It’s about time we get some payback! Do you know how many calls I get a day from customers asking if we have Gears of Duty? How about Ninja Garden? WWW Smackdown vs. In his tirade he goes on about the problem with pushing pre-orders and the annoying phone calls he gets like this one: That's right, GameStop often doesn't even purchase nearly enough games even though they know tons of people will show up in a frenzy on holidays such as Black Friday.One Gamestop employee spoke out about the problems and daily annoyances of working for the US’ largest video game retailer. Employees work long hours, put up with extreme customer demands, and they're usually not equipped with enough games or training for that matter. With little-to-no training, they must take on the stampede of desperate consumers. Many new employees will actually begin their first day of work on Black Friday. However, the season alone is bad, and one particular day is the worst: Black Friday. To make one thing clear, as an employee, you never work on an actual holiday because the corporation doesn't want to have to pay time-and-a-half for you to stand around and alphabetize games all day.
One of the worst aspects of working at a GameStop is the way they do holidays. If the robberies and immoral customers haven't totally killed the appeal of working at a GameStop for you, then imagine those combined with a dash of chaos. If they still need to hang onto the poster (that you're just dying to have) a little longer, then you can rest assured because employees will either put your name and number on the back of it, or write it down and call you when you can come pick it up. Word on the street is that most stores tend to trade out their promotional materials on Sundays. All you have to do is walk into your local GameStop and ask if you could have a promotional display once they're done advertising for said game. With the reputation of being a cheap, greedy organization after each and every hard-earned dollar it can get its grubby hands on, it may surprise you to learn that GameStop has its own form of redemption.
Who doesn't love some free stuff? Even if you don't exactly need the latest Halo promotional poster, it would make a pretty sweet addition to your game room, am I right? It's a little-known fact that customers are free to help themselves to promotional posters and displays. Have a bad GameStop story of your own? Did they wrong you in any way? Have they done something right? Let us know in the comments! Just know that we feel your pain.
If you don't have an opinion on them already, there's a strong chance that you'll come out of this article having feelings for them one way or another. Allow yourself to be enlightened about a whole new set of problems (and perks) that GameStop has. Some of which are good, some bad, or none of the above. Don't let all of the bad media revolving around the corporate giant leave a bad taste in your mouth just yet.
However, there are a lot of things about GameStop that many people haven't yet discovered. This is pretty much to be expected when you're the only large video game retailer (at least as far as brick and mortar stores are concerned) in North America. Longtime video-game shoppers and consumers might not be surprised by all of these things, as it's long been known that there are some sketchy practices going on behind-the-scenes of this retail giant. The infamous video-game seller, GameStop, has recently caught quite a bit of flak for its many controversies. These range from inconvenient and ridiculous policies, to terrible employee treatment, to pure corporate greed (actually, this is mostly the problem).