Mike The Bookseller

[jill_dragon]

I stumbled across this hilariously awesome webcomic Mike the Bookseller about a year ago and I've been loving it ever since.  And as someone who also works in a bookstore, I can verify that some of the episodes are scarily true to life (though I like to think my boss isn't as horrible as Lark or Pat).

These two in particular get inflicted on me on

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[keaalu]

"it really ups your chance of success if you know the title or author before you corral us into helping your search"
- I will never understand people who walk into a shop and assume the assistant can read minds. I used to get it all the time in Boots (a pharmacy) - "I saw this supplement on the TV which is supposed to be brilliant (read: magic panacea against all ills, even cancer), can you help me find it? No I don't know what it's called, what it contains or what it's supposed to DO, I just know it's in a blue and white box! :D"

[jill_dragon]

I hear you - and then the customers are all "What do you mean you can't find it?!" after you've just spent the last twenty minutes turning the store upside down.

On a side note, one of the local drugstores actually stocks Boots' products - they've got this one facial clenser that I totally love. ^_^

[k00kaburra]

I'm always impressed with how much bookstore employees (indie, not B&N) are able to help me with what little scraps of information I have for them. "It has Machu Picchu on the cover and it came out sometime in the past few years" and "I think it's about the tea in China? Or Chinese tea? It's recent non-fiction!" both found the book I wanted within five minutes.

[jill_dragon]

Well admittedly those are pretty easy - if it has Machu Picchu then it's probably either a historical book on the Incas or a travel book on Peru. As for tea, here at least not too many people drink tea, (there's almost no tea stores, woe is me) so there's really only one place in the cooking section where a book about chinese tea is likely to be. ;D

It's when people say "Uh...it's new and has a red cover..." and expect us to find it, that we get peeved.

[stormbringer986]

Ah yes the "I'm looking for a book...it's by somebody and has a cover" thing. I got that pretty often when I worked at B&N. I think it should be a law of the universe that bookstore employees are within rights to punch customers who do that. Or hit them with a book.