't leave rocks everywhere. This isn't Easter and I'm not in the mood to hunt for rocks.
12. And lastly, STOP OPENING the damn packages. If you want to look inside, ask one of us booksellers if you can open the package, or here's a thought, READ what the package tells you is inside. Having you or your precious one blast open a package makes it where now we can't sell that item because you damaged it. Thank you. Maybe I should come to your home and destroy your items, it's about the same thing. Stop it.
Yes, I actually run into the above on a daily basis. Sometimes multiple times a day.
1. We are NOT a library. Let me repeat that. WE ARE NOT A LIBRARY. If you find that there are no more available chairs at the cafe or in the little lounge area and you don't want to or can't sit on the floor, buy the book/magazine and go away or go to the actual library down the street. Don't complain to me that there aren't anymore seats.
2. No, there are no outlets or cell phone chargers in the cafe, or in any part of the store except for a few outlets that are in the bathroom. I don't know why we don't have them, could be safety since small children sit in the cafe or we don't want people sitting and not buying. I don't know. It's not my company or business. You have a problem, talk to cooperate.
3. Please don't walk into the store, come to customer service and then ask me to find 10 books, only for me to go grab them, put them in your hand and then you just don't buy them. Because you wasted my time (yes, having me find 10 books you're not going to buy IS wasting my time). Why? Because one, I have to clean up after nasty and lazy customers, and two, I could have been helping someone who would have actually MADE a purchase.
4. No, we do not price match our own website. Why do you ask? Okay, you know Amazon? You know how they have Amazon sold items and then THIRD party sellers who usually will sell something REALLY cheap? Yes, same with our website. We have stuff WE sell and we have third party sellers. So if you find a book on our website for let's say $3 and we're selling the book for $30, either you buy the book for $30 from our store, or you pay shipping and tax to get the $3 book. We need to make a profit, we're a business. That's what businesses do.
5. Stop leaving your children in the kids section without adult supervision. I'm not getting paid to watch your precious child. You need to do chores or shop without precious being in your way, find a family member or babysitter and leave precious home. Because I WILL leave your child in the kid section, alone, while I do what I'm being paid to do: clean up after you and your precious and sell books. Not babysit.
6. Don't give me attitude because your teenage precious waited until the day before to get the book they had 2 weeks or more to obtain for school. I have checked, we are out of that book and any bookstore near by is also, out of the book. So now, either go down the street to the library and hope they have it, or wait 7 business days for us to order and have the book shipped to us or to your house.
7. Please, for the love of all that is holy, learn to put your book back on the shelf correctly. If you remove a book from the shelf to look at, but decide you don't want it, fine. But it is SPINE OUT and you place it back where you got it from or in the general vicinity. Do not put your book back spine facing in, or lay it on top of the other books. Stop being a lazy bastard. I might get paid to work there, and straighten up, but I am not your servant to fix the place up because you are a lazy bastard or a stupid one. It's not hard to put a book back properly, there are many others placed on the shelf in the correct way. Remember the card match game? Do we need to have a little session of this again for you adults?
8. We have trash cans all over the store. Please toss your garbage in those cans. Don't leave your empty water cups, coffee cups, water bottles, crap you brought in from the outside. Again, stop being a lazy bastard.
9. I know you see Ivanka Trump's book on our shelves. Fine, you don't like the Trump family. No, I'm not going to remove her books from the shelves because you don't like the Trumps. We sell Fox News anchors' books. We sell Democratic political people books (Clinton, Obama, Bernie, etc), we sell Republican political people books (Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Trump, etc). We don't care WHO or WHAT wrote the books. Our job is to sell them. You don't like the person? Here's a wild thought, don't buy the book. I have to sell you books from authors I'd rather smack then read, but I still sell them. If I don't like the author, I keep shut and sell you it. If I don't like the political side, I keep quite and still sell it. Don't tell me, a peon, who to or not to sell because I don't care.
10. Please don't talk to me about political things. If I agree with your side, I might give you my thoughts on the subject. If I don't, I don't say anything. If you keep going on, you're going to get a 'okay crazy person, go away' only because I tried to be polite first by not engaging you in detail.
11. Not sure if our store is the only one, but...as nice as the painted rocks are and even at 40 I'm still a kid at heart, I am tired of finding your damn painted rocks all over the store. If you want people to find them and go on facebook, leave them outside. It's annoying to walk around when we close, to recover the store, and find multiple rocks everywhere. I don't know who started this or why, but as an employee, it's annoying and more work for me.
Trust me, working at this bookstore is more work and alot more time consuming then people know. It's not just helping you find a book. I have to toss out trash I find ON the bookshelves, or making the store decent again, or dealing with people who grab 20 books, and leave them here and there. So, don't leave rocks everywhere. This isn't Easter and I'm not in the mood to hunt for rocks.
12. And lastly, STOP OPENING the damn packages. If you want to look inside, ask one of us booksellers if you can open the package, or here's a thought, READ what the package tells you is inside. Having you or your precious one blast open a package makes it where now we can't sell that item because you damaged it. Thank you. Maybe I should come to your home and destroy your items, it's about the same thing. Stop it.
Yes, I actually run into the above on a daily basis. Sometimes multiple times a day.