GAME's retail experience depends solely on the staff in the store. I used to work for them in Leeds, UK and to be fair, our store was pretty kick ass when I was there. I ended up walking out cause the assistant manager basically said I was shit at my job when I was the only one who could define genre's, reguarlarly read gaming magazines (they were free to staff but not the point) and played games almost everyday, as well as being the only person in the store to have all the consoles. GAME's fate had been sealed while I worked there because we had a couple of the directors come to the store, so the area manager told us to tidy up and get everything spick and span, which is fair enough. I did disagree, however, when we started moving the entire store around (gameboy advance (yes it was THAT era) to back of store, swapping where Xbox and PS2 sections were etc) in about four days because, and I quote "The directors like it to be this way". We were second on the region in terms of sales and performance, we didnt need to change it, the company just pander to managers all the time. It especially pissed me off when the directors spend exactly 5 minutes in the store, then left, didnt even talk to the staff. When the guys running the company dont give a fuck about the people that are actually making them money, or how the store even really looks, what hope did GAME have?
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