Caught reading at a bookstore? Horrors. :P

This is a bookstore, not a library.

Is there a difference anymore? I've been told that most big bookstores tell there employees pointedly not to hassle customers for reading in the store.

Of course, that's for customers, not employees, so I dunno.

I just figured librarians had more time on their hands than bookstore clerks. I've seen librarians dawdle and laze about before.

Yeah, but we feel guilty while doing it....when our supervisors catch us.

All this is apart from the assertion that Karno has the spare time to crack open a book. Either he has a spare moment, in which case the reading is not taking away from work he is supposed to be doing, or he doesn't, in which case it would be obvious that he is not keeping up with his work. But I've worked in places so small-minded that they would honestly rather you just sat with your thumb up your ass staring off into space than actually fill your idle time with ANY constructive activity.

Personally, I think his fellow employees are just jealous that he is able to do something that they don't know how to.

Why do your coworkers have such a problem with reading the books while sorting them?

Oh damn. That's one gremlin I'd like on my wing.

READING?! At a BOOKSTORE?! Why that's absurd!

So, is she flashing William Shatner, or John Lithgow?

Reading leads to KNOWLEDGE!

And that's unamerican!

... Or something.

"Caught Reading?" Is reading on the job a bad thing? Seriously I can't go to work and not read. I mean I have to deal with computer problems daily so what do I do, pull out the manual for the software and read... smart-a-phobes, they're just afraid that your smarted than them because you can read and write above a 5th grade level.

If this is anything like what happened to Willam Shatner or John Lithgow. He's going to be in for a long flight..

"I swear... There's a nekid woman. Stripping on the wing! Dont look, she jumps away whenever anyone might see her except me."

Great work, and geeze.

Geez, caught reading on the job? What assholes! I mean, you could just be sorting the books, see something that looks interesting and taking a quick look at it to see if you might want to get it on payday! Heaven forbid you are someone who actually likes to own and read the books you help sell instead of using them as fancy display pieces!

caught reading on the job? at a book store? where you are surrounded by shelves of shelves that stores reading material? I see humanity is gonna end from a cause of man-made disaster we all known as "Stupidity".

"Reading?! Of course not! I was only masturbating on the table of contents, I swear!" /sarcasm

Unlike Shatner & Lithgow, I don't think he'll want to steal a gun to shoot at her. :)

OK, I believe that if you do work at a bookstore you should read the books so that if the customer asks you something about the book you have a good reference to what they want and the knowledge to back it up....

Precisely.

"I had a regular customer ask me last month about <Insert book name here>, s/he is a regular customer, especially in <insert genre here>, and generallyis pretty knowledgeable about good books from the purchases I've seen s/he make. So yes, I did read the back cover and the prologue when that book came in to see if it was something that I might recommend to other customers who like <insert genre here>, because it's a series/author that I'm not familiar with. I want to be helpful to our customers while increasing book sales for the store. And yes,I realize it would be wrong to just read constantly on the job when there was work to be done, but this was during a lull when most of the other employees were just standing around talking anyway."

Correct and if you was doing that you was still working withing your job performance....

What small-hearted and petty people to try and get you in trouble and perhaps fired, to steal away your livelihood out of such petty spite and hate. Should be people like that getting the complaints filed on them.

I recently got a complaint against me that I insulted someone at work and that I was impolite. But I haven't the faintest clue as to who, where and how. You got always some people that go behind your back. If I have a problem with someone I address that person about that problem and I don't go behind his back about it. I don't like office politics give me straight forward bigmouth workers any day.

Got a transfer and now I'm doing the administration for the workforce team leaders and if they have a problem you hear it from half way across the work floor no matter how much noise the machines are making. See a problem solve a problem, no cloak and dagger office politics bullshit that only aggravates the problems.

Indeed, such petty people.

Great one here.

It gets better.

My favorite version of "Twilight or maybe Acme Acres Zone".

Like to see more.

well it is still great but yea people at work can be totall AHoles

No know book learning is forbidden! :b

Reading?! *wags finger* Shame shame shame.

as to the comic.... Ya'know, If something this cool really happened on planes i might not hate flying so much.