Comments on: Book People tonight!

by: FurryCatHerder

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:27:23 +0100

Damn. I’m going to be somewhere else on the 14th.

June dates?!?

by: Denise

Sat, 03 May 2008 20:03:38 +0100

Stella:

You’re not impressed with Book People anymore because you didn’t get a job that would pay you 6.50 an hour, a rate you found unaceptable to begin with?

I worked there from 1998-2001, I wasn’t an English Lit major, and I had no prior bookselling experience. They hire people that play well with others. They hire people that are willing to work for little pay because they love to be surround by like minded folks that love BOOKS.

Sorry you didn’t get the job.

ps - What makes the store self-righteous?

by: wapsie

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:06:15 +0100

Book People is nice, but it does not even begin to compare to Prairie Lights in Iowa City, or the used bookstores on State Street in Madison. Considering Austin’s claims to culture and its being home to the flagship UT campus, it’s a bit of a disappointment, and tiny and giving far too much of its limited shelf space to not-books.

Now Austin’s Whole Foods across the street, that’s impressive. I know its the WF mothership, but still.

by: Amanda Marcotte

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:44:47 +0100

Upper right hand corner lists two.

by: exlitigator

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:28:16 +0100

Any other book signing dates in Texas?

by: Stella

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:27:45 +0100

I am not so impressed with BookPeople anymore, after I applied for a job there in 2006 when I returned to Austin from the UK. Their starting pay at that time was $6.50 per hour! Not acceptable for a self-righteous, community-respected business that, I would suspect, employs mostly English Lit degree holders. I had three years’ bookselling experience (one of it as a branch events manager), and a master’s degree, and didn’t get a call. Perhaps I was too “overqualified” for them. Funny how you can be overqualified for retail and admin positions, but never overqualified for unemployment.

by: Jonathan Hohensee

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:10:21 +0100

I play the dozens with the best of them.

by: Eric, Rejector of Memes

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:54:32 +0100

JH, oooo, SNAP!

by: Jonathan Hohensee

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:44:21 +0100

He’s upset about this thread;
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/24/late-night-pandagon-because-if-i-wrote-about-this-during-the-day-id-be-correctly-fired-edition/

by: MikeEss

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:22:10 +0100

“Lloyd Webber”, are you sure you’re absolutely - verified by Jesus - free of specks, forests, and every other flaw?

According to the same book, only God can judge other people.

“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Matthew 7:1, King James Version

So you should probably shut your mouth and not make judgments about other people, or Hell’s gaping maw awaits…