It's fun playing around with the BB employees

[IceDigger]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

Thanks to hardforums.com for this one.

Well, funny short story for you.

Yesturday I paid a trip into BestBuy as I was looking for a cheapo crappy mobo for an old CPU. Anyway, I was looking, but couldn't see any.

So this guy walks upto me (Store employee) and asks if I need any help. The conversation goes like this.

Employee: "Hi sir, can I help you with anything?"

Myself: "Yes, I'm looking for any cheap motherboards you may have".

Employee: "Sorry, we don't carry the individual motherboards".

Myself: "Oh ok, thanks."

Employee: "By the way sir, if your going to get a new motherboard you might aswell get a new Compaq computer, the cases keep the parts cooler than any other product out there, so you don't have to worry about anything overheating. The compaq cases are small and have excellent airflow."

Myself: "Well, Uhh, my system is cooled via watercooling and it does just fine?"

Employee: "Oh I see, well, either way if your getting a new motherboard you may aswell buy a new system".

Myself: "I'll just keep looking, thanks."

End of convo..

So, I was, uhh, needless to say shocked.

 

[Alexvrb]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

*shrugs* They are salesmen. Although I've been told that they no longer get paid commission, they are still supposed to sell you stuff. I mean, it's Best Buy, a consumer electronics store. What did they expect, lol.

 

[racketboy]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

CompUSA guys are far worse.

I was looking at a Mac -- I think they are pretty.

This chubby 17 year old comes up to me...

"Hey you wanna see some cool stuff for that?"

** kid walks over to software section and back with box in his hand **

** He plants a box for Photoshop in my face **

"This is a really cool piece of software" he says.

"Yeah, I use it all the time" I say

** kid quietly walks away **

Annoying.

 

[Dyne]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

Originally posted by Alexvrb@Jun 16, 2004 @ 12:31 AM

*shrugs* They are salesmen. Although I've been told that they no longer get paid commission, they are still supposed to sell you stuff. I mean, it's Best Buy, a consumer electronics store. What did they expect, lol.

i didnt know BB employees EVER got comission. at least at my store they never have. Now Circuit City does.

 

[schi0249]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

Circuit city is comissioned. To my knowledge, Best Buy hasn't been commissioned for long time, if at all. The staff had sales goals, but they were not paid based on how much they sell. However, in the past they had incentives for selling more.

 

[Gallstaff]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

I wish companies would stop paying on commission. Sure it's an insentive to get them to sell their shit, but it's SO annoying!

 

[Alexvrb]

It's fun playing around with the BB employees

Originally posted by Gallstaff@Jun 16, 2004 @ 04:27 PM

I wish companies would stop paying on commission. Sure it's an insentive to get them to sell their shit, but it's SO annoying!

It has its ups and downs. You'd think it would motivate them more, but it generally doesn't. Or maybe it is just the people involved - I can vouch for Circuit City employees being especially stupid. Well, maybe it is Circuit City as a whole. They had a building in Central Park (we also have a Best Buy there). They build a new building slightly closer to Best Buy, and move into that, abandoning the old one. The building isn't significantly larger/better, and their location isn't better either. What the heck is the point of that?