I got a membership here, if you feel like supporting the comic, check it out! So the Membership has changed benefits over the 18ish years I’ve been with The Bookstore, magazine subscriptions, mailed gift cards, coupons, tote bags, probably some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Becoming a Patron helps support my comics and gets you access to early comics, color comics, extra doodles and more! The holidays have hit hard right now. All sorts of crap is getting shipped in by the truck and pallet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Helping to support this comic on Patreon gives you access to cool stuff like seeing this comic update early, see the strips in color, and more! The Teen–The Young Adult Fiction section has gained a lot of popularity within the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support my comic on Patreon and you can see these comics early, in color, get access to other drawings and comics not seen anywhere else, and more! We were shipped advent calendars in August. We have gotten shipments of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support my comic on Patreon! I know that the 90s are a big thing to revisit right now, but there are things that are best left in the past, and a lot of them are locker crap. It’s a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Support my comics on Patreon and you get to see these comics early, in color, and more! This back to school display has given me mixed feelings. I like that we’re selling normal Jansport backpacks right now. Those are nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Want to see this comic in color and earlier than normal? Patreon can let you do that AND support me and allowing me to continue to make these comics! We seem to have two halves of Home Office that aren’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You could see these comics a day early and IN COLOR!! Check it out here if you want to help support my comic strip. This Book Store company seems to treat their CEOs like fashion. Every four to six months[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Want to see this comic early and in color? There’s a way to do that right here! The recategorizations happen every four to five years with The Bookstore and it continually makes me question what kind of people work at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Learning Management System. Home office loves this thing. We barely look twice at it. It isn’t used until someone is thinking of trying to get promoted, or when Home Office mandates its usage. There isn’t much useful information found[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s almost a daily occurrence now. There is some crazy drastic difference between the stock count on a title and how many of that book we actually have in the store. It could be a receiver error because no one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have had significant cutbacks on a lot of scheduling, and payroll. What hasn’t changed with those updates is the amount of work. I am wondering what kind of Six Sigma Lean crapola Home Office is running to think that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could be wrong, but I still don’t think this Book Club is going to be a success. Choosing “The Female Persuasion” seems too focused for a company/nation-wide event. I have heard some people say that the choice to start[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess The Bookstore is hosting a Book Club? I can see where this could have been a fun event. But focusing on one specific book is a bad move from what I can see. If this book isn’t Harry[…]↓ 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…
It’s safe to say that not many people are happy with what happened last week. Not hearing much of anything from home office hasn’t helped matters either. I expect some subversive and disobedient Bookstore employees are going to find subtle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been thinking about this dissolving/removal of full-time positions at The Bookstore for the past week or so now. I think we’re going to feel this change for a long time to come. A lot of people are understandably angry.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of us who have survived the cuts and removal of full time positions at The Bookstore, we are still dealing with it. That whole “Why not me?” thought has run through my mind along with “Thank goodness I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The hammer came down really heavy this week. A lot of my fellow booksellers were let go. I had been hearing things left and right about an investor or two wanting their money back. Hours were being cut way too[…]↓ 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…
I have a Patreon page that helps support me make this comic. Check it out! I am not a fan of music that has jingle bells, or silver bells, or Santa Claus, or any of that crap. It’s going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic on Patreon and you can see extra cool stuff no one else gets to see! You could even be in the comic proper! Check it out! Bargain books and calendars. Two sides of the same coin.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller here on Patreon! Extra drawings and comics, giraffe doodles every week, and more only for Patrons!! Endcaps. The cap on the end of an aisle of merchandise. Typically used for displaying more products that couldn’t fit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the site on Patreon! Lots of cool extra comics and giraffe doodles and fun stuff for Patrons! The Fiscal year has reset. We are now in 2018… At least The Bookstore is. With the fiscal stuff hitting the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the site!! You get all sorts of cool stuff for extras on the Patreon page! You can even be part of the comic like Suzi here! I got a fun email from Tracie: ” …at my store the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic here! Extra drawings and comics, giraffe doodles, and early access to comics! So, that Yule Ball thing, eh? I like how little was prepared for this thing. We got next to nothing for hand outs, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By supporting the comic you get to see comics a day early, extra drawings, you could be a character in the comic too! Just like Christiana and Allison! This past year The Bookstore got rid of another CEO. I’d say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller and get cool stuff like giraffe drawings or a spot in the strip! Nine more patrons by the end of July and I’ll draw an extra comic! We’ve had some signs get shipped to us with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Patreon helps me keep the site running and the comics updating, a dollar or two a month goes a lot farther than you think! Please help! There are Home Office side business decisions and store updates and the like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the nük was launched I was not a fan. They fixed the e-reader down the line and I was fine with it at that point. The added store app and other such paraphernalia that came along with future updates[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We were lost! Absolutely lost! We had no clue what to do with these “toys and/or games” that were being shipped in to our receiving department. “What are we to do with these,” we asked. “How are we to move[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For all of those instructions from home office saying that a ten inch Lego box will fit on a seven inch tall shelf, or how the flimsy cardboard displays they say will hold forty copies of the World Atlas, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been happening with more frequency. Whoever is making the decisions in home office as to how to categorize books for where they’re supposed to be placed in the store is really screwing the pooch. Seeing how many miss-categorized[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Any time there’s a change in categories for our books and subsections, it is the worst time. Holidays are upon us, earlier than ever, so we’re busy setting up all of THAT crap and we’re expected to change up all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Subject categories change frequently enough. Then they change back. Whatever. It’s retail. It happens. What is insufferable though, is the fact that Home Office will change the categories in our search system WEEKS before we set up the new categories.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Is anyone else kind of frustrated and VERY tired of how holiday product is handled and delivered? We have such a light month in August, I would think that would be a good time to carefully plan and ship what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New category changes happened…again… Which is a thing you can set your watch by. It happens with such frequency. We now have Business Motivation as a subsection again. It went away for a bit, but now it’s back! And Business[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got an email from a reader not too long ago. They requested to not have their name listed either because: “apparently our managers are going through your comic with a fine tooth comb. They even brought the media papers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finishing up the day’s shipment isn’t usually a problem. It usually arrives within the delivery window and it usually isn’t a ridiculously unreasonable amount of boxes. So on a usual day a simple home office message about doing what we’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When one hears customers complaining that the music selection is out of season, we have a problem. I bet home office is laughing about how we’re forced to listen to that garbage. I bet they get to listen to whatever[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There must be a familiar topic that crops up at The Bookstore’s Home Office meetings. Something about how certain sections are just, you know, not quite right. They need to change it up a bit. The problem is that they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
