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[luciazephyr]

Well that was... I don't know. I don't think I got it. I felt like I was wearing a sign that said "HI, I AM UNEXPERIENCED, ASK ME HOW" a lot. God, I completely blanked out on "when was I time you went above and beyond the call of duty in your work". I HAD NOTHING. GAH.

Fukken. Oh well. My first job interview landed me a job I loved. The second bombed. I guess that's fitting.

Just in case, has anyone worked in commission sales and can tell me a little about it? I know what it is in theory, but not much more.

-Lucy

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[chi1013.livejournal.com]

I didn't work completely on commission. i had a salary. But what happened was we had a goal to sell. If we could make that goal, every day or whatever our goal was for the week, we would get an extra paycheck based on the profits of that goal. So basically at the end of the month, I would get a whole extra paycheck if I could make my overall goal each week. if I did not make it or was even a few cents off, I did NOT get my extra paycheck and instead got my normal salary.

[silver11016.livejournal.com]

Now, if you get commission without a base salary, it's all entirely based on how much you sell, and depending on luck, the economy, and your social skills, you either thrive or fail. My mother worked on commission for a while and from what I saw there was no middle ground. Either you were a star or you sucked.

Commission seems a very scary thing to me. If you do it you're a lot gutsier than I am.

Wherein I'm kinda sour

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I worked at the Shack for about a month and a half, and the commission was ridiculous to get. We had to clear $75 in sales an hour every day we worked or we'd get no commission at all. I once sold nearly $700 in merch in a single, four-hour shift, and saw no reward for it because I worked the dead opening shift on Saturdays, and it ruined my sales for the week.

They'll also push you to sell cell phones like crazy because they make ridiculous money off of them, and you do get straight commission from the sale [if you sell a phone, you immediately get X dollars; you don't have to make the $75 an hour sales].

I ended up quitting because I just didn't have it in me to convince the nice old man who needed a battery that he also needed a phone. I felt like I was being told that customers weren't important unless I'd strapped a phone to their head. And I didn't feel appreciated at all when I outsold the rest of the store in my first month and the response from my manger was, "That was really good, but you didn't sell a phone."

I don't mean to be a total downer on getting a job there; you may really enjoy it if they hire you, but they gave me lots of talk about how easy commission was, and then I spent a month and a half feeling like crap because no matter how well I sold, it wasn't good enough.