Tag fixed.
This is surely an underperforming name.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWhat a horrible name.
Soul Sucking Big Box Store would be better, although it's hardly concise and it's not very witty.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.Wal Mart Eats Your Soul? Just kidding.
In any case, I agree this needs a better name.
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.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanGiven that this trope has nothing to do with slavery, I suggest we use a name that doesn't include the word "slave".
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!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.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.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.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerI 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.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI do not know of the description - not a description boy, myself.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanActually, the description looks okay. Never mind.
OK, requesting closure then.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanLocking up.
Crown Description:
Super Slave Market has nothing to do with superpowered individuals, and only involves slavery in a figurative sense. What should the new title be?
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