I think maybe either A: when you defended yourself against the false accusations successfully, a small but potent butthurt awakened in the HR, and he used the rationale of a 4th grade playground bully to illegitimate you, and remove you like they thought was going to happen smoothly as they were walking towards the door to come in and "borrow" you.... or B: That trick that said she was gonna get you fired over and over blew him in exchange for his inventing a reason to carry out her threat, Sick ass people, man, seem to gravitate to that trash excuse for a video game store.. that ran real video game stores outta town.... They'll get what they deserve at some point.. We all do.
This is an interesting channel. Worked retail while in hs/college and it seems that was always the deal. If you move up and stick around too long, you make too much money, and you're gone. I remember all the old school 80s/90s managers would just disappear in waves. You seem like a good guy, but most of those people I didn't feel too bad for because they were not very nice people at all. Pretty big of you to quit. Sounds like they didn't have a real reason for the firing and you could have disputed. Plus I believe quitting in many cases makes you ineligible for unemployment and keep the company from getting dinged on unemployment tax. I was in a similar spot a couple times and just walked away and found a new opportunity. Having a "firing" on your record just seems like something to avoid, especially at management level.
I am not a gamestop employee, I have been a regular customer for 6 years of a gamestop that isn't closing for now. However three other locations in the district are closing next month
I worked for a papa John's for 2 years. I took my job seriously. If I was off and someone didnt show up for their shift, I would come in no questions asked. This happened quite frequently. To the point that I asked for a raise. Because I was working 60+ hours a week. But not only did my GM not give me a raise, but he chastised me for covering so many shifts. I quit less than a week later.
It’s literally illegal as an hourly employee for you to work more than 60 hours a week. If you work more than 60 hours a week the company can be fined. Look up the work hours act. The manager was mad because you unknowingly put his job at risk because he would have gotten fired for that if the company found out.
@@DarnComputer I worked over 60 hours a week consistently for about 5 months. I even cracked the 80 hour mark one time. Literally almost every day I had off I was getting a phone call asking to come in because someone didnt show up for their shift. He knew this was going on, and didnt say anything until I asked for a raise.
I used to work with a guy who'd been a Radio Shack manager for over twenty years. He told me that Radio Shack fired all of their long time manager and replaced them with kids in their early 20s. We see what happened to Radio Shack.
I used to go into radioshack and ask for a specific part like an op-amp, 555 timer or a mosfet ect, now its just sat tv cellphones and shit and mabe a dusty soldering iron on the shelf its just un-knowledge sales rep who can't even read a color code resistor or schematic. Sort of how hank hill goes into hardware store and ask for a tap and die and the dumb ass kid has a blank look on his face.
Gold Winger Same thing on my job. When older people were in charge, it was great for employees and customers. Now, these kids are in the position and it sucks. They are slow, lazy, rude and dumb ass hell. Thank God October 4th is my last day around them.
@@Energi2DmaxX Wanna fix your amplifier? Better have Amazon prime. Miss the days of walking in, buying components, and fixing/making whatever. No stores like that around me
Unfortunately, these days most places would rather save money than have quality, experienced staff that they have to pay more. It wasn't always this way. At one time loyalty mattered. This is why customer service has been abysmal in nearly every retail business out there now for years.
Alex Zink My statement won’t necessarily impact you since you’re a recent hire. My comment was in regards to Walmart finding any way possible to flush out all of the vested-tenured employees who make decent salaries and replacing them with entry level salaried employees or several different cheap part timers.
@@MyRUclipsHandIe lots of warehouses are trying to do this also. flush out the older and more experienced guys and rely on new hires to just push orders out. it's a shame but it's bound to happen, which i'm glad i was able to find a spot sanding in a flooring business
Ive been going to the same Gamestop for almost a decade. The same 3 people have been working there since the first day I walked into it. I havent seen those 3 people in over 3 months now. I guess I know what happened
My last boss in a minimum-wage job was a rarity. He owned a franchise and did EVERYTHING he could to hold onto experienced employees, although he couldn't offer but so much in raises we were among the best-paid food service workers in the area, and he paid out of pocket more than once to help drivers who ran into serious car trouble. Great dude. I can't help but wonder at how much better life would be in the world if corporations and franchises were run by guys like Former Boss and not by penny-pinching sociopaths who look for excuses to fuck over the people keeping their businesses running day to day.
I'm afraid our entire country is full of these greedy sociopaths in both the private and government sector. We're in deep shit. Finding a job where you're paid well and treated decently is a major accomplishment.
@@cuteface88 Lucky you. Many people do not get a shot, even if they have an incredible work ethic and no medical problems that prevent them from handling labor intensive jobs that require no experience. I'm anxious to know about the company and what the safety protocol is. I imagine for twice the amount of minimum wage, there must be a fair amount of risk involved, unless you happened upon one of the most generous factories of all time with absolutely no ulterior incentive to make the starting wage so high.
@@cuteface88 how about replacing capitalism with a system where people do things based on their own free will and the desire to help other people instead of a system where you are forced to do things through domination and coercion and the love of money? the love of money is the root of all evil. capitalism is a system based on competition and the love of money. competition is immoral and never turns out positively. it can only work out positively in the short term if you are competing to be superior morally. being rich and powerful and successful is evil. being a loser is moral. god hates rich people and loves poor people. let me quote jesus here "it's easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven." having a position of power such as being rich, kicks in all of your animal instincts of being the dominant one in the pack and turns you evil and if you grow up rich you will be a sociopath. people only learn through suffering. everyone needs a good balance between suffering and happiness. communism is a system built on equality, decentralization and direct democracy. those are the three keys to a better world along with empathy and communism is a great solution to the world's problems. let me remind you that a communist country has never existed before. the west simply benefits from calling them communist so they can demonize communism and the "communist" countries benefit from calling themselves communist to try to justify their existence in some morality. the united states is not a democracy either. the richest one percent of people and biggest corporations control the country and the government, that's not how democracy works. we are a 100% fascist country and we control nearly every country on earth except a few as vassal states. there is no country in the world where people are free. with finland probably being the closest and they are the most socialist. modern oppression is much more sophisticated than what was used in the past. it's very easy to control what people think through propaganda and skillful manipulation in all forms of media. all of which are owned by the billionaire class aka the capitalist right wing forces of evil. you have to work hard to get out of the matrix. i could go on forever but oh well you are probably just an ignorant right wing tool or a lying paid troll anyway. atleast Sarah Perkins has a good head on her shoulders.
Andrew Duncan I mean he’s not wrong. Do what you’re told and you’ll be fine. Want to make more money? Bust your ass and get a bigger reward. Been like that since the stone ages. If you don’t like working for people, freelancing is always an available option.
For all young people, your employer would love it if you quit in this situation. The best thing you can do is let them fire you and collect unemployment, or better yet file a lawsuit for wrongful termination.
Gamestop is Blockbuster. They actually helped you. They are an antiquated business model. BTW, we have labor laws. You should have let them terminate you then you had an excellent case for wrongful termination.
ya but even an unlawful termination case would settle for a lot less than a yearly salary. so its cheaper for the company to terminate. company's are fully aware of this
@@kenmasters916 Not necessarily at least in my country they would have to pay the person till they can get a job that can achieve the same amount and because it's a corporate entity they might have to pay court fees as well as potential fines I guess long term it would save money
Not just wrongful termination, but wage theft. If he's an hourly employee performing work, even if it's at a desk, and they don't pay him for that time, that's stealing. Their assertion that sitting at the desk constitutes a break is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
@@thesupersonicstig A car does not equate to a 25 cent item. Be realistic with your comparisons. Furthermore, it was an accident. Someone doesn't accidentally steal a car. There's major intent behind your example and no intent behind what actually happened.
@@thesupersonicstigif returning that counts as theft, I can name multiple district managers that used their discounts for people other than themselves when I worked there.
@@thesupersonicstig Be real! I work twelve hour shifts and have ended the week so tired I forgot to check a pocket. He didn't get fired for theft, he got fired because he had been there too long and were looking for a reason. Hell, how had he been there for so long if he didn't already have a positive track record? Honest people don't normally get fired for stupid shit. GS is just a crap company.
@@qwertyuiop-ke7fs any food industry is rough. I used to work for Burger King. I hated it. They find reasons to fire you. if they want to fire you, it doesn't matter how well you know the rules. they're going to get you.
@@daoyang223 You must have been a bad worker. Been in foodservice mgt my whole life and usually a warm body that shows up is all it takes to keep a job.
@@thomasmickle7289 Everyone was terrible. The manager was stealing money. The district manager would only hire White's and Asians. So she would filter the applications when put through to corporate. The assistant manager was popping molly everynight and discriminantly bullshit the night shift and manually clocked us out 30 mins after closing time. Even though we worked at least an hour after closing time to clean everything up for the morning shift. It was a shit show.
Yep, it's always LP bullshit. I left during an investigation into using my power up card to give an irate customer $0.11 credit on his Madden trade. This was before we had issued a store card to use. Meanwhile a floating ASM with less than a year used his card for all his friends and family. Never had a single issue from HR. Moral of every gamestop story. Don't work for gamestop!
always remember, HR is not there to help the employees, they are there to help the company. I've been working for wal-mart for many years, and their "customers first" policies are all complete bs. Companies are never there for anyone other than themselves and their shareholders
Jimi sure because suing people doesn't cost you a TON of $....... smh and the company in this case game-stop knows this and they would have dragged it out....... proved what I said at 17:42
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@stockart whiteman he wouldn't actually have to do much other than go to the labor board because they would handle the case for him. He was not committing time card fraud because there was nothing to do in the store and they would do him being at his desk making a game plan as fine. Just because you're not doing anything at the moment on a job does not mean you're committing time card fraud otherwise every valet driver in America is committing time card fraud almost every second
And then you would lose in most U.S. states.* They don't need a good reason to fire you. Their asserted reason does not even need to be factually correct or work related. "You are fired because I think you stole from the register" when security cameras prove you did not? - Legally valid. "You are fired because your shoes are brown" even though your shoes are green? Legally valid. In most states termination just has to not be discriminatory against a protected characteristic. *Montana is the only U.S. state with a default employment law rule providing for-cause protection against termination.
Ashton Rooks this guy has it right. Most states are “at will employment.” A new manager can come in and fire you for basically anything they want. They can literally say “you aren’t a team player.” Now the onus is on you to prove in a court of law that you were wrongfully terminated because you are a team player.
Not too long ago I left a company I had been with for 5 years. I had been working as an unpaid supervisor for four and a half of those five years. I asked to be compensated for doing the job with a merit raise. I was told no. So I walked to the office asked for some paper and wrote my 2 week letter of resignation. I worked out my two weeks and I left. Sometimes you have to stick up for yourself and do whats right by you. I had enough money I could afford to be out of work for 6 months before things became an issue. It took about 2 and a half months before I found another job. And even during those couple of months without work I felt empowered to be free of it. The depression I felt for being unappreciated day after day after day took a toll on me. And even with being depressed about being out of work every day I was away from that job I felt better about myself.
Higher ups in retail are some of the worst people ever. They are so petty with everything. Firing people makes them fell good about being the low lives they are.
Most of the time higher-up managers went to a college and got a degree hoping for some big-time tailored suit executive job, only for that plan to fall flat on its face. Misery loves company.
Hr is only there to look out for the company. They will do what ever it takes to look out for the company, and it’s image. Which never includes the employees. It’s easier to fire someone for some bullshit Mickey Mouse reason and hire someone else at a cheaper rate. Employees are a dime a dozen.
HR only wants to hear what they wanna hear when interviewing people, preferably young college students because THEY ARE CHEAP not a 30 yr old with years of experience.
@@MegaVidgeek but it looks bad on a company if there is a high turnover employee rate, rather than the company fireing them it just looks better from an employee's side that they left rather than getting fired.
Can’t sit and work at your desk as the manager? Wtf is the point of having a desk if you can’t be paid to work with it? Btw, I applied to a GameStop back in 2009, never got a callback. I really dodged a bullet
I was thinking on pre-ordering the new Pokémon games at Gamestop but then I realized on "what if they suddenly closed down between now or before the games release?" Going to Best Buy instead.
@@scribecypress If they were to wind down honestly, then they would give you fair warning to come get your money. If they were to go the typical corporate route, then they would tell you that everything is great, until they suddenly declare bankruptcy. At which point, only high-level debt-holders, like banks and major investors, would stand a chance of ever getting money out of them. You'd be boned. Maybe there would be a class-action lawsuit that you could join, against whatever holding company bought up their remains. 7 years of litigation later, you'd get a check in the mail for your portion of the settlement. Probably five bucks.
I worked for a grocery store when i turned 16. They hired and fired people just before they worked there long enough to collect unemployment. The way i got fired was so dumb. I called the manager to find out when my first shift of the week was, as the schedule hadn’t come out when I’d last worked. She told me 2 PM. I show up on time and she asks me to come to her office. She tells me I was scheduled to work at 12, not 2, and fires me on the spot.
I got fired unfairly once. It’s was a bullshit pizza delivery job but I was so mad just out of principal. I was delivering pizzas and the Mexican guy who works in the kitchen doing all the prep work, cutting up vegetables and stuff, was asking another delivery driver to buy him cigarettes. I was the only one who could understand his Spanglish, and he offered to pay $5 for it. So I did it. Later, he was asking me to get him Starbucks. I saw where this was going and was going to put a stop to it, but before I even answered the manager said “Don’t even think about it”. I looked at him and said “Hmm?” And he just said, “you heard me” and tended to a customer. I was going ask him to clarify the situation, but before I had a chance to do that I had to run a delivery. When I got back the manager was gone, but he told the guy under him to fire me. The guy says “I don’t know what you two were talking about, but my boss told me to fire you”. I told him how the guy asked me to get him coffee, and I didn’t even agree to do it. He just said “My boss told me to fire you so that’s that”. I was soooooo pissed. It wasn’t even mad I lost the job, just how it happened. I was planning all the emails I was going to write management, but by the time I got home I was over it. It still pisses me off when I think about it though.
Sitting at the desk constitutes a break... ... WHAT? So, when the corporate bigwigs sit around a boardroom desk (aka having a meeting), that should constitute a break, no?! Just... WAT
Jon Luci problem is a lot of corporate and higher ups will just take another spot at other shady businesses that just love to rip off their employees and customers
Jon Luci at this point its not “if they go out of business, dont feel bad” its become they better lose every penny theyve ever made using these shitty tactics and im gonna feel great about it
@@anthonyrumbaugh7767 I thought insurance salesmen got paid on commission and they weren't salary and/or hourly? The reason I'm asking that question is because about a year ago I got an offer to sell insurance and it was strictly commission.
I worked for a grocery store called Publix. I worked as a bakery manager and worked 60-80 hour weeks consistently. My team of workers was made up of 50 plus year old women who were jaded and didn't want to do anything. I had to do almost everything every day while trying to do management stuff in the back room if I could find the chance. Our store also was extremely slow because it was on an island so I had almost no hours for my workers, so a lot of the workload was placed on me. I'd bake everything, unload trucks, clean the entire department, and then make schedules and try to do business plans every single day. When I quit I felt SO free man.
I worked at Hollywood Video for 5yrs. I was told no overtime since I was management and salary. Those above me would constantly force people to work "off the clock" to save money. I disagreed & moved on. If any employee complained about working off the clock, their hours would be cut.
Man I spent 13 years at Toys R Us up until they closed. I can relate to much of what you say and boy do I have some stories. Seriously leaving was such a blessing, felt so good walking out the last time. A new beginning!
A lot of things Gamestop does sounds borderline illegal. Something things I've heard they do is absolutely illegal. Even a lot of the things they do that probably are legal are still incredibly shady and toxic. Probably the best decision you ever made was quitting.
When one door closes, another opens, with bigger, better opportunities. It always does. At age 50, I think back on all the B.S. I put up with and realize I put up with way too much.
You should contact the Labor department in your state. That's the correct course of action here. They will be in deep crap for this. Which is why they are freaking out.
parents both worked for IBM for about 20 years, maybe bit more. towards the end of that mother was scared for prolly couple years of being let go since she's an experienced and therefore expensive employee. both of em told me how they were expected to do overtime and not report it. but they made good money while they were there. guess that's why they stayed
I've heard about this happening with the company formerly known as Harris Corporation. Luckily L3 Technologies isn't keen on paying you what you're worth.
I had the exact same feeling. I had been working this job for years - It was trash but some of the people i worked with made it good - I have been abused left and right by line manager after line manager trying to throw their weight around yet when they needed someone to cover shifts because they were short i was *ALWAYS* there. The company I was working for was having a rough time and a lot of managers just up and resigned and we had nobody looking after our department for 6 months. Rosters werent getting done. Holidays werent getting booked into the system and even my HR department were playing games with me. Told me they could put it in the system for me if i emailed them the details. a week later i called them up again and they told me they didnt have the power to do that and to speak to my line manager when our department was virtually headless and the guy they had supposedly looking after us never answered his phone. Managers kept on leaving. New managers kept coming in and throwing their weight around before they also left or got moved to a different department because it was too much stress. Then they tried to pin some shit on me saying that i had sexually harassed one of their clients, but she was as much complicit in this as i was. I knew they wanted me out because I had gone from working an entire month with barely any days off to only working 3 days a week for them and not answering their phone calls on my days off because I had been lied to and abused so many times by managers. None of them wanted to hear me out and what i had to say so I just said "alright, im done" and hung up the phone. I sent in my resignation via email. They didnt have enough respect for me to have me in the office and talk me in person about what the client was accusing me of. Even the guy who I had known me since the first day i started work who made manager didnt want to back me up and me and this guy were supposed to be cool. None of them motherfuckers sitting at their desks in the city, drinking coffee had any words of support for me despite me being there for so long and bailing them out when they needed me even on real short notice. Like i could be spending time with family, they would call me and id drop everything to go cover a shift for them. When i did get to speak to a region or area manager, He wasnt interested in anything that i had to say about my treatment over the years ive worked for the company. Nothing but lies upon lies and broken promises.... And thats why i went part time on their ass. Its not like I lacked the commitment or the dedication but those assholes didnt deserve me just like gamestop didnt *deserve you* Anyway. I hope you got a job thats less stressful and pays a lot better than gamestop.
"I just bought this ps4 and I wanted to trade it in for $299" "Ok great, we will give you 55$, since you have your receipt" . Gamestop can go to hell. Glad they are going out of business.
@@xplics Nah, you can enjoy NO gamestop and realize there are more options out there that SAVE you money, so you shut up. Seriously do YOU like paying more and getting less for stuff? If so, then you are a special snowflake.
Same thing happened to me at GameStop. 12 yrs there as a SM and fired for no reason. My entire staff lasted another 2 months and they left. Same scenario. DM and HR shows up bc of the ASM. My ASM was terminated a few months later for theft. *Protect the family
@@jaydenrock You're right, it's weird how GameStop makes you fill like you belong to a cult or something as an employee. The job is absolutely terrible but people cling to it. I liked being in the video game industry and dealing with video games everyday.
I would find sm's and other employees fired for bs reasons and go in on a huge lawsuit because most of this stuff sounds unethical lol (edit) and all seem too similar
Sock Monkey the problem is the pay is so bad and the stress is so awful that once you get out of that hell hole. You kinda feel it ain’t worth it suing. You don’t want to have them waste anymore of your life. All Gamestop wants is to weed out the ethical employees. Nothing else matter except making the shareholders happy. They give you a unattainable task and the ones that usually get on top are the ruthless and the unethical employees. Some are legit good workers I’m sure and I don’t know how they survive. Now. Watch this tactic scummy DMs will teach you: Ok sir your total with GPG is $67.53. Customer: Ok cool I’ll pay. Later customer looks at receipt: wtf is a GPG? Why did I get charged a extra $3 bucks per game? The DM of GameStop and SM is hoping you don’t notice and don’t care enough to come back to complain. Now if you do complain the employee will tell you he told you and he did. BUUUTTT as a customer how do you know what a GPG is. He might as well spoke a different language. If do happen to catch that at the register then they get to use their sales tactics to convince you. Which they should have explained a GPG before adding it. When you go into any retail business that large chain it’s psychological warfare from the higher ups to the employees. Then to finally to you as the customer. It’s really creepy when your finally from the outside looking in and GPGs are a small example.
I used to work at Gamestop between 2002-2004. One of my favorite things in the world was telling the parents of children who wanted GTA3 or GTAVC what was in the. Parent: Whats wrong with it? It's just a video game. Me: Well, first off the name of the game is Grand Theft Auto. You spend most of the game running around killing cops and stealing cars. When you get injured you can find these little heart icons which give you some health back, but those can be kinda hard to find, it's easier just to just find a prostitute, pull into a dark allyway and do your thing... Parent looking at child: You're grounded. Seriously though, when they got rid of me they pulled a similar trick. I was a 3rd key while I was there. There was this revolving door of managers and district managers. My first year I thought thqat I would be able to get into a higher position quicker because of this, but eventually I would have my eyes opened. In my day GS doesn't really want you to get fired no matter the reason, they want you to quit because there are unemployment options but if you have been fired but if you quit they don't pay have for unemployment. I had reported one of the managers for theft numerous times, sent detailed messages to Loss Prevention about the credit scam he was running, as well as reporting the merch he would stash in the trashcans so he could reclaim the next morning from the dumpsters, only to be told by my DM that I wasn't doing enough to keep him from stealing. After almost six months of this they finally fired him for theft. On Christmas Eve. My DM was willing to sacrifice thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise so she could humiliate him on the busiest shopping day of the year. This same DM fired one of our ASM's for a clerical error he made, that he notified her about. At one point this same DM even asked me to drop out of school because, in her words, "Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for our company". Eventually they would decide to get rid of me. On that day the DM showed up and pulled me into the office. She had a typed up resignation letter and kept badgering signing it. I didn't want to leave at the time but we were in the office for something like two hours and she wouldn't let me leave. After she convinced me to sign it she called her boss and let her know I quit, and I heard her reassure him that she was able to get me to sign a resignation letter. After leaving I had a really hard time finding a job, I was unemployed for over a year, eventually I had a friend of mine hook me up with am interview at his company. After the interview, which I thought was successful my friend called me up asking me why I didn't tell him I was fired for stealing. I ended up calling the store pretending to be a company checking employment references about myself and was told by the manager I was speaking with that I was terminated for theft. So I had been filling out applications and sending them to people that were talking to my longest employment reference (at the time) who intentionally trying to sabotage me for no apparent reason. I hate that company.
Find a good career or employment lawyer and he will build you a fat case for deformation of character and numerous other crimes. Your suit could definitely hold up In big boi court and you would get a bomb ass settlement deal out of it (as will your lawyer) I'm not one to sue But thay only applies to regular joe smoes Hell if everyone gave testimony the entire USA could receive a recompense check as payment to society from Gamestops nefarious business practices, the evidence is literally on paper and very substantial. (I realized this isnt exactly how law works but these cases would stand) I dont understand why people WOULDN'T jump at the opportunity to deliver justice to a corrupt business because usually they have very substantial evidence yet people feel like it won't matter in the end. That's why companies KEEP DOING SHADY SHIT Infact going through the trouble of legal pursuit would almost assuredly result in some type of benefit.
They did the same to me back in 08. The new manager didn't like me and I couldn't get good subscriptions to game informer. In turn I got less hours till I was scheduled for like 2 hours or something and it was only one day a week! Told to get more subs for more hours. How do you do that when the hours worked are bullshit. But I kept showing up on time, did my job as a game advisor, and kept busy when literally no one came to the store. Only to throw in the towel the day I was to be fired. I lasted 4 months and those 4 months were the worst. I worked with great people but the managers were shit.
Settlements definitely imply guilt, but it’s not an admission. It’s usually cheaper to settle than to go to trial. Good on the guy for taking it all the way, I hope the judge rules in his favor.
“People ask me all the time ‘why did you stay so long if it was so terrible’” I assume that these people have never ever been to that magical place for adults that we call employment. Christ, I swear its gunna take at least 3 generations just to get productivity, will, spirit, and work ethic to become things again. Thanks elite. You really are the embodiment of unnecessary evil.
@@ghostnoodle9721 they be like Rick I'll give you a dollar but a dollar is kinda of hard it might sit on shelf for a year and then I got to hire people and remodel the store
Agreed. Sent My mother in with 12 games one time thought "all right after school I'm gonna have some money and a new game" got picked up and she refused to sell, turns out they offered her a whole 8 dollars for all of them, and she threw a fit, the only good news I got was how she embarrassed the hell out of the ass hole who did that.
They probably were required to sign a document requiring disputes to be resolved by arbitration with rules forbidding merger to other people's claims. The result is thousands of claims, any one of them too small for lawyers to invest the time, energy, and resources in so no one gets representation and practically no one goes forward at all.
Just discovered your channel and I'm hooked. I can totally relate to your stories. Glad you're getting all of this out of your system. Best of luck out there.
I’ve been in a similar situation with being trapped in a soul sucking job you’re afraid to leave due to being comfortable. It’s like being an institutionalized prisoner that doesn’t know how to live in the outside world. The kind that commits a petty crime so he’ll be sent back to prison, or hangs themselves like the old man in Shawshank Redemption that couldn’t function outside of prison.
Okay so I have been there before bro, worked at Old Navy for 2 years and had the same thing. A supervisor below me was a female and laughed everyday about taking my job, she told me week after week that she was going to get my job. One day she fabricated an entire bullshit claim to HR for the same type of shit you been through. They let me go that day. It’s crazy but my life has been exponentially better since I left. It’s always a blessing bro.
True story...my wife used to work for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. They hired a new district manager when the old one got promoted. I guess the old one was real descent to work for and was well liked. The new guy was one of these aggressive types that had to get in there and "shake things up". So he proceeded to demand that the district's biggest customer, a chain of local car dealerships, pay more for their loaner cars they were contracted to get exclusively through Enterprise. Their answer? We will go to Hertz instead. So this idiot basically single handedly lost the company millions of dollars. So what did Enterprise do to make up for this? Had massive layoffs. But that guy still has his job.
As I’ve grown in my career I’ve got a lot better about covering my own ass. Anytime a superior or a client asks me to do something or gives me a new directive I always ask for it on writing or in an email. I want a paper trail so there is never a he/said moment down the line. I learned that the hard way when I got fired many years ago as a Logistics coordinator “allegedly” delivering a customer order late. They customer had called me. Told me verbatim they wanted to change the date, then when they ended up being wrong about that and forgot to reschedule with their people turned around and claimed the conversation never happened and threw me under the bus. So I don’t trust anyone anymore with my job.
Man, your stories are compelling. Great job, man. I have to thank you, too. Shortly after I found you a few weeks ago, I bought Puts (shorted) in GME. You were my inspiration and its paid off nicely. Big fan of the channel! Keep up the good work.
I was going to work at gamestop and the manager said you will love it here i came back and ask a worker and he said it is hell to work here go to CM Games (which is another game store which is local and very nice)
I was just thinking: when GameStop is gone or morphs into some even lesser entity, YOU my friend are all that remains of the chronicled lore surrounding it.. Edit: you should look into interviewing others (present and past) employees. Use that "inside edition" style where the guests are blacked out with voices distorted...
I turned in some used video games to GameStop and they wanted: Name, Address, Phone Number and DATE OF BIRTH (which you never give out). When I questioned the employee they claimed that the PD required them to obtain that information. After I called the Chief of Police (whom I happened to know) on my cellphone, things got quiet.
I also quit/fired from a keyholder position at Gamestop. I made my first inventory mistake after 7(?) years and decided not to play the guilt-game with them. Unfortunately, I understand how very tight the margins are on their inventory-- I hate to say that I'm on their side with trade values (after seeing the amount of product we just threw out at yearend) we were like literally buying tomorrow's garbage... The real problem is that market is changing faster than they can keep up, from my viewpoint digital gaming didn't hit them as hard as retail shifting to online as a whole did; one reason out of many that GS's lifeline, the American Shopping Mall is dying. -- Aside, I'm a PC gamer, I haven't stepped into a GS for but one game (RD2) since I left, because I didn't need to -- Everything I need comes faster better and cheaper from Amazon or Best Buy (no company is perfect). Their best hope is to close up a ton of stores instead of bailing water, recenter themselves on a few regional boutique stores, not stuck inside a mall with 4 straggling shops (a mix of Vape shops that sell funko pops and bootlegs versions of the same pop culture shirts GS does). Fresh, new, destination stores with lifestyle products and merch, truly become "the only place to get X." Do what Best Buy did -- realize the ship was sinking, take a step back, fix the culture and the experience, rather than trying to fall up the stairs with the same-old. Maybe for GS, that means collectibles like Weta props or one-of-a-kinds, PC hardware and build eperts so you don't have to wait on amazon, costume clothing like Assassin hoodies or the FF designer lines. If GS is around in 15 years it won't be with 140 used Maddens on the shelves. From the floor staff standpoint, I can attest that it was a pretty horrendous situation all around even 5/6 years ago. Though, I made friendships and memories that will last a liftetime, and I learned a lot of lessons there as basically my first job. There was not enough time to complete tasks, the manager was under so much stress she couldn't help but pass it to us, I never trusted our DM even a little bit because HQ is wound up so tight because everything is so scant. If ever a company was going to fail because the attitude at the top was a bigger problem than the solutions coming from the top, it's Gamestop.
Doesn't your state have a wrongful/constructive dismissal law? This sounds like a constructive dismissal, where you're essentially forced to quit due to circumstances at the workplace.
Totally understand that feeling when I was fired from my job of 10 years I felt the same way. I kept doing the same shitty job every day because it paid my Bill's and leaving is scary.
Yup I've been at with Walmart for almost a year now I'm trying to get another job lined up to leave. Walmart pay is okay for what the work is its an easy job but holy shit is management toxic asf
I had gotten an interview at Walmart not too long ago and didn't take it, well because of the time but I just wanted to rethink what job I could get elsewhere as well
My previous job was acquired by new management, and they basically wanted me gone ASAP. So after being GM for 2 years they decided my small branch didn’t need a manager and someone could manage it plus another store for only 50 extra dollars a pay check. My ASM basically figured if she could get me out the door she’d get my job, which she did not. Oddly the lie she told was very similar to what you mentioned. I basically was salary but working 7 days a week nearly 90 hours some weeks for no extra pay. So I can’t say that I miss the job, but still stings to always be by the book busting your buns just to see no justice in the end. So yeah kinda know a little bit how you feel. XD
i quit my job of 5 years without putting in my two weeks. it felt good bro... i really feel you on that matter. thats how i knew that i was right about about leaving. because it felt like alot of weight was lifted.
I was just let go after 3 years back with them. Was told my rankings/percentile was below expectations. But my store is beating sales. My DL previously terminated anyone that hit goals. The DL will find any reason. I will not even be told about terminations. I will come in and see someone there covering their shift and they will tell me about it and will handed over a check for that SGA. When a DM tells you they have nothing to loose because this job to them is play money. Scary huh? I got paid more than any other SL in my district. I was rehired at a higher rate because of my previous tenure. It took them a year. They tried everything and finally waited for this ranking system. This past week, my district lost 3 Store Leaders high performance at that because of my DL attitude and shady ethical practice.
Gamestop needs to close down. It's very toxic there. The people there are rude and not very knowledgeable about what products they have. It's pretty sad that customers know more about games than the employees do. I was looking for a particular game there and they didn't even know about the game
I hope some law firm gets involved, and a class action is filed against GS in behalf of all the employees that were wrongfully terminated. These videos keep giving me more reasons not to shop at that store. I have been going to a store called Disc Replay for the longest time now. They offer all kinds of things, give you $33 credit for new trade in's, and have amazing prices.
reminds me of a trucking company i worked for. i was suspended because of equipment malfunction. then my safety bonus was taken because of it which was non safety related. when my boss told me i was losing the bonus my response was i'll start looking for another job and parked the truck at the yard and left. i heard a couple of weeks later that the company was merging/being bought out by another company which fell through. then they went to only having about 5 drivers down from the almost 30 we had. the company was trying to screw over people as much as possible to get them to quit. i was so happy on the drive home. my roommate was confused when i got home was like well i quit so lets drink some whiskey and play some video games.
Good on you for walking out on your own choice even though there wasn't much of a choice. Hope that you find better places to work especially with your outstanding 10+ years store management experience. Great to hear that you feel so much better after leaving.
This sort of disease of practice is not endemic to GameStop, this is a pandemic problem. I've known people who were fired because someone didn't like them on a personal level and went out of the way to find the most paper thin argument to have them fired. I've worked at a place where if it wasn't for the fact that I kept a huge paper trail for every question I asked or task I was given...I would've been fired several times. So yeah, no matter where you work, make sure to get what your supervisor/co-worker/etc tells you in writing. You never want to be in a place of he said she said.
Sfr528 THIS is crucial, especially if there’s even lore of such treatment but yet none that you see in daily practice. I shoot emails regularly to mgmt and other departments that are basically one-liner summaries of what we agreed upon, deadline and an invitation to reply if anything changes. I am fortunate in that I have flexibility in my role so long as the systems I handle are running smoothly. Even in good times, though, I keep daily logs of issues, discovered causes and who/where I reached out for help. It doesn’t require a book. “Just the facts”, as Joe Friday so famously said.
I worked at a In-n-out for 8 years. I was literally thier best employee for years but they would not make me a manager because and I quote " We are worried that if we promote you the other employees will not be able to handle the amount of work that we need performed at this location" (it was the busiest store in northern california) this went on for 6 year and I would see others who really were not anywhere as qualified as I was get promoted time and time again. It made me start to wonder if maybe I really just sucked at my job and didnt know it. We had a employee of the month like most companys that was decided by managers. Not one time did I get the award which made me believe that maybe it was true maybe I wasn't a good worker. On my last day they changed the way they did employee of the month by instead of the managers picking who it was the employees would vote for who it should be. Every single person there voted for me and said that not only did I deserve it but that I had been deserving of it for pretty much every month for the last fours and they never understood why it was never me. That's when I realized that it was never me because if there was years of records of me being employee of the month then they couldnt justify forcing me to stay at that store and never be promoted to management. I quit right after accepting the award and never went back. It was the best day of my life and the best decision I've ever made because I have a way better job now and make much much much more money then I ever did at In-n-out. To anyone reading this who might be in a similar position. Camelot is right if you feel like that you should leave and I would be willing to bet that it will be the best day of your life too.
It's like an overwhelming sense of freedom to have quit a shitty job. Don't put yourself through shit you don't deserve. If you're performing well in the fast food joint, then you can probably be a high performer at another better job. Be prepared to provide input when you see a need for something within your company. The more you get paid, the more you'll be asked to add your essence to the direction of the company. I almost got stuck in an oil field land scaping crew until I threatened to quit in lieu of getting moved to a plant operator trainee position. Just because I stuck up for myself in that one moment as a landscaper, I ended up going from being responsible for hundreds of dollars worth of equipment to millions within a month. The I did well there and decided to go off to school to learn HVAC. Now I fix things. I actually love repairing appliances and building stuff. Now I love my job, but this isn't the end. I plan to stay in this industry for an number of years before becoming a test instrument developer for the HVAC industry. Basically designing my own tools for taking all kinds of environmental measurement. I've built my own thermostat and micro manometer, but I need to learn as much as I can about the industry before trying to make tools for technicians.
Last job I had was at advance auto parts. And normally when you get a new DM, they get rid of all the all old store managers that were from the previous dm
Berserk Highlander Keep in mind, even as a manager, you’re still at will employee because there’s no union. Not normally what happens something like this the stores under performing as far as the DMS concern. I’ll fix the typos in the moment. I’ll keep mine from the store manager on up the chain they work for bonuses as well as the regular salary so it is not unheard of that Amanda will get terminated or reduced in rank which is a blow to the ego and then they will move them to another store in which case they have to spend money for gas to travel commute so they will eventually quit or which has a lot of hidden cameras. And they find some Questionable video, and then what happens this you’ll be hounded by your DM’s and you’ll be home to my loss prevention until you find just say the hell with it and leave or you’ll find something petty and then terminate you that’s how the game is played.
Holy shit. The GameStop I've gone to for the last 15 years had the same manager since it opened until about 2 years ago. I was told the reason he was let go was because of sexual harassment. Hearing your story makes me question if the claims were legitimate.
@@Skyhawk1998 Yeah , this is another reason, why I cannot understand, why Bernie Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist". It really does not fit, for Sanders is a run-off-the-mill SOCIALDEMOCRAT! The terms are not interchangeable, but in the US, you do.... only in America. Where are his PR consultants?
@@dercannabist-infoaufklarun8938 American politics in general are very "right-wing" by most standards. Even our most "left" politicians are really not all that liberal. The USA is an extremely conservative society, and an actual, bonafide socialist would never get anywhere in political offices. Even Bernie is having a hard time with more moderate voters.
*I left Staples because, after 5 years of loyal employment, being the top computer technician in the region, and saving a store as their EasyTech Supervisor, the DM did not follow through on his word to me. My GM, ASM begged me to stay, promising me the world but, I live and die by my word and upper management didn't, so, I left for another career and I have done well for myself. I found out the DM was fired a few months after i left.*
$16/hr for a store manager and that’s considered high compared to what a new store manager would make? Jesus Christ that’s such a joke wage for the responsibility required.
I totally related with your freedom high in your drive back, I have experienced them twice myself when quitting very high pressure jobs. First time I went straight to the beach and I sat on a bench for like an hour just taking on the breeze. The second time I had a party with my friends and June 27th is still celebrated to this very day as "freedom day"
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I think maybe either A: when you defended yourself against the false accusations successfully, a small but potent butthurt awakened in the HR, and he used the rationale of a 4th grade playground bully to illegitimate you, and remove you like they thought was going to happen smoothly as they were walking towards the door to come in and "borrow" you.... or B: That trick that said she was gonna get you fired over and over blew him in exchange for his inventing a reason to carry out her threat,
Sick ass people, man, seem to gravitate to that trash excuse for a video game store.. that ran real video game stores outta town.... They'll get what they deserve at some point.. We all do.
This is an interesting channel. Worked retail while in hs/college and it seems that was always the deal. If you move up and stick around too long, you make too much money, and you're gone. I remember all the old school 80s/90s managers would just disappear in waves. You seem like a good guy, but most of those people I didn't feel too bad for because they were not very nice people at all. Pretty big of you to quit. Sounds like they didn't have a real reason for the firing and you could have disputed. Plus I believe quitting in many cases makes you ineligible for unemployment and keep the company from getting dinged on unemployment tax. I was in a similar spot a couple times and just walked away and found a new opportunity. Having a "firing" on your record just seems like something to avoid, especially at management level.
lol oh my god you look so different
I am not a gamestop employee, I have been a regular customer for 6 years of a gamestop that isn't closing for now. However three other locations in the district are closing next month
You should look into wendy's denny's see what you can find
I worked for a papa John's for 2 years. I took my job seriously. If I was off and someone didnt show up for their shift, I would come in no questions asked. This happened quite frequently. To the point that I asked for a raise. Because I was working 60+ hours a week. But not only did my GM not give me a raise, but he chastised me for covering so many shifts. I quit less than a week later.
Fuck them dude, you're the real mvp.
Haha(Nelson from Simpsons laugh)
It’s literally illegal as an hourly employee for you to work more than 60 hours a week. If you work more than 60 hours a week the company can be fined. Look up the work hours act. The manager was mad because you unknowingly put his job at risk because he would have gotten fired for that if the company found out.
@@DarnComputer Well then, that manager should have made sure he had enough workers to cover missed shifts.
@@DarnComputer I worked over 60 hours a week consistently for about 5 months. I even cracked the 80 hour mark one time. Literally almost every day I had off I was getting a phone call asking to come in because someone didnt show up for their shift. He knew this was going on, and didnt say anything until I asked for a raise.
Young kid: I want to work at Gamestop. It would be so cool to work with games
Camelott331: I'm about to save this man's whole career
stupid, unoriginal comment
@@PANZERFAUST90 stupider unoriginal reply.
@@vengefuldeth stupid, unnecessary reply
Diarakostima I just wanna open my own gamestore
+PANZERFAUST90
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I used to work with a guy who'd been a Radio Shack manager for over twenty years. He told me that Radio Shack fired all of their long time manager and replaced them with kids in their early 20s. We see what happened to Radio Shack.
I left them after 15 years of management because I saw what was coming.
This is true
I used to go into radioshack and ask for a specific part like an op-amp, 555 timer or a mosfet ect, now its just sat tv cellphones and shit and mabe a dusty soldering iron on the shelf its just un-knowledge sales rep who can't even read a color code resistor or schematic. Sort of how hank hill goes into hardware store and ask for a tap and die and the dumb ass kid has a blank look on his face.
Gold Winger Same thing on my job. When older people were in charge, it was great for employees and customers. Now, these kids are in the position and it sucks. They are slow, lazy, rude and dumb ass hell. Thank God October 4th is my last day around them.
@@Energi2DmaxX Wanna fix your amplifier? Better have Amazon prime. Miss the days of walking in, buying components, and fixing/making whatever. No stores like that around me
Unfortunately, these days most places would rather save money than have quality, experienced staff that they have to pay more. It wasn't always this way. At one time loyalty mattered. This is why customer service has been abysmal in nearly every retail business out there now for years.
Walmart has been doing this for the last 15+ years. Corporate America at its finest.
Wow, didnt know that
Please elaborate on this because I just got a job there.
Alex Zink My statement won’t necessarily impact you since you’re a recent hire. My comment was in regards to Walmart finding any way possible to flush out all of the vested-tenured employees who make decent salaries and replacing them with entry level salaried employees or several different cheap part timers.
Poor people cry too much about being poor. Git gud at life ya bums😂🤣😂🤣. If it makes you feel any better I’m in a 250-750k settlement case👍
@@MyRUclipsHandIe lots of warehouses are trying to do this also. flush out the older and more experienced guys and rely on new hires to just push orders out. it's a shame but it's bound to happen, which i'm glad i was able to find a spot sanding in a flooring business
After what you just told me I'm glad gamestop is gonna go out of business
Joe Cestare welcome to capitalism
Alex Garcia that behavior is crony capitalism. It is not welcome and it is the foundation of why liberal ideology exists.
me too, I'm shorting their stock lol.
Joe Cestare when out of business?
@@julieboruta it is heading in that direction
Ive been going to the same Gamestop for almost a decade. The same 3 people have been working there since the first day I walked into it. I havent seen those 3 people in over 3 months now. I guess I know what happened
"It's been a pleasure playing with you tonight gentlemen."
@@CAMELOT331 from the movie "Titanic" for all you plebs
Yes, they've been murdered.
My last boss in a minimum-wage job was a rarity. He owned a franchise and did EVERYTHING he could to hold onto experienced employees, although he couldn't offer but so much in raises we were among the best-paid food service workers in the area, and he paid out of pocket more than once to help drivers who ran into serious car trouble. Great dude. I can't help but wonder at how much better life would be in the world if corporations and franchises were run by guys like Former Boss and not by penny-pinching sociopaths who look for excuses to fuck over the people keeping their businesses running day to day.
I'm afraid our entire country is full of these greedy sociopaths in both the private and government sector. We're in deep shit. Finding a job where you're paid well and treated decently is a major accomplishment.
@@cuteface88 Lucky you. Many people do not get a shot, even if they have an incredible work ethic and no medical problems that prevent them from handling labor intensive jobs that require no experience. I'm anxious to know about the company and what the safety protocol is. I imagine for twice the amount of minimum wage, there must be a fair amount of risk involved, unless you happened upon one of the most generous factories of all time with absolutely no ulterior incentive to make the starting wage so high.
@@cuteface88 how about replacing capitalism with a system where people do things based on their own free will and the desire to help other people instead of a system where you are forced to do things through domination and coercion and the love of money? the love of money is the root of all evil. capitalism is a system based on competition and the love of money. competition is immoral and never turns out positively. it can only work out positively in the short term if you are competing to be superior morally. being rich and powerful and successful is evil. being a loser is moral. god hates rich people and loves poor people. let me quote jesus here "it's easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven." having a position of power such as being rich, kicks in all of your animal instincts of being the dominant one in the pack and turns you evil and if you grow up rich you will be a sociopath. people only learn through suffering. everyone needs a good balance between suffering and happiness. communism is a system built on equality, decentralization and direct democracy. those are the three keys to a better world along with empathy and communism is a great solution to the world's problems. let me remind you that a communist country has never existed before. the west simply benefits from calling them communist so they can demonize communism and the "communist" countries benefit from calling themselves communist to try to justify their existence in some morality. the united states is not a democracy either. the richest one percent of people and biggest corporations control the country and the government, that's not how democracy works. we are a 100% fascist country and we control nearly every country on earth except a few as vassal states. there is no country in the world where people are free. with finland probably being the closest and they are the most socialist. modern oppression is much more sophisticated than what was used in the past. it's very easy to control what people think through propaganda and skillful manipulation in all forms of media. all of which are owned by the billionaire class aka the capitalist right wing forces of evil. you have to work hard to get out of the matrix.
i could go on forever but oh well you are probably just an ignorant right wing tool or a lying paid troll anyway. atleast Sarah Perkins has a good head on her shoulders.
@@cuteface88 oh fuck off with that boomer shit most employers are sacks of shit who don't care about their employees
Andrew Duncan I mean he’s not wrong. Do what you’re told and you’ll be fine. Want to make more money? Bust your ass and get a bigger reward. Been like that since the stone ages. If you don’t like working for people, freelancing is always an available option.
For all young people, your employer would love it if you quit in this situation. The best thing you can do is let them fire you and collect unemployment, or better yet file a lawsuit for wrongful termination.
you can still file for unemployment even if you quit unless its for good reason.
Gamestop is Blockbuster. They actually helped you. They are an antiquated business model. BTW, we have labor laws. You should have let them terminate you then you had an excellent case for wrongful termination.
By their account they did terminate him.
ya but even an unlawful termination case would settle for a lot less than a yearly salary. so its cheaper for the company to terminate. company's are fully aware of this
@@kenmasters916 Not necessarily at least in my country they would have to pay the person till they can get a job that can achieve the same amount and because it's a corporate entity they might have to pay court fees as well as potential fines I guess long term it would save money
Not just wrongful termination, but wage theft. If he's an hourly employee performing work, even if it's at a desk, and they don't pay him for that time, that's stealing. Their assertion that sitting at the desk constitutes a break is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
@@themosh54 100%
Deadass always wanted to work at a GameStop but ever since I started to watch your vids decided I would rather get stabbed lol.
Bomb Aftermath 😂
Say "Deadass" in any interview outside Hollister and see if you get hired. 😜
Hahaha
J Phizack he’s not in an interview. He can speak however he wants. The language he uses has nothing to do with his capability as a worker.
You don’t want to get those sweet 3 hours per month at 8 bucks an hour?!?! What is wrong with you?
Absolutely nobody:
GameStop:
*fires guy for returning 25cent item*
@@thesupersonicstig if returned it doesn't count as theft..
@@thesupersonicstig A car does not equate to a 25 cent item. Be realistic with your comparisons. Furthermore, it was an accident. Someone doesn't accidentally steal a car. There's major intent behind your example and no intent behind what actually happened.
thesupersonicstig are with GameStop? jeesh give the guy a break😂😂
@@thesupersonicstigif returning that counts as theft, I can name multiple district managers that used their discounts for people other than themselves when I worked there.
@@thesupersonicstig Be real! I work twelve hour shifts and have ended the week so tired I forgot to check a pocket. He didn't get fired for theft, he got fired because he had been there too long and were looking for a reason. Hell, how had he been there for so long if he didn't already have a positive track record? Honest people don't normally get fired for stupid shit. GS is just a crap company.
As a GM at Papa Johns these are the exact reasons I’m saving to get out of the corporate world
Papa John's is rough man
Corporate World? I guess... But come to the financial industry and experience true bull shit/definitely illegal shenanigans.
@@qwertyuiop-ke7fs any food industry is rough. I used to work for Burger King. I hated it. They find reasons to fire you. if they want to fire you, it doesn't matter how well you know the rules. they're going to get you.
@@daoyang223 You must have been a bad worker. Been in foodservice mgt my whole life and usually a warm body that shows up is all it takes to keep a job.
@@thomasmickle7289 Everyone was terrible. The manager was stealing money. The district manager would only hire White's and Asians. So she would filter the applications when put through to corporate.
The assistant manager was popping molly everynight and discriminantly bullshit the night shift and manually clocked us out 30 mins after closing time. Even though we worked at least an hour after closing time to clean everything up for the morning shift.
It was a shit show.
Ive been fired from a dealership for being "unhappy"
Damn. I've been fired from a computer sales position for being honest. Ain't sales grand?
"Your to sad, so we're gonna fire you suddenly with no warning and make you miserable"
"We can fire you for sitting at your desk."
"Are we all getting fired for sitting at this desk?"
oh shit. I HAVE been sitting at my desk!! o no
Fired for working at your desk at your job.... what you mean you want me to sit here and work for free?! XD um no...
Im currently at my desk in my home. Should i be worried?
Did yall go on break to have this meeting since you’re sitting here? Guess ill call your boss...
Imagine if EVERY single employee got termed leaving them completely understaffed
I know the feeling. The false feeling of working for a dead end job. You won't realize how much you've been in bondage until you leave.
Dante P wow
Anthony Leyva and I've worked there too. Fun times
And you don’t know how valuable you are until you decide to move on to greater things. 🙏
I felt that way when I escaped the Minimum Wage World after 11 years.
Yep, it's always LP bullshit. I left during an investigation into using my power up card to give an irate customer $0.11 credit on his Madden trade. This was before we had issued a store card to use. Meanwhile a floating ASM with less than a year used his card for all his friends and family. Never had a single issue from HR. Moral of every gamestop story. Don't work for gamestop!
LP?
@@Sammmmmmmm617 loss prevention
@@MrHarrilasagna when did you work for gamestop?
Started when it was EB games, quit around when they changed the magazine and you had to pay for it instead of getting it free.
@@MrHarrilasagna I remember when it used to be eb games. Didn't know the magazine was free though
always remember, HR is not there to help the employees, they are there to help the company. I've been working for wal-mart for many years, and their "customers first" policies are all complete bs. Companies are never there for anyone other than themselves and their shareholders
Dumb move quitting, I would have let them fire me, as soon as they did I'd sue them for wrongful termination.
Jimi sure because suing people doesn't cost you a TON of $....... smh
and the company in this case game-stop knows this and they would have dragged it out....... proved what I said at 17:42
@stockart whiteman he wouldn't actually have to do much other than go to the labor board because they would handle the case for him. He was not committing time card fraud because there was nothing to do in the store and they would do him being at his desk making a game plan as fine. Just because you're not doing anything at the moment on a job does not mean you're committing time card fraud otherwise every valet driver in America is committing time card fraud almost every second
did you listen to the video? they did fire him.
And then you would lose in most U.S. states.* They don't need a good reason to fire you. Their asserted reason does not even need to be factually correct or work related. "You are fired because I think you stole from the register" when security cameras prove you did not? - Legally valid. "You are fired because your shoes are brown" even though your shoes are green? Legally valid. In most states termination just has to not be discriminatory against a protected characteristic.
*Montana is the only U.S. state with a default employment law rule providing for-cause protection against termination.
Ashton Rooks this guy has it right. Most states are “at will employment.” A new manager can come in and fire you for basically anything they want. They can literally say “you aren’t a team player.” Now the onus is on you to prove in a court of law that you were wrongfully terminated because you are a team player.
Not too long ago I left a company I had been with for 5 years. I had been working as an unpaid supervisor for four and a half of those five years. I asked to be compensated for doing the job with a merit raise. I was told no. So I walked to the office asked for some paper and wrote my 2 week letter of resignation. I worked out my two weeks and I left. Sometimes you have to stick up for yourself and do whats right by you. I had enough money I could afford to be out of work for 6 months before things became an issue. It took about 2 and a half months before I found another job. And even during those couple of months without work I felt empowered to be free of it. The depression I felt for being unappreciated day after day after day took a toll on me. And even with being depressed about being out of work every day I was away from that job I felt better about myself.
*Clocks in 1 minute early*
Gamestop: TIME CARD FRAUD
Higher ups in retail are some of the worst people ever. They are so petty with everything. Firing people makes them fell good about being the low lives they are.
Most of the time higher-up managers went to a college and got a degree hoping for some big-time tailored suit executive job, only for that plan to fall flat on its face. Misery loves company.
They have to be. They have nothing better to do than micro-manage because their higher ups are on their ass.
“Can we borrow you?” Hahahaha because we’re gonna bring you back that killed me
I swear, HR ruins everything within a company.
Hr is only there to look out for the company. They will do what ever it takes to look out for the company, and it’s image. Which never includes the employees. It’s easier to fire someone for some bullshit Mickey Mouse reason and hire someone else at a cheaper rate. Employees are a dime a dozen.
HR only wants to hear what they wanna hear when interviewing people, preferably young college students because THEY ARE CHEAP not a 30 yr old with years of experience.
@@MegaVidgeek but it looks bad on a company if there is a high turnover employee rate, rather than the company fireing them it just looks better from an employee's side that they left rather than getting fired.
@@MegaVidgeek but why would they come up with "bullshit Mickey mouse reasons" if they didn't need to come up with a reason at all to fire him?
Well that's wrong, I work in HR, we follow protocol , federal and provincial legislation, and corporate policies. Simple as that.
Can’t sit and work at your desk as the manager? Wtf is the point of having a desk if you can’t be paid to work with it?
Btw, I applied to a GameStop back in 2009, never got a callback. I really dodged a bullet
I was thinking on pre-ordering the new Pokémon games at Gamestop but then I realized on "what if they suddenly closed down between now or before the games release?"
Going to Best Buy instead.
what would be the protocol?
Or you could just do it digitally?
@@scribecypress If they were to wind down honestly, then they would give you fair warning to come get your money. If they were to go the typical corporate route, then they would tell you that everything is great, until they suddenly declare bankruptcy. At which point, only high-level debt-holders, like banks and major investors, would stand a chance of ever getting money out of them. You'd be boned.
Maybe there would be a class-action lawsuit that you could join, against whatever holding company bought up their remains. 7 years of litigation later, you'd get a check in the mail for your portion of the settlement. Probably five bucks.
Don't do that
I woulda been like “do you get payed to sit at YOUR desk?”
literally i thought this
He should have threatened to report the HR rep for time card fraud since they were probably having this conversation at a desk
I worked for a grocery store when i turned 16. They hired and fired people just before they worked there long enough to collect unemployment.
The way i got fired was so dumb. I called the manager to find out when my first shift of the week was, as the schedule hadn’t come out when I’d last worked. She told me 2 PM. I show up on time and she asks me to come to her office. She tells me I was scheduled to work at 12, not 2, and fires me on the spot.
I got fired unfairly once. It’s was a bullshit pizza delivery job but I was so mad just out of principal. I was delivering pizzas and the Mexican guy who works in the kitchen doing all the prep work, cutting up vegetables and stuff, was asking another delivery driver to buy him cigarettes. I was the only one who could understand his Spanglish, and he offered to pay $5 for it. So I did it. Later, he was asking me to get him Starbucks. I saw where this was going and was going to put a stop to it, but before I even answered the manager said “Don’t even think about it”. I looked at him and said “Hmm?” And he just said, “you heard me” and tended to a customer. I was going ask him to clarify the situation, but before I had a chance to do that I had to run a delivery. When I got back the manager was gone, but he told the guy under him to fire me. The guy says “I don’t know what you two were talking about, but my boss told me to fire you”. I told him how the guy asked me to get him coffee, and I didn’t even agree to do it. He just said “My boss told me to fire you so that’s that”. I was soooooo pissed. It wasn’t even mad I lost the job, just how it happened. I was planning all the emails I was going to write management, but by the time I got home I was over it. It still pisses me off when I think about it though.
Sitting at the desk constitutes a break...
... WHAT?
So, when the corporate bigwigs sit around a boardroom desk (aka having a meeting), that should constitute a break, no?!
Just... WAT
20 minute video, and it's been published for only 4 minutes. And already has one dislike.
Hmm. I smell something. Some bullshity. Sniff sniff.
Blake Preston its probably GameStop
It was EGG
Fucking Egg
@@DeTofuKing LOL
Well he did do that annoying higher pitched voice where he talks slower and thinks it’s funny. That’s enough reason right there.
They. cite time card fraud to avoid having to pay unemployment.
Jon Luci problem is a lot of corporate and higher ups will just take another spot at other shady businesses that just love to rip off their employees and customers
Can confirm, literally happened to me and my position with an insurance company.
Jon Luci at this point its not “if they go out of business, dont feel bad” its become they better lose every penny theyve ever made using these shitty tactics and im gonna feel great about it
And they admitted to it in the paperwork if he bothered to get it in writing.
@@anthonyrumbaugh7767 I thought insurance salesmen got paid on commission and they weren't salary and/or hourly? The reason I'm asking that question is because about a year ago I got an offer to sell insurance and it was strictly commission.
I worked for a grocery store called Publix. I worked as a bakery manager and worked 60-80 hour weeks consistently. My team of workers was made up of 50 plus year old women who were jaded and didn't want to do anything. I had to do almost everything every day while trying to do management stuff in the back room if I could find the chance. Our store also was extremely slow because it was on an island so I had almost no hours for my workers, so a lot of the workload was placed on me. I'd bake everything, unload trucks, clean the entire department, and then make schedules and try to do business plans every single day. When I quit I felt SO free man.
I worked at Hollywood Video for 5yrs. I was told no overtime since I was management and salary. Those above me would constantly force people to work "off the clock" to save money. I disagreed & moved on. If any employee complained about working off the clock, their hours would be cut.
Gamestop manager *sits at desk to make schedules for store employees*
Gamestop: why are you clocked in while sitting down? THATS TIME CLOCK FRAUD!
Man I spent 13 years at Toys R Us up until they closed. I can relate to much of what you say and boy do I have some stories. Seriously leaving was such a blessing, felt so good walking out the last time. A new beginning!
A lot of things Gamestop does sounds borderline illegal. Something things I've heard they do is absolutely illegal. Even a lot of the things they do that probably are legal are still incredibly shady and toxic. Probably the best decision you ever made was quitting.
When one door closes, another opens, with bigger, better opportunities. It always does. At age 50, I think back on all the B.S. I put up with and realize I put up with way too much.
Same here man.
You should contact the Labor department in your state. That's the correct course of action here. They will be in deep crap for this. Which is why they are freaking out.
Yup, I work for IBM. I haven't seen anyone retire on their own terms since I started. They are normally shown the door first.
Had a college professor who used to work for IBM. After 6 years, he eventually went back to IBM.
He told me it’s a weird work environment.
parents both worked for IBM for about 20 years, maybe bit more. towards the end of that mother was scared for prolly couple years of being let go since she's an experienced and therefore expensive employee. both of em told me how they were expected to do overtime and not report it. but they made good money while they were there. guess that's why they stayed
I've heard about this happening with the company formerly known as Harris Corporation. Luckily L3 Technologies isn't keen on paying you what you're worth.
I had the exact same feeling. I had been working this job for years - It was trash but some of the people i worked with made it good - I have been abused left and right by line manager after line manager trying to throw their weight around yet when they needed someone to cover shifts because they were short i was *ALWAYS* there. The company I was working for was having a rough time and a lot of managers just up and resigned and we had nobody looking after our department for 6 months. Rosters werent getting done. Holidays werent getting booked into the system and even my HR department were playing games with me. Told me they could put it in the system for me if i emailed them the details. a week later i called them up again and they told me they didnt have the power to do that and to speak to my line manager when our department was virtually headless and the guy they had supposedly looking after us never answered his phone.
Managers kept on leaving. New managers kept coming in and throwing their weight around before they also left or got moved to a different department because it was too much stress.
Then they tried to pin some shit on me saying that i had sexually harassed one of their clients, but she was as much complicit in this as i was. I knew they wanted me out because I had gone from working an entire month with barely any days off to only working 3 days a week for them and not answering their phone calls on my days off because I had been lied to and abused so many times by managers.
None of them wanted to hear me out and what i had to say so I just said "alright, im done" and hung up the phone. I sent in my resignation via email. They didnt have enough respect for me to have me in the office and talk me in person about what the client was accusing me of. Even the guy who I had known me since the first day i started work who made manager didnt want to back me up and me and this guy were supposed to be cool. None of them motherfuckers sitting at their desks in the city, drinking coffee had any words of support for me despite me being there for so long and bailing them out when they needed me even on real short notice. Like i could be spending time with family, they would call me and id drop everything to go cover a shift for them.
When i did get to speak to a region or area manager, He wasnt interested in anything that i had to say about my treatment over the years ive worked for the company. Nothing but lies upon lies and broken promises.... And thats why i went part time on their ass. Its not like I lacked the commitment or the dedication but those assholes didnt deserve me just like gamestop didnt *deserve you*
Anyway. I hope you got a job thats less stressful and pays a lot better than gamestop.
God man, what a sick world we live in
Just goes to show that when you have incompetent and irresponsible guys working in places like that. Bad things happens.
Fucking sucks to hear dude. What I would've done is to let them dismiss me then, take these bastards to court for false dismissal. All the best.
Wow so you where in break the whole time HR was trying to fire you >
"I just bought this ps4 and I wanted to trade it in for $299" "Ok great, we will give you 55$, since you have your receipt" . Gamestop can go to hell. Glad they are going out of business.
@Dante P Nah, you can enjoy NO gamestop and realize there are more options out there that SAVE you money, so you shut up.
@@xplics Nah, you can enjoy NO gamestop and realize there are more options out there that SAVE you money, so you shut up. Seriously do YOU like paying more and getting less for stuff? If so, then you are a special snowflake.
@Dante P lmao your life is meaningless now, congrats
@Dante P Lol, you are one sad panda. Let's see what you say next.
55???? They at least gave me 120 for mine.
What was this video about? I was watching the mortal Kombat arcade
He got all 3 of them joints on one machine.
Same thing happened to me at GameStop. 12 yrs there as a SM and fired for no reason. My entire staff lasted another 2 months and they left. Same scenario. DM and HR shows up bc of the ASM. My ASM was terminated a few months later for theft. *Protect the family
Boss Hogg GameStop is such a joke. You are better off man.
@@jaydenrock You're right, it's weird how GameStop makes you fill like you belong to a cult or something as an employee. The job is absolutely terrible but people cling to it. I liked being in the video game industry and dealing with video games everyday.
I would find sm's and other employees fired for bs reasons and go in on a huge lawsuit because most of this stuff sounds unethical lol (edit) and all seem too similar
Sock Monkey the problem is the pay is so bad and the stress is so awful that once you get out of that hell hole. You kinda feel it ain’t worth it suing. You don’t want to have them waste anymore of your life. All Gamestop wants is to weed out the ethical employees. Nothing else matter except making the shareholders happy. They give you a unattainable task and the ones that usually get on top are the ruthless and the unethical employees. Some are legit good workers I’m sure and I don’t know how they survive.
Now.
Watch this tactic scummy DMs will teach you: Ok sir your total with GPG is $67.53.
Customer: Ok cool I’ll pay.
Later customer looks at receipt: wtf is a GPG? Why did I get charged a extra $3 bucks per game?
The DM of GameStop and SM is hoping you don’t notice and don’t care enough to come back to complain. Now if you do complain the employee will tell you he told you and he did. BUUUTTT as a customer how do you know what a GPG is. He might as well spoke a different language. If do happen to catch that at the register then they get to use their sales tactics to convince you. Which they should have explained a GPG before adding it. When you go into any retail business that large chain it’s psychological warfare from the higher ups to the employees. Then to finally to you as the customer. It’s really creepy when your finally from the outside looking in and GPGs are a small example.
I used to work at Gamestop between 2002-2004. One of my favorite things in the world was telling the parents of children who wanted GTA3 or GTAVC what was in the.
Parent: Whats wrong with it? It's just a video game.
Me: Well, first off the name of the game is Grand Theft Auto. You spend most of the game running around killing cops and stealing cars. When you get injured you can find these little heart icons which give you some health back, but those can be kinda hard to find, it's easier just to just find a prostitute, pull into a dark allyway and do your thing...
Parent looking at child: You're grounded.
Seriously though, when they got rid of me they pulled a similar trick. I was a 3rd key while I was there. There was this revolving door of managers and district managers. My first year I thought thqat I would be able to get into a higher position quicker because of this, but eventually I would have my eyes opened. In my day GS doesn't really want you to get fired no matter the reason, they want you to quit because there are unemployment options but if you have been fired but if you quit they don't pay have for unemployment. I had reported one of the managers for theft numerous times, sent detailed messages to Loss Prevention about the credit scam he was running, as well as reporting the merch he would stash in the trashcans so he could reclaim the next morning from the dumpsters, only to be told by my DM that I wasn't doing enough to keep him from stealing. After almost six months of this they finally fired him for theft. On Christmas Eve. My DM was willing to sacrifice thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise so she could humiliate him on the busiest shopping day of the year. This same DM fired one of our ASM's for a clerical error he made, that he notified her about. At one point this same DM even asked me to drop out of school because, in her words, "Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for our company".
Eventually they would decide to get rid of me. On that day the DM showed up and pulled me into the office. She had a typed up resignation letter and kept badgering signing it. I didn't want to leave at the time but we were in the office for something like two hours and she wouldn't let me leave. After she convinced me to sign it she called her boss and let her know I quit, and I heard her reassure him that she was able to get me to sign a resignation letter. After leaving I had a really hard time finding a job, I was unemployed for over a year, eventually I had a friend of mine hook me up with am interview at his company. After the interview, which I thought was successful my friend called me up asking me why I didn't tell him I was fired for stealing. I ended up calling the store pretending to be a company checking employment references about myself and was told by the manager I was speaking with that I was terminated for theft. So I had been filling out applications and sending them to people that were talking to my longest employment reference (at the time) who intentionally trying to sabotage me for no apparent reason.
I hate that company.
@Uptown Slim But it was sooooooo funny.
Find a good career or employment lawyer and he will build you a fat case for deformation of character and numerous other crimes. Your suit could definitely hold up In big boi court and you would get a bomb ass settlement deal out of it (as will your lawyer)
I'm not one to sue
But thay only applies to regular joe smoes
Hell if everyone gave testimony the entire USA could receive a recompense check as payment to society from Gamestops nefarious business practices, the evidence is literally on paper and very substantial.
(I realized this isnt exactly how law works but these cases would stand)
I dont understand why people WOULDN'T jump at the opportunity to deliver justice to a corrupt business because usually they have very substantial evidence yet people feel like it won't matter in the end. That's why companies KEEP DOING SHADY SHIT
Infact going through the trouble of legal pursuit would almost assuredly result in some type of benefit.
They did the same to me back in 08. The new manager didn't like me and I couldn't get good subscriptions to game informer. In turn I got less hours till I was scheduled for like 2 hours or something and it was only one day a week! Told to get more subs for more hours. How do you do that when the hours worked are bullshit. But I kept showing up on time, did my job as a game advisor, and kept busy when literally no one came to the store. Only to throw in the towel the day I was to be fired. I lasted 4 months and those 4 months were the worst. I worked with great people but the managers were shit.
"Have you seen the people workin' here? They're all a bunch o'...butter golems."
LOL
Settlements definitely imply guilt, but it’s not an admission. It’s usually cheaper to settle than to go to trial. Good on the guy for taking it all the way, I hope the judge rules in his favor.
“People ask me all the time ‘why did you stay so long if it was so terrible’”
I assume that these people have never ever been to that magical place for adults that we call employment.
Christ, I swear its gunna take at least 3 generations just to get productivity, will, spirit, and work ethic to become things again.
Thanks elite. You really are the embodiment of unnecessary evil.
"You're working at your desk, which is the same thing as a break. You better clock out while planning the whole day or I will fire you."
You’re worth everything. LameStop isn’t even worth $2.17 in-store credit
With all the debt they have 2.17 might be a little high
@@ghostnoodle9721 they be like Rick I'll give you a dollar but a dollar is kinda of hard it might sit on shelf for a year and then I got to hire people and remodel the store
I cant wait till GAMESTOP goes out of business
I can. They sponsor my events for cod!
Agreed. Sent My mother in with 12 games one time thought "all right after school I'm gonna have some money and a new game" got picked up and she refused to sell, turns out they offered her a whole 8 dollars for all of them, and she threw a fit, the only good news I got was how she embarrassed the hell out of the ass hole who did that.
Johnny The truth teller
There will be 200,000 other companies treating their employees exactly this way even without GameStop
@@MrShanester117 then they will die off with gamestop when people stop buying from them :D
Shana Red-Hot Hunter
That’s not how the real world works
You guys need to get in a class action lawsuit and try to get some cash out of them before they go under.
They probably were required to sign a document requiring disputes to be resolved by arbitration with rules forbidding merger to other people's claims. The result is thousands of claims, any one of them too small for lawyers to invest the time, energy, and resources in so no one gets representation and practically no one goes forward at all.
Just discovered your channel and I'm hooked. I can totally relate to your stories. Glad you're getting all of this out of your system. Best of luck out there.
I’ve been in a similar situation with being trapped in a soul sucking job you’re afraid to leave due to being comfortable.
It’s like being an institutionalized prisoner that doesn’t know how to live in the outside world. The kind that commits a petty crime so he’ll be sent back to prison, or hangs themselves like the old man in Shawshank Redemption that couldn’t function outside of prison.
Brooks was here. Btw havent forgot you yet Scorn.
Okay so I have been there before bro, worked at Old Navy for 2 years and had the same thing. A supervisor below me was a female and laughed everyday about taking my job, she told me week after week that she was going to get my job. One day she fabricated an entire bullshit claim to HR for the same type of shit you been through. They let me go that day. It’s crazy but my life has been exponentially better since I left. It’s always a blessing bro.
I really hope that that ASM didn't get promoted because people like that don't deserve it.
*Next video inbound because she got the job*
Brady or you can hope she did get the job so game stop would treat her like they did him
True story...my wife used to work for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. They hired a new district manager when the old one got promoted. I guess the old one was real descent to work for and was well liked. The new guy was one of these aggressive types that had to get in there and "shake things up". So he proceeded to demand that the district's biggest customer, a chain of local car dealerships, pay more for their loaner cars they were contracted to get exclusively through Enterprise. Their answer? We will go to Hertz instead. So this idiot basically single handedly lost the company millions of dollars. So what did Enterprise do to make up for this? Had massive layoffs. But that guy still has his job.
Steve *facepalms*
As I’ve grown in my career I’ve got a lot better about covering my own ass. Anytime a superior or a client asks me to do something or gives me a new directive I always ask for it on writing or in an email. I want a paper trail so there is never a he/said moment down the line. I learned that the hard way when I got fired many years ago as a Logistics coordinator “allegedly” delivering a customer order late. They customer had called me. Told me verbatim they wanted to change the date, then when they ended up being wrong about that and forgot to reschedule with their people turned around and claimed the conversation never happened and threw me under the bus. So I don’t trust anyone anymore with my job.
God has left the store.
Employee: Hey! Before you go can I interest you in our rewards card?
God: :/
Don't worry, God doesn't speak English.
@@ThickpropheT Just put it on his bill anyway. Say it's a tax!
Man, your stories are compelling. Great job, man. I have to thank you, too. Shortly after I found you a few weeks ago, I bought Puts (shorted) in GME. You were my inspiration and its paid off nicely. Big fan of the channel! Keep up the good work.
I was going to work at gamestop and the manager said you will love it here i came back and ask a worker and he said it is hell to work here go to CM Games (which is another game store which is local and very nice)
Bro you okay ? Every joke has some truth. You dealing with depression ?
Just remember folks, HR exists to protect the company; not you.
someone needs to make a Gamestop employee recovery group if there isnt one already
Plot twist: He made this video after a shift at GameStop.
I was just thinking: when GameStop is gone or morphs into some even lesser entity, YOU my friend are all that remains of the chronicled lore surrounding it..
Edit: you should look into interviewing others (present and past) employees. Use that "inside edition" style where the guests are blacked out with voices distorted...
I turned in some used video games to GameStop and they wanted: Name, Address, Phone Number and DATE OF BIRTH (which you never give out). When I questioned the employee they claimed that the PD required them to obtain that information. After I called the Chief of Police (whom I happened to know) on my cellphone, things got quiet.
I also quit/fired from a keyholder position at Gamestop. I made my first inventory mistake after 7(?) years and decided not to play the guilt-game with them.
Unfortunately, I understand how very tight the margins are on their inventory-- I hate to say that I'm on their side with trade values (after seeing the amount of product we just threw out at yearend) we were like literally buying tomorrow's garbage... The real problem is that market is changing faster than they can keep up, from my viewpoint digital gaming didn't hit them as hard as retail shifting to online as a whole did; one reason out of many that GS's lifeline, the American Shopping Mall is dying. -- Aside, I'm a PC gamer, I haven't stepped into a GS for but one game (RD2) since I left, because I didn't need to -- Everything I need comes faster better and cheaper from Amazon or Best Buy (no company is perfect). Their best hope is to close up a ton of stores instead of bailing water, recenter themselves on a few regional boutique stores, not stuck inside a mall with 4 straggling shops (a mix of Vape shops that sell funko pops and bootlegs versions of the same pop culture shirts GS does). Fresh, new, destination stores with lifestyle products and merch, truly become "the only place to get X." Do what Best Buy did -- realize the ship was sinking, take a step back, fix the culture and the experience, rather than trying to fall up the stairs with the same-old. Maybe for GS, that means collectibles like Weta props or one-of-a-kinds, PC hardware and build eperts so you don't have to wait on amazon, costume clothing like Assassin hoodies or the FF designer lines.
If GS is around in 15 years it won't be with 140 used Maddens on the shelves. From the floor staff standpoint, I can attest that it was a pretty horrendous situation all around even 5/6 years ago. Though, I made friendships and memories that will last a liftetime, and I learned a lot of lessons there as basically my first job. There was not enough time to complete tasks, the manager was under so much stress she couldn't help but pass it to us, I never trusted our DM even a little bit because HQ is wound up so tight because everything is so scant. If ever a company was going to fail because the attitude at the top was a bigger problem than the solutions coming from the top, it's Gamestop.
Doesn't your state have a wrongful/constructive dismissal law? This sounds like a constructive dismissal, where you're essentially forced to quit due to circumstances at the workplace.
Fahad Said he should have just got fired for unemployment. But Quito g feels better
Love your channel. It would be fun to watch your game reviews!
FUCKING ANYYYYTHING ELSE....
@@bam5882 Lol, you getting tired of hearing about gamestop?
Totally understand that feeling when I was fired from my job of 10 years I felt the same way. I kept doing the same shitty job every day because it paid my Bill's and leaving is scary.
I left Walmart because of this type of thing. Same shit happens there.
Yup I've been at with Walmart for almost a year now I'm trying to get another job lined up to leave. Walmart pay is okay for what the work is its an easy job but holy shit is management toxic asf
I had gotten an interview at Walmart not too long ago and didn't take it, well because of the time but I just wanted to rethink what job I could get elsewhere as well
@@PrincessofKeys just as an update from 3 weeks ago I'm still stuck at that miserable place I've applied at 5 different places
Spoiler: He left Gamestop After 11 Years because he was tired of being paid $1.76/hr in GameStop credit. 😂
Lol and he also tried trading in a new game and got 4 dollars worth of in store credit😂
Wait WHAT?!?!
My previous job was acquired by new management, and they basically wanted me gone ASAP. So after being GM for 2 years they decided my small branch didn’t need a manager and someone could manage it plus another store for only 50 extra dollars a pay check. My ASM basically figured if she could get me out the door she’d get my job, which she did not. Oddly the lie she told was very similar to what you mentioned. I basically was salary but working 7 days a week nearly 90 hours some weeks for no extra pay. So I can’t say that I miss the job, but still stings to always be by the book busting your buns just to see no justice in the end.
So yeah kinda know a little bit how you feel. XD
You should do reviews of games solely cause of youre humor and knowledge of the gaming industry tbh
Worlds most accurate statement about a crap job “washed all the filth off from the previous night of terror and crippling depression”
i quit my job of 5 years without putting in my two weeks. it felt good bro... i really feel you on that matter. thats how i knew that i was right about about leaving. because it felt like alot of weight was lifted.
I was just let go after 3 years back with them. Was told my rankings/percentile was below expectations. But my store is beating sales. My DL previously terminated anyone that hit goals. The DL will find any reason. I will not even be told about terminations. I will come in and see someone there covering their shift and they will tell me about it and will handed over a check for that SGA. When a DM tells you they have nothing to loose because this job to them is play money. Scary huh? I got paid more than any other SL in my district. I was rehired at a higher rate because of my previous tenure. It took them a year. They tried everything and finally waited for this ranking system. This past week, my district lost 3 Store Leaders high performance at that because of my DL attitude and shady ethical practice.
I felt the same way 13 years ago when I left my last civilian job and enlisted.
Gamestop needs to close down. It's very toxic there. The people there are rude and not very knowledgeable about what products they have. It's pretty sad that customers know more about games than the employees do. I was looking for a particular game there and they didn't even know about the game
So what was the point of a desk if you aren't allowed to sit and work there?
I hope some law firm gets involved, and a class action is filed against GS in behalf of all the employees that were wrongfully terminated. These videos keep giving me more reasons not to shop at that store. I have been going to a store called Disc Replay for the longest time now. They offer all kinds of things, give you $33 credit for new trade in's, and have amazing prices.
"Butter Golems," was not ready lmao.
reminds me of a trucking company i worked for. i was suspended because of equipment malfunction. then my safety bonus was taken because of it which was non safety related. when my boss told me i was losing the bonus my response was i'll start looking for another job and parked the truck at the yard and left. i heard a couple of weeks later that the company was merging/being bought out by another company which fell through. then they went to only having about 5 drivers down from the almost 30 we had. the company was trying to screw over people as much as possible to get them to quit. i was so happy on the drive home. my roommate was confused when i got home was like well i quit so lets drink some whiskey and play some video games.
Good on you for walking out on your own choice even though there wasn't much of a choice. Hope that you find better places to work especially with your outstanding 10+ years store management experience. Great to hear that you feel so much better after leaving.
This sort of disease of practice is not endemic to GameStop, this is a pandemic problem. I've known people who were fired because someone didn't like them on a personal level and went out of the way to find the most paper thin argument to have them fired. I've worked at a place where if it wasn't for the fact that I kept a huge paper trail for every question I asked or task I was given...I would've been fired several times.
So yeah, no matter where you work, make sure to get what your supervisor/co-worker/etc tells you in writing. You never want to be in a place of he said she said.
Sfr528 THIS is crucial, especially if there’s even lore of such treatment but yet none that you see in daily practice. I shoot emails regularly to mgmt and other departments that are basically one-liner summaries of what we agreed upon, deadline and an invitation to reply if anything changes. I am fortunate in that I have flexibility in my role so long as the systems I handle are running smoothly. Even in good times, though, I keep daily logs of issues, discovered causes and who/where I reached out for help.
It doesn’t require a book. “Just the facts”, as Joe Friday so famously said.
I remember quitting my toxic job awhile back. That same day I actually went straight to the park and fed birds. I’ve never felt so happy.
Feeding birds at the park is awesome
I worked at a In-n-out for 8 years. I was literally thier best employee for years but they would not make me a manager because and I quote " We are worried that if we promote you the other employees will not be able to handle the amount of work that we need performed at this location" (it was the busiest store in northern california) this went on for 6 year and I would see others who really were not anywhere as qualified as I was get promoted time and time again. It made me start to wonder if maybe I really just sucked at my job and didnt know it. We had a employee of the month like most companys that was decided by managers. Not one time did I get the award which made me believe that maybe it was true maybe I wasn't a good worker. On my last day they changed the way they did employee of the month by instead of the managers picking who it was the employees would vote for who it should be. Every single person there voted for me and said that not only did I deserve it but that I had been deserving of it for pretty much every month for the last fours and they never understood why it was never me. That's when I realized that it was never me because if there was years of records of me being employee of the month then they couldnt justify forcing me to stay at that store and never be promoted to management. I quit right after accepting the award and never went back. It was the best day of my life and the best decision I've ever made because I have a way better job now and make much much much more money then I ever did at In-n-out. To anyone reading this who might be in a similar position. Camelot is right if you feel like that you should leave and I would be willing to bet that it will be the best day of your life too.
It's like an overwhelming sense of freedom to have quit a shitty job. Don't put yourself through shit you don't deserve. If you're performing well in the fast food joint, then you can probably be a high performer at another better job. Be prepared to provide input when you see a need for something within your company. The more you get paid, the more you'll be asked to add your essence to the direction of the company. I almost got stuck in an oil field land scaping crew until I threatened to quit in lieu of getting moved to a plant operator trainee position. Just because I stuck up for myself in that one moment as a landscaper, I ended up going from being responsible for hundreds of dollars worth of equipment to millions within a month. The I did well there and decided to go off to school to learn HVAC. Now I fix things. I actually love repairing appliances and building stuff. Now I love my job, but this isn't the end. I plan to stay in this industry for an number of years before becoming a test instrument developer for the HVAC industry. Basically designing my own tools for taking all kinds of environmental measurement. I've built my own thermostat and micro manometer, but I need to learn as much as I can about the industry before trying to make tools for technicians.
You should report all these issues to the department of labor.
Last job I had was at advance auto parts. And normally when you get a new DM, they get rid of all the all old store managers that were from the previous dm
Is that true? Is that even legal?
Berserk Highlander Keep in mind, even as a manager, you’re still at will employee because there’s no union. Not normally what happens something like this the stores under performing as far as the DMS concern. I’ll fix the typos in the moment. I’ll keep mine from the store manager on up the chain they work for bonuses as well as the regular salary so it is not unheard of that Amanda will get terminated or reduced in rank which is a blow to the ego and then they will move them to another store in which case they have to spend money for gas to travel commute so they will eventually quit or which has a lot of hidden cameras. And they find some Questionable video, and then what happens this you’ll be hounded by your DM’s and you’ll be home to my loss prevention until you find just say the hell with it and leave or you’ll find something petty and then terminate you that’s how the game is played.
Holy shit. The GameStop I've gone to for the last 15 years had the same manager since it opened until about 2 years ago. I was told the reason he was let go was because of sexual harassment. Hearing your story makes me question if the claims were legitimate.
Thanks for giving me the words "Butter Golem", I'm definitely using that in the future XD
We use it for the Drachenlord as well.
lol... Butter golem. Gold.
Land of the supposedly-free, huh?
In Europe, corporations could not do this, as especially here in Germany, employees have actual RIGHTS!
America has let "corporate rights" go way too damn far, and now advocating for employees in any way gets you shouted down as a dirty socialist.
I cannot comprehend, how this is even possible. Are people really that stupid?
@@Skyhawk1998 Yeah , this is another reason, why I cannot understand, why Bernie Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist". It really does not fit, for Sanders is a run-off-the-mill SOCIALDEMOCRAT!
The terms are not interchangeable, but in the US, you do.... only in America. Where are his PR consultants?
@@dercannabist-infoaufklarun8938 American politics in general are very "right-wing" by most standards. Even our most "left" politicians are really not all that liberal. The USA is an extremely conservative society, and an actual, bonafide socialist would never get anywhere in political offices. Even Bernie is having a hard time with more moderate voters.
Putting in my two weeks tomorrow! I already have a new job set up.. But damnit, now I'm going to say, "Camelot told me! He flashed his boobies at me!"
*I left Staples because, after 5 years of loyal employment, being the top computer technician in the region, and saving a store as their EasyTech Supervisor, the DM did not follow through on his word to me. My GM, ASM begged me to stay, promising me the world but, I live and die by my word and upper management didn't, so, I left for another career and I have done well for myself. I found out the DM was fired a few months after i left.*
$16/hr for a store manager and that’s considered high compared to what a new store manager would make? Jesus Christ that’s such a joke wage for the responsibility required.
11 years at GameStop? Jesus, I doubt they have any benefits other than the hours are set.
I totally related with your freedom high in your drive back, I have experienced them twice myself when quitting very high pressure jobs.
First time I went straight to the beach and I sat on a bench for like an hour just taking on the breeze. The second time I had a party with my friends and June 27th is still celebrated to this very day as "freedom day"
well im glad you're here now! :D
God, felt this way when I was a bar manager back in the day. Glad you got out dude! Earned yourself a sub with this.