Shop assistant at the bookshop (precisely, slowly): “You .. want discount .. on books, don’t you? I can .. sign you up for .. discount on .. books. Give me your .. email address.”
Later I met my partner by the door to the book shop. He too had been cajoled into signing up for their newsletter by a shop assistant doing the scary voice-thing. Gosh, what does the Borders chain do to their staff?
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I am forced to do something similar where I work. Though I can manage it more articulately. They claim that if we don’t sell these discount memberships we can be let go. It’s really lame. They probably have a quota or percentage to make each week. And I had thought Borders, at least here in the states, had free memberships. I don’t ever remember being pestered in such a way at Borders anyway.
Posted 19 Feb 2008 at 11:57 pm ¶The thing is, they ARE free. It’s just a newsletter that they’ll send to your email account and you don’t have to do anything else.
But the guy was seriously intense/creepy/weird.
Posted 20 Feb 2008 at 12:21 am ¶Did you notice the jedi-hand-thing he did?
Posted 20 Feb 2008 at 9:01 am ¶Oooooh!! Good point!
Wait, we have real Jedi in Glasgow? Oh, my life is complete.
Posted 20 Feb 2008 at 11:55 am ¶I’m thinking … zombies.
Posted 20 Feb 2008 at 2:27 pm ¶Chris, surely you can bring the funk and regulate that zombie?
Posted 20 Feb 2008 at 7:59 pm ¶I shall send out my minions forthwith.
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