I worked at gamestop for a while and have a wholesome story. We had a few regulars that were fellow nerds and would come in to just hang out and talk about games all the time. They always were respectful and knew if a customer came in, they would step away and let us work before going back to chatting. (For context, I am a female and was in my mid 20s.) One day a group of people probably in their early 20s come in while a regular was there (male mid 30s), and the regular as always scootched to end of the counter and was then on his phone waiting while I helped the group. They were acting a little strange, lingering around the store for quite some time and didn't really seem there to buy anything. Finally, one of them walked up to me and asked for some receipt paper and a pen, which I gave. She wrote a note down and passed it back to me. It read "there is a guy hovering over you at the end of the counter, are you okay? Do you need help?" I explained to her I knew him and he was a regular and she was super relieved and the group left after that. Even though I wasn't in danger, it felt so heartwarmimg a stranger would notice and take time to make sure everything was okay.
As an autistic individual, you are completely right. I have less severe autism so i am fully verbal and behave fine. Some parents just dont raise their kids right, autism or not.
As the father of a nonverbal autistic child, hard agree man My daughter is extremely sweet and seldom has public meltdowns BUT if there were to be an issue like that, her mother and I have never hesitated to do our jobs as parents and handle said situation Yes, children with autism can be a handful and it can be incredibly hard for some people, but you also have a responsibility as a parent and caregiver to ensure your child isnt being a public nuisance
While I've never been a GameStop Employee myself, I know of a hilariously awful incident that needs to be shared: the time Ness amiibos crashed GameStop. It is April 1st, 2015 when a (non-prank) Nintendo Direct occurs. During the showcase, the 4th Wave of Super Smash Brothers amiibo are announced. Notably, in the US Ness was going to only be available at GameStop. This was an immediate red flag to collectors as GameStop was known to be extremely bad at managing their store exclusives. It did not help that the exclusive they had during the previous wave, Shulk, was handled so poorly his amiibo was being resold for several hundred dollars even shortly after release. The very next day, April 2nd, GameStop decides to open up amiibo preorders via their website, even though the figures aren't expected to come until May. That timing was likely in direct response to the Nintendo Direct (pun intended). However, this decision soon went south as their computer system was so absurdly overwhelmed by amiibo preorders, most of which were probably for Ness given his limited status, that GameStop's website quickly crashed. And when I say crash, I mean HARD crashed. The company had to redirect visitors to a Flash game sharing website while they performed several hours of maintenance to get their page up and running again. That's not the worst of it though; the in-store cash registers used a purchase system directly linked to GameStop's website. So not only was the site down, physical purchases were out too. I remember chatting up one of the cashiers when I went to pick up the amiibo adapter for the 3DS and the other one overheard me relaying this story. Turns out he worked that shift and said it was the single worst work experience he's ever had. The contrast between his horrified exasperation and his coworker's giddy laughter was comedic gold. Can't say I blame him though, that night must have been absolute hell. The only thing that's surprising is he was still working there several months later to hear me mention it.
Not GameStop related but game related so I guess I’ll tell this story. I’ve always had a love for bugs and snakes, and I was especially obsessed when I was a little kid. In our yard every summer we’d have DOZENS of Texas Garter Snakes (tiny, about 6 inches and non-venomous, never even got bit by one as a kid). When I’d go on my daily bug hunts I’d usually spend a lot of time just messing with the Garter Snakes. When I was 4 I decided to keep one as a pet, and this lasted a little while until it vanished one day and never came back. Just assumed it escaped and hid in a corner until it died. Well, about 5 years later when I was 9, my mom had to have her PlayStation (don’t remember which PlayStation) dismantled for some reason that I don’t remember We found the veryyyy old corpse of a Gartner Snake inside of it. Well, I learned where the snake went at least.
Years back good friend ran a pawn shop. The roaches came in in literally EVERYTHING. If it’s warm and dark, they will cram into it. Some stuff he had an isolation closet with passthrough like a bank drive up. The number of roach explosions was incredible. Game consoles, stereo speakers, and VHS players were usually bearing colonies.
As someone on the spectrum I agree. Keep your kid under control. It's dangerous and unfair to other people in the store. It could also be dangerous to the kid as well. Also, there maybe people who aren't as understanding and they might get the cops if it gets bad enough. Do something about your kid or leave them at home or with someone who can handle meltdowns.
6:25 As a person with autism I can say it's not easy to control people with autism depending on how bad their situation is. And I think i know someone which might be similar. So my opinion is that the kid shouldn't have been taken to the store, the kid should have been at home with a adult who can somewhat have the kid under control. They either should have let a other person buy it for the kid or they should have bought it online (in a different store).
Avoiding those situations is not going to help him when he's older. They need to be able to handle those situations when they're in public. Know the best times when they can take him to certain places, like stay out of GameStop when it is crowded, if they have no choice, find a way to keep him calm like headphones and music.
Just letting him do it without even trying to redirect or stop him really isn't helping him in the long run. Its going to be 10 times harder now if they try to stop the behavior in the future, not to mention more confusing and distressing for the kid.
I worked at a now-closed store at the dying mall in a small/medium sized city in Tennessee from 2008-2010 and the absolute WORST thing I ever saw was a family of poor mountain folk, about 5 of them, who were all relatively dirty… especially the mentally handicapped adult man among them who had a brown stain up the back of his pants and smelled of his accident, but the others just didn’t seem to care about the poor guy’s dignity, nor the wretched smell.
Not a Game Stop employee but I was talking to a girl a Game Stop who was a little jumpy cause earlier that same day a guy had threatened to stab her right there in the store. She called the cops who were already stationed around the parking lot but on the wrong side no were near Game Stop. And this was all because he was trying to steal games which by the way were all empty display cases. He got mad there was nothing in the stolen cases and threatened to come back with a knife to stab her to death.
Story 16; Dragon Quest 9 was my first Dragon Quest game and my first JRPG. I played that game for three years and bought a second copy after I lost my first.
if it was in the late 2000s or early 2010s, I could easily see a PS2 and 20 games go for not that much money. PS2 games are *still* fairly cheap now, and a lot of the really popular ones you can still buy brand new and sealed for like $20-40.
Story 2 I can explain the price tag pretty easily. Back in the 2000s to early 2010s there was a massive surplus of PS2 inventory in used sections at Gamestop and the like, so a lot of REALLY good games could be bought dirt cheap, and depending on the store, would often have sales that had a "buy 2, get one half off" deal; All of which my broke Highschool self would graciously abuse to get more fun for cheap. Seriously, I remember getting all 3 Sly Cooper Games, Devil May Cry 1, and Metal Gear Solid 2&3 in one trip and the total coming out to a little under $15...Man I miss those days.
Am autistic person, and agree. When we have meltdowns due to sensory overload or something like that, that's not something we can control. But our general behavior, we absolutely can, as much as any neurotypical kid, if we're parented properly. I threw exactly one fit in public when I was little, and my mom completely ignored me and pretended to walk away while still keeping an eye on me. I never did it again. We're like anyone else, it's just everything is a bit harder for us. Showing us understanding is very helpful, but please, don't think we're just uncontrollable hellions everyone has to put up with.
At my work we have some hand sanitizer that smells exactly like tequila. I'd be worried about getting mildly inebriated from the fumes if I were to put it under my nose for too long.
About the autists not needing to run wild : that is true, in most cases. Unfortunately, autism is a spectrum, and some are just way past the deep end. My sister volunteered to help out one such kid. From what she told me, that kid was around 10, and he was almost feral. Herself and a few people were standing guard around the clock to keep him from hurting himself, his parents were not able to do it all themselves. He was completely non-verbal, would run around, hit things, bite, throw stuff around etc. My sister told me that she didn’t think this kid even registered her as another living being, most of the time. So yeah, autism can get pretty bad, for everyone involved.
I really love the Dragonquest Person. Seems like a very wholesome Person- I say that because I feel like I'm a very similar type of Person, the levels of my penny-pinching are illogical at times but hey- it's nice to not want all sorts of things and just be able to enjoy where you're at in the moment.
I only slightly abused the 7 day return policy once. I didn't know about the policy at first, got a game from them, but when I got it home it didn't work. a couple weeks later I picked up a new copy of the game, took it out to the parking lot and swapped them, then after getting some food went back and told them the game didn't work and got the refund. keep in mind I still paid for the original game so in the end it was an even trade all around. I just finagled the system to extend the timer on the refund to get a new copy of the same game.
finagled and finessed mean the same thing in this context. as for the game it was monster rancher 2 if I remember correctly. now let me tuck my age back in before anyone sees... crap.
The last one is basically the explanation of why so many things are just one cent below a nice, round price (or for more expensive things, a dollar). That makes the price seem much lower without it actually being significantly lower.
I'm 99% sure you are the only Reddit story youtuber actually putting in the effort to read the stories instead of using text-to-speech (or it could just be a really good text-to-speech lol)
I'm in a very warm and wet climate, so I consider it a lucky week if none of the console trade-in attempts have multi-legged tenants. Customers really will just see bugs come out of their box and pretend like it didn't happen, then get angry when you refuse the trade. If the bugs are dead, they insist it's dirt (sir, this dirt has legs?!). Even worse is when you don't find bugs until you power the system on for testing and you're blasted with the smell of roach waste or a citadel of spiders come rushing out; absolute worst is when you don't find bugs until after you've accepted the trade and everything. Nothing like seeing a bunch of critters running out of a trade hold box while you're trying to have lunch.
11:46 That was the most correct description for autism I have ever heard from someone that isn't a professional or Autistic. I should know cause I'm Autistic
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Man, this vid did not make me miss my 5+ years at GS. SO many horror stories We also had the "remove all your trades from the bag" store rule but for needles instead of just regular gross :) Lots of druggies bc we were right off the bus line; many holiday rush idiots. Never got cockroaches, thank god, but they were INCREDIBLY common. There were certain instances where stores from New York or New Jersey would send us consoles they had taken for trade and they were ALWAYS disgusting. We didn't wanna take the hit to defect them, so we started spitefully sending them back (receiving store budgets shipping) The cat piss thing is very common, too. If we smelled it, we would refuse the trade outright (make an attempt to let them down easy bc a lot of the people who did have smell issues were either white trash or well intending slower folks). It was also very common for consoles FILLED with dust and shit bc theres a load of mill towns around here. 360 games often had what i called "preteen gamer residue" and it had SUCH a unique middle schooler odor and usually made older cases sticky. I worked through covid, so they considered us """essential workers""" so Bethany could come get her kid Kyle a new videogame while theres a literal f-ing pandemic. There were parents who attempted to use us as a babysitter while going to other stores. But i loved a lot of that job. Met really cool people and learned a lot of job skills. Hell, i think i still get recognized by my old regulars!
To note on the overwhelming smell story and commentary - while in the first trimester of my pregnancy I'm extremely sensitive to bad smells, especially urine/feces smells. I have an elderly neighbor with some mentally disabled adults and geriatric dogs, they are very nice people but the hygiene issue is really really bad. They don't wear adult diapers or hardly shower from what I can tell, their backsides are always wet and stained and they leave stains on the community benches when they sit on them (it's a townhouse apartment complex and their unit is right across a walking path from ours). During the summer while in my first trimester of this pregnancy, I had one of them (the worst smelling of them) came to ask for my husband's help fixing her bike, something he did for her often. I did my best trying to maintain my composure while speeding through the conversation but I couldn't hold back from gagging and retching loudly as I ran to my bathroom to vomit, I know she heard and saw me but hope that she wasn't insulted by it. When retelling the story to my husband over the phone a couple hours later, the mere memory of the smell did it to me all over again, anytime I thought about it for the next few days as well. Also, their air conditioning exhaust blew directly towards my front door, so I was punched in the face with this smell every time I opened my door and immediately began to gag. I banned my kids from accepting any treats or toys from them (which they constantly tried to do, again very nice people but absolutely filthy hoarders with awful hygiene and lacking self awareness). They've been treated for bed bugs twice in 2 years and keep having to "deep clean" their unit where they try giving us all their stuff, which we politely decline or toss in the dumpster. I also disinfect the bench in front of our unit that they like to sit on. Now that I'm nearing the end of pregnancy and winter it's not so bad, but I've also been super anti social to avoid having to smell them. The male will come talk to my husband when he's working outside and his *ahem* undercarriage had a distinct odor that made my normally very resilient husband vomit. He now runs inside to hide and avoid conversation with him whenever the situation arises, just hearing him describe it made me gag too 😂 the one neighbor that constantly reports the smell they give off absolutely hates them and tells them straight up they smell bad, but they don't believe her and no one else will tell them the truth, I just can't do it, it feels so cruel. I wish our landlords would address it but they don't hardly do anything.
@@user-ml3hl6vr4t they have adult services come check on them biweekly...I don't know the specifics of their case but there is someone working their case. Management also does pretty regular inspections but that's for the bedbug issue.
So it was 2004 and I was sipping my Jones Soda and browsing the PC game section at Gamestop, no clue what generic copy/paste rpg I had in my hand at the register when this demi God of a man appeared, there was an aura of brilliance surrounding him and he emminated a warm light. When he spoke he voiced boomed through the mall as he smashed his fist down on the desk and said "what piece of F'n garbage did you just attempt to purchase from my store?? Forget that game and buy this *he held up a copy of the most beautiful thing I had ever seen..World of Warcraft.....my addiction....had begun.... that was fall of 2004... I still play 20 years later....❤
Cockroaches _love_ consoles and computer towers, I've worked in independent IT for quite a while and most people don't seem to clean their electronics like, ever. Additionally, if there's already cockroaches in their living space due to any number of reasons, they're definitely gonna find the consoles and _infest_ them.
Roaches love to live in consoles and computer towers as well because they're very warm and dark and honestly there's plenty of food like crumbs nearby for them because people will eat around them.
We had a woman who dropped her kids off while she got her nails done and they wrecked the store, knocked over displays, flipped over entire shelves of games, threw stuffed animals at one another, and stretched out the wiimote tethers on the demo Wii. The second the mom got back, I told her to take her kids and get out, and that if she ever left her kids here again I was calling CPS immediately and reporting abandoned children. She started cussing me out, saying how she was about to hop over the counter. I kept my cool and said, I'm not a babysitter and I have a job to do. Kids are pulled out of here screaming everyday, and I'm honestly not going to know if it's because they're upset they can't get a game or if they're being kidnapped. Don't leave your kids here again. She started me straight in the eye and I didn't flinch. She finally grabbed her younger child by the wrist and dragged him out the door, flipping me off as she went. Very concerned she was going to complain to management but I never heard from her again.
Cockroaches are attracted to the exhaust heat the comes out of game console, and since they're often just placed directly on the floor it's not uncommon for them to crawl inside and build nests.
The guy who respects a thief for having slick balls doesn't realize he outed himself for being bad at his job. I get that there are times where there are opportunities for theft and those can't be helped, but when you allow something like that to happen, that is when the manager needs to crack down on all staff. Part of it is the layout, but what he said tells me the staff are not paying attention if someone can brazenly take shit in the open.
I've read about Steam's refund policy before. Apparently, in order to refund a Steam game, you need to complete the game 100% (in other words, get all the achievements) in under 2 hours of playtime.
9:37 let me put it like this, inside is warm cus console heat, perfect for incubating eggs, barely gets moved from where its sitting and tiny entrances where they can come and go at their leisure while being perfectly safe from predators or even humans. A console that doesnt get cleaning and or maintenance often is the real deal 5 star roach hotel
I'm autistic, and both my kids are autistic, and if my kid was running around a store there's not a chance in hell he'd be ALLOWED to do so. We would be *leaving.*
[jk] Story 5: The kid with the first copy of GTA 4 bragged in the stupidest way possible, and paid the price in the most GTA way possible (that didn't involve a body count at least). [/jk] Like, I totally saw it coming, *just* because it was a GTA game.
Cockroaches love hiding in game consoles and PCs if they can... It's the heat they generate that they love as well as the fact the insides of the consoles are dark enclosed spaces where they feel safe to nest. I actually had a really bad cockroach problem at my last place and was going to bring my xbox one to a friends house until I noticed movement through the exhaust air holes. Since then, I started keeping any new game consoles inside trash bags that I tie shut when they're not in use while only playing them when I have a clear space to set them up to make sure they can't get in while playing.
@@user-ml3hl6vr4t even if it's on a table (mine was) they'll get into it. The only way to keep it safe is to only put it out while it's being used and keeping it in a sealed bag (like a tied trash bag) while not using it as well as making sure it's setup on an cleared elevated surface where if possible roach spray should be sprayed in a ring around the area where the console will sit to try to prevent them from running up onto the surface and making their way into an opening while focusing on playing the game
Roaches love electronics. My great aunt’s apartment had them in the electrical outlets; she had dementia, unfortunately and kind of lost sense of cleaning and throwing food out. I can still remember feeling the crunch as I tried to plug in a vacuum cleaner. And when in worked IT at my college as a student worker, we lent out school tablets. This one kid returned about a week late, give or take a few days, and when I was moving it around to check that it was all in order, a flood of tiny roaches swarmed out from the device. I’d only been going to hit him with late fees to his account, since the student seemed apologetic and the device at first glance looked like it was still in good condition, no strange dried gunk on it or anything, not even in the protective case, no scratches or dents. But then those roaches…I threw that device into the used toner box and put a textbook over it. The kid ran, I guess he was too embarrassed? Otherwise he would’ve remembered that his student id was linked to the rental. I told my supervisor and that student was banned from borrowing the tablets. And then there was another time I was helping a friend of a classmate with their laptop because she said it wasn’t turning on or it wouldn’t stay on or something like that. Anyway, I took it apart to see if there was anything I could do or if she needed to get it fixed by someone professionally. It was full of dead roaches. Cleaned it out and the laptop worked. I think they’d been causing the device to overheat or something? Idk. If there’s anything you can take away from this, it’s to handle unknown electronics outside your own home because roaches love the dry warmth that electronics generate.
damn, that story at minute 6: after the bite attempt, the guy would have received a punch. the difference to many others? I have an autism diagnosis too. and suddenly, their defense deflates.
9:39 yes. yes. and yes. Cockraoches fall in love with the dry, dark, and warm condition of a console or computer and will absolutely live in them, usually the really gross small ones and rarely the larger cockroaches.
Cockroaches love heat and computers of all sorts. I lived a horror life as a child where that was the norm. Never again, but also not surprised at the roach stories. Yeuch.
For the last one, my theory is the guy was gonna buy two Wii U’s for his kids. That would explain it, he would probably rather spend 798 dollars on them than 800 or so, because that sort of -1 cent thing tricks your mind. Anyway, if you believe this theory is true, i would say this story is pretty wholesome.
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I worked at gamestop for a while and have a wholesome story. We had a few regulars that were fellow nerds and would come in to just hang out and talk about games all the time. They always were respectful and knew if a customer came in, they would step away and let us work before going back to chatting. (For context, I am a female and was in my mid 20s.)
One day a group of people probably in their early 20s come in while a regular was there (male mid 30s), and the regular as always scootched to end of the counter and was then on his phone waiting while I helped the group.
They were acting a little strange, lingering around the store for quite some time and didn't really seem there to buy anything. Finally, one of them walked up to me and asked for some receipt paper and a pen, which I gave. She wrote a note down and passed it back to me. It read "there is a guy hovering over you at the end of the counter, are you okay? Do you need help?"
I explained to her I knew him and he was a regular and she was super relieved and the group left after that. Even though I wasn't in danger, it felt so heartwarmimg a stranger would notice and take time to make sure everything was okay.
As an autistic individual, you are completely right. I have less severe autism so i am fully verbal and behave fine. Some parents just dont raise their kids right, autism or not.
As the father of a nonverbal autistic child, hard agree man
My daughter is extremely sweet and seldom has public meltdowns BUT if there were to be an issue like that, her mother and I have never hesitated to do our jobs as parents and handle said situation
Yes, children with autism can be a handful and it can be incredibly hard for some people, but you also have a responsibility as a parent and caregiver to ensure your child isnt being a public nuisance
While I've never been a GameStop Employee myself, I know of a hilariously awful incident that needs to be shared: the time Ness amiibos crashed GameStop.
It is April 1st, 2015 when a (non-prank) Nintendo Direct occurs. During the showcase, the 4th Wave of Super Smash Brothers amiibo are announced. Notably, in the US Ness was going to only be available at GameStop. This was an immediate red flag to collectors as GameStop was known to be extremely bad at managing their store exclusives. It did not help that the exclusive they had during the previous wave, Shulk, was handled so poorly his amiibo was being resold for several hundred dollars even shortly after release.
The very next day, April 2nd, GameStop decides to open up amiibo preorders via their website, even though the figures aren't expected to come until May. That timing was likely in direct response to the Nintendo Direct (pun intended). However, this decision soon went south as their computer system was so absurdly overwhelmed by amiibo preorders, most of which were probably for Ness given his limited status, that GameStop's website quickly crashed. And when I say crash, I mean HARD crashed. The company had to redirect visitors to a Flash game sharing website while they performed several hours of maintenance to get their page up and running again. That's not the worst of it though; the in-store cash registers used a purchase system directly linked to GameStop's website. So not only was the site down, physical purchases were out too.
I remember chatting up one of the cashiers when I went to pick up the amiibo adapter for the 3DS and the other one overheard me relaying this story. Turns out he worked that shift and said it was the single worst work experience he's ever had. The contrast between his horrified exasperation and his coworker's giddy laughter was comedic gold. Can't say I blame him though, that night must have been absolute hell. The only thing that's surprising is he was still working there several months later to hear me mention it.
Gamestop essentially got DDOS'd by Nintendo.
@@TheOmegaRiddler No no no, it's funnier than that. GameStop DDOS'd THEMSELVES over a Nintendo release.
Not GameStop related but game related so I guess I’ll tell this story.
I’ve always had a love for bugs and snakes, and I was especially obsessed when I was a little kid. In our yard every summer we’d have DOZENS of Texas Garter Snakes (tiny, about 6 inches and non-venomous, never even got bit by one as a kid). When I’d go on my daily bug hunts I’d usually spend a lot of time just messing with the Garter Snakes. When I was 4 I decided to keep one as a pet, and this lasted a little while until it vanished one day and never came back. Just assumed it escaped and hid in a corner until it died.
Well, about 5 years later when I was 9, my mom had to have her PlayStation (don’t remember which PlayStation) dismantled for some reason that I don’t remember
We found the veryyyy old corpse of a Gartner Snake inside of it.
Well, I learned where the snake went at least.
Years back good friend ran a pawn shop. The roaches came in in literally EVERYTHING. If it’s warm and dark, they will cram into it. Some stuff he had an isolation closet with passthrough like a bank drive up. The number of roach explosions was incredible. Game consoles, stereo speakers, and VHS players were usually bearing colonies.
As someone on the spectrum I agree. Keep your kid under control. It's dangerous and unfair to other people in the store. It could also be dangerous to the kid as well. Also, there maybe people who aren't as understanding and they might get the cops if it gets bad enough. Do something about your kid or leave them at home or with someone who can handle meltdowns.
Man you don’t know how much this helps I just ran out of music while working out and you popped out life saver
6:25 As a person with autism I can say it's not easy to control people with autism depending on how bad their situation is. And I think i know someone which might be similar. So my opinion is that the kid shouldn't have been taken to the store, the kid should have been at home with a adult who can somewhat have the kid under control. They either should have let a other person buy it for the kid or they should have bought it online (in a different store).
Another person with autism here:
Agree
Another autistic here. I agree with you
Avoiding those situations is not going to help him when he's older. They need to be able to handle those situations when they're in public. Know the best times when they can take him to certain places, like stay out of GameStop when it is crowded, if they have no choice, find a way to keep him calm like headphones and music.
Just letting him do it without even trying to redirect or stop him really isn't helping him in the long run. Its going to be 10 times harder now if they try to stop the behavior in the future, not to mention more confusing and distressing for the kid.
Consoles are unfortunately attractive places for roaches. Warm, dark, dry, plenty of crevices to spawn in... 🤢
Yup. Also not opened very often, so less chance of nests being disturbed
console crevice spawn
An spider once crawled into my PS4 I don't know if it's still alive or not
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I worked at a now-closed store at the dying mall in a small/medium sized city in Tennessee from 2008-2010 and the absolute WORST thing I ever saw was a family of poor mountain folk, about 5 of them, who were all relatively dirty… especially the mentally handicapped adult man among them who had a brown stain up the back of his pants and smelled of his accident, but the others just didn’t seem to care about the poor guy’s dignity, nor the wretched smell.
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Not a Game Stop employee but I was talking to a girl a Game Stop who was a little jumpy cause earlier that same day a guy had threatened to stab her right there in the store. She called the cops who were already stationed around the parking lot but on the wrong side no were near Game Stop. And this was all because he was trying to steal games which by the way were all empty display cases. He got mad there was nothing in the stolen cases and threatened to come back with a knife to stab her to death.
Story 16; Dragon Quest 9 was my first Dragon Quest game and my first JRPG. I played that game for three years and bought a second copy after I lost my first.
I was visiting a GameStop once and this mom was trying to justify to the staff why her 7 year old or so son could play gta and cod
if it was in the late 2000s or early 2010s, I could easily see a PS2 and 20 games go for not that much money. PS2 games are *still* fairly cheap now, and a lot of the really popular ones you can still buy brand new and sealed for like $20-40.
"I'll steal stuff even HARDER!"
Story 2 I can explain the price tag pretty easily. Back in the 2000s to early 2010s there was a massive surplus of PS2 inventory in used sections at Gamestop and the like, so a lot of REALLY good games could be bought dirt cheap, and depending on the store, would often have sales that had a "buy 2, get one half off" deal; All of which my broke Highschool self would graciously abuse to get more fun for cheap. Seriously, I remember getting all 3 Sly Cooper Games, Devil May Cry 1, and Metal Gear Solid 2&3 in one trip and the total coming out to a little under $15...Man I miss those days.
Am autistic person, and agree. When we have meltdowns due to sensory overload or something like that, that's not something we can control. But our general behavior, we absolutely can, as much as any neurotypical kid, if we're parented properly. I threw exactly one fit in public when I was little, and my mom completely ignored me and pretended to walk away while still keeping an eye on me. I never did it again. We're like anyone else, it's just everything is a bit harder for us. Showing us understanding is very helpful, but please, don't think we're just uncontrollable hellions everyone has to put up with.
At my work we have some hand sanitizer that smells exactly like tequila. I'd be worried about getting mildly inebriated from the fumes if I were to put it under my nose for too long.
thats because they made alcohol hand sanitizer during pandemic and it smells like alcohol teq
I would think that working at GameStop is a nightmare itself
About the autists not needing to run wild : that is true, in most cases. Unfortunately, autism is a spectrum, and some are just way past the deep end. My sister volunteered to help out one such kid. From what she told me, that kid was around 10, and he was almost feral. Herself and a few people were standing guard around the clock to keep him from hurting himself, his parents were not able to do it all themselves. He was completely non-verbal, would run around, hit things, bite, throw stuff around etc. My sister told me that she didn’t think this kid even registered her as another living being, most of the time.
So yeah, autism can get pretty bad, for everyone involved.
Hey! Thanks for pronouncing Akron correctly!!!!!!
“Oh boy, can’t wait to play wind waker on my GameCube.”
The colony of roaches living in the disk reader:🗿
I really love the Dragonquest Person. Seems like a very wholesome Person- I say that because I feel like I'm a very similar type of Person, the levels of my penny-pinching are illogical at times but hey- it's nice to not want all sorts of things and just be able to enjoy where you're at in the moment.
I only slightly abused the 7 day return policy once. I didn't know about the policy at first, got a game from them, but when I got it home it didn't work. a couple weeks later I picked up a new copy of the game, took it out to the parking lot and swapped them, then after getting some food went back and told them the game didn't work and got the refund. keep in mind I still paid for the original game so in the end it was an even trade all around. I just finagled the system to extend the timer on the refund to get a new copy of the same game.
What was the game? Also, did you mean finessed?
finagled and finessed mean the same thing in this context. as for the game it was monster rancher 2 if I remember correctly. now let me tuck my age back in before anyone sees... crap.
The last one is basically the explanation of why so many things are just one cent below a nice, round price (or for more expensive things, a dollar). That makes the price seem much lower without it actually being significantly lower.
I'm 99% sure you are the only Reddit story youtuber actually putting in the effort to read the stories instead of using text-to-speech (or it could just be a really good text-to-speech lol)
Try rslash. He's good too.
The kid took a CRAP ON THE FLOOR whyyyyyyy gamestops usually have a bathroom
As a man who grew up poor...yes...cockroaches live in electronics. And they fill it with crap, and they make the electronics break.
Is that not how the slang "bug" as for a glitch, came about? That an actual bug entered this early computer and made it fail?
@@TheGalantMANYup!
Dragon quest 9 literally is my childhood I still have 2 copies! Absolutely love that game and still replay it to this day
8:40 he had some drawers? lol
I'm in a very warm and wet climate, so I consider it a lucky week if none of the console trade-in attempts have multi-legged tenants. Customers really will just see bugs come out of their box and pretend like it didn't happen, then get angry when you refuse the trade. If the bugs are dead, they insist it's dirt (sir, this dirt has legs?!).
Even worse is when you don't find bugs until you power the system on for testing and you're blasted with the smell of roach waste or a citadel of spiders come rushing out; absolute worst is when you don't find bugs until after you've accepted the trade and everything. Nothing like seeing a bunch of critters running out of a trade hold box while you're trying to have lunch.
How is it abuse? That's simply using it. "For ANY reason." If you don't like them using it as a rental system...don't word it that way.
Ps2 + a load of cheap shovelware is likely why it was so cheap.
That last one is just straight up comedy
got maced by a weirdo in pink glasses. i think that was almost 10 years ago by now though
11:46 That was the most correct description for autism I have ever heard from someone that isn't a professional or Autistic. I should know cause I'm Autistic
If you’ve never been Kenny wood is crazy. It’s a theme park in Pittsburgh and almost every time I go there’s a major fight which ends up bringing police and an ambulance. A workers of Kenny wood vidoe would be amazing
Cajones = drawers
Cojones = balls
I lived through a roach infestation (they are still in the walls!!!!) and these assholes really love warm things. A console is a very warm thing
That one GameStop employee that got pepper sprayed by Chris Chan because he was upset about the color of Sonic’s arms.
I could makes books about all the crazy stuff that happened while I worked at GameStop
1:45 exactly, its just longer.
Man, this vid did not make me miss my 5+ years at GS.
SO many horror stories
We also had the "remove all your trades from the bag" store rule but for needles instead of just regular gross :)
Lots of druggies bc we were right off the bus line; many holiday rush idiots. Never got cockroaches, thank god, but they were INCREDIBLY common.
There were certain instances where stores from New York or New Jersey would send us consoles they had taken for trade and they were ALWAYS disgusting. We didn't wanna take the hit to defect them, so we started spitefully sending them back (receiving store budgets shipping)
The cat piss thing is very common, too. If we smelled it, we would refuse the trade outright (make an attempt to let them down easy bc a lot of the people who did have smell issues were either white trash or well intending slower folks).
It was also very common for consoles FILLED with dust and shit bc theres a load of mill towns around here. 360 games often had what i called "preteen gamer residue" and it had SUCH a unique middle schooler odor and usually made older cases sticky.
I worked through covid, so they considered us """essential workers""" so Bethany could come get her kid Kyle a new videogame while theres a literal f-ing pandemic.
There were parents who attempted to use us as a babysitter while going to other stores.
But i loved a lot of that job. Met really cool people and learned a lot of job skills.
Hell, i think i still get recognized by my old regulars!
To note on the overwhelming smell story and commentary - while in the first trimester of my pregnancy I'm extremely sensitive to bad smells, especially urine/feces smells. I have an elderly neighbor with some mentally disabled adults and geriatric dogs, they are very nice people but the hygiene issue is really really bad. They don't wear adult diapers or hardly shower from what I can tell, their backsides are always wet and stained and they leave stains on the community benches when they sit on them (it's a townhouse apartment complex and their unit is right across a walking path from ours). During the summer while in my first trimester of this pregnancy, I had one of them (the worst smelling of them) came to ask for my husband's help fixing her bike, something he did for her often. I did my best trying to maintain my composure while speeding through the conversation but I couldn't hold back from gagging and retching loudly as I ran to my bathroom to vomit, I know she heard and saw me but hope that she wasn't insulted by it. When retelling the story to my husband over the phone a couple hours later, the mere memory of the smell did it to me all over again, anytime I thought about it for the next few days as well. Also, their air conditioning exhaust blew directly towards my front door, so I was punched in the face with this smell every time I opened my door and immediately began to gag. I banned my kids from accepting any treats or toys from them (which they constantly tried to do, again very nice people but absolutely filthy hoarders with awful hygiene and lacking self awareness). They've been treated for bed bugs twice in 2 years and keep having to "deep clean" their unit where they try giving us all their stuff, which we politely decline or toss in the dumpster. I also disinfect the bench in front of our unit that they like to sit on. Now that I'm nearing the end of pregnancy and winter it's not so bad, but I've also been super anti social to avoid having to smell them. The male will come talk to my husband when he's working outside and his *ahem* undercarriage had a distinct odor that made my normally very resilient husband vomit. He now runs inside to hide and avoid conversation with him whenever the situation arises, just hearing him describe it made me gag too 😂 the one neighbor that constantly reports the smell they give off absolutely hates them and tells them straight up they smell bad, but they don't believe her and no one else will tell them the truth, I just can't do it, it feels so cruel. I wish our landlords would address it but they don't hardly do anything.
Call social services and demand a wellness check on them. If the issue is that bad it will be obvious that they need help.
@@user-ml3hl6vr4t they have adult services come check on them biweekly...I don't know the specifics of their case but there is someone working their case. Management also does pretty regular inspections but that's for the bedbug issue.
The last few seconds had me laughing 😂😂😂
I like the to avoid the flood halo reference
That guy in story 4 reminds me of Jorgi Constava from Papers Please
Roaches love warm areas. If its to their liking, they'll chill there. Consoles get warm, Roaches see it as free real estate.
This one dude yelled "it is MA'AM!!"
that last one could have been my dad he wuz really nice and got me and my brother wii u's... he is that type of person.
The last story kinda broke me
YASSSS- AH- THE FIRST STORY HAHAHHAHAHAHA
Story 2: I would so be putting a flag on this purchase.
So it was 2004 and I was sipping my Jones Soda and browsing the PC game section at Gamestop, no clue what generic copy/paste rpg I had in my hand at the register when this demi God of a man appeared, there was an aura of brilliance surrounding him and he emminated a warm light. When he spoke he voiced boomed through the mall as he smashed his fist down on the desk and said "what piece of F'n garbage did you just attempt to purchase from my store?? Forget that game and buy this *he held up a copy of the most beautiful thing I had ever seen..World of Warcraft.....my addiction....had begun.... that was fall of 2004... I still play 20 years later....❤
It's a well known fact that consoles are full of bugs.
A PS2 and 20 games for $400. I want to go back to those times.
That last one 😂
Cockroaches _love_ consoles and computer towers, I've worked in independent IT for quite a while and most people don't seem to clean their electronics like, ever.
Additionally, if there's already cockroaches in their living space due to any number of reasons, they're definitely gonna find the consoles and _infest_ them.
oh good funny gamestop stories for once instead of just bashing the store by shorters XD
Do you think you could make a playlist / compilation videos?
Roaches love to live in consoles and computer towers as well because they're very warm and dark and honestly there's plenty of food like crumbs nearby for them because people will eat around them.
Vics under the nose does wonders for obliterating all other smells, though it might make your eyes water
We had a woman who dropped her kids off while she got her nails done and they wrecked the store, knocked over displays, flipped over entire shelves of games, threw stuffed animals at one another, and stretched out the wiimote tethers on the demo Wii. The second the mom got back, I told her to take her kids and get out, and that if she ever left her kids here again I was calling CPS immediately and reporting abandoned children.
She started cussing me out, saying how she was about to hop over the counter. I kept my cool and said, I'm not a babysitter and I have a job to do. Kids are pulled out of here screaming everyday, and I'm honestly not going to know if it's because they're upset they can't get a game or if they're being kidnapped. Don't leave your kids here again.
She started me straight in the eye and I didn't flinch. She finally grabbed her younger child by the wrist and dragged him out the door, flipping me off as she went. Very concerned she was going to complain to management but I never heard from her again.
Cockroaches are attracted to the exhaust heat the comes out of game console, and since they're often just placed directly on the floor it's not uncommon for them to crawl inside and build nests.
The guy who respects a thief for having slick balls doesn't realize he outed himself for being bad at his job. I get that there are times where there are opportunities for theft and those can't be helped, but when you allow something like that to happen, that is when the manager needs to crack down on all staff. Part of it is the layout, but what he said tells me the staff are not paying attention if someone can brazenly take shit in the open.
Do you use auto subtitles you have a lot of weird spelling mistakes in your videos
THe Minecraft video giving me PTSD trust me
9:38
Uh.. yeah... there used to be a warning for PS4's to keep them at least a foot of the ground so that cockroaches couldn't get inside them.
I've read about Steam's refund policy before. Apparently, in order to refund a Steam game, you need to complete the game 100% (in other words, get all the achievements) in under 2 hours of playtime.
No, you just need to return the game with under 2 hours of playtime. It is a popular challenge to complete and then refund them though
"I once had a guy call me a terrorist, i'm middle eastern"
That sentence out of nowhere basically jumpscared me.
$400 for all of that? Why refund the games at that point?
9:37 let me put it like this, inside is warm cus console heat, perfect for incubating eggs, barely gets moved from where its sitting and tiny entrances where they can come and go at their leisure while being perfectly safe from predators or even humans. A console that doesnt get cleaning and or maintenance often is the real deal 5 star roach hotel
I'm autistic, and both my kids are autistic, and if my kid was running around a store there's not a chance in hell he'd be ALLOWED to do so. We would be *leaving.*
I know this is way late and someone else probs said it already, but yes cockroaches do hide in electronics.
Check your hotel microwaves. D=
[jk] Story 5: The kid with the first copy of GTA 4 bragged in the stupidest way possible, and paid the price in the most GTA way possible (that didn't involve a body count at least). [/jk]
Like, I totally saw it coming, *just* because it was a GTA game.
Why did we stop the video so abruptly
cologne under your nose for maximum protection!
your parkour is making me mad
Yes cockroaches notoriously live in hollow electronics. Safe with warm resistors.
99% of comments: RoAcHeS LiKe WaRm, dArK, DrY, etc. SpAcEs..." Yeah, no duh. After this was commented once, it no longer needed to be commented.
Cockroaches like to live inside warm areas, and your console can get really warm, especially the old ones like an Xbox360 ps2 and stuff like that
Like - how can you make a kid stop mid poop
Cockroaches love hiding in game consoles and PCs if they can... It's the heat they generate that they love as well as the fact the insides of the consoles are dark enclosed spaces where they feel safe to nest. I actually had a really bad cockroach problem at my last place and was going to bring my xbox one to a friends house until I noticed movement through the exhaust air holes. Since then, I started keeping any new game consoles inside trash bags that I tie shut when they're not in use while only playing them when I have a clear space to set them up to make sure they can't get in while playing.
Cockroaches are very fast and if you are setting it in open floor space, it could still pick up one if you have them in your living space.
@@user-ml3hl6vr4t even if it's on a table (mine was) they'll get into it. The only way to keep it safe is to only put it out while it's being used and keeping it in a sealed bag (like a tied trash bag) while not using it as well as making sure it's setup on an cleared elevated surface where if possible roach spray should be sprayed in a ring around the area where the console will sit to try to prevent them from running up onto the surface and making their way into an opening while focusing on playing the game
Roaches love electronics. My great aunt’s apartment had them in the electrical outlets; she had dementia, unfortunately and kind of lost sense of cleaning and throwing food out. I can still remember feeling the crunch as I tried to plug in a vacuum cleaner.
And when in worked IT at my college as a student worker, we lent out school tablets. This one kid returned about a week late, give or take a few days, and when I was moving it around to check that it was all in order, a flood of tiny roaches swarmed out from the device. I’d only been going to hit him with late fees to his account, since the student seemed apologetic and the device at first glance looked like it was still in good condition, no strange dried gunk on it or anything, not even in the protective case, no scratches or dents. But then those roaches…I threw that device into the used toner box and put a textbook over it. The kid ran, I guess he was too embarrassed? Otherwise he would’ve remembered that his student id was linked to the rental. I told my supervisor and that student was banned from borrowing the tablets.
And then there was another time I was helping a friend of a classmate with their laptop because she said it wasn’t turning on or it wouldn’t stay on or something like that. Anyway, I took it apart to see if there was anything I could do or if she needed to get it fixed by someone professionally. It was full of dead roaches. Cleaned it out and the laptop worked. I think they’d been causing the device to overheat or something? Idk.
If there’s anything you can take away from this, it’s to handle unknown electronics outside your own home because roaches love the dry warmth that electronics generate.
Roaches love the heat that comes from the fan
Roaches love the warmth put out by electric devices, so yes, this is a thing.
Video has 69,700 views exactly å screenshot moment
well did you screenshot?
cockroaches in trades... ugh
Wtf
damn, that story at minute 6: after the bite attempt, the guy would have received a punch.
the difference to many others? I have an autism diagnosis too.
and suddenly, their defense deflates.
9:35
Yep, cockroaches like warm places
Roaches can live anywhere.
9:39 yes. yes. and yes. Cockraoches fall in love with the dry, dark, and warm condition of a console or computer and will absolutely live in them, usually the really gross small ones and rarely the larger cockroaches.
this are people are crazy
Cockroaches love heat and computers of all sorts. I lived a horror life as a child where that was the norm. Never again, but also not surprised at the roach stories. Yeuch.
For the last one, my theory is the guy was gonna buy two Wii U’s for his kids. That would explain it, he would probably rather spend 798 dollars on them than 800 or so, because that sort of -1 cent thing tricks your mind. Anyway, if you believe this theory is true, i would say this story is pretty wholesome.
Aaa first 4 seconds yay
Bragging is one thing but the kid definitely did not deserve getting his game stolen :(