AlimNassor
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Not a suck up. The way he implied it was he wanted to see if I would be a good sales person.
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I have an interview at Gamestop.
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Not a suck up. The way he implied it was he wanted to see if I would be a good sales person.
Man when I worked at Gamestop, I simply told them I had school and couldn't work that much. I gave them my availability and that was that. On top of that, I never wanted to work weekends because well, that would suck, so I put unavailable. Easy. Worked when I wanted, and never even got called in because they knew I didn't want to work haha.
Good times.
I like the answer, it's what I would have said too. When I interviewed the assistant manager gave me the details of the GI sub, and then told me to sell it to him.
Good times.
I like the answer, it's what I would have said too. When I interviewed the assistant manager gave me the details of the GI sub, and then told me to sell it to him.
Cost of training? At Gamestop? What sort of training do they get besides mandatory government safety training? Gamestop can't teach you how to be annoying, they can only threaten to fire you weekly if you don't hit their numbers which in turn makes you crazy / annoying. (Or you were crazy / annoying to begin with)
AlimNassor
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Eh, I'll do so. But, I've never seen anybody there do so. If they ask, it's usually, "Hey. would you like a free sub to game informer" in a casual manner. Honestly, them not being pushy makes me more willing to get a subscription. I applied because everytime I visit, it's the same few people working, and all of them are nice to the customers and aren't annoying sells people.
Now, the other gamestop inside the mall is pushy and constantly gutting the entire staff.
Dastardly Jerks
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Nope. If he knew anything about games then he wouldn't be Gamestop employee material.
cool_dude_2049
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I worked at Gamestop for over a year and here's what I can tell you about the place. Game Advisers get less than 20 hours a week, and seeing as how you were hired as seasonal, they don't have to work all of you. The company requires so many employees to keep them in rotation or something. Even if they do hire you full time, you wont get any more hours than what you currently do. Things wont get better for you until you become an assistant manager.
Depending on where the store you work for is located, each store gets a set amount of hours with the bulk going to management. I was hired as a seasonal and I was given more hours because I out-performed the other new hires.
Tack on that power up pro card. Do they math for them, if they are buying $50 worth of used products, they are paying for a third of the card and have the rest of the year of savings.
Power up cards and reservations are your bread and butter. Depending on how shitty your district manager is, you can get written up and fired if you have bad numbers for pro cards and reserves. Plus, since you're new, they'll have you doing the grunt work and you wont spend that much time on the register.
Perks are nice. You can check out any game you want and get a discount on just about everything.
My advice to you is find another job and consider Gamestop as your second job. The perks are nice but the hours are terrible. That wasn't just the situation at my store. My entire city and other gamestops around the country, from what I heard, had similar experiences.
I'm going to tell you this straight up as somebody who worked at GameStop for years.
Getting crappy hours means you were hired on as a part-time low wage Game Advisor.
If you want good hours you need to be hired in a management position.
The problem is that being a manager at GameStop is absolutely horrible.
Being a manager at GameStop is one of the worst jobs in retail. Every manager I ever worked with hated their jobs and all of them have been happier after leaving.
If you're fine being a low-wage low-hour GA, than you'll be fine. If you want over 20 hours a week, you have to become a manager and you're going to hate your job.
Ban Puncher
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I did 8 years.
One Christmas Eve someone took a squat and sprayed liquid diarrhoea all over the GBA section.
Welcome to hell.
One Christmas Eve someone took a squat and sprayed liquid diarrhoea all over the GBA section.
Welcome to hell.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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How much do gamestop managers get paid exactly?
Are you serious? Was it a stranger or employee?
freenudemacusers
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oh lol
Where is this Valero?
I wonder if its a store we deliver to because I have to talk to some asshole managers at valero who are exactly like that.
They are just as rude to us fuel dispatch managers and drivers so dont feel like you did anything wrong.
Mohonky
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Yeh it's kind of how retail is. The first thing you learn is that the saying 'the customer is always right' should actually be 'the customer is always wrong.'
I dunno, taken individually the majority of people are smart, considerate and thoughtful yet some where between being an individual and becoming a customer they turn into greedy bell ends that think everything is owed to them for nothing.
Having said that, Gamestop would be far from the worst job you could ever do. Usually some one that complains working at a Gamestop is crap probably hasn't worked any other jobs.
DoctorButt
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