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Title: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 19, 2007, 08:34:27 AM
... going to your place of business after being woken up at 4:30 am because the burglary alarm went off.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Synbios459 on November 19, 2007, 08:36:14 AM
So..How many PS3s were stolen?
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Flannel Boy on November 19, 2007, 09:28:09 AM
So..How many PS3s were stolen?
Only two. They just had the one truck.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 19, 2007, 09:45:36 AM
Just got back.  False alarm.  The ceiling caved in and lighting is hanging by a wire.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 19, 2007, 11:00:32 AM
you should have taken some stuff and then claimed an overweight robber made the ceiling collapse
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 19, 2007, 11:01:32 AM
That's why I never went Management at Staples. The store is 6 times as big and you do nothing but exist at the store dealing with kids who don't wanna work there. I was pretty close tho, but luckily I had a break with a contracting agency.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Bloodwake on November 19, 2007, 11:17:12 AM
Just got back.  False alarm.  The ceiling caved in and lighting is hanging by a wire.

Ouch.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Tauntaun on November 19, 2007, 11:27:53 AM
Just got back.  False alarm.  The ceiling caved in and lighting is hanging by a wire.

:rofl  what?  :rofl
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 19, 2007, 11:35:09 AM
Hush, Tauntaun. False alarm.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: BlueTsunami on November 19, 2007, 11:41:09 AM
And thus begins the "Willco rebuilds Gamestop" saga
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 19, 2007, 11:41:46 AM
If only he had a son to share this experience with and form a tight bond despite generational differences.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on November 19, 2007, 11:43:13 AM
When I managed a comic book and collectables stores back in 1992-94, there were three instances of people busting through the front glass of the store to steal stuff.  That was always a treat to clean up.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 19, 2007, 11:44:17 AM
People used to shove raw eggs and coffee grounds in the return box of my videostore and do drive by paintballings :(
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Tauntaun on November 19, 2007, 11:46:01 AM
This is like the perfect story to tell anyone wanting to stick with the company for a long time, only adding in dildos to further impress upon their minds the seriousness of their situation. 

Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 19, 2007, 11:50:36 AM
good god, retail sounds terrible.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2007, 11:55:47 AM
A Wherehouse music store that I used to manage in Atlanta had a habit of getting broken into.  There was a huge pane of glass at the back and crackheads would toss huge rocks and bricks through it to steal shit.  We had an awesome collection of rocks n shit in the back room.

True story- it got broken into like 3 days after I had left and since I lived five minutes away, I was first on the emergency call list and the DM hadn't changed it.  That was a fun 3:30 am call.

Mups- retail is fucking horrible.  You rarely have a set schedule, pretty much never get two days off in a row, and if you're management you're basically the company's bitch.  Had a bad month?  Enjoy telling people that you're cutting their shifts during the last week and oh yeah, have fun working those shifts yourself.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 19, 2007, 12:06:26 PM
I was promoted to a store in a mixed area. The interim manager was a black fellow who cleaned out the staff and hired a bunch of black teens. So, here I was a whitebread 20 yr old managing a bunch of black kids that were just working for a discount.

My first inventory had a 18% shrink (meaning almost 1/5 of my inventory was stolen!). I had to fire everybody and rehire a bunch of people. By the time I left (burned out really), I got it down to about 4-5% .. but that's because I had to work 70 hrs a week watching the place.



Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 19, 2007, 12:08:16 PM
Mups- retail is fucking horrible.  You rarely have a set schedule, pretty much never get two days off in a row, and if you're management you're basically the company's bitch.  Had a bad month?  Enjoy telling people that you're cutting their shifts during the last week and oh yeah, have fun working those shifts yourself.
i'll stick with my office job.  fuck that shit.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Himu on November 19, 2007, 12:30:48 PM
When the hell did Willco become a manager in less than a year at Gamestop? Suck the management's dick?
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 19, 2007, 12:31:58 PM
When the hell did Willco become a manager in less than a year at Gamestop? Suck the management's dick?
... you serious?  i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.  It's not hard to move up when your coworkers are still sucking on their moms tit and are in the negatives on the social skills scale.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Synbios459 on November 19, 2007, 12:32:55 PM
When the hell did Willco become a manager in less than a year at Gamestop? Suck the management's dick?
... you serious?  i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.  It's not hard to move up when your coworkers are still sucking on their moms tit and are in the negatives on the social skills scale.
Well if Willco can get a girl like crystal he must be doing something right.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Himu on November 19, 2007, 12:33:11 PM
Hahahaha

Oh yeah, I forgot that where he worked is the central hub for failure.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 19, 2007, 12:33:37 PM
When the hell did Willco become a manager in less than a year at Gamestop? Suck the management's dick?
... you serious?  i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.  It's not hard to move up when your coworkers are still sucking on their moms tit and are in the negatives on the social skills scale.
Well if Willco can get a girl like crystal he must be doing something right.
he does butt crunches 300 times a day.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 19, 2007, 12:59:26 PM
Willco might have just done a good job. I mean it IS possible :p

In a sea of employees without ambition, that one employee that DOES, tends to do quite well.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2007, 02:25:09 PM
Willco might have just done a good job. I mean it IS possible :p

In a sea of employees without ambition, that one employee that DOES, tends to do quite well.

Yup, show any competency at all (along with a willingness to be the company's bitch) and you'll go up the ladder quite fast in retail- initially.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Shuri on November 19, 2007, 09:36:51 PM
Don't look down in Wilco for having a job like that, the guy is trying to make a living while trying to get something better. It could happen to any of us.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: xnikki118x on November 19, 2007, 10:09:55 PM
Willco might have just done a good job. I mean it IS possible :p

In a sea of employees without ambition, that one employee that DOES, tends to do quite well.

Seriously. =)
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 19, 2007, 10:50:58 PM

+`
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Himu on November 19, 2007, 11:34:04 PM
Don't look down in Wilco for having a job like that, the guy is trying to make a living while trying to get something better. It could happen to any of us.


who the hell is looking down on him
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: bork on November 19, 2007, 11:34:18 PM
My store got broken into more times than I can count for a period of about 6-7 months.  At first it was just broken glass and some stuff gone (they could never get the money since we hid it, although once some idiot tried to break the register bare-handed and got blood all over it), then we put up a metal gate and they came into the store and robbed us at gunpoint.  That was once the scariest things I've ever experienced!  After that we got a security guard for a while, and it pretty much quieted down, but a little while later, another employee got robbed at gunpoint.  Then an EB Games opened up right down the street, and they moved to robbing there instead.  I got robbed by some teenagers; I heard that the guys robbing EB were pros who use automatic weapons and tied the people up.  There were a few guys who quit because they were being moved to that location after this started up.

Mups- retail is fucking horrible.  You rarely have a set schedule, pretty much never get two days off in a row, and if you're management you're basically the company's bitch.  Had a bad month?  Enjoy telling people that you're cutting their shifts during the last week and oh yeah, have fun working those shifts yourself.

Yes, I am so fucking glad I am out of retail.  Where I worked, it was actually FUN  :o the first few years, but then they started doing badly and everything went to shit. 
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 20, 2007, 12:31:21 AM
Yup, retail is basically a young man's game.  There's no shame in working it while you're like less than 25, but make sure you're going to school or trying to better yourself somehow while you're doing it.  DO NOT get caught up in it, or you'll look around after 10 years and say WTF just happened? 

...take it from someone who knows!
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 20, 2007, 12:48:11 AM
Update.

My store was broken into, but the thieves failed miserably.  The store next to us is empty and up for rent.  They broke into there and smashed through the sheet rock, ripped out the insulation and tunneled straight into our slat wall.  After that effort failed, they got a ladder, took out a ceiling tile, smashed the firewall separating the two stores in the rafter, climbed above our ceiling tile and it gave way.  The collapse sent bits of wall and ceiling tile everywhere, and a rather dangerous lighting fixture hanging loose.  The motion set off the alarm, which scared the would be thieves from entering my store.

However, we were the last stop for them.  They used that empty store to access the other stores in the strip, including a locally owned Mexican restaurant, which they not only stole, but tore apart and vandalized.  They stole the poor old lady's entire selection of meet, beer and tortillas.  Then, maliciously, they put all her counter papers, including her work permit, on the floor and poured rice water on them.  For no reason.  They smashed the candy dispensers in the restaurant too.  She was crying and it was pretty emotional.

My store was shut down today, because either debris or possible mold made the area physically irritable to work in, so we were waiting for contractors to test for mold and patch up our ceiling.  They didn't even show up today.  It sucked.

As for my quick rise to Store Manager - the company is growing pretty rapidly, I'm young and a competent employee, so I was promoted after 90 days.  This was also due to the fact that I was sent to a mediocre store struggling with shrink (it was very high) and sales rankings.  In three months, we began a massive turnaround and consistently were a top performer.  That earned me high marks. 

I'm the youngest gun in our district and one of the youngest in our region, but even my DM knows I have other dreams.  I don't play on running a store forever.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: bagofeyes on November 20, 2007, 12:59:58 AM
I remember working retail, surrounded by morons all day. Then I started teaching at tech colleges, surrounded by bigger morons all day.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 20, 2007, 01:42:54 AM
From your description of things Federwang, sounds like the thieves were either crackheads or kids.

Actually, probably kids.  Crackheads wouldn't steal food.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Himu on November 20, 2007, 01:51:54 AM
Update.

My store was broken into, but the thieves failed miserably.  The store next to us is empty and up for rent.  They broke into there and smashed through the sheet rock, ripped out the insulation and tunneled straight into our slat wall.  After that effort failed, they got a ladder, took out a ceiling tile, smashed the firewall separating the two stores in the rafter, climbed above our ceiling tile and it gave way.  The collapse sent bits of wall and ceiling tile everywhere, and a rather dangerous lighting fixture hanging loose.  The motion set off the alarm, which scared the would be thieves from entering my store.

However, we were the last stop for them.  They used that empty store to access the other stores in the strip, including a locally owned Mexican restaurant, which they not only stole, but tore apart and vandalized.  They stole the poor old lady's entire selection of meet, beer and tortillas.  Then, maliciously, they put all her counter papers, including her work permit, on the floor and poured rice water on them.  For no reason.  They smashed the candy dispensers in the restaurant too.  She was crying and it was pretty emotional.

My store was shut down today, because either debris or possible mold made the area physically irritable to work in, so we were waiting for contractors to test for mold and patch up our ceiling.  They didn't even show up today.  It sucked.

As for my quick rise to Store Manager - the company is growing pretty rapidly, I'm young and a competent employee, so I was promoted after 90 days.  This was also due to the fact that I was sent to a mediocre store struggling with shrink (it was very high) and sales rankings.  In three months, we began a massive turnaround and consistently were a top performer.  That earned me high marks. 

I'm the youngest gun in our district and one of the youngest in our region, but even my DM knows I have other dreams.  I don't play on running a store forever.

Was the robber this guy?

[youtube=425,350]tQssMhht-4c[/youtube]
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: bork on November 20, 2007, 02:51:08 AM
Yeah Willco, no matter what happens, you becoming a managers so quickly is going to look great on your resume.

Yup, retail is basically a young man's game.  There's no shame in working it while you're like less than 25, but make sure you're going to school or trying to better yourself somehow while you're doing it.  DO NOT get caught up in it, or you'll look around after 10 years and say WTF just happened? 

...take it from someone who knows!

I was heartbroken when you left Gamestop.   :'(  I stopped working at Swap when I was 24, but I had already been working there for nine years when I quit.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: xnikki118x on November 20, 2007, 03:04:01 AM
However, we were the last stop for them.  They used that empty store to access the other stores in the strip, including a locally owned Mexican restaurant, which they not only stole, but tore apart and vandalized.  They stole the poor old lady's entire selection of meet, beer and tortillas.  Then, maliciously, they put all her counter papers, including her work permit, on the floor and poured rice water on them.  For no reason.  They smashed the candy dispensers in the restaurant too.  She was crying and it was pretty emotional.

That's so sad. :(
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 20, 2007, 05:10:21 AM
The video footage I saw of the roof falling was very similar to that video, although nobody fell through.  They got scared and ran away.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Tauntaun on November 20, 2007, 11:13:46 AM
Was the robber this guy?

 :lol Gets me every time.  Also, Willco may I suggest some new forms of security?


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Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 20, 2007, 11:19:39 AM
i bet they were looking for willco's underwear
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Post by: Tauntaun on November 20, 2007, 11:29:57 AM
i bet they were looking for willco's underwear

to sniff it?  :o
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 20, 2007, 01:25:03 PM
Since we're going to have a considerably amount of contract work done today, we're only going to let 1-3 people inside the store today to pick up Rock Band and Mass Effect.
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Post by: MrAngryFace on November 20, 2007, 01:29:33 PM
The ones with guns?
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 20, 2007, 01:30:04 PM
Firearms, sir.
Title: Re: The negative side of being a store manager...
Post by: Mupepe on November 20, 2007, 01:32:59 PM
did they get your underwear afterall?