Originally Posted by
Poguemahone
Having once been one, I will contest your point. You try listening to people tell you Cats is great music all day long, having idiots ask you for the (racial expletive deleted) music, and having to listen to the first Tracy Chapman album too many times, and so on. A soul-wrenching job. I didn't listen to music for a couple of years after I was fired. There's a story in and of itself, don't ask.
I will say, however, that the store I worked for was owned by Satan, and fortunately, he took his back a few years past.
The "major" (read: only big store to survive the purge) store here just declared bankruptcy. It was okay, except for the part where they refused to give a friend her job back after maternity leave. Haven't shopped there since.
We are blessed with an
excellent small store, owned by a former co worker of mine. It's weird how many of my former co-workers at the record store still work at record stores, especially considering how few of them are left.
I understand every word you are saying, I really do.
I started as a fifteen hour a week counter employee and before I was finished with that part of my music business career, I managed a seven store chain with about 70 employees to take care of on a monthly basis.
It was the hardest thing I ever had to do in that business, but I ended up shutting down all seven of the stores.
One at a time.
Why?
A million reasons. The biggest mistake we made was not listening to our customers. You know the ones.
The ones that wanted to buy the new Tracy Chapman album. We thought we knew more than the customers and started to look down on their taste in music.
They started to find everything they needed elsewhere and by the time we figured that out, it was way too late.
So sorry you got fired, but I was the one had to let 70 people go when we didn't play our cards well.
Sad to fire folks, but in our case, there was no more revenue to sustain our livelihoods.