Mike was a young stock trader who saw the potential in GameStop's stocks. He was convinced that it was the next big thing, and he was determined to cash in on the opportunity.
He invested heavily in the company, pouring all his savings into the stock. And for a while, it seemed like his gamble was paying off. The stock prices were soaring, and Mike was on top of the world.
But then, things started to go wrong. He started experiencing strange, recurring nightmares, filled with images of a dark, haunted stock market. The nightmares became so vivid and intense that they started to affect his waking life.
As the stock prices continued to soar, Mike became more and more paranoid. He was convinced that the GameStop stocks were cursed, and that they would lead him to his doom.
Despite his growing fear, he couldn't resist the temptation of the profits, and he continued to invest. But the nightmares only intensified, until they became a living nightmare.
In the end, Mike was consumed by the GameStop curse. He lost everything, and he was never seen or heard from again. Some say that he still haunts the stock market, a warning to all those who dare to play with the forces of fate. The GameStop curse became a legend, a tragedy that echoed through the ages, a reminder of the dangers of pursuing wealth at any cost.
In the world of finance, GameStop was a household name. People from all walks of life were investing in the struggling video game retailer, hoping to turn a quick profit. But little did they know, they were about to enter the realm of the unknown.
One day, strange things started happening. Investors who had bought GameStop stock reported that their portfolios were rapidly losing value, even though the stock was supposed to be on the rise. No one could explain why.
Panic set in as more and more investors reported losing their life savings. And then, the strangest thing of all happened. The stock prices started to soar, rising to levels that no one could have predicted.
But with each passing day, the prices grew more and more unstable, and investors started to experience strange and unexplainable events. Some claimed that they heard ghostly whispers whenever they checked their portfolios, while others reported seeing unexplained figures lurking in the shadows.
People started to whisper that the stock market was haunted by the spirits of those who had lost everything in the GameStop surge. And as the stock prices continued to spiral out of control, the terror only escalated.
In the end, the GameStop haunt claimed its victims, leaving behind a trail of ruined lives and broken dreams. Those who dared to invest in the company never forgot the terror they experienced, and they warned others to stay away from the stock market at all costs. The GameStop haunt became a cautionary tale, a reminder of the dangers of playing with forces beyond our control.
Not a GameStop employee here, but the friend of a former one.
They'd just gotten a shipment of Pop Vinyl figures, and I was there looking for some particular ones that were a bit harder to get my hands on. Dr Who, Kingdom Hearts, a few blank ones for customs. Stuff like that.
In walks a few kids. No problem. Me and my friend, the actual worker here, converse. Lets point it out. My friend is an 8/10 girl, but I'm gay, so she was always open to talking to me. Manager knows me too, so nothing was wrong with us chatting. It wasn't busy, and I'm a paying customer.
The kids looked around, picked out a few items, and seemed to talk amongst themselves. One of them seems to be looking for something, so my friend, being the great person she is, goes up to help him. She asks what he was looking for. Kid #2, the one looking for something, asks where the Switch games are. Friends points them out. Kid #1, who was behind her now.. slaps her ass.
Needless to say, parents were called, and they were forced out. My friend's still working there, but she tends to not leave the front desk as often as she would before.
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Not really a horror story, but the best I have.
I was working the midnight release of Destiny 1 and mostly walking around and chatting. It was a fun night! Of course I didn’t have any hours for a few days after that, but when I came back in, the SGA warned me that a guy had been coming in and asking about me.
(He apparently even asked my female assistant manager where the female worker was. She said “Me?” and he said “No, the cute one” then tried to get her number!)
Lo and behold he called that night! In the middle of trying to check out a line of people this man, who I talked to for maybe five minutes, called to talk and ask me out.
I’ve never hung up on someone so fast before.
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I was hired to help open a new store. A store where the manager was male, and everyone he hired? …female.
He was definitely trying to cultivate a "Hot GameStop" kind of situation. Word got around, and we had people coming in to visit ours when they had other stores much closer to where they lived.
They didn't really buy anything, they kind of just lurked around for hours at a time, chatting the staff up. There were days when they'd wait for us to close up, that was kind of scary.
I was eventually let go for "not being friendly enough", which was apparently about three months before the manager had a total screaming meltdown during store hours, declared himself High Archangel, threw some shit at a customer and was later picked up by an ambulance.
So I guess my horror story is "the whole damn job".
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I got two stories: quick one is a guy who would come in all the time to ask about/buy obscure Vita dating sims and asking inappropriate questions like if the next dragon age (at this time would’ve been inquisition) was going to “finally” have sex scenes in it.
Next one is New Year’s Day, miserable I’m working already, it’s super early and first customer of the day, of the whole year, is this like 7 foot tall guy who comes in asking for AV cables for a PS4 cause the one he just bought didn’t have one. We immediately tell him the PS4 only uses HDMI and so it wouldn’t have AV cables, even confirming with him “you mean those red, yellow and white cables?” He start getting mad and asks again for the cables which we again tell him don’t exist. Maybe there’s an adapter or something but I’ve never seen one and we don’t have them here regardless, maybe check Best Buy. Guy immediately starts screaming “You racist motherfuckers get me this cable! I’m homeless, I just bought this thing for my grandkids! You’re all racist white devil fuckers!” Thankfully I froze in fear and confusion and my boss took over and just scooted the guy out the door. Hell of a way to start the year.
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