Comments | lullabee_lj: Bookshop

lullabee_lj

Bookshop

Jun 17, 2010 12:40

So, am currently working at the bookshop... volunteering at the bookshop... which doesn't pay anyone except the managers, because no one ever buys stuff, and it's also run by anarchists... and communists... both of which, I think, don't believe in paying people with the money produced by our current capitalist hegemony. They must be very pleased ( Read more... )

Comments 2

lucia_tanaka June 17 2010, 18:11:06 UTC

God, it took me a solid year and a half of job hunting to find a food service job. Which I am slowly growing to hate (though I really liked it at first honestly) but will not let go of until I actually find another job and am sure it won't vanish when I turn my back. Because Missouri apparently got hit really hard by the recession, so jobs went bye-bye. But I found persistence eventually worked, along with my insane amount of politesse. A while back, one of my managers told me I was hired just because how goddamn polite I was. Sir, ma'am, thank you kindly, quick apologies. These things apparently are good to some people and not just annoying. Go figure.

If you aren't being paid and you don't seem very fond of working there, may I ask what the draw is? Besides hilarious LJ posts.

lullabee_lj June 17 2010, 22:49:10 UTC

Honestly, it's not that bad. It's mostly just like sitting at home, since hardly anyone comes in, except it is sometimes more fun and sometimes more annoying. And I have an easier time talking about being annoyed than having fun, so I tend to magnify the stuff that bugs me. I do get to meet weird, friendly people, it gets my parents and I mutually out of each other's hair, and I get job experience to put on my resume. And being a little annoyed is more enjoyable than being totally bored.

Plus, having something to do is good for your health, and so is walking two miles a day and trying to carry a seventy-pound wooden signboard.

The only really annoying thing is that since anarchists are yet to implement their system, it remains illegal for one adult (like me) to dopeslap another (like an anarchist). Apparently, their social welfare plan is that government and bosses are what cause most physical and mental disabilities, and I guess people can be trusted to take care of each other out of the kindness of their hearts. I mean, it's not ( ... )