Why is everyone an asshole today?

[sorcyress]

Dear asshole clerk at Porter Books:

When I come up to the counter and ask "Do you know if this is any good?" and you haven't read the graphic novel in question, the correct answer is, in fact, "I haven't read it."

"That looks too young for me, I like to read books with words." is incorrect.

Dick.

No love
~Sor
MOOP!

((PostScript: I used to think Porter Books was a really awesome bookstore. One of my favourite things about it is that it carried comics. Now I'm thinking I'm a little less willing to spend my money there. After all, there are a damn load of other stores that carry those books without so many words, and the pretty pictures. And they won't look down on me when I want to give them my money.))

Comments

[marcmagus]

Good point. I hadn't noticed that pattern (consciously), but now that you mention it, I see what you're talking about.

I'd expect that, in a vacuum, the most that would happen would be the manager mentioning the complaint to the employee and stating that this wasn't appropriate. I also expect the employee's response would be to sulk and write in his LiveJournal or whatever about the bitch who got him yelled at by his boss for a little off-hand remark about comic books, but that's because my faith in humanity is fairly low right now.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Having been a retail manager for many a year in my youth I suspect that scenario is exactly right.