The Radio Shack Thread

[ChaoofNee]

http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2004-...etropolis.html
I know it's an older article, but I found it fairly interesting.

[Diff-chan]

actually no, it's some knockoff random brand. MICRO innovations.

I got the exact same one. Its pretty good.

[adol]

Radio Shack used to rock when they sold their own grey plastic version of the Transformer, Shockwave. Oh, and that stupid ass little robot arm thing that could pick up anything that wasn't heavier than a styrophome cup...And then put it back down. It was such a dumb toy, yet I always had to play with it if I was in Radio Shack.

[stormy]

Oh, and that stupid ass little robot arm thing that could pick up anything that wasn't heavier than a styrophome cup...And then put it back down. It was such a dumb toy, yet I always had to play with it if I was in Radio Shack.

ARMITRON! Oh yeah that was awesome. I had mobile Armitron, he had the arm and he rolled around on wheels.

[TobalRox]

I had the one that turned into a gun and lit up and made noises.

[x2y]

I worked at Radio Shack back in the holiday season of 02 man did I hate it. The pay was decent during the Black fridays and Dec 24 thanks to the cell phone spiffs. After that it was all down hill everything we sold came back as a return. Don't no one want what they bought there.

1. They reason the sales guys are annoying is cuz its Commission based pay if we didnt harass your ass we didnt get paid. WE only really make money on Cell phones $15 for very phone sold and a i think it was $6 for each additional accessorie. Thats why they puch the warranties, clips and leather cases and shitty batteries like crack. You also make $25 of PCs and Radio Shack some does loose money everytime they sell a PC according to my ex boss. It was either harass even if you have no idea what the a lazer clock does or get paid $5.15 at the end of the week. You only get paid what ever amount is greater at the end of the week. The minimum wage or the commission.

2. The name and address shit I hated even worse. I hated being asked and hated asking. Some costumers actually walked out on me before cuz of it. We'd get in trouble if we put our addys or a made up one they actually keep track of this I know cuz I was almost fired for it.

3. The catalog still exist But its only for the store maneger we had a few in the back of the store room for "our" reference.

And wtf you want to why were assholes? We had to get sertified to sell crap and meetings had saturday morning meeting thats why!!! Radio Shack Sucks alright. Stay out unless you need shitty products or trinkets to make gadgets at home. Buyer Beware.

*there I feel better* The longest 3 months ever.

[ChaoofNee]

Now I'm bloody frustrated as hell with this place. I won't waste my breath and annoy people with my ranting here, though. I found this amusing, however:

From: "Jaison"
Date: Tue Sep 7, 2004 6:42 am
Subject: value of an employees life true story!

We had flooding once so bad that they were evacuating a small
city/village in the county my store was in at the time. We were in a
strip mall and everyone elses loading docks all the way through to
the road up ahead were flooded. The water strectched all the way
through the plaza destroying floors and merchandise in its wake. The
unfortunate thing was that we were just a few inches above the water
level! My store was totally unscathed in this whole mess. The womens
clothing store next to me was also free and clear of water. We were
supposed to do an inventory that night and my DM expected us to still
do the inventory! I stated to him that we had no power. He said to
stay open. I told him we were flooding all over and there are cars
under water. He asked how our sales were. I told him that we couldn't
do the inventory. He asked why not. MY DM FLAT OUT DID NOT BELIEVE
ME! The governing body proclaimed that the situation be escalated to
STATE OF EMERGENCY status. They had DOT trucks picking up people by
the truckload and escorting them out of there. THIS IS HOW I DEFINE
INSANITY. I have been SHACK-FREE for 8 months now and have never
witnessed such stupidity on the part of a company. RADIO SHACK IS NOT
THE BEACON OF HOPE! If any one person had a brain in their head you
would get the hell out of a natural disaster/ state of emergency
condition. I live in upstate NY and my mother in FLORIDA even saw
this on the news! RADIOSHACK DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ITS PEOPLE!

Guy's going kinda crazy, but that's the general mentality there. My store was open 'til 9 on Labor Day. Nobody was there. Nobody. Four people working, too. I made no shitty comission, only minimum wage that night.
...though, I don't see how that's different than usual.

[Wildkat]

They started sucking the moment they dropped focus on electronic parts and cables and connectors and started forcing overpriced consumer electronics and toys.

The parts wall was a electronics geek rescue center...need a 33uf capacitor at 3pm on a sunday? The shack was the place.

Sadly now, I have to pretty much order ANYTHING I want from mouser or digikey.

[ChaoofNee]

I'm out of Radio Shack forever.
FOREVER! YAHHHOOOOO!!!! No more busting my ass over $5.30 an hour! On to Best Buy, which looks as if it will not be nearly as sucky as the Shack ever was! Yay!

Just had to get that out. I'll probably type up a final 'Shack bitch-fest tonight, now that they can't fire me, and just put the whole thing behind me.

[Master]

Radio Shack has always sucked on all counts.