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na. im just applying and wanted to see what its like kind of.

I asked my friend and she said:

"Oh, not bad but not great. I'd say it depends a LOT on the managers and the other employees. But as a company the benefits* are alright, and the policies tend to be reasonable. Some of the systems are out of date, and in any retail job there are always both idiots that you work with and idiots that you sell to. But it's a far less stressful environment than most other jobs I've had."

* 'Employee discount (it's marginal. You save on accessories, and TVs and car stereos) medical and dental benefits after just 1 year even if you're part-time. Good vendor accommodations with Intel, ATI, Pol Audio, Logitech, etc. About half the employees never look on the employee site and find those, so make sure you look for them. The vendor accommodations, are often half list price on a wide range of their higher end products.'

"Starting pay here averages $8 and hour and Indiana has one of the lowest paid workforces in the country and yearly bonuses which range in the several hundred dollars. If you go into management or supervision you can get a LOT more bonuses each month depending on performance."

There, she was very good and thorough with her answers. I hope that helps ya out some.
 
anyone here work there or have in the past?
I used to look after thier point of sales system in the sydney shop a few years back.

It's rather entertaining when you are dealing with snot noised I-Think-I-Know-Everything-Computer-Geek/Sale-Clerk/Store-Manager that has no idea what they are doing when it comes down to configuration a dedicated PC with Point of Sales system package installed on it.

Harper :- You can wave around that MSCE certificate at me all you like. You have no clue about this specialised Point Of Sales system. So don't f**k with it or I charge you double next time!!!

Lost count the number of times I got called out there because some one thought that they knew what they where doing with the settings.
 
I worked at a Circuit for almost 3 years until I was laid off along with 3400 other people because i was paid too highly. It was a great place to work until the last 6 months or so when Corporate kept shoving their **** into everything we were trying to do and you started seeing the axe getting ready to drop.

It mainly depends on how good your managers are. I've always had top notch management as far as I'm concerned but I've dealt with some real morons that worked at other locations that I don't think I could ever suffer through.

In my time there the pay varied depending on what department you worked in. It was 7.75 if you worked in PST (telephones, boomboxes, video games, etc.) and Media (Movies+music) and 9.25 for everywhere else. Not sure what it is now since they're not really departmentalized anymore. Probably around $8. Heed my words: DON'T EVER BECOME A SUPERVISOR! They used to pay department managers circa $50k per year with bonuses to do that same job. Sups start at $12/hr with a tiny monthly performance bonus (~$100) and a monstrous amount of stress.

Benefits, PTO, and employee discounts were actually pretty good especially for part time employees.
 
Started at $9.25 an hour at that time, probably is less now. It varies depending on your market, though, and what your state's market pay is. It might be higher or lower than Minnesota, although MN is usually pretty competitive.

edit: Good thing about FireDog, when I was there at least, they paid for you to get your Microsoft certification. Since I wasn't actually FireDog I couldn't get reimbursed, but it was required for all of them and CC would foot the bill for all training and testing. Hopefully they're still doing that so you can take advantage of it.
 
1) Work at Staples. Yes, they have a PC repair service. I got paid $10.00 starting - with no prior experience in retail merchandising.

2) If "Sups" = supervisor (in jorsoft03's post), then that's sad that they get paid $12. I got paid $12 for my first internship as an engineer (during college) and got paid $22/hr for my second internship during the next summer during college. I'm sure the guy doesn't want to know my current salary. But anyway, even though this is unrelated and random: go to college and pick the right major. It will help you in the future.

It's saddening to know that if he had any family, he was supporting them on $12/hr. It's also sad that sophomore electrical engineering student could make more than him (I'm not judging, just saying). Really opens your eyes.
 
In most jobs $12/hr seems to be the best you can earn without a degree or a whole truck load of experience. I made roughly $12 at CC (I was a senior associate, similar to the new supervisor but not nearly as bad), then the same as assistant manager at Kinkos, then the same once again as Assistant manager at a shop at the mall, and the same again as Technology Supervisor at OfficeMax. It's only until I lucked out and got my current job that I was able to make a lot more. It's really hard to make a good living without that degree, especially fresh out of high school these days. I was making the same amount of money just out of high school as people several years older than I was. I think CC will still give you a couple grand a year towards school tuition so definitely take advantage of that once you get the job.
 
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