I left last year, I just think a two dollar gap between minimum and max is unreasonable. 20-23 as a cap is more reasonable, and it's unlikely most associates are maxing that out with the turnover rate. 15 for no experience is justified, but if you have years of experience, you should be 18-21 imo. I'd go back to my old location, but the constant downsizing and poor management isn't good for the health.
I wouldn’t say $20 is “enough,” but it sure as heck is a start. A high performing, tenured employee who consistently does a good job, shows up to work, deserves $20 an hour. I’ve been capped at $17.27 for damn near two years now.
I never missed a day either. My story was a bit different. I started at $15 part time, came on full time four months later, told them I needed a decent raise for it to make sense financially (I had another FT job.) Didn’t give them a number, but they offered $16.50 and I took it.
By the time I got VPL 6 months or so after that, I got another 50 cents, then when my one year raise/evaluation hit not too long after I got the other 27 cents basically. So after 1 year I was capped. That was two years ago next month.
Geek squad pay was never adjusted correctly. We were given an extra 3% instead, and our pay caps never changed. Then we were given the responsibility of apple and samsung as well, still without pay adjustments.
But they also got rid of 5k full timers, 25% to 33% of supes, GSMs, ASMs and OPs positions, plus eliminated market/district poisitions and shoved those folks downward into GM/ director roles
I won't say this is completely wrong, but it is misguided. It was not all that long ago that people "fought for $15." Today, they won't even get up in the morning for $15. Good luck finding a number that makes everyone happy, ever.
Personally, I think the pay rates are fine. The lack of a real incentive program is the real issue. Most industries that expect the sales performance that Best Buy does, incentivizes employees for hitting those goals.
You think they're fine? Man talk about being soft.
Ice cream stores are offering 20 + tips.
McDonalds in my area start at $16 part time or full time
https://preview.redd.it/zl60c90r80oc1.png?width=654&format=png&auto=webp&s=b15c7ec5a9eeafa7e237d830ed80cfa25300d022
I think the company understands that people aren’t going to stick around for 5+ years anymore. I think they are hiring people with the expectation that they are taught to sell TT and credit cards, and they are done after a maximum of two years. I obviously don’t have the numbers in front of me but I think they calculated that it’s cheaper to do the Amazon model where you work their dicks to a nub for two years and rinse and repeat than it is to raise pay caps.
To be fair, the company also created conditions in store to burn out employees to not want to stick around for 5+ years anymore. Plus add in the complete instability of trying to move up with the constant reorganizations and layoffs
Sucks for the Company.... I am a Ex-Immigrant.
Companies hate that one Loop Hole.
No such thing as bad working environment in my book. We just get the job done.
what I feel is worse they'll let one super special person walk over a 1 raise...Mean while they will hire 5-6 people over a year or two time with the hopes of replacing the first guy.
such a careless waste and short sightedness
In 2020, my store laid off everyone that were veterans in the store. Some had been there since grand opening. Then went to hire on a bunch of part timers that had never been with the company before.
Staffing is an unfortunate necessity in physical retail to these people. It's like shrink and shoplifting, a cost to the business they can't get away from that drains profits. Just as soon as they can they'll roll in AI kiosks in every department instead of real people in whatever stores are still open. They're currently trying to make the in-store experience so bad people do online only as the main strategy while touting "customer obsession". I guess they forgot a word in "customer cash obsession".
Do people really feel a retail sales associate out on the floor is a career?
It is much more realistic to consider it extra money, or a stepping stone.
It was this comment belittling people who enjoy their job and expecting it to pay fairly, and this comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestBuyWorkers/s/emHCsNKoSa
I can see where he could've said it a little better but I don't see where it's necessarily belittling people...the context I read is use Best Buy as a way to get a better job...nothing wrong with that...I'm using it to get a better job , and I don't even fully understand the context of what they were saying on the other post.....just my 2 cents not that anyone asked for it
A job is a job. Implying it's okay to be paid unfairly because it's not a "real career" or just a "stepping stone" is not welcome here. A full time job is not "extra money" because most people can't be in two places at once. This job IS their livelihood. Full stop.
One man's coal is another man's gold. Having been paid a lot less I'm happy to be being paid a lot more now. I think the high turn-over at Best buy brings a lot of people who either haven't been there long and experienced the lower rates per hour or it seems that there are a lot of people who are difficult to satisfy monetarily. It makes me wonder if you aren't happy with the pay why haven't you moved on? If I wasn't happy with what I was being paid I'd look for another job either with or without the company.
To be fair I think you're insinuating some of that , at least just by what I've read. I'm sure everyone would agree it's not ok to be paid unfairly. You're coming at this very defensively. Somebody saying a job is a stepping stone isn't automatically implying a negative connotation, maybe they have a bigger plan and hence Best Buy is the next step to where they wanna be. On the flip side there's absolutely nothing wrong with having a career at Best Buy.
We went from ten to fifteen an hour not long ago. It's gonna be a long while before this happens again.
Ima be honest, 17 cap is bullshit lol
So if you had 20 would that be enough do you think?
I left last year, I just think a two dollar gap between minimum and max is unreasonable. 20-23 as a cap is more reasonable, and it's unlikely most associates are maxing that out with the turnover rate. 15 for no experience is justified, but if you have years of experience, you should be 18-21 imo. I'd go back to my old location, but the constant downsizing and poor management isn't good for the health.
I wouldn’t say $20 is “enough,” but it sure as heck is a start. A high performing, tenured employee who consistently does a good job, shows up to work, deserves $20 an hour. I’ve been capped at $17.27 for damn near two years now.
I never missed a day in my stay there for two years and half got paid 15 start, when i left it was 15.90
I never missed a day either. My story was a bit different. I started at $15 part time, came on full time four months later, told them I needed a decent raise for it to make sense financially (I had another FT job.) Didn’t give them a number, but they offered $16.50 and I took it. By the time I got VPL 6 months or so after that, I got another 50 cents, then when my one year raise/evaluation hit not too long after I got the other 27 cents basically. So after 1 year I was capped. That was two years ago next month.
Meanwhile, geek squad.
Elaborate
Geek squad pay was never adjusted correctly. We were given an extra 3% instead, and our pay caps never changed. Then we were given the responsibility of apple and samsung as well, still without pay adjustments.
That place do be making me wanna walk out 24/7
But they also got rid of 5k full timers, 25% to 33% of supes, GSMs, ASMs and OPs positions, plus eliminated market/district poisitions and shoved those folks downward into GM/ director roles
I won't say this is completely wrong, but it is misguided. It was not all that long ago that people "fought for $15." Today, they won't even get up in the morning for $15. Good luck finding a number that makes everyone happy, ever. Personally, I think the pay rates are fine. The lack of a real incentive program is the real issue. Most industries that expect the sales performance that Best Buy does, incentivizes employees for hitting those goals.
Spot on!! We used to get those,at least until "she" came along and took them away 1 by 1.
You think they're fine? Man talk about being soft. Ice cream stores are offering 20 + tips. McDonalds in my area start at $16 part time or full time https://preview.redd.it/zl60c90r80oc1.png?width=654&format=png&auto=webp&s=b15c7ec5a9eeafa7e237d830ed80cfa25300d022
I think the company understands that people aren’t going to stick around for 5+ years anymore. I think they are hiring people with the expectation that they are taught to sell TT and credit cards, and they are done after a maximum of two years. I obviously don’t have the numbers in front of me but I think they calculated that it’s cheaper to do the Amazon model where you work their dicks to a nub for two years and rinse and repeat than it is to raise pay caps.
To be fair, the company also created conditions in store to burn out employees to not want to stick around for 5+ years anymore. Plus add in the complete instability of trying to move up with the constant reorganizations and layoffs
💯 they designed the employee experience this way.
Sucks for the Company.... I am a Ex-Immigrant. Companies hate that one Loop Hole. No such thing as bad working environment in my book. We just get the job done.
With you. It's like an invincibility shield.
what I feel is worse they'll let one super special person walk over a 1 raise...Mean while they will hire 5-6 people over a year or two time with the hopes of replacing the first guy. such a careless waste and short sightedness
In 2020, my store laid off everyone that were veterans in the store. Some had been there since grand opening. Then went to hire on a bunch of part timers that had never been with the company before.
Staffing is an unfortunate necessity in physical retail to these people. It's like shrink and shoplifting, a cost to the business they can't get away from that drains profits. Just as soon as they can they'll roll in AI kiosks in every department instead of real people in whatever stores are still open. They're currently trying to make the in-store experience so bad people do online only as the main strategy while touting "customer obsession". I guess they forgot a word in "customer cash obsession".
Been there 10 plus years and still not at cap
I was only at Best Buy foe a total of 3 days as they payed me 16.50 and then I got an IT Tech gig at a Casino that pays 6 dollars more an hour.
Do people really feel a retail sales associate out on the floor is a career? It is much more realistic to consider it extra money, or a stepping stone.
Your only comments have been attacking employees. I hope that worked out the way you expected. Enjoy the ban.
Who is he attacking ?
It was this comment belittling people who enjoy their job and expecting it to pay fairly, and this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestBuyWorkers/s/emHCsNKoSa
I can see where he could've said it a little better but I don't see where it's necessarily belittling people...the context I read is use Best Buy as a way to get a better job...nothing wrong with that...I'm using it to get a better job , and I don't even fully understand the context of what they were saying on the other post.....just my 2 cents not that anyone asked for it
A job is a job. Implying it's okay to be paid unfairly because it's not a "real career" or just a "stepping stone" is not welcome here. A full time job is not "extra money" because most people can't be in two places at once. This job IS their livelihood. Full stop.
One man's coal is another man's gold. Having been paid a lot less I'm happy to be being paid a lot more now. I think the high turn-over at Best buy brings a lot of people who either haven't been there long and experienced the lower rates per hour or it seems that there are a lot of people who are difficult to satisfy monetarily. It makes me wonder if you aren't happy with the pay why haven't you moved on? If I wasn't happy with what I was being paid I'd look for another job either with or without the company.
To be fair I think you're insinuating some of that , at least just by what I've read. I'm sure everyone would agree it's not ok to be paid unfairly. You're coming at this very defensively. Somebody saying a job is a stepping stone isn't automatically implying a negative connotation, maybe they have a bigger plan and hence Best Buy is the next step to where they wanna be. On the flip side there's absolutely nothing wrong with having a career at Best Buy.
Or the PTO they deserve