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>Bookstore< offers free gift wrapping. Directly above the gift wrapping station is the community bulletin board. We allow people to hang flyers advertising community events on this board. Some people ask before they hang stuff, some don't. Every couple weeks a manager goes through and takes down ads for events whose dates have passed.
The other night I was working and a lady asked me to wrap something. While I was doing that, she said that she'd brought in a flyer a few days before and asked a co-worker if she could hang it. Co-worker hung it for her, but it wasn't there now. I explained about taking down old flyers, and she said the event wasn't happening for a few days yet. I told her sometimes customers hung other flyers without asking us and someone may have taken hers down to make room for theirs.
She seemed okay with that, but suddenly started talking about how the co-worker (no idea who) must have just been pretending to be nice and took the flyer down as soon as the lady left. And how some people just couldn't stand others with lifestyles different from their own. And how if the event was offensive the co-worker should have just told her (it was an African drumming concert....
).
Anyway, I repeated what I said before twice more, then gave her the wrapped book and she thanked me and left. Fifteen minutes later the phone rang and the person asked for a manager. Listening to the manager's side of the conversation, I knew it was the same lady and he was telling her the exact same thing I'd told her three times before!
We had a laugh after he finally got off the phone. She was convinced we hated her and her different lifestyle (whatever that was; not sure how we could tell how she lives just by looking at her) and were somehow bigoted against African drumming.
Not so much sucky as annoying and kind of weird, I guess, but I don't work much in the bookstore anymore so I have to use what I can!
The other night I was working and a lady asked me to wrap something. While I was doing that, she said that she'd brought in a flyer a few days before and asked a co-worker if she could hang it. Co-worker hung it for her, but it wasn't there now. I explained about taking down old flyers, and she said the event wasn't happening for a few days yet. I told her sometimes customers hung other flyers without asking us and someone may have taken hers down to make room for theirs.
She seemed okay with that, but suddenly started talking about how the co-worker (no idea who) must have just been pretending to be nice and took the flyer down as soon as the lady left. And how some people just couldn't stand others with lifestyles different from their own. And how if the event was offensive the co-worker should have just told her (it was an African drumming concert....
).Anyway, I repeated what I said before twice more, then gave her the wrapped book and she thanked me and left. Fifteen minutes later the phone rang and the person asked for a manager. Listening to the manager's side of the conversation, I knew it was the same lady and he was telling her the exact same thing I'd told her three times before!
We had a laugh after he finally got off the phone. She was convinced we hated her and her different lifestyle (whatever that was; not sure how we could tell how she lives just by looking at her) and were somehow bigoted against African drumming.
Not so much sucky as annoying and kind of weird, I guess, but I don't work much in the bookstore anymore so I have to use what I can!
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