Jobs w/ Highest Amount of Douchebags

[Ravenbomb 0]

What the hell is the point of having a negatively titled movie section in a store? Isn't the point to SELL things?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Getting to be surrounded by books and receiving nice employee discounts to buy them was definitely great, but it was still retail. Plenty of stupid customers, dumb co-workers, and bonehead managers.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

What the hell is the point of having a negatively titled movie section in a store? Isn't the point to SELL things?

The guy also had a display of movies he loved, as well (the only title I can recall is the hardly critic-proof Magnolia), but yeah, it was completely stupid and dumb that the display existed. What purpose is being served in trying to sway people from buying something?

[Fuzzy Dunlop 0]

Magnolia would probably be one of my favorite movies if it was only the first ninety minutes and the last fifteen minutes.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I love Magnolia, but that's neither here nor there.

[Molotov The Bear 0]

There's this one old guy at the B & N by my house who works the register that's always a complete douche to everyone. But other than that most of the people I've seen at Barnes and Noble/Border are all nice people.

 

The people at Fantasy Comics however, now those are some douchebags. Anytime you even so much as look at a comic for more than three seconds they act like you just killed their dog. One time the guy working there kept getting on my case about looking through the books, citing that "certain people" are collectors and they pay alot of money for these books and thus, they don't want people getting fingerprints all over the books. I was like "look asshat, for one I AM a collector, and two, the type of douchebags who are gonna pay lots of money for a comic book arent going to buy them off the rack from your shitty ass story in the first place."

 

/rant.

[Kinetic 0]

There was a guy about my age who worked at the liquor store across from my apartment in Athens. Just an insufferable cunt, to the extent that everyone I ever discussed the place with would remark on how awful the guy was. I'd always come away from the experience feeling insulted and would drink a little harder to wash the memory away.

 

This isn't typical of liquor stores, though. Their registers are usually manned by weird old rednecks or even weirder old Asians.

[daileyxplanet 0]

Movie Theatres.

[the max 0]

Electronics Retail (Best Buy, Circuit City).

[Guest Czecherbear]

What the hell is the point of having a negatively titled movie section in a store? Isn't the point to SELL things?

Were I working at that partic Borders, I might choose to present it as something like "Jean-Baptiste de Gueraud's Tres Overrated Cinema Club" where the idea is that these are are big fun blockbusters that would probably be spat upon by a film snob, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad movies thoroughly devoid of entertainment value. Of course, this is pretty high-concept for big box retail, and would probably be just as ineffective as explicitly slagging the merchandise, and I'd certainly be told to cease.