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So, I interviewed. Their pay system is retarded. Here's the breakdown:

You get $4 per hour!!

Whatever you sell you get commission. I would be working with parts only. Not per-built desktops and lappys.

Say you sell a motherboard, processor and sound card.

You get 1.5% commission on the highest dollar line item. In this case it would be the processor.

You then get 2.5% for each attached item.

Then you receive 10% on service plans.

The sales manager claimed that his average employee makes $10 PER HOUR after all the commissions. Some employees make $13.

Every employee apparently carries stickers in their pocket with info that relates to them on it. When you buy something with an employee nearby, they put their sticker on it. When you get rung out, the cashier sees who's sticker you have and makes sure that employee gets credit.

I'm sure that 90% of people walk in, grab what they want and leave without ever talking to an employee.

The interview was OK. I brought a few magazines I've been in to show them and they did seem fairly impressed. Afterwards I had to take a 40 question test. There were questions like "What's the speed of USB 2.0?" or "Is PCI-E serial or parallel?" It wasn't that hard, except for the 3 Apple questions where I literally guessed the answers.

The store doesn't open till 10 a.m. which is great for me because I'm in charge of getting the kids up in the morning and on the bus. I can't get there till 9 a.m. at the earliest. There's the problem. I would be expected to be there at 7, because of freight and setting displays. I cannot get there that early. I'll let them know of my hours I can work and if they don't like it, then I guess I won't be getting the job
 
Good luck. Apple questions? Who uses Apple except for ipods and iphones? Really...
 
:geewhiz: $13 an hour is pretty crap even when compared to the exchange rate here i get $20 an hour for doing helpdesk support for an isp and thats really low in fact i'm leaving soon cause the pay is so crappy...
 
$20 must be nothing where you are then, because my wife could damn near quit her job if I made that much
 
from that job description it seems they need people with more technical sales skills than actual technical skills.
 
Yeah, you really have to know the parts you're selling
 
$20 must be nothing where you are then, because my wife could damn near quit her job if I made that much

It's
$18.31 U.S. dollars

Not really much of a differance things are alot more expensive here though and it's an entry level IT support job meaning lowest pay grade possible
 
They must be

not everything though like supps are 3 times more expensive or more, food is, clothes is about 2 to 1.5 times as more, electronics aren't that much more you guys just have a better range and more stuff when it come to everything actualy, rent is way more expensive...
cars are like 3 times as much

Many people here buy heaps of shit from the US cause it's alot cheaper even when you factor in postage.

healthcare is free though lol but it's substandard (unless you goto a hosipital then you get 1st class care)
 
Soon the US will have substandard health care too.
 
Where do you live, Mexico? Minimum wage out here is 10 an hour and I don't understand how people survive on that.
 
Soon the US will have substandard health care too.

soon? the list below is from the last time the WHO ran the numbers in 2000

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica

37 United States of America

38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland
51 Dominican Republic
52 Tunisia
53 Jamaica
54 Venezuela
55 Albania
56 Seychelles
57 Paraguay
58 South Korea
59 Senegal
60 Philippines
61 Mexico
62 Slovakia
63 Egypt
64 Kazakhstan
65 Uruguay
66 Hungary
67 Trinidad and Tobago
68 Saint Lucia
69 Belize
70 Turkey
71 Nicaragua
72 Belarus
73 Lithuania
74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
75 Argentina
76 Sri Lanka
77 Estonia
78 Guatemala
79 Ukraine
80 Solomon Islands
81 Algeria
82 Palau
83 Jordan
84 Mauritius
85 Grenada
86 Antigua and Barbuda
87 Libya
88 Bangladesh
89 Macedonia
90 Bosnia-Herzegovina
91 Lebanon
92 Indonesia
93 Iran
94 Bahamas
95 Panama
96 Fiji
97 Benin
98 Nauru
99 Romania
100 Saint Kitts and Nevis
101 Moldova
102 Bulgaria
103 Iraq
104 Armenia
105 Latvia
106 Yugoslavia
107 Cook Islands
108 Syria
109 Azerbaijan
110 Suriname
111 Ecuador
112 India
113 Cape Verde
114 Georgia
115 El Salvador
116 Tonga
117 Uzbekistan
118 Comoros
119 Samoa
120 Yemen
121 Niue
122 Pakistan
123 Micronesia
124 Bhutan
125 Brazil
126 Bolivia
127 Vanuatu
128 Guyana
129 Peru
130 Russia
131 Honduras
132 Burkina Faso
133 Sao Tome and Principe
134 Sudan
135 Ghana
136 Tuvalu
137 Ivory Coast
138 Haiti
139 Gabon
140 Kenya
141 Marshall Islands
142 Kiribati
143 Burundi
144 China
145 Mongolia
146 Gambia
147 Maldives
148 Papua New Guinea
149 Uganda
150 Nepal
151 Kyrgystan
152 Togo
153 Turkmenistan
154 Tajikistan
155 Zimbabwe
156 Tanzania
157 Djibouti
158 Eritrea
159 Madagascar
160 Vietnam
161 Guinea
162 Mauritania
163 Mali
164 Cameroon
165 Laos
166 Congo
167 North Korea
168 Namibia
169 Botswana
170 Niger
171 Equatorial Guinea
172 Rwanda
173 Afghanistan
174 Cambodia
175 South Africa
176 Guinea-Bissau
177 Swaziland
178 Chad
179 Somalia
180 Ethiopia
181 Angola
182 Zambia
183 Lesotho
184 Mozambique
185 Malawi
186 Liberia
187 Nigeria
188 Democratic Republic of the Congo
189 Central African Republic
190 Myanmar
 
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The reason I don't see how anyone can survive on that is because in my province alone the average house is currently worth over 400k and a condo goes for over 200k. In the city I work by, Fort McMurray, a single family home goes for about 700k. Rent for a single bedroom place is currently going for 1700, 2000 for a double. Pay at a gas station or McDonald's starts at around 18 an hour with benefits here..

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So I got called yesterday by Micro Center for a second interview. I went in today for it and it went well. The managers are just as geeky as I am. They know their hardware and software, they have a real easy no BS approach to sales. They even knew of my published mods and have all been to my site. I told them that I am available every day, but cannot get to work till at least 9 a.m. because I'm the one who gets my kids ready and on the bus every morning.

They were cool with that.

I made it clear that I can't stand sitting behind a desk waiting for customers to come to me and that I would be all over my area finding people to help.

They said that's exactly how they want me to do my job.

So, I took the job. I'll be starting at $12 hr during my "training" phase which will go for two weeks or so, then it will be the regular pay scale as above.
 
So I got called yesterday by Micro Center for a second interview. I went in today for it and it went well. The managers are just as geeky as I am. They know their hardware and software, they have a real easy no BS approach to sales. They even knew of my published mods and have all been to my site. I told them that I am available every day, but cannot get to work till at least 9 a.m. because I'm the one who gets my kids ready and on the bus every morning.

They were cool with that.

I made it clear that I can't stand sitting behind a desk waiting for customers to come to me and that I would be all over my area finding people to help.

They said that's exactly how they want me to do my job.

So, I took the job. I'll be starting at $12 hr during my "training" phase which will go for two weeks or so, then it will be the regular pay scale as above.

Awesome! Good luck!
 
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