Comments on: Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Professional Courtesy

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:10:26 +0000

You do, Brenda. I think that’s our problem here in the States. We line. We don’t queue.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:07:27 +0000

Oh, and thank you for that nice thing you said about we Canadians. We do queue up nicely don’t we?

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:05:42 +0000

Kris you said: I think Twitter and Facebook are like a giant convention, so I try to treat them that way, and love it when others do too.
Oh, yes, yes, yes. I so agree. And I won’t even begin to go into convention etiquette. But I have seen some doozie foot-in-mouth situations, and been the brunt of at least one very embarrassing (for me) drunken monologue.

Thanks for a wonderful post.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:08:28 +0000

Good for you and the owner, Colleen. One of our local indy booksellers put up a sign that said “Good Fiction” over the mainstream/literary part of the bookstore. My books weren’t there, of course. So I walked him over and said, “Does that mean my books are bad fiction?” He took the sign down, and really apologized. He hadn’t realized how insulting that was.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:51:51 +0000

Regarding your comments about bookstore employees, I have to say that is an enormous pet peeve of mine. I worked in “the farthest north indy” in Fairbanks for two years. Most of the staff were grad students and they were always exceedingly unimpressed by romance and SFF customers. We sold new and used and there were employees who would argue about having to stock the used romance section as someone might think they were actually in there buying a book and not just working and oh – THE HUMILIATION!!

There was a lot of badmouthing romance customers, etc and it infuriated me. At all of 23 years old they were universally convinced that they were the most well read people in the world.

There is no excuse for such rude behavior and I was always happy when our owner made it clear that they either put a happy face on and helped the customers or quit. I just told them to grow up – and wondered just what on earth possibly made them be so impressed with their obnoxious selves!