SG_Player1974
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Sorry but... I believe this statement is all that anyone really needs to read in order to understand why you are currently unemployed.
I just got fired from Game Stop
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Sorry but... I believe this statement is all that anyone really needs to read in order to understand why you are currently unemployed.
gretchen
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I think what everyone is trying to communicate to you op,is that a job is where you bring a skill set and contribute for the good of the business. A job is not meant to give you anything but a paycheck. Some people have careers they love,and that's called a bonus. Not a given. Even thinking of having these parties because you can't have them at your house is inappropriate. You are letting your worlds collide,to speak in your language.
Beta
Smile!
LAN parties would be a gold mine with the amount of
around here. There isn't a local place that runs those is there?
Goldenhawk
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... and a career generally comes after getting a degree or intensive job-specific training, and you demonstrate your value to the organization, often with significant self-sacrifice (even if you love what the job).
Very, very few youth find a way to make serious money doing what they want to do - and those that do exhibit serious entrepreneurial skills and spend an amazing amount of time and energy bringing it to pass. But most teenage-friendly jobs will never be a career, and very few of them will be "do what you want to do". It's called "work", not "play".
Shucks, "what I want" is rarely a major factor in an adult decision-making process about anything.
My dad has often remarked that today's youth expect to have all the things their parents have as soon as they graduate (career, house, car, money, vacation time, etc.), without any of the hard work and sacrifice that their parents went through to get and keep them. Not surprising; it's simply an immature view. Hopefully this experience will move XBox360 closer to a mature view of the world.
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Hodr
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A lot of good (and not so good) advice in this thread.
I think I have some insight to offer as I was a manager for Software Etc. for a couple of years when our parent company first launched the GameStop brand. My store eventually became a GameStop.
We of course always wanted our sales reps to be knowledgeable, which is why we had policies allowing them to take home games to try them out, or to get free subscriptions to our magazines, and of course employee discounts on products.
But while on the floor your job was first and foremost to keep busy. Yes, we tracked how many pre-orders you got. Yes, we tracked how many magazine subs you sold. But at the end of the day, the employee that was straightening the end-caps, re-alphabetizing the wall, or sweeping the floor during their downtime was of greater value to me than the employee who could talk a customer into buying the used version of a game (which we made more profit on) but would goof off when things got slow.
The fact is, we mostly catered to two types of individuals. People who know exactly what they want, for which our job was to try and upsell them on the value-adds for pre-orders (or convince them to buy used if the game is out), or people who have no clue and are in there because their grandson asked for a "Pokey man" game, which only required you to identify the most likely candidate and sell it to them. In neither case does knowing how to beat boss x or cheat for gold in game y really add to our bottom line.
BTW - The corporate wide database of humorous customer requests (asking for a phony play-box instead of sony playstation for instance) was started by me back in '98.
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Also, your boss should have given you several warnings and explained why he felt that doing research wasn't a valuable use of your work time (in the eyes of GameStop). If he didn't, then he probably isn't a very good manager.
Yes, sales reps are easy to replace. But it's also much easier to correct some bad behaviors than it is to completely train a new employee.
And the skills that GameStop doesn't particularly value, the skills you described, would probably be much MUCH more appreciated in a local game store that builds it's user base by reputation and value-added information, and not on being conveniently located in the strip mall and having good sales.
I think I have some insight to offer as I was a manager for Software Etc. for a couple of years when our parent company first launched the GameStop brand. My store eventually became a GameStop.
We of course always wanted our sales reps to be knowledgeable, which is why we had policies allowing them to take home games to try them out, or to get free subscriptions to our magazines, and of course employee discounts on products.
But while on the floor your job was first and foremost to keep busy. Yes, we tracked how many pre-orders you got. Yes, we tracked how many magazine subs you sold. But at the end of the day, the employee that was straightening the end-caps, re-alphabetizing the wall, or sweeping the floor during their downtime was of greater value to me than the employee who could talk a customer into buying the used version of a game (which we made more profit on) but would goof off when things got slow.
The fact is, we mostly catered to two types of individuals. People who know exactly what they want, for which our job was to try and upsell them on the value-adds for pre-orders (or convince them to buy used if the game is out), or people who have no clue and are in there because their grandson asked for a "Pokey man" game, which only required you to identify the most likely candidate and sell it to them. In neither case does knowing how to beat boss x or cheat for gold in game y really add to our bottom line.
BTW - The corporate wide database of humorous customer requests (asking for a phony play-box instead of sony playstation for instance) was started by me back in '98.
----EDIT BELOW----
Also, your boss should have given you several warnings and explained why he felt that doing research wasn't a valuable use of your work time (in the eyes of GameStop). If he didn't, then he probably isn't a very good manager.
Yes, sales reps are easy to replace. But it's also much easier to correct some bad behaviors than it is to completely train a new employee.
And the skills that GameStop doesn't particularly value, the skills you described, would probably be much MUCH more appreciated in a local game store that builds it's user base by reputation and value-added information, and not on being conveniently located in the strip mall and having good sales.
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Goldenhawk
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Gamerz Domain, next door to the Great Mills post office. Didn't last long, and I wasn't surprised. Expensive for what it offered, poor choice of location, and the clientele was largely kids without real spending cash.
The only reason I would have gone was to try the latest bleeding-edge games for $5/hour without buying them for $50. But you would only get 10 hours of play for the cost of simply buying your own copy. Not a good deal.
http://www.marylandcorporates.com/corp/75848.html
https://dragonfireblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/gamerzdomain/
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Hodr
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Much easier to do when it is socially acceptable to live at home until you are 30+.
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Hodr
Guest
These places used to be big when your average gamer had a SNES/N64 or a Genesis.
The store would have more expensive or exotic systems like the Atari Jaguar, or the 3DO (cost $650 when it came out), or a NeoGeo system (where each game was $100+ dollars, in the early 90s).
Kids, and even many adults, couldn't afford these systems or their games. So charging $15 an hour to play them was a good money maker.
b23hqb
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nhboy may have an opening in his mom's basement.
UAV Operator...?
Misfit
Lawful neutral
Can you beat Super Mario Bros Level 8-4? There's a 2 liter of Mountain Dew and a bag of Doritos in it for you.
I just want to rescue Peach.
Goldenhawk
Well-Known Member
Assuming you're serious... this is a common, but unrealistic understanding of UAV pilots.
GWguy
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All of the UAV pilots I know are pilots IRL. Lots of training and testing.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
Sounds sorta like a live porn channel.
Chris0nllyn
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Just don't get "swatted"
PeoplesElbow
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I miss actual arcades, I grew up in the 80's and 90's during arcades golden period. When I went to college in the fall of 1992 we had a Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II machine in the lobby of the dorm and there was always a line of guys wanting to play.