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"Corbin Ray" wrote:

I applied for a job as a fast-track manager at Radio Shack a year ago. My
credentials were out of this world. Besides my love for radio, I had a
Marketing/Business background, degree to match, and better Radio Shack
product knowledge than the managers I interviewed with.

Did I get the job? Of course not. All they want is a roboton who can
shamelessly upsell to an unsuspecting public, even when they don't need to
be upsold. Cell phones and satellite TV is all they're interesting in
selling. That's where the money is I guess, but sometimes people just don't
need those things. And sometimes people will be more loyal if you don't push
unnecessary products down their throats every time they come into your
store. So you can see why RS and I parted ways immediately.

By the way, a couple of weeks later, I got a MUCH better job with Verizon,
and every time I go by a Radio Shack store, I shudder to think I might have
been stuck in there selling my soul to the devil every day.



This is the first insightful post on this issue. When in doubt,
Americans will never blame the company, always the poor employees
hustling for a living. Well, in this case it's obviously the company to
blame. Two or three posters have noted that the pay structure for Rat
Shack employees is based on selling cell phone and satellite tv
contracts, not helping customers. That's where the problem lies, and the
responsibility clearly lies with the company.

Think of it as just another example of the increasing greed and
unprincipledness of American companies in recent years, which we've all
noticed in many different forms. Now, why have they become that way?

Leonard

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"Everything that rises must converge"
--Flannery O'Connor