[quote name='ElwoodCuse']Obviously not everyone will have had a negative experience but I am not going to be surprised or saddened when a company with CompUSA's track record goes under.[/quote]
Personally, I hope they all burn in hell. When those
s opened up stores in the Pittsburgh area, they screwed so many people it's not funny.
I worked, at the time (1997), as an assistant manager of a small game chain (Video Game Exchange). They came in and recruited people to work at the new store, asking us to apply and telling us how much better a company it was and whatever. I was hired to be a hardware sales guy, but when we went to training, I was told they hired too many hardware sales guys, and that I'd have to sell software, but I'd be paid the same and get the same hours - both lies.
Then, 3 months after grand opening, they laid off 3/4 of the staff, saying that things have slowed to 'normal' after the grand opening rush. They tried to lay me off, but I was #3 in hardware sales and #1 in software (by a mile too), so they couldn't lay me off. They brought in this operations manager who was some fat chick that lost a bunch of weight and who had an issue with everyone in the store that was male and younger than her (she was 27). Everyone but the GM hated this cunt, including the software manager, who made my schedule. Well, as part of the cutbacks, they said the only way they could keep me was to make me a door greeter for a few hours a week in addition to software, which was cut to part-time. More lies... Since the ops manager made the schedule for door greeters, and she hated the software manager (and vice versa), they refused to talk to each other, thus I was scheduled in both places at the same time. I'd be working like 2-close in software, and somehow was supposed to be on the door from 3-8. When I brought this up to the ops manager, I was written up for being "insubordinate" and not following the schedule. I also got written up for supposed verbal abuse of the head cashier, who was pregnant, and chain smoked and drank the whole time she was preggo. (the child was born with developmental issues, and I wonder why...) Supposedly, I yelled at her on a day which I actually wasn't even working, nor near the store. The only words I said to her in a 3 week span was "It's just regular coffee, why?" when she asked me one morning what I was drinking. But I was told that she was so upset with me for yelling hat her that she had to go to the hospital with high blood pressure, to which I said "perhaps it's the chain smoking, not a fabricated story about me", which got me 'suspended' for 2 days by the ops manager, who then attempted to write me up for missing a shift after the suspension. I had to go to the GM and explain I was suspended, and that it's impossible to miss a shift if I'm suspended, and was told there was no company policy on suspending, and that he would discuss it with the ops manager, who lied to him and said she never told me that. It got so bad that she would walk out of her office, which was right next to the exit, and tell me that I was standing too close to her office to check receipts, but if I moved closer to the door, it would open and close constantly, and I'd get yelled at for that. I took 3 more weeks of this shit, including getting written up for taking a call from a customer that had called to ask about a software package I sold him while I worked on the door. Then I was 'let go' because my 'sales weren't where they should be', which was impossible when I was checking receipts with a
ing hole-punch all night. She did this type of shit to like 4 other employees, too.
I sent my nametag to the ops manager a few weeks later with a note saying "here's your
ing trophy, bitch". She got fired a few months later for a whole bunch of shit, and they actually flew someone up from Corporate in TX to do it. The inventory manager of the store called about 6 of us that she had screwed over to tell us to come up as it was happening, and we all stood there and laughed at this bitch as she was excorted out by the upper management, crying and screaming. Then she found that someone had let all the air out of her tires (not me), so she had to scream and cry and wait for the AAA truck in the parking lot, while about 10 people laughed at her.
And they refused to give any of us our jobs back, because they couldn't prove she falsified any info, even though she was fired for it. Which is utter bullshit. So
CompUSA...
Were you the guy that knocked over an entire magazine/game rack when you quit?