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you get a nice big discount
Yes, grand idea. I have experience working as an office temp, and I made a nice $4000 in three months doing it full-time (I then quit and moved up here to Maine ^_^). It's peanuts compared to what the permanent employees make, but if you don't have bills or anything to worry about, it's big bucks.Quote:
Originally posted by Lhadatt
Get an office job, don't deal with Best Buy. Go to a temp agency or something. Sure, you won't get to work with games and music, but office jobs typically pay better anyway.
Temping is super-easy to get into. Just look in the phone book and call up a place that interests you. They'll want you to come in and interview/test you to see where your skills are to pay you accordingly. I sucked at some of the MS Word/Excel tests they gave me, but I still ended up making 10 bucks an hour. Basically, all you need to get started in temping are common sense, professionalism, and a bit of computer skills. Of course, you'll be providing your own transportation, but if you live in an metropolitan area where you can take the bus or subway (or el train ^_^), it'll make things a lot easier.
Beware, though... office temp assigments are pure grunt work for the most part. I spent a good deal of time just filing papers, data entry or tracking down crap over the phone. The good thing about this is you have next to zero responsibility. Very low-stress work, and you can do it at your own pace. If they decide to be dicks and replace you (it happened to me once), who cares? You go to another assigment the next day, or hell, just take the next day off if you want. My temp agency was very very flexible with that. Plus, if you do a good job and impress the hell out of them (your respective assignment companies), they might just offer you a permanent position within their company.
Check it out. It's worth a look.
Like Chaoof implied, as long as you stay away from a grocery store, you're good to go.
Hell on Earth.
I worked there. It sucks. Don't do it. Its like a cult. You won't heed my warning and you'll take the job and THEN in a couple weeks you will agree with me.
What in fuck's sake are you talking about?Quote:
Originally posted by Master
Its like a cult.
Best Buy?Quote:
Originally posted by Masters
What in fuck's sake are you talking about?
Use our terminology. Chant yay for the company. Enjoy our monthly mandatory early in the morning on a Saturday when you didn't have to work anyway meetings. Wear your uniform. Cut your hair. Trim that beard. Talk like us. Act like us. Be like us. Lose your personality and prepare to be assimilated.
Maybe that was just the store I worked in, but working at Best Buy sucks.
Hard.
Other than the times they pulled me for register duty, those meetings were what I hated the most. Sometimes they'd give ya donuts, though.Quote:
Originally posted by Master
Enjoy our monthly mandatory early in the morning on a Saturday when you didn't have to work anyway meetings.
Worked for Best Buy for 6 friggen years. Worked in the Media Dept. and was the resident game/movie guru. I started back in '93 when they disbanded the commission sales. There was a "utopia" period of 3 months before they introduced the PSP extended-warranties and really started making everyone push those things like crack-dealers.
I left when they started hiring more and more 16 yr olds for minimum wage and began pushing all the higher-paid experienced employees out just to save a few bucks. It's very rare now to find a true "Product Specialist" now at any given Best Buy. They do exist, but are hard to find.
Not a bad job to get, but I'll warn ya - they like to cut all the new Christmas recruits around late January. They'll write you up for stupid shit and then lay you off. Seen it happen many a time...
I used to work their before my current job, and after speaking with many people who have worked at various Best Buy stores, it seems to me that for the most part it is universal that
A) The job can be fun at times
B) You will work A LOT, it is a madhouse in there
C) You WILL butt heads with your superiors
Honestly I liked my job, although it was a bit tiring. Most of my sales managers were ok (yes, there were 4 managers in my 6 month work period), they either were cool or they pushed you to sell, but put their money where their mouths were and were on the floor working just as hard as you were.
Problem is that the General Manager (read: Big Boss) was a complete and utter prick. When my current employer recruited me from Best Buy, I fled and never looked back.
It also seems to me that the managers that you like seem to get fired or demoted very quickly, as if someone really high up will only let pricks run the stores. Maybe it's because these slave drivers are the only ones who can get the PSP and PRP number up where they want it to be.
Well, my friend that worked at Best Buy called it "Best Fuhrer".
I don't think that she liked it at all, eh? Well, for her, it was long hours and underappreciation. Oh, and no commission really helped, and fact that you get shafted if you don't sell your quota of PCPs.
Here's something to keep you entertained. :D
www.bestbuysux.com