I FINALLY got one! After relentless persistence and constant perseverance, my second dream has finally come true~! My first is to be a game designer, haha. But holy wow~! I don't even know what to do with myself. To get this job in THIS economy just sets me beside myself in elation. So I thought I'd share that with my favorite gaming community~! Who knows! I might be able to get the scoop on some things! ...I probably won't be able to share much of it, but you won't be completely out of the loop. ...Maybe. Haha~
Congratulations! Hope everything works out for you. Give yourself a pat on the back for getting a job.
Good. Gamestop needs more employees that actually know what they are talking about. I walked in to Gamestop the other day and asked to see if they had the cable that lets you connect your 360 to a VGA input. The guy behind the counter asked me "What is VGA?". I told him what it was, and then he told me "I don't think they make those". If you don't know what it is, don't tell me they don't make them. Still, not quite as bad as the Best Buy employees that didn't know what HDMI is. I had to go through three people before they found someone that knew what I was talking about.
Thank you, everyone~! I agree, Billy, Best Buy is the worst. Sorry Trips, it's only from Gamecube/PS2/Original XBox/Game Boy Advance and up. Some of the stores are even ridding themselves of their Gamecube sections. If you want older games, check Funcoland, Gameco or Vintage Stock.
Well, for now all my money will be going to things like cell bills and taking care of my car. But if I happen to have some surplus, I may occasionally buy a point card for the masses now and then--you'll have to keep an eye out and be quick to claim it!
Congrats! I used to want to work at Gamestop. :lol: I also used to work for a local video game store. Its a pretty awesome job.
Haha, I used to work at a gamestop, and we'd get that call all the time. There was actually a company memo about it. My boss was a complete douche though, and had his head way up his ***. Since I left he hires mostly young attractive females that know NOTHING about any games. He was well known as a pervo.
Welcome to the wild crapshoot that is retail. Get ready to see no less than a 60% annual turnover rate of employees that range anything from incompetent to sociopathic to you-name-it and if the employees aren't the problem...I can guaran-damn-tee you it'll be the customers. EDIT: Nix that. The customers will be hell anyways. I'm not even sociopathic, I just have a healthy distrust for humanity as a whole :|
"Welcome"? I've worked retail all my working life, haha. My first job was JCPenney and the one I had before this one was at Converse. My history of retail is partly the reason they hired me.
Well, good goin. While I don't know what AGT(?) cables are, I do know it's damn near impossible to get a job there. It's the place EVERYONE applies. Including that jock who played video games. Once. But it was raining REALLY hard, because he likes playing football in the rain. He won the match on NCAA 09. Totally could get a job there.
Well done, game retail is pretty cushy one you get past the annoying customers. I don't mind the people who don't know anything about videogames but are willing to listen to me - it's the ones that have everything back-asswards about them and refuse to admit that they're wrong. Or don't trust me because "you make commission". Yeah, maybe my manager would gave me a pat on the back if I sold you 500+ worth of stuff. Maybe. I worked in a game shop attached to a popular toy shop two Christmases in a row when I was 16-17. Yes, I probably shouldn't have been selling over-18s games, but hey! At least angry customers had someone who wasn't tattoed, pierced or built like a nuclear bunker constructed from biceps - seriously, I worked with some terrifying people - that they could unload their festive suppressed rage at. I just started a new job myself in a fancy gastropub. Tips are pretty good, so hopefully I can hang onto it through the summer as I normally work as a beach lifeguard during the summer, and I might make Senior this year - a euro pay-rise and a ton of extra responsibility, hells yeah.
