We smartly locked the door behind him when he left and called the cops. Most people don't care, it seems to me. I understand the trade-in values suck, but people still trade stuff in all the time. Warranties [are] pretty much useless. If you time it right, you can get pretty fair values for your trades.
From Mynameisnotchris :. I had countless standees of the best quality with nowhere to put them. Games were sometimes given to managers, especially at conference time, and I probably accrued a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise over my time there. It was a great perk. It's a waste for everyone involved, and the company loses more than it gains from it. Management constantly wanted me to move the gamer out.
From GameStopGirl : "Customers definitely treat the male and female employees differently. I was located in the southeast. It was at 33K when I quit. Here's How To Get Freebies. From formated4tv : "Need a free strategy guide, or want a leftover toy that GameStop sells Halo clothes, figures, stockings, etc? From formated4tv : "Most stores have extremely small back rooms, so we make room wherever possible to store games and systems, with the most common place being the restroom which is the size of a small standup shower.
From formated4tv : "You know when you see online that there's a sweet promo item for reserving a game? From formated4tv : "The way GameStop pays you if you don't have a checking account for direct deposit , is they put your check on this debit card that you get from them.
From gamestopperthrowaway : "As a manager I made an-hour, but they cap you at 40 hours and you don't get overtime. Signup for a Free Account. One of the more interesting recent tidbits to come out of the GameStop news cycle this recent season was the announcement of a new customer service center opening in Pembrook Pines in South Florida. GameStop announced it is prepping to bring on around employees to bring the Florida customer service center into full working functionality.
This announcement was made directly by GameStop via a press release put out on its Investor Relations website on September 20, Gamestop is a nationwide company. Your connection in the company can help you to get an interview with them, or at least they can pass your resume to the manager in a local store. Polish your old address book, check your FB friend list, give a call to a few people, and see if anyone can help you. Personal recommendation can help immensely, especially in this case, when there are so many applications per vacancy, and it is hard to tell the difference between the applicants typically young people, with similar resume and experience.
Try to visit the store regularly, talk to the employees, make friends, buy something—buy a lot of stuff. Anytime you talk to them, try to demonstrate your communication skills, and show passion for what they do in the company.
They may help you to become a member of the team, especially if they like you, if they enjoy the idea of working with you. Video Games were not mainstream until the release of the Nintendo Wii, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare were released, as these games allowed for people to interact with others in a more causal method than any other games in the past decade.
I joined up, wanting to learn about the support to drive the industry and was able to do just that. The difficulty in a long term career with Gamestop became aggravatingly obvious, when I began to notice the turnover rate for The Store Manager and District Manager positions.
These terminations usually resulted from either bad politics or not meeting ever increasing quotas. This led to missed opportunities for Merit Increase Pros Insider information, Vendor gifts, Promotional items. As a GA Game Advisor, lowest rank Most of your workday involves tending to customer needs and maintaining the store, however the day in its self is likely to be short. Gamestop has a tendency to request their stores to overhire, and this most of the lower ranking or new employees may not get more than a hour shift once per week The Job its self is fairly enjoyable, if you have an interest in video games you're likely to be working with someone who you can easily hold a conversation with, so anyone who is interested in the job will likely be working with someone they can relate to.
The job isn't very hard at its base level, its mostly just transactions, answering questions, and keeping the store clean, along with the occasional phone call. The only thing that gives the job any difficulty is the endless amount of semantic additions that the company insists on adding repeatedly.
First its the membership, then you have to ask if they want the new credit card, pre-orders, special offers and more, if you wish to work here you should be prepared for some customers to get very bored with the transaction very quickly as you barrage them with your mandatory endless stream of questioning. The company adds more and more things for you to try and sell people per transaction, and you WILL be judged upon this, despite the insistence of the notion that its more important to give the customer what they need than to push numbers.
The company WILL train you to try to meet customer need Pros Likely to have good co-workers, relatively lenient management staff. Cons Unlikely to get many hours, Completely out of touch corporate decisions, numbers based performance monitoring, completely non-competetive pay, schedule is almost random being determined on a week to week basis.
Every GameStop runs a little differently this was my expereince. A typical day at GameStop was fairly simple. You greet every customer as they enter, you keep the shelves organized, you help people pick out new games based off of their likes and dislikes or you help non-gamers choose the best possible games to buy as gifts for the gamers in their life by inquiring about the gift recipient and their likes and dislikes.
GameStop makes a lot of their profit from selling used games so you would be pushing used game sales pretty hard and you had to make sure that you put the right game in the box before selling it. I learned patience while working at GameStop as maintaining the store's cleanliness will never be a completed task until closing. Cleaning up and organizing the store will take up most of your day with some sales in between.
Some stores are more busy and you will find yourself consistently on the register with little to no time to clean the store until closing but this is rare even for the busy stores as this level of work usually only applies to the holiday season. You have a few calls a day that you have to answer with a weekly advertisement. When you close the store for the day you tidy up anything that is still out of place and you vacuum the store and take the trash out.
When the holidays hit you do all of this in overdrive with many disgruntled customers. You usually get a shift every other week, two shifts a week if you are lucky. Your schedule requirements are not respected at all during the holiday season and that will Pros Free promotional cardboard standees, free promo posters when the company was done displaying them, occasional free merch when midnights exclusive gifts were left over, Working with fun people if you get lucky.
Cons No where to refrigerate your food or heat it up, No lunches or breaks regardless of hours worked, Agreed upon schedules are not respected, They don't allow pregnant people to sit down even when no one is in the shop. A workplace that constantly flip flops between beneficial and a dead end. It does provide a very laid back friendly environment where people who have a passion for gaming can express it by helping the customers that come in and discuss it with co workers so it can feel very fulfilling.
The dress code is casual but will vary from store manager to manager if you are to wear the company T-shirt or a dress shirt of your own. This is a very fun job for anyone just entering the work force, where you can be surrounded by game enthusiasts but also learn valuable skills at the same time like sales tactics there is no commission so no pressure , cash handling, organization, inventory, and filing.
There is however at least from my store a very high turn over rate. After about a year of working there I was the only one left from the original batch of employees when I first started all had either quit, been fired, or transferred. Being in the entry level position of Game Advisor and being the one person in there with the most experience in that specific location can be irritated when you have new managers coming in that don't know what to do.
In a year I worked for probably 4 different store managers, 2 different DMs, and countless assistant store managers Pros relaxed dress code, flexible hours, fun interactive environment, no sales commission, video game check outs, discounts, midnight release events. Cons not enough hours, low pay, high turn over rate, high stress for management, not alot of advancement opportunity. A typical day as a SM at GameStop can be slightly unpredictable.
Most days that you work you typically work six and half to seven hours by yourself without a break because the payroll that they give to stores is rarely enough to meet the store's needs. You will have to assist every customer yourself and answer the telephone while also doing the all of operational tasks. On top of that you are also required to do inventory counts for three to four assigned sections per week and ship out large quantities of over stock product to other stores who "need" it.
This process is widely viewed company wide as unnecessary because the products that you typically ship to other stores ends up getting a shipped back to you within a couple weeks and sometimes that week. It is also common to have random projects with short deadlines thrown at you mid-week without warning. On top of the operational side of the business you will also be expected to increase overall sales comps, trade comps, and used sa Cons Low pay and lack of respect from other employers when you attempt to find a new job, disconnected upper management with unrealistic expectations, terrible training and development, advancement is unlikely above SM.
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