DSGi staff attack customers on Facebook, sleep with them on MySpace
By Paul Smith
Dozens of staff claiming to work at PC World and Currys are using Facebook to launch fierce attacks on their own customers, with some employees branding them “retards” and “twats”.
British Airways, Primark and other high-profile companies have all been caught out by staff posting comments on Facebook that criticised customers and working conditions. Bitterwallet has been reading through a Facebook group called DSGi Employees, where dozens of the 3,000-strong membership discuss working for the company and dealing with the shoppers.
Topics cover internal policies and training, but criticism of customers proves consistently popular, with discussions ranging from “The sale of goods act (as amended by customers)”, “why are customers often surprised when we try to sell them add-ons/essentials?” and “Chatting up customers….” to “Arsehole customers!”, “Really Stupid Customers!” and Some customers are really really stupid…..”. Most contributors use their real names and reveal their location and store number in another discussion called “Which branch?”.
Amongst the comments:
- a continuous barrage of insults towards customers – one employee refers to a shopper as a “retard” while another suggests any customer asking for discount should “go fuck yourself you hardfisted, smallwalleted, annoying, iggnorant [sic] tightfisted fucktard.”
- staff state that some customers deserve a “back hand” or a “punch”; one person asks other employees whether they should be “legally allowed to cattle prod this [sic] arseholes!!!!”
- a member of staff boasts of sexual liaisons with a customer after using details from a sale to add her as a friend on MySpace – we’re reasonably sure that falls well outside the Data Protection Act
What makes this even more astonishing is that according to group members, senior management are apparently aware of the Facebook group’s existence and read through the comments on a regular basis; one member of staff claims to have been disciplined for offering poor sales advice through the group to another employee: “Watch your backs,” he warns, “big brother / head office is watching.”
Everybody’s entitled to an opinion, but airing them in a public forum for your customers to read is unbelievable behaviour:
Posted in News, customer service, retail September 4th, 2009 | 79 Comments
feral trolley of the week
There are plenty of times I’ve said similar things about customers & clients in my jobs, you know who you are shaved monkeys!
You would have to be made of concentrated stupid to put it down in writing though.
Damn funny how these guys are posting this shit in public under their real names, and then calling the *customers* retards.
there’s a difference between thinking it and saying it out loud in public. jesus, I know they’re not the sharpest knives in the drawer at PC World, but come on….
Everyone in a customer service role will get stupid customers who know best, but saying this thought of thing on a very accessible area, with full names and addresses? And they call the customers fucktards…
You have to laugh at the employee revolt, what a sad bunch of tards, just LOL!
If I was told by DSGi staff that DAB radio coverage covered my area and when I got home I found it wasn’t, I would be entitled under the sale of good act to a refund as I was sold an item that wasn’t fit for purpose as far as I am concerned.
As much as DSGi staff might laugh at customers, they’re much worse when it comes to knowing what the legal position is.
It’s interesting to read about people trying to get discounts if they are spending a lot of money, and then the staff blaming “that Dom off the Telly”. I wonder when they will just add extra on to the price, so they can offer a Dom Discount.
Mind you I partly agree with the staff when they call their customers retards. You can get much better service and prices elsewhere.
Yep, i’ll bite again. “bitteratdsgiwallet” this site should be renamed to.
Slow news day is it?
Get off their backs you bunch of shit stains and go write something worth while
“I know its a genuine question to those not in the know, but “How much can I fit on 1 gigabyte?”
>bites lip… want to say thats a bit like asking how long is a mile? ”
Maybe, just maybe I’m unconciously representing the ’stupid customer’ but.. ‘a piece of string’ would better fit there, because as far as I know a mile is always 5,280 feet no matter what.
Now how many cars you can fit on a one mile stretch would be a question!
This was in the news about a month ago
lol at Nobby!
I bet if these people were complaining about DSGi themselves, they’d get the sack. But because they are moaning about the customers nothing is done about it?
I think this perfectly represents minimum wage staff – I know if I were getting paid jack to deal with bad customers all day i’d happily bitch and moan online. If a few lose their jobs I’m sure they couldn’t give a damn!
This is a product of large-scale consumerism, not of unruly staff. I bet those same people would work to a higher standard if they had a vested interest in their company…
Might be worth remembering. If I DO ever lower myself into going into one of these shit-holes, and the staff member that serves me isn’t up to scratch, I’ll create a facebook profile in their name, and put a load of abuse on their “official” group.
That’ll teach the cunt-holes!
You can’t keep a good man down.
That’s what she said
Ahh PC world. The store where the staff are as ignorant as the shoppers.
“Whats the Size of this 42″ Plasma?”
Apparently, they find that hysterical, chances are it’s never even occurred to the dumb shits that the customer might mean physical dimensions rather than screen size.
@ The Real Bob,
Then why didnt the customer ask the correct question. It is no different to laughing at the guy who asks “whose jacket is this coat?” If you ask a stupid question, you’ll get a stupid answer.
At the end of the day, why is this really any different to Hotel Babylon etc? (very successful book/tv series about dumb arse customers and the stupid situations they get themselves into).
Oh and there is at least 1 regional manager as a member.
@ Currysbod
Hardly the same as “Whose jacket is this coat?” , asking hom big the42″ plasma is a valid question. Asking how big the screen is on a 42″ plasma would be stupid.
Anyway, yeah we all grip about our customers/users/clients whatever doing it on a public website however is just stupid.
Post 18
1 replyMick Arnall (Leeds) wroteat 22:49 on 16 July 2007
im sorry, but this sort of stuff would get you into trouble if it wa leaked on the public view! remember youtube? how mad did headoffice go with that, doesnt look professional and all. my advise is, becareful of what you put, we can have a laugh, but plz dont be too silly with this!Report
Oh dear.
Currysbod. Again, you and your ilk show your ignorance, as Dai has already stated, it’s a perfectly valid question which has been sneered at, ironically because the moron in question is so inflexible he can’t interpret a question in more than one way. Frankly, with sort of attitiude to customers it’s a wonder that he ever makes any sales and still has a job. Try looking at this, it pretty much surmises most of the “customers are idiot threads”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco
Quite funny really, I remember being stared at blankly asking for an SATA cable in PC World, the guy asked me what it was, I told him a hard drive cable, he directly me to the IDE’s, I pointed out that no, they were IDE’s and he shrugged, said whatever and walked off. Funny how he didn’t like it being done to him but I wonder how many times that day he’d done exactly the same to other people? If you don’t want to deal with dickheads then you have to wonder why you chosen sales as a profession (although working for DSGi hardly constitutes sales).
sometimes customers are fucktards
http://notalwaysright.com/
The typical questions I faced daily were…
“Is this travel plug adaptor three times the price than on the high street because you are airside at an airport, the only place that sells them in the departure lounge and I can’t buy it anywhere else?”
“Why are all your Apple Ipods only shown as being in bundles with really expensive accessories? Can I buy it on it’s own at the very cheap price there are sold for in airside DTFs?” (Answer – If you look gullible, “No, they only are available in bundles.” or if you look like you can spell Trading Standards or look like a travelling DSGi or Apple exec, “Yes, you can buy them solus – Look the solus price is on the back of the ticket, someone must have turned it round by mistake.”
“Why are your memory cards upto ten times the price they are sold for anywhere else, even within the departure lounge where Boots sell them by the suntan lotion?”
“Do I need WhatEverHappens on a solid state sub-£30 Ipod Shuffle?”
“These Apple MacBooks are really cheap aren’t they? No I won’t have any accessories. What do you mean there aren’t any in the stock room? What do you mean you don’t sell the display model?”
“Can you stop repeatedly offering me countless accessories and WEH?” (Answer – “No I can’t”)
KPIefpWEH – that made no sense you douche bag
The Real Bob – your just an arse candle arnt you – you obviously havnt worked in sales and realise that customers are complete keeks – or maybe you are one of these ‘customers’ to go out to try and look clever but as soon as you left the shop I bet all the staff called you a complete bell end…
Personally the staff just do what theyre told to, if someone complains theyll follow procedures already set out, if they keep complaining they cant do anything else.
I had someone bring an mp3 player back getting properly itate, tested it it contained htm links to music files, told him I wasnt going to refund it and waisted literally 40 mins of my time explaining to the fuktard why it didnt work.
@ ball_sack
Makes perfect sense – the story is about DSGi staff mocking customer questions and the like. My post refers to questions customers asked me when I worked in DSGi retail sales.
If you don’t understand the lingo, one day after having worked in retail sales for a while you will.
Any DSGi employee will understand the details and probably know who I am as well, lol…
Customers are just not the effort though, you are right… They are complete…. What’s that word you’ve used, keeks? Is that kiddy slang or something?
However I appreciate anyone with any common sense probably wouldnt shop in some stores
@Mike
I would have looked up some random service number and told him he had to ring it to talk to an engineer as we are only sales assistants and can’t help with technical faults.
wow kpiefpweh thats some way to defend the company… bravo!!!
Yes some customers do say stupid things like “erm wheres your motor oil” or “how many jigga’s is this hard drive” AND you can have a laugh about it in the staff area/shop floor, But if you bitch about it publicly under your own name in a group anyone can see then you have to expect some sort of consequence.
ball_sack, frankly I do all of my shopping on the internet precisely so I don’t have to deal with fuckwit arrogant sales staff like yourself, I get it cheaper, don’t get abuse from a cocky little prick who earns minimum wage and seems to think that commission is his god given right rather than something he should actually work for. Your shit attitude is exactly what I expect from sales people and I don’t tolerate it, if you can’t be arsed to deal with customers (and lets be honest, even McDonalds staff manage it) then you probably shouldn’t be in your chosen career (I love the idea that working in a shop is a “career” rather than something that people do because they’re not skilled or intelligent enough to work anywhere else).
wow WHAT AN EXCLUSIVE BITTERWALLET!
Also… my name is Alex….. I think bitterwallet are a bunch of wankers.
@ The real bob,
And you sir, are exactly the sort of customer that gets sneered at. You think you are better than the sales staff, despite the fact you may only know a little more than the person. Or as happens in many cases you don’t know your arse from your elbow and when corrected however politely get all uppity. I reserve the right to not serve someone who rudely contradicts my advice and have done so. If you ask my advice, I’ll give it to you. If you then blatantly ignore it, I’ll walk away because you obviously dont need me. There are many people who do need help and advice and are grateful for it. Oh and btw, in my store, all the cables are together and so are IDE and SATA hard drives.
I currently work in retail, but have a degree in sociology. I have 15 years of management experience and am currently setting up my own company. My chosen career isnt currently recruiting and the last time it was saw 90 applicant for 4 positions. I work in retail because at this moment in time, it suits me not because I’m not intelligent or skilled.
FYI, Currys employees dont earn commisions and earn only a little over minimum wage. They don’t have to tolerate arrogance and I don’t have to tolerate rudeness.
The correct answer to the question “how big is this 42″ plasma?” IS “it’s 42 inches”. Now to leave it at that and wander off would be wrong (and a little facetious), but to use it break the ice and enter a sales conversation with a customer is something I do regularly. Of course, the customer might need more details than that, but the question stands as a monument to literal interpretation and as such should be held up and joked about (you DO have a sense of humour, right?)
It is not right that all customers are idiots, but if you fail to see the humour in some requests, you will go everso slightly mad espcially in any customer facing job. Let’s face it, mis-pronounciations are funny. A little juvenile, yes, but still funny.
Although Dixons Tax Free (aka Dixons Travel) staff do earn more than minimum wage and get sales commission still.
My former colleagues ranged from an ex-builder (he had no experience in any other field), through students (although the one studying business could hardly read or write and we had to help him with any long words) to people with all sorts of degrees.
We did shift work starting at 4am when the first flights started for the day. We used to leave one person working and go sleep on the departure lounge seating.
The managers had a proper 80’s attitude like – “What are we going to do today? Sell Sell Sell! When are we going to do it? Now Now Now!”, “Lunch is for wimps” and so on. The managers mocked everyone – customers, workers, head office, etc…
If they saw you with a “guest” and it wasn’t to do with sales they would have a word with you. Returns and so on were to be fobbed off and told to go Currys when they were outside of the airport or given phone numbers to ring.
Most of your day could be spent trying to cop off with airport staff from outside your own unit.
As a staff member you knew you got a daily grilling and shouting at by management regardless of your results. It was a game, they tried to upset you as much as possible and laughed about it afterwards.
The customers were beyond belief and pure shits. Things have changed over the last twenty years and I have given up dealing with the public altogether now.
I second currysbod.
It seems people ask quite a lot of minimum wage shop jockeys. The company I work for (part time) is gradually introducing more and more draconian methods to ensure employees are always helping (read: pestering) customers. The only thing they havent tried is actually offering a better wage.
I would urge those who look down upon shop workers to be reminded that a lot of them are university students or even graduates (such as myself) unable to find better work at the time.
Also, ask yourself – how hard would you work for £5.85 per hour?
I’m not exactly surprised as I used to work for PCW while at Uni and left around ten years ago when I got a proper job. Management were utterly useless apart from a couple of exceptions, and the culture will always be sales led with insane markups on generic items (printer cables in our day, now I guess it’s £80 HDMI cables insulated with unicorn hair). Selling up, extended warranties etc etc etc. If they want to fix the business then scrap sales targets and fire anyone who’s a sales manager and upwards.
To be fair we got stupid customers, however we used to vent behind closed doors, not on Facebook. Modern technology doesn’t filter out the idiots unfortunately.
I’ll still quite happily shop at DSG, but when the sales minions start the spiel I tell them I used to work there, not to bother and they usually back off. The look on the sales managers face when they explain why I shot them down is usually priceless…
I am currently employed by dsgi and i am not surprised by some of the comments being left here – StauntonLick has hit the nail right on the head with the line “how hard would you work for £5.85 per hour?”
All of the staff in the store are doing their best to meet the sometimes unrealistic demands of certain customers and workload sent down from head office. It is well known that staff are getting irate (although abuse on facebook is hardly the way to go about things) as we have just had our pay effectively cut YET AGAIN, losing any real hope of making a decent wage via bonus unless employed in a very large store.
The problem is not that staff are “uneducated” or lazy, it is that they are DEMORALISED.
The main issue is that the company seems to employ fresh faced graduates with absolutely no business or customer service experience into its buying, management and support centre positions – almost shooting themselves in the foot from the off. The lack of morale is solely the fault of higher management as the workload is trebled, pay is cut, unrealistic targets are set and the punishments for underperforming are harsh.
I could go on all day about the flaws within the company and the complete lack of earth-shatteringly basic services (customer items being delivered into store for example), but i fear i shall run out of web page if i had to list them all. The days of freindly sales assistants are almost coming to a close, as they are being replaced by overworked, stressed, and almost paranoid robots all speaking from the same script.
My time with dsgi will soon be ending and i am looking forward to a better, more rewarding future.
Customer: Do you have this item in stock
Colleague: Ill just check for you Sir/Madamme
…..
Colleague: Im sorry but we are out of stock at the moment, the nearest place that has one is…
Customer: Oh, ok then – ill have to try somewhere else.
Amen.
Technically both S-ATA drives and P-ATA drives are IDE since IDE just stands for “integrated drive electronics”
Jigga-byte is is actually an acceptable although these days rarely used pronunciation of GIGA (Thing back to the future, jigga watts)
And just as a mile is always 5280 feet, a gigabyte is always 1000 megabytes… depending on what you’re buying, Hard drives are measured in GIGAbytes, memory cards are usually measured in GIBIbytes, but noone actually uses those units not even the companies who make the products, or microsoft when windows reports the size. main i think because geek throughout the world universally agree that the IBI units a stupid, and we were quite happy with the old names meaning power of 2 before they d**ked with it.
I doubt any of that was what the customer was asking though, far more likely he was just used to stupid posters designed for people who aren’t willing to learn anything which say things like, “good for, 200,000 photos, 4000 hours of music, or 300 hours of video” etc.
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I can’t help but find it funny that under the topic “stuff that doesnt exist that customers ask for…” (http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2221583084&topic=9009) DSGi staff deep fat dryers and fridge freezers as some of the hilarious things customers ask for in Currys Digital and PCW.
That’s the fault of DSGi themselves for damaging their established brands and confusing their customer base. If you want PC components but find TV’s and radios in PC World is it any surprise that people assume you also sell white goods? If you rebrand Dixons as Currys Digital, is it any surprise that people see the Currys name and assume they’ll find white goods there too?
DSGi staff should give their customers some credit for at least bothering to walk through the door and giving them a small chance to earn a sale and maybe offer some job security.
I should add, that I’m generally a fan of DSGi stores (or at least was a fan), I just don’t like what they’ve become.
It’s cool because everyone knows DSGi employees are retards anyway, most of which don’t have a clue about many common computing problems, and will try (very hard, to the point of insisting you are wrong) to sell you an ADSL router when you have a cable connection for example.
DSGi employees, Retail’s hypocrites.
Obviously I don’t get sneered at as I don’t shop there, nor anywhere really, just the vagueness of the interweb, if I do need to go instore then I’ll ring and reserve and pick it up, although even this taxes staff, I’m thinking specifically of a 30 minute wait whilst 4 Comet staff tried to locate a 1Tb HD drive (on boxing day no less, one of their busiest days of the year and 4 of them are required to find it? Really?). Which realistically invalidates your entire argument, if I wish to buy something of which I have no knowledge I let experts guide me, I’m thinking Which, What, avforums, customer reviews, etc, asking a member of DSGi staff would be right at the bottom of the list as regardless of my personal feelings they’ve never used the product so how would they have a valid opinion?
Well done sir, I’ve never met anyone with a degree in Sociology, I always thought that Sociology and Media Studies were something that the Daily Mail had made up so that they could complain about joke degrees, it’s good to know that people that have them are gainfully employed.
My assumption that Currys staff work on commission was based on the Facebook group having numerous people complaining about their commission, if I was incorrect in this assumption I do apologise and you are correct they don’t have to tolerate rudeness. I don’t believe that I have ever been rude to any shop staff, in the case of the PC World cables, it was the staff member who was rude to me, shrugging and walking off, at no point did I behave in any manner other than polite. If I wish to be impolite on the internet after the event whilst the person is not around then it’s an entirely different matter, although I would never be as stupid as to give out my personal details and then broadcast it for the entire world to see including my employer.
Indeed, the 42″ question is ambiguous , however, to hold it up as beacon to prove the stupidity of a customer is far from intelligent as it’s an utterly valid question, if anything it proves exactly what a mindless little twat the assistant is.
That was a response to currysbod by the way.
@Currysbod
Hey real bob – leave curry minge alone. He’s “currently setting up his [my] own company” LOL!!!! I wonder how long he’s been “doing that”.
Biggest quotation marks available around that steaming pile of shite.
HAHAHAHAHA LOSER
Very interesting reading, helps to understand how employees instores feel about customers. Whats wrong with that? Customers names are not mentioned after all.
“Hey real bob – leave curry minge alone. He’s “currently setting up his [my] own company” LOL!!!! I wonder how long he’s been “doing that”.
Biggest quotation marks available around that steaming pile of shite.
HAHAHAHAHA LOSER”
Perfect example of the snobbery so many people exhibit towards shop staff!
2nd from last one was me, and I stand by my comment. The guy was a twat.
Very Poor management has lead to a very poor quality of staff! DSGi treat their staff and customers like shit as the norm now, so staff are angry and so are customers! DSGi needs new management and fast!
PC World are the wankers, anybody who does shop with them I feel very sorry for, the savvy people
who build their own PC’s and buy parts use cheap places like scan.co.uk and overclockers.co.uk or ariapc.co.uk, much cheaper prices and staff are knowledgeable, PC World staff are totally dumb when it comes to anything to do with computers, they overcharge on everything and never stock the decent components that the websites ive mentioned, do yourself a favour, never shop with them, if you don’t know about computers chances are you know someone who does, get them to build you a PC, id rather have my teeth pulled out with no Novacaine and my balls continously kicked at the same time than have to enter a PC World store
Hi all, from reading this page and being a DSG Employee, i do find that this a load of crap as to how staff would publically take the piss out of customers in full knowing that this can be viewed and that companies are using facebook as a means to rule out future employees. Being a teen and working for the company over the last few years has actually taught me alot while i was at college! and its not minimum wage i get paid a FAIR amount more
Yeah you get the customers that ask “stupid” questions, but logic would tell you that if your a salesperson, your supposed to help the customer no matter what, not laugh at someone when they ask you how big a 42″ Plasma is or whatever, even im not that stupid to know maybe they mean from the frame, hence why we keep tape measures to hand in our tv department,
Good customer service is hard to come by, but basing these opinions are not entirley applicable to every DSG employee, ive had many positive feedbacks from customers for my age, and its verified as well!
In short, if you cant be asked to deal with customers and the public get the fuck out of this job then, because the customers pay your wages, if they dont buy anything because you treat them with arrogance, then dont expect anything back in return.
ITS CALLED DOING YOUR JOB.
I couldn’t be arsed and did get out.
It’s not your job to help the customer.
It’s your job to sell things to the customer. It’s your job to sell 17.5% of the value of the item in accessories such as cables. It’s your job to sell WhatEverHappens to 12.5% of your customers.
These are your KPIs, although they may differ from branded DSGi branch to branded DSGi branch.
The fact that Currys sales couldn’t sell is why they took their commission away. Customers where just buying what they wanted without being sold things. This made Currys sales cashiers and not sales, but then the managers always said if you’re not making people buy stuff they don’t want you’re just a cashier.
Are you a sales maker or a sales taker?
It was all bullshit anyway, and pointless too what with internet shopping now and that.
Amusingly my last OTOM before leaving was 103.1% sales versus target, a margin of 32.5% which was 90.2% versus target but with a WEH strike rate of 5.6% and EFP of 9.4%. My essentials strike rate was 44.3%. So you can see I was skiving until I found another job, lol.
Not that I in any way like Bitterwallet, its funny that the BBC didn’t even have the decency to link to the original location – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8241509.stm
Bunch of cunts I say. BW FTW
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You’re all fucking cunt holes
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Hilarious;
1 ) have such a small brain you can’t get a better job than sales assistant;
2 ) go work for a company renowned for clueless sales staff;
3 ) prove stupidity further with poor english and misspelling (even of words like ‘ignorant’ – oh the irony);
4 ) declare your real world identity whilst insulting customers you signed up to serve;
5 ) fail to recognise customers might be feigning stupidity to gain a monetary advantage;
6) compound all this retarded behaviour by claiming it is the rest of the world that is stupid.
And no, neither an excess of hair gel, nor foppy emo locks applied to the top of your heads make up for a deficit within. Yes DSGi, your customers are stupid: they’d have to be to seek advice from your sales staff!
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StauntonLick says: “I would urge those who look down upon shop workers to be reminded that a lot of them are university students or even graduates (such as myself) unable to find better work at the time. ”
Fair point, but I’m fed up with supposedly intelligent people taking out their anger on entirely innocent parties.
Another year, another rise in GCSE pass rates, another jump in A level grades and another surge in graduates … and, guess what, another leap in university applicants, student debt and graduates in McJobs.
If all you kids really are as intelligent as exam results suggest, how come you haven’t figured out the government con-trick you and your parents all walked into? So you have a degree but can’t get a proper job. Doesn’t that tell you something? If your boss made you sales director of the memory stick shelf whilst taking £20k off you and not noticeably increasing your authority, would you be happy? If not, why be happy to accept the increasingly dubious qualification many so-called ‘universities’ laughably call a ‘degree’ if it offers no benefits and merely lands you in debt?
And if you aren’t happy, why take it out on customers? Why defend the qualifications you have instead of exposing them for the sham they are? Why get your face on BBC Question Time only to ask the same tired old global warming questions?
You’ve been sold a pup: your degree is worthless. Stop bitching at customers and march on London. Or maybe you prefer to just rack up more debt to help government GDP figures and spend the rest of your days rotting in a retail park outlet without any meaningful chance of home ownership.
M&S staff are on facebook doing the same and slagging off other staff.
Post a link and we’ll have a look.
KPIefpWEH
I think your attitude sums up exactly why I find most sales staff so irritating. I don’t care what your wage is, what your boss says, what your personal problems are, or anything else. I am a customer, my cash pays your wage and I expect decent service. As far as I’m concerned you are Dixons in that shop. If you don’t like that: tough.
I know i will be ripped off airside, but that doesn’t make it any more morally acceptable or pleasant for me, particularly when most shops are plastered with signs trying to persuade me that the goods are cheaper there than on the high street. In other words, lying.
“Is this travel plug adaptor three times the price than on the high street because you are airside at an airport, the only place that sells them in the departure lounge and I can’t buy it anywhere else?”.
Let’s just rip the fucking customer off, eh?
“Why are all your Apple Ipods only shown as being in bundles with really expensive accessories? Can I buy it on it’s own at the very cheap price there are sold for in airside DTFs?” (Answer – If you look gullible, “No, they only are available in bundles.” or if you look like you can spell Trading Standards or look like a travelling DSGi or Apple exec, “Yes, you can buy them solus – Look the solus price is on the back of the ticket, someone must have turned it round by mistake.”
Let’s waste the customer’s time. By the way, “it’s” doesn’t have an apostrophe. Most plurals don’t need apostrophes. You can’t punctuate, so you are in no position to comment on your customers’ spelling. Solus is your jargon: keep it to yourself.
“Why are your memory cards upto ten times the price they are sold for anywhere else, even within the departure lounge where Boots sell them by the suntan lotion?”
So you can rip us off. How do you think that makes us feel. We may be forgetful and perfect, but i bet you are too.
“Do I need WhatEverHappens on a solid state sub-£30 Ipod Shuffle?”
“These Apple MacBooks are really cheap aren’t they? No I won’t have any accessories. What do you mean there aren’t any in the stock room? What do you mean you don’t sell the display model?”
Let’s REALLY waste the customer’s time displaying products we don’t sell.
“Can you stop repeatedly offering me countless accessories and WEH?” (Answer – “No I can’t”)
Why no?. Answer “yes I can, but I’m a persistent, annoying shit and I don’t care”.
So you’re a graduate, doing the job because it suits you. You are betraying your real thoughts. You say you’re fed up with customers thinking they’re better than you. Actually, I suspect you think you’re better than all your customers.
End of rant. If you don’t like the job, then sod off and do something else, but don’t make my day more irritating than it already will be in an airport.
@ Posted by DSGi | September 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm: You’re all fucking cunt holes
It’s better than fucking ass holes I find.
I figured pretty much every company would have a Facebook group like this, though you’d at least expect them to keep it private if they’re posting under their real names. I used to work for a small chain grocery store, you don’t go home and talk about the decent customers, you go home and talk about the skinny Daily Mail reading bitch with two out of control kids who only came in to buy a loaf of bread and still complains that we’re more expensive than Asda.
How ironic that retards who didnt work hard at school and left with minimal qualifications and as a result end up in dead end jobs have the audacity to badmouth customers!
You couldnt make it up
@Sp@mJavelin
I’ve never done it you massive lump of gay turd
@Pete UK
Clues like phrases like “former colleagues” might suggest to you that I have left DSGi… Oh, and me saying in later posts how I’ve left DSGi.
I am not a graduate but I am now trying to return to education.
DSGi disgusted me, sense the tone.
I have abandoned your Rat Race… What with staff like them and customers like you… you’re not the freshest sandwich in someone’s picnic basket are you, bless.
You’re the people that put up with this shit, I’ve made a stand and taken the high road and feel morally superior. Bow to me…
facebook group seems to have gone now…
funny that for years, sweeping statements about dsgi employees being ‘retards’ and the company ‘being shit’ etc have swept the internet, yet as soon as some dsgi employees retaliate on facebook with a few home truths and a bit of shop floor banter, the shit hits the fan and everyone jumps around at the disgrace they’ve caused.
you reap what you sow fuckers.
I’ve worked for PCWorld for over 8 years.. have played around with PCs for 25 or more so I got most things covered if asked a technical question. However with several thousand products carried, we’re never going to know everything about every product we sell, but I’ll damn well find the answer if I don’t know it already for you.
I have an extremely loyal customer base, who i respect, and they respect me. I work hard for them, I get things right, and they trust my judgement. They come back to me time and time again and won’t allow colleagues near them as they are so loyal. Its all about building a relationship.
I resent being label as a retard just as you customers do but we’ve had it for years so you should expect some back. I’ve had my share of less intelligent customers over the years and I’ve had my share of very intelligent ones. I’ve been asked ridiculous questions, I sold Antivirus to someone that went home, put the box on the shelf and thought that would protect their machine. Fact. Yes some customers are ’stupid’, as are some employees. Some people REALLY should not have computers, really. Just like some people shouldnt have cars and guns. However not every customer is a dolt and the same is true of staff. I could earn more if I looked elsewhere, and have been asked more than once by customers if I was interested in moving, but I actually enjoy my job for what it is, I like the challenge, and I like 95% of my customers. However, you piss me off, you’ll only do it once.
@ Jeff and others
To label people stupid for the sole reason they work for DSGI (or even retail as you seem to be implying) is utterly unfair.
Some people are risk adverse and with good reason. Getting a well paid job comes with significant risk yet working in retail is pretty secure. You know that on the last Friday of the month you will get paid, and you will be paid the amount in your contract. Secondly people choose to work in retail because of the long hours that the outlet operates. This allows flexibility for its employees, either around college or kids’ commitments.
Thirdly to label DSGI “deadend” is also wrong. There are genuine career paths open to employees looking for a retail career. Shops need managers, and managers need to come from somewhere.
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Well its very pathetic what people write about DSGI at the moment have you thought the stores and the staff who work there. They probably get paid like 4.00 per hour and have to do all sorts. The store looks messy staff look sad and dont want to work… Long hours i geussss and then they have to sell shite.. Well it will come ahead and i bet u any money that one day the truth behind the inside stories will come out and has come out. Its for the good the firm may wake up and re think what it does and how it serves its customers. Often management are too narrow minded to see what cusotmers want and how they want to get a overall better expereicnce of shopping.
More new stuff to come out i bet maybe reagrding staff working longer hours not getting paid over time disaplincary issues lack of training cleaning toilets polishing shit etc.. health and safety does not have any meaning at DSGI they dont give a fuck.
They need to stop people who work nagging questions to ask customers which i have heard before its not good i hear its called FIVES not good at all i tell u its more like infant type talk rather than adult talk.
Y treat the sales person like a zombie and not a human person its hard to understand but then again at 4.00 per hour what you expect GOLD service sadly not. You may recieve Plannnet Mars type service or maybe totally bad service which is what this firm is known for.
Truthfully, most of the public are retards, and having to deal with them on a regular basis, even I vent my anger on a blog site by calling them retards and noting every stupid act that they do. I do always tell the truth though about their stupid acts. We have freedom of speech, and I for one am always professional at work no matter how annoying someone is, but as soon as I leave work that is that, I then tell people, make and write down comments about the days retards. I think the only people really complaining about the comments, are the people that have made fools of themselves at DSGI or any other store themselves. It is wrong to say that it is unprofessional as work is work and outside of work is a persons private life where he/she can do what ever they want… or are we living in such a society that denies us the most basic freedoms?
I left DSGi because of the new “bonus” structure and FIVES. There was only so much I could take…. the pay was pathetic and yet you where expected to do so much. No other job in retail expects so much from employees on a basic wage.
Staff are clueless because they are not properly trained. The company puts more emphysis on the FIVES system instead of delivering reliable and useful information on products…..just like to add: FAILURE TO USE FIVES WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION BEING TAKEN.
The truth is DSGi are trying to improve the standards but they are going about it the wrong way! They spend ££££££ on new stores (strategically located in locations where Best Buy are planning on locating), Uniforms and Training Programs all in preparation for Best Buy’s arrival in the UK.
Next time you walk into a Currys or PC World branch watch how they have been poorly programmed like their Eclipse system.
Its not just the stores either…The poor old TechGuys ones get a hell of a time as well!
Very much doubt Best Buy sack their employee’s for failing to meet CPR Targets.
Dave
Having shopped a few times in Best buy in the States, and discussed them with an American friend, you can take it from me that Best Buy are the DSGi of the USA and I wouldn’t be expecting anything better if/when they come here. It could be a clone of a DSGi business.
You have to laugh at the DSGi emphasis on “accessories” – try purchasing a single stick of RAM (£11) via PC World web site and you’ll be offered the following “Must have accessories…”
Belkin surge protector
External DVD RW drive
The Tech Guys PC Health Check In Home Service – £88
The Tech Guys Upgrade In Home Installation Service – £88
Earlier in the year I ordered a well priced PC/monitor bundle via Collect @ Store. Inevitably the order wasn’t picked when I tuned up at 7.15pm (having ordered midday) so I grabbed a trolley, found the PC and the monitor after checking the SKUs etc then went to the checkout. You should have seen the panic on the guys face – “Have you seen anyone ?” “you can’t just buy a computer” “I’m going to find the manager”. 10 minutes later I left sans accessories with what I went for, but it was tough.
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I’ve worked for the DSGi group before, and let me tell you that the people there are the worst you’re ever likely to work for. Snobby managers, Uptight assitants. The customers, even the angry ones, were easier to work with and talk to than the employee’s themselves. In the end, it was a customer, who told me her daughter was in a similar situation, that made me finally decide to give DSGi the boot for good. Considering it was my first job, i left hoping that my future employers weren’t so “dedicated only to themselves” so to speak.
When i couldn’t hold up my hours when i was ill or had GCSE exams (of which, they only allowed me to work for a few hours per week), the manager refused to give me more hours, failing to see that when i was ill, it wouldn’t look quite as bad because i’d have worked more hours. Most of the other managers at the same store had a similar attitude, with only 1 or 2 of them actually being approachable and friendly and caring for more than just making a sale. Unfortunately, shortly after i arrived, one left (retired i think), and around 6 months later, i couldn’t find the other one anywhere, so i assume they left as well. It doesn’t really surprise me though.
In closing, it left a rather bitter taste in my mouth, and i still regret working for them for more than a year. My advice to anyone thinking of working for them is “Don’t”. Try and find a company that will care about you, one that cares about the customers and not just about making another few pounds in commision, regardless of how it’s done.
what SO very very funny is that 99% of PC WORLD staff are retards themselves, most have no understanding towards computer repairs / software install, network configuration.
most have little experience except in games world which is all make belief.
Pretty sure the salisbury PC world is one of the worse filled with retards and thick drop outs
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