Employees Was: Breaking News -- CNN

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Subject: Employees      Was: Breaking News -- CNN
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Date: 7/4/00 12:29 pm  (ET)

<<Anyway, apparently some store in NY had accidentally set out a copy and
they sold it (how stupid would the bookstore clerk have had to be??).>>

<<<<This has totally confused me>>>>

<Me too.

Are we expected to believe that someone who works in a bookshop would
not know the significance of Harry Potter books? It's inconceivable,
even if it were their very first day at work and they were, by chance,
also a complete imbecile who had been living in a cave since 1996.>

It doesn't surprise me at all. Most workers at my local book stores are
college students who don't have children of their own. They go to work and
get hounded all day by customers and supervisors all for minimum wage,
and they don't want to hear it anymore. Usually they don't have a clue
about what books they are selling, they always have to look for every
book you ask for on the computer just to see if it exists. They usually
aren't management so they have no idea of what the contract to sell
these books contains, and they don't have regular or special employee
meetings to keep them informed just because that would involve paying
employees for time not used for working. So literally they come in not
caring, find out where they are assigned, fill the shelves needing to
be shelved, and go home thinking they never want to see a book again. It
only takes one employee to think this way and happen to fill a children's
book section. This is even more especially so when it's wal-mart, they
are even more disgruntled than bookstore employees! (Sorry to rant,
it's just I have worked retail for about six years now and it's not the
most pleasant job in the world.)

Standard Book of Spells Grade 7