DJackson10
Footballguy
So my buddy who quit his job working for a Go Wireless verizion store last year (I've talked about him here at length) finally got a job for the first time since last July working for Motorola as a sales pitch guy. Basically a vendor who goes into retail stores that sells phones trying to get those companies too sell his companies brands. I was coming home from work today and didn't see his car (Just started the job and he is off Sun and Mondays) so I figured he met up with an old coworker. His job entails a lot of travel and he will have to go up to State College Penn State Area which is a good 4-5 hrs drive which is on company dime and stay there a few days when doing stores up there. Anyway I get a text shortly after I'm out of the shower, that he applied to my old job at GameStop for a management roll. It's a Store Lead Director role. Naturally having worked there I asked him where at? he told me it's one of two stores in the township next to us but the interview was at my old store. I gave him my opinion on when I worked there what it was like. I loved the people I worked with and the fact I did a job and got to talk about a job I had a lot of interest and spend a lot of time anyway. I was screwed over by the DM at the time as my buddy had hired me and was gonna bring me on as non seasonal help. one thing led to another and he was told by our DM he had to take 2 other people one from a different store that closed and one person who was coming back into the company so he had no room for me still. Pay wasn't great but I was doing that while working my current job (Worked in a different department under different hours) and was just using the money from GS as spending money.
After we were finished talking my buddy and I, I realized it's probably not a great job for him. Based on my experience a lot of people at Gamestop at least manager wise have a lot of gaming background in different systems and tech involved. My Buddy sold phones has always owned a Sony Playstation and Nintendo as well as a Sega Dreamcast. However he really doesn't know the ins and outs of working at a place like a gamestop. Totally different atmosphere. A lot of the hire up bosses to say it kindly are horrible people, never take their store leads advice on anything, and theres been a tons of abuse at the top from corporate level on down. Now the managing isn't an issue as he's managed before as more or less he has no experience managing or working in a company like GS. Think for him it'd be best if he got an ASL (Assist Store Lead) position & learned from someone with experience already. Think if he goes straight into management the results are gonna fail. He's also not the best personality people wise in terms of sales. In fact he's pretty bad at it. I don't know why he continues to go for these jobs and you can't talk to him about because he's thick headed and thinks he's great at it. I got hired by my friends as I use to hang up there after work a lot. I would help solve issues without working there for customers. They'd come in next time ask where I was and say the problem was fixed and they'd tell the customer he doesn't work for us just hands out here with us as he works at the Grocery store and when he gets done hangs out here. The one guy I knew through his sister working with me
Before he texted me I have off Tuesday and was planning to go up there to maybe see if I could get my job back work a few hours a week etc. I figured while I was up there see the person who interviewed was there. Give him my own reference on my buddy. I'm not trying to not have them hire him but I want to maybe suggest to them if a ASL job and earn from a Store manager would be better for him. I'm actually trying to help him succeed as he's gone from job to job for the last decade or so since he graduated college. Despite some of the negatives its good company and the Store Directors get a lot of Cool perks including a trip to Vegas yearly for the corporate level meeting where SD's from all over the country go, get to check out the latest games and perks etc. They are also the only employees who have benefits with the company. It's a good job if you know what you are doing and have a good crew. Considering my experience already in the company I wanted to try and help him. He really thinks they will hire him for the manager job.
Edit: Forgot to Mention he put me down as a reference as I use to work for them
After we were finished talking my buddy and I, I realized it's probably not a great job for him. Based on my experience a lot of people at Gamestop at least manager wise have a lot of gaming background in different systems and tech involved. My Buddy sold phones has always owned a Sony Playstation and Nintendo as well as a Sega Dreamcast. However he really doesn't know the ins and outs of working at a place like a gamestop. Totally different atmosphere. A lot of the hire up bosses to say it kindly are horrible people, never take their store leads advice on anything, and theres been a tons of abuse at the top from corporate level on down. Now the managing isn't an issue as he's managed before as more or less he has no experience managing or working in a company like GS. Think for him it'd be best if he got an ASL (Assist Store Lead) position & learned from someone with experience already. Think if he goes straight into management the results are gonna fail. He's also not the best personality people wise in terms of sales. In fact he's pretty bad at it. I don't know why he continues to go for these jobs and you can't talk to him about because he's thick headed and thinks he's great at it. I got hired by my friends as I use to hang up there after work a lot. I would help solve issues without working there for customers. They'd come in next time ask where I was and say the problem was fixed and they'd tell the customer he doesn't work for us just hands out here with us as he works at the Grocery store and when he gets done hangs out here. The one guy I knew through his sister working with me
Before he texted me I have off Tuesday and was planning to go up there to maybe see if I could get my job back work a few hours a week etc. I figured while I was up there see the person who interviewed was there. Give him my own reference on my buddy. I'm not trying to not have them hire him but I want to maybe suggest to them if a ASL job and earn from a Store manager would be better for him. I'm actually trying to help him succeed as he's gone from job to job for the last decade or so since he graduated college. Despite some of the negatives its good company and the Store Directors get a lot of Cool perks including a trip to Vegas yearly for the corporate level meeting where SD's from all over the country go, get to check out the latest games and perks etc. They are also the only employees who have benefits with the company. It's a good job if you know what you are doing and have a good crew. Considering my experience already in the company I wanted to try and help him. He really thinks they will hire him for the manager job.
Edit: Forgot to Mention he put me down as a reference as I use to work for them
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