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Thought I’d drop a line about what transpired during the worst trip I ever had to a GameStop…

It was back before the release of the PS4. I had placed my full deposit towards the console months before and was eagerly awaiting launch day so I could swing through and pick mine up. Pre-order receipt in hand, I walked into the store and stood in the half-hour line until I got to the counter and was told that they didn’t have a pre-order for me. I laughed and presented my receipt (printed and highlighted at the very store I was in). They ran the numbers and said that, nope, sorry, they don’t have a reservation under my name.

Confused, I mentioned the receipt and they said they just don’t have record of it in the system and they couldn’t release it without that. I figured, okay, I’ll go and get all the physical proof I could. I took my receipt and went home, printed up my bank statement from the time of the transaction, made sure to link all the numbers to the right place and returned to the store. Still nothing they can do, according to the front desk attendant. I ask to see the manager, which of course irritates the person who wasn’t helping me. Which of course irritates me, I’m SO SORRY that I don’t want to just walk away from a 400-dollar-or-so investment because YOU hosed up!

After some confusion, the manager, who in all fairness did his absolute best to locate my reservation, said that due to some internal error my reservation had been overwritten. Done at this point after 4 hours, I just said “Fine” and asked for a refund. THEN the manager said that he could return the money in store credit for the full amount or 80% of the amount in cash. My jaw dropped. Not only had they hosed me out of the console I had been waiting months for, but I also had the privilege of losing 80 bucks in the process.

I took the cash and went to the Walmart in the shopping block. Got a PS4 in 20 minutes.

gently caress Gamestop.

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I very vividly [remember] when I was treated poorly when I went into a GameStop because it was the last time I stepped foot into one. I remember walking in on launch day for Bioshock Infinite and asking to purchase a copy, and the manager asked me if I had preordered it. I kindly responded that I did not but I would like to purchase it anyway. The manager and the other employee looked at each other for a few seconds and then replied with “Are you an idiot?”

I froze and I didn’t actually know how to respond and I just kind of starred at him. He then proceeded “Why would you buy a game on launch day without pre ordering it?” To that I responded “I didn’t really think anything of it I just figured I’d see if you had a copy.” He replied to me “It’s stupid to buy a game on launch day without preordering it.”

At this point I was getting kind of agitated as I replied “You mentioned that already but do you have it?” And so he blankly stared at me for a few seconds then without saying a word just walked into the back of the store. I didn’t know if at this point he was getting the game or just waiting back there till I lost interest and went away.

More than ten minutes later he comes back out and just tosses the game on the counter and goes “Yeah we have it.” At that point I was flat out pissed off and I responded with “So you’re saying you do have it in stock despite me not preordering it.... So the point of me preordering it would be?...” He just blankly looked at me and said “If you preorder it, it guarantees we have a copy for you and you get pre order bonuses now do you want it or not?” I looked at him and paused for a second and just said “Nope” and walked out and bought the game at Best Buy which was in the same mall.

The clerks at Best Buy gave me no hassle and got the game for me quickly and I have not been back into a GameStop since. I realize this probably isn’t even half as bad as other stories but I was just so enraged after it happened that he actually asked if I was an idiot for not preordering something that they had in stock anyway!

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Three years ago I would go to a Gamestop in LA every other week. The people who worked there were smart and all around good employees. That was, UNTIL STEVE CAME. The store had a change in management and this guy named Steve took over the store. He was one of those nerdy, gross, all around unhygienic special snowflakes who had to have everything his way. He unnecessarily yelled at customers and employees for things that were perfectly okay.

One time I was in the store and he yelled at a couple of kids around the age of 8, because they were “fogging up the Gameboy games case” by breathing on it. He was also the Gamestop equivalent of selling drugs to kids. He forced people who worked at the store to charge kids under 17 10 bucks if they wanted to buy M rated games (which is punishable by jail time here in California, but hey, Steve gets what Steve wants). A friend of mine worked there during the time Steve was in charge, and he told me half the employees had quit, and store sales went down 70%.

Steve just never came in on weekends so luckily Saturdays were a safe haven for the store. Sadly, even with no-Steve-Sundays, the store’s lease ran out a year and a half ago. Steve and my friend were transferred to work at the register in another mall in LA. Steve was fired and banned from every Gamestop in California within 3 days.

Why was he fired? He threw a game case at an irate mother trying to return an unopened game an HOUR after its 2 week warranty was up. Whose mother was that? My mother. gently caress Steve.

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I have always had a baby face. At 27, I look like I’m a teenager, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be carded well into my thirties.

That being said.

Last year was my first year teaching high school English. We were in pre-service training for three weeks before school started, so I thought that I was fairly well known among the faculty and that I knew all of them. On the first day, I wore a long dress and heavy makeup in an attempt to make myself look older than my sophomores, and I thought it worked pretty well.

Until lunch.

I took a well-deserved break in the staff lounge and an older teacher proceeded to yell at me for five minutes about how students weren’t allowed in the staff areas and how had I gotten in and who was my dean before he noticed the big, shiny badge on my chest that said TEACHER.

The funny thing is that the exact same teacher did the exact same thing when I was trying to finalize my grades during finals week in may.

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He was one of those nerdy, gross, all around unhygienic special snowflakes who had to have everything his way.

kizudarake posted:

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I have always had a baby face. At 27, I look like I’m a teenager, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be carded well into my thirties.

That being said.

Last year was my first year teaching high school English. We were in pre-service training for three weeks before school started, so I thought that I was fairly well known among the faculty and that I knew all of them. On the first day, I wore a long dress and heavy makeup in an attempt to make myself look older than my sophomores, and I thought it worked pretty well.

Until lunch.

I took a well-deserved break in the staff lounge and an older teacher proceeded to yell at me for five minutes about how students weren’t allowed in the staff areas and how had I gotten in and who was my dean before he noticed the big, shiny badge on my chest that said TEACHER.

The funny thing is that the exact same teacher did the exact same thing when I was trying to finalize my grades during finals week in may.

Guy Montag posted:

I can believe it. Almost the exact same thing happened to my wife, at about the same age, and even more unbelievably in a middle school. I can only surmise that in the same way some people have face blindness, others have some kind of 'age' blindness. She had to show her badge and everything.

kizudarake posted:

quote:

Three years ago I would go to a Gamestop in LA every other week. The people who worked there were smart and all around good employees. That was, UNTIL STEVE CAME. The store had a change in management and this guy named Steve took over the store. He was one of those nerdy, gross, all around unhygienic special snowflakes who had to have everything his way. He unnecessarily yelled at customers and employees for things that were perfectly okay.

One time I was in the store and he yelled at a couple of kids around the age of 8, because they were “fogging up the Gameboy games case” by breathing on it. He was also the Gamestop equivalent of selling drugs to kids. He forced people who worked at the store to charge kids under 17 10 bucks if they wanted to buy M rated games (which is punishable by jail time here in California, but hey, Steve gets what Steve wants). A friend of mine worked there during the time Steve was in charge, and he told me half the employees had quit, and store sales went down 70%.

Steve just never came in on weekends so luckily Saturdays were a safe haven for the store. Sadly, even with no-Steve-Sundays, the store’s lease ran out a year and a half ago. Steve and my friend were transferred to work at the register in another mall in LA. Steve was fired and banned from every Gamestop in California within 3 days.

Why was he fired? He threw a game case at an irate mother trying to return an unopened game an HOUR after its 2 week warranty was up. Whose mother was that? My mother. gently caress Steve.

kizudarake posted:

(which is punishable by jail time here in California, but hey, Steve gets what Steve wants)

Guy Montag posted:

I can believe it. Almost the exact same thing happened to my wife, at about the same age, and even more unbelievably in a middle school. I can only surmise that in the same way some people have face blindness, others have some kind of 'age' blindness. She had to show her badge and everything.

Crow Jane posted:

Earlier today I went to *pharmacy* to pick up a few things, and while I was standing in line to pay, the girl in front of me did not get off her phone the entire time. Didn't acknowledge the clerk when he said hello, had to be told twice to hand over payment, and then proceeded to say her goodbyes to whoever she was talking to while continuing to stand at the register. She hung up, gathered her bags, and left the lane without saying a word to the poor clerk, only to put her bags down directly in front of the entrance and send a text while people walked around her. At that point, I snapped, verbally eviscerated her, snatched her phone out of her hands with ninja-like precision and slam dunked it straight into a bucket of *pharmacy* brand disinfectant. Everyone in the whole store started clapping, and she ran out crying and promptly got hit by a city bus. I calmly stepped back in line, paid for my things, and left. When I got home, I saw that the clerk had written his number on the receipt, and even though that was only a few hours ago, I'm pretty sure wedding bells are in our future.

Sadly, nothing about the girl is exaggerated, it was probably the rudest, most clueless thing I've ever seen in my life, and tbh it kind of brought down my day. In reality, though, I just stood there shooting death glares at the back of her head while the clerk shot them at the front. I strongly considered calling her out, but I'm a gigantic pussy so I did not. The clerk and I did have a bonding moment where we expressed shock at how terrible she was, then watched out the window to see if she actually was dumb enough to walk into traffic, but he was very, very gay, so I'm alone in my indignation.

EmmyOk posted:

I never minded when people came up to my till on the phone because I figured some conversations were important and usually they still paid promptly and without fuss. Some people used to keep their headphones in and I could hear the music which was a bit odd but not irritating. People who threw money on the counter when I had my hand out for it were mildly irritating though.

Verisimilidude posted:

Decrepus posted:

Every post in this thread is apparently believable to someone.

Noyemi K posted:

This honestly doesn't seem that STDH to me. Women aren't all that "ladylike" around each other, you know.

ElGroucho posted:

"My grandma is all, 'sucking dick bought this van'" - goons

PUGGERNAUT posted:

How dare this rear end in a top hat teacher contact authorities after his student basically writes a suicide note and gives it to him

PUGGERNAUT posted:

How dare this rear end in a top hat teacher contact authorities after his student basically writes a suicide note and gives it to him

Verisimilidude posted:

You know what girls really like after leaving abusive relationships? Sex.

Verisimilidude posted:

You know what girls really like after leaving abusive relationships? Sex.

goose fleet posted:

Is that meme toddler grown up yet because holy gently caress he's going to see his face plastered on some horrible bullshit when he's older

goose fleet posted:

Is that meme toddler grown up yet because holy gently caress he's going to see his face plastered on some horrible bullshit when he's older

sweeperbravo posted:

That's one thing that has always made me really uncomfortable about the real person's face memes. That kid, Good Guy Greg, the awkward freshman, the ehrmagerd girl. Until your dying day your face will be plastered behind text you may or may not agree with and the association with the meme.

Even the sarcastic Willy Wonka meme, and I know that's just a character. Leave Gene Wilder alone, dude doesn't want to be a mouthpiece for your dumb opinions