@Omega: I worked at a futureshop last christmas =P I didn't start until the 31st or so of october, but I wasn't in the first wave of employee's to get hired and trained. So I would say you will probably have to go to mind control during the 2nd or 3rd week and start working later that week.
I hope you are an outgoing charismatic person =P Starting wage is $11/hour for where I was working, which is alright... But you are required to do a ton of work, way more than at most other job places, so the only real way to make it good is to be pro at selling your PSP/ PRP and make sure you know your product specs =P Also if you are given the choice for what part of the department to work, aim for the games part (Assuming your futureshop has the DVD/CD part included in entertainment) CDs are usually terrible, its almost impossible to find shit in there and it gets super mixed up really quickly, and DVDs are not too bad, but evenutally you will have to find that one copy of Face to Face you still sell, and its nowhere to be found, but they drove from Redeer and it must be your fault for not calling in advance.
Err and yeah, answer the phone :) Our futureshop was extremely bad for that, cuz the phone was in a weirdish spot and nobody was ever really around it.
Oh so yeah, the reason you want to work the actual videogame portion of entertainment is because when you sell somebody a console, you can offer them the extended warrnety (Its so easy to sell for xbox 360s obviously! Just tell them how often they break, they will usually have heard of somebodys breaking.. so bam!) And when they buy that warrenty you get 12% of the price of the warrenty, which works out to $8-10 (12 for ps3s) for you. I was making $25/hour over xmas break, Its great seeing your paystub say you got $800 pay, and an extra $400 or so from PSP,
Oh and PSP is Product Service Plan, not the obvious one haha.
On Boxing Day, try and get your manager to position you near the 360s, you will kill, if the recession doesn't hit it as bad as last year (which it wont) you can easily make 2 weeks of pay in a single day :) If not more.
Uhhhmmm,.... You will inevitably have to put away a billion CDs, DVDs, Games and all that, not to mention tons of repricing throughout xmas holidays, so if you get good at selling the PSP/PRP then you can get your ass on the evening shift, which means no putting away, just selling and making money =) Its great!
Good Luck haha. Also where are you working in Canada?
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