Got me a Patreon! Check these comics out early!
Posts Tagged district manager
17 results.
Got a Patreon page here for supporting me in making more comics! See these early! See them in color! There’s also PayPal right there too if you don’t want to subscribe! Thanks for all the generous support you’ve all given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I’m sure they do a lot more than this, for a lot of booksellers, this is basically Read the Rest on Patreon!
Yo! I got this Patreon thing here! It happens time and time again with certain store managers I’ve worked for throughout the years. There are those that are confident, schedule appropriately, and make sure people are, for the most part,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Visits from district managers and higher ups are questionable for me. They’re always a lot of hullabaloo around the impending walk through from a district manager and too many people running around trying to fix things. I understand there are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We get visited by big head honcho types at our store from time to time. It’s more annoying than panic inducing, but the feelings of thinking we’re wasting our time on stuff that the bigwigs care about but never captures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller on Patreon! Do you want to be in the comic like Matt? I can set that up for you if you become a Patron! Plenty of other cool things on there too! I still remember this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic!! Patreon has all sorts of extra bonus stuff only for Patrons! How about those fidget toys, eh? Banning them from schools, people all over the place grabbing as many as they can get a hold of,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help Mike: Bookseller! This comic needs all the support it can get! Please, thanks, you’re all awesome! Lark would usually have a set schedule. There were days that we employees could breathe a little easier, the days where Lark wasn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got an email from a reader a little while back: “I got to work today I was told by all my fellow booksellers that the new store manager was talking crap, “…kids is a disaster, books everywhere, hopefully our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At this point I’m pretty certain that The Company pays people good portions of money for them to tell us to do one thing, change their mind, then tell us to do another, different thing, then change their mind again.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of instructions from above tend not to trickle down but burst out with violent activity, much like when a levee breaks and it’s much too late to get anything done. Or instructions are hidden in emails that were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have seen my fair share of panicked over scheduling when a district manager visit is on the horizon. Once that district visit is over people are sent home in droves. I still can’t wrap my head around it. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kimberly wrote to me recently about the issues we all are dealing with concerning the hour cuts: “With cuts in hours, we’re constantly short staffed and running like crazy. Miraculously, though, today we had full coverage at CS, cash, juvi,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It never fails. They never show up when they say they do, they arrive right when you’re not ready. Well, certain managers are never ready. I’ve seen stores run just fine and store managers handle things in a perfectly reasonable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
