It's not worth it, even if you want to work for radioshack dont... - Store Manager RadioShack Employee Review

Never before have I worked for a company so h*ll bent on destroying itself. I've worked for radioshack for over 6 years as of writing this, starting as part-timer to becoming a store manager and I can so without doubt that this company is horrendous in its treatment of its store managers. RadioShack promised its managers over and over and over again if they would stay with the company then they would give their managers pay increases for those who didn't receive pay increases they were guaranteed and not have their pay cut. But what happened after 2 years of promises instead was that the regular employees receive pay increases, they hired Nick Cannon as our chief creative officer and then they gave all the managers pay cuts. My pay went from $19.78 to $13.50 with no personal commission. RadioShack excuse for all the treatment they gave their managers was that we were the "owners of the business" so that means that the executive free rein to treat us like absolute dirt under the guise of personal business ownership they would have to store managers doing the jobs six other positions and then complain when we couldn't do everything ourselves. This is on top of forcing all the stores to run skeleton crews more often than not if you walked into the store there would only be one person in the store because most the time only had the budget for one to two employees with a manager. And even then you barely had the hours to support the people that you had in the store. Some of the time most part-timers have to get a second job just to support themselves, I even know managers who had to get second jobs just to support working for RadioShack. RadioShack refusal to pay their store employees wages even go so far as the market manager which is essentially the equivalent of a distinct manager for most other companies. my district manager for example is working a second job because Radio Shack doesn't pay him enough money to support living in his house me personally I'm still living with my mom because I can't afford to move out. I am a store manager who can't afford to move out of their parents house, because radioshack won't give their store employees a livable wage. And that's just the way the pay is so bad, this isn't even talking about the completely unreal expectations that regional directors expect stores to make on a weekly basis. We have a private headphone brand called incredible ones and RadioShack is so desperate to sell these God forsaken headphones this is what a manager can expect to go through on a weekly basis. Twice a day your market manager will call you to ask how many headphones your store has sold. And this is every single day if you haven't sold any headphones at the end of the week then the regional director will send you an e-mail embarrassing you in front of the entire region because he will cc the entire region to the email about how you need to do a better job selling headphones. You'll also get called out on during the regional conference calls which he will also proceed to embarrass you while on the call with every other store in your region and you're also placed on probation, once your on probation if you go a second month without selling NC1's headphone you're fired for not meeting standards, mind you this is even if your store has a net income for the month. From all the issues I've seen and gone through over the years with this company I could literally write a book on all of the issues that are wrong with this company and how even with being bought out by General Wireless they kept the same exact people who drove the company into bankruptcy in the first place. And this partnership with Sprint is not helping them. Don't ever become a manager for RadioShack even if you think it's going to give you job experience don't do it. your talents are literally better suited to any other business.