Hey everyone, SORRY I have been trying to post updates for the past two days but for some reason I have been unable to get into the forums…something weird with my connection here…
Anyways, there are a few announcements:
-Guilty Gear slash has been OFFICIALLY moved to Sunday, at 1pm. This means that everyone who was unable to make it on Friday should have no problems making it on Sunday, which is what was requested.
-Tekken 5 has been officially CANCELLED due to the actions of Jinmaster, who decided to run a Tekken DR tournament in Philly the same weekend of ECC. So Guilty Gear is getting it’s spot.
-I have also decided to run Dead or Alive 4 on Sunday simultaneously with Guilty Gear Slash. I will have two Xbox 360 stations so this tournament should go relatively quickly (only 2-3 hours tops) so we will be getting to finals of 3s/CvS2 simultaneously around 4pm…a great way to end the weekend.
I apologize that nothing has been updated on the first post, I have been trying but had no luck even getting to forums. I’ll try to have Josh edit the info so everyone is updated.
I have been suspended from work at Best Buy for two days because of a “pending investigation” of the HR department. I purchased three PS2s a few days ago for use at ECC, and used my employee discount, which was a whopping 90 CENTS off each one. I came in the next day and my store manager had me writing up a statement saying that the PS2s were for my personal use since I’m a tournament director of ECC and basically I’m not trying to give them to anybody else or sell them for profit (which would be a violation of the terms of the employee discount policy).
I’m thinking everything is fine, then I come into work this morning and a manager says that HR is investigating me and I’m being suspended for at least 48 hours until they are finished. ALL THIS OVER $2.70. I could have easily bought the PS2s elsewhere but I figured hey, I work at Best Buy, I can just pick them up there!
What the fuck?!?!? I just can’t catch a break man.
They provided no proof of any wrongdoing at all, just said that the corporate office decided to terminate me on grounds of violating the employee purchase policy. I even have it in writing, but there’s no evidence whatsoever. Now I have to 1. look for a new job and 2. pray that unemployment doesn’t say I’m ineligible because I was terminated.
As amazing as this sounds, it’s actually pretty much true for any multi-million dollar company: any person at any time is expendible.
So yeah, the next few days I’ll be applying around for jobs…
Unfortunately, the reason why you got fired was probably due to not getting their stupid Product Service Plan on each of those PS2s. You generally lost the store some potential sales. Too many people get let go because of that…
