Best Buy Lays off 5,000 employees

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Thanks breh! I'm glad you said this because they always did us dirty. Would have contests and parties for sales floor if they hit goals and we'd be like

Management stayed ignoring us till we said something lol

Trust, it was like that at my Best Buy. I always looked out for them though since the sales floor won't. Especially during when it was time to do stocks. They would bring out the totes and reps would just stand around and not do shyt. I would help out with the totes and inventory would look at me like .

Its like this, without Inventory putting the shyt out where it belongs, the Merch team making sure the prices go at the right areas, and the Front end holding it down...the entire store would implode. Yet, they would always get the last slice of the fukking pizza

 

[Peruvian Connect]

Not surprising since you basically needed to make an appointment to buy shyt.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Every time I go in I always think they got too many employees

My most common phrase I use when I'm in Best Buy is "No. I'm just looking"

Every corner you turn, someone is asking do you need any help

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

First Frys, now BB.
Amazon, TigerDirect, and Newegg collecting scalps left and right. Hopefully, MicroCenter stays afloat.

 

[Uitomy]

Trust, it was like that at my Best Buy. I always looked out for them though since the sales floor won't. Especially during when it was time to do stocks. They would bring out the totes and reps would just stand around and not do shyt. I would help out with the totes and inventory would look at me like .

Its like this, without Inventory putting the shyt out where it belongs, the Merch team making sure the prices go at the right areas, and the Front end holding it down...the entire store would implode. Yet, they would always get the last slice of the fukking pizza

Oh and let's not forget them keeping the warehouse in shape..........if they actually bother to. I remember going to one store out in Bethesda or something and I walked into their shyt and thought I was in silent hill for a minute, shyt was fukking eeeverryyywhere cause they just ain't give a shyt about keeping things in order and I'm pretty sure it's cause nobody gave a fukk about what they were doing back there.

At my store we kept shyt proper so when people needed to look for something and it wasn't out anywhere on the floor a good guess was it was back there with us. But again with the sales rep having to worry about damn near committing seppukku if they don't sell enough slavery cards I can get why they forget about us lmao







Those black Friday and Christmas time truck days tho they obligated to help with that

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Less full time employees means less benefits paid. Freeing up that cash flow will increase shareholder value

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

@International Koala
Were you selling them ppp’s
I used to hate that shyt with a passion
Every hour I was supposed to sell at least 5
If not

that’s how they pulled
Who got hours when I was working
What made me start hating it
Was I had more knowledge/experience
Then my cac supervisor
Everybody in my department asked me questions before him
Or
Customers would come looking for me
Before anybody else
But after that Black Friday of 2007 into 2008
I was working at the Galleria
Which is a hub for international customers
That’s when they started having one person close in my department
Dealing with 5-10 people at a time
Constantly calling for MOD WITH KEYS
Being ignored
Shrink like a muthafukka
I’ll never forget seeing two brehs
Hit the digital dash out the emergency exit
With two flat screens
MOD was going crazy
While I just hit the
Racist cacs
Giving horrible advice to other cac customers
I was pretty much done after that
I really wanted to work with merch/dudes that would do those big planograms
But my bytch ass supervisor wouldn’t put in the word
But I will say
In those days
The amount of women coming through
Knock at least 10 down
But the amount of fukking going on in my store
Employees walked in on a train so to speak
Big titty Hispanic chick get broke off by two supervisors
Never looked at her the same

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

I'm surprised they've lasted this long between Walmart and Amazon.

Yeah they were desperate. The store I used to go to would match any Amazon price if you brought it up on your phone

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

i remember hearing in the past they were going to move to a model where manufactures just lease show room space, and even provide their own employees/specialist to work there and talk about the products.

Sounds like a GREAT idea

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

@International Koala
Were you selling them ppp’s
I used to hate that shyt with a passion
Every hour I was supposed to sell at least 5
If not

that’s how they pulled
Who got hours when I was working
What made me start hating it
Was I had more knowledge/experience
Then my cac supervisor
Everybody in my department asked me questions before him
Or
Customers would come looking for me
Before anybody else
But after that Black Friday of 2007 into 2008
I was working at the Galleria
Which is a hub for international customers
That’s when they started having one person close in my department
Dealing with 5-10 people at a time
Constantly calling for MOD WITH KEYS
Being ignored
Shrink like a muthafukka
I’ll never forget seeing two brehs
Hit the digital dash out the emergency exit
With two flat screens
MOD was going crazy
While I just hit the
Racist cacs
Giving horrible advice to other cac customers
I was pretty much done after that
I really wanted to work with merch/dudes that would do those big planograms
But my bytch ass supervisor wouldn’t put in the word
But I will say
In those days
The amount of women coming through
Knock at least 10 down
But the amount of fukking going on in my store
Employees walked in on a train so to speak
Big titty Hispanic chick get broke off by two supervisors
Never looked at her the same

Breh...this post made me have a panic attack. Got me fukking around and hiding in the bathroom thinking to myself "yeah...hell seems a bit better than this"

But man you not lying about the women tho.

There were some jawns that made me like:

This one jawn I swear was trying to get with the koala. Older Hispanic lady looking for a tv mount. I gave her some ideas and she was like "those prices". "Why don't you hook me up, you single, I just got out of a relationship"

I was like "I'm married....fukk"


She still was trying to see whats good tho.

That was like the GOAT portion of the job is dealing with tings, then you get those discounts, pizza party and extra perks (since they did not give us cash bonuses). ;liked minded reps that were down to earth, and the supervisors were straight if they weren't trying to dikk you down for a BP and TTS.

Beyond that:

• Racists CACS
• dikkheaded customers
• old ass boomers
• BPs and TTS
• Random changing of hours
• AP acting like they can't close the damn door after store closing
• Mismanagement
• Favoritism
• Overkill amount of hours then cut backs during the beginning of the year
• closing duties
• Sucking up to customers
• Corny customer jokes
• Back handed comments despite knowing a shyt load about the product than the customer
• Working Black Friday and coming back the next damn morning tired af
• Long winded boring meetings
• Busted ass walkies
• Reps stealing pens that's needed on the floor
• The busted ass system that would have maintenance left and right
• The HR that seems impossible to find
• The smelly ass Blue shirts they gave us
• Geek Squad being a$$holes and halfassing computer cleanups
• Miserable motherfukkers that think we get paid off commission
• Boomers that think Windows 10 is Chinese spyware
• Boomers that hold onto their IBM 486s and think folks can put Windows 10 on it
• The thieves that ruin shrinkage so we all get chewed out despite having shytty security

Can all go to hell

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

The way that these brick and mortars are going has changed my purchasing habits. I used to just preorder a gang of shyt and just wait. Like, at one point in time, I had over $2500 in preorders in gamestop at one time. Now, as of today, just two games, MLB The Show on XSX and the New Ratchet & Clank on PS5. Why? I don't want to get burned. I preordered my tablet (Tab S7) with Best Buy last September but the turnaround time was very short so I knew I wouldn't get fukked. I don't want to have to go through Amazon for everything. I just got this PC that I'm typing on from Best Buy earlier this month. shyt is crazy out here.

 

[TBdaGhost]

Electronics is the one thing I'd rather not buy online. Just don't trust the dudes delivering it.

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

People can also get educated and work better jobs and work multiple jobs.

I do agree minimum wage needs to be raised but damn. Is there any accountability on the actual people?

You do realize this country was founded on slave labor and racial inequality right? But now accountability is important?

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Electronics is the one thing I'd rather not buy online. Just don't trust the dudes delivering it.

True story. One time I ordered a game from Best Buy during the pandemic close down. I got a email saying that it was on the way, I was like cool. I go by the window and see a big ass Best Buy truck driving by my apartment complex, make a stop, and drives off.

I got a email saying that I was going to get a refund

I was like I just saw the fukkers outside

 

[Sad Bunny]

I

You do realize this country was founded on slave labor and racial inequality right? But now accountability is important?

I know people making 1000 a week off of Doordash, GoPuff and Uber etc.

It's ways to get bread outchea