Posts by mark 6 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2008
Most area managers at DSG talk bullshit, and they employ staff who know absolute bollox about both retail and the items they are charged with selling.
Please, all of you who are posting on this forum, ask me to name names, as an ex employee of 25 years, I will be happy to oblige.
Oh revenge is sweet!!
Funny thing you mentioned that.
I was re-interviewed a year ago for the then vacant manager position at one of my old stores, only for it to be given to someone who "did the area manager a favour once".
He managed 3 months and was removed.
That store is one of the ones on the closure list:-)
Sad times:-(
Chris.
Some valid points but you are clearly not a retailer, I am, and an ex DSG manager of 24 years. They are in the state they are in because of one main reason, greed. They thought that world domination ( buying up foreign electrical retailers ) was a good idea, and whilst doing this, they neglected the uk core business which made them the monster that they became. A massive majority of that european business has failed, leaving them with big headaches, and a big loss on the balance sheet and lower dividends for the much loved shareholders that they pamper to. Couple that with the fact that they have consistantly lied and shit on the staff, like the scrapping of all commissions, no more top sales awards ( cost too much ) and the fact that they fail to develop staff anymore, also drags them down with less profits. While I am on one again, I knew 5 years ago that they intended scrapping commissions so lower salary expenditure looks better on the books for a potential bidder, and guess what? Yep, it happended.
Roll on Best Buys future bid to buy Dsg.
I just hope they remove all the chebs who ruined what was once a shining star in uk retail.
An open message to Sir Stanley Kalms?
Tell me Mr Kalms,
What would your father think of the the situation that the company is now in, remembering his efforts and values when building Dixons from it's first store all those years ago?
John Claire, gone, Tony Croft, gone, Tony Griffiths, gone, Steve Blan, gone, shall I go on?
I was proud to say I worked for the group for 24 years, it now embarasses me.
You could have give John Claire what he richly deserved, and worked damn hard for, maybe then the business could have been in a much better, and better respected, place than it is now.
Sir John Collins?
A joke.
Jewish I presume?
Probably one of the loyal Dixons customers from yesteryear who only bought as you got discount as goodwill, probably from me as it goes.
Says enough.
As for all the "anonymous" people posting, stop for a second and remember this, a good deal of these staff are doing both what they are paid for, and don't know the reality of what is beyond Dsg, give them a break, you should be slagging the employers only, especially the new area manager for the Manchester area who employed a vast majority of the tossers who unfortunately gave genuine staff the same tag just because we worked for the same company. We are not all thieving coverplan selling con artists, some have values. plus, while I am on one, it could be you in their position, it's always different when the shoe is on the other foot.
Speaking as an ex manager of Dixons, with 24 years ( not 21 as mentioned in an earlier post by my brother ) I am saddened by the news that some of my ex colleagues are to lose their jobs due to the incompetence of the middle and senior management who now run dsgi. Although many people have been upset by the tactics that this company employ, it was never always that way. I left the company because I was not prepaired to continue being shat on by people who were not fit to wipe my backside, and they know who they are, and if you are reading this, St Anns sq should be a clue. I have done more in my career in the last 2 years than I did in 24 at Dixons, and that says enough. Problem is, there are still staff employed there who do want to make that effort, contrary to what the general public believe, and like me, pride themselves on making sure customers actually get the kind of service that they expect, and the respect that they deserve. So when you all slate and slag off the teams, remember one thing, the majority is shit, and that is due to the management and their incompetence when recruiting these people, the rest do it because they have standards.
Respect to all who know me:-) If you need a job, do not hesitate.
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