Some of you may remember I got hired at Best Buy a few weeks back. We're getting ready to open the store, and I've been working now for a week.

Best week of my life. It's *so* much fun. My managers rock, they think it's important to work hard, but even more important to have fun while you're doing it. We do all kinds of crazy stuff. Fact, we're having a cookout sometime next week.

Anyway, I've tried to get myself noticed so I can advance, right? Well, three girls got offended that I was making suggestions on how to make our team (we had all broken up into 4 teams to get specific tasks done) more effective. They now call me "Supervisor" instead of my name. I laugh about it, and continue to work four times harder then they do. For example, I sort about 1000 computer games into alphabetical order, divide them into crates by genre, and move them to the shelves while they take about an hour to chat.

Anyway, yesterday, we got our shirts. The General Manager said we couldn't get them until we named everyone in the building. One of the girls accidentally called me "Supervisor" infront of the store manager and two department managers, including my own. He asked why they called me that. She said "Cuz he's always telling us what to do, and he thinks he has to do everything." (they made fun of me yesterday because I was still working after they quit 15 minutes before it was time to clock out) The store manager's response? "Someone has to show up as a leader in the group." And now he, and all the other managers, call me Supervisor.

I'm kindof excited, because he has made it clear he's going to be looking for people to promote, and my manager said I and this other guy were the hardest workers in our deptartment. She's even bending the overtime rules and letting me come in for an hour on one of my off days so I can finish a project I didn't get a chance to complete yesterday.

Anyway, just wanted to share. Yaay.

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Frightening the very small and very old since 1952.

I'm so envious of you, but im too young to get a job here in the good ole U.S.A

Hope you get promoted soon. And remember don't steal anything, cause that can get a jailtime


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Obviously the guy with a jedi named "Nutsac" has no desire to play his role as jedi the way they are portrayed in the books and movies

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Obviously the guy with a jedi named "Nutsac" has no desire to play his role as jedi the way they are portrayed in the books and movies

[This message has been edited by Stinkywrix (edited July 04, 2004).]

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Sounds like a great deal. i want to worka t best buy, but the closest one is 40 minutes away at least.

Hope you get promoted soon so you can get all kind sof money which you will then spend at Best Buy.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Hmm... well, working in Media shouldnt be too bad, but any other department and you'll just be bombarded by your managers/supervisors and anyone else there that wants to be in a leadership position telling you to sell more PSPs, PRPs, and accessories.

Best Buy is one of the worst companies I have ever worked for. Maybe yours will be different but I doubt it. The morning meetings (such ****, they could just make you read the info packets when you come into work instead of dragging your *** out of bed at 6am).

Like I said, they will do anything to hit their numbers, they really dont care about you or the customers, it's all about the bonus the managers get if they sell a certain number of PSPs.

The discount is nice. It used to be better before they jacked up the employee PSP price to 65%.

http://www.bestbuysux.org/

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[This message has been edited by Schming (edited July 04, 2004).]

Yeah, well I'm working as a Janitor at the Spokane Country Club. We have to be there at 6:00 in the morning.

Except when we have to come in early.

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"It would be highly appreciated if someone would set the bomb up for us"
"Launch all of our ships, christened 'Zigs', to insure that justice will be achieved swiftly and powerfully."

I could never work at a job like Best Buy that pays commission. I'd never sell anything, simply because I couldn't lie to the customer and tell him that the PC they wanted to buy was good, instead of crappy POS that should be melted down for silicon.

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Whoa, you're actually a janitor?

Whoa.

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We don't work commission. Best Buy was the first company to get off of that, if my Econ class serves me right...

Our store doesn't open until 10, so morning meetings are at 9:30, 9 at the earliest.

As far as not caring about us or the customers, you'd have to know the managers I've got. They don't want people to not enjoy working for our store. They are trying as hard as they can to make it all fun and keep the atmosphere light. I'm telling you, you'd have to know these five guys.
[edit]It may just be your location. I had a friend who started working for Best Buy a few years ago. He was a cashier. He loved it. Fast foward to the present. In about 5 years, he grand opened his own store. Still loving it.

It's just a matter of being competitive. Everyone that was hired at our store (save about 3 girls) are very competitive. They won't mind selling the PSPs and PRPs and promos and whatnot, because they'll want to be the best. We're actually posting everyone's individual sales in the Hub, so we can taunt each other. People are already having fun with it, before the store opens.

::shrug:: I'm not worried.

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Ironic, huh, Tracer. Well, you know the old saying: You are what you write.

The Last True Evil is currently in training for the Russian Intelligence Service, which is why he hasn't written in a while.

And don't even ask about Krig.

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"Your entire base belongs to us."
"It would be highly appreciated if someone would set the bomb up for us"
"Launch all of our ships, christened 'Zigs', to insure that justice will be achieved swiftly and powerfully."

Go you. I just stopped going that extra mile now at these blue collar jobs. When I worked at Toys "R" Us, I was always going the extra mile, and they wouldn't let me transfer to a sales asociate position.

At my current job, I use to pull off 40 hours a week, 2 days I'd work 12 hours each day (well more like 13 or 14), and would close the place down 3 nights a week. I never got employee of the month and no manager ever once said "Good job" or "Thanks for always being here", etc. So I just said screw it, wait until I get a real job.

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Congrats....just dont burn yourself out.

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I don't mind the Best Buy in our town, though I usually know more than the associates that I talk to. I tell them I'm looking for a gender changer from 6-pin firewire to 4-pin firewire, and they give me a blank stare. I know they exist, because I've found one on TigerDirect.

Anyway, I work for our city. I'm a manager at one of the pools. The lifeguards get to be really goofy sometimes, and the patrons are usually very annoying and very stupid, causing me to believe humanity is lost; but I did get 40 hours of overtimes last pay period, so I get a bigger check than my supervisor. Unfortunately, it involved coming in to guard for early birds (read: 5-7 a.m.) for a week and a half. But hey, a thousand bucks is a thousand bucks.

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Our very existence is at stake

Yay! I can finally join the snail-racing crew.

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Instead of being like a normal massassian and say something like "over-acheiver" because the other don't have any life. Im going to hope you the best and say that im glad you, unlike so many other americans today, are working hard and doing a good job. Keep up the good work!

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Our very existence is at stake

Yay! I can finally join the snail-racing crew.

-@%

A buddy of mine works at a Staples. He had someone come up to him at work the other day and asked him if he knew why his X-Box couldn't read CD-RW discs. My buddy tells him to use normal CD-Rs. The guy has one of those CD-Stomper labeling kits in his hand, and asks my buddy, "Well if I use a label to cover the 'CD-RW' written on the top of the CD, will the X-Box be able to read it?"



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And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

It'd be cool to work at radio shack too, what with being surrounded by all these little toys and gadgets

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Damn you... I want to work at Best Buy very badly

me too

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I'd wanna work at Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA just for the discounts. That combined with my summer job, I could have the ultimate computer 24/7.

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Supervisor

yah, dont think anyone down here will call you that

first Best Buy, then the world. i knew it.

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