Aside from Amazon working their employees to death I wanna go back to 2004. I had gotten a job at FYE at a store called "Saturday Matinee" we sold DVDs and VHS mainly, but we also sold a few games. When I was brought on I was told that they had just removed the commission for selling things like TVs, boxsets and dvd players and that everyome was just going to the hourly wage, at the time i had just turned 18 so I didn't think about it.
Commission was a thing apparently before I got into retail, Best Buy, Circuit City, Stereovillve, and alot of other stores gave commission to certain salesmen, again never worked when this was a thing but it certainly was.
In 2016 one of my friends little sisters had a job at Macy's and she told us that if she didn't sell enough that they (macy's) would cut her hours and make her work bad shifts. That's not the first time I've heard that either. To recap our county has gone from rewarding hardwork with bonuses of sales, to removing these incentives for a flat rate, to full on punishing employees who don't sell well, with a negative incentive if they don't. Just really sad to see this get worse over the years, gives me very little hope for the future.
