Originally Posted by Jayman

I applied for Office Max while in college. During the interview, they told me how they all wear earpieces and they use those to communicate with other employees. If someone sees a customer not being helped, you were supposed to talk into your mouthpiece and alert the store (via their earpieces) about it and whoever wasn't busy was supposed to rush over to them.

Also, if a manager saw you helping a sales person out, they were well within their right to speak into your earpiece to remind you to sell them extra printer paper, or pens, or whatever else.

I walked out of the interview.