Confessions of a Game Store clerk (aka... I need a good laugh today)
#1
DVD Talk Godfather
Thread Starter
Confessions of a Game Store clerk (aka... I need a good laugh today)
Confessions of a game store clerk
Pretty long read, but it is definitely funny. Basically 8 different employees sounding off on policies, customers, management and the like.
Pretty long read, but it is definitely funny. Basically 8 different employees sounding off on policies, customers, management and the like.
#5
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Taxachusetts
Posts: 2,316
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This is the funniest thing I read in the article:
"There are really only two outcomes for a retail employee: they either rise through the ranks to eventually be assimilated into the hive-mind corporate miasma, or they simply plateau and stagnate, growing steadily more bitter at life in general."
"There are really only two outcomes for a retail employee: they either rise through the ranks to eventually be assimilated into the hive-mind corporate miasma, or they simply plateau and stagnate, growing steadily more bitter at life in general."
#6
DVD Talk Legend
The company I am auditing has the worst Internet Filters. I'm surprised I can even come on DVDtalk.
#7
DVD Talk Godfather
I read through this last night... most stuff is pretty obvious. It's pretty typical and what you'd expect from employees at a Gamestop or EB, talking about how bad the customers are and that most of them don't know anything or are worse nerds then themselves.
#9
DVD Talk Godfather
Originally Posted by KurrptSenate
*than
its like that working any retail job, tbh
its like that working any retail job, tbh
#10
DVD Talk Legend
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: A few miles north of the Cape
Posts: 18,335
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like
on
1 Post
What whiny assholes.
On customers:
GamesRadar: Yikes. Okay, start with the good. Which ones do you like?
#8: The friendly, respectable ones who know your name, reserve with you and are loyal to you...
Yeah, I'm going to be loyal to some EB dickhead.
On customers:
GamesRadar: Yikes. Okay, start with the good. Which ones do you like?
#8: The friendly, respectable ones who know your name, reserve with you and are loyal to you...
Yeah, I'm going to be loyal to some EB dickhead.
#13
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by chrisih8u
What whiny assholes.
On customers:
GamesRadar: Yikes. Okay, start with the good. Which ones do you like?
#8: The friendly, respectable ones who know your name, reserve with you and are loyal to you...
Yeah, I'm going to be loyal to some EB dickhead.
On customers:
GamesRadar: Yikes. Okay, start with the good. Which ones do you like?
#8: The friendly, respectable ones who know your name, reserve with you and are loyal to you...
Yeah, I'm going to be loyal to some EB dickhead.
#16
DVD Talk Legend
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: A few miles north of the Cape
Posts: 18,335
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like
on
1 Post
Originally Posted by DodgingCars
They're being honest. Which customers would you like best? I didn't take that as being a "whiny asshole" at all. I'd guess if most people were asked to "dish dirt" on their job, it would sound something like this.
The best customers are the ones who reserve games with only 1 clerk? Yeah, right. Who does that?
#6: And considering the amount of crap we have to put up with, the customers are lucky we don't kill them.
#7: Become a regular. Patronize one location and come in once a week, or every other week, and get to know the guys behind the counter. It's the best way to get us to help you out.
#6: SOCOM was "Suck 'em" and GTA was "Grand Auto Theft"... man, there are a ton more that I simply can't think of. It did drive me crazy when people would want "a remote" or "a paddle" for a system. "It's a freakin' controller people!"
#3: The benefits to reserving games. It's not rocket science. You reserve the game you want... then you don't have to go looking for it when it comes out. The money you put down goes towards the game, so you're not putting anything extra down. People think it's a trick or something to get their money when really it's a great service for gamers.
#17
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by chrisih8u
It pretty much confirms the stereotype of the pompous asshole game store employee.
The best customers are the ones who reserve games with only 1 clerk? Yeah, right. Who does that?
#6: And considering the amount of crap we have to put up with, the customers are lucky we don't kill them.
#7: Become a regular. Patronize one location and come in once a week, or every other week, and get to know the guys behind the counter. It's the best way to get us to help you out.
#6: SOCOM was "Suck 'em" and GTA was "Grand Auto Theft"... man, there are a ton more that I simply can't think of. It did drive me crazy when people would want "a remote" or "a paddle" for a system. "It's a freakin' controller people!"
#3: The benefits to reserving games. It's not rocket science. You reserve the game you want... then you don't have to go looking for it when it comes out. The money you put down goes towards the game, so you're not putting anything extra down. People think it's a trick or something to get their money when really it's a great service for gamers.
The best customers are the ones who reserve games with only 1 clerk? Yeah, right. Who does that?
#6: And considering the amount of crap we have to put up with, the customers are lucky we don't kill them.
#7: Become a regular. Patronize one location and come in once a week, or every other week, and get to know the guys behind the counter. It's the best way to get us to help you out.
#6: SOCOM was "Suck 'em" and GTA was "Grand Auto Theft"... man, there are a ton more that I simply can't think of. It did drive me crazy when people would want "a remote" or "a paddle" for a system. "It's a freakin' controller people!"
#3: The benefits to reserving games. It's not rocket science. You reserve the game you want... then you don't have to go looking for it when it comes out. The money you put down goes towards the game, so you're not putting anything extra down. People think it's a trick or something to get their money when really it's a great service for gamers.
#21
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 4,128
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This is a thread about movie renters, but it is hilarious:
http://www.film-talk.com/forums/inde...howtopic=14487
http://www.film-talk.com/forums/inde...howtopic=14487
#22
DVD Talk Hero
The most appalling behavior came on the release day of GTA: Vice City. We were expecting to get the shipment at 8:30 AM and were going to open early for it. The shipment was late, so we placed a sign on the door apologizing and notifying the customers that we'd open as soon as we got the shipment. We had a mother walk in around 11:00 AM with a kid that couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years old. She was livid and wanted to know why we hadn't opened on time. Said it was inexcusable and had the nerve to let us know that her son was late to school because he couldn't get his game on time.
#23
DVD Talk Hero
#2:...Probably chargers. They never know which Game Boy they have, and it adds even more drama because they think that the DS is a Game Boy, too. They somehow lose the charger for their Game Boy and they can't even tell me what it looks like. That's like losing the gas station for your car. I don't see how it's possible.
#24
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Originally Posted by DodgingCars
I'd say these comments are pretty much what you'd expect from anyone working in retail or customer service. Look at the type of stuff you see from tech support workers, etc. I've never worked retail, but I've worked customer service. If you asked me about my days working that job, probably my number one topic would be stupid and annoying customers.
After numerous idiot customers you really appreciate the ones who don't do rude and inconsiderate things like:
Throwing their trash on the floor and leaving it for *YOU* to clean up.
Cleaning their muddy feet off by dragging their feet all over the carpet in the store.
Calling you (the employee) names because they came in days after the sale ended and were unhappy that they couldn't get the sale price.
No matter how bad an employee is, customers are always, *ALWAYS* 50 to 100x WORSE.
#25
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA GO PENS!
Posts: 4,946
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by chrisih8u
What whiny assholes.
On customers:
GamesRadar: Yikes. Okay, start with the good. Which ones do you like?
#8: The friendly, respectable ones who know your name, reserve with you and are loyal to you...
Yeah, I'm going to be loyal to some EB dickhead.
On customers:
GamesRadar: Yikes. Okay, start with the good. Which ones do you like?
#8: The friendly, respectable ones who know your name, reserve with you and are loyal to you...
Yeah, I'm going to be loyal to some EB dickhead.
I'll have to post some stories later on...I've got stuff that makes the article in the OP look stupid.
As for acts of gord...a few friends and I emailed him back when he started that site about 9 years ago, asking if he would take some of our tales, and he wrote back saying "I can't stand reading other people's words". So yeah, arrogant, but sometimes, pretty damned funny.
Then again, this was back before gamestop bought out EB. Since then, I can't stand either place. EB used to fucking rock...great store chain. Babbage's (Gamestop) was always lame, and always had lame policies.
One quick one...Christmas, 1997 - A lady wanders in, looking for "Residential Evil" for "da 'station" for her son "D'ron" for "Chrimus". I show her the last copy of 'Resident Evil' that we had in stock...and she refused to buy it, because she insisted that the game was called 'Residential', and argued with me about it. So I sold it to someone else, and 3 hours later, after going all over and not finding it, she comes back to buy it, and of course, it's gone, and proceeds to yell at me, and then yell at my manager about me selling 'her' game...
This one pales in comparison to some other classics...including the Christmas Eve fight over Zelda64 with some asshole....another time on that one.