/lit/ - Literature

That's a stock image. Why would a stock image work at a bookstore?
You'll probably not get the job. Gotta have dat college degree

is this your gf

Working at B&N sounds a lot better than it actually is, especially if you're a reader.

They don't actually want to staff knowledgeable people, because knowledgeable people want (or eventually want) more than B&N is willing to pay. We're talking a minimum wage lackey who will type the author into a computer and find the book that way.

Even if they do give you a job for minimum-or-slightly-above-minimum-wage, your co-workers aren't going to be like the girl in your picture.

>>3316974
I know several people that work at barnes and noble without degrees. You probably won't enjoy it, seeing as most people there will only be purchasing 50 Shades of Grey. Although, you may grow to enjoy being surrounded by books, and occasionally you'll have people that are interested in real literature.

I go into B&N sometimes, and some of the employees are bitches though. I asked if they had Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe (I couldn't find it) and the lady gave me a strange look and said "I've never heard of it." Then I suggested she look on the computer and she proceeded to make me spell out every letter and when I was done she just said, "No, we don't have it." and she walked away.

>>3317101
I lol'd

They hire a lot of retirees at my local stores. Pretty smart on their part.

>>3316942
I worked at Border's before it went under. The manager got arrested for child pornography and soliciting underage sex lel.

But I remembering them asking what my favorite book was or something, but that was it.

work at a local bookstore so you can pick up qt hipsters who buy books for the aesthetics

>>3317101
fucking hell, what nerve. I'd have talked to a manager (but with my luck she'd have been the manager).

>>3317101

That's not just B&N, that's basically every minimum wage retail worker.

>>3317979

Former minimum-wage retail worker here. I've never treated a customer like that, but I've often and regularly been treated much worse by customers. People thinking they're entitled to shit annoy the fuck out of me, but I'd gladly help them with a smile to prove their preconceived notions of the quality of service I was tasked with providing wrong.

>>3317156
estimate the chances of that actually happening

>>3318035
>Magic 8-ball says;

Try again later.

I worked at a Waldenbooks (part of Borders) for a little while.
The 33% employee discount was fine with me, but it was a seasonal position.