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

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😂

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?

Original version of 'A Beautiful Mind'.

Worked in one. Can confirm.

Oh, I've had those

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

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

😆 😆 😆

And a homeless guy squatting in it says “No! F*** off!”

Directed by David Lynch.

@@princessmarlena1359 LMAO, dude.

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

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

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..

Legend

Omg I think about those tacos every day😭

Are they good tacos?

😂🤣

🤣🤣🤣

@TOP.COMMENT.GOD

Now streaming on Netflix.

Hahahahaha

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

Well, in 20 years, that forklift training video will be on the internet and will be enjoyed by people

Incalculable ....... And I no longer have a VCR to play it on .... I keep it merely as a trophy.

Dang! Smh I say you call Blockbuster's executives and tell them you want to return their tape... It's their property lol

Ummm Er your credit Account will know !

Henric Emdenborg Nope ....... I have got clear away with it 😈

how do you live you self ?

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’.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

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..

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 KZfaq though

Its crazy. I was in my early 20s as they all began to shut down. Place was special during childhood in the 90s. Like something about finding the one movie you wanted/could afford, browsing through the maze of titles and categories and just reading movie descriptions on the back while judging the cover to see if actually looked cool. Now I've got 3 streaming services and sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the choices so i just put on family guy or something I've seen before.

​@@Davitofritothat's true. The streaming overwhelms me. I was sad when family video went away because it was the last video rental

They were offered a deal to buy out Netflix for $20,000,000 early on, and they turned them down.

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'

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.

I, for one, love it when a video of my disembodied boss gives me advice on getting the guy I like in between sales tips.

Go back to your corporate masters! - Scorpion (Spider-Man) 2002 video game

Yeah my current employer is pushing us to sell merch and get Google reviews. They harass us everyday about it. I'm in property management. Company is super greedy, refuses to fix up run down properties or pay us a livable wage for what is expected of us. Now they are running a ridiculous contest which pays out a $150 by the end of the month on anyone who meets three hard to reach metrics. It's ridiculous.

@@wadethesladewilson6753 Why don't you look for other jobs?

@@jmuduke99 I appears that even if he found a job that is less shitty, there would be someone who hat to do the shit job. The problem is structural.

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

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.

@@allamericanwiseass2794 Even in Australia! It's because they cleaned their carpets with the exact same chemicals and shit. Even here in Aus!

thats monsanto talkin

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.

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

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Aldo Hernandez Amazon fuckin u

I see what you did there!

80’s Training Videos I’d watch it

@@LarrySybrandt Nobody wins that game.

Who was subsequently gutted open by mass murderer Ned Flicks.

😆

Jason Heavner lol nice

ahh clever

Witness to the carnage: Hugh Lew.

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?

😂

Ladies love Spock ears

Spike is not a boys name.. It's a dog name..

lol Save some tail for the rest of us.

😂

Corporations know what's best for you, we are all so stupid and worthless without them

Probably because you were doing a terrible job! Customers will never be satisfied - all we can do is sacrifice our blood, conscience and dignity in a desperate prayer that they will forgive us for our earthly inaptitude. Hope this helps :)

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

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

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!

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

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.

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%

LOL funniest comment

we were dorm mates

A house of learned doctors

@@SubMeISubYouu 😂😂 party with him and Steve Harvey in the quad bro. Ranch it up!

@@joelstockmeier7784 😂

Boomer humor!

Emotionally constipated, loveless marriage. Truly miserable.

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...

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

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

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

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 😢

John Patrick this is gold

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.

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.

Now what I pay 5 times as much to rent it online

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

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.

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

+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

Dead. They’re all dead. They were buried in the same grave as Blockbuster.

Marie took up meth, and after her 5th divorce now lives in a trailer with her 9 cats.

The girl working here continued to prioritize her friendships, forming fulfilling life-long platonic relationships. She eventually became a Sales Manager for her local Netflix's call center. Having the emotionally satisfying friendships she developed in her youth allowed her to be choosy in finding a mate, and she and her husband, Conner tied the knot in the year 2000. They have a stable, happy marriage, unlike Mr. and Mrs. Harris.

@@andrewcutler1380😂😂😂

@@ajallen9674😂😂😂

Lmfao. Why doesn’t this have more likes

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?

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.

yeah bro so 90's

Girls with that type of hair are the best

Me too 😍

@@BigNateDoggOG oh yess they are 😉😉