Jeanie Bottle 458
Dec05
on December 5, 2017
at 2:44 am
and modified on November 27, 2022. at 1:54 am
Chapter: Story 11: I Dream of an Escape
LOL, jealous much? Though I guess you can’t really blame her…
Sorry for the late post, folks. Totally my (Robert’s) fault.
Dude … store clerk lady … chill! 0_0
Big breasts can be really inconvenient. Shouldn’t you know that?
Eesh, did she feel Natalie up in public because of big breast hatred or envy or whatever this is? o_o What a shame if it’s so…
I don’t normally hear or see in my social groups such cat-scratching remarks about a woman’s appearance (except from one guy I know). Either that or they get drown out by the sound of the restaurant/bar/outdoors.
Neil probably just unintentionally hit a raw nerve with her about what she desires but lacks. Maybe she works there to compensate for it. Not real mature of her to react that way.
Women are mean, hateful and tribalistic creatures as a rule, that’s why they form hate cliques, are quick to spread vicious rumors, and have no sympathy for those they hurt outside the in-group, you’re either in their tribe or you’re the enemy, and the veneer of civility and courtesy is paper thin. Of course all bets are off in a work of fiction created by a man because the characters aren’t real women. Does having a waifu that was created by a male author make you gay? A question for the ages.
Natalie needs to watch it with some of those loose-lip comments. i think she’s getting entirely too comfortable with the concept of magic.
And it appears that Anne is thoroughly distracted by her phone call with Judy.
> Natalie needs to watch it with some of those loose-lip comments
Yup! I was going to mention that in the author comment, too, but I felt like I’d already said enough. Glad you brought it up.
Yeah, no doubt! She will get some unwanted attention if she is too loose with that. Or people will just think she is a loony.
But an engineer who is a bit ditzy has a lot of gap moe!
It is also a good plot device. If Agent Anderson overhears her, this could lead to a cool chase scene, in the lingerie boutique that is! And end up in a climactic pillow fight! With pink ruffled pillows flying through the air! Complete with hair thrashing, clothes being torn off, naughty girls being spanked, and negligees being worn while girl talking about boys!
All the typical lingerie boutique things!
It obvious that Natalie need to learn to guard her mouth, because, she saying too much or reveling too much to other people around her.
However, I think the sale person is being a little too sensitive about Natalie having big breast and she having small breast. Especially since Natalie didn’t intend anything negative or anything.
I’ve always gotten the impression that people in this setting are all vaguely aware magic is a thing, but so rare that they don’t consider it unless it’s blindingly obvious.
Is being two-faced a skill you pick up in sales or do they hire people who are naturals at it?
Oh trust me, people who aren’t naturally two-faced will not survive in customer service. It’s a survival mechanism against the idiocy of the masses.
As a businessman, I just have to treat you like I like you. I’m not required to actually like you. The adage “the customer is king” is probably better phrased as “treat the customer as if they were a king.”
(Likewise, “the customer is always right” is probably better phrased as “give the customer what they want if they insist on it, even if they’re wrong.”)
You run into the same problem being a boss and how your employees treat you. Sometimes it can be tough to figure out what your employees really think of you or your ideas. Too many of them are yes men to try to suck up to you, or for fear of their job security even if you’d never punish anyone for an honest opinion.
Sadly some boss types want yes-men-boy-girl-whatever and don’t like to hear enthusiastic support that also includes all the preparation steps and pitfalls to be avoided outlined.
You get a – you’re too negative – in your performance review.
I used to sell cars for a living. Having a smile on your face at all times is an artform. Your paycheck relies on you being friendly and helpful no matter how big an asshole there is in front of you.
I used to call it Mental Ninjitsu. The art of saying “Fuck you,” and smacking the shit out of someone in your mind, while smiling nicely.
And it isn’t being two faced, it is a skill you have to develop quickly in order to deal with the worst people in the world. Even the most straight faced honest person in the world will do this if they are in sales. It isn’t a job where you can call people out for being rude or put them in their place even though they might really need it. The customer is King and all that, and they know it. And quite a few of them relish it and want to abuse that power just because they can.
That negative view towards salespeople is why they have to develop this skill, and why a lot of them turn negative themselves. I can’t even count how many people called me a liar to my face, simply because I was a car salesman. Pissed me right off, because I am proud of my honesty and straightforwardness. But I did what my manager told me to do, and I killed them with kindness. And I always had them eating out of my hand and loving me to death by the end of it. Mental Ninjitsu saves lives!
So, give salespeople a break. Think of them as fellow human beings and treat them the same way you would like to be treated if you were in their position. Instead of just thinking the worst of all of them or making aspersions on their character. It is a job, not a sinister plot to be mean to people…
The same goes for Wait staff or anyone in the Service industry.
Why I don’t go to restaurant’s anymore is due to a couple of rude waitress.
Of course, expecting retail staff to be constantly friendly is not true of all countries. It is an American expectation, among a few other countries. Customer service in Australia is much more laid back. I always get a North Korean vibe from the customer service in America, like the person helping me will be shot by someone hiding in the back room if their smile drops.
If there was a Like button for your comment, It would be broken from the number of Upvotes, anyone who has ever worked in the service industry knows exactly what you are talking about.
Fake cheerfulness was a skill that I never mastered. Unfortunately for me, just about all entry-level employment in my area was some form of customer service activity.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to put in a friendly face at my hob when I really wanted to snap. Especially in an arcade full of children when we don’t have the specific color they want
I used to work retail. Believe me, behind ever “Have a nice day!” I said outwardly was really “I hope you die brutally in a car accident!” internally.
Or as we say in the south “Bless your heart”. I have had customers cuss me out while bagging their groceries while they were standing at shoulder length form me, it is not easy to be civil back to people like that.
Having worked in CSR for years, I would do my best to be genuinely friendly and professional with customers (wouldn’t be able to hold that kind of job down for long if I couldn’t). It’s usually not that hard to get thru your work day with barely any issues but you DO occasionally get that one crazy customer, a real sensitive hothead, nit-picky, or just plain inconsiderate person that don’t know or care about proper shopper etiquettes. In other words, the same ones with everyday life: out in public and at home.
Age and hands-on experience had tempted my tolerance and patience over the years; while you’ll get a lousy customer once in a while or more, there are still plenty of people who’ll treat you with the same respect and courtesy as you were taught to treat others. Please remember this yourselves this holiday season (and all year-round). Retail workers are human too.
Yeah, that’s why I tip more at a restaurant when service is slow because it’s obvious management didn’t schedule enough wait staff. Clearly it’s not the waiter/waitress’ fault, and they’re having to work extra hard with all the additional tables.
People need to stop categorizing other people based on their job, or the car they drive, or the clothes they wear, or whatever. We are all people, and life is a lot easier if we’re all nice to each other.
Funny thing for the Americans that they may not know this but wait staff in most other countries get paid a living wage and don’t live on tips – heck – in some countries a tip is an insult.
Mind you I have heard of owners taking a cut of the tips as well – as if those leeches don’t make enough as it is. [it is high end establishments that I hear this about mind you]
Used to work Computer Phone Tech support for a major University. I can’t tell you the amount of times you’d hear “Thank you for calling! *click* …you effing idiot!”
A little jealousy I see. Then get some balloons.
She has balloons, can’t you see the words in them.
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Ooohh, you mean the other balloons 🙂
The saleswoman will feel another twinge of envy when she’ll get to Anne to help her with a bra.
Ha, she’s even flipping Natalie off.
Some people are just the “see you next tuesday” type.
As for agent anderson she probably just wants to get changed back. Since they have no evidence and no case against Nat. Thanks to Jeanie.
My guess is she is going to try friend nat or she is going to beg to get changed back.
She could threaten as well. I don’t know if there is still questions about Natalie’s identity,whether or not she’s a foreign agent spying on NASA. (In addition to the North Korean spy that they caught.)
Wait till this salesgirl meets her twin sister.
Natalie and Ann look a lot alike to us because that’s how C.D. draws good-looking women. How do you tell Betty from Veronica? Betty’s the blonde.
However, that doesn’t mean that C.D. hasn’t decided that they look much alike in the story, and they both have those Brobdignagian boobs that Jean likes on a woman. So maybe the saleswoman will make a remark like “Hey, didn’t you just go into the changing rooms?” to Agent Anderson, which could ring a bell for the so-far oblivious investigator.
Another scenario is that just as Agent Anderson is about to go into a changing room to try on a bra or two, Natalie comes out of that same room.
It’s common for artists to have “same face syndrome”. It could be explained that Jeanie has an “Ideal Woman” image in her head that she applies to every person she “poofs”.
Heavy i think the fact that they look alike has to do with CD’s style. He doesn’t do much high detail so his characters tend to look a like. Cd also doesn’t explain the motivations of his characters much ether leading to 50+ comment per page. Frankly it is frustrating but also part of the fun of reading the comic.
I do my best to follow the golden rule. And I never blame a server for something that isn’t their fault fir example I don’t blame them for being late with the food if the dining floor is busy, and I can be a generous tipper on the flip side when I DO give a low tip I try to also explain to the waiter what I didn’t like so they know the reason I am tipping a little low and give them a chance to improve.
That is how I would want to be treated if I was a waiter if waitress so I try to treat them that way.
When tipping a waitress in a Restaurant in the United States, it customary to tip about 10% to 15% of what the price of the meal was. Like if the meal was $10.00, you would tip about $1.00 to $1.50 amount.
If you didn’t like the service that there were giving and/or they had an attitude you didn’t like and/or they were basically giving you no service like refilling your water grass when it need it and stuff like that, then you would tip them with one penny and if you really didn’t like there service, then you would put several penny out there.
This tradition of tipping waitress like that goes back a 100 years or so. But, today people that are waitress wouldn’t understand what the customer actually meant by putting down one penny or several penny s and would just assume or complain that this guy is just a cheapskate and won’t give a decent tip and not that there giving substandard service to the customer. What I am saying is, this cut both ways when it come to bad waitresses or bad customer, because, there both a problem out there.
The stupid thing about tips in the USA it that it is legal to pay a tipped worker only thirty percent of the minimum wage for non-tipped workers, yet there is NO obligation for the employer to provide any evidence beyond their own assertion that the tips are enough to raise the worker’s total income above the full minimum wage. The boss could thus write on his tax statement that you get tips, and the IRS would tax you as though you were getting as many tips as the boss wrote down, but you may not necessarily have actually received those tips.
Tipping is pretty new, only goes back to the prohibition days (1920-1933). With the decrease in profits from no alcohol, restaurants and the like started to encourage tipping so they could pay their staff less. Before that tipping was sort of viewed as a form of corruption. This is also why you dont see tipping in other countries.
@ijuinkun The employer can’t just make up any numbers they want. The employee is supposed to be keeping a record of tips received (and you’re supposed to be paying taxes on tips, even if cash). You’re supposed to make a daily tip report, and at the end of the month sign it and hand it over to your employer. If a dispute comes up, the employer needs those reports (with your signature) as proof that they’re paying you enough, and that the tips they’re reporting to the IRS are correct. These days it’s trivial for you to take a photo or scan of your tip report before you hand it in, if you suspect your employer is altering them.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/tip-recordkeeping-and-reporting
15% is my default. For above average I tip 20%, for above and beyond I tip 30%, for below average I tip 10%, for horrible I don’t tip at all but I have rarely had to tip below 10% .
Tip is just a different way of picking our pockets. In the old day a tip was to show that we appreciate their better service. Now is just a new form of welfare or “bribe me for doing my job.” Someone that did hard physical work at a low wage, is not a big fan of the tip-bribe scam for just picking up a plate. And if you ever wash dishes or swing a pick for a living you will what I am talking about.
@The Odd Duck That’s also why you tip them BELOW AVERAGE or NOT AT ALL if they do poorly. If I see a waiter talking to other waiters, even after I try to flag them down, I am not going to cut them slack the way would if I was they were busy with other customers and the dining room was packed. The tip IS optional FOR THAT REASON. If you get bad service you don’t have to tip. I have even heard of some people who in such circumstances give the tips to the cooks because they feel the food was great but the service was lousey.
Always remember “The Golden Rule”:
Those who have the gold, make the rules.
I meant “treat others how you would want to be treated,” the problem with it I’ve found is that not everybody wants to be treated the same way I want to be treated.
@Ben: Yes, I knew what you meant. I just like the other version better; more true-to-life.
And yes, the rule should be, “Do unto others as they would wish that you do unto them; their tastes may differ.”
(Any S&M types, take heed.)
It’s a special moment in any guy’s life when you discover that women are jealous of your boob size. Congrats, Natalie.
Lol! You think she would be used to this by now considering she works at a lingerie store….
Yeah, but most of the customers don’t try to boast that they are used to having magically perfect clothing.
Although Natalie been a girl several times in the past, she has never spent much time with other girl and talking girl talk and learning what girls talk about and what interest them. Girls don’t generally talk about there boobs when there are around guy, they generally keep it a secret. Natalie doesn’t know that talking about her boobs like that, is a big issue for smaller boobed girls like the Store Clerk here. It an innocent mistake on Natalie part and it an innocent mistake on the Store Clerk part of what Natalie said. The Store Clerk doesn’t know that Natalie is a part time girl and doesn’t know these things that other women know. Hey, this is genuine misunderstanding of both of the parties here as to what really going on and the conclusions that they come to.
It is possible that a real lingerie salesperson would take “magically” as a snarky remark, implying that Natalie is less than impressed with the opinions and advice she’s getting.
Tom I think you could be right. Hearing that would normally not make you take it literally. So she could have taken it that way.
Natalie is like a teenage girl suddenly having to deal with her changed body and not knowing what to do or how to act. If she decides to look in bookstores or libraries for books on feminine subjects and proper etiquette, it may help her adjust and fit in.
If she’s this way for long enough she might start buying dresses, shoes, purses, beauty products, perfumes and ladies magazines to blend in. And hopefully no longer unintentionally insult other women. If she’s in her present state for a long time it should be interesting how she adapts.
Yeah, who knows how long Natalie might stick around. Jeanie could be gone for quite a while. It’ll be interesting to see where this situation leads her.
That could be a problem. “Quite a while”, to a genie [Haji?], could be a couple of centuries.
I don’t necessarily accept that it was Jeanie who poofed Neil. Usually Jean had a reason for doing that, generally some kind of pique, but also the need to accompany Rog to the conference or some other convenience for Jean. If another genie did it, and Jeanie can’t reverse it, Neil-as-Natalie will be shopping for more than bras for quite awhile…
Enough time and enough Rodge and Natalie will be shopping for a nursing bra.
Egad. What a concept…!
It would be funny if one of the aspects of the magic was to always look amazing. Two weeks walking through the jungle? Walk out looking like they’re going out on the town.
I hope you are keeping your voice down. Other customers don’t need to hear comments like go @#$& a cow.
Come to think of it, are there any lesbian cows?
Tom, I don’t want to steer you wrong, but I think they mostly swing the udder way. And only when they’re really horny. That’s no bull.
@Kattgirl ^^ lmfao You just moo’d my day!
@JD: Thank you. I’ll be here all week. 😉
Kattgirl: I herd that.
@SaylorA: Kowabonga!
I may hoof to become ruminant on this matter.
Customer service? It’s called acting.
Well, she’s in the wrong business.
Panel 2: “Change rooms”?
Typically, that would be “changing rooms” or, as called in the store I work at “fitting rooms.”
Clearly, Natalie’s remark got her rattled.
I believe that’s the Canadian way of saying it. I considered changing it, but there wasn’t going to be enough room in the bubble, so I left it as it.
I dunno about Canadians, but isn’t this in Florida?
You might be able to change the “We have” to “we’ve” in order to expanding “change” to “changing.”
Obviously, this particular salesperson is from Canada and moved south for the glamor and not having a beaver as her national animal.
One of the skills of customer service.