(Part 3) Top products from r/TalesFromRetail

I feel ya. I worked retail, not a caregiver or anything that noble but I have taken care of relatives in ill health. I know exactly how tiring work can be and how stressful on top of that. And to know its such thankless work sometimes, too. People have no idea what we really do.

I know its going to sound like I'm just here to sell my crap but I wrote this book, The Thin Green Line: Five Years Behind the Counter at The Bookstore ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/074147672X/ ) and I bring it up because I discuss this in the book. How I and others used drugs at work and why. It's backbreaking and stressful and people dont understand it. So I honestly feel people in those jobs are entitled to destress and relax as they need to. That's part of the reason I wrote the book, so that people who work these jobs would hear that they aren't alone and people who never have worked these jobs would know what its like.

You are perfectly justified in what you say and do. Be as longwinded as you want, you're entitled.

I love to see service stories like this. It's about doing what's right, not what's policy, and you definitely did that. If you have't read it yet, try picking up the Zappos book and giving it a read (or even passing it along to the boss folk). Has some great info on things like this.

When the Borders near me was going out of business, in the first round of store closings before the entire company went bankrupt, they had some (apparently) deep discounts. 30% off the list price on some books I was looking for! That's pretty good.

I guess I'll just check Amazon to see what they have it for... oh, 31% off the list price. And that was the normal price, not some crazy special going out of business stuff.

And at this point I don't even buy physical books any more, unless I have a really good reason to (like say delicious illustrations or it's a reference book of some sort). There's no point when the ebook reader experience is basically as good, and I can fit a thousand books in something that's only a bit bigger than my phone - and I don't buy my ebooks from a physical store.

Yeah they can. This book is ages 6 and up. Its legal in all 50 states to breastfeed in public its just unusual. I don't see how its different to explain to a child that "That lady is feeding her baby, yes she has milk in her boobies" than "That lady has (insert physical/mental handicap here) but she's just like you and I.

A regular eh?

I'd hand him this book the next time he tried to lecture saying I believe you need this more than I.

https://www.amazon.com/Etiquette-Dummies-Sue-Fox/dp/0470106727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503817178&sr=8-1&keywords=Etiquette+For+Dummies

I'm a little late to the party, but... milk is a deadly poison.

There's a movie and a book

Both are amazing. It's a true story about a group of club kids (many of which can be described as powder puffs) one of which murders another.

Two more:

Watership Down - http://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708

Dragons of Pern series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonflight

Now, there is sex in that book, but it's extremely brief and not graphic at ALL. It's implied and over. And it's not bad sex. It's the start of a life long pair bond.

This will help. I have my own copy at home, and I can now solve a cube in about 3-5 minutes. I'd probably be faster if I practiced more.

Ahem: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1401308902?pc_redir=1398692196&robot_redir=1

Years of roll searching, and the Whitman's Red Book

I had to go look up the title, it's called "Ghetto Cowboy".

Its a curriculum developed by Singapore for their country's elementary students. This is the US version of the texts that Ive seen in schools here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0669010847/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1519881706&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=math+in+focus&dpPl=1&dpID=51C12IzznQL&ref=plSrch

Animorphs?

US too. http://www.amazon.com/Putting-Food-By-Fifth-Edition/dp/0452296226

Alan Dean Foster - Codgerspace

http://www.amazon.com/Codgerspace-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/0441718515

Back when I worked at a book store (former chain that no longer exists) there was the one guy who managed to take all 4 of our DSM-IV hardcovers and 2 paperbacks (about $600 and 30lbs worth of books), put them under his jacket and use the "I'm a fucking psycho" face to walk out of the store.

We could seem him go across the street to the used bookstore to try and sell them for drug and alcohol money, and then we saw him storm out of that store when the owner refused to buy them from him.

edit: DSM-IVs are now kept behind the counter at every bookstore in the area that I've been to, I've seen his picture from our security cams next to a few of them.

>I asked him to leave me alone, he didn’t. So I made up some bs story that I left something behind and ran back into work.

You did well.


The Gift of Fear

https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Fear-Survival-Signals-Violence/dp/0440226198

What is with these people who berate people even after they get what they want. I'm SO glad you stopped them from doing that and I HATE that seemingly nice people have to settle for horrid POS spouses that don't deserve it.

It makes me wonder just what kind of person raises a child like that. She's 21 and she throws tantrums at the store. I read a Berenstain Bears book long ago that probably taught me more about how to behave than this girl has learned in her whole life.

Here's the Berenstain Bears book that changed my life for the better.

Sometimes it is the people who work at bookstores who are the problem. One time I called a bookstore to ask if they had "The Biggest Tongue In Tunisia" and they hung up on me ¯_(ツ)_/¯