MovieBob's Re-Tales II: Tales From The Table

Blade_125

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This always confuses me. management stumbles onto someone who is able to sell more product using an unconventional method, gets proof it is legit, and doesn't follow up. Doesn't promote, doesn't reward, and as such doesn't benefit. This is how a business does not succeed.
 

Dak_N_Jaxter

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It seems Moviebob isn't actually a critic.
He's some kind of genetically engineered DVD whisperer.
An associations table so efficient, you nearly got in trouble for it. That's some serious fucking nerd-cred.
 

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Blade_125 said:
This always confuses me. management stumbles onto someone who is able to sell more product using an unconventional method, gets proof it is legit, and doesn't follow up. Doesn't promote, doesn't reward, and as such doesn't benefit. This is how a business does not succeed.
i guess it's that big retail chains want to keep all stores as similar as possible and for something a common grunt does to affect every store you would need one such guy everywhere.
or it's just that middle management can't take credit for the thing when they talk to their bosses so they don't mention it as long as the numbers are ok (because otherwise they probably have to defend why they didn't come up with the idea).

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ritchards

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My local book chain that sells DVDs has a note that basically says 'refunds are only for defective items, please make sure of your selection before purchase', so they have learnt from things to stop things like COPS.
 

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That is a great story. Also, they would never give you credit for showing them they don't understand marketing. You wouldn't get any accolades or pats on the back because you made them feel stupid. What you did seemed kind of obvious, you linked new products with old products which made a bigger cohesive picture for the casual buyer, making them buy more items. I don't mean it's obvious in the sense that, "duh, you did what anyone would do". I mean that as soon as you explained it to them, they said, "duh, I look dumb because that is clearly a good business strategy". Hindsight, it's 20/20 (it's not, but it's an illusion everyone subscribes to).
 

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Bob, I think that C.O.P.S. DVD story is your Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. You must have made that guy's YEAR!
 

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Yeah, retail sucked. I'm in a job where I deal with special needs students that run for the hills, hit, and mess their pants... and it's FAR better than retail. But at least you brought your A-game to the proceedings, and that's how you feel proud of yourself.
 

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Is it bad I still recall what the C.O.P.S. acronym stood for? That show wasn't even really all that bad iirc.
 

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Eleuthera said:
Is it bad I still recall what the C.O.P.S. acronym stood for? That show wasn't even really all that bad iirc.
Central Organisation of Police Specialists.


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I can definitely understand the guy being stoked about having Bulletproof to look up to. I grew up during the 80s and pretty much EVERY SINGLE HERO had blue eyes while all the villains had dark colored eyes. And, being someone who had brown eyes, it always got to me.

Aside from a black main character, there was one other first that I believe C.O.P.S. had to its credit. An inter-racial relationship. The black thief with the red hair had kind of a Batman/Catwoman thing going on with one of the cops. I didn't really pick up on it until now. I seldom remember seeing anything like that anywhere, let alone in a cartoon, where if there was an inter-racial couple, it was always a main focus of the story. Not so in this obscure cartoon.

Additionally, don't be so quick to sell yourself short on the ability to move items and identify how to utilize loss leaders. It's a skill not many people can say they have.

Lastly, when you got called to the principal's office, you noted that they never seemed to give you credit for moving seeming unsellable items. That might not necessarily be the case. I've been in management a long time and while I see the value in positive reinforcement when appropriate, I can understand why a boss wouldn't always vocalize it. Any manager worth their salt will always keep a running tally of which employees are doing well and which are not. Or, they really could have been shitheads. Who knows.
 

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If those guys had any idea of how to run a business except for checking excel sheets for anomalies they would have put you in charge for the merchandise placement nationwide.

Urameshi13 said:
Lastly, when you got called to the principal's office, you noted that they never seemed to give you credit for moving seeming unsellable items. That might not necessarily be the case. I've been in management a long time and while I see the value in positive reinforcement when appropriate, I can understand why a boss wouldn't always vocalize it. Any manager worth their salt will always keep a running tally of which employees are doing well and which are not. Or, they really could have been shitheads. Who knows.
but if you as a manager find some level employee with the extraordinary talent to sell the unsellable, would you let him rot in some local store until he quits the company and puts his talent to better use, or would you try to use that talent on a wider scale? I mean, if central management noticed his numbers, they must have been really good. Now imagine every store has those numbers...
 

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*sigh* Only in retail do you get in trouble for EXCEEDING expectations. It's like people can't comprehend that you might actually want the company to... you know.... succeed? Because they.... what's that thing they do.... oh right PAY YOU TO DO IT. Although significantly less than you would deserve as a sales rep. I know those types of jobs can't afford to pay commissions since they're already making pennies on the dollar in profits but seriously.
 

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MovieBob said:
MovieBob's Re-Tales II: Tales From The Table

MovieBob talks about more of his adventures working retail.

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I've been wondering for a year when/if you'd get around to C.O.P.S... I loved the show as a kid, in the same way I loved G.I.Joe and (briefly) Captain Planet.
 

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And that is why I don't live in the Northeast anymore. The stupidity can reach soul-crushing proportions.
 

Tono Makt

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Heh. Gotta love almost getting fired for being too good at your job. I had a very similar experience; I was working in a subsidized restaurant which wasn't making a whole lot of money. (it was part of a university, and there were 50 year old university policies that had the university paying way too much money for the place. And the members set all the prices by majority vote!) Anyway, we were woefully understaffed so I found myself being thrust into many positions I had no training for (like bartender, cook, host, maintenance - they had me fix a toilet. Like with tools and turning off the water to the place and stuff, instead of calling the university maintenance people for free.) and actually succeeding in doing what they asked me to do.

Which lead to my boss, on her 6th Rusty Nail of the evening (which she didn't pay for, naturally), taking me into the public lounge where at least 2 of the other employee's were currently working and explaining to me that if I keep doing all this extra work (which she was giving to me) that I'd have to be let go, because I was taking work away from the other people working there (who were being given their own arduous tasks to do regularly, and not given the chance to do mine). When she staggered off, one of the girls I worked with and I just stared at each other in disbelief. Three weeks later I found a new job somewhere else.

4 months later the place went out of business because we reached a magical threshold of losing enough money that the university legislation could be set aside and the restaurant closed.
 

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Falseprophet said:
MovieBob said:
And while you can teach sales tactics, you can't teach having wasted your life memorizing this stuff.
Amen, brother, amen. That's why I'm so good at my job (I'm a librarian who buys the DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, and video games for the library).
I owe a great debt to whoever stocks the graphic novels at my local library - shelves weighted down with DC and Vertigo and interesting indie stuff, teeny tiny little shelf that Marvel has to share with Star Wars. Priorities, my friend. You got 'em.

Kind of interesting given the rise of the Marvel movies, and the fact that the comic book section is clearly marked by a large wall hanging of Spiderman and a couple of X-Men, but whatever. Keep giving me my pre-reboot DC books and I'll keep coming back!