Gamestop just made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

So summers coming up and  thought I'd throw away my pride an apply for a job at Gamestop. If it wasn't hard enough for me already, this is the first thing you read when applying for a store job there... 
 

 We are looking for people who LOVE gaming and want to share their knowledge and passion with others. If getting paid to talk in leetspeak about frags, mods, and strategy guides, check out the open positions below and apply today.     

" So summers coming up and  thought I'd throw away my pride an apply for a job at Gamestop. If it wasn't hard enough for me already, this is the first thing you read when applying for a store job there... 
 

 We are looking for people who LOVE gaming and want to share their knowledge and passion with others. If getting paid to talk in leetspeak about frags, mods, and strategy guides, check out the open positions below and apply today.     

Don't you just feel dirty reading that? "Paid to leetspeak? Oh good golly gosh this job sounds like heaven!" I'm surprised they didn't throw in a pwn anywhere there. I also love that they were able to sneak in a strategy guide, as they always do.   thoughts? "

Well... all gamestop employees ARE douchebags. I guess it's good to know it's in their contract.

Thoughts?  Don't work at Gamestop.
 
Other thoughts?  Don't worry about that shit.

I could imagine someone who just turned 16, indoctrinated into such a cultural sesspool since birth, could read that and go "woho yah!"

Haha hilarious.
 
But that must be a total lie.  I once heard an employee tell some man that he had to buy an elite 360 because you can't attach a hard drive to an arcade.  When I chimed in to disagree as a bystander, he decided to argue with me.
 
Fuck those places.

yuck, that's really something. IIt's like the guy who wrote it asked his 12 year old gamer son for some 'cool' buzz words.

" So summers coming up and  thought I'd throw away my pride an apply for a job at Gamestop. If it wasn't hard enough for me already, this is the first thing you read when applying for a store job there... 
 

 We are looking for people who LOVE gaming and want to share their knowledge and passion with others. If getting paid to talk in leetspeak about frags, mods, and strategy guides, check out the open positions below and apply today.     

Don't you just feel dirty reading that? "Paid to leetspeak? Oh good golly gosh this job sounds like heaven!" I'm surprised they didn't throw in a pwn anywhere there. I also love that they were able to sneak in a strategy guide, as they always do.   thoughts? "

" Well... all gamestop employees ARE douchebags. I guess it's good to know it's in their contract. "

And yet a good chunk of the people that I've seen working there are mid to late 20 year old washouts that ACT like they just turned 16 and helped to CREATE the cultural cesspool in the first place!

If you like to pwn noobs in leetspeak while you frag off come on in we love to have people that don't know shit about games 
I mean look what our sign says
 

Hey! Are you gam3r interested in PWNing unemployment this summer?

Yeah well, half the morons at my school would scream "FOR THE WIN" when they read that. 

" Thoughts?  Don't work at Gamestop.  Other thoughts?  Don't worry about that shit. "

If it's money, then go for it I say. I normally ignore stuff like that.  
 
As painful as it is.

" Well... all gamestop employees ARE douchebags. I guess it's good to know it's in their contract. "

do you like to talk about getting sick head shots bro?, then this job is for you

" I once heard an employee tell some man that he had to buy an elite 360 because you can't attach a hard drive to an arcade.  When I chimed in to disagree as a bystander, he decided to argue with me. "

GameStop is full of assholes and people who just don't give a shit about the fellow gamer.  They will sell someone a shitty game without any thought about. 

although it may suck, you're working, for money AND you know what you're talking about. I'd kill to be in a job where I could actually NOT bullshit about what I sell.

" GameStop is full of assholes and people who just don't give a shit about the fellow gamer.  They will sell someone a shitty game without any thought about.  "

"although it may suck, you're working, for money AND you know what you're talking about. I'd kill to be in a job where I could actually NOT bullshit about what I sell. "

To be fair, a gamespot employee has never tried talking to me in "leetspeaK".
 
However, it is retarded that they would put that in a job description. I understand that they want people who know a lot about games but that doesn't mean you need to LIEK PWNING TEH NEWBZ! Shit like that is why gaming doesn't get any respect outside of the industry.

The gamestop by my house is run my the most kickass MOM GAMER ever. I am a regular customer and she admits that other gamestops are just filled with douchebags. She never blasts pre orders in my face, or memberships, She only informs me of them if I ask. I got so used to it that it was a shock to me people didn't like gamestop. Until I went to the one in the mall. 
 
Hoo boy.

Strangely enough, the people that work at my local Gamestop actually know a lot about games and have always been helpful and kind, reminding customers about ways to save money and trying to explain to grandparents and such the difference between good and bad games. Of course, Italian videogamers are few and far between, so I suppose we make up for it in quality. :)

Man, I feel bad for all of you that have had such horrible experiences with Gamestop. My local Gamestop is a great place to go, none of the employees try to oversell me (Never been asked to buy the strategy guide) the only thing that they do is ask if I have an Edge card (if it is an employee that I don't know) and they never press me when I say that I do not. Now mind you I don't go to Gamestop to ask questions about games, that's what the internet is for, and I understand how people are saying they don't know shit about games but that is hardly a reason to hate them.

Yea, it sucks, but isn't this more evidence of how much further gamers have to fight before society stops looking at them like f'ing morons?

Yeah, it's totally tubular when the district manager Reed comes in, and wants to see if your store has been moving the offer.  And if you haven't, he's going to come down on your manager and create an impressive avalanche of shit rolling downhill.  Because he's the distrct manager at Gamestop, so he is all about frags and mods.
 
 
For the record, Gamestop employees don't get paid commission, or a bonus if they sell the strategy guide... selling the strategy guides, and the warrantee, and the trade-ins are a mandatory aspect of keeping their job.  I feel sorry for those dumb fuckers, even as I tell them that a bluRay doesn't need scratch protection unless I'm going at it with a bansaw.

If that kind of thing makes you throw up in your mouth.... then that's exactly why you SHOULD take the job.
 
We need people like you to start working at Gamestop. Non-douches of the world... unite!
 
It's gotta start somewhere. Be a normal geek and go change the system from the inside out, sir.
 
*salute*

I would so love to actually hear someone talk in l33t-speak. 

"We are looking for people who LOVE gaming and want to share their knowledge and passion with others. If getting paid to talk in leetspeak about frags, mods, and strategy guides, check out the open positions below and apply today."

I thought leetspeak was dead.

Um..,just so you know. Gamestop doesn't want people who love games. They want people with retail experience, regardless of how they feel about video games.  
 
On top of that, the work schedule and pay make no sense.  
 
And did I mention I know several people who were fired because some a-hole employee stole something and they didn't know who? They didn't know who so they fired random people and said it was based on some other BS that happened to occur right around the same time. Yeah right.  
 
Don't forget they want you to push used game sales and GS memberships. That's right folks, if you don't sell used products or crappy magazines then you get fired.  
 
Oh yeah, the managers (on every level) are usually jackasses. Notice I said usually because you might run into a good one, but highly unlikely.  
 
I can go on, but you see where this is going..

"Well... all gamestop employees ARE douchebags. I guess it's good to know it's in their contract. "

When you grow up, you'll realise that a jobs a job.

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I remember applying for a job at GameStop about six years ago.  They gave out the applications at a little job fair they were having before they opened, and they also handed out a little video game knowledge quiz.  I got every answer right on the quiz, and they had a couple of pretty niche questions on there (like "what is the maximum terrain height in Final Fantasy Tactics"). 
 
However, the three people they ended up hiring only got about 30%-50% of the questions on the quiz right.  The reason they got hired instead of me?  Because getting 100% on the quiz apparently means that you can't be trained to be a fucktard corporate tool.  =  / 
 
With that said, I bought my copy of Red Dead Redemption at GameStop last night.  I didn't really want to, but they were the only place in town that had copies available for a midnight launch.  =  /

That is retarded.