And they make me annoyed, mad, tired, etc.
Dumb customers can kiss it.
I swear. There's the dikey one (I wouldn't put her as that title had she not been rude to me on more than one occasion). It's stated, that, when trading in a system, the 20 extra dollars is for STORE CREDIT. "Oh well since I'm trading in the system, I think we should at least get the 20 dollars on a gift card" You're not asking for store credit, you're asking for CASH. It would've just been the same if people were trading in for every 3 games the extra 10 dollars, they should get that 10 dollars on a gift card also if they're asking for cash. That 20 dollars is meant for an incentive NOT to get cash. Since you know, it's 20% LESS than store credit. A PSP trades in for $65, you bought it for almost $200. And then you want cash. WOULDN'T you want the extra 20 bucks. If you want more money, just sell it on EBAY.
PS3. Quit hoping you're going to get one. Quit thinking you actually want one. Sure, it's going to have badass graphics. SURE it's going to have BlueRay technology. The fact that only 1 out of every 4 works, wouldn't that tip someone off not to even consider getting the system until they work out the kinks? Look at the 360, there are rarely any problems now (except for the idiots who stand their 360 vertical instead of laying down. SURE it looks more sleek and pretty standing up, but wouldn't you much rather expand the life of your discs and system than for show?). The problems with the system were all a shipping problem with a certain shipment that there wasn't a particular part taken out that needed to be that burned up and caused the system to fry. And anyone's system who overheats, it's because they're letting the power supply WAY TOO CLOSE to the system and didn't get an intercooler for their 360. And the fact that the PS3 is $500 for a 20gig, and $600 for a 60gig, it's only the idiots who can't afford it and are willing to go broke for it. And think, you're going to be stupid not to get a warranty because when the system breaks (and I can guarantee you it will) and you didn't spend the extra $100 for the warranty (because I can guarantee you it WILL be that much, considering the XBOX360's is only $40 and it's $399 for the premium system), you're fucked because the manufacturer's going to be too busy trying to replace the ones who were willing to spend the extra money to get a warranty. And stores won't have one to replace your system with.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Trades make the world go 'round
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Newbie and the Beast
In my head I cheer. I'm no longer the newbie in my store.
I have made my way up into the store chain. Instead of being a measly Game Advisor making a sad salary of $5.20/h, I am now a Store Game Advisor making $6/h. Sure, it's not much of a pay, but the fact it was an 80 cent raise makes it more appealing.
Tonight (last night) as I was waiting for 9 to roll around, starting about 8:30 some quite familiar faces started rolling in. (Besides my 2 friends who were picking on me for my performance in Tetris on the day of the Wii preorders.) These faces were the ones I had seen for days on end. The eager 16 year olds who wanted a job at Gamestop. Who came in asking when our store manager had begun looking at applications. What upsets me is he's pretty much hired every kid who applied. Well not every, but most. One, being the girl who had brought in a brown recluse spider. This is 9 new employees. I'm no longer the one who doesn't know anything. Who doesn't know how the store works.
I've made myself known, or at least I've tried. Anytime I call EB Games in the mall, I pick on the workers there because I've met almost everyone of them (Minus the Pancho guy, but he knows me as the girl who tells him to get to work). I've made my way through and now am above the ones who are there now (meaning the new ones, not the coworkers I have had, because they have been there longer). It's been almost a year, and it's almost hard to believe a year ago this month I had barely just discovered Gamestop. And now I'm working there.
All I gotta say for the newbies is...watch out. You may have applied here for the discount, or the fact its a gamestore, but it's not going to be easy. If I find one game out of place, and find out it was you who put it there, there will be hell to pay. OKAY not really, but it's going to be fun scaring them.
I have made my way up into the store chain. Instead of being a measly Game Advisor making a sad salary of $5.20/h, I am now a Store Game Advisor making $6/h. Sure, it's not much of a pay, but the fact it was an 80 cent raise makes it more appealing.
Tonight (last night) as I was waiting for 9 to roll around, starting about 8:30 some quite familiar faces started rolling in. (Besides my 2 friends who were picking on me for my performance in Tetris on the day of the Wii preorders.) These faces were the ones I had seen for days on end. The eager 16 year olds who wanted a job at Gamestop. Who came in asking when our store manager had begun looking at applications. What upsets me is he's pretty much hired every kid who applied. Well not every, but most. One, being the girl who had brought in a brown recluse spider. This is 9 new employees. I'm no longer the one who doesn't know anything. Who doesn't know how the store works.
I've made myself known, or at least I've tried. Anytime I call EB Games in the mall, I pick on the workers there because I've met almost everyone of them (Minus the Pancho guy, but he knows me as the girl who tells him to get to work). I've made my way through and now am above the ones who are there now (meaning the new ones, not the coworkers I have had, because they have been there longer). It's been almost a year, and it's almost hard to believe a year ago this month I had barely just discovered Gamestop. And now I'm working there.
All I gotta say for the newbies is...watch out. You may have applied here for the discount, or the fact its a gamestore, but it's not going to be easy. If I find one game out of place, and find out it was you who put it there, there will be hell to pay. OKAY not really, but it's going to be fun scaring them.