Yet another artifact from the slow, painful death of Borders has emerged. Read the full post.
Sep 20
2011
04:58 PM ET
Borders employees list grievances: 'Ode to a bookstore death'
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If you’re one of the MANY that used to do that. I’ll be waitin’ for the time when wrath cuts you down.
I don’t understand why people are so defensive about big box retailers getting ripped off. Why are these people so fiercely loyal to a company that kicked them out on their asses?
I don’t necessarily care that they got ripped off. I hate that us former slaveship workers are on here getting the tar kicked out of us, by people who shopped at one Borders store, and then came on here to sing glory, glory hallelujah GLAD THE EMPLOYEES got to suffer. That’s just stupidity, and utter bullsh*t, and the opinion of an asinine ignoramus. Any problems that people had should have been…DUM DUM DUM, reported to corporate…straight to corporate… It all goes back to that one guy who said his wife bought a gift card, and then Borders won’t let him use it because they are closing, AND THEN goes on to make the genius statement that he’s glad we’re out of jobs. What kind of senseless bitterness is that? Go after that people that kicked us out on our can, and who was responsible for such nonsense in the first place (and yes, I am 100% sure on the following things)…it all stems right back to ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. Those fools were giving each other raises, bonuses, and endless vacations. Gleefully being rewarded for making the stupidest, most mindless business decisions ever created. Nope, they couldn’t afford to stock our stores with stuff you need, or ever give us a raise…but hey all of them received OUTSTANDING holiday bonuses, and then more bonuses shortly afterwards. TRUE STORY. If you really worked there and were in the thick, or know half of anything, you’d know this common knowledge. It was going around, and it was true. Ever wonder why the stores were so derelict, and becoming more sparsely stocked, or poorly served in the final months? That’s because a bunch of goons that ran the whole shebang were too busy pattin’ their own backs, because they knew the d*mn thing was gonna go under anyway. That’s what burns me up here. People wanting us to burn, when they don’t know one fact in their tiny brains. I’m glad Borders burned, but we got handed the shaft of all shafts…just like some of you customers. Ann Arbor, Michigan is where you should send ALL of your hate mail if they still have an address. They ripped me off, they ripped you off, and they ripped everyone off execpt themselves…their all fat and rich down there, and seriously, don’t argue me on it. That’s the story.
Closing arguement and for real this time:
Now that I’ve aired my dirty laundary, and the greatest of your warriors T2 came on here and attacked with a vicious assault, deftly picking out grammatical inconsistencies in stuff that took me no more than 30 seconds to throw together tops in any one sitting, I’m afraid I must leave you DIM-WITTED idiots alone. That goes for you T2, dear. Basically, I’ve said my piece. As for T2…I do have 2 college degrees (100% not bought, and helpful with the work I do now). Not that I feel the need to showcase that when dealing with a bunch of johnny come latelys like yourself. Oh yeah T2, you must be really smart, needin’ to come in and grab vocabularly books. LOL. Sounds like you teach elementary school, and your attempts to treat me like one of the little kids you sit with at the reading circle just shows what a conceited jerk you are. I can smell the upper class, American b.s. all over you…hell, right through my computer screen. No one cares about your opinion, as no one does mine. I just felt like coming in and taking a big sh*t over whiny, self righetous customers like yourself, cause in your post…the one that started me off in the first place…shows you only care about yourself and complaining. You took no action to try and see if Borders would start stocking the books again. You didn’t write to corprorate, and I’m sure you didn’t get busy with the sales manager. You’re the kind of people that sat there and act like, “Oh, I’m so smart I see why it went under.” For the record…you’re not (sorry if I’m not taking the time to actually read over any of what I’m typing…I’m not one of your 5 year olds in the reading circle…god you must be a stuck-up teacher, DEAR). It is the worthless Ann Arbor fools, and customers like you who expect their items in bronze on the shelves. If you actually made a real big stink about some of the things that irked you about the store, someone might have actually listened to you. Then again, probably not if you threw on one of your childish dears at the end of the sentence, to patronize everyone like a 5-year old child, the only people you can relate to, because you find their intelligence and world views are much like your own (all about themselves, that’s a child’s way). But fear not T2, I’m giving you the same as each idiot. I won’t be back this time. I promise you that. I’m not going to be reading this anymore. It seems I’ve took a total dump on anyone that knew nothing of what they were talking about (you included, dear). Again I apologize for my spelling mistakes. I just despise people rolling around on what was my life for awhile. It took care of my family and paid the bills, and you’re all here laughing at all of us who did this work. You could careless about anything human T2. You prove this. THINGS are what motivates and fuels you. It doesn’t make one difference to you that 10,000 people lost their jobs…you only care about vocabulary books. And you even clearly admitted it was about a year ago. YOU’RE THAT UPSET OVER SOMETHING THAT STUPID THAT HAPPENED A YEAR AGO?!?!?!?!?! That you can’t do anything about now, but could have then. You put the writing on the wall for me…even bad grammar can’t eliminate the fact that you actually took the time to complain about something worthless, that happened too long ago to do anything about, and that no one cares about!
Oh wait! I did feel the need to showcase it, to prove that people at Borders aren’t worthless! The whole reason I stomped all over you in the first place. Now, I can’t wait for T2 to be like, OH NO, HE WENT AGAINST THINGS HE SAID ON THE INTERNET, CAUSE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET TYPED IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE! Have fun with the 5 years old T2, dear! Glad there’s people like you screwing up our nation’s youth!
I whine and moan about nothing important to life, teach children all the wrong things, and senselessly complain about things I should have done something about a year ago. I love you all, dear.
I only care about vocabularly books.
I am the bane of society. Nothing worth remembering, nothing worth mentioning.
You sure do T2! You sure do!
All of his nonsense aside, I actually feel bad for John. Do you blame the guy for acting like this? If I had to mop up spooge and booze in a book outlet, I doubt I’d be friendly myself. It’s all too easy to blame a whole group of people it seems, an ongoing problem on the Internet; the slandering and hatred. I’m sad to see Borders go, but their time had come, and I can’t say I didn’t see it coming myself.
Mike…appreciate your understanding, but really I’m just having some fun, and could really careless about Borders anymore. Everyone else can spew venom and hatred on the internet, don’t see why I can’t myself? T2, sorry for impersonating you. You’re just too easy. Lighten up. Quit spilling poison. Don’t worry so much about vocabularly books. You’ll be just fine. There’s more to life than a bunch of materials.
You’re still a flaming moron though, DEAR.
John…turn the lights out when you leave. Everyone else is gone.
Haha. I will, since you had to come back one final time and turn them on! T3, the astute disciple of the last word! The maturity of the 5 year olds you teach is rubbing off. But, here I am. Hittin’ the lights for ya!
As a small independant bookseller one of my least fav. questions is “Where is the literature?”. And who is going to decide if something is “Literature” vs. general fiction. Please.
You know, maybe this is why Borders went by the wayside and Barnes & Noble didn’t. When I managed a B&N, we knew there would be customers that would read books and then return them; if we had to write off the cost of a book now and then, that was just the cost of doing business.
Sure bookstores have big displays of what’s popular. That’s what sells, and, believe it or not, you have to sell stuff to pay the rent.
What we had, perhaps, that Borders didn’t, maybe, are booksellers content to let people read what they want to read, whether it is a last-minute summer reading list that might be Borders bookseller summer reading hell or not, and then provide those books to those people as well as they can.
I was proud to work for B&N because I believe that, at the top, the people there are pretty savvy booksellers, and that their main concern is providing what their customers want, within the reasonable bounds of possibilitiy, in their stores.
Without, at least in my little Mankato store, bookseller condescension.
I think that the little scene in the film ‘You’ve got mail’ just about sums up the quality of staff in bookshops these days. The customer has a vague query about a book series, the dumb megastore staff member says dah I dunnno and Meg Ryan knows all about the books that the woman is asking about because she knows about books. If people working in bookshops actually knew something about books other than fantasy fiction, they might actually be able to answer some customer enquiries in an intelligent manner.
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