Retards in Retail

First, I mean no insult to anyone who is mentally or physically handicapped - I use the word to describe those of normal intelligence who REFUSE to learn.  That said, let's go ...

First, I work with a guy (I'll call him Moron) who has the mental capacity of a turnip, I do believe that's in insult to turnips.  I'm not sure how he graduated from high school, but somehow, he did.  He was asked one day what was 30 x 10.  Now, I would think, even with the poorest communities, the schools would have taught how to multiply, especially by 10s!  And, he's in his 30s, still lives at home, doesn't have a bank account, and obsesses over T&A.  A pretty (and busty) woman comes in the store and he's like those cartoon wolves with his eyes bugging out  and tongue drooling.  Boss keeps threatening to fire him because he can't do anything (he can't even sort by numbers!), but because my Boss is a chicken, the guy's been here for over 6 years and is only good for schlepping boxes.  And he can't even lift that heavy of boxes - wuss!

Now regarding my Boss - well, he's a brilliant salesman.  Could sell ice to Eskimos.  But since he's been in charge of purchasing, it's been lessons in frustration every day.  He finds these "deals" that he can't pass up.  For example:

We carry some graphic novels in our store.  Not many, and normally just the hottest titles (like the Watchman one when that movie came out, some of the Wolverine ones, Star Trek, you know, the stuff the average Joe would recognize).  Well, our distributor had hundreds of titles on sale - a great deal, supposedly.  Boss didn't even think twice - bought them out.  Now, these were obscure titles; I'm not a comic book geek, but I know most of the comic characters out there and I've never seen some of these characters!  Did it ever occur to the Boss that there was a *reason* these titles where on such clearance?  Maybe because NO ONE WANTED THEM??  Now, we're stuck with hundreds of graphics novels and no place to put them.  Storage room was already full of his many other "deals" that never panned out.  My god, I don't know how we stay in business.  Wait, I know!  It's because the employees never get any raises!

We do have some "normal" employees who are hard-working, responsible people who deserve at least a cost-of-living raise (including myself), but with the Boss deciding to go after all these "deals" ... well, you can see why the hell I want out.

I'll have more stories about Boss and Moron as life goes on, unless, by magic, I get a new job or win a few million.

Oh, and if anyone out there knows how to change the time-stamp on these blogs, I'd be greatly appreciative.  They seem to be about 2 hours off - I'm near Chicago, not Seattle!

- Nichola