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Enjoy? Hmmm. Much more pathetic than the women I know who bead. Rather than insecure agonists begging for color advice, the beaders I know exclaim delightedly at new color interactions they find. A disempowering article and one I would not recommend to any friend of mine.

Tina

Lol. I just sort of took it as tongue-in-cheek and thought it was pretty funny.

Maybe she works in the bead store in DC that I went out of my way to visit a few months ago. The staff was totally lethargic, wasn't interested in what their customers were doing, and had no advice on what type of material or finding worked best with a certain bead. The next time I went to DC, I didn't even bother to go to that bead store.

She doesn't sound like the type of clerk I'd enjoy interacting with. Maybe she belongs in a different type of store (or industry)?

Gina

Sandy wrote:

Hm. It didn't make me smile - it kinda ticked me off. For about two seconds. Then I looked at some beads and felt better. ;)

That's hilarious. All you have to do is hang out at the LBS for an hour and you'll see several. They're out there by the dozens.

Not that I'm > Thought you might enjoy this...

Retail work DOES suck.

BTW, sweetie -- I saw a car the other day with a pers>

Actually, what I thought was this: "This woman doesn't need to be in customer service." I'm speaking of the one who wrote the post. Who cares? If you don't want to serve the public -- WHO IS ANYONE WHO WALKS IN THE DOOR -- then don't work at the bead store.

Becki

Halle-frickenluyah

Ah! There are more us out there. Thanks for thinking of me.

If I were still working retail, I would probably find it funnier. That said, I don't think working retail was good for my character. Dora

LOL! OK, that article paints a horrid picture of beaders... and at first I wanted to slap the author and ask her what rock she's been living under. Then I realized that she WORKS RETAIL. Getting a comprehensive picture of people who bead by working in a bead store is like getting a comprehensive picture of people who read by working in a book store or people who listen to music by working in a record store... both of which I did for several years, and trust me, if I wrote an article about people who read books it would paint a sad image of hollow, overdressed suburbanites, and music listeners would all be 14 years old.

If I'd worked downtown, I might have thought that people who read books were all chain-smoking emaciated hipster poet-types and suited businesspeople, and that people who listen to music are all 14 years old. Also, I'd possibly be under the impression that a disproportionate number of the population like to shoot heroin in public restrooms. (Based on the stories I heard from the downtowners!)

(It cannot possibly be the case that all music listeners are 14 years old, can it???)

-Kalera

Sandy wrote:

Of course I've had a few potential buyers who had me pull stock, scan it, wrap it and then never follow thru... a few more of these and I'd probably turn on beaders too! LOL