Moderators: lazyben, static14, texasvinyl
texasvinyl wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 2:11 pm who the fuck is shopping for records in new Hampshire? They talk about people pulling guns on employees, sexually harassing staff, making racist comments to staff. Umm, what?Here's how NH runs, the south eastern tip includes your typical "northeast hippy dippy NH/Vermont stereotypes" drive about 60 miles north or west and it's a lot of backwoods racist assholes. I lived there for 7 years and rarely ventured farther north than Concord. I worked for Geek Squad and Best Buy for a few years while living there and I dealt with a very large portion of racist sexist pricks as customers. I had people refuse to be helped by our female staff, had people refuse to be helped by any hispanic employees. Now you couple that with influx of people from Maine and a bunch of MA shit hole human beings, I fully believe what they went through as employees from the experiences I had working in the state. As for management, some stores seemed better than others, I always chalked that up to record stores which usually have a few old assholes working at them and their the management. It's pure speculation and just based off of what may be angry employees, I believe what they said as workers dealing with customers 100%. Also we had nut jobs pulling guns at establishments where I live in NY over the mask policy last year. So that was pretty common.
Two sides to every story... I'm guessing there's a very frustrated owner somewhere at their wits end who for whatever reason saw the "reset" button as the best option despite what it'll cost them to do that. And maybe some folks in supervisory/mgmt roles who are in over their heads.
A good life lesson to learn very early in adulthood IMHO. You don't owe employers loyalty, because you're not gonna get any in return.
Also I can't imagine running a record store and making any kind of real money let alone enough to support unionized staff.
Or maybe the owners are monsters. Who knows. I would be at least a little skeptical of a blog post by an aggrieved former employee though. I don't really shop at bull moose, maybe I pre ordered something from them once or twice.