I'll agree on you with the creepy part. Also, you get warned for being 'out of your area'? How many times have I been in (for example) televisions, find nobody to ask questions so I go one aisle over to telephones and ask them? If you go searching for someone actually of the televisions department to talk to me, do you get punished?
I had a friend who worked there for two summers. The first one, he was in the computer department -- understandable, as he's very knowledgeable and can pursuade purchases like nobody's business. For example, he got one guy, coming in for an eMachines, to buy TWO higher-end machines instead ... and once when the manager asked the crew to sell some stupid $199 "home install" service that nobody's been able to sell yet, he sold it three times that very day! Due to a rule not accepting hiatuses at the time, he was forced to quit entirely when he went back to school and reapply the following summer. You think they'd want him for computers again, being so good? Nope, the "only opening" they had was second/third shift truck unloader. He took it thinking he could get transferred to any sales department ASAP, but never was ... so two months in he quit for good.
The prices for cables and miniscule things is insane; I suppose they'll mark things up as much as they can if it will still sell. At least for two summers I got the 'benefit' of a friend working at BB
