Just Joined...and I have to rant, sorry

[callist0s]

Hooray! Other people who understand!

I've just started working for a large bookchain in Australia, 30hrs/week.

I hate it so much when it turns out we don't have a particular book in stock ('But we can order it in for you!!'), and the customer acts personally affronted that *gasp* we don't have their really old/technical/specialised book waiting

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[screebonk]

I do know all that stuff. But, um...

I'm a geek. Normal people don't, in fact, read the picture books or know the random book-with-red-cover.

I've gotten yelled at for various strange things, including not having an entire medical textbook store in my store. Never mind that my store is tiny, never mind that the corporate office tells us what to stock, it's MY FAULT. I also got yelled at for "not having the right priorities" because I SPECIFICALLY didn't have a book on Gypsy magic. "But you have this Celtic book! Why don't you have a book on Gypsies? DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT GYPSIES ARE?!!!"

Meh.

-pc

[callist0s]

It's amazing that people don't comprehend that the stores just selling what a)Sells, and b) what the various book companies think will sell.

[txwhiterose]

Next time you get a gypsy rant person, call them a suka. I think that's how it's spelled.

[pwoink]

Any specific reason you recommend calling them a bitch in Russian?

[txwhiterose]

I could be wrong, but several of the Roma dialects emcompass bits of Russian and other Eastern European languages. I believe that is one of the words used. I would never say that to a customer's face, but I sure would have it going through my head for being chewed out because we have a book on Celtic magick, and not Gypsy.

And totally unrelated, your icon creeps me out...

[pwoink]

Haha, I'm sure they wouldn't understand you even if you said that -- it sounds like a pretty obscure thing to know.

It's not creepy! It's cheerful and happy. The LJ user sterilize made it, from this adorable short film.

[txwhiterose]

GAH. Sure, happy for the ice zombie. The tentacles on his face make me think of Baby Cthulu, which is cute. Tentacles on an ice zombie are not cute.

[pwoink]

I don't see why a Great Old One responsible for mass insanity is any more cute than a friendly hobo.

We are having a conversation in someone else's post. This is not nice.