Blockbuster Training Video [1990] - Buster Sales Pt 1
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This is a Blockbuster training video from 1990 (notice all of the VHS tapes). It runs around 16 minutes so I split it into two parts. I can't believe we actually had to watch these.
I hope you enjoy it! :)
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Anybody else wind up in this rabbit hole after watching the old country buffet meat slicer and Wendy's training videos?
Bingo. But I’m through Pizza Hut too
@@slugmaster64 don't forget about Nintendo training
@@jq4771 There's a Wendy's training video too? I'll check that out next!
Have you tried the lasagna ? it's my favorite
RubTheRock64 and hardees also😂
The moral of the story: No matter what you do, your boss will always find something wrong with what you do
Eh, the video is actually pretty solid basic sales technical. You need to know your product, listen to your customer, understand their needs, and find creative solutions with your products. It’s just retail without good commission is just not worth the effort. This girl doesn’t seem to know her products and wasn’t really paying attention to customer’s issue. Maybe I am old but everything the video was saying was pretty justified. It honestly come down to pay and effort.
@@fanzhang5568 No she was going her job as expected but the video wanted her to be pushy. Blockbuster like most other failed companies pushed for aggressive sales tactics from their employees but didn't pay them for it. It's impossible to know every actor or every crew member to every movie. This video suggests if you learn such information then you could push more content. Now it is a good idea to have some knowledge but better to have a reference to fall back on. Personally I felt this girl was doing a great job but the boss kept finding more and more issues with what she was doing. Hell most my memories from Blockbuster was their limited selection, ridiculous prices, pushy sales tactics and employees who hated their job.
U are absolutely right! That's why I always chose mom and pop video places:)
Reminds me of all my jobs, except the ones where I was the boss. Then I did the same thing to my employees.
When I first started at one, this elderly woman actually cried, because "that's not the way we used to do it". I felt like such scum. I hated that place
this TV manager is a real POS
Marie didn’t sell enough. RIP Blockbuster.
It's all her fault
The Gift Cards Marie. The goddamn Gift Çards.
She failed to advise them to buy Netflix. Dammit Marie!
🤣🤣🤣
My dawg
Kids having to watch these training videos during orientation hated every moment and rolled their eyes and yet here we all are, willingly watching it on our own time.
Definitely but I also think it’s because it reminds us of a better time we obviously didn’t realize at the time
@@DaddySafety I don't agree with that at all. It's because we're not staring down the barrel of having to actually work at Blockbuster for the next few days/months/years
“Staring down the barrel” 😂👍
@@painfulsilence316 lmao imagine actually thinking this. Kevin is correct.
Probably thinking, why are they showing me a video about some chick with Schizophrenia during my 1st day on the job at oreintation?
5:55 too bad Mr Opportunity didn’t see Netflix coming.
Fred Lebhart To be fair, they tried competing with their business formula, unlike Hollywood Video, who just folded.
Yeah, I heard they had the opportunity to acquire Netflix back in 2000, bet ya they now regret that!.
ThePoreproductions They di from what I’ve heard.
To be fair they had a chance to buy Netflix but refused
Given they would have charged us $30 and more monthly
Buster Sales seems to know an awful lot about this girl's personal life.
He been stalking her apparently she's been on the missing list since the 80s
Where else does he show up? like a devil.... these videos always have that corporate appeal to them 80s 90s sell sell sell! lowly employee making minimum wage.
@@a......5214 LMFAO!!! He is SOOOO creepy! He probably offered her an "opportunity" to get some candy from his large white van with no windows.
The part that confuses me is when she responds to buster's comment about turning down a date with Brian with "how was i supposed to know he was that hunk friend of tyler's with the beautiful eyes?". How could she not know who was asking her out? Is that even possible?? Seems like the writers made an obvious mistake in their script.
@@westonh4900 It could of been a blind date setup...you what I mean,she was setup but turned the date down.That job would give a kid schizophrenia..
Honestly I’ve been on a bender of watching old training videos, and so far I have not been disappointed.
Haha I watched the Old Country Buffett one earlier today and am now hooked. People seem to be commenting on every one asking why youtube recommended it to them. I didn't question it. Seemed like the weird random things I watch.
Watch the Pizza Hut training video.
I actively searched this out because someone on other training video comment suggested it. Not disappointed.
I know why is this a thing hahaha.
I remember when I worked at Steak ‘n Shake we had a funny training video. I can’t find It on RUclips though
"Don't worry, she can't hear us!" translation: "You're having a work related psychotic episode, no one else in the store is experiencing this"
Original version of 'A Beautiful Mind'.
Worked in one. Can confirm.
Oh, I've had those
The story about a girl with severe symptoms of schizophrenia who works in a blockbuster store.
😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣
@TOP.COMMENT.GOD
Now streaming on Netflix.
Hahahahaha
Mrs. Harris was looking for the backroom VHS tapes.
The way she said she was looking to watch Sean Connery....I was like I see you, girl.
MY MAN!
That section
That time when you are 7 and try and sneak into the backroom because no one explains why you cannot go in there. Then a random woman shoos you out, "uhh I was just trying to find the bathroom....."
Back room for a back door surprise
I’m a vcr repairman, the year is 2020... times are tough and have been for awhile.
Tell Mr. Plinkett hello
Try being a Nintendo mechanic in 2020...
@@inexpertxennial6067 try being a bootleg DVD wholesaler
Try being a BetaMax salesman.
**in a squeaky voice and a thick New York accent** “Work as a ‘hat check’ type cinema girl has come back...but only in old venues and at nostalgia themed events, hon’.”
This makes me proud to be a Blockbuster employee even though I've never been one.
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish, he'd go away.
I thought Blockbuster was extinct.
@@silentblackhole There's still one left though! 😉
I was…in 1990 😂 true story
This is how psychosis starts
Lol!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Oh geez, at first i didn't really get the comment until i saw the part the TV started talking to her lmao!
Nope, this is how it ends.
Hahahahaah
Meth helps
I’m here because of meat carving at the buffet.
I started with that one and actively sought this one out
😂😂😂😂
Sadly...same
@@LisaGallegos I'm starting to develop a habit of watching these videos. What's wrong with us?
Same
I worked at blockbuster in the 90's but I don't remember it being like this acid trip
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
What was the job like?
I worked at Blockbuster in the 90s too and what I do remember was tripping acid every shift. How I scanned those tapes when the barcodes were turning into snakes, I don’t know..
I envision Buster today in a run down empty Blockbuster yelling "hello!" "Anybody there?" "Anybody wanna movie?"
😆 😆 😆
And a homeless guy squatting in it says “No! F*** off!”
Directed by David Lynch.
@@princessmarlena1359 LMAO, dude.
Or he lives in that one remaining Blockbuster
It's official, I will watch anything!
Me too lol
Tyler Schroeder LMAO!! Me too.
LOL, same
Yeah, but probably when a guy on the tv isn't fucking around with my day
I wonder how many people who have left comments are now dead?
Now I can finally apply for that job at Blockbuster!!!!!
Apply at the last one!
Wait! You need to LISTEN ,THINK and ACT first!
We all got paid training
LOL good luck
Ok...Blocbuster is gone sir.
I can smell the weird carpet smell.
Jeremy Wallace The first Blockbuster I worked at, from early 2002-late 2003, still had that mirrored ceiling piece near the front counter. The store had been there since the late ‘80s. I later transferred to a nearby store (2003-2006); that one was located in a shopping center, so it was slightly more modern.
Jason Bacon, cool story.
Which was EXACTLY the same at every store, regardless of age.
@@allamericanwiseass Even in Australia!
It's because they cleaned their carpets with the exact same chemicals and shit. Even here in Aus!
thats monsanto talkin
"Dont be pushy, just be helpful."
If only Gamestop followed that rule...
Why did this show up in my recommended? Also why did I watch the whole thing... lol
Hollie Forrest ....wow...same.....looks like we're having an amazing Friday night.....
_Also why did I watch the whole thing_
Now that you have, you're gonig places!
Hollie Forrest cuz u a bitch
Hollie Forrest ya. same lol. i love this shit
Thats a sexist thing to say, PEOPLE are retarded in general.
"My VCR was in for repairs." Now we just throw things away.
Back when VHS tape decks still cost around over $100 or more.
So true.
@Russ Olson We need to charge up a "right to repair" movement
laptop and phone repair shops are flourishing. in fact. you're just living under a rock.
@@agnidas5816 Prove it
Jesus. Her little brothers name is Spike AND he’s a Star Trek fan?! Look out ladies.
😂
Ladies love Spock ears
Spike is not a boys name.. It's a dog name..
lol Save some tail for the rest of us.
😂
These 90's training videos give me a weird mixture of existential dread and nostalgia
i hope this becomes a netflix original series.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Aldo Hernandez Amazon fuckin u
I see what you did there!
80’s Training Videos
I’d watch it
@@LarrySybrandt Nobody wins that game.
It's too bad Buster Sales is no longer with us. He was killed several years ago in a hit and run accident by a driver named Red Bachs.
Who was subsequently gutted open by mass murderer Ned Flicks.
😆
Jason Heavner lol nice
ahh clever
Witness to the carnage: Hugh Lew.
sadly buster sales was murdered in a drive by shooting by a crook named bootleg torents
im sure high late fees and no movies, also redbook and netflix didnt help out to much
Yeah, in many cases the "blame pirating" is a load of Bullshit.
pirating wasnt a big thing in the 90s
Not talking about the 90s. Blockbuster lasted a few years after the 90s. The OP was trying to say pirating or "bootleg torrents" had something to do with it's failure, but it was more so just phased out. But these days with failures of movies in box office, people like to blame it on pirating.
Charles Ferguson
Movie theaters are next, i wont go pay 10$ for a ticket 10$for soda and a snack to sit in a chair that isnt comfortable, and cant pause to pee
For most of my life we had three major video rental stores in my hometown, Block Buster, Hollywood Video and Hastings. At one point when I was pretty young I remember one or both of my parents having an account with all three of them. We honestly used Hastings way more than the other two but sometimes the other two might have a better selection at that time. In my town Hollywood Video was the first one to bite the dust, they went when I was around 16ish in 2004, Blockbuster was next and held out until around 2008 or 2009 before they sank and Hastings held out until just a couple of years ago.
We truly lost something from this era, it was a family affair for us to make a night of going and spending an hour at Hastings looking at stuff to rent, it may have been less convenient than the Netflix and Hulu we have today, but it was one of those little experience's you take for granted because you think naively it'll always be that way but one day...It'll change. I will always be thankful to have the memories of those evenings with my family.
i miss blockbuster nights. it was a simpler time..
Make it a Blockbuster night!
azurSkies the. You put on a VHS tape and you remember what goddamn shit quality it is. This video makes VHS quality look like Hd
amazingabby25 You have to realize that the VHS player dictates the quality of the playback. The quality of the VHS tape. It's physical quality also will drive the quality of the presentation. Magnetic tape media degrades fast and doesn't like to lay on top of itself. As technology changed I change with it as was about to transfer my VHS to hard drives. My converted video collection is perfect without any pop, clicks, or distortion from bad tracking. The only difference is the aspect ratio is smaller than by today's standards. VHS wasn't bad at the time. I know for a fact that most people didn't know how to archive and increase the VHS shelf life. In the end I used my VHS for computer backups before we hard terabyte HDD's. There was software on OSX that allowed you use magnetic tape for backup. I got into the game and worked on what later became known as secure digital memory storage, aka SD cards.
But it was also a much more complicated time, because you had to make two trips out just to get the movie then return it, and now you can stream it instantly.
GrapesseparG I was getting films off the internet to. Speak for yourself normal person. VCDs were a thing. We used Real Player and Windows Media Video files. Pocket Movies was my site for watching your movies on PDAs and Pocket PCs. I was doing stuff like that in 1993. Before that many of us shared video files going back to 1988. I saw all this stuff from the start and helped to create a few compression schemes.
My point is that there's always people who are ahead of the curve and then it becomes mainstream. The real meat of information is not publicly known. That's why you have to learn how to do things yourself, ask questions, and don't fit in because it's what's expected of you. HACK THE PLANET!
I can't stand when companies want to pay their employees the bare minimum but expect them to be over the top in personality and sales goals.
Right and especially with no sort of incentive on their end, or even teaching them how these sales skills will help them in the future in other jobs.
I agree ! Seems like most of this should have up to Blockbusters advertising department where they make way more than she did !!
@CJ Em thats why working for a corporation sucks. Unskilled Managers are picked and the ones being paid less have to help out and do more.
ALL OF YOU sound EXACTLY like you probably deserve less than minimum wage. You can't buy work ethic. If they upped the pay to $20 an hour then that would become the new standard and would be what you think you are entitled to just for showing up. You all sound like a bunch of whiny, lazy pukes to me. I have NEVER made minimum wage at any job I have had because I personally am made of better stuff and I am a more valuable asset to any employer. The cream rises and turds like you guys sink to the bottom. Check your shitty attitude before you blame everyone else. This is America 2018. If you can't make it here and today, then you were destined to fail anywhere else on the globe at any other period in time. TRUTH!.
spiro revelis Alright, Mr. High-and-Mighty, I am glad you haven’t had to work a minimum wage job, otherwise you’d be bitching about it like the rest of us average folk. As a Baby Boomer, you are probably unaware, but there is this thing called inflation that effects the prices of everything we need to buy in order to live. Things that would’ve been say 1.05 back in the 70-90’s are now close to 3.50 today. This means that making scrapes wouldn’t cover all of today’s cost of living. Yes, there are a portion of young people of my generation and the one before me that don’t have a work ethic, but for the most part every young person I know gets up to bust there ass at a 9-5 rat race job just to save enough money in order to further their education and skills to land themselves a better job. However, Someone has to clean the toilets and rooms at the hotels you stay at, or flip those fast food burgers everyone likes so much, and someone has to work the register at the store you buy groceries from. We are always going to need people to the grunt work that people who are “made of better stuff” such as yourself, don’t want to do. Those people deserve just as much respect as anyone else. People like us, that work hard at what we do, deserve to be able to buy the basic necessities and take care of our families. Is that honestly too damn much to ask for?
I get it, you’ve never work these kinds of jobs so you obviously don’t know what it’s like. If you really are better at things and have worked hard for your success that’s great! However the more likely scenario is that you came from a wealthy family, had your college paid for by your parents, and now work a high paying career. Which is fine, as long as you aren’t an asshole about it. Get the fuck of your high horse and take a good look at our reality. You didn’t even have to say you’ve never work a minimum wage job, your inconsiderate and just plain cruel opinion of those you deem lesser has spoken volumes for you.
Watching this takes me back. I even recall a certain smell of the video shop.
yeah, I miss that smell, the over-priced candy, plastic wrapped microwave popcorn...
Shit? Was it shit?
+James Cook Who gives a shit? I miss BB! :(
if it's any consolation, I'd bet Redbox will be dead within the decade. Streaming services a bit cheaper will be way more convenient. I miss BB as well, but, I don't miss their price.
londontrada the back room stunk of hot cellophane from the lamination machine.
And it all started with a meat carving video from Old Country Buffet.
The face he makes when he says "we'll talk more about opportunities... later" 3:01
He wanted that booty
It stood out so much to me too hahaha it was painful!
An opportunity to get in that ass.
It was very tim heidecker
@@joelstockmeier7784 110%
I’m pretty sure if you googled “punchable face”, Buster Sales would be very close to the top of the list.
Classic
All I got were pictures of Colin Johst
He changed his name to Buster Hymen... he hasn't had work since.
@@seanwatts8342 😂😂😂
He is up there with Mark Zuckerberg for sure
I watched the whole thing with great interest on a Friday night, I need to rethink my life
Rethink my life while you're at it.
I laughed but then realized I'm doing the same ;-;
Damn and that was way before the lock down haha Saturday for me tonight in 2022
I REMEMBER THEM SHOWING ME THIS VIDEO AND I SKIPPED THROUGH IT NOT PAYING ATTENTION! NOW IM WATCHING 23 years later AND WATCHING ENTIRETY STRICTLY OFF NOSTALGIA!
STORE MANAGER FOR BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO 9 YEARS!!! BEST JOB EVER!!! ALL VIDEO STORES WILL BE MISSED!! R.I.P!
Memorize the top fifty weekly rentals? Why not, I do make $2 an hr. after all.
Also, memorize every movie every actor has ever appeared in.
In 1990? Damn
Nobody actually did that. We hated it when people asked us what to rent. We'd just tell the customer whatever they had in their hand was good because it got them out of the store more quickly and we weren't allowed to badmouth any of the movies we carried anyway. It was a terrible job with terrible pay but not as bad as working at a fast-food restaurant.
Minimum wage was closer to 4 dollars an hour back then.
Minium wage was $3.25
Digital killed the video store 🎤
Netflix came and broke their hearts.
Wow true
Like Video killed the Radio Star
Not really. Video stores still exist. Blockbuster just made some bad decisions like "no more late fees" then bringing them back XD
Dr Phil probably got his doctorate at blockbuster university
LOL funniest comment
we were dorm mates
A house of learned doctors
@@Mr.Happy7ODSubscribe 😂😂 party with him and Steve Harvey in the quad bro. Ranch it up!
@@joelstockmeier7784 😂
"Pretty bogus" my new favorite line.
I was 20 yrs old. Blockbuster was everything . Weekend movie nights hoping the movie you wanted wasn't out of stock. Going home and ordering Pizza . 💜
Shay sounds fun :)
Remember when you call ahead to reserve the video you wanted?
@@wadethesladewilson6753 Yes! You were like a VIP!
Simple times 🤘
I miss those days 😢
I'm glad Blockbuster employees weren't in my face all the time, like this guy suggests they should be.
its also their job that they are forced to do or else they will get fired and not be able to pay their bills. Trust me they don't wanna talk to u either. They're forced to
@Bob Loblaw Its also a commission check, you would not want to deprive someone of earning a little extra cash....would ya...?
xthatwhiteguyx 😂 I was thinking the same thing. That type of shite will cause you to LOSE customers faster than anything. Leave me the frick alone.
RavenTheShaman Livestream9999
Shite is a very common British /European word.
Not yours.
@cameraman655 Please tell me that you don't actually think Blockbuster cashiers used to work on commission...
I remember my days of working there. Buster would never get off my back about putting the candy in order. One time I got the M&M's and the Pistachios mixed up! Boy did he Busta Nut!
Wakka wakka, wakka, Fozzie Bear!
Buster was always a pain in the ass.... I hope he's doing good these days even tho he almost got me fired once
lol this sounds like a line done in your high-pitch shrill voice
Alpa Chino
Why are u so funny lol
12 years old on a Friday meant ordering pizza and going up to Blockbuster and renting some movies. Those were good times.
Looks like Blockbuster themselves missed an opportunity.
(To buy Netflix)
Hahaha *boom*
Tatrii too bad they refused
Well, Buster Sales was only hired as a temporary consultant, so he wasn't there to advise on buying Netflix. Had they only hired him full-time.... 😁
Buster orchestrated the whole thing.
Sleazy bastard
They would have made Netflix bankrupt anyway if they owned it.
Love her hair
yeah bro so 90's
Girls with that type of hair are the best
Me too 😍
@@BigNateDoggOG oh yess they are 😉😉
There's just something magical about 80s training videos
90's. This is early 90's. Get your decades right
@@HoshizakiYoshimasa It's the same thing
@@AlexA-bn2wb Well popular culture from the 80s were still popular at that time but it was a start of a different decade lol
@@HoshizakiYoshimasa If it was released in 1990, then it was probably recorded in 1989, dude
Omg. This whole thread sucks
Love these classic training videos. Very nostalgic. Reminds me of a time that will never be again.
you mean over acted staged training videos? hardly real life even then
@@leet7489 Lol yeah even today I'll see PSA or some sort of training video
and be like 'Pff, yeah right. The exaggeration'
“Can you imagine making conversation with Mr. Harris?” Hahaha woooow there’s a lot to unpack there
Boomer humor!
Emotionally constipated, loveless marriage. Truly miserable.
Why did i watch the whole thing? it's midnight, i'm tired.
Because it's so bad it's good?
4am here in England. I watched it all too. Lol
It’s 11:30pm here
Because of the hot babes with the 90's haircuts!!
Great willpower watching this when you're tired.
This is so 80s even though its 1990, culturally it's still the same as the years 1988 and 1989 but a watered down version. Things don't just magically dissappear once a new decade hits. The 80s did not end as soon as 1990 hit!!! it spilled through just like how the late 90s spilled through to the early 2000s.
Braden Bennett well yeah, that's what I've been trying to tell people. The 90's weren't quite there until 94/95. Ahh 1995, GREAT fucking year.
+Filming In Portland 1990 - 1992 was basically a watered down version of the last years of the 80s, anything after 1992 or 1993 was 90s but still had 80s culture and influence lingering but no where as strong as 1990 - 1992.
Ikr it's sad. It will most likely remain well into 2023. Today times have no true culture anyway.
even the nirvana was pretty 80s
I've already watched this, and I'm watching it again.
Typical corporate training videos. Always upsell.
Joe Rodriguez that's life. or you live in a trailer.
Or that's life, AND you live in a trailer...
DEEPWINTER lol
A-B-C.
A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing.
Always be closing.
ALWAYS BE CLOSING
A-I-D-A. Attention, Interest, Decision, Action.
Attention - Do I have your attention?
Interest - Are you interested? I know you are, 'cause it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks.
Decision - Have you made your decision for Christ?
And Action.
A-I-D-A.
Get out there - you got the prospects coming in. You think they came in to get out of the rain? A guy don't walk on the lot lest he wants to buy. They're sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it?
More like american life. Ever tried to go to an american car seller? Have fun with those psychopaths.
I have to return some video tapes.
Patrick Bateman, is that you?
Do you like Huey Louis and the News?
Classic...
Wedge Wizard Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste
Techmical
Let me introduce you to my new chromed axe.
Do not miss the opportunity... Yet you missed the Netflix opportunity and now you're gone.
Blockbuster just got roasted.
+asmcriminaL Blockbuster not buying Netflix has got to be the dumbest business decision ever, regular peeps knew the internet was taking over yet somehow the people in charge of Blockbuster thought it never would. Crazy!
+asmcriminaL Ain't that the truth.
+asmcriminaL aw that was low lolol
LMAO! Savage but so true........
Friday afternoon and I'm watching Blockbuster training videos from 1990. Fucking quarantine....
"excuse me miss...where is the pornography section?"
Blockbuster had a massive number of Mormon shareholders which is why I think they never had an 'Adults section', unlike other video stores.
When I was a teenager the local video store gave you a different colored bag than the normal ones if you rented a porno, and me and my friends used to hang outside the store by the bushes and when we would spot somebody (sometimes a woman) trying to sneak out we'd burst out from the bush yelling "RED BAG RED BAG!!!" I remember one time the employee coming out laughing and being like "guys you really can't keep doing this"
In Brian's room!
@Giada_De_Low_Rent_Tits
"Dildo Shop"
Haha
@@TRJ2241987 that's great! Thanks for the laugh.
I can't help myself, I'm going to watch part 2.
John Patrick this is gold
I am now prepared and trained to work at nintendo retailer, pizza hut, wendys, McDonald's, Mercedes Benz, walmart and a jewelry store all thanks to RUclips.
6:20 “Am I on hidden video or something??”
“No, no...”
Actually, Kristen, you WERE on a training video, and I am watching you 30 years later.
Lmfao. Why doesn’t this have more likes
Why do I want a series of this and to be able to rent it from BlockBusters?
KurtisTheKing Hell I'd watch it, this is great story material.
KurtisTheKing I caught myself getting invested in how she was going to ask about Brian...
i have torrents don't you?
That is a lot of goddamn work for minimum wage
They don't give a fuck and a half about the employee. They just want an obedient little minimum wage slave who can *up-sell* to customers to increase the *store's* profits. I worked retail jobs and saw crap like this all the time.
Sounds to me like reply before mine is some beefhead that has had issues in the past respecting his bosses and got in trouble or some shit lol. Management is normally pretty chill with entry level jobs as far as the staff goes, because at the end of the day they're only a step up from employees themselves. They're just trying to get paid, get through the day, and not get in trouble. They just have a little bit more they're responsible for. They don't give a fuck if the stores profit is down as long as they're not getting in trouble for it though.
Elinymous, your assertions are demonstrably false. I've BEEN there, DONE that, and seen it multiple times in my own experience...and *no*, I did not get into trouble. I worked for Belk, J.C. Penney's, and Books-a-Million when I was younger. It's always the same story. If you sell the store's credit cards, magazine subscriptions, and bring more selections to the customers you get a nice little pat on the head. If not, you get the boot. They would go over this in the morning meetings on a daily basis and kept tabs on who was upselling and who wasn't. It was all about making the store look good in the eyes of the corporate goons...that's why the Belk I worked at closed its doors only *three* years after it was opened. Profits were down, so they cut their losses. *You are expendable & can be easily replaced*. That's business 101 in the corporate world.
VMIFerrar
For your $5 an hour, you should memorize every single movie every actor has appeared in so you can recommend their movies.
That jingle from 0:14 to 0:33 could possibly be the best music I have ever heard. Found myself busting a move uncontrollably
I wonder what’s the sound track is called
"Yes please, I want a half worn out VHS tape for my birthday"
Poor Kristen. Her night is BOGUS and she has to babysit again this weekend. Such a drag...
Rumor has it that Jane Alworth's slumber party was legendary.
The hairdos... that intro music..."be kind rewind"...a world all gone!
I liked Blockbuster. I liked, you know ... actually LEAVING my house, going up and down the aisles, holding the video cases in my hands, listening in on dates quibbling over what movie to pick, and talking to a cashier about films. That whole deal.
Great times....
+Charlie Cat I liked all of that too but I hated Blockbuster. There were tons of better rental companies. Blockbuster was just the biggest and held on the longest when the end came.
+nekad2000
I used to visit Hollywood Videos as an alternative to rent movies when Blockbuster didn't have it in stock. They were excellent with great snacks to choose from. Sadly, they both went away like the dinosaurs!
+Charlie Cat Thank you Charlie Cat, I honestly enjoyed working there, and the conversations with the customers.
+Wendell Sawyer
Excellent kind sir.
I miss those amazing times and wish others would appreciate that era as well. Were you a long time employee at Blockbuster by any chance?
Little under two years. late 98 to 2000.
"Don't worry, she can't hear us. You're having a stroke."
" May I help you? Are you sure? I'm a great helper. Please I would love to help you. You need my help. I'm dedicated to helping. My mission in life is to help. Please Please, I must help you. Oh we close at 10pm "
God, I burst out laughing. Desperate af to help.
Training includes how to accept a date from the son of a regular customer
Scumbag bastards
Be kind and Rewind! Oh the memories😳
TampaOutlaw my favorite was "to err is human, to rewind is Devine" 🤣
TampaOutlaw Be a friend, rewind when you reach the end. My favourite
My little brother used to put his matchbox cars in the VCR. I’d always have to fish them out before watching the latest cinematic marvels.
Who knew blockbuster was just asking you to help their employees by rewinding it for them. Even blockbuster knew they didn't pay their employees enough to stand there rewinding tapes .
And the late fees
I miss the 90s. Growing up in the 80s must have been great too.
Blockbuster, ensuring that no matter how hard you try at your job your boss will harass you.
That's pretty much every job though
Every sales job I have ever had was just like that. You can always upsell and sell a warranty, accessories, a solution, giftcards, customer service, etc. Basically even a good job was just a bad job that your job was at jeopardy over. Good times.
Nick Jones 30 sales a month average when the req was 12 never was enough for my good ol Comcastic boss back in the day. Good times indeed
And what they're training is pretty minor compared to how some other companies what their employees to upsell...once autoparts store that wanted the cashier to scan the item and then proceed to explain about it...and another grocery chain wanted their baggers to pull up the cart right away (After the groceries) didn't sit well with woman who still had their purses in it, and get 2 "No"s when offering to take the cart to their cat. But as usual...most employees quit doing it after being their a month. Nothing wrong with upselling, it can add great points to a company revenue, it is a matter of how far it goes.
Oh my god, her little brother's name is "Spike". So freaking 90's I'm dying!
+George McClure spike sounds like a dog in the cartoon heathcliff
1990 was the only year of the decade that was still fully "1980s like." The 90s began to gain it's own cultural identity in 1991, when Grunge among other things came to be
and music like naughty by nature's OPP as well as in living color and of course beverly hills 90210 taking off
I remember getting pissed off at my local Blockbuster because they did not have a NEO*GEO system for rent. A few years later they had a Sony Playstation system for rent before it was released in 1995. I rented it with Tekken and Battle Arena Toshinden. The nostalgia for those days with me is beyond belief.
The 100th Mega Shock. NEO-GEO!!!
Even a rented Neo Geo would have been expensive.
"I'm sorry we don't have a Neo Geo, maybe we will get some later this week, can I interest you in an Atari 5200 or a PC Turbo?"
I love her voice and she's adorable. She reminds me of Jessi from Saved By The Bell.
When the N64 came out, I used to spend hours at a Blockbuster near my house, playing Super Mario 64 on a demo setup... or until I had to let some other kid play.
cmmiles000
fuck that other kid, he sucks
Remember when they let you rent the system too ?!!
that was probably the last good thing about blockbuster - renting a game for a week, finishing it, then moving on with your life having saved 90% of the price of the game. Was also good for trying a console before you bought it to see if it was worth it
Buster Sales turned away that lonely Netflix guy 20 years ago, I see that turned out well.
curtismsblog talk about missed opportunities
curtismsblog Enron got her hooked on drugs...
Just got my VCR outta the repair shop, thank god I don’t have to try to have conversations anymore.
So basically BB tried to turn its employees into sleezy car salesmen
tqsuited seems like a level headed response.
The point of having a business is to maximize profits.
Andy Moore
except people don't want to feel like theyre just a dollar sign, businesses that make it seem like you're having fun buying or whatever are the ones that succeed
Andy Moore That's the typical conservative response. Damn everything else and make profits. And that is why the U.S.A. is sinking lower and lower down the drain.
This girl’s 45 now
Time is a cruel thing isn't it?
I'd still...
@@fouronetwo813 lol!
i wonder where she is
This is true.
The only thing missing is a laugh track and the cast of Full House 😂
Well the clerk DOES look like a dark haired Kimmy
How rude! 🤣
✂ it out
yes and a dog talking
Or someone being told “Go home!”
low key rewatching this to relive that feeling of my mom taking me to block buster at the end of the week to pick out a movie
"We have video cassette players for rent." wow now i feel old lol
Jonathan Watson
Top or front loader?
You mean like a washing machine?
This is really going to help at my Blockbuster job interview today!
pointlessfailure what are you? some time traveling genie? if so plz take me back there!!!! ;_;
pointlessfailure Wow, y'all still have Blockbusters? All of ours closed down years ago.
EricaYE6 lol no1 gets sarcasm i guess
If it were 1990 today. . .
pointlessfailure *Flicks cigarette awwwww
This is pure gold right here!
Gold Jerry! Gold!
Excellent Seinfeld reference
ROUNDTINE
Videos like these are the reason I'm glad RUclips exists!
Aahhhh.. That VHS buzzing sound.
They really should just rename this, "The complete guide to going bankrupt"
Now that I've completed watching this training video, I'm going places!
mipmipmipmipmip
Turner and Hooch
These training videos always proved how out of touch corporate was with reality🙄
..was? 😂😂😂😂
@@lordlemond1350 you're right, you're right...🤣
Legend has it Buster is still Brian's Wingman
"Our VCR was just in for repairs again" Total 90's probs.
I rather be a Nintendo mechanic
So bogus
"What time will you be home so I can call you on the phone?"
I never had to send my VCR in for repairs. I just bought a new one. Screw that!
@@grapefruitm00n Then you didnt own one when they were expensive. We even had a special rewinder machine so not to wear out the heads on the vcr itself. 😁
"Mr Blockbuster Sales, do watch me when i pee?"
"Yes."
5 years employed at blockbuster and this video triggered my PTSD
Gamestop has a similar training video and it's only about 1 minute long; It's a still shot of a sign that says "Fuck the customer over". Fade to credits.
I LOL'd so hard I pee'd myself!!!!
lol true, blockbuster probably thought they could never be beaten in the video rental market...and then came along Netflix, Red box and hulu and than they were like "dam we should never screwed over the customer"
😂😂😂
Dumpstermuffin1 HA!!! Now i can browse over a large selection again without even standing on my two feet, much less waste my gas
Dumpstermuffin1 HA!!! Now i can browse over a large selection again without even standing on my two feet, much less waste my gas to get there. The recliner and netflix/hulu is goes together like beer and cold pizza. ummmmmmmmm....cold pizzzzzzzz-uhhhhhhhhhhhh
I miss the 90s
You and me both brother.
@@LittleLulubee I miss the 80s
It was good times Russ.
I loved 2000-2006 was amazing too.
Man this video positively REEKS of the '90s.
(Inhales unnecessarily deep through nose)
Damn that's good.
acelakid94 yet it was 1990, which means they are barely in the 90's, and this reaks of the late 80's. It takes a few year into a new decade for it to have its own character.
True, the 90's wasn't really the 90's until 1992.
indeed. '90 was still the 80's. grunge, alt rock, paisley print, melrose place, seinfeld and the x files helped make the 90's, the 90's. we were well into '92 before anything began to reek of anything.
I ended up watching the whole thing
Congratulations have a fucking medal
great attention span there. You could be working at blockbuster now.
the 90's were magical.