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Like Best Buy, Staples, etc?
Did you ever feel guilty pushing crap services and extended warranties on well-meaning, nice customers who don't know any better?
I feel like all I do all day at my job is take advantage of sweet old people and sell them overpriced crap they barely even need.
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Local Department Store when 15 and Walgreen's during part of college,
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When I did, I didn't work on commission. The assholes I took advantage of, the nice people I told them where to go to get a better price.
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sort of, but it's inmates i sell to so i dont feel bad pushing crap on them.
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Worked in a family-run electronics store when i was a teen. Nothing underhanded went on.
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Albdestroyer posted:
When I did, I didn't work on commission. The assholes I took advantage of, the nice people I told them where to go to get a better price.
Well I don't really work on commission either, I mean I get some extra amount of money for pushing crap but it's barely anything.
It's just the management where I work don't care if you sell products, they only want you to sell their services and warranties along with those products because I guess they make much more money that way. And if you don't sell, they cut your hours.
So for example, someone comes in and wants to buy a $60 printer. It's not good enough for the managers that I sell that printer, they also want me to get it covered, so the customer pays $60 + $50 for the warranty.
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It is one of the few crap jobs I've managed to avoid.
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Worked at a toy store during HS, sucked.
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I worked Best Buy for a few months.
I refused to sell that stuff, or the trials to people.
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Happens every day at every level whether it's in retail or not.
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Mangler_SC posted:
Happens every day at every level whether it's in retail or not.
lol, the ACF car salesman should know this well.
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I have used the phrase "attention k mart shoppers there is a blue light special... "
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Kanga_Roo posted:
I have used the phrase "attention k mart shoppers there is a blue light special... "
so you're that voice from above?
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A shoe store in HS. Thats it. Before my bro came out he dated the owners daughter. 
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I worked at Family Dollar in HS.
We didn't sell any extended warranties.
Hell, I didn't sell anything, I worked 6 hours a week, 2 three hours shifts unloading their delivery truck. Big money for the time, 30 bucks a week.
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no but i did tech support for a company that decided the tsrs should start pushing things like the sales people.  i never did. it actually made the sales reps that had to call us occasionally hate us. like we were going to steal their commission or something. oh boy if i do this part of your job i might get like $4 after the bonus taxes! hold me back from trying to upsell to your region.
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Worked at an office Max for three years. The manager would bully associates to meet numbers. Meeting numbers meant selling to every customer, without bias.
Yes I felt guilty. Does this 80 year old woman really need a protection plan on a phone?
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ikkoikki posted:
Like Best Buy, Staples, etc?
Did you ever feel guilty pushing crap services and extended warranties on well-meaning, nice customers who don't know any better?
I feel like all I do all day at my job is take advantage of sweet old people and sell them overpriced crap they barely even need.
at least you don't work for geeksquad, i seriously had to bite my tongue one time when they were hustling this old guy. I hate places like that, they prey on the stupidity/ignorance of others...
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I work there too. The Managers don't bully us but they definitely pressure us into getting everything covered. Max assurance and the kits and the services...
I work better when there's no pressure.
Working retail sure wasn't what I thought it'd be. I thought it would be low key, like the movie Clerks. I need to find a job where everyone is a slacker, like me.
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I worked at a furniture store in high school. I didn't know enough about the furniture to really be able to sell it nor did I really care about it either. My manager was a pretty huge bitch
I usually was pretty honest about the crap they sold if I was asked, but we sold some pretty good crap to be honest compared to most furniture places. Plus I didn't know if it was crap or not, I just moved the crap
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I worked at a furniture store in high school. I didn't know enough about the furniture to really be able to sell it nor did I really care about it either. My manager was a pretty huge bitch
I usually was pretty honest about the crap they sold if I was asked, but we sold some pretty good crap to be honest compared to most furniture places. Plus I didn't know if it was crap or not, I just moved the crap
Did you at least bang your bitchy boss on one of the furniture pieces you were selling?
I mean...at least for points?
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lol no way. SHe was in her 40s but she looked like she had done a lot of coke and crack in her day. Disgusting looking
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i've never worked retail pushing a product i didn't like. hopefully i never do. i'm too upfront and blunt to lie about stuff i think is crap.
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I worked at the Disney Store once. It really wasn't that bad. We didn't have service plans and warranties to push on people.
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One of my first jobs was working at K-Mart for a couple years in the early 80s.
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Yeah, but I worked at Banana Republic. I liked their stuff and got an OK discount, so I didn't feel guilty encouraging people to buy socks so I could push up my UPT for the day.
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I also did stadium sales at SeaWorld. Forgot about that.
I walked up and down in Shamu Stadium selling pirate crap for kids. Glow in the dark earrings, necklaces, swords and stuff.
Great job. I was the only guy in the department, like 70 girls and me, and I outsold all of them. 3% commission too. Doesn't sound like much but I was moving close to 2 grand of that crap a day. 60 bucks was a bit of cash back then.
Place was crazy, as soon as the park closed, everyone got blitzed every night, parties everywhere, it was like college without the classes or tests and they paid you to show up.
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Blockbuster had about 6 employees when I worked there. They had our sales up on a huge whiteboard, and if you didn't sell you'd get fired.
The job was great, but Blockbuster is a corporate blood sucking fiend
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Ten long, horrible,soul-crushing years. Worked just about every position there was. And yes, they pushed warranties in electronics. They also pushed surveys and credit cards at any register. Only the old/confused would agree to that kind of stuff... I tried sparing the old people as much as I could and still keep my job.
Big retail will suck the life out of you and spit you out for many reasons, not just the cards and warranties.
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worked at Best Buy and Target
i made sure my customers were well informed about the products and steered them from buying crap when i could..this was in audio/video and cameras
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