Get the a$$... I have to look this crap up all the time! Acronymification of everything! It is Letters representing words... there is no indicator on which words unless u have played Grand Theft Auto... pls b more forgiving of ppl not fitting into ur tiny worldview that is u...
I work in the staffing industry. These retailers are terrified of their workers unionizing. So they hire and promote genuine basket cases and assholes that are just functional enough to be a manger, but not enough to be a real human being. This creates a miserable work experience that promotes very high employee turnover. With high turnover you can't unionize because by the time a union rep has handed out his materials and is ready to ask for a vote, everyone he's contacted no longer works at the company and he has to start over, because the process can take 6 mo to a year and the average length of employment at these places is about 3-4 months. McDonald's, and probably other fast food chains, use similar tactics. I find the practice disgusting, myself. There should be no reason at all that working at a simple retail store should be anything less than pleasant with the only drama ever coming from rude/unhappy customers. The mind games and utter incompetence of these low level managers is unacceptable ethically speaking, but desirable from the standpoint of upper management that know it will prevent unionization. Now hiring: complete dicks inquire within Management Positions Available - especially for control freaks
Nah man it's not some conspiracy by tons of companies to all hire bad managers. The reason this happens is because most of these stores are franchises so the "managers" are really just low-level supervisors. The "owner" of the store is really a manager and doesn't control all aspects of his store. Sure, he is earns income off the store's residual profit, but the corporation owns the land, the brand, and he technically leases the employees from the corporation. So he is an owner in name only, and the manager is a manager in name only. So the store "owner" and the corporation are the only ones who care about the store's profitability because only they get a chunk of the residual profit. But the game is rigged so that the CORPORATION ALWAYS WINS! The corporation makes most of its money from renting the land to the franchisee, and they get and increase in net value when property prices increase. McDonald's is, in many ways, a real estate company that leases its properties to franchisees with tons of restrictions and regulations so they eat the franchisee's profit while also guaranteeing profit off the land and brand name of McDonald's. So the store is ALWAYS strapped for cash because the store owner doesn't own the land he has his store on, or the brand he is using. He cannot take out a loan during tough times to keep the store afloat because he has no collateral. So the store must always be cash positive or else it closes FAST. So they must hire the CHEAPEST WORKERS POSSIBLE! They don't care if these workers ruin the brand name because the store "owner" doesn't even own the brand (talk about a conflict of interests). Also, the quality of workers barely even impacts the store's revenue, so, as an owner, why invest in better employees? No reason unless you get more money, but you don't. In fact, you do best to make a store profitable, hire anyone with a pulse to "manage" it (the store really runs itself and corporate provides you with idiot-proof training manuals), and open up as many stores as possible! The best franchisees are the ones with 10+ stores, not the ones with a single store that they've been the best store it could possibly be. These businesses suck because the "owners" are financially punished by improving the store and are GREATLY rewarded by owning 10+ stores that they never even set foot in. That, and the true owners of what really makes a store special, the brand and the physical space, are a multinational corporation whose officers never set foot in said store either. This is why most of these managers are clueless - the economics of most of these retails chains business models force the franchisees to cut costs at all cost. So they hire all bottom-of-the-barrel people because that's all they can find! I know this because I have owned a franchise company and, believe me, I wanted to hire better workers, but I couldn't afford to. Corporate eats so much of your budget that it literally is not an option to pay a good manager $25+ an hour to do good work. someone with any skills will not work at these stores because they don't pay well and they are over-regulated. That means little-to-no tips or cash under the table, which any low-level, low-wage employee knows can be a lot of your income. For example, why work for Wendy's at $10/hour when you can work for a contractor helping out at $15/hour cash under the table? Only if you need that sort of income for legal purposes (welfare, probation, etc.) or you just don't know any better. McDonald's can really care less if their employees try to unionize. They have an 100 million-man supply of scabs to hire from in the USA. If all MCD's workers somehow unionized tomorrow they would all be fired, replaced within 2 weeks, and all franchisees could even be compensated for lost revenue, as this would be cheaper than permanently paying higher wages. Unionization would also cause corporate to accelerate its automation plans
ISINAT, I might agree with you except I've seen stores turn down people who I knew personally to be reliable and honest for positions, hiring instead complete jackwagons and there was no dispute over hourly rates, as it's all minimum wage. It's because they want to promote the jackwagon to manager shortly after they demonstrate they at least don't steal from the store. They don't want reliable honest people because those types have their lives organized and would be likely to organize against the owner should the issue ever come up. There's no explanation for choosing a schizoid 30 year old over a healthy energetic and smart college kid, when they would be both making minwage. These stores want the assholes and dicks of the world to work there. So they're either really dumb, or it's deliberate. Maybe it's some of both. It's worse at stores that actually have unions. The amount of petty rules and dogshit protocols you have to memorize are designed to make you want to quit, to deny the union long-term membership. The union doesn't care either because new workers have to pay dues without getting any benefits for a year, so they have no incentive to try to make it better. The union has its 25-year+ core members that it takes care of that make up about 30% of its membership, and everyone else is 1-year or less and it stays that way forever. Slowly their core members retire or just die and they wonder why no one wants to support them in a strike when they call for it. A 3 month member isn't going to hold a sign for $3 an hour so that the core members can keep benefits that the 3-monther won't see ever. The world is full of happy pleasant people that just need a bit of extra money. There's no reason to hire jackasses. I often like to cite In'n'Out Burger as a place that hires genuinely pleasant and sane people. They're always nice and seem very professional and congenial to each other too. I never hear about any drama from those places. It's possible, but some places just don't want the nice guys and girls, because they're still afraid of the organized labor boogey man.
IDK man you never know why someone got hired. You see them as a dumbass schizo but they may have SLAYED that interview. I've hired shitty people before that looked amazing on paper. They were probably budding sociopaths so acting like a good worker for an interview is easy to them. Or maybe that idiot manager knows the boss, is family, the boss owes him a favor, etc. Also, the smart college kid may "over qualify" for a job, because they know it's not a good fit for him To be fair, I can't comment on every store's business model. Some may be hiring shitheads because they want the turnover. Maybe they think their new employee training and onboarding systems are so stellar that they don''t need experienced workers, only cheap help. I can buy that some stores are doing that, but not all. Just wanted you stop see the other perspective as well. Many of the store "owners" are franchisees that were basically lied to by Corporate. They make all these promises on how your business will grow and you'll make all this money. But if you don't read that entire damn FDD or hire a lawyer to read it then you don't realize all the hidden fees and rules to control you until it's too late. Get this - I was paying a hidden fee just to pay my workers, so Corporate even makes money cutting your check!
I worked at Gamestop too in high school. I feel your pain. My boss was very greasy and smelled of a fine mixture composed of asshole and cigarettes. He would also insist on personally helping any female (including
That questions thing is one thing they tell you about interviews or anything else, it doesn't matter how good you seem at a job or how qualified you are if you don't ask questions they think you are arrogant but if you ask to many you seem inept. I hate it, and its fucking stupid.
Does anyone remember FuncoLand? Got kicked out of the store when I was 14 for playing the mgs2 demo by some pimple ridden fuckface. “How old are you?” I’m 14 sir.. “Do you have a parent with you?” My grandma is buying me devil may cry. He looks at her. “Well you can’t play this game so you have to leave.” So my 14 year old ass gets kicked out while they sell my grandma all the old bullshit CD repair kits they have in the store. She fuckin came out with 3 CD polishers and 5 containers of that brown liquid they used to sell to clean cd scratches. She payed 145$ Poor grandma..
Your manager, who told you about his father's death and his incident, was a really nice guy. Not many managers do that nor try to comprehend employees.
District managers: "Every single store in our district needs to be #1 in the district." Employee: "Sir, that's literally impossible." District manager: "FIRED"
I remember working at pinkberry early in the company's life, first one outside of hollywood/LA area, in the SFV. We broke all records for sales and was swamped for a good year with rushes around the block at least twice a day every day. We had rules to follow from corporate. We got in trouble giving too many raspberries and blackberries. So we followed it and when people wanted more we would follow corporate protocol, basically they would need to pay like 75 cents or something like that for extra. Then one of the owners came in with an email from a customer complaining about not getting enough raspberries according to him. This was a month or so after being chewed out for being too kind in giving those out. I brought up "so regardless of what we do we're going to be chewed out for giving too much raspberries or not enough." Because are we to follow corporate rules, or just give the customer what they want? Where's the consistency? Needless to say I immediately got on the owners shit list, and within 4 months was forced to quit because "I had an attitude." A wave of people immediately quit when that happened, even though I told them not to just because of me. And within 6 months after it was so bad that basically everyone there quit because things got worse. Many customers went to other stores after I left, most notably Mike Tyson. I shit you not. Mike would come specifically to my store cause he liked me and I hooked him up on the Oreo topping.
Reminds me of the army lol managers just like those except it’s worse since you can’t do a damn thing about it or you get military legal action against you or physical correction until you damn near die
It was a retail trend in the late 90's threw to today I was a labor worker in mopar parts warehouse we had a revolving door for managers the good ones that the workers liked where first to go only the hard nosed jerks lasted and moral fell because at the same time we where not doing good enough I told them if you tell people the suck long enough they will show you how much they suck to spite you. He did not like that but It was right on.
I was at this job where me and other 2 guys did everything and basically pulled this store together, but after a couple of months the manager fucked up so they had to change him and the 2 guys i was working with left, so they got a new manager and new employes which means everything i did for that god foresaken store went unnoticed and for the new manager i was just one more of the new guys. It also didn't help i was tired af by then so he never saw me at "my prime" but instead as one of the disposable ones. So yeah fuck me i guess
I don't blame gamestop too much, they are struggling to survive after digital distribution, it's a miracle they made it this far and I hope it's former employees find new work.
Yo, I'm new to this channel, but I kind of dig it. I like to listen while I'm cleaning or doing other chores and it feels like having a friend around to talk to you.
I have long hair and its better if you don't wash out all the natural oils everyday. I think every other day is fine too with the noted exceptions above where a shower would be needed. If my daily activity isn't causing me to be a sweaty mess then it isn't that big a deal to skip a day. I was commenting on twice a day being a bit strange.
Working at gamestop and I call the non bathers the dungeon gamers or basement kids Bc they literally just leave they moms basement to come to gamestop gross but very polite
Life lesson to the youth... just because you work your ass off does not mean you will make a good manager or get promoted to a manager. You might be tossed aside for someone else. And PS if there is a lot of manager changes... you'll get tossed soon when you get promoted as manager. Take the position as manager to use on your resume for the next job. Keep your chin up!
I came across your stories over the weekend and literally watched a crap ton of content. Out of everything I have ONE question that nobody ever answered. WHY DOES MADDEN GET SO MUCH HATE? Damn. Being from the Great White North- Canada I love NHL & NFL games. Out of every Gamestop ex employee stories always laugh at Madden fans. I was even lauged at by a really fat chick too busy talking about an RPG and laughed when I asked about Madden 13 when it came out. I actually knew the Manager and had her "Coached" and later she was fired. I enjoy "Gamer" games and traditional classic games from NES to SNES to Sega Genesis to Turbo Graphix 16 and Atari. I just don't appreciate and can't understand why most people who have these horror stories always give Madden games and gamers hate. Can you explain why in a video possibly? Either way - love the channel. Definitely subbed. You're the man, Fanta.
Thanks John! Might do a video covering the hate for it, but it really boils down to the laziness of EA. People see buying Sports games as stupid due to the fact that they come out every year with only slight changes and have the balls to not only charge $60, but they now have a lootbox microtransaction system in every game. NHL is super fun though, just wish it wasn't so monetized. Glad you are enjoying the content, and I'll be sure to keep pumping it out as much as I can!
I dont get it with every sports game tried at friends many times but meh. But i love Skateboard games (until every studio fucked them up) Oldschool Tony Hawk games ftw
This is way more interesting than I could ever have imagined tbh. Also I relate to the part where you screamed at your cat. Mine is hella vocal and she drives me up the wall.
Seems like gamestop pays their store managers along the lines of convenience store managers, hence the turn over. If you jumped ship for a large retailer you could make the same (if not more) money with fewer responsibilities.
best walmart story, i was workin the night shift (more pay and less weirdos) and i get a call, so i answer it and it was this weird dude saying he was looking for langurie for his daughter
I went from retail to labor work and the sec I kill it at a job and my boss handed me another 50$ I was like what's this. Keep getting jobs done like this and when I make a lot of money You will to. I learned that day why no one I worked with in retail gave a fuck about anything. No incentive no hard work. Stores need to learn this and get there employees engaged in the business
me personally i see showering as take one before you have to work or if your going out, but if your gonna stay home then eh it doesnt really matter all that much
This too. I had nowhere to go today so I didn't shower even though I'm kinda smelly af. I'll shower tomorrow when I actually have anything worth doing lol
I still work part time at Best Buy and we get a lot of hires from GameStop. Everyone I met who used to work at GameStop said they were a "manager" including the people who got fired for stealing from Best Buy.
Man i can tell i worked in retail that crap sucks big time let alone i worked it was mentally exhausting and draining for a grocery outlet that was by far the worst job i had and worked for that was so stressful and annoying despite working for walmart , Denny’s , Amazon , Enterprise , Goodwill etc
I had a manager when I worked at Sbarro that wanted all the bills facing up and to the right for some reason and would get pissed if they were not in order.
I'm not going to mention exactly what store this guy worked at (because he might still work there) but a Store Manager at a Gamestop in Virginia once offered to reimburse me and pay $160 of his own cash for Watch Dogs, which was only days old, and a bunch of other games I was trying to trade in for store credit if I came back at closing and picked up a quarter oz. of weed and an eighth of mushrooms for him.
I love stories from retail, food, and other such stores. I feel like anyone who worked at one could tell "great" stories (by that I mean entertaining, lol).
I can see why a lot of people would open up to you. You have a very calming demeanor, something about you that says I am a trustworthy guy lol or something
I understand people opening up to you, that happens to me a lot too. Someone told me that he feels safe around me which is why he opens up to me so maybe that’s the same reason why people open up to you
Vicious Sphere Yeeeeah, it's so weird that almost everyone tells me everything. Don't get me wrong, it makes me happy that people feel that comfortable around me, but I don't understand why. XD
Back when Red Dead 2 came out I went to get it from the Gamestop in Galloway OH near Columbus just outside of the I-270 outer belt, I walk in, there was only one guy at the register and I was one of 3 costumers in there at the time, He seem out of it like something sucked all his energy out, he got kind of mad when I wanted to use the money I had on my power up pro card and it does seem like that turnover rate at that store is really high because there's a different person working the few times I go to buy a game or trade one in every few months, it used to be fun at that Gamestop, awesome midnight release parties with tournaments and pizza a free shwag but now its just stand in line and pick up your game so I don't even bother with them anymore plus supply usually beats out demand these days, I'll walk into that Gamestop in the morning tomorrow to get BFV and they'll have the extra copies of the early enlister edition and they don't even bother holding onto them because the pre-orders are probably still in the shitter.
Tre no, but managers have a yearly conference and get a shit ton of swag. The year the new consoles came out, managers got free xbox ones and ps4s and probably 10 or 15 free games.
I shower every three days, but the day before my shower I usually take a bath. I got into a bad habit of showering daily when I worked at a car wash (sweating...who knows what chemicals got in my hair) and my god did my scalp and acne prone skin pay for it. I also cut my hair to a couple inches and showering just made it easy to care for. But I’ve been growing it back out...and showering is bad for it. Not that sweat on the skin is good either. That being said.....I don’t stink. I don’t know what some people are doing wrong, but even in the vet medicine field now I know how to clean myself up and not smell like dog. And if I feel really dirty I just suck it up and shower. I think ethnicity plays a role too in skin/hair care and showering but I mean I’m just a whitey. Even in my job now though I get those clients that just...reek. Like not even BO, there’s just something foul. Sorry for the shower ramble on your old video. Your videos have been honestly fascinating for me, and I can empathize with a lot of the client/manager experiences. My only semi-retail experience is at a car wash, otherwise I worked in small and corporate practice clinics towards my career, but man did that car wash prepare me for the sheer stupidity of the world. And yet some parts were the most fun I ever had at a job, but other aspects were just awful. Also...THE DRAMA. Your Walmart drama episodes kill me because it was the same for us. How the hell is there drama at a damn car wash. And ya mostly...sexual drama.
HEY DIS IS ONE OF THE BOSSES, don’t talk about me like that....... JUST KIDDING I’m one of your loyal listeners lol. Hey why didn’t you talk more about people stinking. It was getting real good right about there. But of course this whole video was good. Thank you!
I had an employee not know what gta was once. GTA.
I used to work at Electronics Boutique and people freaked out when I didn't know what Everquest was.
@@Mistaarnold well, that's a different story. PC games and console games have different levels of notoriety
Get the a$$... I have to look this crap up all the time! Acronymification of everything! It is Letters representing words... there is no indicator on which words unless u have played Grand Theft Auto... pls b more forgiving of ppl not fitting into ur tiny worldview that is u...
Whoever hired them was the problem here
What is it?
I work in the staffing industry. These retailers are terrified of their workers unionizing. So they hire and promote genuine basket cases and assholes that are just functional enough to be a manger, but not enough to be a real human being. This creates a miserable work experience that promotes very high employee turnover. With high turnover you can't unionize because by the time a union rep has handed out his materials and is ready to ask for a vote, everyone he's contacted no longer works at the company and he has to start over, because the process can take 6 mo to a year and the average length of employment at these places is about 3-4 months. McDonald's, and probably other fast food chains, use similar tactics. I find the practice disgusting, myself. There should be no reason at all that working at a simple retail store should be anything less than pleasant with the only drama ever coming from rude/unhappy customers. The mind games and utter incompetence of these low level managers is unacceptable ethically speaking, but desirable from the standpoint of upper management that know it will prevent unionization.
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Endymion766 but if you hire good managers no one wants to unionize
That's not how the companies see it, at least not with low-skilled industries like retail and fast-food.
Nah man it's not some conspiracy by tons of companies to all hire bad managers. The reason this happens is because most of these stores are franchises so the "managers" are really just low-level supervisors. The "owner" of the store is really a manager and doesn't control all aspects of his store. Sure, he is earns income off the store's residual profit, but the corporation owns the land, the brand, and he technically leases the employees from the corporation. So he is an owner in name only, and the manager is a manager in name only.
So the store "owner" and the corporation are the only ones who care about the store's profitability because only they get a chunk of the residual profit. But the game is rigged so that the CORPORATION ALWAYS WINS! The corporation makes most of its money from renting the land to the franchisee, and they get and increase in net value when property prices increase. McDonald's is, in many ways, a real estate company that leases its properties to franchisees with tons of restrictions and regulations so they eat the franchisee's profit while also guaranteeing profit off the land and brand name of McDonald's.
So the store is ALWAYS strapped for cash because the store owner doesn't own the land he has his store on, or the brand he is using. He cannot take out a loan during tough times to keep the store afloat because he has no collateral. So the store must always be cash positive or else it closes FAST. So they must hire the CHEAPEST WORKERS POSSIBLE! They don't care if these workers ruin the brand name because the store "owner" doesn't even own the brand (talk about a conflict of interests). Also, the quality of workers barely even impacts the store's revenue, so, as an owner, why invest in better employees? No reason unless you get more money, but you don't. In fact, you do best to make a store profitable, hire anyone with a pulse to "manage" it (the store really runs itself and corporate provides you with idiot-proof training manuals), and open up as many stores as possible! The best franchisees are the ones with 10+ stores, not the ones with a single store that they've been the best store it could possibly be. These businesses suck because the "owners" are financially punished by improving the store and are GREATLY rewarded by owning 10+ stores that they never even set foot in. That, and the true owners of what really makes a store special, the brand and the physical space, are a multinational corporation whose officers never set foot in said store either.
This is why most of these managers are clueless - the economics of most of these retails chains business models force the franchisees to cut costs at all cost. So they hire all bottom-of-the-barrel people because that's all they can find! I know this because I have owned a franchise company and, believe me, I wanted to hire better workers, but I couldn't afford to. Corporate eats so much of your budget that it literally is not an option to pay a good manager $25+ an hour to do good work.
someone with any skills will not work at these stores because they don't pay well and they are over-regulated. That means little-to-no tips or cash under the table, which any low-level, low-wage employee knows can be a lot of your income. For example, why work for Wendy's at $10/hour when you can work for a contractor helping out at $15/hour cash under the table? Only if you need that sort of income for legal purposes (welfare, probation, etc.) or you just don't know any better.
McDonald's can really care less if their employees try to unionize. They have an 100 million-man supply of scabs to hire from in the USA. If all MCD's workers somehow unionized tomorrow they would all be fired, replaced within 2 weeks, and all franchisees could even be compensated for lost revenue, as this would be cheaper than permanently paying higher wages. Unionization would also cause corporate to accelerate its automation plans
ISINAT, I might agree with you except I've seen stores turn down people who I knew personally to be reliable and honest for positions, hiring instead complete jackwagons and there was no dispute over hourly rates, as it's all minimum wage. It's because they want to promote the jackwagon to manager shortly after they demonstrate they at least don't steal from the store. They don't want reliable honest people because those types have their lives organized and would be likely to organize against the owner should the issue ever come up. There's no explanation for choosing a schizoid 30 year old over a healthy energetic and smart college kid, when they would be both making minwage. These stores want the assholes and dicks of the world to work there. So they're either really dumb, or it's deliberate. Maybe it's some of both. It's worse at stores that actually have unions. The amount of petty rules and dogshit protocols you have to memorize are designed to make you want to quit, to deny the union long-term membership. The union doesn't care either because new workers have to pay dues without getting any benefits for a year, so they have no incentive to try to make it better. The union has its 25-year+ core members that it takes care of that make up about 30% of its membership, and everyone else is 1-year or less and it stays that way forever. Slowly their core members retire or just die and they wonder why no one wants to support them in a strike when they call for it. A 3 month member isn't going to hold a sign for $3 an hour so that the core members can keep benefits that the 3-monther won't see ever. The world is full of happy pleasant people that just need a bit of extra money. There's no reason to hire jackasses. I often like to cite In'n'Out Burger as a place that hires genuinely pleasant and sane people. They're always nice and seem very professional and congenial to each other too. I never hear about any drama from those places. It's possible, but some places just don't want the nice guys and girls, because they're still afraid of the organized labor boogey man.
IDK man you never know why someone got hired. You see them as a dumbass schizo but they may have SLAYED that interview. I've hired shitty people before that looked amazing on paper. They were probably budding sociopaths so acting like a good worker for an interview is easy to them. Or maybe that idiot manager knows the boss, is family, the boss owes him a favor, etc. Also, the smart college kid may "over qualify" for a job, because they know it's not a good fit for him
To be fair, I can't comment on every store's business model. Some may be hiring shitheads because they want the turnover. Maybe they think their new employee training and onboarding systems are so stellar that they don''t need experienced workers, only cheap help. I can buy that some stores are doing that, but not all.
Just wanted you stop see the other perspective as well. Many of the store "owners" are franchisees that were basically lied to by Corporate. They make all these promises on how your business will grow and you'll make all this money. But if you don't read that entire damn FDD or hire a lawyer to read it then you don't realize all the hidden fees and rules to control you until it's too late. Get this - I was paying a hidden fee just to pay my workers, so Corporate even makes money cutting your check!
Don't over think your rambling, people love these videos, as do I.
Haha sounds good, I'll keep on being a ramblin' man!
I could listen to your stories for hours 😍😍
I hear ya. I listen while doing school work, housework and when my kids are driving me insane. lol
Lord Thanos 😂😂 yeah I hear that. When I'm super stressed out I just watch his videos and focus on something else, seems to be super relaxing (:
Thanks love! :D
agreed, his stories are funny and we can all relate , hes down to earth and real ;-) i love it
Is 😍😍 supposed to mean I love your vids
I worked at Gamestop too in high school. I feel your pain. My boss was very greasy and smelled of a fine mixture composed of asshole and cigarettes. He would also insist on personally helping any female (including
That questions thing is one thing they tell you about interviews or anything else, it doesn't matter how good you seem at a job or how qualified you are if you don't ask questions they think you are arrogant but if you ask to many you seem inept. I hate it, and its fucking stupid.
Does anyone remember FuncoLand?
Got kicked out of the store when I was 14 for playing the mgs2 demo by some pimple ridden fuckface.
“How old are you?”
I’m 14 sir..
“Do you have a parent with you?”
My grandma is buying me devil may cry.
He looks at her.
“Well you can’t play this game so you have to leave.”
So my 14 year old ass gets kicked out while they sell my grandma all the old bullshit CD repair kits they have in the store.
She fuckin came out with 3 CD polishers and 5 containers of that brown liquid they used to sell to clean cd scratches.
She payed 145$
Poor grandma..
Your manager, who told you about his father's death and his incident, was a really nice guy. Not many managers do that nor try to comprehend employees.
District managers: "Every single store in our district needs to be #1 in the district."
Employee: "Sir, that's literally impossible."
District manager: "FIRED"
Bro your channel is so underrated, hope you hit it big this year and get to 100k
IS that you morty?!
Nicholas Ricci Ricci his voice does favor Justin Roiland lol
These videos are entertaining
Thanks FRCB!
I remember working at pinkberry early in the company's life, first one outside of hollywood/LA area, in the SFV. We broke all records for sales and was swamped for a good year with rushes around the block at least twice a day every day.
We had rules to follow from corporate. We got in trouble giving too many raspberries and blackberries. So we followed it and when people wanted more we would follow corporate protocol, basically they would need to pay like 75 cents or something like that for extra.
Then one of the owners came in with an email from a customer complaining about not getting enough raspberries according to him. This was a month or so after being chewed out for being too kind in giving those out. I brought up "so regardless of what we do we're going to be chewed out for giving too much raspberries or not enough." Because are we to follow corporate rules, or just give the customer what they want? Where's the consistency?
Needless to say I immediately got on the owners shit list, and within 4 months was forced to quit because "I had an attitude." A wave of people immediately quit when that happened, even though I told them not to just because of me. And within 6 months after it was so bad that basically everyone there quit because things got worse. Many customers went to other stores after I left, most notably Mike Tyson. I shit you not. Mike would come specifically to my store cause he liked me and I hooked him up on the Oreo topping.
Reminds me of the army lol managers just like those except it’s worse since you can’t do a damn thing about it or you get military legal action against you or physical correction until you damn near die
Dude I would listen to books on tape while delivering pizza if you were reading them. Great storytelling
Haha thanks man! Hopefully my creative writing degree is paying off XP
It was a retail trend in the late 90's threw to today I was a labor worker in mopar parts warehouse we had a revolving door for managers the good ones that the workers liked where first to go only the hard nosed jerks lasted and moral fell because at the same time we where not doing good enough I told them if you tell people the suck long enough they will show you how much they suck to spite you. He did not like that but It was right on.
Fanta “i locked myself in my room for 5 days and did coke” vision
Best answer ever 😂😂😂 “ I didn’t have any questions “
Don’t ever think a boss is your friend or buddy at ANY! job........learned that the hard way myself.
I was at this job where me and other 2 guys did everything and basically pulled this store together, but after a couple of months the manager fucked up so they had to change him and the 2 guys i was working with left, so they got a new manager and new employes which means everything i did for that god foresaken store went unnoticed and for the new manager i was just one more of the new guys. It also didn't help i was tired af by then so he never saw me at "my prime" but instead as one of the disposable ones. So yeah fuck me i guess
I don't blame gamestop too much, they are struggling to survive after digital distribution, it's a miracle they made it this far and I hope it's former employees find new work.
setzertrancer i read that as “I hope they find New York” I was thinking well it’s not hard to find lol 😂
At least he's not Rick and Morty's Jerry...
Yo, I'm new to this channel, but I kind of dig it. I like to listen while I'm cleaning or doing other chores and it feels like having a friend around to talk to you.
tell us about the Chinese food place you worked at
Thank you SO MUCH for making videos like this. I literally binge watch you. Keep up the great work!
T3B3D And thank you for being supportive! Glad you consider me a binge worthy channel! Have a great day!
once or twice a day? weird I shower every other day unless I just worked out or did some kind of heavy labor where I need to shower after.
I just feel super gross if I don't. Idk i'm weird lol
Gaz Blackheart As far as I know it's normal to shower once a day. Twice is a bit much though.
I have long hair and its better if you don't wash out all the natural oils everyday. I think every other day is fine too with the noted exceptions above where a shower would be needed. If my daily activity isn't causing me to be a sweaty mess then it isn't that big a deal to skip a day. I was commenting on twice a day being a bit strange.
i personally see is a nessesity if your gonna go outside your home, but optional if your just gonna have a lazy day
Working out every OTHER day instead of every day is actually healthier for sensitive skin.
Working at gamestop and I call the non bathers the dungeon gamers or basement kids Bc they literally just leave they moms basement to come to gamestop gross but very polite
I don't get how people like that are so lacking in self awareness
Thumbs up for more stories :)
Thanks! I'll keep em coming!
Life lesson to the youth... just because you work your ass off does not mean you will make a good manager or get promoted to a manager. You might be tossed aside for someone else.
And PS if there is a lot of manager changes... you'll get tossed soon when you get promoted as manager.
Take the position as manager to use on your resume for the next job. Keep your chin up!
I came across your stories over the weekend and literally watched a crap ton of content. Out of everything I have ONE question that nobody ever answered.
WHY DOES MADDEN GET SO MUCH HATE? Damn. Being from the Great White North- Canada I love NHL & NFL games. Out of every Gamestop ex employee stories always laugh at Madden fans. I was even lauged at by a really fat chick too busy talking about an RPG and laughed when I asked about Madden 13 when it came out. I actually knew the Manager and had her "Coached" and later she was fired. I enjoy "Gamer" games and traditional classic games from NES to SNES to Sega Genesis to Turbo Graphix 16 and Atari. I just don't appreciate and can't understand why most people who have these horror stories always give Madden games and gamers hate. Can you explain why in a video possibly?
Either way - love the channel. Definitely subbed. You're the man, Fanta.
Thanks John! Might do a video covering the hate for it, but it really boils down to the laziness of EA. People see buying Sports games as stupid due to the fact that they come out every year with only slight changes and have the balls to not only charge $60, but they now have a lootbox microtransaction system in every game. NHL is super fun though, just wish it wasn't so monetized. Glad you are enjoying the content, and I'll be sure to keep pumping it out as much as I can!
I dont get it with every sports game tried at friends many times but meh.
But i love Skateboard games (until every studio fucked them up) Oldschool Tony Hawk games ftw
This is way more interesting than I could ever have imagined tbh.
Also I relate to the part where you screamed at your cat. Mine is hella vocal and she drives me up the wall.
I got fired from Gamestop for not greeting the customers that my manager had already greeted. (I was organizing magazines at the time.)
No way lol
These stories should be enough evidence to never ever try and be friends with your boss lol
I tried to apply to GameStop, years ago, glad it never worked out
Seems like gamestop pays their store managers along the lines of convenience store managers, hence the turn over. If you jumped ship for a large retailer you could make the same (if not more) money with fewer responsibilities.
This was very entertaining. I can't get enough of retail stories because I used to work in retail and have some stories of my own.
best walmart story, i was workin the night shift (more pay and less weirdos) and i get a call, so i answer it and it was this weird dude saying he was looking for langurie for his daughter
I went from retail to labor work and the sec I kill it at a job and my boss handed me another 50$ I was like what's this.
Keep getting jobs done like this and when I make a lot of money You will to.
I learned that day why no one I worked with in retail gave a fuck about anything.
No incentive no hard work.
Stores need to learn this and get there employees engaged in the business
me personally i see showering as take one before you have to work or if your going out, but if your gonna stay home then eh it doesnt really matter all that much
This too. I had nowhere to go today so I didn't shower even though I'm kinda smelly af.
I'll shower tomorrow when I actually have anything worth doing lol
Even worse when your female coworker comes in after rolling out of bed , no amount of perfume will cover up that skunk smell
im not sure that skunk smell is from her just waking up and off to work, more like waking up and "baking" before work @@scallen3841
Bidwellz9 Could be there is a video of a couple of game stop workers on porn hub
love your videos, you have a great voice; real chill to listen to.
Thanks pen! Glad other people enjoy my voice haha I'm definitely not a fan of it
very nice to listen to, trust me :P You've got us hooked!
Only 4 or 5 years? how did u survive? lol
Jerry was the whole package.. The... WHOLE Package
I still work part time at Best Buy and we get a lot of hires from GameStop. Everyone I met who used to work at GameStop said they were a "manager" including the people who got fired for stealing from Best Buy.
Man i can tell i worked in retail that crap sucks big time let alone i worked it was mentally exhausting and draining for a grocery outlet that was by far the worst job i had and worked for that was so stressful and annoying despite working for walmart , Denny’s , Amazon , Enterprise , Goodwill etc
Oh my God, dude. That cocaine story got me laughing so hard. Ahh, that was a relief. Thanks for that.
My husband worked at a few Tucson Gamestop locations for years. He has similar complains about the district managers .
I love all the I used to work in gamestop community stories
Honest to god, you seem like a genuine champion.
I had a manager when I worked at Sbarro that wanted all the bills facing up and to the right for some reason and would get pissed if they were not in order.
The beer really does it for me. Lol
Duelist Legend Haha it's definitely become a staple in the series XP
Eating cake lol
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Dude keep going next time, I didn't want the video to end.
If you want to hear him at a normal pace just speed it up a little! Really helps me enjoy the story more
Awesome videos bro; see these stories going. I literally wait for them lol
Thanks! Hopefully I'll be able to come up with another series soon!
I'm not going to mention exactly what store this guy worked at (because he might still work there) but a Store Manager at a Gamestop in Virginia once offered to reimburse me and pay $160 of his own cash for Watch Dogs, which was only days old, and a bunch of other games I was trying to trade in for store credit if I came back at closing and picked up a quarter oz. of weed and an eighth of mushrooms for him.
Lol participant in “eating cake”
Happy 4k subs!
Eric The lv 51 battlemage Thanks!! Crazy how fast the channel has been going these past few days!
These vids are amazing, love your stories bro
Thanks man! More going up every week! :D
Why are there dislikes on these videos I love these videos please keep going!
No idea really haha, they are just stories from my past. Glad to hear you like them and will do!
Just found your channel and love listening to your stories. Very entertaining.
Bro was the manager who was canceling pre orders name Kevin? lol 😂
These are good to listen to while I’m working lolll
They are definitely good for watching while doing other things!
I love stories from retail, food, and other such stores. I feel like anyone who worked at one could tell "great" stories (by that I mean entertaining, lol).
I wouldn’t consider that backstabbing, just the guy is trying to do his job.
I can see why a lot of people would open up to you. You have a very calming demeanor, something about you that says I am a trustworthy guy lol or something
I understand people opening up to you, that happens to me a lot too. Someone told me that he feels safe around me which is why he opens up to me so maybe that’s the same reason why people open up to you
True true, they also know I won't tell anyone too. Definitely not complaining, just find it very interesting.
beating retail goals sucks they always just raise em
thats normal for retail either the managers last 20 years or less than 3
I have many similar stories from my time at Foot Locker
interesting stories man - people are people it seems you are shocked but yeah man these are good stories about coworkers lol
I found your channel 2 days ago and I've already watched all of these videos
brandontyler coleman Damn dude! Glad to hear you like em! Any other ideas for a series is definitely welcome haha
Watching you in Aruba missing home and thank god I feel at home
the reason for it is they do not want to give you a promotion
Keep up the great vids dude.
Will do! Thanks labatree!
14:20 I knew someone in highschool who did the same. Every day at lunch got a little too TMI.
Vicious Sphere Yeeeeah, it's so weird that almost everyone tells me everything. Don't get me wrong, it makes me happy that people feel that comfortable around me, but I don't understand why. XD
Old video but enjoyed listening to your narrator.
Back when Red Dead 2 came out I went to get it from the Gamestop in Galloway OH near Columbus just outside of the I-270 outer belt, I walk in, there was only one guy at the register and I was one of 3 costumers in there at the time, He seem out of it like something sucked all his energy out, he got kind of mad when I wanted to use the money I had on my power up pro card and it does seem like that turnover rate at that store is really high because there's a different person working the few times I go to buy a game or trade one in every few months, it used to be fun at that Gamestop, awesome midnight release parties with tournaments and pizza a free shwag but now its just stand in line and pick up your game so I don't even bother with them anymore plus supply usually beats out demand these days, I'll walk into that Gamestop in the morning tomorrow to get BFV and they'll have the extra copies of the early enlister edition and they don't even bother holding onto them because the pre-orders are probably still in the shitter.
I had a feeling you lived near Phoenix from your Black Friday video where you show a clip of you outside of a outside mall lol
What am I doing at 5:52 AM watching...
Well it's my favorite channel on the site so I don't have a problem with it 😀
Awww, thanks doctorspice!
Maybe he gets a discount from his dealer if you go to them on his referral?
8 managers in five years? That’s nothing. I’ve had 7 managers in the past 2 years at my current job.
@16:18 I can’t stop laughing omg.
Also is your sea of thieves shirt from drizzt?
From what? I got it from playing the game at E3
Seriously what is up with ppl not showering these days. I shower before work and after work it’s not that hard
Sounds like the district manager was grooming to make you a regular manager
Are you still friends with that guy you used to go vintage video game hunting with? White I think his name was
Hey great videos man, you don't get the recognition you deserve. :)
Sharkie Playz Thanks Sharkie! Maybe one day I'll get more viewers, but I'm thankful for the small supportive audience I have now.
Is it true that they give u tickets to E3 if u work at gamestop?
Tre no, but managers have a yearly conference and get a shit ton of swag. The year the new consoles came out, managers got free xbox ones and ps4s and probably 10 or 15 free games.
these are very entertaining
I like you, you seem like a cool internet older brother. Pls keep telling us your stories dude
Haha thanks! Will do!
Wait phoenix are you from Arizona?
What does eating cake mean?
Does GameStop employee get commission???
That district manager was bitching about you to the other store managers
Lol who's disliking this, fr
People that don't like story time? lol not sure
Gamestop managers
I shower every three days, but the day before my shower I usually take a bath. I got into a bad habit of showering daily when I worked at a car wash (sweating...who knows what chemicals got in my hair) and my god did my scalp and acne prone skin pay for it. I also cut my hair to a couple inches and showering just made it easy to care for. But I’ve been growing it back out...and showering is bad for it. Not that sweat on the skin is good either. That being said.....I don’t stink. I don’t know what some people are doing wrong, but even in the vet medicine field now I know how to clean myself up and not smell like dog. And if I feel really dirty I just suck it up and shower. I think ethnicity plays a role too in skin/hair care and showering but I mean I’m just a whitey. Even in my job now though I get those clients that just...reek. Like not even BO, there’s just something foul. Sorry for the shower ramble on your old video. Your videos have been honestly fascinating for me, and I can empathize with a lot of the client/manager experiences. My only semi-retail experience is at a car wash, otherwise I worked in small and corporate practice clinics towards my career, but man did that car wash prepare me for the sheer stupidity of the world. And yet some parts were the most fun I ever had at a job, but other aspects were just awful. Also...THE DRAMA. Your Walmart drama episodes kill me because it was the same for us. How the hell is there drama at a damn car wash. And ya mostly...sexual drama.
HEY DIS IS ONE OF THE BOSSES, don’t talk about me like that....... JUST KIDDING I’m one of your loyal listeners lol. Hey why didn’t you talk more about people stinking. It was getting real good right about there. But of course this whole video was good. Thank you!
i feel like jerry from parks n rec
Makes me wonder what my coworkers gotta say about me... yikes ignorance is bliss
I didn’t know u could cash out pre orders
Wait...what does eating cake mean?
It's slang for eating pussy and/or ass