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does anyone know anything about working at radio shack. i want to apply and am wondering if anyone can tell me some info about working there.
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[quote name='snoopydoggy2002']does anyone know anything about working at radio shack. i want to apply and am wondering if anyone can tell me some info about working there.[/QUOTE]
-You get paid minimum wage, plus commission, but you only get commission if you sell x amount per hour, which is difficult to do.
-You are expected to eventually complete certification of tests of all the parts they have in the store.
-You are expected to know the answer to every question someone asks you.
-You are graded by the amount of addresses you get, amount of money you get people to spend with their RadioShack credit cards, and the amount of service plans you sell.
-You get paid minimum wage, plus commission, but you only get commission if you sell x amount per hour, which is difficult to do.
-You are expected to eventually complete certification of tests of all the parts they have in the store.
-You are expected to know the answer to every question someone asks you.
-You are graded by the amount of addresses you get, amount of money you get people to spend with their RadioShack credit cards, and the amount of service plans you sell.
[quote name='6669']-You get paid minimum wage, plus commission, but you only get commission if you sell x amount per hour, which is difficult to do.
-You are expected to eventually complete certification of tests of all the parts they have in the store.
-You are expected to know the answer to every question someone asks you.
-You are graded by the amount of addresses you get, amount of money you get people to spend with their RadioShack credit cards, and the amount of service plans you sell.[/QUOTE]
as someone who use to work at radio shack 3 years ago..what she said was correct. Those certifications were damned hard if you ask me. But she did forget to mention a few things.
-prepare for some nasty competition between you and your coworkers over commission sales.
-prepare for long ass inventories. Lets just say when it came to inventory, I had to work an 18 hr shift
( didn't get out til 2 am in the morning and had to report to work at 9:00am the next day. 
that.
-monthly meetings at the District office. Didn't get paid back for gas on those(
-Transfers
-Don't ever volenteer to help out another store because there is a good chance you won't get your Spiffs.
-Working with an manager with ego problems.
-prepare to change batteries for watches(
-Christmas and other holidays are considered your "days off" from your work week. So if you had Sunday and Friday's off and the holiday was on like a Thursday, well then prepare to come in on that Friday.
-Slow as dirt internet access, blocking radioshacksucks(sp?).org
-"I'll be back customers"......and no they won't drive there car through the front door and start shooting the place up...instead they will just go to some other store and buy it cheaper.
-Rentals.....people who buy something, then return it after they used it for there purpose (like walkie talkies) and get a full refund.(
-Serious downtime....with nothing to do except stand around and watch tv.
-You are expected to eventually complete certification of tests of all the parts they have in the store.
-You are expected to know the answer to every question someone asks you.
-You are graded by the amount of addresses you get, amount of money you get people to spend with their RadioShack credit cards, and the amount of service plans you sell.[/QUOTE]
as someone who use to work at radio shack 3 years ago..what she said was correct. Those certifications were damned hard if you ask me. But she did forget to mention a few things.
-prepare for some nasty competition between you and your coworkers over commission sales.
-prepare for long ass inventories. Lets just say when it came to inventory, I had to work an 18 hr shift
( didn't get out til 2 am in the morning and had to report to work at 9:00am the next day. that.-monthly meetings at the District office. Didn't get paid back for gas on those
(-Transfers
-Don't ever volenteer to help out another store because there is a good chance you won't get your Spiffs.
-Working with an manager with ego problems.
-prepare to change batteries for watches
(-Christmas and other holidays are considered your "days off" from your work week. So if you had Sunday and Friday's off and the holiday was on like a Thursday, well then prepare to come in on that Friday.
-Slow as dirt internet access, blocking radioshacksucks(sp?).org
-"I'll be back customers"......and no they won't drive there car through the front door and start shooting the place up...instead they will just go to some other store and buy it cheaper.
-Rentals.....people who buy something, then return it after they used it for there purpose (like walkie talkies) and get a full refund.
(-Serious downtime....with nothing to do except stand around and watch tv.
[quote name='ITDEFX']as someone who use to work at radio shack 3 years ago..what she said was correct. Those certifications were damned hard if you ask me. But she did forget to mention a few things.
-prepare for some nasty competition between you and your coworkers over commission sales.
-prepare for long ass inventories. Lets just say when it came to inventory, I had to work an 18 hr shift( didn't get out til 2 am in the morning and had to report to work at 9:00am the next day. that.
-monthly meetings at the District office. Didn't get paid back for gas on those(
-Transfers
-Don't ever volenteer to help out another store because there is a good chance you won't get your Spiffs.
-Working with an manager with ego problems.
-prepare to change batteries for watches(
-Christmas and other holidays are considered your "days off" from your work week. So if you had Sunday and Friday's off and the holiday was on like a Thursday, well then prepare to come in on that Friday.
-Slow as dirt internet access, blocking radioshacksucks(sp?).org
-"I'll be back customers"......and no they won't drive there car through the front door and start shooting the place up...instead they will just go to some other store and buy it cheaper.
-Rentals.....people who buy something, then return it after they used it for there purpose (like walkie talkies) and get a full refund.(
-Serious downtime....with nothing to do except stand around and watch tv.[/QUOTE]
According to my b/f's bro who used to work there, you're exactly correct too. His manager would steal his sales, but he was cool with his co workers and they never screwed him over.
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-People will come ask you for advice on something, then go buy it cheaper somewhere else, then bring it back to you and want you to help them with it.
-prepare for some nasty competition between you and your coworkers over commission sales.
-prepare for long ass inventories. Lets just say when it came to inventory, I had to work an 18 hr shift
( didn't get out til 2 am in the morning and had to report to work at 9:00am the next day. that.-monthly meetings at the District office. Didn't get paid back for gas on those
(-Transfers
-Don't ever volenteer to help out another store because there is a good chance you won't get your Spiffs.
-Working with an manager with ego problems.
-prepare to change batteries for watches
(-Christmas and other holidays are considered your "days off" from your work week. So if you had Sunday and Friday's off and the holiday was on like a Thursday, well then prepare to come in on that Friday.
-Slow as dirt internet access, blocking radioshacksucks(sp?).org
-"I'll be back customers"......and no they won't drive there car through the front door and start shooting the place up...instead they will just go to some other store and buy it cheaper.
-Rentals.....people who buy something, then return it after they used it for there purpose (like walkie talkies) and get a full refund.
(-Serious downtime....with nothing to do except stand around and watch tv.[/QUOTE]
According to my b/f's bro who used to work there, you're exactly correct too. His manager would steal his sales, but he was cool with his co workers and they never screwed him over.
edit.
-People will come ask you for advice on something, then go buy it cheaper somewhere else, then bring it back to you and want you to help them with it.
[quote name='6669']According to my b/f's bro who used to work there, you're exactly correct too. His manager would steal his sales, but he was cool with his co workers and they never screwed him over.
edit.
-People will come ask you for advice on something, then go buy it cheaper somewhere else, then bring it back to you and want you to help them with it.[/QUOTE]
true...... you will get a shit load of people asking you for advice on something then buying it somewhere else then coming back to you and asking for advice on how to use it( why they do this? Because they know they can walk in, waste your time asking dumb questions for free unlike bb/cc/compusa where you have to drop it off, pay a fee and hope they don't it up. If your gonna ask me questions about cell phones and plans, then buy it from me, don't go to bb or shit after you waste my time and not buy it from me.
edit.
-People will come ask you for advice on something, then go buy it cheaper somewhere else, then bring it back to you and want you to help them with it.[/QUOTE]
true...... you will get a shit load of people asking you for advice on something then buying it somewhere else then coming back to you and asking for advice on how to use it
( why they do this? Because they know they can walk in, waste your time asking dumb questions for free unlike bb/cc/compusa where you have to drop it off, pay a fee and hope they don't it up. If your gonna ask me questions about cell phones and plans, then buy it from me, don't go to bb or shit after you waste my time and not buy it from me.[quote name='Graystone']You get F'd in the A working at Radioshack. But if you get in a busy one you could make good money.
Don't stay for more then a year though.[/QUOTE]
yea thats what I did...pretty much about a year with radioshack I one day decided to quit because I was gettingen tired of my manager ing me over by making me work long ass hours and en around with my spiffs.
damn west virginians'...damn them to hell I tell you!!!
Don't stay for more then a year though.[/QUOTE]
yea thats what I did...pretty much about a year with radioshack I one day decided to quit because I was getting
en tired of my manager ing me over by making me work long ass hours and en around with my spiffs.damn west virginians'...damn them to hell I tell you!!!
[quote name='ITDEFX']yea thats what I did...pretty much about a year with radioshack I one day decided to quit because I was getting en tired of my manager ing me over by making me work long ass hours and en around with my spiffs.
damn west virginians'...damn them to hell I tell you!!![/QUOTE]
Yeah, his bro worked for a year then couldn't take it anymore.
en tired of my manager ing me over by making me work long ass hours and en around with my spiffs.damn west virginians'...damn them to hell I tell you!!![/QUOTE]
Yeah, his bro worked for a year then couldn't take it anymore.
[quote name='6669']Yeah, his bro worked for a year then couldn't take it anymore.[/QUOTE]
well did he ever work with an old fart that would constaintly, and I do mean constaintly drop customer questions that he would avoid , then while you are destracted with such customer, he would help ring up the customers who would be buying stuff. That really pissed me off. My manager did squat about it because he didn't want to hurt the old man's feelings. In one closing shift, the old man and I got into a heated arguement when he dropped a customer's problem on me while I was in the middle of a sale. It came very close to a heated a fist fight in the backroom and the bastard pulled a knife on me. I didn't want to take it too far because I didn't want him to have a heart attack and die on me.
well did he ever work with an old fart that would constaintly, and I do mean constaintly drop customer questions that he would avoid , then while you are destracted with such customer, he would help ring up the customers who would be buying stuff. That really pissed me off. My manager did squat about it because he didn't want to hurt the old man's feelings. In one closing shift, the old man and I got into a heated arguement when he dropped a customer's problem on me while I was in the middle of a sale. It came very close to a heated a fist fight in the backroom and the bastard pulled a knife on me. I didn't want to take it too far because I didn't want him to have a heart attack and die on me.
[quote name='ITDEFX']well did he ever work with an old fart that would constaintly, and I do mean constaintly drop customer questions that he would avoid , then while you are destracted with such customer, he would help ring up the customers who would be buying stuff. That really pissed me off. My manager did squat about it because he didn't want to hurt the old man's feelings. In one closing shift, the old man and I got into a heated arguement when he dropped a customer's problem on me while I was in the middle of a sale. It came very close to a heated a fist fight in the backroom and the bastard pulled a knife on me. I didn't want to take it too far because I didn't want him to have a heart attack and die on me.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, he said his manager did that to him. Whenever his manager didnt want to deal with a repair or a watch battery, he'd make him do it. Plus, they worked at a strip center right across a city in which 70% of the population is over 70 yrs old. He had to do all sorts of shit for old people, and not get paid anything for it.
He said the people who worked in the mall store down the street made commission all the time. Plus, whenever those customers had a problem or a return, they'd go to this store to take care of it.
Yeah, he said his manager did that to him. Whenever his manager didnt want to deal with a repair or a watch battery, he'd make him do it. Plus, they worked at a strip center right across a city in which 70% of the population is over 70 yrs old. He had to do all sorts of shit for old people, and not get paid anything for it.
He said the people who worked in the mall store down the street made commission all the time. Plus, whenever those customers had a problem or a return, they'd go to this store to take care of it.
Wait until you get to work with seasonal employees. That only care about cell phone cells. I posted a long rant about Radioshack a while back. search my posts for Radioshack about April of last year. That will have some good info for you in it. I worked at a Radioshack for a almost a year. However no matter what I've said about Radioshack. Its one of the better retails companies to work for. Which isn't saying a lot but go with it. All I have to say is anything beats wal-mart and bagging groceries.
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[quote name='ITDEFX']-prepare for some nasty competition between you and your coworkers over commission sales.[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing most commission jobs are like that.
Years back I wasn't doing anything so I was asked to work in an upscale jewelry gallery. It was fun learning the trade and becoming a certified gemologist and diamontologist and trying on all the pretties.
But the other folks working there would as soon scratch your eyes out then let you wander up to a customer and say, "hello" for fear that you'd get a sale and they SAW the person first. Because of the clientelle of the store, it was hard not to make a bundle working there, but even so they were psycho about their commissions. I could greet a person, answer their questions, advise them if they asked for it, make the sale, and the next day they'd come over to and say, "So and So bought from you... but they always come in here for ME, so it's my sale."
I've never been huge into money so I never argued. I'd just laugh at the situation and how they were so uncouth and tawdry over those precious commissions. I know they were full-timers and their entire income was from that job alone, so I did sympathise with their position. But still...
I finally left when one day after I had been brought over to assist the AM with a sale, (that's a big technique in sales... either tag team where you pass off to someone else if the original sales person feels they're losing ground with the customer, OR straight out bringing in another sales person to back up the points Sales Person A is pushing on the Customer). Afterwords he tells me, "we're a good team. I do the technical stuff and you entertain them." I was really insulted by that. He had ages of experience in the business over me, no question... he knew tomes more about jewelry and jewelry sales than I, no question. However as a MENSA member, I'm no idiot. And he made me feel like some cheaply made up escort girl who couldn't put two words together. =(
We spoke about it afterwards. He apologised and I believed him when he said he didn't mean anything of the kind. As I'm usually a lot thicker-skinned than that, I knew I was in the wrong place and I gave the manager my resignation... I was not the right type of personality for that work.
Point of the story which had nothing to do with Radio Shack... commission sales stinks.
I'm guessing most commission jobs are like that.
Years back I wasn't doing anything so I was asked to work in an upscale jewelry gallery. It was fun learning the trade and becoming a certified gemologist and diamontologist and trying on all the pretties.
But the other folks working there would as soon scratch your eyes out then let you wander up to a customer and say, "hello" for fear that you'd get a sale and they SAW the person first. Because of the clientelle of the store, it was hard not to make a bundle working there, but even so they were psycho about their commissions. I could greet a person, answer their questions, advise them if they asked for it, make the sale, and the next day they'd come over to and say, "So and So bought from you... but they always come in here for ME, so it's my sale."
I've never been huge into money so I never argued. I'd just laugh at the situation and how they were so uncouth and tawdry over those precious commissions. I know they were full-timers and their entire income was from that job alone, so I did sympathise with their position. But still...
I finally left when one day after I had been brought over to assist the AM with a sale, (that's a big technique in sales... either tag team where you pass off to someone else if the original sales person feels they're losing ground with the customer, OR straight out bringing in another sales person to back up the points Sales Person A is pushing on the Customer). Afterwords he tells me, "we're a good team. I do the technical stuff and you entertain them." I was really insulted by that. He had ages of experience in the business over me, no question... he knew tomes more about jewelry and jewelry sales than I, no question. However as a MENSA member, I'm no idiot. And he made me feel like some cheaply made up escort girl who couldn't put two words together. =(
We spoke about it afterwards. He apologised and I believed him when he said he didn't mean anything of the kind. As I'm usually a lot thicker-skinned than that, I knew I was in the wrong place and I gave the manager my resignation... I was not the right type of personality for that work.
Point of the story which had nothing to do with Radio Shack... commission sales stinks.
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I don't like them ether.
They sell crappy junk, the salesmen are uneducated, in order for me to get a job there I have to go to a event, and the managers are crazy.
This one time I brought discs from them I get this fat guy with glasses who was nice but I went to another store later and sawed a realative guy who was real angry.
The fact is Radioshack is up my alley but it requires so much of a door to door salesman. In fact Radio Shack reminds me of the Cutco/Vector scam forcing people to attend seminars.
About remembering things you have to remember what you said on your questionare since they re ask a good chunck of questions.
They sell crappy junk, the salesmen are uneducated, in order for me to get a job there I have to go to a event, and the managers are crazy.
This one time I brought discs from them I get this fat guy with glasses who was nice but I went to another store later and sawed a realative guy who was real angry.
The fact is Radioshack is up my alley but it requires so much of a door to door salesman. In fact Radio Shack reminds me of the Cutco/Vector scam forcing people to attend seminars.
About remembering things you have to remember what you said on your questionare since they re ask a good chunck of questions.
Former manager here, if you're looking for a career, avoid it. If you're looking for short time/part time work, it's not that bad. It's really good if you get a good manager, and the money can be good if you work at a busy store.
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
here is my old post. Some of it holds true, even though Radioshack has changed a lot.
[quote name='Graystone']I worked at a radioshack for a year. I like the people I worked with were all friends now even though I'm gone. But working for Radioshack sucks. The company wants you to try and get $900 from every customer that walks in the store.
Let me just do a list.
-Pros
Good pay
Get to help people
Get commission so selling stuff becomes fun sorta
Inventory every 3 months (helps you remember whats in the store and what needs to be pushed +plus its a small party contained within work.
The commission can be really nice I made almost two grand during tax month.
-cons
You get pushed all the time to try to sell extra batteries, warranties, and cell phones.
You have to go to meetings once a month
If they start carrying new line of products you have to go to a meeting normally out of town.
The black friday sale you have to go to a meeting
Your in charge of the whole store. (you have to do everything from scrub toilets- make price tags. (I never minded cleaning though I enjoy cleaning as long as it stay cleaner then 2 hours)
The thing I hated the most was making price tags. You find missing tags right down the product number then go to the computer print them out then put them up. Then within 2 days they would need to be redone.
Inventory I would end up working 12 hours that day and then work the next day. Until I got my last manager who was cool and give me the next day off.
The best thing about my job was the people. You would get every type of person. I have worked retail jobs since radioshack and never ran into the spectrum of people as Radioshack brings in. The crazy people were the best part of the job.
My thing is in a job I need to be constantly doing something. If I don't have something to do I'll go insane. When I go into my local CVS they person is always doing something. So I don't think it would be that bad but then your going to have to deal with old people and more crazy folks getting their meds.
Is the radioshack in a normal mall or a stripmall? If you work in a mall radioshack then its not worth it work at CVS. They're really small and the managers at mall RS are the worst. If the radioshack is in a stripmall you can get some more freedom and the manager doesn't breath down your neck. However Stripmall RS have a lower cell phone sells then in a mall.
Me personally In your situation would go with CVS since its close to where you live. You could walk to work, but the then the commission of radioshack is nice $2000 grand in one month. But after about 6-8 months you will get burned out my last 6 months at RadioShack I was a miserable person never thought it was radioshack till I left. They have a high turnover rate I'm talking huge. In my 9 months at radioshack I saw probably 15 people come and go. Even more after I left.[/QUOTE]
[quote name='Graystone']I worked at a radioshack for a year. I like the people I worked with were all friends now even though I'm gone. But working for Radioshack sucks. The company wants you to try and get $900 from every customer that walks in the store.
Let me just do a list.
-Pros
Good pay
Get to help people
Get commission so selling stuff becomes fun sorta
Inventory every 3 months (helps you remember whats in the store and what needs to be pushed +plus its a small party contained within work.
The commission can be really nice I made almost two grand during tax month.
-cons
You get pushed all the time to try to sell extra batteries, warranties, and cell phones.
You have to go to meetings once a month
If they start carrying new line of products you have to go to a meeting normally out of town.
The black friday sale you have to go to a meeting
Your in charge of the whole store. (you have to do everything from scrub toilets- make price tags. (I never minded cleaning though I enjoy cleaning as long as it stay cleaner then 2 hours)
The thing I hated the most was making price tags. You find missing tags right down the product number then go to the computer print them out then put them up. Then within 2 days they would need to be redone.
Inventory I would end up working 12 hours that day and then work the next day. Until I got my last manager who was cool and give me the next day off.
The best thing about my job was the people. You would get every type of person. I have worked retail jobs since radioshack and never ran into the spectrum of people as Radioshack brings in. The crazy people were the best part of the job.
My thing is in a job I need to be constantly doing something. If I don't have something to do I'll go insane. When I go into my local CVS they person is always doing something. So I don't think it would be that bad but then your going to have to deal with old people and more crazy folks getting their meds.
Is the radioshack in a normal mall or a stripmall? If you work in a mall radioshack then its not worth it work at CVS. They're really small and the managers at mall RS are the worst. If the radioshack is in a stripmall you can get some more freedom and the manager doesn't breath down your neck. However Stripmall RS have a lower cell phone sells then in a mall.
Me personally In your situation would go with CVS since its close to where you live. You could walk to work, but the then the commission of radioshack is nice $2000 grand in one month. But after about 6-8 months you will get burned out my last 6 months at RadioShack I was a miserable person never thought it was radioshack till I left. They have a high turnover rate I'm talking huge. In my 9 months at radioshack I saw probably 15 people come and go. Even more after I left.[/QUOTE]
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