Finally. I'm not going to go in to a shit ton of detail because I simply don't feel like it but
Imagine a 2016 Ye Olde GameStop
Dude clearly cracked the fuck out, he was maybe 5'2", walks in to my store with with a crossbow complete with arrows. This short man seriously brought in some monstrous weaponry that doubled his size and ASKED ME IF I COULD KEEP IT ON MY BACK COUNTER WHILE HE SHOPPED.
Naturally I told him no. I watched him waddle back outside, climb in to (what I assumed was) his own car from the passenger side window because neither of the doors worked apparently, and drive off.
We printed a picture of him from our DVR and kept it to look at for future laughs.
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Ah, so didn't happen to me but a gamestop manager at an urban store told me about the time someone traded in a xbox and the next day he came back, pointed his gun at him, and demanded to have his xbox back. Apparently he forgot his drugs were hidden inside the xbox that he desperately needed back. He got his system back.
Another time a gamestop manager got fired because he thought it would be ok to hire his own security for the store. The guy he hired also had a permit for a concealed firearm. So basically there was an unauthorized and untrained armed guard inside the store to stop robberies. Luckily the situation was handled before and issues
Cockroaches. When you work at an urban store you will have the pleasure of having cockroach and bedbug infestations from the systems that are traded in. You can also hear there little bodies sizzling when we test out the systems..
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Not a gamestop employee, but I worked at a subway that was in the same parking lot as the gamestop. After working at that subway I became friends with some of the managers at that gamestop. I would give them free food, they would give me discounts on games.
Anyways, one day one of the managers comes in after his shift and I ask him how his day went. He said that it went fine until the last few hours of his shift. Apparently some guy came in asking to return a game that he got from a different game store (not gamestop) and asked for a full refund. When the manager said that the guy couldn't return it because it was from a different store, the guy went apeshit and started yelling and destroying stuff in the store. Then the man pulled out a knife and started going to town on a cardboard cutout. After doing that the dude left without saying anything to anyone.
Manager says that the dude was probably high/drunk when it happened.
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I worked for SimplyMac, a company owned by GameStop.
SimplyMac offered 2 hour classes for old people on Apple software, like iMovie. We worked on commission $9.75/hr and we didn't get commission for doing classes so nobody wanted to do them. The older customers were kinda racist, so as the only 18 yo white employee, I was forced to be the designated teacher.
So this 60 year old photographer comes in and wants to learn how to make an iMovie with his photoshoots. Awesome, there goes 2 hours. We're looking at photos to import from his laptop for the movie, and he has me click on this folder, and as I import it, hundreds of images of nude women on dirty mattresses in a basement pop up on the screen. He starts talking in this pervy voice about how "pretty" and "beautiful" each girl was in the shot.
His laptop screen is facing the entire store so anyone can just walk by and see. So I taught him how to use iMovie and make a slideshow with his porn and at the end of the two hours he tipped me $50 and I never saw him again. That was the most money I made in 2 hours there, ever.
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I worked at GameStop while I was in high school. It was around the time people from 4chan would call and ask if we had Battletoads in stock. The thing was, we DID have a copy of Battletoads for Game Boy. It was after GameStop had stopped selling Game Boy games, but we still had a bunch that hadn’t been destroyed yet. When the meme started, one of my coworkers put the copy of Battletoads in a desk drawer in the back room. We couldn’t sell it, but we had all agreed to just give it to the first person who came in and asked for Battletoads in person. We told everyone who called to please come in and take it. It sat in that drawer, waiting, for 3 years. Not one of those 4chan nerds came in to claim it. Very disappointing.
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Not a horror story but it always makes me laugh when I think about it.
I worked at a big box store similar to best buy when the Wii u first came out. After months of Wii u's being impossible to find we finally had some stock in.
I was helping another customer on a busy day when a guy stopped me to ask the price on the Wii u.
Customer: how much is the Wii u console?
Me: it's $400 cad plus tax.
Customer: yeah that's too much money, can you do any better on the price?
Me: yeah for sure, for you I can give it to you for $399.99.
Customer: that's much better. I'll take two.
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