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The end of xtravision?
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Jumping Jake wrote: »You sound like an intelligent guy and you seem reluctant to get the doel so listen to this advise if you know what is good for you.
Spelling "Dole" correctly would be a good start, as would talking about it by it's proper title, Social Welfare paymentJumping Jake wrote: »Considering your experience I see no reason why you can not gain employment in another electronics store in the city.
There are various factors here. First is the lack of trade meaning the subsequent reduction of hours for current staff. This doesn't actually bode well for anybody wanting to get a new job with a new company. Second, and this is really important, there are the people who look through CVs and discount you because they feel you haven't had enough work in the places they want you to work.
Not because you don't have the direct and relevant experience, but because they can be so selective with the amount of CVs they receive, they if they themselves believe you live too far away from your place of employment or you are a little older then the average age of the staff or have so much experience you might threaten their job...then they can just choose not to hire you. Nobody has to be picky anymore.Jumping Jake wrote: »Print out your CV and hand them into shops in town.
If they accept them. Most places now tell you to email them or contact their manager or just hand in the CV at another time, because A) it saves on paper and
they can put most people out of their misery with a round robin email telling them they're application was one of the 300 not considered for a basic minimum wage job
Oh and C), where staff have been known to openly encourage people not to put in CVs at work, because they look like a better employee then they themselves are - this happens in a lot of shops!Jumping Jake wrote: »Smyths, for instance, are always looking for people, I know this as I worked there for years and it does not reek of corruptness like the Xtravison you describe.
Smyths also pays Minimum Wage and is trying to implement a scheme whereby you are hired on a Zero hour contract. That means you are given NO assurances of work and just turn up if and when it is available. This gives you no basis of saving or planning for any kind of future and living life week to week not knowing how many hours you may get at the discretion of the person who writes the roster.Jumping Jake wrote: »Try Game, Gamestop, HMV, etc. I'm assuming you're from Cork and you know the city well, just go in some morning and you'll have a call for an interview in no time.
HMV are in serious financial trouble, word is they are even considering scrapping their Christmas staff scheme this year, since they can't afford the extra staff they need at Christmas. Most other companies (such as GAME) encourage you to email CVs to a Head Office and the less said about Gamestop the betterJumping Jake wrote: »There is no point dwelling on the miseries your former place of employment and thrust upon you, they are clearly not worth any more thought.
True enough, but he needs a P45 to claim a dole, and as a man in his 20s its almost abhorrent he should even have to claim social welfare if he is willing, desperate and able to work - it's even more disgraceful to be told that he cannot have his P45 because apparently he refused work. And for the record, a man can't live on good intentions alone, 7 hours in a store that costs more to travel too then his previous employment would nullify his dole and would be pointless. Fair enough if he was earning the same for working then he was for his dole but less, that just doesn't make a lot of sense if you NEED the money.Jumping Jake wrote: »And yes I did create an account just to say this, but the thought of someone killing themselves over a petty store and some 'sick' HR person worries me, so I am hoping that you will actually read this and just get over what they have done to you, because life is not worth wasting time on such morons.
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Richard Dower wrote: »What it's score on Rotten Tomatoes?
Unfortunately, it seems review sites like the aforementioned dont even seem to be actively taking an interest in non-mainstream culture these days
Its as if myself and other like-minded folk simply have to explore these works amongst ourselves. Meanwhile the suits at Xtravision and all their yes-men simply pat each other on the back and circle-jerk over the next Daniel Craig movie.
They have no grasp of how the artform has moved on and how people want less of that Daniel Craig Craic and more Backdoor Sluts :mad:0 -
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flutterflye wrote: »Another ex-employee.
I actually don't know where to start, or finish.
Any shop myself or friends worked in was very poorly run and managed, with a turnover of managers which was beyond a joke.
The staff would have to get used to a new know-it-all useless manager every few months, and vice versa.
The hierarchical nature of the company didn't really seem to work either.
There was always someone above someone else - blind leading blind, and taking all the problems out on those below them.
Staff aren't trained correctly in any respect, and usually are expected to take on more than their job description because their manager, and everyone above him, don't know how to do their jobs.
Underpaid, over worked, treated like dirt, untrained, poorly managed - that about sums it up.
(And while I'm not a nerd! Of course I watch films online!)
My hero!
i hope they go and go soon! i used to work there for about 10 years and all i got for the last few years was nothing but threats of “disciplinary action” if a staff members figures aren’t quiet up to scratch!
I remember one time id try to upsell an offer to a customer (you know the 2 NR, 2 cokes and popcorn for 10 euro etc ) all those type of offers and even thou the customer didn’t want it, it was my fault! Apparently I wasn’t “happy” enough upselling it! Haha what a effing joke, I think I know how to upsell an offer.
I remember having a chat to the d**k of a manager about the new changes in XV and how I felt that they were going down the same route as chartbusters (internet in shops, tanning booths in some stores and how I felt that there wasn’t much left in XV and he goes away and reports me to HR saying I was a disruptive staff member and how he has concerns about me driving the business forward! (this coming after months of me refusing to engage in any kind of conversation with him about my personal life after he insults my wife when he found out she was pregnant, he muttered something under his breath thinking I didn’t hear him, but I did!) the slimy git!
Anyway, they wanted to have a more “formal” meeting with me to discuss these but I had decided to go for voluntary redundancy so that wasn’t going to happen. Cant give me a warning if im not working with them
The problem was I didn’t and couldn’t complain about him as another staff who he also insulted did complain after he made a personal remark/insult about him and nothing happened, besides who would they believe…a “disruptive” member of staff or a “fine upstanding member of staff who has always loved working for XV and wishes to work there for many more years to come” the moron
XV as a company don’t care about their staff, I know this from personal experience and its not just me, Ive known others who have left because of the way the operate/talk to/treat their staff. All they care about is how much money they make and are willing to sell ANYTHING to bring customers in, including tacky euro store crap!
And i totally agree with previous posts that the hierarchy of XV dont have a clue on how to run things, they have never worked in a store and have no idea how things are on the ground. they sit on the arse's barking orders at store staff to do x,y and z when in reality stores are under staffed, the staff that are still working are over worked (not to mentioned under paid) and while trying to catch up on things, they send in audit to try and catch you out and you end up getting a verbal warning.
Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely liked working there, sure I was there for nearly 10 years. I love watching films (i have nearly 400) and playing games and im big in to my gadgets so when ever we got a new tablet/tv/mp3 player etc, id be the first to take a look at it for just so id know about it if any customers would come in asking about it. I also still have many friends who still work for XV and there telling the same kinda things are going on.
XV dont deserve the staff that they have, ive worked in a few different stores and the staff in them are hard working, honest and really nice people and for a company to s**t on them they way they do is simply wrong!
It really is an employers market.....
As sad as I would be for my friends to lose there jobs, I really hope XV dies and dies soon!
Rant over...god that feels good
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