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OMFGameStop Edition 3: The Corperation Hates Us |
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Now I know some of yall are looking at this and are wandering just what the hell is this guy talking about. Well as some of yall may or may not know, I am currently employed at Gamestop which owns EB Games and is currently the LARGEST video game retail in the U.S. They have well over four thousand stores all over the world including Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark just to name a few. They also own the Game Informer magazine which is relitively successful (ever wander why we always ask if you have a discount card, well there ya go) but is a rather crappy magazine if you ask me.
Well you think with a company that makes well over 3 billion dollars they would show the people that make them so much money on a daily basis some love right? WRONG. Why would they do that when they can stay sitting on their asses rolling in their big piles of money while we the pawns work our asses off for MINIMUM WAGE! Thats right minimum wage, 5.15 a hour (thats what it is here) and some crappy a** benifits that we can't even afford. Know I know that this is retail and I shouldn't be expecting to make so much money but let look at this. In 2001 I work at Toys R Us making 6 and some change and the last time I checked, Toys R Us is retail and I made more there than here (no I can't go back cause I was fired for customer stupidity... or insabordnation, whichever you prefer.) So that minimum wage B.S. ain't floating with me.
Lets go over the stores themselves shall we, namely the one I work at. As a Game Adviser, it is MY job to ring up customers, answer phones (thats everyones job but sometime it sit there and ring and ring and ring until I have no choice but to answer it), keep the walls straight, gut the games and put the empty cases on the wall and file the games in the drawers behind the counter, and greet the customers. When the store closes the G.A.s have to straightin and alphabitise up the shelves (if you grab a game, how hard is it to put it back where you got it from?), vacume, clean the glass and windows before we can clock out. Corperate gives us a certain ammount of hours to work with and as it is, that isn't enough to do EVERYTHING that needs to be done and the major project is always the Walls. We have thousands of games, DVDs, and accessories and there is no way we can actually get to them all in the givin time so somethings just go undone. Is some of yall have never seen the Brave Little Toster, look it up and look at the vacuum. Thats the kind of vacuum we have. The thing is old, it doesn't do it job right and it seems like there is no bag in it at all. And lets even get to our three wheeled dolly.
So now I bet some of yall are wandering why this edition is labled The Corperation Hates Us. Well here is the main reason. If some of yall haven't heard, be it you live far far away from Texas and/or San Antonio or you have lived in a cave, on Mars, under a rock, with your eyes closed and you fingers in your ears, on the 28 of January, 25 year old Amber Belken was mudered right there in the store. Police say that she was strangled to death and a unknown ammount of cash was missing from the safe. There was no sign of a break in because the crook was smart/dumb enough to lock the doors behind him. When cops arrived, she was lying on the ground with a bag of some kind over her head.
So what does this have to do with the big Corperat big wiggs you ask? Thats simple, THERE WAS NO F'IN SECURITY IN THE DAMN STORE!!! No cameras in the store, nobody opening with her, no panic button to press incase of said situation. That store has been robbed numerous times in the past and still no changes were made. If you ask me, the big wiggs don't give a rats a** about what goes on in the lower stores. Today the "president" paid San Antonio a visit to show his pain in loosing one of their trained monkies. So if I am reading this correctly, it took something of this caliber to get them to relize that they have stores outside of California, New York and Flordia? Thats the biggest bunch of bull I have ever heard in my life. And get this, a few days ago the suggestion to use this thing called the "buddy system" was suggested to prevent this from happening again. Woah nelly, thats some radical thinking right there. Had they did that in the first G.D. place, Amber would have been alive today. Way to go Corperate, with desisions like that, no wander you are where you are now.
So why blame Corperate for the murder and robberies? Easy, it's their job to make sure that all the stores have ample security and staff at all time and they didn't do that. When that particular location was built, they should have made sure that some kind of security was installed be it a camera in or out of the store or a panic button of some kind and they didn't. They should have also made sure that there is at least two or more people in the stores at all time but they didn't because thats unnessissary money they have to spend to pay the emploiees and heaven forbid them to do that. Spend some money to make some money is what I always belived in but apperently that was a total lie. In order to make money you got to spend as little as possable and horde as much as you can.
Now don't get me wrong, I love my job. I'm surrounded by video games from the moment I clock in to the the time I clock out, I have met some cool people be it customers or video game reps that stop by, I get inside info on everything video game related, it's just that one bad apple and spoil everything. No I don't care if if the big cheeses see this, let them. Hopefully then they will see what the hell is actually going on and plan on making some changes and run the stores a lot better than they are being ran now.
Know I know that I normally end these with some kind of morral of some kind but if your reading this and wandering what the morral is, go back through and read this again.
 The Enforcer666 · Thu Feb 08, 2007 @ 08:51am · 1 Comments |
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