They know. They don't care. Welcome to customer service.

Why does it even matter? Bookstores are closing everyday now because of the internet and e-readers.

This is like any other bookstore, quit your bitching

>>5346849
>Are you aware of the results of your actions? Do you not care that someone cleans up after you? Does it not bother you that it's because of you that every single staff member dreads working in that section and has slowly grown to despise your "type"?

It's what you get paid to do, now shut up and pick up after me

This is in every bookstore, you bitch now because now you work there, and don't group us all, faggot

>WAAAAAAA I actually have to work in a job WAAAAA

Hold on OP, let me take out the world's smallist violin, since you are the only person working at a store that suffers from this

Lol I was there last night.

>>5346849
P.S.
don't try to feel like such a special snowflake just because you work at a Japanese bookstore.

>implying we are all the same
Are all black people the same "type"? Also, it's called WORK, not easy time, deal with it, bitch

That was just the regular congoers doing that. The tripfags went in there sun night after most people from the con were gone.

>>5346849

This sounds lie the Little Tokyo lication in Downtown LA. Be aware that some of them even shoplift shit. And there are only 3 Kinokuniya's in California, which do you work at? I'll upload photos of faces you need to lookout for the most.

I bet you ask for tips too, don't you?

>>5346913
OP sound like OP is a whiny 16 year old bitch on his first job

Nothing new here. I used to work at Borders before their sad little ship started sinking and we always had kids lying or sitting in the aisles reading manga... even though there were perfectly decent squishy chairs and cafe tables where they could sit together and read.

I guess it's part of being young and not giving a fuck about who you're blocking, how big of a mess you're leaving, etc. etc. shit happens. You could try speaking to them and asking that they leave anything they don't buy in a neat pile or something. As for un-shrinkwrapped shit, don't you have a shrink wrapper there at work? Borders did and it was used on the items that got opened but were still complete and new.

>>5346849
>implying the faggots who do this shit go on /cgl/

You sound like a baka, OP.
nyaaa~n

>>5346938
ok i lol'd

Figures you'd all be here. Those of you that insist of jumping on the bandwagon of defending behavior of poor etiquette are obviously guilty of the very things that I mentioned.

>>5346896
Got me there. I should have left out the store name because that's totally what I was going for. Oh wait, that wasn't the response you were looking for? Lemme try this mr. butthurt - u jelly?

>>5346904
I work at the Times Square location in NYC

>>5346938
I applaud you for making me laugh

OP's told status

[ ] Told
[ ] No Told
[X] BITCH GOT FUCKING TOLD

People like you make me vote Republican

>>5346947
What bandwagon? You are complaining about otakus even though you made the choice in working at otaku HQ

>>5346947
>Those of you that insist of jumping on the bandwagon of defending behavior of poor etiquette are obviously guilty of the very things that I mentioned.
Again, work at ANY bookstore, it's the same
And you did not answer the question. Are all black people the same? Are all sports fans the same. Don't stereotype you bitch, just because you have your job

>>5346967
correction, "hate your job"

>complaining about cleaning up after shit customers

It seems like this is your first job. But yes, it is rude to not put things back where they belong. Common sense would be to think, "oh, I guess I won't buy this after all", turn around and walk back to put it in the exact spot you found it. People just be lazy, OP.

>>5346904
I'm starting my first job there. I would like to see the photos if you don't mind.

>>5346962
Am I complaining about otaku or shitty behavior? I clearly made the distinction but to you I guess it's one and the same?

>>5346967
shitty analogies or attempts to troll don't warrant my attention, sorry kid

>>5346967
This is Otaku HQ

>>5346947
>Times Square location in NYC
Times Square or Bryant Park? I've never heard of one in Times Square, just the Bryant Park one. Then again, I've never been there. My surpise when I find one in the middle of fucking nowhere in Upstate New York when visiting my family (living in Florida is suffering)

>>5346985
You are working in a area that is filled with the worst people imaginable? Even you are showing signs of this rude behavior

>>5346985
Don't want to answer my question because you're a shitty employee and stereotpye everyone? Not my problem, go on and jugde everyone

I worked at a job where I cleaned up dog shit and extracted anal glands.

I'm not crying because you have to put away a few books.

As far as the sitting in the aisle, you tell them that it is against fire code to be blocking aisles and you'll have to ask them to leave if they don't move. For the whole opening the books business, tell them it is akin to stealing and ask them to leave.

You dumb asses working in shops and just taking it up the ass need to remember that while you are there to help your customers find what they need, you are also there to protect your store's assets.

I think it's now safe to assume that OP is a shity troll, or an idiot that didn't know what he was getting into. Either way, he deserves it

This thread reminds me of http://www.retailhellunderground.com/

Entire site is "bawwww, someone was rude to me once."

I was in a bookstore some time ago and a trio of hambeasts had beached themselves on the floor in the manga section. It was a pretty small store and there wasn't much room to move around between aisles. I said excuse me but they apparently were ignorant or too absorbed in their mangu to hear me. So I had to go all the way around the other aisle to get a shelf that was literally inches away from their blubberous mass.

I think it's way rude. Sure I can walk around. But have some common courtesy. You can't just sit on the floor in a narrow aisle, blocking the path for everyone. I bet they didn't even buy any manga.

Do you work at the one in L.A?
I go there often and I always cringe at the idiot weeaboos who come into the shop in swarms. It's just so embarrassing. I don't know why they think their behavior is okay.

I feel for you, OP, I really do.

>>5347045
he deserves a shitty troll?

>>5346947
I frequent the Bryant Square location bro, and thank GOD you guys wrap ALL the manga and not just the Japanese ones.
Friday and Saturday are the worst for trying to find anything in Kino because of the little weeaboobies.

>>5347049
This right here is yet another reason that the clerk needs to step in to move people who are blocking the walk ways. It disturbs and inconveniences other customers.

>>5347049
Wait, these kinds of people actually exist?
The bookstore isn't a place to read. I would have kicked them out of the store if I worked there. Imagine if they tore a page or got food in it, walked away like nothing happened and some one bought that copy. Fuck, I'm mad.

I work at Target.

I spend at least half of my day trying to help full grown Adults with no concept of patience, who refuse to read anything, and insist the checkout lane conveyor belts are absolutely filthy even after I've cleaned them. I was once reported for telling someone "Thank you for all of the Quarters" after they paid $15 in change. Apparently I humiliated them. I once had a 60 year old, obese, bra-less woman pull the neck of her shirt down to past her ribs in my line because I wasn't showing enough sympathy to her " I just had Heart surgery look at my scar" story.

That's just the shit that you have to put up with at retail. At least in your situation you have the means to anonymously humiliate them.

Fuck it, I'm with OP. I've never worked retail myself, but I try to leave everything tidy because I'm not a giant douchenozzle. Seriously, is cleaning up after yourself one of those childhood lessons you managed to miss?

lol @ all of the people that support the otakus, then bash op

"HURP I DO WAT I WANT, U GET PAID TO CLEAN"

>>5347088
You have a very bad attitude with the customer and the tone of voice reflects that? I mean that's the reason why you were reported in the first place for bad behavior.

>>5347092
What else can OP expect? This is a job filled with otaku and the best thing OP can do is leave the job and look at something a bit less public.

Kinda like going to a cosplay convention or going to cgl complaining about weaboos.

>>5347100
It has become clear in this thread that you have no semblance of what constitutes a proper or improper attitude.

Blag cakes

>>5347026
>>5347062
so far, this is the only thing i've read here that makes sense.

>>5347100
Nope, I am the cheeriest person alive when I am at the register. People come up to me at work and say they wish they could have one of me to put in their pockets. I act really happy because I like the reactions it gets me.

I said a genuine, happy, "Thank you for all of the Quarters!" and she filed a report with me. Sometimes people just have bugs up their ass that you can't do anything about.

ITT: people who do not know the hell of retail work first-hand, people who do, and a few stragglers whose souls have been crushed by the hell of retail work.

STOP BEING NASTY FUCKASSES IN STORES. This is easy to do. As far as I'm concerned, being a nasty fuckass in a store should be a capital offense.

>>5347088
>I ask how a customer's doing as they come through my line
>"I have cancer."

>>5347109
just gonna go out on a limb and play devil's advocate here

kinokuniya is not about anime and manga as you are making it out to be. never is, never was. in your eyes, if that's how you see it, maybe so, but 3/4s of the store is always dedicated to those who are fluent in the language. as for the oversea locations, its main purpose (as stated by storehands themselves) is to serve as home away from home, or ease of access for japanese natives to access materials that would otherwise prove costly in time and money to obtain.

-a japanese person

>>5347117
Well why not? I mean OP was wondering those things happen even though he or she works in a very public place filled with a certain type of people.

>>5347129
Well you were the one complaining

>>5347131
I've worked retail for 10 years while. Everything here just goes with the territory.

If people don't like what goes into working retail, they need to find another job. Some people can just shrug it off and smile to a shitty customer's face and think nothing of if and some people take shitty customers personally. The latter needs to find another job if they can't learn how to deal with retail.

Co/ck/gobbler here. I never come here, but I saw the Kinokuniya image on the front page - love their cookbooks - and have been following this thread since. Just felt it was worthy to point out the stark shift in public support for OP from the beginning until now. Truly lolworthy. Stay classy, /cgl/.

>>5347142

The focus of the store doesn't matter. Oblivious and unpleasant people obstructing traffic, wrecking shit and leaving shit out like they're the only one there, these things matter. Kindly focus on OP's excrutiatingly valid point.

>>5347154
or is it the former?....

DERP who cares? I'm a register jockey!

I work in a higher price point retail shop. Usually it is just helping spoiled orange implanted injected women find things. Not too bad for the most part, so imagine my shock at finding a soiled diaper shoved into one of the shelved. Fuck you. We have bathrooms. 20 feet away. With changing stations in both sexes.

>>5347154
ugh, get a real fucking job!

>>5347142
>otherwise prove costly in time and money to obtain.

Doesn't change the fact that it attracts a certain type of people on a hourly basis. Since Times Square is a beehive of cultures and tourists from around the country and world you are going to expect a certain diversity.

>>5347151
What does that even mean?

I just think it's weird that I do my best at work everyday to make people smile and they still bitch at me. I mean Jesus Christ one time I had a Woman get angry at me for being all "Hi welcome to Target! It's a wonderful day, how are you?"

You just can't predict people I suppose.

People do this everywhere. It's not just otaku or any one group either. It's not just kids or teens, it's adults too depending on where you work. It's a lack of respect for the place and it's employees.

>>5347183
NO FAGGOT IT'S YOUR JOB YOU GET PAID TO DO IT, WHO GIVES A FUCK HOW THE WORLD ACTS, SUCK IT UP 16 YEAR OLD

>>5347154
You actually have mojo

>>5347160
Well why not? Kinokuniya attracts a certain type of people

>>5347169
You hawk customers

>>5347177
I know how that feels. I worked at six flags and a women proceeded to yell at me because Tweety Bird wasn't out and its her child's birthday so I need to bring Tweety out.
(At first I explained to her that tweety is taking a rest. We always have to keep them in character.)
But the mother continued to yell at me.

>>5347184
lol. You must be one of the people OP is complaining about.

>>5347177
How about calming down on the enthusiasm? I mean it would be better if you had a neutral behavior or mimic on what they are saying or doing. Bringing personal attitudes only warrants these sort of complaints from the customer.

Everybody knows that being paid to do something means you have to to all kinds of other things, some of them really gross and stupid. And you don't get to complain! Because you're being PAID.

Fuck me, anons. If this is what youthful idealism thinks now, we're all going to be fucked once you turn thirty.

>>5347188
Never get personal with the customer because they will think its a sign of sympathy. Tell them you are unaware of the situation or new to the facility and they leave you alone.

>>5347202
I understand that people have some sort of frustration to vent out but this is cgl and not a personal blog. OP should have expected a diversity in answers instead of sympathizing.

>>5347183
This.

Seriously, most stores, especially those that cater to the average shopper will get crap tear customers. I've lost how many times I've walked into a DD's Discount/Ross/Marshalls/etc..., and the shoes section is a fucking disaster because nobody EVER puts the shoes back on the shelves.

Even places like libraries get it. I've seen a trail of shit in a library because the family didn't get their grandmother to the bathroom in time. Not to mention the stories people have shared of people jerking off into books.

>>5347197
I try meter it for each person depending on appearance and what they're getting. If there are kids in the line buying toys its up, if it's one lady getting random junk it's down, if it's a fat middle aged guy just getting booze it's pretty much neutral. I make an effort to not be obnoxious while keeping things interesting for myself.

Honestly I'm getting the feeling that you just enjoy being contrary.

>>5347203
If you said that to me back than, I would have gotten pissed at you. At that job you have to. If not your fired. You have to get personal be super nice talk about their lives. If you don't your known as a bad "Escort". (Escort someone who handles walking and talking for the looney tunes dressed characters.) They can't speak so you have to speak for them ALL the time.

>>5347213
A lot of Public Libraries are turning into Homeless people daycares. It's especially bad in downtown libraries.

>>5347221
Just stay neutral while having a speedy service

>Honestly I'm getting the feeling that you just enjoy being contrary.

Why do you say that?

>>5347223
How so? I mean how do you know if this was not my first day at the job or unaware of whats going on at that moment.

>>5347233
They always had that problem but the thing is that are allowed into those type of facilities because they are public. I mean some of them enjoy having the ability to go on the internet.

>>5347243
I'm not going to do that because I like acting happy, most of my guests like me being happy, and most of all my all of my Managers love it. I'm considered on of the store's best Cashiers because of my attitude.

Because you pretty much said it in an earlier post.

>>5347250
Most of them use the Library Internet to look up Porn.

I remember one time when I was 13 I saw two bums looking at pictures of a lady using a tube to make a Hamster go up her Ass at the library.

I'm sorry you have to deal with that OP, thank fucking god I have a real job.


I worked in the Claire's Boutique with the highest shrinkage rate (see: theft) in the country as a teen. People would let their toddlers sit around, opening candy (which they would eat half of and stick the gooey remains somewhere on a shelf/storage container to stick to 15 other pieces of merchandise) and taking 1 earring off the 6 pack. Fuck those people.

People just have no empathy any more.

>>5347256
Continue with your good work and I hope things go great for you

My first retail job was at K-mart. It was nicer than other K-marts, but, fuck. I think layaway was the shittiest part of that job. People with no hope, and people who will instantly hate you for being the layaway counter person is soul crushing. Working register was also shitty because our systems were ancient beasts that needed redrafting every shift because of software problems. Being on the floor was nice. I got to work hard, help people, and my softlines manager loved me. Some kid threw up in shoes a few times, but I'd rather have been on the floor than layaway or checkout.

Actually checkout may have been the worst. In the time I worked there (which was very brief) we had 4-5 instances, 3 of which were caught, 2 which got away.

Retail sucks. I'd rather deal with fast food.

>>5347260
Depending on your area they would have installed a filter to stop this form happening. I know its a public place buut it doesn't mean they should do those sort of actions


>>5347270
You are working in the fast food industry?

>>5347270

also, people pulling playtex bras out of sealed containers to "try them on" thenbasically ripping the packages beyond repair so we had to tape them back together and discount them.

I feel sympathy for you OP, not only because you have to deal with this bullshit but also because of the mad levels of butthurt, projection and entitlement I sense from some of the posters here defending that bullshit.

This is really annoying because it gives us other "weird" people a bad reputation as well. Like the other week when I went into Kinokuniya. I wasn't planning on going in and I happened to be wearing Lolita that day, but I was with a group of friends and we happened to pass by and they wanted to go in. The whole time I was getting the dirtiest looks from the staff. It's like they assumed that just because I was wearing Lolita I was a disrespectful bitch like some of the kids who go in there in their cosplay when really all I wanted to do was find the new GLB.

>>5347306
Or maybe you looked like a giant tool wearing a very ridiculous costume?

>>5347306
Then blame the other pissy lolitas that came before you. The staff do not discriminate unless there is reason and there is nothing to immediately differentiate between the rude freaks and the polite freaks.

It might be unfair, but that's bias for you. You work with it and act against the stereotype well enough so the staff can think 'ah, not this one' or you can bitch about them on the internet about how rude they are.

>>5347295

It's not defending, it's empathizing. Most of us have worked in retail or some sort of customer service and these impressions come from not one, but multiple repeated occurrences.

I understand OP's gripe. They could have worded better, but regardless, it is annoying when weeaboo types park themselves in book stores and leave it a mess. It's a book store, not a library. Buy your books and leave, be courteous to those around you. I imagine it may be a bit worse in stores like Kinokuniya, but just know OP, that not all of us who enjoy manga and such are as unbearable as they are.

So keep your head up and enjoy your new job, okay? Everyone has to deal with jerks, it's just life in the work force.

>>5347350
speaking as someone who works in a library, leaving your shit around for us to clean up is annoying too. Yah, I'm being paid, but not to be your servant. Have some decency.

Also, the homeless love to use the bathrooms as their personal shower and leave the worst messes.

>>5347375
You don't clean the bathrooms

>>5347380
Nope, but then you get the plethora of patrons complaining about how they can't use the restroom, why can't they use the staff restroom?

>>5347375
I understand that as well, and I'm sorry that people don't have any common sense when it comes down to this stuff. It's just something we've all got to put up with because no matter how much we complain, it's not really going to help with anything.

>>5347306
It's also possible that you might just have gotten into one of the Kinokuniyas that used to sell lolita clothing and they experienced firsthand lolita-specific bitchiness.

>>5347188
Funny thing is all that kid is going to remember is how its mom ruined its birthday.

Reminds me of a story.
> It was the 4th of July and I went with a couple friends to a public area to watch the fireworks. There was this gross family of redneck fatties sitting on lawn chairs with a small portable grill. They had supposedly been there since noon (how did they manage to be so far back?) and they were bitching at anyone who sat 10 feet in front of them. My friends and I managed to sit just outside their territory. Once the fireworks started every single person in the crowd stood up so naturally we did too, but we were nice enough to cross the five foot sidewalk and stand with the crowd.

>Turns out that's not good enough though. The fat woman walks up to us and says, "Not to sound like a bitch..." Who starts off that way and thinks that okays it? "but we've been here since noon and my daughter needs to see the fireworks." Her lawn chairs were 15 feet behind me, she somehow had this huge area cleared for herself when in reality the rest of the place was packed full of viewers, and she just wanted to stay seated while watching the fireworks IN THE SKY. She could have stood up and put the little girl on her shoulders to give the best view in the place. Instead her brother or something comes up and asks my friend if he's looking for a fight and starts cursing. We threaten to call the cops, people are yelling at this guy for cursing in front of kids, and all that little girl will remember is how her family ruined this day.

What is Kinokuniya and why doesnt toronto have one?

>>5347553
Otaku HQ and OP was surprised it had otakus

I work in a public library. Mostly quiet and people are often respectful. I say often because you'll have some jackass come in and act as though his time is worth more than anyone else's. The rest of the folks are nice. I have information they want. Be it research help, finding a book or teaching them how to use the computers.

Work since Christmas has been a bit difficult since everyone and their grandmother got a new kindle/ipad/nook/e-reader for Christmas. You can bet your sweet ass that the nifty gadget that Grandma got, nobody was willing to take the time to show her how to use it. Why? Because she's stubborn as hell and wants you to repeat the same steps every half minute.

So she comes into the library to get free books loaded onto it. It's not too bad. Kills a good half to a full hour explaining how to use it. (Power it on by pressing here...)

Did have a weeaboo group come in two weeks ago. Haven't seen them since.
>Weeb: Hey, do you have "Man-guah"?
>Me: Yes. It's in the graphic novel section. We have a adult and young adult section. Would you like to see them?
>Weeb: calls her friend a "baka" and tells him "I told you so" - continues talking about getting her allowance to buy some new game. Asks her friend to give her a ride since her parents won't let her borrow the car.
I pick up on the allowance bit and decided to tell her about our teen game nights where we watch some anime.
>Me: If you're interested, we have herpderp night for teens.
>Weeb: LOL, HOW OLD DO YOU THINK I AM?
>Me: I dunno, maybe 15?
>Weeb: laughs and tells me that she is 20 and her friend is 21.
>Me: Pokerface.jpg

>>5347565
The funny thing is, I've never been to Kinokuniya personally until a couple of weeks ago when I was in San Jose visiting friends. They took me to Kinokuniya and I didn't see a single weeaboo. However, I don't doubt in the slightest that they can get infested with them though, especially in a place like Little Tokyo. I must've just been incredibly lucky.

Worth while trip though, I got two new Sengoku Basara art books and the newest Usavich e-mook.

I almost want to visit the LA location just to see what it's like for myself.

>>5347574
>Me at the Library

OMG YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND MY PAAAAIIINN!

>>5346849
I agree 100%. Stupid ass weeaboos.

>>5347606
Nah, I love my job. Been working here for over 5 years. My favorite thing is story-time. I get to do it twice a week. Nothing is more adorable than a 15-20 preschoolers singing :) Those kids and the crazy questions they ask are too cute.

>>5347233
sage for offtopic rant but I HATE THAT.

I dont work retail, I'm a student, but this still piss's me off. There was a radio broadcast here where I live where this woman takes over the waves when I happen to be driving home everynight. Hate her but I like the selection of music they play, anyways, she goes on about a parenting speech. And goes into how great a mother she had and how thrifty her mother was, because apparently instead of dropping her kids off at a daycar, changing her hours slightly, or with a grandmother (she mentioned that they could afford day care but the alternative was cheaper), was to drop her and her older sister off at a borders for hours. And leave them there for a whole day.

She then went on to say it wasnt about money so much as her mother was just really busy. It pissed me off, bookstores are not a day care. I was just more pissed she kept defending herself and her mother when people kept calling in to say how they didnt agree with it. I feel bad for those who need to work full time and cant afford standard day care, but I also feel bad for the kids and the employs who are turned into babysitters.

Sorry needed that out of my system. It ticked me off. Sorry you got to deal with that OP, but then again it comes with the job.

>>5348338
That's when you call the police/child services and have them take the unaccompanied minors.

>>5348417
Offtopic again, but how great was that movie? Makes me want to cosplay as Billy Bob now.

>>5348338
You want to know something really sad?

People do that constantly at Gamestop.

>>5348487
Fucking right they do. This one bitch had the audacity to say thank you to us after leaving her kids in the store for hours. We see this happen at least once a week. Some people just shouldn't have kids.

Ausfag here.
The kino I work at is full of this bullshit.
Teens who think they will be so sugoi buying authentic stuff when the real Japanese come in and want to buy their novels and cant access them because of Ita's blocking the way.
Not to mention a few weeks ago someone left a crepe on top of a magazine and I know it was a Hibari cosplayer.
Then someone damaged the Tiger & Bunny display, the spine was split and grubby.

>>5346919
>we always had kids lying or sitting in the aisles reading manga
Ugh, I hate that. Happens all the time at the local B&N, I guess their parents think the bookstore is a free babysitting service.

>>5348530
>Damaging the T&B display

I'm not even a fan of that show, but I know how much love the fans have for it. This is a sin that will never be forgiven by any god.

Man, I wish I lived near a Kinokuniya. I've only been to that one in New York City last year, it was my first time visiting. It was cool to be able to buy a copy of Jojo A Go Go, but I'll admit I made a bit of a loud whoop when I saw it.

Sucks that people would tear off the wrappers of the Japanese manga series, though. That's just rude in general. If people want to buy Japanese volumes and can't actually read them they should look up the specific ones they want online before coming into the store.

Hey OP, hook me up with a discount? I'll police and blockade the entire section of unwanted weeaboos for you if I could get a price cut on that sweet Osamu Tezuka collection.

>>5348527
I work as a stylist in 'highclass' salon. I not only have to baby sit my clients kids, while doing their mother's hair, but often times I have to take care of their dogs. One lady comes in once a month to get a color, and while it's processing I have to walk her standard poodle who's the meanest fucking dog ever. Yet, I love my job enough to do this 12 hours a day 6 days a week.
I have a weeaboo client that comes to me because I used to have pink hair and she saw me at a con one time. She insists I tell her total in yen amongest other pleasant things. Again, I still love my job enough to do these things and smile at the end of the day.

>>5348555
ever since we've hidden all the T&B in a corner that everyone overlooks. There was the Prince Magazine cover with Kotetsu and Barnaby on the floor and everyone kept kicking it aside. FFS THEY DON'T EVEN LOOK DOWN.

on a side note, I got the damaged book for $4 and not the original $40.

Hey faggot, be grateful you got a job shelving books and cleaning after children. I have to do oil and filter changes, scrap, clean machines and take it up in the ass by older guys in a shop.

The Borders i used to go to had a massive anime section.

Except they used to leave all of the books sealed in plastic.

The place was still clogged with customers, but at least they were'nt beaching themselves in the aisles.

A bookstore is a bookstore. Not a library.

You guys do realize that you're just putting a great big spotlight on yourselves now, right? I frequent the Kinokuniya on Ave of the Americas about once a week and I'm totally going to try to spot out who OP is. Also, I've never seen the behavior you speak of and I go during afterschool hours too. Most of the teens that I see are either super quiet, walking around in pairs with their friends, or eating at the little cafe they have going on there in the back. I'm going to play the skeptic and lean with the belief that OP might be exaggerating a little bit.

I work at a gamstop in a mall...
I understand your frustration, OP...
But what can you do? Nothing. Just clean up after the assholes, suck it up & do a good job.

You may get away with things like I do, such as: when someone goes to shoplift something & puts it in their purse or sets stuff down in the wrong section ask them "Oh, hey there :D Did you want me to hold that for you at the counter while you continue shopping?"

As for weebs being in sections where they clearly don't understand shit, 2 things:
1. I don't know moon speak, but I do buy some books based on imagery (architecture, interior design, fashion & such)... & I'm not the only one.
2. If it bothers you that much to where you can't ignore it, frequently ask them if they're finding everything alright & if there's anything they'd like for you to set aside at the counter for them. People usually move on once you start calling their bluff.

I hate working retail too, but it works around my school schedule & I'm damn good at 'customah service', also, I consume a lot of candy & tea on the job. Puts me in a good mood.

The Borders Express at my local mall got so bad that they had to put up signs in the manga section saying you couldn't have backpacks and you couldn't sit and read the manga. Eventually it got even worse and they had to re-arrange the store so the manga was right next to the check-out counter so the employees could keep an eye on it.

dear op
I've never been to this store and I live in NYC. I feel you.
retail is awful and people are dicks. but it doesn't matter if it's retail or corporate, people simply act like apes because they don't want to do it at home.

I remember there being a Waldens book store in my local mall YEARS ago.
all the stupid fat kids would sit/stand there reading manga.
I would walk into that section to look for a new volume of whatever and oh look, tripping over some stupid fatfuck.
THEY COST $10. IF YOU CAN SIT FOR A COUPLE HOURS TO READ, YOU SHOULD HAVE $10.
anyway tl;dr I would always be a dick to those fuckheads and when they'd retaliate I'd kindly leave and get security/a store manager and tell them they are stealing.
you can't do shit like that in a comic store, so why on earth do these stupid fucking faggots do this in a book store?
manga isn't even all THAT expensive (at the time I could pick up Tokyopop stuff for like 5-12; I can't imagine todays prices being no higher than $20 for something not specially packaged)
you can make them stop, OP.
report it to a manager. these people have no right to damage the merchandise as it is akin to stealing. you go into a clothing store, try on their clothes and continue shopping? you will be arrested or something.

OP: your store should have some form of "security" be it actual in-store Courtesy Associate or a rent-a-cop. tell your manager about what happens. unsealing your merchandise ruins the quality. who isn't to say they aren't standing there, taking pictures of the contents anyway?

really tl;dr slap their shit and get them kicked out. they are bad for business. cleaning up after people who misplace books is one thing, but going out of your way to treat a store like some halfway home is disgraceful, and those who do should be forced to clean toilets for a living.

>>5348530
The story behind this:
Latest Issue of KERA we had to hide in a box in the back with discount magazines. This was a copy a Lolita damaged.
She was ranting on about how Kyary Pamyu Pamyu was ugly and unoriginal and pulled off the plastic wrapping, dropped it on the floor and stomped on it and then was kicked out.

>>5347340
>Then blame the other pissy lolitas that came before you.
So by your logic it'd be okay to discriminate against all black people because of the asshole ones? It's part of the job to not make dirty faces at the customers.

perhaps try asking managers to take photos of the customers who come in and constantly damage merchandise. perhaps get them to put up signs saying "normal clothes only" or something; anything to dissuade cosplayers from being assholes.

another good thing is to have an employee walk around the store. people are always turned off when a store employee hovers over them non-stop, so keeping one person in that section or nearby will help

>>5348669
>put up signs saying "normal clothes only"
You're so fucking stupid.

>>5348669
I haven't been to OP's branch but I have been to the ones in Seattle and L.A. and can pretty much guarantee that the employees in NY are also most likely the passive Japanese who wouldn't dare do such a thing as confront a customer or make them feel uncomfortable. That sort of avoiding behavior is probably the root of the problem. Let that sort of behavior fly by once and they'll just keep on doing it.

>>5348640
The stores do have security but their sole purpose is to stand at the doors with the theft detectors to be ready to catch potential shoplifters.

>>5348666
dressing up as lolita =/= race
take your shitty fucking arguments and leave

>>5348718
Judging is judging regardless if you're a judge passing judgement. Funny how judgement has an 'e' but judging doesn't. Unless you're some eurofag.

>>5348664
are you kidding me? i don't care for kyary, but it pisses me off that privileged bitches think they can get away with being their nasty-ass selves.
ugh, you should have stomped her ass to the curve and demanded her to pay for it. fuck that bitch.

>>5348718
>>5348726

Doesn't matter because wearing AP lolita out in public is asking for trouble.

>>5346949
>>5346944
>>5346938
dat trip circle jerk

I always go into Kinokuniya looking for the Japanese YuGiOh shit because I can re-sell it for double. I don't mess with the shrink wrap, though. Sorry for your lots.

There was a small news feature on tv just now about that very area your Kino is in about 4 Asian teens in cosplay spraypainting swastikas and shit around Bryant Park. Just thought that was worth mentioning.

>>5348776
>aisans hating on jews

all of my what

captcha feels the same
>hoselle (O.O
>(O.O

>>5348718
It's an argument about prematurely passing judgment. Thinking every person dressed as a weirdo is disruptive is the same as thinking every black person is disruptive or thinking every twelve year old who comes in is disruptive. How about when three asshole Muslims crashed planes in to US monuments, was it fine to judge every middle eastern person because of that?

Even if the clerk hated all twelve year old middle-eastern lolitas, it's that persons job to fake a decent attitude.

Your boss needs to deal with them. They are opening products that are meant to be sealed and are littering it's a fucking BOOKSTORE. You are not allowed to have shit like that unless you are in the obligatory cafe right next to it.

Also tell them if your going to read all of that you better pay for it or get out. Your boss will most likely tell them to get out or have them change what they do or they are banned from the store and will call the police for stealing and destruction or products/ littering

>>5348832
That sort of victim-blaming ideology is flawed in our society. The blame and pressure should be placed on the perpetrators such as in a rapist-rapee(?) case. And yes, this does apply to all of your aforementioned scenarios.

>>5348857
>>5348832
Doesn't matter because black people have a habit of stealing and AP lolitas are the trolls of the community.

>>5348440
I... I have never once seen a person who liked that movie.

or maybe I am just biased, they didn't feed the extras when we were there for the longest time, and that scene with the little girl driving the cart took the whole damn day for just one tiny tiny shot of it. She freaked out when the cart hit someone's luggage, not her fault as she wasn't the person driving the thing but still... it took half the god damned day to get her to stop crying and then another million years to get her back into makeup. I felt bad for her, but they forgot to feed the couple hundred extras they had hanging out during that time and we were promised lunch man, and then THEN when it came time to film the scene I was in (around 7pm), they put out food and everyone who was in that scene got fucked.

I dunno, I shouldn't be so grumbley about it, i know how hectic things can be, but we were there from 4am to about10pm and over half of the people there were lucky to get water.

anyway, sage for off topic. I hate people who are rude to people working in stores, and you should always clean up after yourself and put your own shit away. but at the same time I despise workers who discriminate against people because they had one bad experience... protip, everywhere you work there will be annoying people and awesome people and they will never look the same.

>>5348684
well I mean less normal and more "non obstructive clothing" or something. there are stores that prohibit "street clothes" (and they really just mean jeans and sneakers and construction boots) because they wish to maintain a look.

>>5348893
They don't want to attract the wrong attention especially when you see a AP wearing lolita with a neon pink wig.

>>5348893
you start doing that and then people will start using it to bar people who wear certain religious clothing from entering their store.

the "no street clothes" thing is mostly for restaurants.

>>5348487
>Gamestop

Oh my god this. I worked at Gamestop a few years ago. It was in a mall, so kids were CONSTANTLY dropped off while their mothers shopped. We'd call security if there were there more than a few hours .. a few even had the audacity to come back to the store and scream at us for calling security! As if the 3+ hour window we gave them to retrieve their child wasn't enough. Jesus.

>>5348967
Our district manager had us remove the demo stations, so there is nothing for kids without money to do & kids quickly got the hint & were angry for their mothers for leaving them there for so long.

>>5348985
Holy fuck, it got that bad? Where do you work exactly?

You guys can't ban them from the store op? Or get the authorities involved in some way? Because I really don't think you should have to put up with people that are problems in society to begin with. The next time you see them you should be able to ban them from the store or have security follow them.

>>5348967
I used to work at my local YMCA in the childcare room. A dollar per kid per hour. We had two main rules to keep people from taking advantage of our service.
1. We will only watch your children for 2 hours.
2. You are not allowed to leave YMCA property after signing your children in.

When they yelled at me I just told them to go to the front desk. Those bitches always gave me the worst glares when they found out that they couldn't just ditch their kids with us all day.

>>5348919
Right, god forbid someone in a pink wig and dress goes in to a bookstore.

You are so fucking stupid.

When I was a teen I was the one stealing all the manga. Still have it. No regrets.

>>5348999
Doesn't matter. Small stores don't need to be clogged up by those stands. Especially during the holidays.
I'm glad they're gone. We'd get regulars at those damn things.
One guy would come for hours & play Metroid on the wii. For hours. Every morning. It wasn't an issue when it was early & nobody was there, but the purpose of that thing wasn't to substitute what he didn't have at home.
One kid would come & talk to anyone on the 360 demo station so much we had to ask him to leave people alone, then he'd talk to us for long periods of time & interrupt actual customers to talk to us as though he had the right & was our 'buddy'...
Worst of all was when particular groups of people would play the Madden or NBA demos with their friends in a huge group in our tiny store. They'd get loud, rowdy & swear a lot. We'd have to ask them to tone it down a lot, but god forbid we ever come off as being racist.
*sigh* We were too small of a store to deal with that.

Opening packaged items is endemic with all sorts of customers, not just underaged otaku. Good way to dissuade it is to have employees circulate and just ask,"Can I help you with anything?"

I go to the NYC Kinokuniya regularly and have found the unprofessional attitudes of some employees more off-putting than anything else. Customers can suck, but it's no excuse to be unprofessional.

Also, not your blog.

Just when I thought cgl couldn't get any pettier with their nitpicking at costumes, I read this shit? Consider the opposite - what if no one misarranged the shelves and everything went the way you wanted. What the fuck would you be doing all day? Stop trying to get a free ride. Also, not your blog.

I don't understand those weeaboo people. I'm always scared I'm bothering the staff at any store I go to, and try not to linger for longer than I need because I want to go home and read my fucking manga while enjoying a cup of green tea and lying in my fluffy, comfy bed while not giving a fuck about my horrible morning face.

How can you just sit there in the aisles munching on snacks and unwrapping shit you didn't even pay for? Don't you realize how horrible you look and how annoying you're being? I can't comprehend "I don't care lol". Just...what the fuck?

>>5346849
Moral of the story: Don't work retail, ever. Retail is for children and the mentally handicapped.

If you're over 18 and still working retail, you need to go out and get trained in an actual skill so you can make more than 18k a year.

im one of those kids who would go to borders every weekend and read manga for a few hours. sure you could ask me to move while you got your manga, i wouldnt mind. id always ask people to move if they were sitting in front of a book i wanted to read. then i graduated to online readers. i still miss the random 1-2 volume mangas id find every so often and the american made series. i dont see how small things like this can piss off a person so badly.

>>5352055
>Don't work retail, ever.

Truer words have never been spoken but then again, where to find a job where you won't have to deal with retard customers?

>>5355281
Bump because I'm interested in an answer.

>>5355281
A morgue.

>>5355281
um, work in IT. not the helpdesk kind but the programming shit kind

>>5355325
I worked at a morgue for 6 months, it was probably the best job I ever had.

Well at least after you deal with the rather morbid sensation of seeing dead people

>>5352055
This retarded attitude is why we have a populous swimming in debt and a service industry manned by illegal aliens. Good fucking job.

>>5355421
Spoiler - even as a professional developer you're going to have to deal with idiot customers unless you work for a company who doesn't sell their products to any one. Or do you think that requirements documents come out of magical land and bug reports are always written in an extremely concise and easy to read fashion, requiring no clarification?

>>5355488
uh, i already work in IT so i know what i do. i dont work directly with customers, the sales people do. and that's as descriptive as i'm going to get.

>>5355508
Same here, but be honest here, do you have non-idiot sales people who can decipher what the customers are saying, or do you have one of those awesome guys who just jots down the shit they say and hands it to you after promising them "yeah, sure, we can do that and not slip the schedule."

If that doesn't happen do you, where to be getting good sales people. Seriously.

>>5355488
There's a pretty big difference between business customers and the customers at Walmart.

I work in a kitchen to avoid customers. Technically I'm working for customers, but I never have to deal wit them. It's pretty awesome hearing about the shit the servers have to deal with.

I'll break it down for you.
>Are you aware of the results of your actions?
Typically, yes. It's a lack of caring that is prevalent in any store with any type of customer base you can think of, not just weeaboos.
>Do you not care that someone cleans up after you?
No. A lot of people really don't care. I do, and I try to clean up, but half the job of working in retail is fixing up the store. They warned you, and you didn't listen.
>Does it not bother you that it's because of you that every single staff member dreads working in that section and has slowly grown to despise your "type"?
Does it bother you that you're a biased asshole who automatically alienates customers of a "type", and therefore probably treats this "type" poorly as soon as they walk in the door, based on bad past experiences?
>If it weren't for the double pay during the weekend when the local anime convention hits the town, most of the staff wouldn't hesitate to request being off those days.
You're getting double pay, you fucker. That's at least fourteen dollars and fifty cents an hour, probably more. Don't expect anyone to pity you for doing your job at double pay, especially if you're not a Walmart employee.