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Gamestop Woes

Thursday, February 19, 2009

I didn’t preorder Dawn of War II fast enough on Amazon, so I had preordered it on Gamestop’s website and had them deliver it to the Whiteflint Mall store.
This was a mistake.
The mistake was ordering from Gamestop in the first place.  Now, I don’t know what happened.   I’m sure there’s another side to the story, [...]

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ReTales: My favorite job

Friday, February 13, 2009

I loved answering the phone.
Which is probably why I didn’t get to do it very often.
I would clock in, and then ask the shift supervisor who the sponsor was this week.  Every week, a publishing house paid corporate money to have us push a game when we answered the phone.  I heard that corporate often [...]

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ReTales WhooooOOOoooh!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I have fond memories of retail, which is strange because retail is horrible, soul destroying work that exposes you to the very worst aspects of American culture and society.  I worked for a now defunct (but then major) video game retailer in one of the busiest malls on the yellow and blue lines on the [...]

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Not my real job

Sunday, February 8, 2009

I remember when I worked retail at the now defunct EBGames.  They’re all GameStops now, and they’re all glorified pawnshops.  But I’ll always have fond memories of store one seven six.
It was just about the raunchiest store ever.  And crazy things would happen.  The worst part about it was, I only worked one day a [...]

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