Let's Bitch

Dear Madams…

I did not realize when I accepted this new position that dealing with customer complaints was part of the job description, so forgive me that I am not very accommodating when doing so.  I can almost pretend to care about the legitimate ones, but if I have to spend one more minute listening to or reading about how you are “appalled” that we carry the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated in our stores I think I might snap.  We are not the Family Christian Bookstore…we are a sporting goods retailer…we sell swimsuits…I’m sure you own several swimsuits…but for some reason the girl on the cover of the magazine wearing one is offense?  Is it because you know you will never look that good in one???  Do you seriously have nothing better to do with your time than to waste mine letting me know you are never going to shop with us again because one time a year our magazine rack has the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition sitting on it???  Wal-mart sells it, Walgreens sells it, Target sells it….go complain to one of them!!  The women on the cover of Shape and on the cover of Fitness are wearing less clothing than the women on the SI cover and no one complains about that.  It is funny how I haven’t had to deal with any MALE complaints on this….