Whew, I clicked this article in a hurry, all ready to be incensed about the unnecessary comment targeting "A place you would NEVER move to!" As the Golden Girls say, thank you for being a friend. I cannot speak directly about the job opportunities offered to a tech worker, but, for Bob's sake, it is inaccurate, passe, and just about rude to use Detroit as a whipping boy, especially in a way unrelated to the article at hand. The connotation here is clear, that nobody would relocate to Detroit because Detroit is Detroit. How dare you use an out-dated stereotype as a significant talking point of your summary? Detroit as a city and Detroiters as Detroiters are picking themselves up by their boot-straps and it is glorious. Large companies are championing the city; for example, friends of mine are working downtown for Quicken Loans. That company is actively encouraging employees to live in city limits in various ways, one of which is practically paying their rent entirely with subsidies. Shinola is proud to be more involved in the city. I am not necessarily a fan of the casino industry but we are known as a top 5 US destination.
Ah, and from my morning Fox2 news, here is a more nationally recognized entity that hasn't felt like kicking those who are down and trying, and doing great- http://www.freep.com/story/ent...
Detroit, #3 of 10 of up-and-coming restaurant cities.
I can't lie, being a Detroiter out of state gives you a certain notoriety, even in metropolises like Chicago, but we are not just the background for Robocop. Things are happening here, going great, and I am just so proud to be a part. There is so much positive action happening here in south-east Michigan period in so many ways, & the fact of the matter is that a disturbing amount of people with stereotypical bad things to say about Detroit weren't even a twinkle in their parent's eye when the events happened here that gave them their impression. The riots are over. My parents were young at that time. Detroit is not the Wild West. Act right, and you'll be so pleasantly surprised by the neighborly attitude that Detroiters present to one another, including strangers.
Get real. Drop the effing snide tone. Come by.
Sadly enough, it seems that the ideal Best Buy employee is somewhere around the personality level of your average person after a night of drinking with no stop in dreamland.
New year's Day, 5 am. What the hell kind of store expects employees to be able to drive to work for that shift, much less be productive when(if) they get there? Best Buy, that's what kind. After carousing until ~4am (with a stop at home for a little of the old khakis and a polo), I was having myself a serene little time "Farming" and "Flexing" at random, and then comes the Morning Meeting. I wouldn't be surprised if a manager made a note of 'What great enthusiasm those boys had,' because a Best Buy Morning Meeting is just about the most fun thing you can do a little off the sober side. Cheering and clapping and dancing, yelling out with a burst of corporate cliches at the top of your lungs, these are things that normally land drunk folks in jail, not in an Employee of the Month frame. Being paid to watch short pun-filled videos about topics like Contact and Loss Prevention, safety videos hosted by comical fellows in costumes, chants, high emphasis on talking to as many people you don't know as possible, free food, a frown for those who ask too many complicated questions...you'd think that corporate would install a goddam keg in The Hub. If it weren't for all the expensive stuff to break, they'd pass out booklets to new employees entitled "A Drunk Employee is a Good Employee."
The thing with Best Buy is that many times a sale isn't just taking a slice off the profit margin; every sales paper you see from them has multiple items that will cost the store money if that's your only pruchase. The most common example of this is in the Media Department, where a new release cd or movie will sell significantly under the store's cost per unit. When Shrek first hit shelves, the profit margin was somewhere around two dollars in the hole, believe it or not. I worked at Best Buy 414 in Madison Heights Michigan, and "profit margin" is the word of the day, every day. Employees even had to memorize various things like attachment rates for video games, and then do on-line quizzes on it all. Buying an Xbox or Ps2? An additional hundred dollars is the minimum attach expected of every media associate, i.e. a Product Replacement Plan, extra controller, memory card or two, and at least one game.
So, from a margin standpoint, Best Buy really would rather not have your business at all if all you're in the store for is that $6.99 new release which they're likely taking a hit on, in the hopes you'll get something high-margin in addition like some form of cd storage.
Haha, I work at a Best Buy in Madison Heights Michigan, and just about everybody under 40 gets a light in their eye when I say "PRP with a brand new one right off the shelf, even for wear and tear." People just instantly start hatching how they're going to somehow make the most profit from the $29.95 cost.
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Whew, I clicked this article in a hurry, all ready to be incensed about the unnecessary comment targeting "A place you would NEVER move to!" As the Golden Girls say, thank you for being a friend. I cannot speak directly about the job opportunities offered to a tech worker, but, for Bob's sake, it is inaccurate, passe, and just about rude to use Detroit as a whipping boy, especially in a way unrelated to the article at hand. The connotation here is clear, that nobody would relocate to Detroit because Detroit is Detroit. How dare you use an out-dated stereotype as a significant talking point of your summary? Detroit as a city and Detroiters as Detroiters are picking themselves up by their boot-straps and it is glorious. Large companies are championing the city; for example, friends of mine are working downtown for Quicken Loans. That company is actively encouraging employees to live in city limits in various ways, one of which is practically paying their rent entirely with subsidies. Shinola is proud to be more involved in the city. I am not necessarily a fan of the casino industry but we are known as a top 5 US destination. Ah, and from my morning Fox2 news, here is a more nationally recognized entity that hasn't felt like kicking those who are down and trying, and doing great- http://www.freep.com/story/ent... Detroit, #3 of 10 of up-and-coming restaurant cities. I can't lie, being a Detroiter out of state gives you a certain notoriety, even in metropolises like Chicago, but we are not just the background for Robocop. Things are happening here, going great, and I am just so proud to be a part. There is so much positive action happening here in south-east Michigan period in so many ways, & the fact of the matter is that a disturbing amount of people with stereotypical bad things to say about Detroit weren't even a twinkle in their parent's eye when the events happened here that gave them their impression. The riots are over. My parents were young at that time. Detroit is not the Wild West. Act right, and you'll be so pleasantly surprised by the neighborly attitude that Detroiters present to one another, including strangers. Get real. Drop the effing snide tone. Come by.
Sadly enough, it seems that the ideal Best Buy employee is somewhere around the personality level of your average person after a night of drinking with no stop in dreamland. New year's Day, 5 am. What the hell kind of store expects employees to be able to drive to work for that shift, much less be productive when(if) they get there? Best Buy, that's what kind. After carousing until ~4am (with a stop at home for a little of the old khakis and a polo), I was having myself a serene little time "Farming" and "Flexing" at random, and then comes the Morning Meeting. I wouldn't be surprised if a manager made a note of 'What great enthusiasm those boys had,' because a Best Buy Morning Meeting is just about the most fun thing you can do a little off the sober side. Cheering and clapping and dancing, yelling out with a burst of corporate cliches at the top of your lungs, these are things that normally land drunk folks in jail, not in an Employee of the Month frame. Being paid to watch short pun-filled videos about topics like Contact and Loss Prevention, safety videos hosted by comical fellows in costumes, chants, high emphasis on talking to as many people you don't know as possible, free food, a frown for those who ask too many complicated questions...you'd think that corporate would install a goddam keg in The Hub. If it weren't for all the expensive stuff to break, they'd pass out booklets to new employees entitled "A Drunk Employee is a Good Employee."
The thing with Best Buy is that many times a sale isn't just taking a slice off the profit margin; every sales paper you see from them has multiple items that will cost the store money if that's your only pruchase. The most common example of this is in the Media Department, where a new release cd or movie will sell significantly under the store's cost per unit. When Shrek first hit shelves, the profit margin was somewhere around two dollars in the hole, believe it or not. I worked at Best Buy 414 in Madison Heights Michigan, and "profit margin" is the word of the day, every day. Employees even had to memorize various things like attachment rates for video games, and then do on-line quizzes on it all. Buying an Xbox or Ps2? An additional hundred dollars is the minimum attach expected of every media associate, i.e. a Product Replacement Plan, extra controller, memory card or two, and at least one game. So, from a margin standpoint, Best Buy really would rather not have your business at all if all you're in the store for is that $6.99 new release which they're likely taking a hit on, in the hopes you'll get something high-margin in addition like some form of cd storage.
Haha, I work at a Best Buy in Madison Heights Michigan, and just about everybody under 40 gets a light in their eye when I say "PRP with a brand new one right off the shelf, even for wear and tear." People just instantly start hatching how they're going to somehow make the most profit from the $29.95 cost.