SGB Play: Night of the Consumers | Halloweenfest 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2024
- Something truly terrifying that a lot of us have dealt with once in our life, retail. And when the consumers come in, everything becomes scarier. This is Night of the Consumers.
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>over explaining their life story for the product they need
>asks for location when they're right next to it
>interrupts worker from stocking shelves
Christ, this is my hell in game form
Welcome to retail!
And your managers giving you shit for not finishing your tasks despite you constantly being interrupted by customers and you would get shit for ignoring them to do your tasks.
I don't work in retail, but I connect with that first point. I ask a simple yes/no question, and they tell me their life's story instead of letting me forward their call to someone who actually can help.
Black friday in the eyes of the workers very scary
As someone who used to work in retail, I can confirm. I never liked working Black Friday
@@esmooth919Thankfully for me, grocery retail is spared.
There isn’t enough hands to count how many times I’ve told a customer where there item was, and it was either right behind them or literally right in their faces
Dude, literally last night:
Customer strolls into the Circle K, asks where the lighters, I tell them right there by the 5-Hour Energy stand in front of the pizza warmer.
Guy spends five minutes walking through store looking for it.
Why do we even bother?
It's why I love those Tiktoks teasing what retail customers are like.
But like, also me on occasion 😅
To be fair sometimes it don't make sense as you would expect baking soda to be in baking not cooking since it is called BAKING SODA
If I had a dollar for every customer who missed the whip cream spray, I wouldn’t need my job.
The wall-mart simulator is terrifying.
_The most TERRIFYING zombies of them all!_
Listen, I was promised a horror game, not my actual fucking life on display.
And that’s the scary part: you don’t expect it until it’s too late
The tech for this game is to leave the boxes in their respective aisles first and then stock them after. The timer only starts when you start stocking.
I seem to miss all the crazies at my job. Weird.
It's implied that dead guy in the secret room is Lester.
John’s having Wawa PTSD 😂
One of the first things I learned in customer service that they never tell you about is apathy towards the customers is equally as useful as empathy.
Sometimes you just got to look them in the eye and admit to yourself you don't care if they're inconvenienced.
Coming back to this video and oh yeah, hard agree. I work the front desk for college _academic_ advisors. People conveniently forget that the first word exists so people come up with all kinds of inane questions that we don't cover and then get mad when I direct them to the proper department. I learned a totally blank face (Not frowning) is just as effective as reassurance when getting them to go away.
Darn and if only Greg was here he was talking about a whole game where you just work a job and that's the horror game lol anyway wonderful fun classic oldish game
When I was working at the Museum of Natural History I legit got asked if we could reschedule an event, in regards to a solar eclipse.
"Sure, but that would require a blood sacrifice - which is not covered in the duties and responsibilities section of my employment contract. I'll refer you to our director and see what they can do."
9:37
This very accurate my favorite thing like that is when a costumer is looking for a thing and i have thing in my hand
when Johnny said "if it's not scanning it makes it free" is in the top of annoying shit people say when you work retail.
This is why I'm very very glad I work in a deli section, so people can't just barge up to my personal space.
As a guy that's been working in Randalls for 3+ years now as a courtesy clerk, I *TASTE* the horror this game's trying to recreate.
I swear nothing gets me more than people that asking dumb questions, leave carts in parking spaces (even the *older* adults) instead of where they belong on the cart returns, take electric carts despite being *100% ABLE TO WALK* and waste the battery. And my mom wonders why I *don't* wanna be a cashier...
As someone who works in Frozen, my biggest pet peeve is customers throwing random items into the freezers.
@@psychokinrazalon You too, huh?
@@DouglasStewart99 If there’s one good thing about working in retail, it’s the plethora of people who can empathize with us.
Man, I work overnights at a Circle K and while it's nothing like working a supermarket - there are times where it gets legitimately weird enough to make you go, "What the F is wrong with people?"
EDIT: Just to give context, the week before I started work there, there was a guy performed a murder suicide in our parking lot at like 3 in the morning. Then this past week, one of our sister stores in the next town over was robbed for like... $50.
So, a reminder - if you're gonna rob a gas station, don't. Especially at night. Cashiers are trained to keep at most about $50 in the till at any given time.
I could never work at a gas station. Too many people getting shot and robbed at them in my city.
@@breloompauncher5593 I understand your concern - we just had a store 15 minutes from us get held up. I will say it's usually not as bad in smaller towns, especially if cops frequent that particular store... but the fear of it happening is always there.
And I've worked overnight at hotels where it can be just as bad... Had to worry more about drunks or belligerent hypochondriacs than gun violence thankfully, but I've had to call the cops or EMTs like 5 times at my last job because of fights breaking out or someone passing out in the lobby from OD'ing...
I've never worked retail, but if this is even vaguely similar to what it can actually be like, then I am very sorry to all retail workers.
The best thing you can do is not be one of these consumers.
Well, after the call center horror game, I feel like retail is the only logical progression.
So tomorrow is the game where you're waiting tables.
@@79bigcat A Horror game dedicated to leaving the right Tip and having severe guilt that you didn't pay much more.
@@Da_ComputerMonsterthat’s perfect for a joke game
To be fair, everyone who has worked retail in any way knows the horror is real...
14:18 That caught me off guard! 🤣🤣🤣
10:10 Elliot was very close to saying a very crazy word
As a courtesy clerk at Food City this one is too real for me. Granted most of the customers aren't this bad but when it gets overwhelming I hate it.
Speaking as a courtesy clerk for 3 years and counting in Randalls, is your position similar to mine? Do you have to take care of carts, bag for checkers, and put stuff back on the shelf that people don't want?
@@DouglasStewart99 Yes
@@JMandJJ7797 Okay then I *100%* feel you there pal.
Trust me better courtsey clerk than cashier. You can always walk away from them that way.
@@chris_zed7425 This is *TRUE.*
I worked at a grocery store as a teen this game is my waking nightmare
I love that John shouting "THE SHIT STAINS" was almost the same way Markiplier did in his first video of this game.
I've worked three retail jobs so far (on my third), and literally every single one has cut the hours of the workers, and gave them all to the lead manager. My first retail job was so bad that I got to the point where I could only get one day a week. I was part time. My manager at the time just told me to quit because there's nothing he could do to get more hours for me. It's genuinely disgusting how many stores do this and get away with it.
8:00 I hear the name "Miracle Cream" and I think of Dr. Flimflam's Miracle Cream from Futurama which gives both Fry and Leela superpowers.
Now this...This I wanna see again, just for the pure relatable-ness of it.
Also if we can't get people to experience a piece of retail....just have them play this game. Same thing!
The "excuse me" from the customers reminds me of some voice lines from Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia. I believe it was the Ghouls in the game that sounded very similar to the customers here.
That game had some issues, but it was really fun and cool, and I feel I am very alone about knowing of its existence.
...what's that smell?
What is that smelly smell that smells smelly...?
*wide eyed* anchovies
What?
ANCHOVIES!!!!!
8:35: So that game that's being put on the shelf is the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc! It's a project that shows off demos for various spooky and horror indie games in the style of the PS1. I'm pretty sure Bloodborne PSX was a part of this project at one point. I wouldn't be suprised if this game was in there too.
You know what I imagine when I think about the manager in this game? I think of the manager in Dead Rising 1. Except not necessarily trying to kill you...
Dr Barnaby? Actually he does kill you if he becomes infected.
Not too far off from killing, really.
Y'all should've played the new version of this game, it updates somethings and adds alot of new content into the game, there's also going to be multiple nights too
I don't get paid enough for this.
Honestly...
As someone who worked retail for 18 years I can confirm that customers 100% can't read shit.
18 years!? You're a stronger person than I.
Or just blatantly ignore what's written in front of them.
I'm looking at this, and I noticed that there's signs, but no one's looking at them, because they're actually for the employees. That hits me right at home.
Anybody else having Vietnam flashbacks of REALLY annoying customers or even getting threatened by people?
In retail, not yet thankfully.
Having worked at a hotel - Absolutely.
@@shelbyherring92 ooooooof. my sympathies
I worked as a bank teller and the customers are no better there.
@@Dragonsamuari Actually I could see how a bank would be worse. Robberies, hostage situations, etc...... **gulp**
@@greenyoshi777 Eh not really. Bank robberies are quite rare. Anyone who robs a bank usually just pass a note demanding money. They wanna be in and out without drawing attention to themselves. You give them the money and then the bank contacts the authorities and they take it from there. It's usually never worth escalating a bank robbery like trying to take money from the vault or holding hostages cause it'll just end badly for the robber.
I still got PTSD from working in Walmart.
thats pretty much me as a whole, i started working retail in 2011 and just stopped recently after picking up a Factory Job making Cheese lol.
I will never again do Retail/Stock work
YES!!! I was hoping you'd play this!!!
After a year of working retail, I understand this game.
Also, holy shit! This is some realism based horror shit. I'd imagine most retail workers having an experience like this. Customers being unrelenting Karens? Check. The manager being a supercritical asshole? Check. The store itself being a hellish maze? Check.
When there's no more room in Hell, The Karens shall walk the Earth.
Part of the ridiculousness is that the customers need to know where the aisles are despite the huge signs for each that you, the player can clearly read.
Taking a dip into Haunted PS1 territory...
10:00 IT'S A KAREN!!!!!
May I speak to the Manager
This game reminds me of when I worked at Publix
I was so happy to see this pop up lol but when are we getting back to haunted Halloween '86: The curse of possum hollow?? Lmao
Wasn't there a film called Black Friday with Bruce Campbell?
I'm going as a dragon quest slime as my costume.
This is too real
Do consumers just pop out like HEY! and jump scare you when you work at retail? Because I don't do that when I go shopping
Some do... I'd say it happens more when you're focused on doing sidework like stocking or cleaning than it does out of the blue. Never worked a grocery, but work at a Circle K and it does occasionally happen.
Working with/around customers, for someone like me, is a constant jump scare. And to think at once point, I thought retail would help improve my social skills. But with night shifts, it just stagnated lol
I'm always told "if we were all the same, it'd be boring"... but man, if only EVERYONE was nice and considerate.
... As soon as my first job, I've developed a habit to say "Good luck" to other workers instead of just "Have a nice day" x)
@@VonFirflirch I have a morning shift person at my food place that says that to me when I relieve her. Luckily, it's rarely bad where I work.
The Horrors of Reality
This legit gave me anxiety, I'd rather be homeless then work in retail again.
Wow Sabrina sure sounds different nowadays.
That's Nora, Juan's girlfriend.
The game's visuals remind me of Mega Man Legends.
Was hoping this one would make it on here.
Wait, is that Nora in the background?
@@PikaLink91 the second time ? for Halloweenfest ? if so what was the first ?
@@PikaLink91 thanks because of classes i've been behind on the uploads
Bruh I suggested this game on Twit! So happy it got picked!
You absolute madlad. You picked quite possibly the most horrifying thing in this year's Halloweenfest.
I.... Hate how true this is.
The Cool S
🛒🛒🛒
To be fair as someone who worked at a small local business retail is not always the worst but the pay has to be ok.
The reason so many people make games about it cause they all live in California
Uhhhh, what does that last part have to do with anything?
@@ShadowkingSonic
Best case scenario: densely populated areas have stores that have to serve a constant stream of people, so they're always busy and scrambling to fulfill orders. Also, urban areas tend to have high crime rates, which adds to the stress.
Worst case scenario: OP is taking digs at workers wanting a living wage for, on paper, "easy braindead work that's just constant".
Likely more realistic reading is somewhere in the middle.
@@shelbyherring92 OP said the pay has to be okay so I think they understand that much I just gotta ask why single out California. Like, I worked retail in one of the shittier tourist trap-y parts of Florida, not sure what makes California so special.
@@shelbyherring92 More talking about the first, and the let's be honest cultural monopoly of California. And the fact that urban areas have alot more stress
@@ShadowkingSonic Maybe don't a schizophrenic meltdown anytime someone says something you might interpret as disagreeing with.
Please play Carrion (its a reverse horror, baby's first (as in badly any out of the way backtracking) metroidvania
Badly is supposed to be barely
Gotta admit, this Halloweenfest has not had the best game choices.
truely terrifying