Testimonial #16: Anonymous Employee discusses his time at B.B.

I am a former employee who helped screw a lot of people out of their money, and helped put a lot of people into debt. All the techniques they inundate you with are designed to help you figure out exactly how to lie to a person without being held accountable for it once they call you on it. They don't make money on the products they sell, people. No, they make all their money, as I am sure so many former and current employees willl tell you, on their Service Plans and accessories. Don't forget their digital services, like Comcast, MSN, and Satellite Radio, who have shelled out millions of dollars to let Best Buy whore their stuff out for them. Every day I walked into that job, I was disgusted with myself. My job was to make that person who wanted to buy that $500 television not only buy that $1000 projection-screen television (called 'pro-jos' by the corporate buzzword-spouting rape demons) but that $200 service plan, a VCR, Monster Power cables, A DVD player (WITH SERVICE), DVDs, a surge protector, a frigging signal enhancer, NetFlix online DVD rental service, Screen cleaners, and anything else you could POSSIBLY tag onto a television sale. I prayed every day that other applications I had put it would finally catch something for me. After far, far too long, I got a sweet job offer, and took it. I planned a way that I could screw Best Buy over in a way that they would absolutely hate, and the entire store would suffer. I kind of felt bad for a few of the people I was working with, because quite a few of them were just kind of clueless and in denial about the horrendous actions of the company employing them. Some of them were not bad people, you see, but in the end they are ALL liars. I mean, even the 'service techs', the guys in the black shirts, were all liars. Simply because NONE of them were certified to do ANYTHING. Not one of those people should have been allowed to touch anything that you have paid good money for. I listened to a manager tell one customer that our Service Techs were 'board certified' or some anagram-certified and trained for months at tech centers. That's just plain bullshit. Every single Service Tech was thrown right into the job with no proof that they knew what they were doing other than, "Yeah, I know about electronics and stuff." And man, these people are BRAINWASHED into complete and total subservience. Their attitude on theft is that store shrink is taking money straight out of every employee's pocket. So I thought to myself, "I want something here....I'm gonna steal it and walk out of here with it and never look back." Hell, this was one bridge I truly did not mind burning. Well, I screwed it up, because I am not a thief. And definitely not a good one. I wasn't caught on the way out at all. No, I got spooked and hid the stuff and they found it. They knew who it was, but I didn't actually take anything, so it didn't matter at all to me. But I did get a thrill out of the morning meeting. The supervisors and low-level managers were yelling about how someone had the audacity to sneak merchandise around and how whoever it was in the store would be leaving in handcuffs that day. They said the stuff already had a name, but they knew there were more people. I was secretly overjoyed at how they probably all knew it was me, but couldn't do a damn thing about it. Plus, they literally had NO proof of anything except me hiding the stuff, and they really couldn't even prove that. But I'm quite intelligent, even for as bad a thief as I am. I merely waited for my chance and walked out of the store, never, ever looking back. And the only thing I am sad about is that I never got the stuff I wanted to take.

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