The DM for my district when I worked in the Baltimore area was The Worst and he eventually got canned (after I had already quit, largely because of how bad he was). It’s really interesting how much mileage varies at GameStop depending entirely on how decent of a human your DM is.

If you can find them! Digimon World DS is strangely difficult to find these days. I played it when it came out and enjoyed it but I haven’t been able to find my copy as of recently. Dusk was also good!

Yep! That’s how things should be. But over-eager district managers (at least in my experience) have a habit of pushing numbers over what the customers actually want in order to impress their bosses or whatever. And unfortunately there are far too many of those types in Gamestop.

I was yanked around by my DM for four long pain in the ass years and I held on to the gig because I had store managers who always had my back. Until I landed a shitty store manager and I quit in the middle of conference just to embarrass him in front of all the better ones.

As an adult who knows better I still occasionally stop in there just because I have some good friends who are store managers. I don’t think I’d still shop there otherwise.

They’ve always been poorly made tchotchkes

This sounds about right coming from GS home office.

I hate when I see cosplayers do this. Putting 99% of the effort into just one aspect of the costume and then mailing the rest of it in.

Busiest store in the district + not being given any hours to schedule GAs = terribly messy store that employees on the clock would not be able to finish before needing to clock out. Which is why he stayed until 3am cleaning the walls, processing trades, organizing systems, etc.

DIGIMON WORLD 4 L M F A O

I forget what the breakdown for GameStop’s profits are, but an abysmally low percentage of that is new game sales. Which is why they harp on pre-owned so much.

I think the veracity of this article largely depends on what district you’re working in - I’ve got friends locally (Baltimore area) who are SMs at GameStop that say COL is very whatever and the district managers are all very chill about making numbers and whatnot. Not to say that GameStop isn’t shitty (IT IS) but in…

oh gee wowee wow i’ve never thought of having a savings account before

As I’ve said like 20 other times now, NO, not suggesting that. (Though I guess depending on your financial situation people might use it for games) Just for larger purchases, like systems, it’s a nice option to have. I generally just split payment when I have things like gift cards and whatnot. So right now I’ve got…

Interesting. Maybe when I eventually get a laptop or something I’d do that. But my only console preorder right now is a Switch, and that’s at Gamestop primarily bc I got giftcards for christmas and I’d much rather have half of it paid off in that fashion than pay it via Amazon with all of my own money, ya feel?

ok guy

drawing a connection between “person you’ve never met pays for video games differently” and “this is how drumpf won” is a stretch. hope your arms are ok

Since I can’t edit the original post:

1. HI I’M SMART ABOUT MY MONEY CAN I CAN ABSOLUTELY AFFORD PAYING FOR THINGS ALL AT ONCE, my parents were both penny-pinchers and I just have a weird mental thing about dropping that much money all at once. yes I have credit cards and savings accounts thank you I’m not a fucking…

As I’ve now typed no less than a dozen times this afternoon: I know, thanks. I split shit up at GameStop when I have a larger purchase like a system and then have things like gift cards or trade credit that can’t be used anywhere else. I also have old friends from my GS employee days who still work at stores around…

to echo something I’ve had to type out to internet randos like 50 times already today: I am great at budgeting, I know what I’m doing with my finances, I don’t need some rando such as your self explaining ~*budgeting*~ to me when I manage multiple credit cards and bank accounts just fine, I split up big payments in…

/SHRUGS INTO THE SUN I’m gonna keep doin me and I’ve got pals who are managers at local stores too so I definitely don’t mind helping them out with an occasional preorder either. Just don’t need internet randos assuming I’m some fuckin moron with my money when I know exactly what I am doing thanks very much bye