Man Works At GameStop 11 Years Tells All | 2007-2018 NIGHTMARE
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- Опубликовано: 6 дек 2018
- FOLLOW ON TWITTER: / camelcastoff Hey! I worked at GameStop for 11 years and this is my story.
It was a long fought journey and I thank the stars everyday I wake up and it's over.
There were good times and there were bad times. Mostly bad times. Please kill me pls
In this video I explain examples on the shady practices and stories that occurred while working there.
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You deserve it bro
What job did you get after game stop?
So Nostalgic Bro !
I wish your fine behind was working at my gamestop
Were these the times when you didn't, "byeeeeee, yeaaaaa," at the end? 😂🤣
I attempted to apply at gamestop around 2006 or 2007, and the employee saved my by saying "You don't want to work here." Thank you, whoever you are.
Same here
It was me
In 2007 I asked for an application and the guy behind the counter told me they didn't hire girls. Thank god he scared me off hahaha
Job security.
that was a brave fkn dude, and you were wise to listen xD
Hold up....yall gamestop has a bathroom??? 🤨
Employee lol
Yeah us customer's aren't good enough to use it.
I've never been in a gamestop without a public restroom. Is that not normal?
User Name every gamestop I’ve even been in has had private bathrooms
yall?
It's the same theme at most retail stores;
Goals being set impossibly high
Pressure from management to do unethical things to reach said goals
New policies being made by corporate people who have never stepped foot in their own brick and mortar stores
Regional managers being paid the most for doing the least work
Playing games with your hours and income
Justin Buice
Sounds exactly right.
I'm at a big dollar store chain. It's 100% this right now, everybody is pissed.
That's why I never worked retail. I did demos at Costco and that's the closest I got to retail for the most part I stuck to factory work. In a factory, you can cuss like a sailor or talk like a human being when shit hits the fan. Plus I mostly worked in my scrap clothes.
@@LeoMidori only retail job I had that was great was Macy's. I was part time, and was only supposed to be seasonal but they kept me on. I was a full time manager at KFC at the time, that was utter trash. Since I was seasonal/pt they never gave me a goal to meet. I'd generally work like 10am-3pm a few days a week in the men's store, generally the Home section. I'd be lucky if I checked out 10-15 people a a day if it wasn't a Saturday. Only other thing I had to do, was stock shelves if there was room, and tidy up. Easiest job ever. Sucked it paid minimum wage.
Hey what are u doing here get back to your BMW
I have never seen a GameStop with a bathroom.
yeah dog, it's the section where the sell Pop! Vinyl
@@petarrrgh i've been to about... twenty two different game stops since their inception. never once saw a bathroom.
Its behind the wii wall
The local Gamestop has two here
@@itsRabbitSeasonYo rotfl 🤣 mfao 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
the nightmare is working retail for 11 years
Retail was the worst job I ever had.
That’s just the reality of it though especially for those who have not completed higher forms of education such as a bachelors/masters. I am in the military, and I am accomplishing much more while being enlisted then I have ever done in any part time retail job I have ever worked for. I get to take college courses towards my degree all paid for, and outside of pursuing that I am receiving technical training that I am getting paid for, for the field of work I was hired for prior to enlistment. On top of that I receive an honorable discharge at the end of my contract which has significantly more value then having experience working years for most retail companies.
I’m 30 now, and have been fucking around not doing much of anything since I was 19. So I completely understand how this guy feels.
@@Seelenfresser51 you really dont know how deployment works do you?
MLitey you don’t have to have a degree to earn money
Ruiner Wingel there is literally no war in Iran, it’s actually safer than the UK
RUclips really wanted me to watch this
this has everything to do with google's new gaming platform. they want to kill retail shops, so sure, they would promote this kind of video.
It was on the front page for me lol
Same 😂😂😂
Big same the algorithm has blessed this video
Same this video would not leave my recommended
I worked there for eight years, and absolutely everything this man says is 100% on point to every experience i had during that terrible span of my life.
@Big Wheel shut the fuck up, junkie.
Why did you work there for 8 years if it was THAT bad? Genuinely curious.
@@locke103 what did they say?
@@ctt544 what did they say?
@@minility8030 I honestly don't remember. Must have been pretty stupid if I reacted like that.
I applied for a job at gamestop a few years ago
them never getting back to me seems to have been the greatest blessing in disguise .
same tbh. I tried many times years ago but they acted like they wanted some 5 star resume for a min. wage starter job, yet would hire the most moronic rude/hateful low IQ people, bleh, good riddance when the place closes down tbh, digital sales and amazon/ebay are way cheaper anyway
Same. My resume could have made me a store manager right off the bat but the guys that they would hire over me were the dumbest fucking idiots I’ve ever seen. No gaming knowledge on top of that so good riddance. They did me a favor not hiring me, those poor Schmucks got the worse end of that deal.
It's oddly a hard job to get and is considered glamourous despite having a horrible reputation, low wages, short hours, and no experience needed.
yeah i tried so many times
The irony is that your annual bonus would barely buy a single gamestop game after taxes.
But he could buy a rewards card! 😂🤣
Yeah but GS bonuses are literally a percentage of your profit. So at 64 bucks, that's no business done. Plenty of time to clean a bathroom if he didn't have customers.
@@@roflrex Profit after what deductions though? You have no idea what you're talking about. How about you go work at GameStop for a decade and personally see to keeping those toilets sparkling.
@@wp2312 I did...
@@roflrex My hat goes off to you!!!
These policies pushed me right out of GameStop. I'd rather wait than deal with an employee beg me to buy a card.
Rest in hell GameStop you won't be missed.
Can't stand gamestop employees,uppity pieces of shit.
They dont even beg me. This pussy slipped something into my purchase at the last minute! Never went back
@@BReedhomies Lol
I worked at Gamestop for 2hrs, I still lose sleep knowing I will never get those 2hrs of my life back
PhantomRaven How was those 2 hrs them telling you how far you'll go if you kiss there ass?
Be GLAD you didn't spend more than 2 hours and didn't waste years of your life there.
I can top that. I once applied for Express clothing. I got the job, went inside the store, looked around, lost motivation, bounced after 1 hour of being there. Just left without a word. Boy, in my younger days I was notorious for leaving without notice. They might as well had posted warning signs everywhere in town letting companies know about me "The master flaker"
Akiman Barwa I dont believe in 2 week notices either.
How many of you have a real job now? 😅
I'm about to quit my job at Walmart Distribution Center and its the greatest feeling ever. Working in 120 degree trucks with no airflow and terrible management. 3 years of my life spent in that hell.
Glad your getting out of it.
Yes, working 80 hrs at least a week has killed me.
You literally worked in hell lol
I was a cap 2 supervisor and the pay was good 18$ but was a hell
When i worked at my local walmart i actually loved it until one day a manager lied on me about giving her problems everytime she asks me for something. I LITERALLY ALWAYS DID WHAT I WAS TOLD. That day i told her i needed to finish my work because my department manager had been getting on to me so she made up some bs story to cover her ass. Once i pointed out on accident, yes it was actually on accident, i was so happy. I legit felt like i had escaped hell. I only told you 1 thing that happened at walmart too. They dont care about thier customers, will do anything to cover managers mistakes, Will ask you to do managers jobs as well as stuff that is absurd for you to be doing. If Wal-Mart's Managment was good then it wouldn't be so bad but unfortunately it is. Walmart sucks and i dont recommend anybody work there tbh
Only the real OGs remember “ EB Games”
"Electronics Boutique" and "Babbages" before that.
Rhino games in Florida
FuncoLand og
Software Etc. OG
And Funcoland!
GameStop 2007: We're going to steal from and lie to our customers, and treat our employees like shit.
GameStop 2019: Surprised pikachu face
@@r.h.6402
You're right. Without GameStop we may not be able to get used games for cheap unless we find another gamer selling that specific game we're looking for. GameStop is the only place, at least for me, where I can buy a pre-owned game and return it within 7 days. And I do that all the time so I can try before I buy. It's not my fault people sell games or consoles to GameStop and get shitty prices for it. That's just stupid. And one big thing for me is walking into the store and just looking around. Kind of how it was to walk into Blockbuster and see all the movies and games. There's nothing else like that. I don't want to see GameStop close.
All my local gamestops only seem to hire mildly overweight women that know nothing about vidya. I'd call that another issue on the pile.
GameStop is dying and I can’t think of any way to revive it, honestly i wouldn’t like to if I could. They’ve cheated so many just because those people couldn’t see a bigger picture and yeah you can argue all day if they fell for it they deserve it and all that bullshit, but save it. We all get complacent to some degree and some more than others, it’s what works at the time, hoping to move into the corporate world or whatever. All these idiots on here focusing on why he stayed eleven years, I’m sure he had his reasons that made sense at the time just like you have reasons you do the stupid shit you do. It’s not just about your simple minded perspectives
@@ibanezrg320fm It will close and soon. Just take a look at Gamestop stock. A high of $62.30 at the end of 2007. Now the stock is at $7.82. That's an 87% drop. Most people buy games digitally now or just play on PC where everything is digital. Their in-store merchandise can be bought a lot cheaper online too. Every year they get more and more pointless and are just trying to cover their overhead costs which just leads them to keep pushing their shady practices and overpriced garbage. The whole company is literally treading water in an industry that's leaving them in the dust. Gamestop will soon be the new Blockbuster and just shut down.
@@r.h.6402 Yeah, I'll stick to buying digital. If for some reason I want a physical copy, I'll go to a local gaming store.
I had a gamestop that was a converted EB Games. It was the best place, they would hold trade in's I was looking for and even talked me out of a game I was going to buy new because they knew me and knew I might not like it and to look it up first. I Gave them my 100% loyalty and never bought anything other then there, and they NEVER did me wrong. It just went to nothing and the manager there was one of my favorite people and left. To this day, I wish I could find her again, just to thank her and wish her well. If by some miracle, Sara from the smithfield Crossings sees this, Thank you.
Daww vote this to the top so Sara might see it people
@@stiltzy1534 stfu
Rhode Island?
@@20TonChop salty much who pissed in your corn flakes back then because it had to have been worth niagra falls in water content
@@dr.dylansgame5583 Yes
This video should be played at GameStop's yearly conference
There might not be a yearly conference in to long. They’re closing left and right in Portland.
Good. Useless idiots and a scam business model
Game stop died 10+ years ago tbh
As someone who worked under this man right here I can say he was an amazing manager to work for and really brought that fun aspect of working for GameStop to reality.
But he is right about all of the negativity. That stuff was stressful as heck. But he and I now work together again so it’s like he said. “ It all worked out”.
What's the job?
Better love story than Twilight.
I really cant believe that someone would actually charge ANYONE that doesnt speak English, to me thats horseshit as a Store Leader, I just cant believe some of these stories because I have not dealt with this stuff, and its a real shame that you guys were apart of this and went through it.
I think i complained like a hundred times to the shithead that rang up game warranty when i didnt ask for it. Called up the district manager and he acted like whats the big deal... never shopped at gamestop since
He absolutely wasted 11 years, he's a dumb ass
Gamestop is dying for a reason. Bye bye, gamestop!
Good riddance
they're going to become a gaming 'cafe'
@@DisC6olf3r I read something recently where the CEO said he thinks gamestop is the church of gaming. Needless to say I had a good laugh because both seem to have an issue with appropriate behavior.
Its because of the PC master race
no, it isn't
It really sounds like the car shop business, every $19.99 oil change end up to be $169.99, and if you don't speak English?! All of a sudden your transmission system needs a full replacement.
I can tell you by experience on a quick lube shop they teach you to sell more to have a good TA at the end of the day (Ticket Average) but i tend to avoid that since most people just need the regular maintenance instead of buying unnecessary stuff
My game stop story:
I walked in and saw prices were outrageously high vs competition, then walked out.
The end.
DaGleese GameStop is terrible man. Bought madden 16 for 10.00 and nba 2k15 for 4.99 got home Madden was scratched to heck and back and wouldn’t play no matter what I tried, so now I gotta drive all the way back just to get a refund, it was the only madden for the 360 in the store.... all I wanted was to play a few games of football....
Vegito Charmara bruh they don’t let you check the game
stoeger 2 shouldn’t it be their job to check the game before they bought it lol? They always checked my games when I traded them in.
Vegito Charmara yes but they check the games I sell them for scratches to ascertain the value of the game which reflects the price the next guy will pay. I agree I should have looked after I bought it but GameStop also should have checked the game when they bought it and put a 14.99 price tag on a 3 year old game that comes out every year ya know, either way GameStop is a crapshoot. They will give you like 2 or 3 dollars for games that they’ll sell for about 10 bucks and their lazy employees won’t check them to see if they work or even if they have a lot of scratches before they sell them to someone.... GameStop is a really shady company, sadly there’s not much in the way of a competitor and the only other option is to pay more for a new game, but if you have a 360/ps3 that’s not an option for most games.
In our german gamestop the employees always show me the disc of used ps2 games
Gamestop is, by far, the worst job I’ve EVER worked. I worked there for 2 years (somehow) as a GA and never was promoted (2 times the work and responsibilities for a couple cent raise? No thanks). My coworkers were awesome people (hell, we still meet up from time to time today, and it’s been roughly 2 years since we all worked there), but the job itself was too damn stressful! It wasn’t worth the mental gymnastics you had to do every shift. Between having to make sure your reserves, power up, protection plan, and used sales were in the green along side having to make sure the store was in top shape, it was a mental nightmare. When I left, I couldn’t even work for over a year because it genuinely screwed me mentally.
I now work as a delivery driver for one of the major pizza chains and I’ll tell you, I’d rather work there 40 hours a week busting my ass, than having to work one hour at GameStop.
I know the odds of anyone reading this are slim, but it feels good to get this off my chest, cause man, I hate that place.
Venomous Delta
Hope you’re feeling better!! ❤️❤️
NOT as slim | as you think V.D. !
Venomous Delta try the apt business nowadays I feel your pain
As a delivery driver, how hard you work reflects directly in how much you can earn. And at the end of the shift you can leave the job behind and not have to think about it until you clock in again. There is a lot of value in those two things.
gamestop didn't hire me. I joined management in another company soon after lol. With no experience
Lolllll when i was a kid i always wanted to work at gamestop cus i thought itd be cool and i could get discounts on games, lmao
Hardy har har
that's the magic of being a kid, being unaware of things that are super shit. that's why kids rewatch the same bad movie like cgi garfield
A was the same in the uk a wanted to work at GAME cause a thought it would be cool to play games sell games and help people choose the right console or pc for them but turns out it’s just like any other job in retail and you targets to sell there stupid loyalty cards disk warranty etc
@Big Wheel chill dude.
@Big Wheel You're fucking stupid for not being able to type that shit out correctly the first time around trying to insult someone
Hey Camelot, I was a store manager at gamestop for about 5 years. That place was awful. I can personally back up everything he is saying. No matter how great my story was in subs or reserves, my DM would point out that I didnt have enough reserves In the certain games they wanted us to push or something like that. To anyone else, dont work there....
jeezuz, i cant imagine working at a retail store for peanuts. how did any of you survive on being paid in pesos and coat buttons? long story short, i would usually drive to a little mall to get my starbucks for my lunch hour ever so often. its right next to a game stop. for the past many years, i've rarely seen people walk in. there were 2 people working there...and i never understood why 2 for such little traffic, and how they could afford to pay rent when nobody was buying anything. was having a storefront just a marketing ploy? physical console games are quickly becoming a relatively niche...many just buy digital copies.
This explains why my Game Stop has a new manager every 2 months.
My local one shut down everyone manager included quit and walked out. Didn't even lock the store up. The cameras didn't work and they posted it on a fb game. How the all quit together. It was raided and Al everything was stolen. Lol a mom and pop one opened up and took advantage while they were down. They tried reopening a few months later, it just didn't work out. Everyone was happy going to the mom and pop one. They have 3 rooms set up and you can play games there, hang out with friends, and they're putting a smoke room in it now that it became legal.
@@brandan7095 whats the name of the spot?
Brandan that sounds awesome
Any chance you are from texas? ALWAYS HAPPENS
Everything that happened in this video pretty much happens in every retail environment. I used to work at a bank and management pushed us to do shady practices
Game Stop is soon going to be like Blockbuster Video and be gone.
Except it won't be sad when it goes, it will be a celebration
Gregory Michaels Hopefully.
Phantom Gaming why?
It's funny because I got my boys subscriptions to a couple gaming services after we quit going to GameStop. Only reason I go every now and then is parts replacement for consoles like controllers when I don't want to wait on shipping from the net. My boys are grown now.
_Chino98 are you a console player?
I remember going to GameStop for an interview when I was in High School. It was odd, they did a group interview with around 12-15 people and the manager said "You see everyone here? Only 2 of you will have the stuff to be a successful employee here, everyone here right now are your rivals. Today, your goal will be to sell me this pen. The 2 that sell it to me the best will be considered being hired, the rest will be let go." I got up along with around 5 others and walked out. While we were walking out, the manager said to the others "Congratulations, you all lost 6 rivals, well, don't celebrate too soon, they were too pathetic to work here anyway." I called the district manager, and like this guy said, they are scum as well, so obviously they didn't care how the managers did their hiring as long as it wasn't illegal.
I would have flip them off.
I’ve never wanted to bully a bully so badly
The "shady" practices you're talking about, Camelot331, take place in all corporations I've ever worked for in varying degrees of severity. I've got a few years on you, and if I might offer some advice, hold true to your own principals and hold yourself to a higher level of accountability. If an employer can't handle your integrity, then find another one that is less oppressive, or one that might even reward you for doing, what in your eyes, is the right thing. Good luck to you, young man.
Yo Cody wassup I know you. This man is honest and hard working and was the man at GameStop for me throughout high school.
I will TOTALLY believe a random account online.....
@@willn8664 I will TOTALLY dispute a statement for no reason
@@willn8664 he doesn't really have anything to gain from lying apart from short term attention. Why does the internet need proof for every single statement made ever?
The Hollanesian stfu
Authentic Animations The just have trust issues Kyle it’s okay
The 22 thumbs down from this video is from that district manager and regional manager making 22 different accounts just to dislike this video.
29 Dislikes as of now
@@jamesspraeker2558 They're spreading their time out making those accounts so it wouldn't seem "suspicious"
Tuan Le or it 22 people who can't believe someone dumb enough to stay at game stop for 11 years 😂😂😂
Lmao.
i disliked because he gave me .30 cents for my gta 5 and my ps4
Idk how you did 11 years at GameStop. I worked there for like 3 weeks and I bounced. I was also 29 hired as a key holder making $9.5/hr. Having made over double than that at my last job (10 years at banana republic, from associate to assistant manager), the pay wasn’t cutting it, the job was mad boring and also the staff at that particular location were like nerd bullies. They were all super nerdy and judged me for not knowing stat trek or Pokémon references. They also hated that I admittedly stated that I didn’t play video games and I just took the job because I needed money. They would be like “why do you even work here if you don’t play video games”. Hated it
BRUH
@mVP retail management but at a grocery store, where my associates probably make more than the store managers of GameStop.
“That was the beginning of the end for me.”
Stays there for 6 more years
Back in the days, I wanted to work at Game Stop...Thank god they didn't hire me
Real Brian Fantana edgy
@@bunnell6335 how is that edgy? That's a person's opinion. If a bible thumping dipshit like you is overly triggered by it then that's on you.
The Hollanesian hypocritical irony at it’s finest right here
The Hollanesian you triggered bro?
@@willn8664 super edgy haha
The fact that you stayed for 11 years is more terrifying lol
No...he probably stayed there because he likes games and he was working with people he felt like family...many of us do feel that way...can't explain why...
@@victorchan4223 ah, working with people that felt like family for $14/hr. Enough to make anyone stay for a lifetime! GameStop is not a career position unless you can somehow get into management working from entry level.
2007-2015 was a pretty rough period for employment in the states too, I commend him for sticking it out I woulda rather been unemployed than feeling mentally disturbed because I cant be more than what they want and then more ontop of it. I mean shit I worked at Sporting Goods in Walmart and I had to run half a store after 2PM-9(or 11PM) and got paid no extra I was like "fuck this im out" within a couple weeks. 8.20/hr fuck that, lol. Any job with a selling position is like this, worked at a telemarketer before and its very similar to his story on gamestop.
@smokegoodweed you should work on your reading comprehension
That's shocking , i worked at subway for 4 years after year 4 i said fuck this wack ass job. I can't imagine staying somewhere that long
My first job was GameStop and one was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. And the other one was the worst. The manager was literally a x marine and ran the store like it was the army. I was forced to stay longer hours to do mundane things like alphabetize games, and I ended up getting fired because my manager asked me to stay after work to talk to me and that night his friend came in and he was talking to him but he still wanted me to stay so he could talk to me, and a hour and a half later of sitting there waiting for these two to stop talking, I finally walked over there and was like “excuse me I gotta go did you need to talk to me about something” and he got so mad about interrupting them and yea...that was the real reason I got fired.
Your manager sounded like a jackass. It was a blessing in disguise that you got fired. Hopefully things are better for you now.
Is that GameStop still in business or have you found out if that manager has ever gotten fired?
I knew this guy in high school that was full of life and just a positive person but I heard he was my local eb games manager. I hardly go there to shop but when I saw him... yea he's gone. Looks pretty beat up. Felt bad for the dude.
Lmaooooo
Eb games is actually really good compared to game stop. The employees are like family to eachother and its so nice working in one.
@@TheBenoonjamingo pretty sure eb games is owned by gamestop....correct me if im wrong.
@@riseoftheflutes1739 Correct, gamestop is the parent company. EB games is run differently to gamestop though. I do feel like gamestop should be more like EB.
that really fucking sucks to hear. i hope he got his batteries back
just a friendly reminder to support your local game shops that aren't national/chains. much more friendly environment.
There isn't any wtf lol
@@stankeylips9822 i have 3 where i live, and theyre all great, if i dont like the prices of one i can go to the next one
Timothy Salas that’s me
Paul Baird I’m in a small town, ours were replaced with GameStop
Also gamexchange but they were even worse
I KNEW they charged me for a card without asking. god damn.
wdm charging for a card? i didnt understand that part of the vid
@@evang6872 the card that he's talking about. Is a membership card that you pay like once a year I think it is. Or every month. And it has some perks and what not. That's what the "Edge" card was. And is basically the same thing as what "PowerUp" membership card is today.
Could have been this guy in the video. He said he did it too.
Victor's Variety not sure how they’d get all that info without asking you lol
That happened to me, But at Target.
Just started working for gamestop and they are mad im not picking up as fast as they want.
Are you still working there?
This guy really likes The Evil Within 2...
Paul wonder if its a sponsorship
@burlyd Yeah it is. Not perfect and I heard it didn't do well so there may not be anymore.
Maybe it's a hint at Gamestop ;-)
1st one one a million times better.
I would never trust a person who had this as their fav game.
Honestly, your story sounds like every retail job I’ve ever worked. They all try to rip off customers, overpriced, drugs, steal, not acknowledge hard work and only point out failures, etc.
I work at autoparts and minus the drugs and blow ripping people off is a standard procedure, selling stuff that people don't need or flat out increasing prices without their knowledge. Now some people were rude and did deserve that but a lot of my co-workers just did it to meet numbers because headoffice just hounds you every week expecting perfection and it just wears you out!
Yeah dude everyone feels entitled to tell all the dirty secrets of the job. Guess what? Go somewhere else B
@@clipsedrag13 I'd rather them stay and educate people into what they are getting themselves into if they ever decide to work retail. The more you know before hand the more prepared and smart you will be when it comes time to accept that job offer.
Alot of businesses are pyramid schemes. And that's why you have to fall in line seriously.
NIc K silly privileged kid
As a person who has worked in retail for 12 years I can totally relate. I feel for you bro!
I never shopped at a GameStop, so I never knew that it was such a criminal company. Managers having sex with prostitutes during stores hours? ... just amazing.
This is every retail store.
Andy Nonimuss They think GameStop managers make enough to afford prostitutes 😂🤣
@@sherminator1121 he he lol :)
This happens just about everywhere. My managers at the Giant I worked at as a teen "trained" this mentally slow cart attendant. If you told her to help you with something on the truck, she'd go back and have sex with you. By the time it got to HR, she got canned and everyone acted like it never happened. Literally the second most disgusting place I ever worked at.
@@solblackguy So at this grocery store chain they were taking advantage of a mentally challenged girl? That's true sickness. The devil himself must wonder at the evil of man.
This reminds me of when I worked at Blockbuster. Flexible hours that were great for college, but the overbearing management and negative reinforcement turned a chill job into more stress than it was worth. I thought I'd just be a cashier and talk movies with people. Instead it was constant pressure to sell whatever membership deals they had, and then also people yelling at me because they returned their movies late and had a fee, as if I personally was the one making the late fee policy hehe.
GameStop employ : hey would you like to sign up for a power......
Me : NO
Gamestop employee: but but i didnt finish yet
You: no
Cricket: *noises*
Gamestop employee: ok
JFC! You couldn't even make an effort? Make this funny or something?
Why even bother making these types posts?
you are the reason for a lot of depression.
zombiegun71 what the fuck😂
zombiegun71 People own brain chemistry and external life choices are the causes of depression 😂😂😂🙅🏽♂️
Question: Have you ever played the game "The Evil Within 2"?
😂😂
I don't think he's ever even heard of that game.
He might've heard of it, but I don't think he ever played or owned of that game... even a *box* of it. Nah
I played both one and 2
😂
Dont ever EVER work for gamestop. 12 years wasted and was fired from one day to the next. Total lack of management and the company is dying. Don't apply!!! leave them to slowly die out as they should. Its like a black hole that sucks you in and sucks the life out of you, giving you no motivation to do anything with your life
I swear must of the time I go to Gamestop (which is not a lot) all the employess are either gullible fresh out of high school nerds who have no clue whats going on, fat depressed men who think they are cool cause they dyed a streak of hair green or the manager in the back with the goatee who think he's living the big boss life cause hes making 30k a year. lol
Thank you no seriously I have horrible gamestop story too
Watching this on 2-14-2020. You’ve come along way from this video. This started the fire.
They told me my 120$ in powerup points expired but continue to show up on my account...
Ikr. I find it bullshit that they even expire at all.
Joe Smith they don’t expire unless you cancel the reward card
You have to redeem them
Cortland Downs you can redeem them, but you don’t have to. As long as you have the card, the points can never expire
@@cortlanddowns9130 yes i tried to redeem them
I've had so many of my reservations "disappear" at Game Stop. I haven't shopped there for years because of it.
Well never shopping at a GameStop. Thanks for the heads up!
@Big Wheel because people can play them if they want to Dipshit how about you grow up and stop whining under everybody's comment Replies ?
I love someone who can say a story well, that's interesting and enjoyable to listen too. Worth a sub
Hey you had a great year.
Gamestop: Best i can do is 64$.
Darkwing Duck same
You'd have enough for a new game but wouldn't be able to afford the Power Card they sneak into your transaction.
Except he probably didn’t have a great year that year
The Edward Snowden of GameStop
Two legends
😭😭😭😭
Basically lol
Not even close. One's an American hero and the other is some randy on the internet
🤣🤣🤣
I worked for GameStop for over 12 years and can attest to the fact this happens at them all. I was a store manager and right before I quit I was being settled for an area manager position. The fact is upper management will allow certain things as long as the stores numbers are good. Can’t tell you how many times upper management had me rip off customers unbeknownst to them. GS is a company that has a lot of behind the doors activities and have numerous stories from the events we would go to every year.
My brother and several of my friends have worked at a few GameStops, and this all lines up very much with their experiences.
When the PS4 was released and there was a high demand for the camera, GameStop was selling it at a higher price than every other retailer. They were told to tell customers it was the new 1080p version of the camera. They never made one 1080p.
Isn't that be classified as false advertisement and is illegal?
@@SI0AX We're talking about GameStop here. GameStop is a pawn shop for games. Buy low sell high.
@btm56841 To be fair, some of the customers just learned to read only a few years earlier.
@@SI0AX Yes. That was fraud.
That’s literally illegal. GameStop makes millions, but they’re hungry for more. GameStop is one of the greediest companies I’ve seen
“You’re just not in it anymore. You should probably resign”.
Wow.
It's been my experience that there's two types of people that will say this or similar.
The first one means it because they want you gone. You pissed them off or showed them up in some manner and they want you gone.
The second one is saying that because they know something that you don't, and they like you enough to warn you without using direct words. They'll keep saying it hoping you WILL resign because there's a storm coming and they wanna shelter you from it.
@@BigDaddyJinx There's a 3rd reason, and it has a lot to do with what the author of the video discussed. They were essentially trying to cut costs to their senior employees by changing them from salaried to hourly. You can cut costs even further by getting senior personnel to resign and filling their position with a bright-eyed junior employee "promotion" and have their pay rate even lower than previous. Even more predatory, people who quit aren't entitled to severance - aggressively pushing them to resign rather than firing them is more money saved.
Gamestop is unfortunately a sinking ship, and it has been in its death throes for a long time now. These sorts of practices and values are the unfortunate result of a company that's desperate to stay profitable in a market where they are no longer truly competitive.
@MagikApothocary it would also be unwise to assume that everything this guy says is true. Everyone thinks they're awesome and everyone else is the jerk. Maybe he wasn't that great of a manager.
Rick O'Shay That company should be f’ing burned down!!! Hiring damn illegals instead of Americans.
@MagikApothocary there's the 4th type also where they are cold and callous towards others and want to project a nice guy image to others and hope the person leaves so they dont have to pay unemployment insurance. That tends to want to attack this type of message about true low lives in corporate culture.
That face after you said "idk why I worked there 11 years". I worked there for 5 years and I really felt that.
Wow, your channel has significantly grown since then! What a two years it has been. Thank you man.
Sounds like the upper management has the same mentality as the producers of Japanese game shows.
They don't reward success, they punish failures.
You worked at a job you HATED for 11 years! That’s incredible.
To be fair he didn't hate it the entire time only the last few years
Josh Adams Last few YEARS! That’s still incredible lol. I would understand if it was a lot of money but I HIGHLY DOUBT it.
MR FREEZE-98 i’m sure it was just a little over minimum-wage too 😑😑
People got bills to pay. Cant go around quitting everything you dont like.
CME-LFT you should be able to quit as many minimum wage jobs as you want lol. Why keep a job that makes you miserable 😭
Good of you to speak out about the stuff that go’s on at GameStop, my friend in America was always complaining about the poor treatment he received from his local GameStop. So it’s good of you to speak out about what you saw while working there, maybe it will make people think twice before both applying for a job at GameStop and buying their games there.
Cody DUDE...You are one HANDSOME YOUNG MAN!
I just started watching your channel and saw the video where you was crying about not having any friends... and about the meet-up in Florida with some subscribers who are now truly your friends.
So THIS video must be waaay before that one...
but good golly gee whiz you are one pretty boy!
If your bonus was $64 then you would have a daily bonus of 17.5 cents that is insanely small
Only someone daft enough to work a shitty job like that for 11 years would think that was a good deal
My side job is management at a national pizza chain. My yearly bonus is $50.
Wow I worked jobs I thought were below average and they gave a monthly bonus ranging from 220-289USD.
Guess it can always get worse.
I didn’t even know monthly bonuses were a thing in jobs WHAT that’s awesome GameStop even gave anything, 60 bucks is groceries right there I would freaking cry
Hell, we got our quarterly bonus company only hit 25% of the criteria, still was like $125 or $500/yr if you want to extrapolate it it across a whole year
As an Old GS manager everything you say is spot on. 100 the truth
Fuck you!!! I want my copy of Morrowind back!!! 3 dollars wasn't enough!
@@Bringmeoneofthosechickens they took horizon zero dawn from me for 5$
This hit close to home. I didn’t work at GameStop but I worked at Suncoast and I had the worst manager ever she would find the smallest things to yell at you about and we had to sell a card similar to Gamestop and we had to sell reservations and Entertainment weekly free trials and we constantly got threatened if we didn’t meet our numbers. I did have some good memories but the negative definitely outweighed the good.
That manager reminds me of an associate I worked with at Walmart (electronics department). Walmart, at the time was offering a credit card. We were forced to ask if customers wanted to apply for it. This guy wouldn't even ask. He would ask for their i.d. swipe it and run the application without their consent. And of course, because of this, management loved him.
Now I know why the employees would literally beg me for a good amount of time to buy those stupid cards🤦🏽♂️
I would always say "hey let me get (insert game) and I dont want a rewards card" before they could even get hey out of their mouths...
Willy Snakes would they say something?
@@leonarnpc it actually works most of the time
Willy Snakes gamestop is shit but that’s pretty fucking rude
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Big Tendies this only applies to the army
I bet the employees were ready to blow.
THE FLOGGINGS WILL CONTUNUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
I Dont hate you, Im just removing an enemy..
REMORSE IS FOR THE DEEEEAAAAAAAAAADD
kmfdm fans wya
I could relate Cody. I worked for a company for 17 years (2000-2017) Moved up the ladder. Started as a cafe attendent all the way to a Shipping Operations Manager...however I had to move on because my motivation was gone, I didnt like the company anymore, I had no respect for them. I never received a bonus, ever. I took my experience and knowledge and started my own business. Never looked back.
Crystal Dreams I started an e - commerce business. Buying products at a low cost and private labeling with my brand name.
The algorithm recommends this to me in 2022
I stopped going to gamestop years ago. I was always so depressed. The employees were so obviously under an iron thumb. It broke my heart.
I stopped going cause they’re such penny pinchers, also I rarely ever buy physical games anymore if I do it’s usually through Amazon
I worked for one day at a GameStop, quit before my next shift.
The store manager was an awful, disrespectful person to employees and customers alike.
respect
I'm sorry to hear that. I lucked out with my store. I had a great store leader. I still have a great one but our management moved around right before the holidays got into full swing
Jordan Petersen
Lol I thought you worked as a dishwasher and a bee keeper
@@barrettlong3293 shit I wish I had an Apiary, that'd be dope
I think a fun thing would be just during the busiest time when you've had enough just saying as loud as possible to your manager with a huge crowd in the store "NO I'M DONE SCAMMING PEOPLE FOR YOU GREEDY CRETINS, I QUIT!" at least thats what i would do
Im so happy everything worked out for you and this is the first video of yours i have ever seen and you are getting a thumbs up and a sub my dude
I've worked retail jobs and I've worked at Gamestop. This guy speaks the truth in that they have uniquely badd upper and middle management. Their corporate culture has been broken since the early 2000s.
User name checks out 👍
THE MOST VALUABLE thing I learned in the military....
Being responsible IS NOT always a good thing!!!
This applies even more so in the working world...whoever is above you will use and abuse you until you just quit and then they'll just hire two people to do what you did and start the process all over again.
Life of the enlisted:
When you look up all you see is assholes...
When you look down all you see is everybody you shit on...
Takes a proper leader to wade around in the shit no matter how deep. That’s how you get fucking great troops
Truth.
Corporate world in a nutshell.
Rinse and repeat.
RUclips Algorithm brought me here
BlacKyd same
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He delivers those lines like his life depended on it, such bone chilling cadence, and emotion.. or lack of.. perfection of his craft.
Back in 2008, a GameStop employee convinced me to get a GameInformer sub and Edge card by claiming that the magazine had GameStop coupons in it.
@BobShlob No, none of the GameInformer magazines I received had coupons in them.
I used to work at a Zumiez and one day the DM was lurking around, doing what they do...making everybody uncomfortable. After he just watched me sell $500 worth of product to a couple, he pulled me aside and chastised me for not implementing an up-selling "strategy" that woulda added a $10 belt to the transaction 🤣
Corporations are never satisfied with employee results.
Wow, that is messed up!
someone else would have gotten that extra $10 you're fired!!!!
@@percfiend69206 🤣
@Epoch plus5 we just found our District Manager lol
@Epoch plus5 ....but yes, to answer your question, that's what was expected of us...my point being that management should use discretion in implementing things like *that...I spent over 2 hours with these people, upsold a shit ton of snowboard gear, etc so to hear that while the $500 sale was good, it could have been better if I upsold another $10 lol
Props to you, you are officially a good sport youtuber 👍🙏
I'll give you $2.25 cash......or $66.50 trade in for this video
I'll take the cash please
Back in the day it wasnt THAT bad.It.was bad, trade in values were poor but it wasnt exagerated meme levels. Today the exageratted meme levels from a.few years.ago are reality
This was fascinating… I WILL NEVER SHOP AT GAMESTOP again! 😡😡😡 Thank you for doing this.
Doing the wrong thing always catches up to you. It's catching up with GAMESTOP.
More like everything going digital is catching up to them more than anything.
Holy shit. This came up as I was about to apply at gamestop. You saved me from a big mistake.
Chromatite Ralm DUDE LITERALLY SAME
Stay away from that shithole!
I hope y’all r sarcastic😂
never knew about this, but you always get a feeling of unhappiness going into Gamestop, now I know why....
Yet he stayed working there for over a decade. smh
yes, you have a point. sometimes it`s hard though to realise you are being screwed. i always wondered, why they try to push these game cartridge insurance on you with such a persistence, that it is borderline harassment.... They have to realise that is part of why customers don`t buy there!
Duuuude you worked at my local game stop you were always super helpful
This just popped up for me. So weird hearing you try to turn off the southern twang.
If you ever think about working at game, DON'T. Glad they're about to go out of business.
Ken Rose i will never work at game
Im surprised they didn't just become online like amazon.
Ken Rose lol I had a interview they said I got the job its been a month haven’t gotten a phone call at all thank god I didn’t work for them
I would buy out the company... for $1.50
gashthrasher v.2 lol please explain how amazon will destroy the world
I worked at my job for a year, never calling in for a sick day and being on time for every single shift. One day, scheduling got mixed up and I was scheduled on one of my off days and I didn't notice in time to alert the managers. When I showed up for the shift after that one, I got pulled into the office and was interrogated on why I was a no show. During that shift I missed, however, no manager called or texted me, not only to see if I was coming in but if I was okay, given a COMPLETELY clean attendance record. I was seriously concerned that if anything happened to me, my work wouldn't contact family to alert them and instead fire me. I quit the next week.
Bro, we had almost the exact same time in that company. I worked from oct 2007-2017, and pretty much everything you said i experienced. I also agree that 07-09 were great years, when you could just enjoy talking games with people. Working there, almost killed gaming for me. Great video!
Sub'd. Love your sense of humor. That is crazy how they rip people off without a care.
I got a second job at gamestop.... 7 hours in two months. Needless to say I told them I can't handle that and left.
7 hours a day or is this a bad joke?
I've been hearing these GameStop stories for months now and each one just get better and better by telling us how worse this company got every year. I used to dream of working at GameStop but now I'm glad I didn't. Thank God they're about to go out of business.
Gamexchange is worse...you just get minimum wage to do the exact same job lol
To be honest, a lot of it is piss poor management combined with misinterpreted company policies. If management focused more on taking care of customers instead pushing shit so hard, it'd be a much better experience.
Well when i get word,ima be at the front door buying everything on sale and dumpster diving.
Roflrex it’s piss poor and dishonest upper management as well
I'm so glad you got a million views on this video I remember watching this when you first put it up 👏👏👏🥳🥳
a gamestop employee mocked me for still playing ps3 games and having no money to buy ps4. After that, I never set foot in Gamestop again
Thems is fightin words where I’m from
Late reply, but wanted to comment. That employee is an ahole but saved you from dealing with that place. I have all PS systems and still play PS3 and PS2. So anyone at a game store who says that is a jackass. Heck, still pull out my Super Nintendo from time to time.
A good game is still a good game no matter how old or the platform it's on.
I was a salary manager for an AT&T store and GameStop bought us out which switched me to hourly. We were warned how bad the company was but we didn’t listen.
I have heard many bad stories about Gamestop. But this takes the cake, I’ll never buy from there again
Exactly. Best comment I have seen yet. It's time us consumers took charge and decided where our money goes. We need to stop making purchases from companies that are doing messed up things to it's own customers and or employees.
He's being overly dramatic to garner views. I've worked for Gamestop and he's full of a lot of shit.
Violet Thompson I’ve only heard bad stories about GameStop, never good ones.
Violet Thompson So have I. Everything he’s saying is spot on. You’re full of shit
@@willitee1175 that's because bad stories pay more. Ive never heard of any good work stories on youtube, period.
Man it’s crazy to see how comfortable you’ve become in front of a camera my guy
It's amazing how far you've come...