For such a small, still relatively unknown brand, it amazes us that we receive between 2-3 requests a day from people who want to work at mag nation.
WHY PEOPLE WHY?
This is sooo not a glamorous job. If you want to work at mag nation because you like magazines, then you would have a rude awakening awaiting you. There is no time to read mags when you work at mag nation!!!
I have the utmost respect for the mag nation staff. It is a really tough job. Unlike many retail jobs where you are on your feet most of the day but your time is spent serving customers and “selling”, our staff are running around constantly and moving stuff. The inflow of magazines, the labelling, shelving, pulling for returns and re-shelving (out of the returns boxes) is never ending. We liken it to Medusa – cut off one head and three more spring up to replace it.
Here is the other thing people don’t realise. Magazines are HEAVY. Check this out – this is just a small part of a normal morning delivery. Someone has to move this from A to B. And upack them.
And this is our Frankie delivery…
And this our Russh delivery…
Still look glamourous?
By the way, why do the suppliers have to pack magazines wrapped with those damn sharp plastic thingies (highly technical magazine industry term)? Don’t they know that they cut our fingers to shreds. Perhaps they don’t care.
Oh, and we have to serve coffee. And deal with 324 people in Melbourne last week telling us that McGills has gone under (yes we know), and that we should run our operations just as they did (NO – they went under remember!)
Funny, despite it being such a tough job, our staff turnover compared to most retail jobs is incredibly low. May have something to do with all of us being gorgeous and having big schlongs!
Loving the behind the scenes glimpse! Nice one.
Despite everything you just said I’d still work there.
Know what else? The edges of some bulk are so sharp they can cut, and if you drop a box of bridal bulk then you are in for a brilliantly coloured bruise on your foot. Forget about keeping nice nails ‘cos the strapping (lingo!) will rip them off and they’ll turn grey anyway ‘cos of the ink. …and I STILL LOVE MAGAZINES.
Positives: getting to see all the new mags first, and they have a reassuring inky smell… oh dear, I’ve said too much.
Seriously can’t be as bad as working where I work (a certain Cotton based retail chain that started in melb). A job when you open up in Sydney would be GRAND.
Precisely because you’re honest and approachable! (and mmm, just being around reading material is good enough for me)
If and when you get your Brisbane store set up, let me know – I’d love to be your Merch/Magazine Girl!
Funny, now I’m considering applying for a job. Mmmm those Frankie’s look so clean.
Hey listened to your ‘Hive’ Speech, really inspiring. Optimistic and honest! Got my mind running and gave me a touch more drive for my little in-school buisness project. Cheers.
I got a job in a newsagent when I was 14 so I could be around magazines. I put up with having to unroll newspapers (lame), restocking stationary shelves (lamer) and dealing with a gross leery boss (lamest) just so I could be near all those beautiful glossies, and receive my 10% discount. Being near magazines is worth all the strapping and papercuts in the world.
I’d LOVE to work there – it would keep me fit! And just being able to *see* the magazines, even if I didn’t get to read them, I’d learn so much about what was selling, and what people were passionate about..
*daydreams*
I reckon it’d be cool
My hands are as calloused as the backside of a fat donkey. I lift heavy things on a day to day basis. Repetitive tasks make me giddy. I care not about the pitfalls, I just want to be part of the amazing team and start up that is Mag Nation. And I want to smell the mags.
Goddamnit.