I saw where someone here admitted to working for the Shack…
So did I…1989-1993 never entered management, but was approached a few times for those positions…I really ‘hated’ our DM and could never have seen myself working directly under him.
what about you?
cale
from 85 to 88 I worked for a carrier compainy that did store to store transfers for Radio Shack in St. Louis. I was asked a few times to come to work for them seeing I learned a great deal about there stuff having to pick it up and run it all over town. Other then that, I do shop there and like the place.
It was me. Long time 'Shack employee, over 10 years. Started in '82 as counter sales and was managing the computer department which they ran as a separate P&L within 6 months. Made Leader’s Club and got a diamond ring and the special treatment in Fort Worth. “Wasn’t that a great piece of beef?” (John Roach, CEO)
Opened a brand new Computer Center a few years later directly across the street. Sold my current boss his first computer systems - He was a pioneer with the Shack version of Unix and FilePro, which we are still running today on more modern hardware!
After a year or so and one real jerk-ass regional manager, I decided to go back to the retail side. They moved me around as manager of several looser locations until I begged to go back on the counter. Somehow I ended up back in the same Computer Center as a training & support tech. I did field support and taught classes. When the Computer Centers all closed they kept me and I ran a field support office out of the back room. When the lease ran out they sent me to work out of a repair center in New Rochelle. We kept moving the location of the repair center until we ended up in Paramas NJ in a brand new Computer City store.
I was pretty tired of RS-BS by this time, especially to commute 90 minutes each way for it. One of my buddies from the repair center had left to work for a software company. He recruited me and I finally kissed the Shack good-bye in 1995 after 13 years. Holy crap, what was I thinking!!!
I spent the next 8 years at the software company making tons more money and eventually moving up to Director of Operations until they fell on hard times and laid me off.
After a little over a year of looking for work, I looked up my old customer from the Shack. I knew he had business connections and I was hoping to get a lead. Instead I got a job doing IT work on his ancient computer systems 
I’ve been there just under 6 years and I’m still writing code for that old FilePro system he bought at the Shack in the late 80’s :o
What a hoot! You guys must have arrived, considering work as an “other hobby” is something special! :lol: :lol:
Radio Shack employ is a whole subculture not everyone escapes!
that and I didn’t know where else to put such a inconsequential question
cale
I only had the pleasure of being on the other side of the counter and … frequently asking myself if these RS guys wouldn’t need a hobby. 
Mind you it could have been a “Canadian thing”. :lol: :lol: