Now I know I'm a bit late with this, but I wanted to touch on the subject anyway. As we are all well aware, Circuit City is no more. The company announced that they were closing on January 16th, 2009. All I can do is sit back in awe. Now numbers-wise, Circuit City was falling faster and faster, trying to pull itself back up from a stumbling economy. But coming from someone that worked in the store, it just comes as a shock to me. I knew all the people. The good, honest, hard working people that I worked with in the Wolfchase store for a year and a half. Now to some, that's not a long time, but this is retail. People come and go in retail like crazy, mainly because people can't handle the sales atmosphere and the repetitiveness that comes along with the job.
In my year and a half, I learned a lot. I learned that people in this world can indeed be honest and aren't always in the mood to try to get something for nothing. I also learned there are quite a few cold-hearted people that just want everything for free. I did everything that I possibly could to help the customer. Some say I'm a strange salesperson. I'm not a pushy, uptight, "buy this right now or else" kind of person. I treated my customers like I wanted to be treated if I came into the store. That meant not shoving Firedog computer services down the throat of an IT technician. I feel that's also what made me successful while I was there. People are people, not numbers. A lot of companies would get a lot farther if they would understand that and start treating us as human beings instead of dollar signs.
Another point is that although it was a retail sales job, everyone knew how to have fun at work. If it was a good movie playing on the big monitor or some music on that newest sound display in the corner, everyone had fun for the most part. I have to say that the music they played in the media department got on my nerves after the 135th time hearing it, but other than that, it helped the time go by pretty fast.
My point here is that from an individual store standpoint, I enjoyed my work. And even though it was a while back since I worked there, I still remember every bit. I remember waking up and being at work at 9:30 for the morning meetings and to put out tags that were changed overnight, going to that dinosaur or a computer and looking up prices and making sales in the DPS, doing those God-awful cycle counts and open box items, and everyones favorite Saturday night ritual of putting out tags for the ad on Sunday that took almost an hour. And I will never forget how much of a pain it was putting the security alarms on all of the digital cameras, not just at one store, but at Wolfchase AND Winchester. And then the introduction of Firedog. Everyone was so pumped up for that it was unreal. I remember when we took the entire monitor row out to make room for the tech bench. It was a welcome change, especially considering I used to do all installations on this little corner of a counter behind customer service. I used to look at Circuit City and say "This place is gonna be here forever, I swear." It's going to be a surreal feeling to go down to the Wolfcreek shopping center and look at that big maroon point coming out of the side of that strip mall with nothing on it. It was weird when that location was still on Covington Pike where Gossett Kia is now. You can still see where the big square half was sticking out of the building.
But all the memories are what we all have to get us through. If anyone that worked at Circuit City location 0871 in Memphis, Tennessee has any pictures or video, shoot me a message. Before I end this, take a look at a blast from the past.
In my year and a half, I learned a lot. I learned that people in this world can indeed be honest and aren't always in the mood to try to get something for nothing. I also learned there are quite a few cold-hearted people that just want everything for free. I did everything that I possibly could to help the customer. Some say I'm a strange salesperson. I'm not a pushy, uptight, "buy this right now or else" kind of person. I treated my customers like I wanted to be treated if I came into the store. That meant not shoving Firedog computer services down the throat of an IT technician. I feel that's also what made me successful while I was there. People are people, not numbers. A lot of companies would get a lot farther if they would understand that and start treating us as human beings instead of dollar signs.
Another point is that although it was a retail sales job, everyone knew how to have fun at work. If it was a good movie playing on the big monitor or some music on that newest sound display in the corner, everyone had fun for the most part. I have to say that the music they played in the media department got on my nerves after the 135th time hearing it, but other than that, it helped the time go by pretty fast.
My point here is that from an individual store standpoint, I enjoyed my work. And even though it was a while back since I worked there, I still remember every bit. I remember waking up and being at work at 9:30 for the morning meetings and to put out tags that were changed overnight, going to that dinosaur or a computer and looking up prices and making sales in the DPS, doing those God-awful cycle counts and open box items, and everyones favorite Saturday night ritual of putting out tags for the ad on Sunday that took almost an hour. And I will never forget how much of a pain it was putting the security alarms on all of the digital cameras, not just at one store, but at Wolfchase AND Winchester. And then the introduction of Firedog. Everyone was so pumped up for that it was unreal. I remember when we took the entire monitor row out to make room for the tech bench. It was a welcome change, especially considering I used to do all installations on this little corner of a counter behind customer service. I used to look at Circuit City and say "This place is gonna be here forever, I swear." It's going to be a surreal feeling to go down to the Wolfcreek shopping center and look at that big maroon point coming out of the side of that strip mall with nothing on it. It was weird when that location was still on Covington Pike where Gossett Kia is now. You can still see where the big square half was sticking out of the building.
But all the memories are what we all have to get us through. If anyone that worked at Circuit City location 0871 in Memphis, Tennessee has any pictures or video, shoot me a message. Before I end this, take a look at a blast from the past.
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