Maybe help me out make more comics?! Lazy customers, man. They’re the worst. Our job is helping people find and buy stuff, cleaning up after people is required to make sure we can find the books again for other hopefully[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I have a Patreon Page wherein you may find early posted comics, giraffe doodles, extra comics from time to time, and the beginning stages of me redrawing my old strips to turn into a collected book! This just happened exactly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a Patreon page! I’m redrawing comics to make into a book and you can only see them on Patreon! Christiana took this phone call just a day or two ago. A customer was angry, not at booksellers doing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m redrawing the old Mike: Bookseller strips to put into an eventual book, you can see them posted here on Patreon! Most people know that when you tell someone the total amount of money they have to pay for stuff,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know you could see these comics early, and in color, and you could see fun weekly giraffes, and even more cool stuff by supporting the comic strip on Patreon! I was helping a customer pretty much like this guy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support my comic strip on Patreon! Cool extras only for patrons! There are needy customers and then there are NEEDY customers. I’ve gone through a few phone calls with someone on the other line who keeps adding ONE MORE[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You could see this comic a day early, in color, or just see extra cool drawings of giraffes found nowhere else! How about checking out the Patreon page I have for my comic? I ask this question a lot. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patreon support allows you to see cool extra stuff!! My friend shared a story with me about how he was helping a customer look for a book, couldn’t find it, offered to order it, and the first panel up here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See this comic early and in color by supporting my comic strip with Patreon! There have been times where a singular customer can take over your whole day. Is there something that happens when they call in or ask for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wanna see this in color?! Click here! Every year they call and every year we tell them the same thing. …and every year they don’t get it. They keep asking. They say that the book they’re looking for ISN’T a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Want to see these comics early and IN COLOR? YOu can make that happen for you right here! I would hazard a guess at saying we’ve all had at least one “customer” try to return a book and you KNEW[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a way to see these comics a day early and in color if you want to click here. An old coworker of mine shared a story of working at a clothing store. They would start their shift on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
V-Carts are fairly convenient contraptions that allow us to move a good 200 pounds of books around the sales floor easily. You don’t need to do too much upkeep for them either. Very few moving parts. Of the few moving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One annoyance that crops up almost on the daily is when a “customer” comes in to buy a small cup of coffee or a newspaper and proceeds to pay for the item with a 50 or 100 dollar bill. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The crabby customer who happens to be a retail worker…. They really should know better. I’d like to say that if everyone worked at least 6 months in a customer service/retail type job, the world would be a better place.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I find too many half finished cups of coffee left abandoned on our shelves in The Bookstore. There has to be some sort of mental goof that happens with customers and their drinks when they’re in a bookstore. Coffee nowadays[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller on Patreon! You get all sorts of cool extras by being a Patron! You could even be in the comic like Trevor and Allison! Hatchimals last year, Fingerlings this year, who knows what desperate, angry, annoying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic on Patreon! You get to see some cool extra stuff and you could even be in the comic like Evil Chris! We get people who do this once every twenty minutes or so. They think they’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic here on Patreon! You can see extra cool stuff there as a Patron! You could even be a part of the comic like Matt! There are some dreaded phone calls that happen to us at work.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the strip here on Patreon! Extra comics and drawings, giraffe doodles, and you could even be in the comic like Christiana! This situation happens way too frequently for my taste and it always gets to me. The customer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic here on Patreon! Extra drawings and comics, giraffe doodles on the weekly, you could even be in the comic strip itself!!! Working in the Cafe department is like distilled customer service. It’s all been boiled down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic here on Patreon! Extra cool stuff found here! I got an email from Megan which really surprised me: “One day was going pretty well. This was back in 2011 after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, and our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller on Patreon! All sorts of extra bonus cool stuff! You could even be in the comic like Matt here! I got a fun email from Douglas: ” We’ve always gotten the “Why don’t you carry more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the site here on Patreon! You could get all sorts of fun stuff to look at! Early access to comics, giraffe drawings, extra doodles, and you could even be in the comic like Amanda here! We had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the comic here! Fun rewards and goodies found on the Patreon page! It never fails. We have our morning meeting right before we open the store and…the first customer tries to break a $100 bill by purchasing a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You could have seen this comic a day earlier by supporting the comic here! All sorts of fun extra stuff in there too! I’ve seen a few stories that booksellers have shared about people getting the book they wanted and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support awesomeness! Becoming a patron for Mike: Bookseller gives you access to extra comics and giraffe doodles, little fun sketches and you could even be part of the comic strip like Suzi here! What are you waiting for? I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller! You could be in the comic or get fun giraffe drawings! Having a customer or two walk up to the customer service desk and hand you trash is no big deal. It’s welcome even. When a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller! I need help!! There are too many people out there who will go out of their way to hate something popular without really knowing why or looking into the thing that they supposedly hate to see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support Mike: Bookseller! It helps me keep making the comics! Of all the ‘customers’ that come into the store, the ones who use us as a showroom are at the top of my list for people that don’t deserve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help Mike: Bookseller become an even more awesome comic! I could use the support and you could become part of the ever growing cast of characters! Customers sitting in aisles and on the sales floor will happen at least weekly.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Suzi’s in this awesome comic! You could be in an awesome comic too all the while helping to support Mike: Bookseller!! It sounds crazy but it’s TRUE! I had one of the weirdest interactions with a customer a few weeks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey! Look at all those people in the comic that donated! You could be a comic character too! Or get giraffe drawings! Or other cool stuff! Thank you all for the support! Tracie shared some stories with me and this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Amanda joins the ranks! you can too! Support Mike: Bookseller and you can be a character in the comic as well! Thank you all for the support! We seem to get the question about why our online store is cheaper[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a great story from Tracie a little while ago: “A customer called the store to see if they had particular CD. When I checked the system I saw there was one on hand and the customer said, “okay,”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had some squirt bottles come into the store a little while ago. I was really hoping they were for what you would use on a misbehaving cat, except on bad customers. It was not to be, sadly. The janitors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of the worst customers we have to deal with are those that want to argue, they want to create a scene. They want to find something to complain about. We aren’t getting paid to listen to you, we’re getting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been tempted to show up on days off just to mouth off to stupid, annoying, self entitled idiot customers, but I always get the better of myself. It’s my day off and giving grief to customers, while enjoyable,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen too many people do this. Are you really THAT lazy? Are you really that inconsiderate? I spent a good portion of my shift setting up those displays you could AT LEAST leave the book on the same table,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t even bother making New Year’s resolutions. I see no point. We should be constantly trying to improve ourselves, a new year shouldn’t be your starting point. Every day is your starting point. Get something done!
I think we have all had to deal with this type of old person. The cantankerous, grating, bossy, old fart. There’s nothing left to them but skin, bones, and hatred. Dealing with their requests and complaints is the worst. There[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not the only one bothered by the almost real words out there am I? Or how people will add extra letters to words? Like eXpresso and boLth? What a waste of letters.
I got an interesting email from Elise a little while ago: “A male customer was at customer service and requested a book (OBVS) entitled Kill or Be Killed. I really thought nothing of it at first, thinking it another cutthroat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These are the types of parents I hate. Bad child behavior can almost always be traced back to bad parenting. Don’t hate the kid, hate the progenitor.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! Customers have the worst timing when it comes to anything. Need to use the restroom and hastily hop-skipping your way there? A customer will inevitably stop to ask you five hundred thousand questions. Trying to finish that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got an email from Tracie who recounted a story she got from her coworker Rob: “There was about five or so people in line waiting for him to check them out, when this large woman walks up and starts[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Those annoying, interrupting customers with their “quick” questions almost always have quick tempers and short amounts of patience. They need to be put in their place.
You know that infamous customer question that is asked at least five times a day? “Can you help me find that one book with the red color?” What happens if they even get the color wrong?
