Are Gamestop employees allowed to ask insane children to leave the store?

Speevy

Banned
Seriously.

Today, there was this kid who ran in SCREAMING "POKEMON!" "MATRIX!" "DRAGONBALL Z!" It was so loud that I was covering my ears.

Then he started grabbing random game cases and throwing them to the floor to get to ones he wanted to see. Still, his mother did nothing. If I were an employee of that store, I would have told his mother they had to leave.
 
Yes, and they do it often. Hell even I've done it myself a few times way back when.

Parents are notorious for leaving their children at game stores.

EDIT: Oh I see the mother was there with the child, for some reason I skipped that. It depends on the manager to be honest. They can risk a complaint and for some reason the higher ups don't give a shit as to what excuse the employees have and usually reprimand them. Guaranteed to be a story by store basis but I'd probably assume that they wouldn't dare throw them out.
 
whytemyke said:
www.actsofgord.com

read some of that site. the guy owns a video game store, and you've got to see how he treats his customers. hilarious stuff.

His site would be far better if 100% of the stories were true instead of half of them being Internet Tough Guy™ wish-fulfillment fantasies about beating up browsers and people who get into policy disputes with him
 
belgurdo said:
His site would be far better if 100% of the stories were true instead of half of them being Internet Tough Guy™ wish-fulfillment fantasies about beating up browsers and people who get into policy disputes with him
I agree.

Also -- and I don't know if this is still true, because it's been a while since I've been to his site -- he's a huge PS2 fanboy. He used to argue all the time that PS2 was actually the most powerful console. It got to be a big thing on a Nintendo board I used to belong to, with Gord actually going out of his way to register to try and perform some damage control.
 
Yeah I've seen Gord around actually, he's a rather ignorant troll most of the times and at random times he's funny. Of course he said he was the Gord and others claimed him to be, there was no way I could actually confirm it. Take that how you want.

Site still reeks of complete bullshit though, especially the one where he goes to the kid's high school. I can't beleive someone thought that would be a good story to post.
 
Regardless of whether the site is complete bullshit or not... it's still some pretty funny bullshit. I mean, c'mon... going to a kids high school and having the principal tell the kid that he'll let the store owner beat him up? I'm still waiting to see a new Family Guy with that kind of stuff on it.
 
I've seen kids get thrown out of stores on countless occassions. The worst one was that this kid wanted to grab a game that was on a high shelf, so he started jumping up and grabbing at the box. Well, long story short, he knocked the whole freaking shelf down, and there were random boxes strewn all over the floor. Manager ran and threw that kid out. :lol
 
good news, retail stores are private property, hence entitling you to the right to kick out anyone from your store for whatever reason you deem necessary. just don't abuse your new found power. :)

edit: whoops, i misread, you were just a bystander.
 
A quiet night as the Gord was preparing a letter to be sent off. Then suddenly an individual runs up and kicks the front door to the store as hard as he can.

"What the hell is he doing?" thought the Gord as he stood up.

The attacker tried a second time to kick the door down. Failing that, he turned and left the scene.

The Gord was an angry Gord, and the Gord was a vengeful Gord.

The Gord hopped over the counter and exited the store. He quickly caught up to the two would be thieves across the street from the staircase exit to a lower level nightclub.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" queried the Gord in a most unpleasant fashion.

"We're just walking" was the response.

"Trying to kick down doors is a part of your walk!?" questioned the Gord.

"You want trouble? You got trouble!" spoke one of the two individuals that Gord had stopped. The individual pulled out a metal pipe from his jacket.

The Gord was curious why he hadn't used that to try and take the door down.

Anyway, the vandal wasn't very proficient in using a weapon and levelled it above his head in a threatening fashion. Fortunately the Gord was trained for just this scenario. He stepped in, ensured the arm could not swing the pipe at the Gord while the Gord's other hand came up and proceeded to send the vandals nose into his cranium. The stories are true. When you do that to a person there truly is blood everywhere.

While the vandal was dropping back and screaming in pain as his blood went everywhere, the second vandal stood in surprise. Before the first person even hits the ground the Gord side kicked the second person in the chest and send him careening down a cement staircase.

The conflict was resolved in two hits. The Gord was 2 and 0.

The Gord picked up the pipe and returned to the store. Shortly there after the police and paramedics arrived. According to one of the officers on the scene a group of four guys gang beat up the two guys. Or at least, that was their story.

For if you cross the Gord, the Gord shall strike you down!

What a bunch of shit..
 
Senretsu said:
good news, retail stores are private property, hence entitling you to the right to kick out anyone from your store for whatever reason you deem necessary :). just don't abuse your new found power.
Yup, I have even heard stories about the cops being called in to remove a group of teenagers from a store.
 
Ironclad_Ninja said:
Yup, I have even heard stories about the cops being called in to remove a group of teenagers from a store.

I saw something similar to that on Friday at TRU. Except I swear it was a group of 50 teenagers being escorted out. It was like seeing all the clowns getting out of the tiny clown car.
 
NYC is probably 100 times worse than any place on earth when it comes to out of control kids in stores. I've seen kids at Toys R Us riding bikes around the stores actively trying to run people down w/o employee intervention. In that particular instance I yelled at the little fuckers, but half the time I just leave.
 
Once in a while, I'll go into a game store and see a young child, unattended, and I'll browse, find something, and perhaps even do the trade-in thing to boot, and then perhaps have a 5 or 10 minute chat with the clerk if he's said something intelligent and hasn't gone insane with the "magazine, disc cleaner, etc." spiel, and when I finally do go to leave the kid will still be in there without a parent in sight.

It's mean to think, but perhaps someone ought to pull an Adam Walsh in a game store to shock a few parents into good attentiveness skills.

Last I checked, GameStop, EB Games, and Toys R Us were not synonyms for "baby sitter" or "day care" or "your own friggin' home."
 
I can't stand that third person bullshit that "The Gord" uses every fucking sentence.

Are there any other sites, with real stories, about humorous events at game stores?
 
Docpan said:
I can't stand that third person bullshit that "The Gord" uses every fucking sentence.

Are there any other sites, with real stories, about humorous events at game stores?

Grain of truth in all of them, I'm guessing, but I find them cathartic. I wish I'd thought of that system first.
 
Does The Gord ever tell that story about the time someone came into his store and pushed over his magazine rack? Bet he doesn't. Ha! Not such a tough guy now, are you?
 
looks like the answer is YES

for the record I hate kids but then again I don't like most people... must be a Phoenix thing
 
You can kick anyone out of a retail store if they're causing a disturbance or imfringing on the shopping experience for the other customers. It's a private business, and while you may have to listen to some lecture from your higher-ups, you have full right to boot people out as you see fit. Even in a mall. People will say "I'll complain to mall security", but there's nothing they or mall management can do about it either.

For the record, I kick out kids AND adults with regular frequency at my store. :)
 
This one kid, maybe eight years old, came into my BB/Gamerush today and was just going insane. His two friends even acted ashamed to be with him. He was just running around and shouting... "THE INCREDIBLES! OOH OOH! They HAVE to have it! THEY HAVE TO! ...... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" We had in plenty of copies in, so I'm not sure what he was yelling about there. I tried to calm him down, but he just kept running around the store and yelling.

Ahhh, retail
 
"Do you have any used PlayStations for sale?"
"Nope."
"Do you have any PlayStations for sale that are used?"
"Nope. You just asked that question."
"You don't understand. I want to buy a used PlayStation."
"I don't understand?"

:lol

Retail really is fun some times. I had a customer ask me how he would go about downloading music for free. A grown middle-aged man. I just shrugged and pretended like I didn't know how.
 
Jasoco said:
"Do you have any used PlayStations for sale?"
"Nope."
"Do you have any PlayStations for sale that are used?"
"Nope. You just asked that question."
"You don't understand. I want to buy a used PlayStation."
"I don't understand?"

:lol


That happens so much it's not even funny anymore. :)

Here's some routine crap I have to put up with:

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This happened THROUGHOUT the day today, give or take some of the customer comments: (I *wish* I were kidding about that, too)

"Do you guys have any new PS2s?"
No, we're sold out.
"I mean the small ones."
Nope, sorry, all gone.
"You know what I'm talking about, right? The NEW PS2."
Right. We're out of them.
"Do you know when you're going to get any more in stock?"
It's hard to say right now.
"I don't understand why I can't find one ANYWHERE?!?"
Well, it always gets this way at this time of year.
***blank stare from customer***
Uh...you know, it's the holiday season...they get really hard to find.
"WHERE CAN I GET ONE?"

Any place you can think of, they've been to already. You can't win. We've also been getting a lot of calls for the Nintendo DS, which my boss never did get, and today he asked me if I thought we could get away selling them for $180-$200. I told him I'm sure we could move them during the week before Xmas, so he'll be going to Costco, which has TONS of them in stock, and buying a bunch. :lol

One guy kept going back and forth with himself about getting a used system when I told him the slim model PS2s were all gone. I told him the one used system left would probably be gone by the end of the day.

"Well...maybe I'll just give him mine for now and buy a slim model for myself later. It's got that NEW INTERNET ADAPTOR IN IT, you know."

Speaking of the internet adaptor, a kid wanted one of the older PS2 this morning:

"Do you have the PS2 network adaptor."
Let me see...oh yeah, we've got plenty of them.
"What do you need to get online?"
Just broadband.
"I have DSL."
That's all you need then...you're good to go. You can't use AOL though.
"I have wireless DSL, is that okay?
Yes, DSL is fine.
"So my DSL will work?"

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Then there was a guy that came into the store acting kind of funny. He's walking weird, and pulls out an instruction manual for what I thought was an old grey PSX and tries to read the directions, asking for some part I've never heard of. He can't seem to pronounce anything correctly. My co-worker tells him we don't carry whatever it was he wanted, and the guy looks like he's about to cry, says "What do you mean you don't carry it?! I done bought my Playstation equipment here!!" and stomps out. Turns out the guy was totally drunk (I didn't smell the alcohol because I'm a bit stuffed up) and was asking for some VCR part.

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One of our stores closed down last week. I worked at that location at the end, and the most asking and most annoying question was ALWAYS:

"How come this store is closing?"

WHY DO YOU THINK, IDIOT? WHY DO STORES CLOSE? DURRRR. I would often get the blank expression response when I told them because it wasn't making any money.

So now that I'm back working at this other location, what kind of phone calls do I get?

"Hey man, I've been trying to call your Marietta store ALL DAY and no one is picking up! Is it closed??"
Uh yeah...it closed down.
"What?"
It's closed down.
"It's closed today?"
No, it's closed down for good.
"Permanently?"
Yeah.
"Why did it close? <----I swear to god I am not making this up!

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I am so damn glad that store is gone now. It was so DEAD there for months; everyone that worked there was bored out of their minds. The two idiot kids that the owner got to run it probably helped to run it into the ground. What I never understood was that they knew about these guys' activities for months and never did a thing about it. These guys would often close up the store and leave, have a large group of friends come in and "hang out," etc. I once found a sign under the counter that read "Back in 25 minutes." 25 FUCKING MINUTES?!? And where did the guy go? To the McDonald's two minutes down the street. If you're going to leave, that's one thing, but don't leave evidence like that.

But forget the employees. What I hated was Yu-Gi-Oh!. They had TOURNAMENTS on Saturdays, so I had to put up with obnoxious moron kids for hours as they took up all the walking space on the floor to play with their cards, littered, and generally stunk up the store. I have also never seen so many obese 10-15 year olds in my life. Some of them seemed devestated when the place closed since they came there every weekend for about two years. Some were freshmen in high school by the time the store closed; I told them now they could finally GET LIVES before it was too damn late. But a few of them actually showed up the last few weekends to "hang out" even though the tournaments were already stopped.

I have taken pics of these tournaments with my (crappy) camera phone and will probably upload them in their own thread sooner or later. I've also got pics of quite possibly the biggest loser that has EVER come into the store: A huge 300+ black man, fly completely unzipped, that spent a combined total of SEVEN HOURS in two of our stores looking at Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Scary shit.

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My boss came in through the front door one Sunday and found the store empty. Turns out one of the newer kids hired was out back WASHING HIS CAR. The other kid that was supposed to be in "charge" had just left while still on the clock.
 
Sounds like working for Lyte Edge's boss is the way to go! Perchance, did one of the employee's names happen to be Randall?

And did he like to rent movies at Big Choice?
 
Jasoco said:
Retail really is fun some times. I had a customer ask me how he would go about downloading music for free. A grown middle-aged man. I just shrugged and pretended like I didn't know how.

OMG, you should told him there was store for that, giving him either mall security office or police station.
:lol
 
Unison said:
NYC is probably 100 times worse than any place on earth when it comes to out of control kids in stores. I've seen kids at Toys R Us riding bikes around the stores actively trying to run people down w/o employee intervention. In that particular instance I yelled at the little fuckers, but half the time I just leave.

Very, very true.
 
Lyte Edge said:
Speaking of the internet adaptor, a kid wanted one of the older PS2 this morning:

"Do you have the PS2 network adaptor."
Let me see...oh yeah, we've got plenty of them.
"What do you need to get online?"
Just broadband.
"I have DSL."
That's all you need then...you're good to go. You can't use AOL though.
"I have wireless DSL, is that okay?
Yes, DSL is fine.
"So my DSL will work?"
Uh, the PS2 Network Adaptor works with dial-up and AOL. Not quite sure why you're telling customers otherwise (not that it matters in this case, but ya'know...).
 
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