My girlfriend just started working at Macy's. You'd think it'd be a pretty easy job, knowing where things are, yeah? No. You know why? They don't tell you. They just drop you into the job and say, here you go! If you don't make an extra effort (on top of actually doing the job) to memorize the fucking detailed layout of the store, you won't know shit.
Retail sucks. They give minimal training and pay but expect employees to go out of their way to learn an and remember minutia about the store.
But, book stores compound this by being institutionally lazy. Most of the stores around here are lazy about shelving products correctly or on time.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect Toys R Us employees to be familiar with their exclusives. I would also expect that at a store like B&N there should be employees who are at least familiar with specific sections. That way, if you walk in and the employee doesn't know they can at least ask someone who does.
They are not paid enough to know or care. The one and only advantage of working retail is that you really do not have to make any effort beyond showing up.
GI Joe 100 Page Special:
This reprints the zero issue and either the first or second issues of the re-numbered books. As is the case with the single issues, the Dixon written content is bland and predictable and serves largely to make Costa look even better. Worth picking up if you are curious about IDW's current "GI Joe" comics.
Grade: C
Moon Knight #6:
And, Moony is loony. Oh dear, is he ever loony. It is especially disturbing to see Moon Knight talking to actual members of the Avengers while he hallucinates about "his" Avengers talking to him. The main bad guy shows up and kills some minor bad guys.
Grade: C
Dom
-time to go review #27 of TF ongoing....
