Comments | iworkatborders: Former Borders Employees Reveal Secret Book Store Gripes

KanojoNoCarrera in iworkatborders

Former Borders Employees Reveal Secret Book Store Gripes

Sep 25, 2011 17:59

http://jezebel.com/5843709/former-borders-employees-reveal-secret-book-store-gripes

So, who was it? Fess up, ya can't get fired anymore for this.

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blackblocpapers September 26 2011, 22:51:57 UTC

People don't get what sets service people off.

Waitrons have a whole set of pet peeves - I can post examples if you're interested.

Booksellers have their own things that set them off, and people outside the biz don't get them.

I get outsiders "not getting it", but I've spent many a boozy night commiserating with my Fellow Workers about the folks who want Nicholas Sparks, The Secret (god, what a pain in the ass that whole book/DVD/phenom was), Can-dyed, Fahrenheit Make-up-a-number, anything involving the ancient Greeks, let alone non-booky things like bathroom behavior... I won't go on.

Repeat any question enough, and it becomes dumb. Repeat any behavior enough, it becomes annoying. You, your own special self, are not pissing us off; in aggregate - STFU already.

So, that's my take on the disgruntled bookseller thing. Let us vent, and keep asking those questions! They keep us in business, after all -- oh, wait a sec.

Don't take things too seriously booksatborders September 27 2011, 00:28:08 UTC

I think some people take comments about what I'd call the "guirks" of come customers too seriously. In the course of any job you notice things that are just unique, peculiar, funny, weird, etc. Noticing such things doesn't mean you have some sort bad attitude about customers.

802 in Mansfield, MA bookboss83 September 27 2011, 18:57:27 UTC

According to Borders Class of 2011 and Before, the list came from 802 in Mansfield, MA.

anonymous September 27 2011, 20:51:16 UTC

The statements on this sign paint an incomplete picture, and portray booksellers as somewhat judgmental, but many of them are also true. If I had written this, it would be pages longer. Instead of focusing on the customers' intellects (or lack of,) it would have been mostly about their poor treatment of booksellers. And before anyone accuses me of being a short-timer, I loved my job at Borders for more than a decade.

anonymous September 28 2011, 05:59:58 UTC

...we weren't a library?

ext_686960 September 29 2011, 04:38:44 UTC

Figuratively or actually?

anonymous September 30 2011, 05:46:31 UTC

Considering we had regulars who would buy one hardcover in early January, read it and then bring it back to exchange it for another...continuously rinse and repeating this throughout the year, then maybe have the chain ending in December because they need a Christmas present for somebody...yea, I thought we were a lending library. :P