GameStop employees, what are your horror stories?

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[McLuvin]

As the father of a nonverbal autistic child, hard agree man

My daughter is extremely sweet and seldom has public meltdowns BUT if there were to be an issue like that, her mother and I have never hesitated to do our jobs as parents and handle said situation



Yes, children with autism can be a handful and it can be incredibly hard for some people, but you also have a responsibility as a parent and caregiver to ensure your child isnt being a public nuisance

[TheRealNoah_]

As an autistic individual, you are completely right. I have less severe autism so i am fully verbal and behave fine. Some parents just dont raise their kids right, autism or not.

[eringanley]

I worked at gamestop for a while and have a wholesome story. We had a few regulars that were fellow nerds and would come in to just hang out and talk about games all the time. They always were respectful and knew if a customer came in, they would step away and let us work before going back to chatting. (For context, I am a female and was in my mid 20s.)

One day a group of people probably in their early 20s come in while a regular was there (male mid 30s), and the regular as always scootched to end of the counter and was then on his phone waiting while I helped the group.

They were acting a little strange, lingering around the store for quite some time and didn't really seem there to buy anything. Finally, one of them walked up to me and asked for some receipt paper and a pen, which I gave. She wrote a note down and passed it back to me. It read "there is a guy hovering over you at the end of the counter, are you okay? Do you need help?"

I explained to her I knew him and he was a regular and she was super relieved and the group left after that. Even though I wasn't in danger, it felt so heartwarmimg a stranger would notice and take time to make sure everything was okay.

[TheStarsTwilight]

While I've never been a GameStop Employee myself, I know of a hilariously awful incident that needs to be shared: the time Ness amiibos crashed GameStop.

It is April 1st, 2015 when a (non-prank) Nintendo Direct occurs. During the showcase, the 4th Wave of Super Smash Brothers amiibo are announced. Notably, in the US Ness was going to only be available at GameStop. This was an immediate red flag to collectors as GameStop was known to be extremely bad at managing their store exclusives. It did not help that the exclusive they had during the previous wave, Shulk, was handled so poorly his amiibo was being resold for several hundred dollars even shortly after release.

The very next day, April 2nd, GameStop decides to open up amiibo preorders via their website, even though the figures aren't expected to come until May. That timing was likely in direct response to the Nintendo Direct (pun intended). However, this decision soon went south as their computer system was so absurdly overwhelmed by amiibo preorders, most of which were probably for Ness given his limited status, that GameStop's website quickly crashed. And when I say crash, I mean HARD crashed. The company had to redirect visitors to a Flash game sharing website while they performed several hours of maintenance to get their page up and running again. That's not the worst of it though; the in-store cash registers used a purchase system directly linked to GameStop's website. So not only was the site down, physical purchases were out too.

I remember chatting up one of the cashiers when I went to pick up the amiibo adapter for the 3DS and the other one overheard me relaying this story. Turns out he worked that shift and said it was the single worst work experience he's ever had. The contrast between his horrified exasperation and his coworker's giddy laughter was comedic gold. Can't say I blame him though, that night must have been absolute hell. The only thing that's surprising is he was still working there several months later to hear me mention it.

[musicgirl]

As someone on the spectrum I agree. Keep your kid under control. It's dangerous and unfair to other people in the store. It could also be dangerous to the kid as well. Also, there maybe people who aren't as understanding and they might get the cops if it gets bad enough. Do something about your kid or leave them at home or with someone who can handle meltdowns.

[mlhlvrt]

Years back good friend ran a pawn shop. The roaches came in in literally EVERYTHING. If it’s warm and dark, they will cram into it. Some stuff he had an isolation closet with passthrough like a bank drive up. The number of roach explosions was incredible. Game consoles, stereo speakers, and VHS players were usually bearing colonies.

[Jarn]

6:25 As a person with autism I can say it's not easy to control people with autism depending on how bad their situation is. And I think i know someone which might be similar. So my opinion is that the kid shouldn't have been taken to the store, the kid should have been at home with a adult who can somewhat have the kid under control. They either should have let a other person buy it for the kid or they should have bought it online (in a different store).

[Nat-ebix]

Consoles are unfortunately attractive places for roaches. Warm, dark, dry, plenty of crevices to spawn in... 🤢

[BeanKally]

Not GameStop related but game related so I guess I’ll tell this story.
I’ve always had a love for bugs and snakes, and I was especially obsessed when I was a little kid. In our yard every summer we’d have DOZENS of Texas Garter Snakes (tiny, about 6 inches and non-venomous, never even got bit by one as a kid). When I’d go on my daily bug hunts I’d usually spend a lot of time just messing with the Garter Snakes. When I was 4 I decided to keep one as a pet, and this lasted a little while until it vanished one day and never came back. Just assumed it escaped and hid in a corner until it died.
Well, about 5 years later when I was 9, my mom had to have her PlayStation (don’t remember which PlayStation) dismantled for some reason that I don’t remember
We found the veryyyy old corpse of a Gartner Snake inside of it.

Well, I learned where the snake went at least.

[Blatomzazom]

Man you don’t know how much this helps I just ran out of music while working out and you popped out life saver

[CoolCademMAnimates-fzui]

I was visiting a GameStop once and this mom was trying to justify to the staff why her 7 year old or so son could play gta and cod

[RialVestro]

Not a Game Stop employee but I was talking to a girl a Game Stop who was a little jumpy cause earlier that same day a guy had threatened to stab her right there in the store. She called the cops who were already stationed around the parking lot but on the wrong side no were near Game Stop. And this was all because he was trying to steal games which by the way were all empty display cases. He got mad there was nothing in the stolen cases and threatened to come back with a knife to stab her to death.

[byohazrd]

I worked at a now-closed store at the dying mall in a small/medium sized city in Tennessee from 2008-2010 and the absolute WORST thing I ever saw was a family of poor mountain folk, about 5 of them, who were all relatively dirty… especially the mentally handicapped adult man among them who had a brown stain up the back of his pants and smelled of his accident, but the others just didn’t seem to care about the poor guy’s dignity, nor the wretched smell.

[King-Maelstrom-the-Esoteric]

"I'll steal stuff even HARDER!"

[rfmerrill]

if it was in the late 2000s or early 2010s, I could easily see a PS2 and 20 games go for not that much money. PS2 games are *still* fairly cheap now, and a lot of the really popular ones you can still buy brand new and sealed for like $20-40.

[HER_]

“Oh boy, can’t wait to play wind waker on my GameCube.”
The colony of roaches living in the disk reader:🗿

[Athlynne]

Am autistic person, and agree. When we have meltdowns due to sensory overload or something like that, that's not something we can control. But our general behavior, we absolutely can, as much as any neurotypical kid, if we're parented properly. I threw exactly one fit in public when I was little, and my mom completely ignored me and pretended to walk away while still keeping an eye on me. I never did it again. We're like anyone else, it's just everything is a bit harder for us. Showing us understanding is very helpful, but please, don't think we're just uncontrollable hellions everyone has to put up with.

[JayZero]

Story 2 I can explain the price tag pretty easily. Back in the 2000s to early 2010s there was a massive surplus of PS2 inventory in used sections at Gamestop and the like, so a lot of REALLY good games could be bought dirt cheap, and depending on the store, would often have sales that had a "buy 2, get one half off" deal; All of which my broke Highschool self would graciously abuse to get more fun for cheap. Seriously, I remember getting all 3 Sly Cooper Games, Devil May Cry 1, and Metal Gear Solid 2&3 in one trip and the total coming out to a little under $15...Man I miss those days.

[MrXerios]

About the autists not needing to run wild : that is true, in most cases. Unfortunately, autism is a spectrum, and some are just way past the deep end. My sister volunteered to help out one such kid. From what she told me, that kid was around 10, and he was almost feral. Herself and a few people were standing guard around the clock to keep him from hurting himself, his parents were not able to do it all themselves. He was completely non-verbal, would run around, hit things, bite, throw stuff around etc. My sister told me that she didn’t think this kid even registered her as another living being, most of the time.
So yeah, autism can get pretty bad, for everyone involved.

[davisammari]

Story 16; Dragon Quest 9 was my first Dragon Quest game and my first JRPG. I played that game for three years and bought a second copy after I lost my first.