Requiem for a SAM

[Ghost of AtlanticVamp]

Originally Posted by sobedrummer

Yup, you're free to say whatever you want,
and they are free to fire your for it.

I'm already fired, and I first posted my name three years ago. Thanks for your concern.

[sobedrummer]

Originally Posted by Ghost of AtlanticVamp

I'm already fired, and I first posted my name three years ago. Thanks for your concern.

Not really concern, I just don't like it when people tout the First Amendment as carte blanch to say whatever they want and no one could do anything to them.
Since it only applies to government, businesses certainly can do anything they want for speaking your mind.

[ClutztomerControl]

Originally Posted by sobedrummer

Not really concern, I just don't like it when people tout the First Amendment as carte blanch to say whatever they want and no one could do anything to them.
Since it only applies to government, businesses certainly can do anything they want for speaking your mind.

You're a fucking dick.


Since I already had left the company of my own free will... with ample notice. I am no longer bound by Blockbusters rules. I became a customer, free to speak me mind. like this... Go fuck yourself.

Thats the problem with America we have become a Corporatocracy.

[ClutztomerControl]

Originally Posted by bEZ

details?? you got me curious now

Yeah I left the company( got a job at GameStop) then I posted my real name about a week later on here. I still had close friends at my old store who told me about the conference call the DM had with my store manager about me posting on here. Too funny. Which is proof that corporate reads everything on here.

[Ninja]

So. Good Job Blockbuster for letting a valuable employee go where there's not really any proof to be had. Congrats.

Second. Congrats to you GoAV! My boss knows I post here, they know who I am and we basically know what we'd like happen to our store. haha, I was actually upset last year to hear my store wasn't closing! I want to move on...but I dont want to up and leave where my co workers would get screwed. Yes, I care about my co workers, but I could care less for the actual company.
Then again...I'm a nice person (for the most part) for people who are mostly nice to me and I have a hard time letting a job go to shit when I can just do a job well done. Not to mention I've had a bad experience with someone doing their job wrong...I won't post specifics because I'm still a Ninja. muahaha


Anyway...back to congratulating you! I do hope, however, GOAV that you get what you need and get a better job quickly for you and your family.
PS. Can I just mention that my DM mentioned on a conference call this past week or two that we shouldn't leave our safe or back door open?

[Ghost of AtlanticVamp]

I live in a small town and our store was supposedly the nicest (looking and selection-wise) in town. Now that the Hollywood is closing and the rest are mom-n-pop places that have hardly any selection and survive on their "back room" (PORN), the Blockbuster is now the only game in town if you don't want to rent online or from a machine. (I'm including DirecTV, Comcast, TiVo and other on-demand services in the "machine" reference.)

That being said, I have been running errands all day and...well, I have had to explain my situation to over a dozen customers. Just in mailing my 401k disbursement form and checking on food stamps (yep, sad fact, but I have kids...and they eat!), I was out for a grand total of four and a half hours! They all pretty much said the same thing:

"You mean someone who actually looks like they are working when I come in got fired over the woman who calls me a fucking moron to my face?!?!?!?" Some have promised to raise hell with my SM about it. Can't say I blame them.

But I anticipate having to have this talk with more people in the coming days. After all, we are the only game in town, and I was one of the MVP's. ...

[deathbydanny]

I can't tell you how many former customers I've run into since finding a new job have stated that they miss seeing me there.

Whatever the case may be, if I was still there, I'd have finally hit the snag where I'd demand proof that doing these stupid programs and pushes were helping the company. So far, all we've seen, complying with the rules, is the company falter further and further, and rather than do something about it, they get rid of the people that were good at it to save a few dollars. THEN, after cutting raises and bonuses, have the gall to have a big meeting (which means salaried employees will be getting paid for what's basically a condo pitch), a vacation in Vegas, and even stupider employees.

Yeah, the company's failing. So instead of having a regional conference call, let's go to Vegas! And we can use the money we had originally allocated to raises!

Also, no one should be surprised about being called out for posting here. It's happened to me, too, and I was threatened with possible termination, though I'd had a very pro-BBV stance before BBV and I parted ways. Hmm. I defend the company, and I get threatened with termination for it. Thanks, guys!

[Ghost of AtlanticVamp]

Just go check your PM's. Can't get into it on open forum. I am scared out of my mind right now after what just happened.

[abhorrent scowl]

Originally Posted by deathbydanny

Yeah, the company's failing. So instead of having a regional conference call, let's go to Vegas! And we can use the money we had originally allocated to raises!

That would imply that at some point they actually considered giving us raises.

[The Omen]

if you feel threatened, i would call the police