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Anyone ever work at Hollywood Video?

SarcasticDwarf

SarcasticDwarf

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Apparently I need to get a job now, and the hours (late into the evenings) would work well for me. Has anyone here ever workwed there or know what the pay is?

Edit: 19 and in college if it matters
 
Sorry I didn't work at Hollywood videos, but I would guess it's the same as family videos, since the same company owns the both of them.

Hope that helps. 😀
 
I like Hollywood Video and will never rent at Blockbuster... that's all I know. 🙂
 
The Hollywood Video places around here are rip offs. They will report that you did not return a video, even if you did. This is the ONLY thing on my Credit report that is bad. I also know of 3 other people personnly this has happened to, and have heard of about 6-7 more.
 
I knew someone who worked their in high school. He loved it since he got free rentals that were pretty much unlimited, and the people he worked with were cool. Once or twice a month he had to stay AFTER closing (like until 6 in the morning) to do a full-store loss-prevention inventory. They basically scanned every single movie in the store to check and see how much of their stock was lost to theft.

That sounds like it sucks, but free rentals might make up for it.
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
I knew someone who worked their in high school. He loved it since he got free rentals that were pretty much unlimited, and the people he worked with were cool. Once or twice a month he had to stay AFTER closing (like until 6 in the morning) to do a full-store loss-prevention inventory. They basically scanned every single movie in the store to check and see how much of their stock was lost to theft.

That sounds like it sucks, but free rentals might make up for it.
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thanks, that sheds a nicer light on it. They would HAVE to pay me over $6.50/bhour though, I can't afford less.
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
The Hollywood Video places around here are rip offs. They will report that you did not return a video, even if you did. This is the ONLY thing on my Credit report that is bad. I also know of 3 other people personnly this has happened to, and have heard of about 6-7 more.
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Same here. Those crummy bastards would say I didn't return something half the time. Needless to say, I stopped renting from hollywood.
 
It sounds like the best thing for you to do would be to go in and ask an employee or a manager at Hollywood Video what the the starting pay is. I would say that they would tell you as they wouldn't have any reason not to. That would give you a better idea as to what they pay. 🙂

jc
 
Originally posted by: jcwagers
It sounds like the best thing for you to do would be to go in and ask an employee or a manager at Hollywood Video what the the starting pay is. I would say that they would tell you as they wouldn't have any reason not to. That would give you a better idea as to what they pay. 🙂

jc
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At least a Blockbuster starting pay was min wage, but there was a range the store manager could choose from depending on how the interview went. I never knew anyone at BB that started at min wage. I had a couple friends who worked at a Hollywood video and, on average, BB seemed to pay more. But pay is, in part, up to the store manager so it really depends on that person and how well you interview.

I worked at two BB in different parts of the city and the worst part about working there the customers (although working on the rich, snoby side of town sucked big-time, but working in blue-collar, borderline ghetto part of town was usually better). Just be prepared to get yelled at by lazy, forgetful, and/or rude morons on a near daily basis. These people probably can't even remember what they ate 3 days ago but by god they know they turned in Blade II at exactly 11:03 am when they dropped it 2 months ago.
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IMO It is a safe assumption to make that 9 times out of 10 when a movie shows up as being "late" it's the customers fault. On a regular basis movies from the stores I worked at would get returned to other Blockbusters, Hollywood video, Movie Gallery, the local mom & pop movie stores, local grocery stores that rented movies, the public library, or get dropped off at our store but empty. A couple of years ago I had a customer drop off two movies (VHS) that belonged to a local grocery store. But the kicker is both clear movie boxes were empty.

Anyway... doing the store inventories (scanning all the product) sounds worse than it is. It only takes 2 or 3 hours depending on the size of the store.


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