danlo rips Albq. B & N a new one!!!
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danlo: Fatal Revenant?
clerk: Revenant? That's not even a word! Hey Joe, you seen any Fatal Revenant book around?
Joe: Revenant? That's not even a word! Hey Bill, have you seen any Fatal Revenant book anywhere?
Bill: Revenant? That's not even a word! Hey Kathy......
you could do a whole scene with that haha
clerk: Revenant? That's not even a word! Hey Joe, you seen any Fatal Revenant book around?
Joe: Revenant? That's not even a word! Hey Bill, have you seen any Fatal Revenant book anywhere?
Bill: Revenant? That's not even a word! Hey Kathy......
you could do a whole scene with that haha
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Heehee! This could be funny.
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Re: danlo rips Albq. B & N a new one!!!
I've worked at a Barnes & Noble, and so I can see this from both sides.kevinswatch wrote:Haha! Classic.-jaydanlo wrote:"Revenant? That's not even a word!."
The people that come into B&N are a mixed bag. A lot are kinda dumb. I know I wouldn't have questioned a word simply because I hadn't heard it, but you do get a fair share of people who make up words, titles, authors, the planet they live on, etc. So honestly, I'm not surprised by that reaction. He shouldn't have been a rude jerk and pointed out that you are making up a word until he checked it at least, but hey.
Second in my defense is that you are not paid to read books there...just sell them. And as I think Donaldson said somewhere, "if there ain't it movie of the book, the book doesn't exist." To a lot of people anyway. As a feller who has an English Lit degree, I consider myself fairly well read. There's a heap I haven't read. I learned a lot working at Barnes and Noble, but every now and again, I'd get that look like I was insane for not knowing who someone was. And I generally had no idea who the local authors were unless there was a reason I did. When I first started working at the B&N in Tucson, I discovered Tony Hillerman and that Santa-Claus-lookin'-muthaf***er health guru were local authors (just remembered....Andrew Weil). I'm sure I caught some of the looks then for not recognizing them when I first started working there. Later I had Andrew Weil's credit card number from his assistant, and sadly, I did not use it for evil.
On the flip side, a heap of the employees working at B&N are idiots too. I can remember one employee who was proud to say that she only read magazines. Again, it's the same criteria of any retail store - if you look like you could sell books, they'll hire you. If you have knowledge...yeah, that's good, but otherwise if you are cute, you might just have the job. So yes...the stupidity runs from the top down.
Thankfully I'm smart and cute....and modest too.
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Re: danlo rips Albq. B & N a new one!!!
danlo, you're awesome. But I cannot help but imagine...
After danlo leaves, the first worker rolls his eyes and says, "Book nuts". To which the second replies, "Yeah."danlo wrote:As I'm about to threaten to tell them I know SRD personally and am about to go home and email him to come to the store- two workers, who've heard my triade come flying downstairs with two cases of books and start setting up displays!!!
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Re: danlo rips Albq. B & N a new one!!!
And then the third guy says so quietly that he can barely be heard and just as the camera pans away "I rubbed myself all over the cover" to which they all bust out laughing.Wayfriend wrote: After danlo leaves, the first worker rolls his eyes and says, "Book nuts". To which the second replies, "Yeah."
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yes how did you KNOW my middle name is grace?Esmer wrote:OMG! Have Lucimay falling over boxes of books and frantically crashing down the stairs! SRD could show up and loan danlo his copy!
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and that's not what we brag about.
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So ya wanna be a cowboy, Danlo?
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