Guys is this employee mistreament

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Grunt03
wow, sounds like you gave in without a fight. I would hae confronted the BB manager and then I would go see the district manager. Unless he is the CEO of the company everyone has a boss.

I would have worked in the warehouse as well, plenty of time to mis locate items that could later be found at your cousins house.

 

[dquan97]

OP, I know exactly how you feel...had the same thing happen to me after not selling PSPs, thereby "cursed" to spend the next few evenings unloading the trucks. Did it for a couple days until I quit. A few months afterwards, I got a settlement check for what I made that month ($400+) due to a class action lawsuit

 

[archcommus]

You cannot say an entire corporation sucks to work for based on individual stores and employee's experiences. It's 100% dependent on that store's management and 0% dependent on the corporation.

I've been having a hell of a good time at BB thus far, and the pay's better than anything else in this area for sure.

 

[ttown]

You got promoted. How is that mistreatment?

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
if you're not white, sue them for racial discrimination. if you are, sadly, you're not protected.

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[Cleaner]

LOL!! Promoted to the warehouse!! Only benefit is you don't have to deal with customers.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: Cleaner
LOL!! Promoted to the warehouse!! Only benefit is you don't have to deal with customers.

He said he likes helping customers...

That "white race card" pic above is pretty funny, heh.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: five40
You should have stayed in the warehouse for a couple weeks so you could steal stuff. Then you get even and leave.

1.get promoted to warehouse
2.relocate items
3.post on FS/FT
4.profit

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: archcommus
You cannot say an entire corporation sucks to work for based on individual stores and employee's experiences. It's 100% dependent on that store's management and 0% dependent on the corporation.

I've been having a hell of a good time at BB thus far, and the pay's better than anything else in this area for sure.

How much are they paying you per post?

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Patt
Sounds like an attitude problem from your post, although I don't agree with BB's policies either. Maybe you didn't hear their questions/statements correctly?

Would someone really just make a lie like that out of the blue? Doesn't sound right.

 

[irwincur]

Just be happy you are in college.

Retail blows, Best Buy just happens to be about as bad as it gets.

 

[JuicyLucy]

LOL Best Buy employee

 

[Corporate Thug]

did u try calling HR?

 

[exilera]

Originally posted by: platinumike
I was a pc salesman there for a lil while. It was my first retail sales job, but they hired me for the holiday rush. I absolutely loved the job and really enjoyed helping customers no matter how small their problem was. Anyways, being i had no past sales experience, i was having a rough start selling thoose must-sell with every piece of crap Service Plans. The employees layed me a few tips, and things started to get better. I got a service plan sale on a cheap monitor(which is pretty rare to them). However, as things were starting to pick up for me, they started cutting my hours!(and they're only paying me a frickin $7.50/hr, no commision/spiffs either!) however, the hour cut was alrite, since i would be starting winter semester of college in a few weeks. To cut a long story short, the last day i was there, i went into work as usuall, started helping customers, and my super. said the manager wanted to have a meeting with me. Turns out, in the meeting, they said one employee overheard me talkin a bunch of crap about the service plans to customers, and how its not worth it. I said thats a complete frickin lie, and why would i say such sh!t when im having a hard time already sellin them.

The manager of the dpt, had an idea that i would just work in accessories for now, and just absorb what goes on. So i did that, and this is fine for me! i like helpin customers find small accessories,etc. About 2 hrs later, my super. comes to me and says, hey go to the warehouse(recieving area) and ask for so and so. I went back there, real pissed, and fealt mistreated. I started helping unload crap off the truck(for a few hrs) then i start talking to the guys there, and it turns out, thats my new job!!(the guy was asking where to put me on the schedule) l(and theese guys work crazy hrs from like 5pm-8am) later that nite i left, came back a week later, didnt talk to anyone and picked up my check.

Summary: both supervisors hated me from the get-go made up lies to get me and trouble, and moved my job to the warehouse in-doc station.

Did you ever find your stapler?

 

[labgeek]

Originally posted by: Eli
You did the right thing. You felt mistreated, you quit.

Morally, most would probably say yes.

Legally/technically.. they can have you do just about whatever they want you to.

He could've told you to go scrub the bathroom with a toothbrush. If you didn't want to do it, you're free to quit.

Doesn't sound like he quit... Sound like job abandonment (walking out and not showing back up). Done typically by the immature or those without any type of backbone to stand up for themselves. Management doesn't get the opportunity to fix what's wrong, and they get to be shorthanded because he didn't have the decency to let them know he won't be there. But from the sounds of it they wanted him gone anyway, so they got their way and since he abandoned the job he has no action against them (ie no unemployment)...

 

[mugs]

QUIT AND GET A NEW JOB

 

[xirtam]

You've obviously never worked at McDonalds.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: labgeek

Originally posted by: Eli
You did the right thing. You felt mistreated, you quit.

Morally, most would probably say yes.

Legally/technically.. they can have you do just about whatever they want you to.

He could've told you to go scrub the bathroom with a toothbrush. If you didn't want to do it, you're free to quit.

Doesn't sound like he quit... Sound like job abandonment (walking out and not showing back up). Done typically by the immature or those without any type of backbone to stand up for themselves. Management doesn't get the opportunity to fix what's wrong, and they get to be shorthanded because he didn't have the decency to let them know he won't be there. But from the sounds of it they wanted him gone anyway, so they got their way and since he abandoned the job he has no action against them (ie no unemployment)...

He wouldn't have, even if he quit.

That's what they were trying to do.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: platinumike

Summary: both supervisors hated me from the get-go made up lies to get me and trouble, and moved my job to the warehouse in-doc station.

Welcome to Best Buy. WHy do you think most people hate that store and it's management and employees?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Well, there's two problems:
(1) You suck at selling. Thus, you don't belong in Computer Sales; or any sales at Best Buy. You like helping customers? Go to Media, you can help them find CDs. Not being mean here, but that's how it is: you suck at selling in Computers, you get moved to the CD-R aisle or to unload trucks. Deal
(2) You suck as an employee. If you had a problem with how they were treating you, you need to sit a manager down and talk to them about it. When I worked there, if I started getting jipped hours and that wasn't cool I made a damn scene about it. I told my manager I needed x hours to pay my bills and there is no reason they need to change my damn hours. But then again, I was a good salesman there. You aren't. Go to a different department or find a new job.
GL!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

<Homer> Another day, another box of stolen pens.
<Five40> Another day, another box of stolen games.

And yeah, the don't want employees to help people do anything but spend money.

 

[walla]

I don't have problems with Best Buy because I don't put up with their crap.

No, don't want a magazine. No triple-extended lifetime 30-day buyback gaurantee service plan. No I don't want your advice. I know precisely what I want. Maybe I'll ask you where it is. But that's it.

Of course...I'm still not happy about having to give somebody elses home phone and address every time I make a credit card purchase, but I deal.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

You know, I really could use a stratagy guide...

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: archcommus
You cannot say an entire corporation sucks to work for based on individual stores and employee's experiences. It's 100% dependent on that store's management and 0% dependent on the corporation.

I've been having a hell of a good time at BB thus far, and the pay's better than anything else in this area for sure.

How much are they paying you per post?

Sorry, that is sensitive information, can't be disclosed.

 

[phreakah]

when i worked at compusa i transferred from sales to warehouse by choice... HATED talking to customers... warehouse rocks btw... so laid back