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My memory is I checked with no intention to actually file, first job lost and all, and Arizona + part time = no unemployment.
Gotta be over 40 a week to qualify.
My first breaking point was the millionth time I was in the printer aisle before open on a Saturday with a manager laying into me for a half hour about how to “squeeze the last of the juice” out of people, and they dropped the “tell them you are an un-comissioned salesperson so you have no reason to take advantage of them, it disarms them, makes them trust you, you can load anything into their cart after you make them believe that” and I had a moment of clarity, and instead of going “Uh huh. Yes sir” I thought “No. I am an un-comissioned salesperson so I have no reason to take advantage of them. End of sentence.”
Genuinely, Best Buy is one of the worst companies on planet earth.
Yup.
I was 17, I was about to graduate high school so it was part time. I was the most reliable department associate, but one of the “weaker” salesmen.
The department was spotless when I was there and the phone always got answered, and I made sure to bag 3 or 4 big sales a week, but I wasn’t out to bleed every poor soul who walked into the department dry. I was more about good service and finding the right solution for each person.
So I got an average of 32 hours a week, well over all the other people in the department, but I was definitely on my way out, and that raging hemorrhoid of a waste of air reaming me out over helping an 80 year old woman who literally showed me her social security check, but assured me she had friends she could get to invite her over for dinner if the computer was too expensive pushed me out.
Its not even like if they fired me I would have gotten unemployment. It was just a petty move from a coward with a micro-peen who couldn’t handle a 17 year old telling them they were a 45 year old failure at life working in a Best Buy for just over minimum wage taking advantage of nice elderly ladies.
Yup.
I was in the computer sales department.
We were flat out told what the lies were, and how to make them more convincing.
The service contracts were non-refundable, so it didn’t matter.
When a manager caught me helping a retiree get a cheap setup to email her grandkids instead of getting them on a line of credit for a top of the line gaming pc, they didn’t even fire me. They just stopped scheduling me hours and told me to keep coming in to get my schedule.
Picked up a blank schedule for 5 weeks before I stopped going in and I’m sure they filed no call no show paperwork when I didn’t show up for my 1 hour 3 weeks later.
Fuck best buy.
Ya.
I worked there when they launched a membership thing, and it was points to gift cards that got printed on receipt paper in hopes the barcode on the carbon paper would fade before you tried to scan it, not any actual price reduction.
Kind of like how there was all that fine print in the 200 dollar service plan that made it sound like you got more, but it was always just the manufacturer warantee, so if your device qualified for manufacturer warentee, geek squad would give you the cheap out fix, and get the preemo replacements and put them into stock. If the manufacturer warantee didn’t cover it, you were fucked.
Illegal? Yes.
Stops businesses from doing this kind of BS? No.
Also, is this a legit thing posted at a legit workplace? Probably not.
Yes, the modern mindset. Murder the product, preserve the manager’s paygap.
I dont deny it.
Shame on me for just existing with okay teeth.
Time before last I had a dental checkup, they said I needed 12 fillings. Didn’t schedule the fillings.
Last time I went in for a dental checkup, they said I needed 5 fillings. Didn’t schedule the fillings.
It’s been 15 years since that, and none of my teeth have gone rotten. None of them have gotten painful.
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The general philosophy: they can’t prosecute the entire populous.
If everyone is pirating, they focus on the ones who pirate the worst shit or the ones who pirate the most shit for profit.
In a sea of pirates, you don’t get tagged.
If people stop pirating, the bar for too extreme or too much lowers.
They do pirate the most extreme and the most prolific pirates, however.
A story as old as time.
Same problem that is crippling every human interaction on earth.
Money and greed.
It all goes to “we can do a good thing that will help people or that people will enjoy” or “we can make crap/do horrible things and get another 5 bucks off each of em”, and the latter is always chosen.
Because the world has long since surpassed far beyond 1984 levels of spying on unsuspecting innocent civilians.
As long as you ensure a US based entity is spying on you with it, and not a China based entity, then no.
So the NSA, FBI and CIA are thanking China for assisting in their efforts, right?
Cyberpunk had a sweet spot for me.
I am 0 for 2 on getting into Witcher games.
Once I get into the game, I love the mechanics.
It just feels like each game has its own “youre gonna suffer for a very long time, then you will get to good part of the game” energy. And god forbid you put the game down before you reach the end, because you will never get to the end again.
It’s more of an indictment on my attention span than the game, but fuck man.
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