Wow, a reply from Kotaku staff AND I’m out of the greys? I guess I owe Gamestop.

And yeah, it’s clear in your reporting that it’s widespread (although I wonder how bad it is in Canada considering we don’t really have deal with aggressive sales people...except maybe at the Brick), but I was trying to give them the…

SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE CALLING ME A LIAR ON THE THE FIRST ARTICLE WHEN I TALKED ABOUT HOW SHIT WORKING FOR GS IS. <3 XOXOXXO

I’ve seen the pressure over the years come across in different ways from associates there too. From the Used Car Sales man pressure, down to belittling and name calling as a pressuring tactic. And that’s across 5 different states and about 15 different Gamestops.

That’s all anecdotal, sure, but I still believe it’s a…

And I’m confident that if you did this again in 6 months and filtered out any repeat emails, you’d have 100 more and different former and current employees to confirm much of what you observed.

“Scared for our jobs” was the constant, ubiquitous norm at GameStop. I will not only vouch for it, but will go so far as to say most of these apologists are either company plants or young employees who don’t get around much. Kids in high school or college students looking for extra spending money don’t feel the same…

Having talked to something like 100 current/former GS employees over the past two days, I don’t think this is a vocal minority. I think it’s a sampling of a systemic problem affecting stores across North America.

This is the one of the giant problems of COL. Their is no incentive for the employee to get high numbers. NONE. Once you get over the minimum acceptable percentage (45-55 percent depending on your location) there’s no reason to do better. Some stores just want to do good enough so that they don’t get a call from the…

When I was in the Air Force, as a young E3, I took a holiday job at a GameStop in Wichita Falls TX. One Saturday I was working, the District Manager came through as a “customer.” I didn’t know this person...I’d worked there all of two weekends at this point. When he came in I greeted him and asked if I could help…

As yet another Assistant Manager at Gamestop, all of the stories and this entire thing is 100% true and anyone saying anything different is either delusional or brainwashed. In my district my DM told all the managers to effectively lie to customers. He told us to tack on game protection without letting the customer…