FUCK WATERSTONES

Stupid.
This is what you answer:

>he starts quizzing me on what books I read
Mainly anything that fall on the NY times bestseller list or Amazon bestseller list. You know, I try to keep it up with the trends, either on Young adult fiction as well as romantic fiction.

>asks my favorite book
Mostly I read the reviews of the NY times and memorize key aspects to give a recommendation based on what books we offer an the demographic the customer belongs.
Right now I am reading EXTREME PREY ©, by John Sandford, which is #1 at sales.

What even is pop and cool? Game of thrones? Should I have just lied and said I read harry potter and Game of Thrones all day?

In hindsight this makes perfect sense, ironically the actual avid readers I know abhor that shit

why the fuck do I have to pretend to be a pleb to get a goddamn job working a tell and stacking shelves?

If you really want that job (god forbid) just go to the store and see what it is promoting, then just read it. Alternatively just quit trying and get a real job.

come back at night and torch the place then blame it on the muslims

Nigga you are overqualified. No one wants to hire and train someone who's already looking for a better job.

Next time lie on your application and report yourself as a high school graduate. Also don't act like a snob-ass douche in the interview.

>pretend

it's a customer service job any way, so the main thing you need is to be at least somewhat likeable. that's where you failed clearly

>why the fuck do I have to pretend
Dude, lowering your power level to seem more "normie" is the only way to go unless you wanna end as an outcast.

What am I supposed to say: Yes, I like Greco-Roman music, I don't dance, I read the Greeks on original language and my political ideas are so obscure they belong more to a cult than to a party.

Leave your Bros K for when you are chilling at home and play ball outside.

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn around and tear you in pieces

it wasn't an interview I just dropped in and inquired about the job

up yours, nigger, I'm extremely friendly

I'm just trying to save up to do a master's degree, I've done 3 years of contracted work as a desktop engineer have a top class degree and no one will fucking hire me to do some basic bitch work for minimum wage

Yeah dude work on the anger management part, you're overdoing it.

Fuck getting a job in general.

>referred to a job at a gas station right up the road
>don't get it despite getting recommendations from the manager and three employees I would be working with
>hired an almost literal retard

>pound the ground and try for a job multiple places that either are not hiring or want to keep it in the family

>a local hardware store is hiring so go in to speak to the manager
>told to apply online
>get call a week later and told since I didn't have enough retail experience I couldn't stock shelves or unload a truck

>same with Sears but actually be completely liked and get along with the interviewer
>told I will be contacted before the week was up whether I got the job or not
>no call at all and a month later get a rejection email

>told to go to the staffing agency
>get told by the woman who interviewed me that they "WILL CALL ME" when I inquired about some jobs they had listed on their website
>100% sure they sold my info since I get ads and shit in the mail that I never got before there

I'm on the verge of killing myself.

why is everybody assuming I'm an autist? I'm an ultra normie if anything I just like Veeky Forums because it's the only true bastion of free speech on the internet and probably in the world

I honestly just thought I'd have a better chance of getting a job in a bookshop by showing that I actually read books

the other people working there looked like they read three books a year with one of them being a cookbook

as a hiring manager for my company. I really don't care about your schooling or where you work or even what your answers to those questions would be. I care about how you answer them. I'm looking to see if I would enjoy working with you, as well as everyone else in the company. we hire on personality. anyone can be taught to do a job. so basically your shit personality lost you the job. remember that in an interview you don't necessarily have to be yourself (if your a fag), you can be anyone you want. the interviewer doesn't know you. try acting like someone else at your next interview. do interviews for places you don't want to work. just for practise, so your not a nervous cunt.

I literally can't express how much better my life has been since I attended Oxford, instead of trying to get a shitty job like you. I went to a state school and gradually became the stereotypical moody, withdrawn sensitive type who both despises the quality of his immediate culture and feels a weird pride for having been raised in a sort of anti-intellectual and brutal environment. I was all set to take my Russell Group humanities BA and spend my life working as an anonymous, insecure wageslave forever thankful of being offered a job and forever too insecure to pursue my creative ambitions. The chip on my shoulder had become something of a wedge, and I felt too out of place regardless of my environment, too resentful and bitter to even attempt to make it in the artistic world. Then I finally applied for Oxford and got in to study an English MA, with reassurance that should I work hard enough a career in academia or within one of Oxford's affiliated companies would be almost guaranteed. I turned up as apprehensive as usual, and the first few days were spent regretting my decision and desperately feigning a cultured personality. But then I realized that the people there were just interesting and that the snobbery and exclusivity I had anticipated was just a myth borne out of my working class upbringing. I've since graduated, having spend the year dining in grand halls with groups of interesting people, dating several girls (one of whom, a petite Russian whose family traces back to the aristocracy, is now my fiancee). I work four days a week at a publishing company and earn ?38k a year. I regularly meet up with friends from my college and visit Oxford for nights out and for meetings with my professors.

>why is everybody assuming I'm an autist?

because of what you say

>bastion of free speech
There is no other place in the world where people will so readily jump down your throat for stating an opinion than Veeky Forums.

I applied for a job in the LEGO™ store not long ago, my entire childhood revolved around the shit as did my friends

I had countless sets of Star Wars Lego, cowboy and lego city sets, bionicles etc.

I've been surrounded by kids in my family growing up as well and passed on the shit to them

but because I've not worked in retail before they rejected my application and probably gave the job to some chick who dropped out of school at 15 and worked in a Tesco for two years because she saw the Lego movie twice

...

exactly it's fantastic, humanity in its ugliest purest form

for example this guy

chill dude, you ask for a job in place where they dont care if the customer leaves with a cook book or Anna Karenina or Android Karenina for that matter.

You seem like you would be more comfortable working on a small used-rare-books kinda store. The kinda store that is run by a 100 year old scholar/ professor that probably has the rosetta stone on display and the Necronomicon on the back.

YES THAT IS CALLED FREE SPEECH
YOU FUCKING BACKWARDS SJW COVERT FASCIST RETARD

>You seem like you would be more comfortable working on a small used-rare-books kinda store. The kinda store that is run by a 100 year old scholar/ professor
mate after I left that was seriously the first thing that crossed my mind

>not mentioning the genius john green

No, man, that's mob rule. Speech is only free to the people who can yell the loudest and post the fastest. It's the reason 4/5 of all posts are less than 2 sentences and it's the reason that shitposting is the only viable way of getting your point across here. It's why a bunch of college-educated people are reduced to calling each other autistic instead of actually saying things that matter to them.

>disregard everything
>become a book hunter

I would kindly like to express solidarity with you, brother. It is surely a dread and lamentable state of things, when a young man, who has dedicated his entire being to the study of literature, cannot even attain a lowly position in the worst of all bookshops.

that's like going to an interview at gamestop and saying

"yeah my favorite games are final Fantasy 1-4. I only play ps1 and super NES games and I love weeeeeeeeew Japanese imports"

INTERVIEWER: what's your favourite book

YOU: (autistically) heh l-lolita! heh...

nigger you need to learn how the world works

spoken like a true cuck

jk but the meme magic is top bants

INTERVIEWER: I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THAT LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. WHAT ABOUT A BOOK WRITTEN WITHIN THE LAST 100 YEARS KEK

that's a pretty poor analogy, could similarly say that it's like going to gamestop and they won't hire you unless you exclusively play facebook and mobile games

He probably rejected you 'cause you thought you were hot shit for reading fucking Dostoevsky.

both of those are fine analogies. the point is you need to be up to date with the current games they sell at the store.

>le delusional 'I'm so much better than everyone and that's why my life isn't working out' thread

this is the exact flip side of SJW's who claim they are fat and gross because of patriarchy

u so cute Veeky Forums

No, not really. Gamestop doesn't sell mobile or facebook games. Gamestop wants you to know and sound excited about the games they're selling, so you will do a good job of making them money. The bookstore wants you to know and sound excited about the books they're selling so you will do a good job of making them money.

I got my current job at a bookstore because I told my manager how much I loved Dubliners and I let him tell me about Saunders' Pastoralia.

PW named us bookstore of the year for 2016.

Should've said The Brothers Karamazov

the difference is you can get the jist of a game by watching the trailer or 5 minutes of footage

having to pour 5-10 hours into shitty contemporary literature by some middle aged soccer mum to be up to date is another story

YOU: (mumbled, between sobs) no...discernible talent...(sniff)...please

what bookstore do you work at, mate?

>tfw no bookstores in my town

Same guy here

>This is what you answer

No it isn't. You answer what you damn well please and if you have a manager worth a damn he or she will hire because you DONT like those books.

Your manager wants variety. Period. Someone to recommend mystery. Someone to recommend graphic novels. Literature. Poetry, History. Etc.

Within two weeks of your job you will know what the top sellers are. There is no need to already like those things.

The only idiots who think "just parrot whatever amazon says is selling" are those who have not worked in a bookstore.

Because if the above were true, anyone who said their favorite book is a tie between The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and ANY adult coloring books should get the job.

go on goodreads. read review. go YouTube. watch booktube review. same thing dumbass.

you really think the people who leave goodreads reviews or make youtube vlogs on books know a damn thing about what's good?

those niggers are worse than Veeky Forums for hating things, the amount of negative reviews genuine masterpieces get is astounding

Books Inc

Wont say which one. But suffice to say, a huge crowd of investors in bookselling came by our store about a month ago because they were having a meeting nearby and heard how much of a profit we were turning.

I ventured into /pol/ the other day to a bit of nutcase watching and someone said something equally baffling. No word of a lie it was something to the effect of, "What's with all these liberals entering and ruining free speech on this board by being here. It's becoming a hugbox now" without the slightest hint of irony.

no for bestsellers. jesus your dense

sounds awesome, friend

> huge crowd of investors in bookselling came by our store about a month ago because they were having a meeting nearby and heard how much of a profit we were turning.
probably because they're hiring people who actually know a good book when they read one

and you're a meany head

this

>be me
>worked in a bookstore
>nobody cares about classics, poetry etc.
>they want shades of grey and crime (without punishment)

Exat same thing applies to recordstores. If you play modern Jazz people literally get triggered and call you an idiot while paying for their Toto album.

It's insufferable.

OP here, just told my friends and family about getting denied the job

they all had the same response of: HAHAHA user, HOW COULD YOU OF ALL PEOPLE NOT GET HIRED BY A BOOKSTORE?

I laughed but it hurt a little

Don't beat yourself up, you would hate working there. You'd make daily Veeky Forums threads about pleb customers.

Does anyone actually come into book stores asking for recommendations? The job just sounds like typical customer service with a requirement to memorise regular product marketing.

I go to book stores to browse, not waste other peoples time

just drop it man it hasn't been funny

what did he mean by this?

this.

it's like going to an interview with McDonald's and saying

>"yeah my favorites are, obviously, the French and the way the Japanese, such as Seiji YAMAMOTO, handle presentation in their dishes, but of course who can turn down a classic Tuscan supper and of course I'm fascinated by the work being done in molecular gastronomy."

I would have laughed at you, too, you God damned autist.

>bookstore of the year

That's clearly way different than a fucking Waterstones. They're like a Borders or a Barnes and Noble.

this.

the first post of the thread got it right, everything after was a mistake

what a time to be alive when sincerity and a keen interest in your passions sparks such descent

dont feel bad.

The guy who invented Whassap wasnt hired by Facebook.

You're still missing the point entirely. He's overqualified to work at a fucking Waterstones. If he wants a filler job, he needs to dumb it down a bit because that's the type of people who will be in there day in and day out.

which is an easy as fuck task, surely to get the job you have to show your prowess and explain why you're the best candidate for the job and then start playing the game?

why should you let the retards through the gate first in the hopes that they don't fuck it up later when you can just explain the rules to the more qualified person?

he needs to look for some fine, independent bookstore I guess. A bookstore which can potentially survive without selling bestsellers and whose customers aren´t plebs. Those bookstores are few I know, but desu he wouldn`t have been happy at Waterstones anyway. At least my personal experience tells me so.

I just want a job to be honest mate,I just thought a bookshop job would make the most sense

God damn you're retarded. A place like Waterstones is not looking for the best candidate for the job.

They're looking for the retards through the gate, just to find the one who is going to clean, restock, and checkout fast when it's busy. That's it. Retail 101. They want people who are going to listen to them when they tell them sell this fucking book that is god awful but it's flying off our shelves like fucking hot cakes on national hot cake day, not the guy who's going to stand behind the counter when Mrs. Crabapple comes to the checkout with Harry Potter for her kids and a little bit of barely disguised Erotica for her to masturbate in the tub and tell her, "you know, if you really want to get off and get your kids on the right track, you should pick up some Zhukovsky and Pushkin. Also try Gogol and Turgenev to begin."

tragic

pleb apologism

he probably thought you were overqualified for the job... they don't need salesmen with too good tastes

Finally, it looks like you get it. Retail stores are looking for plebs and only plebs.

Everything is fucking terrible. I just wanted a job during any part of the day or night where I shifted boxes from one place to another. How hard is it? How hard can it be?

customers plebs
employees plebs
evrbdy happy

It's actually funny when you contrast this reply
with these replies
One of these people understands how his contemporary society works and makes it work to his benefit, and the other two think that being autistic and lacking understanding of their surroundings somehow makes them better artists.

people don´t like special snowflakes for these jobs

I don't think I'm a special snowflake, I just don't understand why it takes retail experience when an average, non-retarded person can be trained in how to do something so simple in less than a day. How does this make me a snowflake?

asoiaf is literally the most masterful piece of literature composed in the last half century
maybe if you enjoyed any decent writing they would've accepted you. worthless cunt

I work at a Waterstones in Clapham Junction. It's not fun.

>have to wear fancy dress pretty often
>had to choose a protagonist and come in as them
>most people chose generic LOTR / Hunger Games / Harry Potter stuff
>tfw I went as DFW thinking people would appreciate it
>tfw manager made me change into work uniform because it looked like I was just wearing my own clothes
>regularly have to promote John Green-tier stuff to people asking about books
>tfw got shutdown by a girl who thought I was flirting with her by suggesting obscure (I wasn't)
>tfw you have to clear a section of classics to make room for another section of genre shit
>tfw autistic kids come in and grab a bunch of books to carry and I have to smile and then collect them and re-shelf them when their parents are done

either you're lying and know you're an autist and are trying to hide it, because that's clearly the reason you were rejected so readily; or you don't know about your own position on the spectrum, and that's something you should address asap

haha, well memed

wear dress
hit on girls
wtf

You're overqualified, they want a minimally competent, reliable retard (preferably no college degree) who has no chance of better prospects coming along.

It doesn't make sense for them to train your stupid ass to do a retard's job and then have you leave in two months for a better job or school and then they have to hire and train another retard for the same position.

>being a wagecuck

wew lad you'll never live the literary lifestyle that way

>>have to wear fancy dress pretty often
t-this sounds fun

a maid uniform :3

god I hate faggots

stop acting like one then

I don't get it

Every once in a while a topic comes along that reminds me that I'm posting on a board full of clueless teenagers. Jesus fuck.

>I even dropped a joke about it being a "Catch 22" that I can't work there to gain the experience

Nail in the coffin.

Welcome to real life, where you have to lie and misrepresent yourself in order to get what you want. Have you read Catcher in the Rye? Or Notes from the Underground? They also carry out the "I'm real" delusion to the very end. Read Epictetus' Discourses to get yourself ready for the next one.

This is what happens when the special snowflake generation hits employment folks; we're all fucked.

I agree but 3 years ago I was in the same boat. Everyone grows up being lied to about how special and intelligent they are and no one teaches you how to do this shit. I remember years ago writing on an application to a cafe that I did kendo, spoke Japanese and basic Chinese. Painful.