Off Topic 2011

[Chrisksaint]

Re: Off Topic 2011

I was trying to buy somethings from NBA Store until I realized they don't ship here


Also, today when I was on the bus a couple decided to sing songs so people would give them money. The guy played well the guitar but the woman who sang was terrible. Instead of singing she was yelling and one couldn't undertand a thing like she was singing by phonetics(correct word?). Many people come to the bus to earn money by begging, saying a poem, selling something, and singing, it gets annoing but at least if you sing sing good.

That sucks, with the way things are these days and how the NBA wants to expand you think they'd ship almost anywhere

[kodiak]

Ok here's part of the Gamestop story. I was running a 1.4-1.7 million dollar store. The fiscal year ends in January, so from Feb-June of 2010, my store was up over ly by a good margin. In fact all of the comp categories we got ranked on, my store was up and ranked in the top 20%. However, my store(a tourist mall) was terrible in reserves and GI subs.

My philosophy was we would not be pushy, ask once, and leave it at that. However, from April-June the store did improve in those categories. Yet in May, my fat arse dm tried to write me up for the "poor" performance. Since it was important in Corp eyes, I asked him on several occasions to come in and help and observe my staff. Yet he never did. So when he tried to write me up, I refused to sign it and he threw a fit about it.

My previous dm was always willing to help out and actually cared about his stores management team. Should have never transferred stores and districts but when someone dangles an extra 8 grand a year, hard to turn down. Plus our annual raise was a percentage of your current salary so it meant a bigger raise each year. Should have known when a friend of mine took that store before me and transferred back out of it after 2 months.

Maybe my thought process is backwards, but if overall sales, used sales, and trade-ins are significantly better than last year, that should mean something. You also can't expect each store to produce the same results. When you rank as much stuff as GS does, someone has to be at the top and bottom. I would understand if we were at the bottom in all or a majority of the categories but I digress.

I am much happier since I left. Not as much stress, and don't have those crazy retail hours. It was nice being able to actually spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with my kids without having to worry about going in at 5AM the next day. I'm also at home now for evenings instead of not being home till between 7-10. That's the most important thing since my kids are now 12,9, and 5.

Other complaints:
-Don't give stores enough hours-My store was getting 85 hrs a week and 40 of those had to go to the assistant manager(College and high school kids want money and can't get it working 7-10 hours a week.)
-Don't pay well to non- management(and some would argue that managers don't get paid that great)new hires were paid minimum wage.
-Got rid of spiffs
-Took away 2 holidays and 3 days of personal time
-Only gave raises 1/yr- So if I hired you in Jan 2010, you would not get a raise til May '11 even if you were doing an awesome job.


And that's just some of it. I could keep going but feel like I've vented enough.

[Chrisksaint]

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I remember my dad's biggest complaint was no overtime pay when he'd work like 50+ hours in the week. The best story I remember of his was on my little sister's 1st Birthday they made him work till 9pm he tried to get off or atleast earlier but his boss told him it'd still be her birthday at 9pm or 10pm.

[TheMatrix31]

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Matrix...I'm waiting on the episode.

Oh, I'm sorry....it's the Super Bowl Tim Whatley episode lol....Elaine is in the car talking to Whatley about hotel/bed arrangements.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Jerry: I think he converted to Judaism strictly for the jokes.
Preacher: And this offends you as a Jewish person.
Jerry: It offends me as a comedian.

[l3ulvl]

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My NCAA 11 tale of the night: I'm on the verge of losing my 4th game in a row, so screw you guys who think it's too easy .

Try being a weak Central Michigan team in their first season in the Big 10. I got schedule happy and added #1 Alabama for good measure. I suck, but I have my first great recruiting class coming in, so I should be a serious contender in about 3 years...

additional useless NCAA 11 info: this game against Iowa is ticking me off, 3 minutes into the 1st quarter and their RB has 3 carries for 143 yards and 2 TDs. After the 1st quarter it's 21-0 ... grrrr I used to be good!

edit: is the OVR broken? not that I care what my score is, just curious if it's not working right.

[Scottdau]

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Ok here's part of the Gamestop story. I was running a 1.4-1.7 million dollar store. The fiscal year ends in January, so from Feb-June of 2010, my store was up over ly by a good margin. In fact all of the comp categories we got ranked on, my store was up and ranked in the top 20%. However, my store(a tourist mall) was terrible in reserves and GI subs.

My philosophy was we would not be pushy, ask once, and leave it at that. However, from April-June the store did improve in those categories. Yet in May, my fat arse dm tried to write me up for the "poor" performance. Since it was important in Corp eyes, I asked him on several occasions to come in and help and observe my staff. Yet he never did. So when he tried to write me up, I refused to sign it and he threw a fit about it.

My previous dm was always willing to help out and actually cared about his stores management team. Should have never transferred stores and districts but when someone dangles an extra 8 grand a year, hard to turn down. Plus our annual raise was a percentage of your current salary so it meant a bigger raise each year. Should have known when a friend of mine took that store before me and transferred back out of it after 2 months.

Maybe my thought process is backwards, but if overall sales, used sales, and trade-ins are significantly better than last year, that should mean something. You also can't expect each store to produce the same results. When you rank as much stuff as GS does, someone has to be at the top and bottom. I would understand if we were at the bottom in all or a majority of the categories but I digress.

I am much happier since I left. Not as much stress, and don't have those crazy retail hours. It was nice being able to actually spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with my kids without having to worry about going in at 5AM the next day. I'm also at home now for evenings instead of not being home till between 7-10. That's the most important thing since my kids are now 12,9, and 5.

Other complaints:
-Don't give stores enough hours-My store was getting 85 hrs a week and 40 of those had to go to the assistant manager(College and high school kids want money and can't get it working 7-10 hours a week.)
-Don't pay well to non- management(and some would argue that managers don't get paid that great)new hires were paid minimum wage.
-Got rid of spiffs
-Took away 2 holidays and 3 days of personal time
-Only gave raises 1/yr- So if I hired you in Jan 2010, you would not get a raise til May '11 even if you were doing an awesome job.


And that's just some of it. I could keep going but feel like I've vented enough.

Could you get me free games?

[BlueNGold]

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I love when you find "no name" brand food that tastes just as good, or better, than the brand name.

[Husker_OS]

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What an awful start to '16 with Indiana.

Week 1: L @ Ole Miss
Week 2: W @ Boston College
Week 4: L vs Michigan State


1-2. Yikes.

[kodiak]

Could you get me free games?

I got 7-14 free games a year across the platforms. Nintendo and Microsoft being the most generous, normally gave us 3-4 plus a free yr of live every year. I have not paid for XBL since 2004. Some of the free stuff I can remember were

From MS
Halo 3, Halo ODST
Gears 1&2
Forza 2&3
Viva Piñata
Perfect Dark
Flight Sim X Deluxe Edition
Far Cry 2(Not directly from MS)
Kameo
Red Dead Redemption(From Rockstar for 360)
Several Faceplates
Headsets
Halo 3 wireless controller
Xbox System
Halo 2

Sony
Uncharted 2
Infamous
Little Big Planet
SOCOM
Heavenly Sword
Several PSP games
21(the movie)

Nintendo
DSI system
Regular DS
DS Lite
Several DS games
New Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Galaxy
Wii Zapper
4000 Wii Pts
Xtra nunchuk

Blizzard gave us WoW(gave that away)

Logitech gave us a Harmony remote 1 yr as well

Had I still been there this past holiday season, I would have got
GT 5
Little Big Planet 2
CoD:Black Ops


I miss that stuff but the negatives far outweighed the perks.

[l3ulvl]

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My NCAA 11 tale of the night: I'm on the verge of losing my 4th game in a row, so screw you guys who think it's too easy .

Try being a weak Central Michigan team in their first season in the Big 10. I got schedule happy and added #1 Alabama for good measure. I suck, but I have my first great recruiting class coming in, so I should be a serious contender in about 3 years...

additional useless NCAA 11 info: this game against Iowa is ticking me off, 3 minutes into the 1st quarter and their RB has 3 carries for 143 yards and 2 TDs. After the 1st quarter it's 21-0 ... grrrr I used to be good!

Randomly updating this for funzies... I actually made a huge comeback from 21-0 to take a late 4th quarter lead 31-28, only to see them score a TD with 40 seconds left to go back up 35-31. I get the ball back after an average return, first pass is a bad throw (QBA 15, upgraded from the last slider set of 5). 2nd and 10 I scramble under pressure and throw it away. 3rd and 10 I hit a slant over the middle against a huge blitz and the WR dropped it (would've been at least 20 yard gain). 4th and 10 found a receiver to the right side wide open on a deep curl, bad throw again, game over 4 losses in a row

[dan_457]

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I love when you find "no name" brand food that tastes just as good, or better, than the brand name.

I'm eating generic Cheez it's right now, these on other hand are not very good at all. It's always the generic stuff that has some weird after taste.

And to all you guys with losing records, and who lose regularly in NCAA, screw you! It's not fair. I wish I was able to actually have a realistic season for once.

I can't even do a rebuilding job because I'll just easily win the conference my first year anyway.

[TracerBullet]

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-Only gave raises 1/yr- So if I hired you in Jan 2010, you would not get a raise til May '11 even if you were doing an awesome job.

Man my old job at Little Caesar's wouldn't even give out raises when they were supposed to. Had a co-worker who had been there a year and had gotten certified. He asked about them giving him a raise since he was there for a year and was the employee who had been there the longest. Also once someone gets certified they were supposed to get a raise anyway. They laughed and told him no. He quit after that and got a job testing video games and now goes to Digipen. I was mad about not getting a raise either or more flexible hours. Getting home at midnight every night is not fun after you're there by yourself pretty much, cleaning up the mess everyone else left. Hated that damn place. Watson already knows that though.

Also make me think of my cousin's job at Mercedes except his situation is dumber. He's been there 4 years, gotten promoted 4 times I think, and still only has gotten one partial raise (only gets it every other paycheck). Every other dealership owned by the guy has employees getting raises but this one. They are already understaffed and refuse to hire anyone else, and they have this one guy who is the laziest sack of crap ever working there. That guy happens to get the most vacation days and when someone has to miss a day sick or something, he'll never be the guy to come in. They're also making the job even more difficult by telling them they can't have their cell phones on during the day. They used them to communicate with technicians and the receptionist for stuff related to work. Now they can't do that, and his bosses get mad when things aren't done efficiently. Also throw in the fact their computers are all still running either Windows 95 or 2000 and that doesn't help.

I remember my dad's biggest complaint was no overtime pay when he'd work like 50+ hours in the week. The best story I remember of his was on my little sister's 1st Birthday they made him work till 9pm he tried to get off or atleast earlier but his boss told him it'd still be her birthday at 9pm or 10pm.

Continuing with my cousin's story above, they did the same thing here to him. He had 20+ hours of what should have been overtime and he ended up getting paid for 2 do to some loophole. So stupid.

[Stroehms]

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It's sad when my phones 3G Internet is faster than my wireless Internet to my pc.

[boomhauertjs]

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Seeing that LeBron sprained his ankle last night brought a smile to my face this morning.