Quantcast YomiJ 外伝 - Cheap Ass Gamer
Check out the Price Tracker to see all of today's price drops! Follow CAG USA Video Game Deals on Twitter CAG Facebook CAG RSS Feed
Home

Search Bar

This search bar is a powerful tool for navigating CAG. You can use it to find the lowest prices on games, trade-in values, search members, forum and blog topics, and much more.

After searching for a game title, click the icon to pop-up a window with pricing information.

After typing in what you are looking for, you can filter your results by clicking on one of the tabs that pops up from the top of the search bar.

Tips

Looking for a game on a specific platform? Type in the platform name with the title!
Example: guitar hero 360

You don't need to click a pop-up tab to filter results. Just type what you are looking for right into the search bar.
Example: gears of war prices
Example: ninjatown review

Go Back   Cheap Ass Gamer > Blogs > dv8mad's Blog > YomiJ 外伝
dv8mad's Avatar

YomiJ 外伝

By dv8mad 11-05-2009 11:10 AM
1011
views
Thanks to Chairman_LMAO for the spiffy title idea.



Click for more Japanese schoolgirls.
NO! NICE TRY SUCKA!
Welcome to YomiJ Volume 12 (or so... Who's counting?)

As my six or so loyal readers may remember from YomiJ Volume 3, I worked at Best Buy for quite a while when I lived in the U.S.

After some time, the shine started to fade and I was losing heart at work. The thing I wanted to do was take a trip. A real vacation seeing as I had never really had one. Unfortunately, as is par for the course in my life, I didn't have the money, so I started saving up.

Just when I thought I couldn't wait any longer, a miracle occurred and suddenly $2400 fell into my lap!

With that, I got ready for my trip to Australia! (Yes, Australia. Follow the previous YomiJ link to see how that turned into Japan.)

Anyway, where did this $2400 come from you may ask?

Well, if you followed the very first link, you already have an idea!

In my last year and a half at Best Buy, I lived with a roommate. He was also a Best Buy employee although he was just a regular media employee. He ended up getting a girlfriend that, literally, always wanted to go out for dinner. Not just any dinner either, but to the fancy and $80+ per plate restaurants.
Now, much like myself, this guy was not what you would call handsome. So, it wasn't normal for him to have a girlfriend so, in a word... WHIPPED!

The thing is, he didn't have the money to do this and, after a few months, he had just about burned through his savings.

Things got tight in the townhouse we lived in and he was often begging off bills for a few days and then a few weeks until, eventually, he owed me about $600. I told him he had to pay up or he wasn't going to be living there anymore. He said that he had been working to sell a bunch of his stuff anyway because he wanted to move out and get a place with his girlfriend.

I really didn't see this happening, so I asked that he pay me off before he left. He said he would do so and, about 3 weeks later, he came through with the money.
A week or so after that, he was packing up his stuff and leaving.

No problems on my end, he came through and I was happy.

My neighbor was my best friend; also a manager from work.

We kept seeing my now ex-roommate at work and he kept talking about how he and his girl were still together and how great their new apartment was and about how nice the dinners they had been going to were.

My neighbor and I spoke about this often just because it was so strange that he had the money to do this. When I asked him about it, he said he was still selling his stuff on ebay. I said, I thought it should be gone by now, but he said he was doing fine.

Having been roommates with him for quite a long time, I knew his ebay username and decided to check out his auctions.

I log in only to see that he had well over 30 items listed just then including multiple iPods, handheld games systems, memory cards and more. Checking his history and feedback, it was clear that he had been selling similar items for a couple months before at least.

Of course, the first thing that comes into my head is what you all already know. This guy, my ex-roommate is now a huge thief!

Then, I start thinking about how he got that money he owed me so quickly and about how he had enough leftover to move out almost immediately and then realized that he started this while he lived with me.

I knew that there was no way that I wanted to be hung as part of this as I'm sure he must have shipped some of the things from my place so, the very next day, I went into the store with a list of items currently on ebay and I started an investigation of SKU numbers. After doing some visual stock counts, I found that, iPods were off count by 11 and he had 10 listed.
PSPs were off by 6 and he had 3 listed, and so on... (numbers are estimates - I can't remember exactly of course)

I knew at this point that I had to get someone else involved, so I spoke with the Operations Manager at the time and told her what I suspected.

She and I went through the list piece by piece and found that, while not perfectly matched, everything he had for sale had drastic differences in actual stock counts in the store.

We knew that it had to be true.

I went to the General Manager and, just as I did with the OM, outlined the entire situation from the beginning and then laid out our stock count results for him.

He said that he would look into it and that was all I heard about it for 3 long days.

Then, when I come to work on the 4th day, the GM wanted to speak to me in the Loss Prevention office. The first thing I thought was, no way, this ing thief tried to say I was in on it!

Luckily, I didn't have to wait long to find out this wasn't the case at all as, when we went in there, there was a police officer with a statement for me to sign. The GM slapped me on the back and said that it was the biggest confirmed theft they had ever uncovered in the store. Apparently, they arrived at his new place and, after just a few minutes of questioning, he broke down and told them everything. Not only did he have the ebay records, but for some reason, he kept record of EVERY SINGLE ITEM he had ever taken. They totaled it up to just under $25,000 at manufacturer's cost which, as you well know, is no where near market value on many items.

Anyway, it wasn't too long after that that I heard he was locked up and that he had plead no contest in court and agreed to pay it all back with interest over time.

I didn't think anything would be coming my way as the Honesty Pays program wasn't very old at the time and no one knew if it worked for salaried employees, regular employees only or what. Actually, in my store, no one even seemed to know how much I would get if anything.

So, with no warning what-so-ever, I go to check my account for my direct deposit paycheck on payday approximately 2 months after this whole thing began and suddenly I was a couple thousand dollars richer than I thought!
Turns out that I got 10% of the recovered total and, as he agreed to pay it all back, it was all considered recovered!

So, beakey56, do you want to know why one of your friends ratted you out?

Probably for a super sweet vacation!

 Comments (Total Comments: 21)  

benjamouth's Avatar
Nice story and nice (if slightly unrelated) picture. 3rd from the left I think, if I had my choice
chimpian's Avatar
2nd from the right and good for you.
hope oyu enjoyed yourself in Australia.
My wife and I kid around that I am going ot die in australia cause i am a clutz and there are poisonous everything there...
So hope ya dont die and keep an eye out for the Irukandji.
integralsmatic's Avatar
third from the the right.

nice story. and if he reported that glitch immediately, he would look like a hero. hope the games were worth it.
momouchi's Avatar
Great story, glad to know some employees aren't crooks or idiots. You deserve some applause for your work along with the money.
Inf^Shini's Avatar
The one with the crowd in the back right
Oh, and 3rd from the right.

Your Best Buy ventures are pretty interesting (and albeit, drama filled!), seeing as I was just hired by BB and started on Sunday (Seasonal...yay.....).

Applied for Cashier/CS, they stuck me in BB Mobile, an area I honestly have almost zero knowledge in, and my manager is pretty gung ho about throwing me to the wolves without a hitch =/

You've seem to have a pretty eventful life, and I'm always amazed at how resilient you are. Half the stuff you've mentioned in the blogs could have just shot any enthusiasm down in any other person. 1up!

I gotta say though, all the BB employees at my store are pretty cool, even if I'm the new guy who might just stick around for the season, they're friendly dudes.

Btw, I never realized in that past blog that you went 9-0 turning around departments, how in the heck did you do that?!? That's major props man.
Rave Child's Avatar
You people are crazy, limiting yourself to one. But if I had to chose, I'd say fourth from right.

Thanks for story time dv8, I love reading about the lives of people who send me gashapons from the holy land (ie, you). I'm also glad that like you, beaky56's "best friend" did the right thing and turned him in. Perhaps he'll be taking a life changing trip to Japan with his honesty bonus.
lustyhitter's Avatar
Those Japanese schoolgirls are always so cute and happy....and physically fit. I wonder how many of them have unknowingly appeared on DailyMotion.

Too bad I can't say the same for American and Canadian teenage girls. They're too busy eating chocolate and cheese and surfing the 'Net.

Best Buy hires seasonal employees? Not the one near my house. They always are looking for new employees. I'm guessing working there is a nightmare. My sister-in-law is trying to get a job there.
Chronis's Avatar
I agree with 3rd from the right.

Anyway... cool story, bro.
Inf^Shini's Avatar
@lustyhitter - Well, I'm stuck in probably the worst department for a new hire. Given that I haven't owned a cell phone for almost a year because of being out of a job and not keeping up on them for the exact same reason, I can't approach people comfortably and confident in providing customer service. I've only had three days in, so my experience is very limited, but it's only hectic/daunting from the perspective of trying to be informative to the consumer about the products in my department (mobile phones), but as far as working with other employees, they're really cool with helping/bailing me out and giving me pointers/showing me the ropes.

If I pass by people from other departments and all that, they'll say hi, and won't be above from shooting the breeze. So far, very friendly environment.
Great you ratted someone out at work for money good job.
Vulgarism's Avatar
The guy stole $25,000 worth of shit gunslinger. Don't act like an asshole about it. DV8 deserved every dollar he got for it, and if I knew somebody stole a bunch of stuff, I'd say so too. Especially if I hated the person.


I'd say third from left and third from right.
dv8mad's Avatar
Since this has turned into a poll, I would also choose third from the right. The others are terrible!
You forgot to mention this person stole 25k from Best Buy, i can't think of a more deserving store.
supermodestmouse's Avatar
3 and 4 from right :-D
Rave Child's Avatar
Gunslinger, go yourself. Theft is theft, no matter who the target. It doesn't matter if dv8 got a dime for it, he stopped a criminal.
dv8mad's Avatar
The funny part is how Gunslinger (a defilement of Roland's legacy if you ask me) seems to think I did it for the money.

As stated, we didn't even know if I would get anything.

My original motivation was a bit greedy, I admit. It was self-preservation. As I said, I figured he must have started doing this while living in my place and, I can imagine if it were found out and traced back, maybe they would assume I was a part of it.

Secondly, as some others have said not quite so directly:
If you are a thief, I say you no matter who you stole from.
johnnyrocker360's Avatar
i'll pick D.) All of the above.
raizanillusion's Avatar
I'll take all of them please.
I love asian girls as much as the next guy, but I'd only go for the third from the right, and possibly...maybe, the third from the left. The rest scare me ~_~. Great story too, one day I hope I can travel there too.
dan13l858's Avatar
I recently came back from Japan. Yep, it's exactly like that.

I always thought it was funny that they wear their school uniform on Sundays too.


Recent Blog Entries by dv8mad
Go Back  Cheap Ass Gamer > Blogs > dv8mad's Blog > YomiJ 外伝

Contact us
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:01 PM.