Don't work for Fry's Electronics, it sucks

"Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable."

John Maynard Keynes


1st Baron Keynes


The End of Laissez-faire (1926)


British economist, developer of Keynesian economics

(1883 - 1946)

Five fun facts every "unskilled" person looking for work must know about working for Fry's Electronics spread across the nation:

1) The company embody the big bold word - Avarice. Nothing describe the company more adequately than this singular but impactful word.

* What is avarice?

AVARICE (AVARITIA)

Avarice is the black heart of rapacious capitalism and corporatism in the United States. Enron, Halliburton, Lee Raymond, Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Tyco, Bernard Ebbers, 33% of the wealth concentrated into the hands of 1% of the population -- examples of obscenely acquisitive entities and individuals are nearly infinite.

Prime example is ALL Fry's Electronics have the policy ordered from the headquarter to force the bundles on Microsoft, Nintendo & Sony video game consoles, with the two-year performance service contract included during the busy & high in-demand holiday season.

Fry's Electronics still sell the Nintendo Wii bundle at time of this publication due to scarcity of units. I know about the law of supply and demand, but forcing the bundle to include the servicing contract is wholly unethical in business practice -- it's all about lining the pocket for the company.

Sony lose over two hundred bucks on each PS3 unit manufactured and Fry's Electronics wins by prying the tidy profit from the inclusion of service contract as the condition of a forced bundle.

It's spelled sheer unadulterated G-R-E-E-D.

2) The company exploit entry-level employees by forcing them to work overtime.

A well-acquainted associate who work there said the following about the supervisor's cautious attitude with his sardonic facial expression and raised open-palm hands at the chest level to this acquaintance on having to "close store" for the over-demanding management at the register where cashiers often have to work overtime with their collective frustrated grunt:

"...we're not holding you hostage! If you want to leave and not have a job, go ahead and leave."

Same goes for the backstock & receiving area where frustrated stress is exorbitantly high sometimes.

Another well-acquainted associate said he had to work in the receiving for more than 12 hours having to fulfill the tasks on demand and then go home by bus and barely sleep for five hours before rising to return to work the following morning. The "worked to the bone" man had said he felt burn-out so often he looks very despondent, but he didn't have the courage to ditch the job and walk out because, as they say, time is money.

Trying to make enough money to cover already overpriced rent and afford putting bread on the table.

It's called wage S-L-A-V-E-R-Y.

3) Mid-level (department) & senior (store) management is packed with first-class assholes of ass-licking capitalist exploitative wage slave drivers.

They believe every entry level employee is an asset, not a feeling & rational human being. Fairly good pay for entry level -- a dollar higher than other competiting brand stores. But they expect every entry-level employee to work harder than the usual by going the extra mile. Kiss the supervisors & managers' ass without question, no matter what they say that may be unreasonable. Any contradiction, even with slight defiance, and it's bye-bye.

Of course, this is the way it is in the world of corporate retailer America. The problem is, they believe themselves to be 100% right, never wrong.

Not even a blunder or giving an attitude to a lowly employee that might call for a 'harrassment' report. They don't give a shit about the facts (witness, very descriptive details, etc) as long as their supervising buddies are consistent with their 'top-notch' work quality regardless of giving entry-level workers some kind of proverbial shit, plain and simple.

The senior store manager do not "investigate" and do not cite "evidence" (other departmental supervisors as witness included -- supervisors most likely lie to cover their asses when they witness bad shit between an associate and the dept manager with superior attitude). The company trust every salaried senior & mid-level manager to stay on the job all day & night and not bother with entry-level or coordinating (a step above entry-level) supervisor's complaint as long as it's not sexual harassment which might send them into the investigative tailspin. They surely don't want Clarence Thomas as an ass-licking, Coke-swilling assistant manager in the alternative realm.

It's called corporate drone A-S-S-H-O-L-I-N-E-S-S !

4) Customer-returned products are useless garbage

The company have the unconditional guarantee that every item returned with content and packaging fully (or partially) complete is "graciously" accepted with the no-question-asked refund. Motherboards, peripherals, consoles, computers, even allegedly "scratched & cracked" CDs & DVDs (even in brand-new releases), just about anything outside of edible shit. The customer return line is ungodly long every fucking day. The drones strive to price lower and hope to sell the re-packaged shit. Is this the answer to the company's unprecedented success as a private corporation?

There are literally hundreds of returned shit for transfer to who knows where besides "RTV" (return to vendor). Even PS3 units alleging the tiniest defect (like a "defective" second USB port), which cost Sony a great deal of headache as furthering money loss. The company even received the paper from the headquarter or Sony on checking the returned PS3 product to verify defects before accepting.

The company's "unconditional return" policy may be pleasing for every customer, but it's open to exploitation & rip-off. It's not uncommon for customers to buy consoles and computers for test-driving, then return the product within 14 days.

It's called corporate I-D-I-O-C-Y in causing the manufacturing and distributing companies to lose money on the sheer number of returned products from this company than usual from other competitors.

Why do the vendors continue to do business with this company that tries so hard to please the customers that they might consider providing handjob service by "overglamorized slut" with too much make-up pregnant female associates in spite of some returned products that turn out to be test-driven scams in need of costly pristine re-packaging and side item replacements like a lost wrist strap or plug? Only the shittiest products like Golden Lantern brand deserve return -- landfill variety.

5) The company may be a good (even ecstatic in wide range of selections) shopping experience catering to casual & technophile customers, but the truth is eternal -- it's a shitty place to work for!

We all know serving customers is not only essential but absolutely crucial to attaining business success and keeping the reputation polished. he truth is, most associates on the floor are dumb as a fuckin' gimp-legged dog with a wet tongue hanging out of its baring tartar-fanged mouth. Me included, because I work way back in the shithole (as evidenced by my wear that isn't basic white buttoned shirt & knotted neck tie) and don't know where the specific fucking item whenever customers stop me (verbally or physically) to ask the question. I point them out to another availing associate on the floor. If I couldn't find another associate to point my index finger at within the customer's sight, I simply tell the customer "sorry, I don't know, ask someone" and walk away while the customer is left bewildered with frustrated dissatisfaction. It isn't that I'm incompetent; I simply need to walk on the fixed pathway to go on a short break instead of stopping to lead the customers in the slow rat race maze to find a loitering associate to help the perplexed customer. It's like living in the goddamn The Sims computer game.

The company's drone motto "I don't know but let's find out" as indoctrinated in the orientation room is a bullshit ruse intended to fool the customer after one asks the inquiry. Just ignore the clueless idiot (I was) and locate another one who wears the familiar white shirt & tie. That person is morely likely to know the detail of sales floor, not the unhelpful moron who wears the dumb short sleeve company t-shirt & even dumber apron, okay?

Here's a hint: though the location may vary, the customer service is generally very unhelpful. The department is packed with stone-faced cancer stick-smoking old ladies who look trailer white trash variety & lazy burrito-chowing Melechin Man ladies.

Gauging their intellectual vacancy typical of present-day America in general (demonstrable proof as exemplified in Mike Judge's thesis film "Idiocracy") that would make the dumb ants proud of their accomplishment in building the groundhill colony, their "we don't give a shit so don't shove back to us dumb tooties" attitude is the reflection of the slimy corporate drone mindset encouraged by the company that place emphasis on lining the profits at all costs -- proper customer service, ethical business practice & fair treatment of entry-level employees be damned.

Don't work for Fry's Electronics at any location. It sucks to be there -- orientation videos are horrible that makes Ed Wood look like Poor Man's Orson Welles except the "Candid Camera" shopper-thief hidden cam videos.

Not even struggling college students last two weeks there -- they promptly quit and walk out because they know the company is full of shit that treat money as god like a Spanish conquistador treat gold as more precious than a fucking Native American life.

Example, they call merchandise as "GOLD of our business!" Yeah, right...I got it. Inanimated objects are more important than working breathing human beings, even in China where most of the shit are manufactured to be exported.

Merely lightly punching the cardboard box containing the products out of resigned frustration in the back is ripe for obligatory office visit to be immersed in the enlightening "re-education camp" reading the associate policy handbook word by word in full view of the stone-faced snooty sups with wipe-my-ass smirk. Now I know how Chinese factory workers feel.

Working for the company is subject to loss of self-respect and battered self-esteem as a matter of endurance. It sucks even for Spanish-speaking old janitor men, who also walk out after being treated like a pile of horse shit by the holier-than-thou superiors.

It's P-R-E-D-A-T-O-R-Y capitalism!

Fuck the company, it's on the dishonorable shit list with Monsanto and Weyland-Yutani...