General Discussion

I worked through college and after, until I moved to my "career job." (In the IT field)

I was there through the transition to sales-driven employees. The things they did to push employees to sell more more more was insane. They paid us like we were waiters, below minimum with commission (supposed to) make up the difference. But the commission was so low, it rarely did. Plus, during the 4th quarter (xmas season) they cut commission in half because "you sell more then, because of xmas shopping."

Everything had a commission, even those $0.50 fuses!

It was insane.

But, there were occasional benefits. I became top salesperson in my region one quarter because a customer came in who was opening a new store in the shopping center where we were located and bought an entire POS system from me, and a security system, and everything else his store would need (phones, stereo system, etc). That won me a spot on the annual top performers cruise that RS had every year.

Then a week after the cruise I was fired because on night near closing, when I was alone in the store (a no-no according to policy, but my then-manager was a dick.) a group of kids came in and part of them kept me busy on on side while the rest stole a bunch of scanners on the other side of the store.