scottish is as funny as bitish but much more respectable
when i hear bitish accent i am laughing at it and when i hear scottish accent i am laughing with it
Work updates:
I’ve been breathing toxic fumes for two months along with my co-worker who works in the same room as me, and no one’s done shit or listened to our complaints until now
The white lady complaining about the South Asian lady’s smell is indeed a racist, confirmed by another incident I witnessed and from the accounts of other co-workers, one of whom called her a Nazi
And she’s a homophobe
So Receiving is one of the most physically demanding jobs in the store, but the other important aspect of this job (to the story) is that it’s in the back, behind the scenes. Me and K work in the Receiving room, although I don’t do the receiving job. We’d hired a few new people, one of whom was being lined up to replace K’s assistant who had just straight-up walked out one day. Co-worker C works on the sales floor and has gotten a good look at all the new people being trained, but K and I haven’t. C comes back to talk to K and tells her that there’s a new girl being trained to help her in receiving and it’s good because the new girl is “the right type” for receiving, although K isn’t (according to C). This leaves K and me confused, and we ask C what she means, but she doesn’t explain and keeps reiterating that the new girl is the Type to work in receiving. After C leaves, K and I are like What’s the type???? Big and buff??? K is pretty tough and strong so why would she not be the Type? But when we finally met the new girl it turns out that the Type (according to C) is Black.
She also refused to help a lesbian couple register for their wedding because it was “against her beliefs” :\
Work updates:
I’ve been breathing toxic fumes for two months along with my co-worker who works in the same room as me, and no one’s done shit or listened to our complaints until now
The white lady complaining about the South Asian lady’s smell is indeed a racist, confirmed by another incident I witnessed and from the accounts of other co-workers, one of whom called her a Nazi
And she’s a homophobe
So Receiving is one of the most physically demanding jobs in the store, but the other important aspect of this job (to the story) is that it’s in the back, behind the scenes. Me and K work in the Receiving room, although I don’t do the receiving job. We’d hired a few new people, one of whom was being lined up to replace K’s assistant who had just straight-up walked out one day. Co-worker C works on the sales floor and has gotten a good look at all the new people being trained, but K and I haven’t. C comes back to talk to K and tells her that there’s a new girl being trained to help her in receiving and it’s good because the new girl is “the right type” for receiving, although K isn’t (according to C). This leaves K and me confused, and we ask C what she means, but she doesn’t explain and keeps reiterating that the new girl is the Type to work in receiving. After C leaves, K and I are like What’s the type???? Big and buff??? K is pretty tough and strong so why would she not be the Type? But when we finally met the new girl it turns out that the Type (according to C) is Black.
Work updates:
I’ve been breathing toxic fumes for two months along with my co-worker who works in the same room as me, and no one’s done shit or listened to our complaints until now
The white lady complaining about the South Asian lady’s smell is indeed a racist, confirmed by another incident I witnessed and from the accounts of other co-workers, one of whom called her a Nazi
And she’s a homophobe
Drinking coffee knowing you didn’t get enough sleep for it to do anything but make you anxious
Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube
… I am unironically here for this
this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
do you remember THIS? do you remember THIS FUCKING LEG? jesus christ getty images pulling THROUGH
#Sometimes I play this song when I'm absolutely right and ive been right all along
#song
#music
#five man electrical band
You’re absolutely right
You’ve been right all along
You’re absolutely right
And I was wrong
Here’s something I wanna say real quick, while I’m feeling salty: Amazon has totally contributed to the devaluation of literature. Those prices you see, the $13 they’re asking you to pay for a hardcover book? Those are deep, DEEP discounts that they’re able to implement because they don’t collect sales tax if they can get away with it, they don’t contribute money to the communities where they have a physical presence, they have shitty labor practices, Jeff Bezos has more money than god, etc.
They’re so omnipotent at this point that they’ve normalized the discounted prices for books as the standard. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had someone come up to me and tell me what the price on Amazon is, expecting me to match it. The number of times I’ve been told, “Oh, it’s cheaper on Amazon, I’ll just get it there.” Even at author events, where book sales DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE to whether or not that bookstore will be able to get more authors in.
So when you go into a bookstore, and you’re asked to pay $27 for a hardcover, remember: THAT IS THE COVER PRICE. Set by the publishers. The bookstore is not upcharging you. They are asking you to pay the value of the book. Amazon’s low prices come with a cost. Please, just keep that in mind.
(I made a post with options for buying books online that aren’t Amazon. Check it out!)
This is a great post, and I just want to point out: publishers aren’t upcharging you either.
The cost of the book is the advance for the author, it’s the salaries for all the people who work on it (including editors, yes, but also designers and marketers and publicists and lawyers and accountants and everyone else who makes sure publishing works). It’s the cost of printing the books and the materials to print those books on and the warehouses to store those books in. It’s keeping the literal lights on.
No one in the book business, from the author to the publisher to the bookseller, is making themselves rich off your money. This is the cost to survive. Amazon is running at a deficit because they can make up the cost with other things they do, and because once they run everyone else out of business, they’ll be the only game in town and can charge whatever they damn well please.
And please, please do not ask a bookstore (especially an indie bookstore) if they “price match.” It’s so insulting.
Amazon routinely sells books at or *below* wholesale cost. Meaning that when you ask a bookstore to ‘price match’ Amazon, you’re literally asking them to give you the book for free, or even take a financial loss on it.
‘So how can Amazon do it?’ you ask? The answer is Amazon does not care about losing money. It sells goods at a loss continuously. (Don’t believe me? Just search “Amazon quarterly losses” and you can find article after article about this) Why? Because its goal isn’t to sell the most things, it’s goal is to be the only place where you CAN buy things. They gouge prices on goods to a point where brick and mortar retailers absolutely cannot compete and they do it with the singular goal of eliminating competition.
Things have value. They represent many people’s time and labor. For books, specifically, they represent tremendous cultural worth that extends far beyond the value of the paper they’re printed on. We have to appreciate the value of goods and be willing to pay a fair price that will support and nurture industries.
It’s ok to be upset that you can’t afford $26 for a new hardcover, but make sure that that anger is directed, not at the people whose labor makes books possible, but at the people on top (like Jeff Bezos) who have devalued your own labor such that you can’t afford it.
^^^ if anyone is wondering this is LITERALLY the exact same strategy that Walmart used to destroy any small business and fuck over local economies.
Why is buying an expensive cup of coffee from a shop so satisfying that you completely forget that it costs too much