Ambiguous Name: Super Slave Market

This is a fairly simple question, really: When I initially saw the title "Super Slave Market", I initially thought it might mean "Super Slave-market" (i.e. "a huge slave market", i.e. "a very large place where they sell a lot of slaves") or perhaps a "Super-slave Market," i.e. "a place they sell slaves with superpowers," both of which could potentially be legitimate tropes (particularly the former, with Athens, Rome, Delos, Bari, Cairo, Charleston, and New Orleans having historical examples).

For a minimal change, I would suggest "Super Slave-Mart": "Mart" suggests "supermarket/big-box story," as does the hyphen. Of course since the aforementioned giant slave market in Charleston was actually called the Slave Mart, an even less-ambiguous title might be preferable.

(For the record, the trope amounts to "Awful big-box store, the jobs at which are soul-sucking and indicative of having few other options.")

edited 14th Jul '13 2:27:41 PM by karstovich2

Tag fixed.

This is surely an underperforming name.

What a horrible name.

Soul Sucking Big Box Store would be better, although it's hardly concise and it's not very witty.

Wal Mart Eats Your Soul? Just kidding.

In any case, I agree this needs a better name.

Wageslave Mart? :P

I'm wondering if having this distinct from Burgerfool is noteworthy at all. Maybe there should be a general trope about jobs in stores being horrible. Burgerfool requires no job experience and looks more specific to teenagers, so it looks more distinct to me now. Never mind.

As long as we're coming up with names, how about Soul Suck Mart?

edited 16th Jul '13 6:05:18 AM by MikuruFan

Burger Fool seems to be the stereotype of "flipping burgers at McDonald's, while this is about the entire store.

Given that this trope has nothing to do with slavery, I suggest we use a name that doesn't include the word "slave".

Soul-Sucking Retail Job, maybe? Soul Crushing Retail Job as an alternate take.

edited 17th Jul '13 5:45:47 AM by Willbyr

I like that that one specifies that it's the job.

I agree slavery shouldn't be in there, but Wageslave would be fine.

That said, Soul-Sucking Retail Job works perfectly for me.

Original name made me think of Superhuman Trafficking meets Made a Slave.

I like Soul Crushing Retail Job and Soul-Sucking Retail Job as well.

edited 17th Jul '13 12:58:08 PM by Earnest

This has 20 wicks and 7 inbound links, for the record.

Since we seem to have 100% agreement to rename, I gathered up the suggestions and made a crowner.

Crowner's hooked.

Crowner called.

I did the move, but the description has to do more with the store than the job. The trope is about the job and bad management. Should the description be fixed?

And executed - tagging, moving etc.

I do not know of the description - not a description boy, myself.

Actually, the description looks okay. Never mind.

OK, requesting closure then.

Locking up.