Things about being a bookseller ( Read more... )

I'm sorry you decided to wait untill the last minute to do your shopping. Unfourtuatly, it takes 10 - 12 buisness days for an order to arrive. We have some similar titles in store, if you'd like to look at them. A simple 'no thanks' will do, you don't need to shout. I'm sorry you think my store 'sucks'. Why don't you take your buisness elsewhere, ( Read more... )

I've been working for the big Canadian chain for about a month now, and I got my first brilliant question today:

"Do you have paperbacks?"

I think I'm going to like this job.

So here's a very general question. And it might sound silly. But I figured it was worth asking. How do you survive the holiday season in retail ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Howdy. I'm brand-spanking new to this group. I am currently working at my fourth independent bookstore. I wish I could do it full-time and forever. Alas, it is a labor of love, not of monetary rewards ( Read more... )

Heheheh...

I had to laugh at that.

I just discovered your community from a post in booktards, so I thought I'd join. I live and work in Canada, and I've been selling books for almost six years.

Figured I should stop lurking and actually post ( Read more... )

Hi, I work at Hoity-toity Independant Books (East Coast). I have been there over 10 years and intend to stay as long as they survive. I am glad I found this place to vent. I was trying to create a similar thing at Yahoo groups called BookySpecial(please join), but no one ever writes. I love books and bookselling, but customers and management and ( Read more... )

Hey, I just found this awesome community and decided to join. I have worked for Books-A-Million for two and a half years, and to this day (which, by the way, is also Employee Discount Day!) I still wonder why I have stayed. Ever-changing co-workers, for one, and the most interesting menagerie of customers, for seconds. Anyway, I am the SWIFT ( Read more... )