Inside RadioShack’s Slow-Motion Collapse

Nathan Hill learned a lot about entertaining himself during his time as a RadioShack employee. For 15 months during 2013 and 2014, he worked at two locations in two separate strip malls in suburban Phoenix. It was dull, but Hill, a 19-year-old computer science student, didn’t mind getting paid to sit around and play his Nintendo 3DS or browse Reddit on the store computers. “On some nights I would go from 6 till 9, three whole hours, without seeing a single customer,” he says. For each hour of solitude, he was paid $7.80.
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