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Who works retail, and LIKES it?

I worked at Walmart 2 summers, it was the terrible, a few things i learned working retail.

1) customers cannot read
2) customers are very stupid
3) 95 percent of the employees are very bitter (me being one of them)

 
I wokred retail for about 6 years. I loved most of it. The problem was the supider than hell customers. Most were great. But sometimes I hat to wonder how the people got there. I hoped they didn't drive.
 
I work at a sporting goods store, on my job description it says "Retail sales and computer design", its nothing like Walmart but I still sell stuff, its not too bad.
 
I hate retail...
i can handle working in retail.. but a career in retail would give me an ulcer, baldness and no free time.

The only truly enjoyable retail jobs where one makes a decent living are intimate/comission based like verizon-reps, audio places like tweeter, high end furniture places and maybe high end car audio. Working in a retail location with lots of people is just no fun.. to me anyways
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
I once heard walmart has a 100% employee turnover rate most years. Shocking. Or not so shocking I suppose...
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Ummm, not possible. Yes, turnerover can be high and it varies from store to store of course. Our stores goal is like 45% this year.

I'm on my 4th year at walmart, pay is kinda getting a little better finally. It pays the bills and I usually get lots of overtime which is nice. I worked 50 hours my first week back from school and 60 hours plus holiday pay last week so my check will be halfway decent this time.

Edit: I do like retail work, most of the people I work with are your typical walmart worker (you interpret that), but there are also some very cool people that I work with. I can't stand some of the people working there.

Customers are a rather interesting bunch of peeps, seen it all it seems, my customer service skills are pretty darn good and management at my store knows this. They want me to go to management when I'm done with school but that will be an absolute last resort thing if I cannot find a job in my major and I'd still keep looking for a job.
 
Originally posted by: amdskip
Originally posted by: konichiwa
I once heard walmart has a 100% employee turnover rate most years. Shocking. Or not so shocking I suppose...
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Ummm, not possible. Yes, turnerover can be high and it varies from store to store of course. Our stores goal is like 45% this year.

I'm on my 4th year at walmart, pay is kinda getting a little better finally. It pays the bills and I usually get lots of overtime which is nice. I worked 50 hours my first week back from school and 60 hours plus holiday pay last week so my check will be halfway decent this time.
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dont you hate the people that are very cheery during those stupid walmart chants/song and dance on fridays?

 
Yes, we did the cheer today: WAL MART and that was it. Our 2nd shift refuses to do it and it will stay that way.
 
Started at a local high-end A/V store 3 weeks ago, and I'm still loving the fact that I'm surrounded by high-mid-end to high-end equipment all day. We have Paradigm->Kef->Dynaudio->Revel speakers, with Adcom, Anthem, Proceed, Lexicon (soon to have Levinson too) equipment, plus a full Velodyne line of subs.

The owner/boss is an ass, but he's okay sometimes, and he knows his sh*t...I'm making more money than I ever have, working with stuff that I'd be reading about online anyway.

(For instance...I made around 800-900 today selling 2 plasmas...that's good to me 😀)
 
I really enjoyed working in the computer department in Best Buy, right up until they starting having O-faces over extended warranties. For a non-commission environment we sure got cattle prodded like it was one.
 
I owned a retail store for several years.

If you hate it as an employee, imagine being the owner when the buck stops at you.

The only thing I miss about it is the money.
 
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Started at a local high-end A/V store 3 weeks ago, and I'm still loving the fact that I'm surrounded by high-mid-end to high-end equipment all day. We have Paradigm->Kef->Dynaudio->Revel speakers, with Adcom, Anthem, Proceed, Lexicon (soon to have Levinson too) equipment, plus a full Velodyne line of subs.

The owner/boss is an ass, but he's okay sometimes, and he knows his sh*t...I'm making more money than I ever have, working with stuff that I'd be reading about online anyway.

(For instance...I made around 800-900 today selling 2 plasmas...that's good to me 😀)
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Damn two plasmas?? your boss should have bought you a bottle of wine...
 
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Started at a local high-end A/V store 3 weeks ago, and I'm still loving the fact that I'm surrounded by high-mid-end to high-end equipment all day. We have Paradigm->Kef->Dynaudio->Revel speakers, with Adcom, Anthem, Proceed, Lexicon (soon to have Levinson too) equipment, plus a full Velodyne line of subs.

The owner/boss is an ass, but he's okay sometimes, and he knows his sh*t...I'm making more money than I ever have, working with stuff that I'd be reading about online anyway.

(For instance...I made around 800-900 today selling 2 plasmas...that's good to me 😀)
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Damn two plasmas?? your boss should have bought you a bottle of wine...
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Yeah, but like I said...he's an ass usually 😉 It was pretty much just a Pioneer Elite 910 with matching Elite receiver/DVD for a guy, we got along well (I'm 21, he's a young professional...really nice clothes, so I assume an auto company near here or law), and he brought his friend in, who was looking at the 42" Panasonic. Pretty easy sell, and they still have a couple hundred dollars worth of Tara Labs cables to buy 😀
 
I work retail and I hate it with a passion. I despise it a whole lot. I wish I could change careers (not even a career). Well I wish I could change jobs into something more laid back and easy going. You get bitched at, you get threatened, it's ridiculous!
 
I used to work at Starbucks - shift supervisor in a store, and then service tech for the district. I enjoyed it, I had a pretty good team when I was in the store, and awesome perks when I was a tech.

It was good for about 3 years when I was in college.
 
If you call custom building computers in your own basement retail, I love it. Good money, lots of solitude, I can send the bad customers to my competition. But I'd die before working in conventional retail.
 
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