Tuesday, March 6, 2007

An Insider's Perspective

Moira Manion, a former employee at the Borders store in Minneapolis' Block E, gives a view from inside the soon-to-be-closed store on "Marketplace." You can listen or read the transcript. It's not happy news for anyone who dreams of chucking it all in and working in a bookstore.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love all Manion's Marketplace work! wish they had her more often!

Anonymous said...

Those of you who think Ms. Manion is the greatest thing since sliced bread don't know her like those who have worked with this sloth. This woman has schliped from one retail outlet to another every 6 to 9 months because she is one of the worst employees ever to have worked at the MSP airport.

Take any position she has worked at and talk with any employee at any location and they will tell you just how lazy, inept and incompetent she is. She is running out of retail options and burns her bridge at every retail spot she has ever worked at and received many complaints from customers on her poor customer service and negative attitude.

This woman is a lose cannon looking for a law suit to hang it on. Not one employee will tell you she is liked. She alienates herself from management to customers and then complains that she is underpaid and unliked. Give yourself a BREAK, Ms. Manion. I have seen you at what you call "WORK" where you think you should have a chair for your lazy ass. You stand there like a statue, seldom engage customers, have the lowest self esteem and energy of any employee, don't fulfill any shift duties and then whine you are being treated unfairly.

Your Opp EDs on various blogs, web sites and with stump sitters at MPR is a joke. You claim you're being treated unfairly, but ask anyone of the people who have had the druggery of having to put up with working with you and you will see just how few friends you have. I don't know of a single person who has anything good to say about you, your ethics, ability to get along with others, your sad customer service skills, your whining about everyone and that you have anything positive to contribute to any job. You are a train wreak in the making and everyone at MSP knows it. You whine about a poor mystery shop, but forget to write that you are your own worst enemy. You stand around and ignore customers at all your locations, fail to do almost everything you are hired to do then whine when you get wrote up for poor service. What a joke you are. You are not fit to work in retail. Your better off working under a bridge helping those who you claim you are out there championing rights for.

You need to take your paddle and canoe and head down river and don't come back. You are a disgrace to all workers at MSP and don't deserve to work along side of the many good people in all the stores you have burned your proverbial bridge with.

I'm sure my opinion follows that of many who are glad you don't work with them anymore