Bookstore Zone Mainenance Hell
A Retail Balls Award goes to Ginger Music Bitch for standing up to an overzealous religious custy on FACEBOOK, of all places:
Hello! Ginger Music Bitch again!
Below is a screenshot off my friends facebook page.
One of her friends took pictures of himself getting kicked out of a bookstore for reshelving Bibles in the fiction section.
Hilarious.
Now I dont really care what a person's religious preference is. For the record, I'm a failed Catholic shacking up with an Athiest.
But what really irks me is that in making their "grand statement", they don't think of all the poor retail slaves who either have to clean that up during general recovery of the store, or during Zone Maintenance.
Its a waste of time then, and it's lost sales if someone comes in asking for that certain Bible.
Felt I needed to have my say.
I'm not freinds with that guy, so I had to put it on her page, hopefully where he will see it.
If he bitches about it, I will just link him to this site.
I just want people to STOP DOING THAT.
It's not funny.
It's not clever.
It's really really irritating.
We have had to stay an hour late every night this week cleaning up after people, when usually we are out after 30 minutes.
I'm so tired.
And people purposely making messes drive me crazy.
What do you guys think of the "moral reshelvers?"
--Ginger Music Bitch
(names and info have been blacked out to protect Ginger)
Although tempting from an author's point of view, I promise not to do that with Retail Hell, Book Slaves...LOL --Freddy
How about you save the reshelvers some time and trouble, and file the Bible properly, in the FICTION section?
Posted by: WMDKitty | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 03:24 PM
Super-lame because they're clearly just copying the meme that's been going around the internet for a while. If you're going to make that much extra work for the retail slaves, at least do it for something original.
Posted by: Whatevs | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 03:43 PM
@WMDKitty That made me laugh so much!
Posted by: Cindii | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 03:44 PM
Personally, I think the RHU book should be filed under Self Help :)
Posted by: Halfhearted Sales Ninja | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 05:16 PM
Since it's really not our place to say where the Bible belongs, whatever your religious beliefs may be, I think what they should have done is make him put everything back THEN kicked him out.
Posted by: NC Tony | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 06:21 PM
ugh, I HATE that shit too. Some twits have entirely too much time on their hands. And I dont have near enough time to waste cleaning up after you, jackasses. No one gives a fresh zesty fuck what your religious views are, as far as Im concerned thats as bad as those religious nuts who corner you and lecture you about their beliefs. Same thing happens alot in the Politics section too but they usually just turn the books of the opposing party around backward or cover them up with books from their own party. Gets very old, very fast.
Posted by: BORDERline Personality | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 09:23 PM
Kinda off the subject, but when Bill Clinton's autobiography came out, it was actually shelved under "New Fiction" at the local Borders. I was tickled.
Posted by: Sisu | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 11:53 PM
It's rude as hell. Rude to the bookstore slaves, and rude to those who hold those beliefs. I don't care if you're an atheist, Orthodox, deist, Flying Spaghetti Monsterist, whatever - do your thing and let other people do theirs.
Posted by: Kelly | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 05:16 AM
I second NC Tony's suggestion...
Posted by: Stockroom Slave | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 07:14 AM
actualy followers of the flying spagetti monster are called pastafarians and their heaven has stripper factories and a beer volcano.
Posted by: Me | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 08:36 AM
What a friggin' dipshit. What's the idea here? That some Christians are going to come into the store, find all the Bibles in the fiction section and have like a Boss Hogg moment? Throw their hats on the ground and be like "Dawwww shucks! Them crafty non-Christians done got us again!" while he slow motion jumps his fucking 1993 Ford Fiesta over the curb out in the parking lot? Jackass.
Posted by: Jmonkeh | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 08:53 AM
Boss Hogg, oh dear ... bad flashback, bad!
Posted by: mel | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM
I am now a born-again Pastafarian!
Posted by: NC Tony | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:32 AM
The problem with religious texts, no matter what your belief system is, is that none of them are truly fact or truly fiction, so they can't really accurately be filed under "Fiction" no matter how much people would like to see them there.
For the record, I'm agnostic and I believe that religious texts should have their own section separate from fiction because they are in tricky territory. I don't believe the fantastical parts of the religious texts (like Jesus rising from the dead) are real, but who's to say that Jesus the man didn't exist?
Posted by: Token Female | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 01:04 PM
@Token Female: Jesus the man did exist. There are records of his life and execution. Everything else, however, IS taken on faith.
Posted by: Luna | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 07:43 PM
I don't think the point is to argue on who believes in what. But rather that it's a whole shit load of extra work for the booksellers to clean up after. Then if someone catches them shelves there and bitches about it there could be a HUGE problem brought up and customers lost because someone wanted to be cute.
Hell I am an atheist myself and still wouldn't do that. It's disrespectful to everyone involved and I haven't seen anyone religious messing with books on atheism lately :/ People who crap like that just makes everyone else look bad...One person can ruin the reputation of an entire group of people.
@ Token: at Barnes and Noble they had the sections "Christianity" and "Eastern religion" ect... separate from both fiction and non-fiction ;) on the opposite side of the store in-fact.
Posted by: Pagemaster | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 08:10 PM
I still say the Bible should be properly filed either in "fiction" or "mythology". Truth in advertising, you know.
Besides, people wouldn't be reshelving the Wholly Babble if so many Christers weren't raging assholes about "Teh Babble ish TEH TROOF, an yuz gunna BURN IN HELL!"
Incidentally, I'm a Satanist, and I would get a good hearty chuckle if I found the Satanic Bible filed under fiction.
Posted by: WMDKitty | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Doesn't change the fact that going into a bookstore and moving all the damn Bibles doesn't prove anything, to anyone. Nothing you do with them is going to convince corporate to change the way they're stocked. EVER. The only thing it accomplishes is creating a shitload of extra work for people who:
1) Have exactly zero fucking influence over where the store tells them to stock the books
and
2) Don't earn enough money to have to deal with smarmy douchebags who can't tell the difference between being annoying and expressing a personal opinion in an adult, intelligent and effective manner.
Posted by: Jmonkeh | Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 06:57 AM
Things like this always strike me as insecurity in one's own beliefs rather than some grand statement. If you want to piss someone off go door to door and preach to god word of atheism. Either way it makes the agnostics like me look bad, but at least no one has to clean up after you.
Posted by: Endless Mike | Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 12:19 PM
I agree with whomever said it should have its separate section. Included in the religious section should be Bibles, Korans, articles, whatever. Keep it in its section so that no one will be retarded.
I am an atheist and I would NEVER EVER EVER do something this stupid because I also believe in tolerance. If you chose to believe it, fine, just don't shove it in my face.
Posted by: Redheadactress | Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 01:13 PM
@Luna: I'm aware of that, I was just making a point about how it would be a little difficult to classify the Bible as "fiction"
@Pagemaster: Was kind of just saying that they should keep things as they are. They're not exactly offending anyone by being in their own section - if anything, it's easier to avoid them that way if you're so inclined.
Posted by: Token Female | Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 04:05 PM
So they're only moving Bibles to the fiction section? I guess that means these idiots think everything else in the Religion section is true.
If they really wanted to aspire to cleverness they'd get one of the big "Fiction" signs and put it where the "Religion" sign goes. (Please, nobody actually do this.)
Posted by: Just A Lurker | Friday, October 15, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Luna, actually there are NO records of Jesus' life and execution except for the Bible. Consequently, it is entirely possible that he was nothing but a fictional character. Sorry, you were misinformed.
Posted by: Tom | Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 03:55 PM
Actually Tom, there are records of Jesus Christ's life. It's his divinity that's in question, not his actual existence. :]
Posted by: MitchieMitch | Monday, October 18, 2010 at 03:01 PM
That's really asinine. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't give you the right to say their beliefs are stupid. If you do that you're just as bad as any other bigot.
Posted by: CiCi | Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 01:46 PM
As a former bookstore slave I really hated that kind of thing.
Now I see this...
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126089424106953
Another group to encourage people to move books to improper sections.
Posted by: EigoSlave | Monday, November 08, 2010 at 01:09 AM