Shoggoth2588 said:
...or, Best Buy, where I was made to do work I wasn't trained in with inadequate training and management who had no fucks to give about what I could do compared to what I wasn't trained to do. I think Best Buy was the worst experience honestly since I was able to stick it out at Game Stop for a few months. Not so much with Best Buy which I ditched before the 90-day mark.
For the love of God, THIS. A million times THIS.
I worked as a cashier at a Best Buy store when I was in high school. If I wasn't being yelled at by customers who had bad experiences in other departments, I was being yelled at by my managers for not pushing enough magazine subscriptions (nevermind the fact that I was averaging about 15 or so per night, well above the rest of my coworkers who were at about half of that). It sucked, so I quit.
Fast forward a few years, I've just graduated from university, and I'm stuck looking for a crappy job until I can find something in the area that actually makes use of my degree. No one's hiring. No one but Best Buy.
This time I'm working at a different Best Buy store as a Portable Electronics Sales Associate. I was hired specifically to work in media (music, movies, video games). After a few months, management got the goddamn
brilliant idea to shift around all of the employees in Portable Electronics to different sub-departments so that we could be more "versatile." They spring this plan on us completely out of the blue, offer zero additional training, and are too understaffed to have another employee act as a mentor. Instead, they asked us to learn the department on the fly, or on our own free time (unpaid, of course).
My first relocation? CarFi. I know a pretty good amount about navigation systems, which is good, because that's pretty much like 90% of what that department sells. I know
nothing about car stereo systems though, and I have no interest in learning about them because I don't care about them. So whenever I had a customer come in looking at stereo systems, I was stuck either hiding from them, bullshitting them, or redirecting them to our already over-worked install bay guys.
My second relocation? Digital Imaging. Cameras. I've never, in my entire life, owned a camera. Seriously. The only cameras I've ever owned were built into cell phones, and even then, I've never actually used them. I have no interest in photography whatsoever. I don't want to take pictures, and I don't want pictures of me taken. This is the absolute worst department in the entire goddamn store to put me in - and in our particular store, it was also by far the busiest. I called it quits right then and there, and vowed to never go back to that hellhole.