it's placement, not politics

[amezri]

The room is spinning. Yay. Going to get lunch then do some work, but first, I had to write this down.

Conservatives having things they can and should complain about - the placement of Sean Hannity's book is not one of them.

This woman comes in looking for Sean Hannity's stupid book and then complains to us that it isn't placed well. That "Conservative books never get prominent placement."

Look, lady. Shut the fuck up. It's a book on the Times Best Seller list. If you want it higher, go tell your Conservative buddies to buy lots and lots of copies, okay? Cripes.

I find out later that the managers had asked who among the assisstant managers and employees wanted to go to the Hannity book signing at Proctor's this week. Most of them bowed out. One manager told me that it was fine to sell the book, but if she was at the signing, it would feel like she was promoting the book and she wasn't comfortable with that. Good choice, since the people at the signing would be of that mind set that drives rational people crazy. Not that they'd like me there. I'm one of the "others" - Asian, Pagan, open-minded. Yeah. Feh.

Okay, going now.

Comments

[crzydemona.livejournal.com]

meep... ::owns that book::

Jen

[tylergrrls.livejournal.com]

Yes, but did you complain that it wasn't hanging from the rafters glowing in lights sent down from the heavens?

*g*

If not, you'll be okay.

-Bree, B&N Bitch

[amezri.livejournal.com]

You can own the book. Hell, I've owned a Billy O'Reilly book. That doesn't bother me. What does bother me is someone coming into our store and claimed we have some sort of political bias in regards to book placement.

Which I'm sure you wouldn't do, so it's all cool :D

[bee-oh-three.livejournal.com]

This is simply my opinion, but I've flipped through Hannity's book before. It's basically unmitigated bile against everyone that doesn't agree with him, filled with incorrect statements and confusing sentences. There's so much better out there, even for conservative readers.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I've seen him on TV and that was enough. They way people just devour the garbage he spews is frightening.

[needia.livejournal.com]

You should have led her over to the correct shelf and then kicked her head-first into it waited patiently for her to make her purchase.
And, uhm, *waves* saw you friended me back. I'm expanding my empire loved!

[amezri.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! I wish I could have done that :-P

[spellingwitch.livejournal.com]

This woman comes in looking for Sean Hannity's stupid book and then complains to us that it isn't placed well. That "Conservative books never get prominent placement."

While I doubt this was true for Hannity's book, my mother was looking for Oliver North's book "Mission Compromised" a while back at B&N, and was told they only had 2 copies, in "Religious Fiction." It was a novel, but what the hell, *religious* fiction?

[amezri.livejournal.com]

*shrug* In all fairness, we only put books where the company or the publisher tells us to. There are many people who are annoyed that Diana Gabaldon is classified as Romance and say she should be (historical) fiction.

[spellingwitch.livejournal.com]

And it SHOULD! :) LOL - I ♥ the Outlander series :)

[xpashax.livejournal.com]

lol, my gf's brother used to work at the poughkeepsie B&N and got the same shit about Savage's book. It was on the NYT best seller list, but not the B&N best seller list, thus it was "tucked away" in the political section.

So he got accused many times a day about being part of the liberal conspiracy that was making savages book difficult to find. Funny, because he's a conservative. He explained basic economics to them, how poughkeepsie is a liberal hive (4 local colleges, several more nearby in small towns) and thus most of the books bought in poughkeepsie would be liberal book, paid for by liberals, and thus good capatalistic business sence would be to place good selling liberal books up front where they will sell even easier.

Funny shit.

As for Hannitys book, heh. At my gf's fathers birthday party this past weekend, he got the hannity book. Her mom was like "he's very logical". I almost cracked up. I am sympathetic to many aspects of their politics, but Hannity is one of those people whom suprises the hell out of me when what he says is in accordance with logic.

I can't even listen to him on the radio, he's not even funny like Rush or Savage. It's just, painful.

[spellingwitch.livejournal.com]

Aw, he's from Long Island, cut him some slack ;)

[amezri.livejournal.com]

The ridiculous thing was that the Hannity book was in 4 different spots, just not that one she wanted, I guess. At the morning meeting today, we were told that the woman had actually moved the entire stack of books and placed them on the front octagon where they could be seen.