posted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mmoa_writes at 01:26am on 06/04/2008
mmoa_writes at 01:26am on 06/04/2008Went to Camden after my morning shift, and, well to be honest I don't know what I was expecting (little short of total devastation, I suppose) but I couldn't help feeling a little let down. Comparatively recently, you see, there was a major fire that even had the BBC indulging in an unusually hyperbolic frame of being. I was quite worried when I heard the news, thinking that all Camden had been lost...
Yeah.
What was lost was the part of the Camden market which I swear that no one ever went to. Certainly there were never many people there whenever I ambled along, and it was the most run down, naff bit of the whole 'scene'. The only good things about it was a massive Gothic emporium that actually stocked some pretty interesting stuff (not just the usual synthetic black lace mini-petticoats and mock-velvet 'medieval' skirts...) and a shop owned by the loveliest Japanese girl which sold cheap-and-so-not-best-quality-but-still-pretty-good-anyway Lolita ware.
Knowing the people in charge of the shops I've just mentioned, I'd imagine they got their insurance all sorted out (for the Goths - Germans the lot of them - I'd say it was that good ol' Lutheran ethic at work). I was very nearly disappointed: so much for a tragedy of epic proportions.
Yeah.
What was lost was the part of the Camden market which I swear that no one ever went to. Certainly there were never many people there whenever I ambled along, and it was the most run down, naff bit of the whole 'scene'. The only good things about it was a massive Gothic emporium that actually stocked some pretty interesting stuff (not just the usual synthetic black lace mini-petticoats and mock-velvet 'medieval' skirts...) and a shop owned by the loveliest Japanese girl which sold cheap-and-so-not-best-quality-but-still-pretty-good-anyway Lolita ware.
Knowing the people in charge of the shops I've just mentioned, I'd imagine they got their insurance all sorted out (for the Goths - Germans the lot of them - I'd say it was that good ol' Lutheran ethic at work). I was very nearly disappointed: so much for a tragedy of epic proportions.
(no subject)
(no subject)
...and somehow it dosn't totally surprise me that they were fuckheaded employers (it's the same complaint I've heard from anyone whose worked in an alternative/Gothic store). How long did you work for them for?
(no subject)
A grand total of *drumroll* three and a half days. Then they fired me for having the temerity to sit down during a quiet period. And for talking to some drunk girls about Tim The Hari Krishna Monk Guy, whom they'd just been making friends with, instead of being in nine places at once. Retail is fucking ghastly. Wouldn't do it again.