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Game stop just tried to pull the telling you you don't have any preorder bullshit, I brought a receipt to gamestop showing I do actually have preorders, guess what? They gave me store credit! Guess what else? the game I wanted costed 27 dollars more than it does on amazon, every game I wanted was atleast 10 dollars more, which means they technically didnt give me back 20-30 of the dollars!
Can I submit horrible work stories about a major retail store that's not gamestop?
Good luck friend
Bro blur out the pics!! You do when egg messages you.
You better have a plan B channel AND a backup of all your vids brother. Because the moment they find a way to terminate your main channel, you'll be ok to get back up again.
Cody isn’t hurting GameStop, GameStop is hurting GameStop.
Cody is exposing GameStop for who they really are!
exactly
Very true cody is just shedding light on an evil companies skeletons
Honestly, he probably isn't doing much to Gamestop if anything at all. The few tens of thousands of people, potentially on a big video a few hundred thousand that actually see this video aren't going to effect a corporation that size.
Only Gamestop could hurt itself. Cody is only hurting individuals. We're talking about a multi billion dollar company. No one on you tube could ever take down a corporation that size by themselves, and anyone big enough on youtube wouldn't want to start that war.
Who even go to gamestop anymore.
Sadly if GameStop goes under, I fear that it may be like breaking open a hornet nest. All those horrible higher-ups may just spread out and infect different companies like parasites 😅
The bad news is that middle management is the same everywhere, they're all sociopaths.
Hopefully videos like this encourage more people in retail to come forward and not stand for this mess. Its the only way to beat terrible management.
I think it’ll go on their record meaning they’ll never have the same jobs of power. Some companies might or might not let them in. Future is uncertain.
iREPda609 This has been my experience.
Absolutely. When all the CompUSA's on the west coast shut down, Sears scooped up all the management...who proceeded to fuck things up even more. None of the people in charge of hiring sat back and thought "What if the management was the reason CompUSA shut down?" I swear, when these corporate tools put on a necktie, it cuts off circulation to their brain.
I’m waiting for the GameStop going out of business sale
Unfortunately that might not happen for a while longer.
when they markup everything by 200% lol
I sort of suspect they won't really have much of one. I see them as the type of company where they'd send in a box truck, load of the inventory of most of an entire store and send it to regional warehouses and sell it off at nearly full markup from random online storefronts, or just pass it off to another company to subsequently sell at full price themselves, all with no real noteworthy discount to customers in any scenario.
Adam Luther
sounds like something they would do for sure
@@adamluther5836 That, or go web only. I think they will convert a gamestop in each town without a ThinkGeek into a ThinkGeek that has a game trade program, and new releases, then sell the used games online.
You may want to cover the peeps faces for their privacy, you know in the lil icons
lol what if they are a random google pic already?
@camelot331 Yeah seriously. I'd almost re-upload with the faces blurred.
This was my first thought
I second that.
I third it.
Bro I feel like shit for you. I know it's not the same company but I worked at Papa John's and they had me lie to customers about prices and I asked what was I suppose to do when they find out they're paying like 50% more and assistant manager told me to tell them that it was a mistake and take the blame for it. I told him no when a customer asks im going to come get you and let you tell them what you just told me.. He said then he'd cut my hours to nothing and stupid shit but needless to say when a customer asked why the price was so high I went and got him to explain it to her which he just said sorry it was a mistake and I quit the next day. I will not work as a con artist and be someone's bitch id much rather lose everything I own. So i really feel for you man. Keep strong. Do good and good will happen always.
Youre a good dude, thank you for giving me faith in humanity again.
@@juliarader4046 That's what I'm here for
Also, I would’ve blurred out the pictures of the people who messaged you. You can reverse image search them. Unless they’re fine with being there obviously.
Then that’s thinking ahead lol
Those images are too lo res to be used when you screenshot them. As someone with experience reverse searching ig models pics I find on sites for uhh *cough* research purposes. Even if it's a hd image which these are not youd be hard pressed to find them unless they are basically a celebrity.
But if they knew the person based off seeing the pfp then that is also a reason to blur.
Yeah you shave even 1 row of pixels of it messes the checksum up
A lot of these people also already left Gamestop and he's always been VERY good about hiding the identity before so I'm pretty sure they are okay with it.
One of my close friends worked at the gamestop's near my house for damn near 12 years he was the GM of the store and was let go out of no where without any cause
Hes currently filing a lawsuit against them
Hes got unpaid overtime
Scamming customers ( under paying for items and marked up prices on consoles you can thank the DM for that )
Selling broken / unviable disks
The list goes on for what he has against them
It's good to see it's not just him fighting against those scum
He wasnt on salary?? Damn, gamestop
The GM of a store? Hot damn
Gamestop is a great modern example of a very old saying: Corruption spreads from the root.
Artemis Kitty what
@@bakerbakerbaker305 Its not difficult pal!
When the CEO knows your damn name, and the videos you make, you doin' it right Cody.
Gamestop still has 80's policies and it shows
SushiTron yes that's a perfect way to say it
SushiTron they're like salesmen push and push
things have gotten way worse since the 80s. the 80s were only the start. wake up. gamestop has capitalist policies
@@dizzyboy352 capitalist policies? You mean like every business? 🤣
@@dizzyboy352 every single business has capitalist policies. What do you think this is? A fucking church? Business make money. That's their only intention.
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Personally, I worked a seasonal position during the holidays for some extra scratch (not this year though, thank God).
I gave the hiring manager my schedule for my primary job. I worked only two days, one being a small 3-4 hour training shift and Black Friday. I keep on giving them my schedule and they decide to not give me shifts so I eventually stopped trying.
I get a call from the store manager why I haven't given her my schedule and I told her that if I am not getting shifts then why bother?
She goes off to tell me that she would give me more shifts than I could handle if I gave her my schedule.
Burned my bridge with GameStop after that. I hope they crash and burn.
風先翼 typical seasonal hire MO my friend. Don’t feel bad.
I work for Wal-Mart, which has a GameStop near by. I work Monday - Friday 6am to 3pm. Everyday on my way home, I drive by GameStop just to see if it has been shut down yet. Thank you for sharing all these experiences, dark tales, and the advice you can share. Keep'em coming!
My story isn't bad or anything. But I feel it's something you'll get a laugh out of. First off, I feel bad that I did this because a friend working there helped me get the seasonal position I had, just entry level nothing crazy. I worked from maybe late October to a few days before Christmas a few years back. Around this time, I had seen other TH-camrs mention the terrible nature of GameStop so I prepared myself and kept my eyes open. Being entry level I didn't see or wouldn't be effected by big changes but I was keenly aware regardless. Through my training process I had my store leaders give me constant tips on "the right way (the GameStop way) to do customer service." I shrugged that constant annoyance off because I was still interacting in ways that were beneficial to me and the store. As time passed and Christmas was around the corner I could tell store management liked me regardless because I was the only seasonal growing my weekly hours. They liked me... Or they liked my naive nature that I'm well aware of but I don't let off that I am. Literally 3 days before Christmas my boss sits down and tells me, "you have to work Christmas Eve." I respond with, that's not on my schedule, I'm busy that day. He starts to get agitated but remains calm on that surface. The guy is trying to strong arm me into taking the shift but doing it with the shittiest customer service tone. I do this job too dude I'm not blind, I think internally. So after the conversation I accepted the hours. However I said it with the full intention of not going. I was gonna NCNS to be an ass but decided I'd rather end things face to face. The next day, I stop into the store, buy a game and then go into the back office and quit on the spot. My leader was so blindsided by this it was almost comical. He stayed calm, probably with the understanding that he brought this on himself, and just wished me luck, literally rushing me out the door. I feel bad because my friends reputation got hurt by advocating for me but ultimately I knew that this holiday hour "request"was just the start of a pile of crap that they'd just keep shoveling on ma boots. GameStop was certainly an experience and I enjoyed interacting with customers but at the end of the day, I'm not cut out to be a piece of shit for a living, I just do that on my own time hahaha Keep up the great work man, you've got all us normal everyday people on your sides here
Watching these videos makes me realize that things are much worse then I thought. It makes me more appreciative of my job and glad I'm around great people. Keep up the fight! These companies are sickening
Very true brother. Retail in general is cancer. If you had to work retail or fast-food in n out and Costco were very good to me. Benefits and good pay
I quit after years. I was a sga and I was doing everyones job. I gave a 3 weeks notice and my manager wouldn't take it. The person talked me out of it so he or she could go to the conference. I was over the fact how much I got paid and the fact I had to do all the work that nobody would do for weeks sometimes months. I was just a sga so I was part time and perpetual's, defectives, rsb, and the store was always a mess. My assistant manager was a slob that did absolutely nothing but talk about his or hers favorite games for hours like a child but in his or her 30's with a bad smell... While I was doing as many things rushing and helping customers. My store manager hated me but my numbers doubled both his or hers and I'm part time. I had GA's not care and put games anywhere. I talked to my lawyer because we had to take on paid breaks. Being on the clock because a GA couldn't be alone. That's against the law, and we need to set up a class action lawsuit. I was forced to spend money to pre-order just to make numbers which is against the law also. How big this has gotten, I'm sure we all can file a class action lawsuit. I have so many bad memories in 3 years feeling like a slave, it's like PTSD watching your video's
Josh Callahan it’s weird how no one has made any FTC or BBB complaints. I don’t think they’d be happy to hear about this bull shit
THIS I remember I had a shady assistant store manager and games were missing. I was a SGA too, eventually the bosses told us if it kept going they were going to let me, another SGA, possible the store manager go due to not be able to manage inventory I was flipping out cause everyone was working for over 2 yrs while the assistant SM had a few months in and he would sell games in diff gamestop without telling them he worked for GS as well. We got calls from other stores asking if he worked with us cause he looked familiar. Ughhh this brought bad memories hahaha it sucks they place so much crap/ pressure even on SGAs
Cody So here’s my story. Last year I was hired by game stop I was there from October to about December and I was a game advisor. Around the end of November they stopped giving me hours and then one random day in December they called me to come in but I was in the hospital and they just fired me out of the blue.... from your videos it now is clear this is a common practice !!!!
Man, sounds like you were a seasonal, and hours dried up. Sucks that you got let go though.
Because of you Cody, I am really considering never shopping at Game Stop again!
I used to work for a company similar to GameStop, so I know the feeling!
You’re at your best when you make videos like this. Love when you shed light on GameStop more than anything else you do man
Uh this is all he does.
zergtoss1 it may be but he brings more those videos since he had to go through the ringer. The weekly streams are great too
That 3 circle message actually explains SO MUCH and makes so much of my experience in the company make so much (maybe even too much) sense. I actually, for the first time in my older years, wish VERY bad things to happen to all those at the top of the GS food chain that make those decisions and that have caused pain on so many
Why everytime I buy something at gamestop they tell me I have a unused $5 coupon? They ask if I would like to use it on my purchase, so I do and the next time I go they say the same thing. It's been that way for almost a year now.
brandon bolick incentive to get you to reserve
Just want you to come back
The new power up pro perk changed from buy 2 get 1 to a monthly $5 off any item coupon
You never changed your Points preference to stockpile. So each month it auto redeems you a $5 coupon if you have at least 5,000 points. You probably overlooked the email they sent out telling you to change your preference.
It could be you set your points to automatically convert to $5 coupons or the new perk
Roughly 20 years ago, I pre-ordered the Sega Dreamcast from my local GameStop. On launch day, they refused to give me my system and two games until I agree buy repair insurance for the system as well as a bunch of accessories I don’t need. I’ve never return to GameStop since.
That Venn-diagram is totally on point in other places. My manager at Rite-Aid would complain about my lack of urgency on the job, when I'd be at the end of a double shift and out of energy. Every time I told her I was about 5 minutes to the end of a double shift and just exhausted, she would act like she didn't know.
I just saw you on Nick’s stream. The first guys story I have seen my self. I have never been an employee of GS. I did work as a non sworn officer, CSO, and interacted with the Game Stop in my city. Suddenly, nearly, everyone in the store was fired. We were there in response to another business reporting a ‘commotion.’ While we waited for a police response the manager and assistant manager walked past and opened empty back packs saying “see it’s empty” walking back out both said they quit.
My other CSO and I were called into interviews about thefts “we let happen.” It was only a formality as we did not have the authority to stop and inspect the backpacks and did everything right. Still was scary felling being thrown under a bus with a baseless criminal accusation.
years ago i worked at GNC at 5% commission, the District manager got fired over some internal politics, shortly after new hires started coming in at 2% commission, 4 months later everyone left at the old 5% commission, magically had draws exactly 10$ short on a Friday , 6 employees at 4 different stores were all exactly 10$ short on 2 different shifts on the same day. then they had the nerve to challenge our unemployment
Last year I lost my retail job and saw on indeed that gs was hiring "store managers." So I applied and got a call back the next day. I accepted an interview assuming nit was for the stated "store manager." That was also the position I was leaving. Anyway I drove 40 mins to my interview and dressed up. No suit, but I was far more dressed up than the two DMS that interviewed me. I knew that was mistake numero uno when they both looked.me up and down, and the male is just wearing some t shirt. About halfway through the interview the male DM told me "this is a part time SEASONAL job interview." I was so pissed off but told them I'd still accept it considering I need a job. Oh well I didn't get it and I'm glad. Just pissed me off they lie to get good applicants.
That’s bullshit. Also idiotic that they wouldn’t appreciate professionalism even if you had been applying for a seasonal position, albeit unknowingly.
@@wuestion9473 The US is antiEVERYTHING that means you're not a piece of shit.
i just left my very first google and yelp reviews on a gamestop near me that enraged me to the core. wishing you the best brochacho!
When I was younger, I really wanted to work at gamestop but luckily I changed my mind and joined the Airforce instead.
Once the company folds where will these " vampires "go ?
We need to be aware of these people and where they may show up in other companies.
Their names should be published and they should be marked for who and what they are.
Jesus christ, you're talking about people. What if you happened to work there?
@@LCAC75 I think he means upper management that is commiting massive fraud, not the rank and file people who did nothing wrong. If they get convicted for their crimes then their names will be public.
@@LCAC75One can not blame another for their actions {person,business}.People do not necessarily change who they are just because they change jobs, a corporate prick generally will always be one, corporations like the one you have been speaking of ,do not pay for sensitivity to those under their watch.
So, if they had no problem wronging you to protect there job, then where ever they go there will always be another victim ,this is criminal by nature, and can only be corrected when called out, then maybe they will change and become bosses who lead by example{ honest,moral } and not fear.Just to be clear i do mean those who profit
from being cold and unethical .Never meant the honest employees who just want to do the right thing.
@John Meehan
Scumbag managers forefeit their humanity the second they throw their charges under a bus in service of capital.
Mitigating and quarantining these asshats takes top priority when outright neutralizing them isn't viable.
Maybe pick better hills to die on instead of defending the accelerationist leeches complicit in strip-mining your labor pool for profit.
I've been following you for a bit now and I just wanted to tell you that I commend you for what you are doing. It's people like you that make the world better. No fear. That's something that deserves admiration. I've never worked for a gamestop and from the sounds of it, I'm glad, but I'm an avid gamer. It's crazy as hell to know they have been running their company like this and getting away with it. Amazon as well. Just wanted to throw you some encouragement. Keep your head up homie. You're making a difference and it's necessary. Whenever you get worried about the potential ramifications, just know they are only mad at you for exposing their inhumanity. I appreciate your humor as well. Even in the midst of your chaos, you still manage to laugh. Don't lost that. 👍🏿
I have a hard time going into GameStop after watching these vids... hang in there and keep up the good work
Yeah i havent walked in one once all the stories started coming out about how terrible it is.
I haven’t been to gamestop since watching his videos. It used to be a stop every time I was near one
Same here
I work security at a mall and the GameStop there had the big managers there. I overheard them that the girl needs to push used hardware or they’ll have security forcefully remove her from the mall. I told the managers that I won’t be removing anyone and they decided to try and file a complaint against me. Little did they know, I was the supervisor on duty
Companies do not typically give notice for layoffs. One store in our area did give notice but the store ended up having to close earlier than they had planned because the remaining employees were taking stuff and otherwise causing trouble. Plus, having a lame duck employee increases the company's legal exposure. As a result, some companies do not even allow an employee to work out their notice when the employee quits.
As a former LP professional, both corporate and third party, any LP can tell the difference between new people at a new site who are confused (and aren't in a single frame of video) and "thieves". The guy that got shoved in a store right before LP got there, those weren't LP, they were middle management consultants gutting the store.
Back in 2006 or so while I was in college, I too got fired and accused of theft. Turns out, my manager was the one stealing Wii’s out of the back room after hours. They let me come back and I worked there for awhile but ultimately needed more time for school, so I up and quit about five months later.
I went to a Gamestop recently and the advisor that rang me up tried to add protection plans to my games without my knowledge. Once I told him that I did not ask for that he began to talk about the benefits of having it. It's sad that workers have to use underhanded tactics in order to keep a job. It's so hard to even checkout without being asked 21 questions.
Did 3 years as a GA and thankfully did not have to deal with a lot of the issues but did see my ASL and manager deal with them all the time. Glad to see it was not just us and your voice has them scared. Keep at it!
Wal-Mart did the same thing to me. Asked to work off the clock, get fired for working off the clock
Walmart is just as bad as gamestop but
Walmart and just about every other retailer is getting like this Cody
It's been like that I worked at Staples over ten years ago and they used to do this.
Corporate greed has corrupted everything.
YES! sooo many companies are this way. it is a way they save money. new people cost less but management people are harder to replace. it ain't right but it is what they do. When I worked retail and a customer didn't like something corporate told me to do, I told them to complain to corporate. It isn't my company. This isn't a mom and pop shop. And they did! It helped some. Some.
Even software companies they’re burning out their engineers
What walmarts pretty chill at the electronics section no one bothered me like in GameStop, can't speak for the other sections
I remember when I was about 12 or 13 and going into my local GameStop. I started talking to the guy at the register as I was getting a game with my grandfather. I was also buying and amiibo. They guy asked me what ones I had and I listed off some, then came to marth. I liked little Mac more so he asked me if I wanted to trade, so I did. Come to find out after the trade, my marth amiibo was worth over $100 at the time while the little Mac was worth $13 (retail price). Just another way GameStop tries to swindle people.
+Colin Hunter Bradley Sorry to hear about your misfortune about losing an expensive amiibo for a cheap one. I'm pretty sure that could have just as easily happened at any other store though. It's natural to assume your game items aren't going to be worth much money. Most aren't. I typically check how much my games are worth on eBay before I bring them any to GameStop. I was dumbfounded when I saw how much those spider Man games released during the 7th console generation are now worth. The games being de-listed digitally definitely contributed to the price jump.
Colin Hunter Bradley
Wow imagine being out of high school and working, and having the need to scam a 12 year old kid out of their Amiibo.
I really want to go to gamesnot on Black Friday and have your videos playing on my phone while I roam around aimlessly! Just blast the volume and have my phone in my pocket walking around,Epic!
Love the positive vibes man. Came here because you are always so super chill and I could learn something from you. Thanks dude and keep on keeping on!
Wow, that was by far in my top 10 favorite videos you have made regarding these issues.
Thank you thank you thank you, for giving others a voice for their similar struggles in GameStop's crazy world.
I'm happy to see someone who was a longtime employee making a difference in other people's lives, by just simply saying "look, this is the shit that happened/can happen; Watch your back, and make smart decisions if you're intending on staying or leaving GameStop".
You sir, freaking rock!
Its crazy how companies think your a criminal as soon as your no longer employed there. I worked at a company for 8 years. Never had an issue. I wanted more money. they said no. So i got a higher paying job and put my two weeks in. The fired me after I put my two weeks in and then had to watch me unpack my truck to make sure I wasnt going to steal anything. and then they were like, you need to hurry up, you no longer work here. Your not who we thought you were...I was like...are you guys serious? I had a key to this shop for 9 years and your security codes and now Im a potential threat to it? Nutz
people act like this when you quit for something better bro ......................jealous
I was a Radio Shack employee back in 2005 and they were pretty screwed up as well. We would get no warning at all when we had to do inventory and WERE TOLD TO CLOCK OUT before we started inventory, which could go as long as 3 hours. This is after we close the store for the night so we have already put in a full shift. Also we had to attend regional meetings where they would essentially berate us for not meeting our cell phone sales quotas. Also I swear the regional manager for Jacksonville Fla was a mob boss, lol.
HR only covers higher-ups and themselves. Last time I filed a complaint against a female employee for harassment, they laughed at me and said grow a pair. It would have been a different story if a female employee said that I was harassing her. I would have been fired on the spot. Maybe these stories coming to light is a good thing for GameStop. Doesn't mean it's the end but maybe a new Fair beginning.
Hey Cody, I would recommend blurring out the pictures like the first guy if I knew him I could tell who he was.
Holy shit I’m going through the same thing with Hertz right now. Supposedly “not being allowed to leave for lunch” got me fired and they accused me of vandalism afterwords with no evidence (no criminal history, never had a speeding ticket and the cop could tell they were full of shit).
I worked for a fast food place, one night there was 3 of us working and customers complained the chicken smelt funny, sure enough the chicken was past the throw out dates, I told the supervisor I wouldn't cook any of the expired chicken so she decided we needed to throw it out. It was about $1400 worth of chicken. The next day we had a meeting about it, after the meeting the store manager pulled me into the office and told me it was my fault even though everyone knew it's the kitchen managers responsibility and I had only been there about a week. They wrote me up for 2 things on the incident so I decided not to return. They proceeded to spread rumors and lies and even told my family that I was stalking and sexually harrassing a girl who worked there and the cops were investigating, all lies and never did the cops ever investigate. They wanted to discredit me because I knew their dirty secrets like how the kitchen manager would shoot a bb gun at us through the drive through window or as we were walking out after closing, or how everyone in the store did drugs constantly while working, they even stashed drugs under the hotplate up near customers. There's more too much to add. I haven't been able to find a job in 2 years after them due to the lies they spread. I have 2 kids and I can't even provide for them, my family and wife's family supports us which makes me feel sick inside cause it's a burden on them. If you got any advice please let me know, I'm trying everything I can to find work even Craigslist where I've been sexually assaulted by gay men trying to find a young man to be with while just trying to find a simple job like cleaning or heck even picking dog poop, I'll do any job so long as it is legal
I remember one of the last times I went to game stop a few years ago they mislabeled a new game as 19.99. Obviously this caught my eye and a jumped on the offer. This is probly back in 2011. When I tried to buy the game they tempted to charge me full price and when I tried to inform them about false advertisement laws she told me that it was in the system and she couldn't fix it. I asked for the manager and he offered to give me 5% off which still made the game over $50. It literally took me to threaten legal action over the principality because of how ass backwards they were acting. They just tried to say I switch the stickers.
I'm not here to defend Gamestop but that is not a false advertising situation technically unless the put it in an AD for that price. Mislabels in stores happen all the time everywhere and if a mistake happens there is no law that says they have to sell it to you at that price. But they are bad about that. I've been in Gamestop and found the exact same game next to each other with different prices on them.
@@eriks442 the sticker itself said the name of the game and the pricing. I think it was like a special they had but didnt take the sticker off.
@@jdrrocks yeah they messed up for sure but I'm just making the point that no "false advertising law" was violated because it wasn't in a printed or broadcast AD.
That's not how false advertising works.
DUDE the ad before this video is a Gamestop ad. Never seen one before.
Former employee here: I used my powerup card that i paid for separate from the free one given to me by gamestop, to give customers an extra dollar or two off when they were short for a game. IMO its better to keep a customer happy and have them spend more money than lose them over a dollar or two on a single sale. Since i redeemed points on my card, gamestop decided I was steeling and fired me, and threw a ridiculous amount of money into a collections account. Now I got debters coming after me because I tried being a good SGA and keepin our regulars happy.
Fuck GameStop.
Also, My POS manager took the holiday season of for a month due to "undisclosed illness" then accused me of stealing games because he kept fucking up the counts when he got back.
So you openly admit that you committed Power Up fraud. Why is that a "fuck Gamestop"? You falsified your Power Up % because you don't know how to sell the rewards card lol. That's on you for not following the ethics policy that you agreed to when you applied.
That's illegal... that's a dumb move on your part not gamestop lol
yeah... sorry/not sorry my guy, but that one is kinda your're fault entirely.
Speedway and other places that have reward cards do the exact same thing. They keep track of how many times a card is scanned (at Speedway if the same speedy card was scanned for 3-4 transactions in a row) then it would flag the casheir and have the managers would check the security footage to see what happened, weather someone is commiting fraud or if they were legitimate purchases. Im sure gamestop uses the same system.
They probably added the stolen games accusations on top of that so they could charge you probably quadruple what you took.
@@IsThisDustin Actually had the customer complained and asked to speak to the manager im sure the Manager would have done the same thing or make him use his powerup card anyway and then fire him later for it if they wanted him out. Gamestop makes you do illegal things so they can collect dirt on you and use it against you if you arent a mindless slave
That’s when you mark the product down a couple dollars just to avoid a situation, but encourage and SELL the pro. That’s fraud. You used someone’s purchase and earned points and redeemed them. I watched it happen to my ooooold ASL, and although he was instructed to do it by the SL at the time, he was still fired. It’s also falsifying your reports as it’s generated in the system how many times a pro is used and when it’s not. 🤷🏼♀️
I made a lot of good friends at my 6 years at GameStop. By some miracle I survived all six years and left on my own terms after graduating college which should earn me something similar to the purple heart medal. The people who run that company are truly evil. Making their managers stay in the store for 13 hours (unable to leave without threat of termination ) with no break, asking employees to working off the clock, forcing employees to take stolen merchandise, reducing employees benefits, forcing terrible up selling techniques. Heck, I remember the DM encouraging the store manager to fire me for being 5 minutes late (driving to the store from college) during a governor issued snow emergency.
I just watched one of your videos with a Game Stop ad at the beginning....I'm dying! 😁 I watched the whole crappy ad in hopes that it helps your ad revenue!
My DL told me I was the most underperforming employee and would have correctives put against me because I would tell people about their credit from games that came out over a year ago and ask if they wanna cancel it to get credit for their purchase/pre-order
Thanks for carrying on our voice stay strong Cody! I'm proud of you dude I started following you back when your first video blew up and it's crazy to see the famelots growth!
Great video ! You have the Conan mentally to me. "The only thing that hurts me is pain" You are a warrior sir
I worked at gamestop for 4 years and we always got in trouble for working off the clock because half the time it was the only way to get stuff done sometimes because of how much shit we had piled on us
i used to work at Game LTD in the UK and i thought they were bad (although most of my colleagues were ok, not all one in particular i still say can go to hell for the way he treated me and my fiance) then i found your videos and Cleanprincegaming videos on gamestop videos. I feel sorry for everyone working with them the company needs a serious wake up call.
DAMN Tis poped up in my feed and I clicked so quick
You know recently I went to my GameStop that I’ve been going to for years to get a game for my nephew and I noticed a new employee there. They helped me out and told me I had a 25 dollar reservation for Star Wars battle front from 2015 that I had completely forgotten about. I never picked it up because my girlfriend had bought me the game for my birthday. They told me to cancel my reservation and use the 25 dollars towards my nephews game. Clearly the other employees that had been working there for years and had known me by name never once reminded me about it till this one fellow. Now it all makes sense as to why they never told me. This new guy probably hasn’t been corrupted yet and hopefully he never does.
I can 100% agree with everything you and everyone are saying. As a former SGA and just terminated in October for a bogus reason. B4 my new ASL took over I worked mostly mornings due to having a disabled child and it was my only free time available to work. My SL agreed and everything was fine until the new ASL came and started putting me on the schedule for any time. Even though I complained about it nothing was done until my SL, who didn't even have the balls to talk to me face to face left a voicemail on my phone saying I was terminated for refusing to work my set schedule, even though I have the texts to prove that they were lying. Plus, as far as the reserve money goes my old store (0610) has thousands in reserves that they don't remind customers of. Only when the next Call of Duty or NBA 2K is coming out due they say something.
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In 2004, I got fired as a third key manager for getting scammed out of $100 just after Black Friday. When did they fire me you ask? January 16th of 04, a Friday and my day off. Yes my dude, I was living the movie Friday. Turned out the district manager hated me to the point that he blocked my promotion to ASM and tried to get me to train my replacements (I refused), all because I refused to fake the stores reservations for the month (involved cancelling a reserve, moving it to another reserve, then at the beginning of the next month, moving the reserve back).
You need to make a shirt with an employee giving a customer that got shot in the face a gift card and have a speech bubble that says "it's fine".
Hey Cody I started watching shortly after I resign from GameStop, and everything you’ve said is true. The company does not care about their employees at all, they just want to make as much money as they can without spending Much. I’ve had sl’s use their own money to promote releases and launches and at the end they get reprimanded for it. They just wanted to make their store better! Also I’ve had DL’s say that they don’t care what we have to do to get res just do it including lying to customers and rolling over their money to other games, when they don’t want the game they give them a gift card which means they still keep their money. Is insane. Keep going bro this company needs to go.
My worry is where are these managers, going to go when their jobs are finally terminated? Where are they going to end up? Elsewhere within the same industry, or in retail can you imagine having at a Wal-Mart, or any of the Kmarts left? As your boss?! Or having to deal with him, as a customer?!
Months ago, I thought to myself just how "deep into the rabbit hole" I can get myself into when I subscribed on this channel. The fact that the CEO is now talking about you, right now, creates a sign on how much of a threat you are now. You are currently Gamestop's "Public Enemy Number 1"!
Got a link to that? That’s crazy
Got fired from Best Buy by a manager that was actively stealing from the company for punching in early for work. They said coming in 1hr before my scheduled time (I made the schedule BTW) was theft. I am now a Computer Engineer in the private sector. I am kinda glad I got the boot. Toughest walk home ever though so pissed I walked 3 miles out of frustration.
I watched a Last Week Tonight episode recently here on youtube about SLAPP lawsuits and it made me think of Camelot here. The whole point of them isn't to win but to intimidate and tie people up in court and waste their money for as long as possible so the next person sees that and keeps their mouth shit. It's outrageous.
These people fight dirty man, be careful bro.
I had a manager tell us when I customer came in to trade something if we had special promo at the time that we should turn them off and tell them thats how much they'd get but if they preordered something they'd get more and we would turn the promo back on to show them the difference. Was super scummy.
I've been soooo done with gamestop for years. But recently, I pre ordered the arcade 1up star wars cabinet from them & was reminded why I left in the 1st place. It was 8 days after release that I got the focking thing !!!
Welcome to 99.9% of corporate company's in the US , not just Gamepoop
You know what would be amazing?
If a GameStop employee played this video over the loudspeaker in the store they worked in.
I'm actually thinking about making a sign reading "Camelot331 FTW" and run-post it on our local Gamestop store.
What is the point of having reserves and reserve goals when there is no real benefit for having it? There is no limited supply anymore when you can buy new games digitally for the same price or less. On top of that, you can just order online if you really want the disc.
Going through lawsuit stress myself, man. I'm a Video producer and taking a past client to arbitration, because they tried to not pay me $12,000. Such a headache...so much stress.
I think you are doing a great thing here, I quite shopping there years ago when they ripped off my son and they would routinely sale used video games as new and my complaints fell on deaf ears so I took my business to other companies and haven't set foot in one in years and I'm not surprised at all that this company finds it's self going under. Please keep giving a voice to those who need it.
I recently went to Gamestop just few days ago. And asked if I had anything reserved that I haven’t picked up (I could have sworn I had stuff )
He said yeah .... wait no .... it says inventory not stored so basically yeah no money on anything. I don’t remember exactly what he said about the inventory but it was along those lines or system etc but i wonder if that was part of the way they lied so I wouldn’t cancel my pre order.
Another time I went to cancel my pre order because I picked it up somewhere else. And the cashier was bummed and told me it counts as negative pre-orders and he has to make up for it.
I used to work at GameStop over about 10 years ago. And it used to be cool when it was EB games. But when merged it became such Hell. My advice just use Gamestop as a quick step stool into another job. Nothing more.
It is typical that if you go to HR about sexual harassment you usually get fired if you press it.
My old DL is getting sued by the company for time card fraud, except he was altering other peoples time cards
I used to love going into gamestop looking at games to see what to play next and walk out 45 minutes later with 2 games or so and I was beyond happy. In todays world alot of companies are shitty and walk all over their employees and get away with it unfortunately with laws put into place to protect them. Good luck man I wish you all the luck!
Idk why TH-cam recommended me your video first announcing your lawsuit trouble, I really can’t think why it popped it on my feed...but it did. Now I’ve watched countless videos leading up to this one. I wish you luck my man. I think you have a good reason to be speaking out
*CLASS ACTION TIME*
You won't get anything, but it'll put the final nail in the Gamestop coffin.
This is why you never give a company any more than they ask for. Don't ever go the extra mile for someone else. They'll take advantage of you.
Hey Cody I was never a GameStop employee but as a customer I stopped going to gamestop cause my experience as customer was absolute horrible you can’t even go into the store to browse without being harassed to buy something and that happens the moment you walk through the door and I’ve also been in there at times when management is straight yelling at their employees for not doing something that corporate wants them to do I’m so disgusted with how that place is being run into the ground that I’ve stop going there and now get my games from my local retro store I just wanted to tell you I enjoy your videos and I’m glad you are speaking up about the company I support your fight against them
When I was a kid I worked for a now closed chain.of game stores where I found out that my assistant store manager was taking people's "dead" preorders so to speak and behind their back doing exacrly what this guy said his asl was doing at the direction of his district leader but completely on his own as employees HAD TO get a certain amount of preorders or they would be written up or fired. That said, I was the best seller which meant nothing simply because I was honest with customers while he would schmooze. After this asl got most preorders MONTHS in a row and me having caught the oddity in the reports I pulled full reports and sent the findings to the regional manager. Two weeks later I was told I would be terminated at the end of the week. I proceeded to call every customer this was happening to(well over 100) and told them about it. On my last day there were 10 people in my store irate and yelling at him(I told them he'd be there my last day) and when I left i told him to enjoy himself.
Don't preorder or give money to anyone before the product is in your hand. It's their money if you forget and they want to keep it that way.
Shit man, that part about rolling over preorders, they tried that shit when I worked for them back from 2009 to 2011. I outright refused, one of the many rifts between me and my DM. And that’s up here in Canada I might add.
Never have the word to describe it till now. That chart with stress/panic is exactly how walmart is with the execption, i don't think there dumb enough ti say it out loud.
Dude you could turn this into a class action lawsuit if you got enough employees willing to testify against game stop!
GameStop filing bankruptcy would be good for everyone. It would open up an entire market place which was monopolized. More independent shops would open up. More customers would get better deals.
I'm telling yall a 3 letter pharmacy bring people from gamestop all the time to manage the stores and districts. They wanted us to work off the clock to keep hours down but when anything goes wrong like a customer complaint they fire people for being off the clock even though they where told to do so
That Ven diagram is also what you see on the gates of hell before they let you in. True story.
I feel like I dodged a bullet when my GameStop employment came to an end after only a week. Back in high school a friend and I used to hang out at a local GameStop all the time and we'd spend quite a bit of money there. We made friends with one of the associates there who had worked there for years. After a few months that associate became the store manager just before the holiday season and asked us if we wanted jobs there as seasonal help, we already had jobs but we were told we'd get a discount and only have to work a few hours a week. I ended up only getting scheduled for 1 week for maybe 4 hours across 2 days and that was it. I was never told why but I was fine with it. The manager didn't even make it to Christmas. He had worked at GameStop for YEARS and lasted less than 30 days as a manager. Apparently GameStop has or had a policy where you could checkout the guides for games and the manager put the guide in his backpack and forget to check it out from the store, as soon as he got home and realized his mistake he called the assistant manager and let her know he accidentally took it home without checking it out, he offered to drive back to the store but the assistant manager said she would take care of it for him, instead she called the district manager as soon as he hung up the phone and said he was stealing from the store. The district manager called up the store manager and asked if it was true and he explained what happened and offered to drive back up to the store again and sort it out (he even offered to buy the guide instead of checking it out), the district manager told him not to worry about it but not to let it happen again. The next morning the store manager went to open the store and return the guide and he was greeted by the assistant manager and district manager who informed him he was fired for theft. He opened the door and threw the guide and his keys into the store and drove home.
Hey Camelot, hope you're doing well dude :)
I think we found the #1 fan
The gamestop chronicles rabbit hole has got its grips on me
This reminds me of my Walmart. Asst Manager is a habitual liar and no amount of complaints to higher ups will mean anything.
0:25 I heard "or 9/11" but he said "we're not alone"
I've never worked at GameStop, but I have heard enough stories to believe from you and the others that have shared their stories with you. I wouldn't be surprised if GameStop goes out of business in a few years. Bigger companies have fallen due to the corporate greed at the top. It serves them right to go under.