Can confirm that this is how it was, at least for the ~6 months I worked there in the early 2000s. I'd recently been laid off and saw RS was hiring. Being som

Can confirm that this is how it was, at least for the ~6 months I worked there in the early 2000s. I'd recently been laid off and saw RS was hiring. Being somewhat technically inclined and having fond memories of the place in my youth I figured it was as good as any other low-end retail gig while I looked for something better. This was not the case. I'm not going to get into any long RS stories but in terms of sales averages, it went roughly like this as far as I can recall: Actual hourly wage was around the state minimum but you could make commissions and "SPIFF" bonuses for selling things like cell phone contracts (since they got a cut of those). The cell phone thing was straightforward - sell a phone contract, get a flat amount added to your paycheck. But the commission thing was awful and things were set up so that it was incredibly difficult to get commission. You had to sell not only a certain amount, but rather your average for each day of a pay period had to be at a certain level in order to even qualify for commission. If you were unable to hit those goals every day, you got no commission, even if one of those days you sold thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. So they would make sure to give everyone at least one or two short shifts a week or shifts during crappy hours so that it was nearly impossible to make commission. Combine this with the sales meetings you had to attend out of town every (month? can't remember) it was almost like you were losing money by working there. Thankfully I found some other crap job that at least paid better and in time, I moved on to better things but man...that place was awful.