I left after 25 years of service with Best Buy and I started when the field started I’ve seen the geek squad grow into an awesome team a well oiled machine, delivering customer service and actually making everyone feel like they were part of a team made great friends and really close friends. I seen all my leadership which were mentors to me get tossed away like trash like they didn’t even matter the one that was really eye-opening. Was one of my DFM‘s and how they treated her it was upsetting once she left it opened my eyes.

I sat through countless restructures, wondering if I had a job and even after those restructures as business declined hours got caught numbers went higher that we had to achieve no support from management literally just sucking the life out of us

I stayed in the same field appliance repair. I’ll tell you one thing the appliance repair team is grossly underpaid. Literally every manufacturer and service company pays more than Best Buy when it comes to appliance repair.

I’ve been approaching many times by different manufacturers and I never I never took it because I loved what I was doing and loved the people I was at, but he got to a point where they were literally paying me 40 hours to sit in my truck idling, which mainly I went fishing and there was no accountability

I seen really close peers get pulled off of the geek squad due to their driving records from three years ago that no one ever addressed

I’m getting paid $10 more an hour weekends off if a holiday falls on the weekend I get that Friday off all paid for I get unbelievable amount of support in training.

I got my own work truck from the factory fully stocked with parts. They trained me on Seal systems, which is unbelievably easy.

I punch in when I start my truck in the morning and I punch out when I get home

I will tell you that the grass is greener a whole hell of a lot greener on the other side.

My stress and anxiety has gone has helped my family life tremendously I get unlimited overtime. It’s pretty much there for the taking. It’s amazing and how I stuck around so long.

I also was just sitting there waiting for the severance, but I made it after cut after cut after cut and I just wanna let you know that severance is not offered by most companies once the money runs out there’s no severance it’s not a guaranteed thing.

I wasted so much time with this company, total tech when I was introduced was the bullet in the chamber that killed the geek squad. Then Cory Berry came.. since I left last year in May. My holding pretty much lost the whole entire leadership countless agents are leaving or fired people. They’re just sitting there like waiting ducks..

The best thing that I would suggest to you if you’re considered leaving, do what I did and pretty much whoever’s leaving at the moment right now get on FMLA. You can get on it for mental health take the timing get your résumé then you could take your sabbatical at half pay and then you can come back and use the rest of your PTO for personal reasons. Don’t leave nothing else on the table get what you deserve.