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I attempted to apply at gamestop around 2006 or 2007, and the employee saved my by saying "You don't want to work here." Thank you, whoever you are.

Hold up....yall gamestop has a bathroom??? 🤨

I have never seen a GameStop with a bathroom.

It's the same theme at most retail stores; Goals being set impossibly high Pressure from management to do unethical things to reach said goals New policies being made by corporate people who have never stepped foot in their own brick and mortar stores Regional managers being paid the most for doing the least work Playing games with your hours and income

the nightmare is working retail for 11 years

KZfaq really wanted me to watch this

I worked there for eight years, and absolutely everything this man says is 100% on point to every experience i had during that terrible span of my life.

I applied for a job at gamestop a few years ago them never getting back to me seems to have been the greatest blessing in disguise .

GameStop 2007: We're going to steal from and lie to our customers, and treat our employees like shit. GameStop 2019: Surprised pikachu face

Only the real OGs remember “ EB Games”

I worked at Gamestop for 2hrs, I still lose sleep knowing I will never get those 2hrs of my life back

The irony is that your annual bonus would barely buy a single gamestop game after taxes.

These policies pushed me right out of GameStop. I'd rather wait than deal with an employee beg me to buy a card. Rest in hell GameStop you won't be missed.

I'm about to quit my job at Walmart Distribution Center and its the greatest feeling ever. Working in 120 degree trucks with no airflow and terrible management. 3 years of my life spent in that hell.

Hey Camelot, I was a store manager at gamestop for about 5 years. That place was awful. I can personally back up everything he is saying. No matter how great my story was in subs or reserves, my DM would point out that I didnt have enough reserves In the certain games they wanted us to push or something like that. To anyone else, dont work there....

As someone who worked under this man right here I can say he was an amazing manager to work for and really brought that fun aspect of working for GameStop to reality. But he is right about all of the negativity. That stuff was stressful as heck. But he and I now work together again so it’s like he said. “ It all worked out”.

Yo Cody wassup I know you. This man is honest and hard working and was the man at GameStop for me throughout high school.

I remember going to GameStop for an interview when I was in High School. It was odd, they did a group interview with around 12-15 people and the manager said "You see everyone here? Only 2 of you will have the stuff to be a successful employee here, everyone here right now are your rivals. Today, your goal will be to sell me this pen. The 2 that sell it to me the best will be considered being hired, the rest will be let go." I got up along with around 5 others and walked out. While we were walking out, the manager said to the others "Congratulations, you all lost 6 rivals, well, don't celebrate too soon, they were too pathetic to work here anyway." I called the district manager, and like this guy said, they are scum as well, so obviously they didn't care how the managers did their hiring as long as it wasn't illegal.

I had a gamestop that was a converted EB Games. It was the best place, they would hold trade in's I was looking for and even talked me out of a game I was going to buy new because they knew me and knew I might not like it and to look it up first. I Gave them my 100% loyalty and never bought anything other then there, and they NEVER did me wrong. It just went to nothing and the manager there was one of my favorite people and left. To this day, I wish I could find her again, just to thank her and wish her well. If by some miracle, Sara from the smithfield Crossings sees this, Thank you.

Gamestop is, by far, the worst job I’ve EVER worked. I worked there for 2 years (somehow) as a GA and never was promoted (2 times the work and responsibilities for a couple cent raise? No thanks). My coworkers were awesome people (hell, we still meet up from time to time today, and it’s been roughly 2 years since we all worked there), but the job itself was too damn stressful! It wasn’t worth the mental gymnastics you had to do every shift. Between having to make sure your reserves, power up, protection plan, and used sales were in the green along side having to make sure the store was in top shape, it was a mental nightmare. When I left, I couldn’t even work for over a year because it genuinely screwed me mentally. I now work as a delivery driver for one of the major pizza chains and I’ll tell you, I’d rather work there 40 hours a week busting my ass, than having to work one hour at GameStop. I know the odds of anyone reading this are slim, but it feels good to get this off my chest, cause man, I hate that place.

This video should be played at GameStop's yearly conference

Idk how you did 11 years at GameStop. I worked there for like 3 weeks and I bounced. I was also 29 hired as a key holder making $9.5/hr. Having made over double than that at my last job (10 years at banana republic, from associate to assistant manager), the pay wasn’t cutting it, the job was mad boring and also the staff at that particular location were like nerd bullies. They were all super nerdy and judged me for not knowing stat trek or Pokémon references. They also hated that I admittedly stated that I didn’t play video games and I just took the job because I needed money. They would be like “why do you even work here if you don’t play video games”. Hated it

Lolllll when i was a kid i always wanted to work at gamestop cus i thought itd be cool and i could get discounts on games, lmao

This explains why my Game Stop has a new manager every 2 months.

My game stop story: I walked in and saw prices were outrageously high vs competition, then walked out. The end.

It really sounds like the car shop business, every $19.99 oil change end up to be $169.99, and if you don't speak English?! All of a sudden your transmission system needs a full replacement.

Gamestop is dying for a reason. Bye bye, gamestop!

Back in the days, I wanted to work at Game Stop...Thank god they didn't hire me

The fact that you stayed for 11 years is more terrifying lol

The "shady" practices you're talking about, Camelot331, take place in all corporations I've ever worked for in varying degrees of severity. I've got a few years on you, and if I might offer some advice, hold true to your own principals and hold yourself to a higher level of accountability. If an employer can't handle your integrity, then find another one that is less oppressive, or one that might even reward you for doing, what in your eyes, is the right thing. Good luck to you, young man.

“That was the beginning of the end for me.” Stays there for 6 more years

I've had so many of my reservations "disappear" at Game Stop. I haven't shopped there for years because of it.

As a person who has worked in retail for 12 years I can totally relate. I feel for you bro!

a gamestop employee mocked me for still playing ps3 games and having no money to buy ps4. After that, I never set foot in Gamestop again

Just started working for gamestop and they are mad im not picking up as fast as they want.

The 22 thumbs down from this video is from that district manager and regional manager making 22 different accounts just to dislike this video.

Honestly, your story sounds like every retail job I’ve ever worked. They all try to rip off customers, overpriced, drugs, steal, not acknowledge hard work and only point out failures, etc.

My first job was GameStop and one was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. And the other one was the worst. The manager was literally a x marine and ran the store like it was the army. I was forced to stay longer hours to do mundane things like alphabetize games, and I ended up getting fired because my manager asked me to stay after work to talk to me and that night his friend came in and he was talking to him but he still wanted me to stay so he could talk to me, and a hour and a half later of sitting there waiting for these two to stop talking, I finally walked over there and was like “excuse me I gotta go did you need to talk to me about something” and he got so mad about interrupting them and yea...that was the real reason I got fired.

This guy really likes The Evil Within 2...

Question: Have you ever played the game "The Evil Within 2"?

GameStop employ : hey would you like to sign up for a power...... Me : NO

I never shopped at a GameStop, so I never knew that it was such a criminal company. Managers having sex with prostitutes during stores hours? ... just amazing.

I knew this guy in high school that was full of life and just a positive person but I heard he was my local eb games manager. I hardly go there to shop but when I saw him... yea he's gone. Looks pretty beat up. Felt bad for the dude.

Game Stop is soon going to be like Blockbuster Video and be gone.

Hey you had a great year. Gamestop: Best i can do is 64$.

That face after you said "idk why I worked there 11 years". I worked there for 5 years and I really felt that.

This guy is super good looking

They told me my 120$ in powerup points expired but continue to show up on my account...

I KNEW they charged me for a card without asking. god damn.

This reminds me of when I worked at Blockbuster. Flexible hours that were great for college, but the overbearing management and negative reinforcement turned a chill job into more stress than it was worth. I thought I'd just be a cashier and talk movies with people. Instead it was constant pressure to sell whatever membership deals they had, and then also people yelling at me because they returned their movies late and had a fee, as if I personally was the one making the late fee policy hehe.

I worked for GameStop for over 12 years and can attest to the fact this happens at them all. I was a store manager and right before I quit I was being settled for an area manager position. The fact is upper management will allow certain things as long as the stores numbers are good. Can’t tell you how many times upper management had me rip off customers unbeknownst to them. GS is a company that has a lot of behind the doors activities and have numerous stories from the events we would go to every year.

When the PS4 was released and there was a high demand for the camera, GameStop was selling it at a higher price than every other retailer. They were told to tell customers it was the new 1080p version of the camera. They never made one 1080p.

just a friendly reminder to support your local game shops that aren't national/chains. much more friendly environment.

The algorithm recommends this to me in 2022

Why he look like the son from the incredible?

“You’re just not in it anymore. You should probably resign”. Wow.

The Edward Snowden of GameStop

Well never shopping at a GameStop. Thanks for the heads up!

Dont ever EVER work for gamestop. 12 years wasted and was fired from one day to the next. Total lack of management and the company is dying. Don't apply!!! leave them to slowly die out as they should. Its like a black hole that sucks you in and sucks the life out of you, giving you no motivation to do anything with your life

You worked at a job you HATED for 11 years! That’s incredible.

Sounds like the upper management has the same mentality as the producers of Japanese game shows. They don't reward success, they punish failures.

That manager reminds me of an associate I worked with at Walmart (electronics department). Walmart, at the time was offering a credit card. We were forced to ask if customers wanted to apply for it. This guy wouldn't even ask. He would ask for their i.d. swipe it and run the application without their consent. And of course, because of this, management loved him.

Watching this on 2-14-2020. You’ve come along way from this video. This started the fire.

I stopped going to gamestop years ago. I was always so depressed. The employees were so obviously under an iron thumb. It broke my heart.

I worked at my job for a year, never calling in for a sick day and being on time for every single shift. One day, scheduling got mixed up and I was scheduled on one of my off days and I didn't notice in time to alert the managers. When I showed up for the shift after that one, I got pulled into the office and was interrogated on why I was a no show. During that shift I missed, however, no manager called or texted me, not only to see if I was coming in but if I was okay, given a COMPLETELY clean attendance record. I was seriously concerned that if anything happened to me, my work wouldn't contact family to alert them and instead fire me. I quit the next week.

I stopped wanting to work at game stop when I heard people get fired for not getting enough pre-orders.

Cody DUDE...You are one HANDSOME YOUNG MAN! I just started watching your channel and saw the video where you was crying about not having any friends... and about the meet-up in Florida with some subscribers who are now truly your friends. So THIS video must be waaay before that one... but good golly gee whiz you are one pretty boy!

THE MOST VALUABLE thing I learned in the military.... Being responsible IS NOT always a good thing!!! This applies even more so in the working world...whoever is above you will use and abuse you until you just quit and then they'll just hire two people to do what you did and start the process all over again.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

This just popped up for me. So weird hearing you try to turn off the southern twang.

This hit close to home. I didn’t work at GameStop but I worked at Suncoast and I had the worst manager ever she would find the smallest things to yell at you about and we had to sell a card similar to Gamestop and we had to sell reservations and Entertainment weekly free trials and we constantly got threatened if we didn’t meet our numbers. I did have some good memories but the negative definitely outweighed the good.

As an Old GS manager everything you say is spot on. 100 the truth

If your bonus was $64 then you would have a daily bonus of 17.5 cents that is insanely small

I could relate Cody. I worked for a company for 17 years (2000-2017) Moved up the ladder. Started as a cafe attendent all the way to a Shipping Operations Manager...however I had to move on because my motivation was gone, I didnt like the company anymore, I had no respect for them. I never received a bonus, ever. I took my experience and knowledge and started my own business. Never looked back.

Man it’s crazy to see how comfortable you’ve become in front of a camera my guy

I used to work at a Zumiez and one day the DM was lurking around, doing what they do...making everybody uncomfortable. After he just watched me sell $500 worth of product to a couple, he pulled me aside and chastised me for not implementing an up-selling "strategy" that woulda added a $10 belt to the transaction 🤣 Corporations are never satisfied with employee results.

Over 20 years ago, I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who is a generation older than me about the same things you mentioned in this video. And finally, he told me, “Well what you’re talking about is 1950’s job loyalty, which is good, but it doesn’t exist anymore.” In other words, you can work your ass off for any company today, but the higher ups really don’t care about you.

I've worked retail jobs and I've worked at Gamestop. This guy speaks the truth in that they have uniquely badd upper and middle management. Their corporate culture has been broken since the early 2000s.

Back in 2008, a GameStop employee convinced me to get a GameInformer sub and Edge card by claiming that the magazine had GameStop coupons in it.

I worked for one day at a GameStop, quit before my next shift. The store manager was an awful, disrespectful person to employees and customers alike.

Now I know why the employees would literally beg me for a good amount of time to buy those stupid cards🤦🏽‍♂️

My brother and several of my friends have worked at a few GameStops, and this all lines up very much with their experiences.

Doing the wrong thing always catches up to you. It's catching up with GAMESTOP.

I was a salary manager for an AT&T store and GameStop bought us out which switched me to hourly. We were warned how bad the company was but we didn’t listen.

KZfaq Algorithm brought me here

Just because you manage everything really well doesn’t make you a good manager. …What?

Good for you. I hope the company goes bankrupt in less than 3 weeks. I went in there one time to sell a game that was selling for 55.00 on eBay and they offered me 29.99. I laughed and walked out.

"I found a hair on the floor, you should probably resign buddy" Called you buddy so you know he's saying it from a place of love.

Holy shit. This came up as I was about to apply at gamestop. You saved me from a big mistake.

Ive been working for small businesses the past 7 years and I get told thank you almost everyday I work by my employer. I worked at pizza hut for 5 years before that and hated my life.

Wow, your channel has significantly grown since then! What a two years it has been. Thank you man.

never knew about this, but you always get a feeling of unhappiness going into Gamestop, now I know why....

I've been hearing these GameStop stories for months now and each one just get better and better by telling us how worse this company got every year. I used to dream of working at GameStop but now I'm glad I didn't. Thank God they're about to go out of business.

I worked at a GameStop for 2 years and I can confirm 100% everything you are saying is true. That place was the worst thing that ever happened to me. My district manager Todd Andreason was so upset about my reservations he told me I could go work at Taco Bell, and that it’s an honorable job. Garbage company with garbage morals. I have a legitimate hatred for that company now.

I literally would never go back to the store if i saw them try to scam me. That would have been 8 years worth of business with me they lost.

I'll give you $2.25 cash......or $66.50 trade in for this video

Damn dude. I actually worked at GameStop when I was 17. I’m 25 now, I still go in to GS for hard copies but after hearing this, they’ll be getting no more of my business.

I haven’t shopped at GameStop since 2010. Their constant in-your-face attitude about pushing subscriptions and used game sales was too much. Plus I got “banned” from my local GameStop by the manager when I stopped him from selling a less informed mom two extra controllers for an Xbox 360 after he told her it didn’t come with any controllers.

This was fascinating… I WILL NEVER SHOP AT GAMESTOP again! 😡😡😡 Thank you for doing this.