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My first real job was at CompUSA. And my experience was identical to what you just described.



I worked there for half a day. Did the training and had just started my job when the manager told me they needed me tomorrow at a store 4 hours away at 6am. I left and never came back.


I liked CompUSA. The employees I interacted with were great. Boise, ID. Was sad when they closed.


It wasn't the worst job I ever had, but the place was really poorly run, and they took advantage of me.

I was just a high school kid stocking shelves, but knew as much or more about the computers as the fulltime commissioned sales people. I was constantly getting paged to assist a salesperson.

I would do all the work, explaining the product and helping the customer make a decision, and then the salesperson, would say "Thanks, I'll take it from here."

Also, their theft control was atrocious. The cameras were not on, the guy checking receipts at the door barely looked, and people just walked about with expensive stuff all the time.

Wasn't surprised when they folded.




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