S
strongpimphand
Guest
[quote name='Sigma']As a former manager of Gamestop I can tell you with much confidence, YES. But there is a catch, they will only hire females who are attractive unless the manager is a female. I've seen and worked with many women who had no clue when it came to video games, but they were hot and they sold a lot.
So basically if you are an attractive female and you walk into a Gamestop and ask for an application and turn it in, expect a phone call within the week if the store is actually hiring. Also expect to be poorly trained (if at all), get awful hours, close to minimum wage pay, and you will be hit on by every nerd that comes into the store.
Gamestop has gotten progressively worse as a company ever since the merger. A lot of shady activity goes on in the company and they have one of the highest turn over rates in the U.S. for employment. I worked there for 5 years and saw my staff change 4 times, district mangers change 2 times, and three different store managers. As well as a couple of managers in training that left before they got moved up (probably because they were being trained for the better part of a year!).
The company is ass backwards in almost everything they do, outside of ripping customers off on a daily basis and making sure customers continue to shop and trade in there.
The discount there is merely alright and isn't great, you get 15% off new games and 25% off used (you need an EDGE card for that extra 10%). The discount does not apply towards NEW consoles.
Of course that is only my experience working in the Indiana area Gamestop stores, but from what I have heard other employees tell me and read about online, my district wasn't the only awful one.
This is true, they will find a way to fire someone with video game knowledge. I am vastly knowledgeable about video games and I could sell like crazy and they got rid of me, same with a couple of my friends I used to work with. I've always thought the store manager looked at me as a threat to his job because I out sold him on a weekly basis for 3 years and was vocal about wanting to move up from assistant to store manager.
Oh btw, Gamestop has the policy. You can have 0% knowledge of the product they sell and a little sales experience or a cute face and a nice rack. Either way it's a hard sell when the only controller you know how to use looks like a toy guitar.[/QUOTE]
To comment on Sigma's 2nd post, that makes sense about the 60/40
I know that if I were hired for Geek Squad...I'd be fired. I wouldn't be able to maintain lies and half-truths. While I have worked plenty of retail jobs in my days...I've always felt bad about lying to customers. And I've seen some of the prices geek squad charges. And I know how EASY some of the stuff is (IE: installing ram)
I'd rather tell them where to find the product in store and give them simple instructions on how to install it themselves or run the programs to clean their computers than rack up my sales goals with pointless shit. Or try to upsell them shit they don't need. And this is why I'm actively pursuing a non-public pc tech job!
BUT...if I were a shareholder, I'd actually want 70/30 sales to knowledge. Few people actually know what these people are doing and even worse, some people don't want to know what these people are doing. They just like the way the geek squad member (or any sales associate for that matter) looks or speaks or carries him/herself. If they really wanted information, they'd easily hop on google and find out.
So you might as well have people who can sell...
So basically if you are an attractive female and you walk into a Gamestop and ask for an application and turn it in, expect a phone call within the week if the store is actually hiring. Also expect to be poorly trained (if at all), get awful hours, close to minimum wage pay, and you will be hit on by every nerd that comes into the store.
Gamestop has gotten progressively worse as a company ever since the merger. A lot of shady activity goes on in the company and they have one of the highest turn over rates in the U.S. for employment. I worked there for 5 years and saw my staff change 4 times, district mangers change 2 times, and three different store managers. As well as a couple of managers in training that left before they got moved up (probably because they were being trained for the better part of a year!).
The company is ass backwards in almost everything they do, outside of ripping customers off on a daily basis and making sure customers continue to shop and trade in there.
The discount there is merely alright and isn't great, you get 15% off new games and 25% off used (you need an EDGE card for that extra 10%). The discount does not apply towards NEW consoles.
Of course that is only my experience working in the Indiana area Gamestop stores, but from what I have heard other employees tell me and read about online, my district wasn't the only awful one.
This is true, they will find a way to fire someone with video game knowledge. I am vastly knowledgeable about video games and I could sell like crazy and they got rid of me, same with a couple of my friends I used to work with. I've always thought the store manager looked at me as a threat to his job because I out sold him on a weekly basis for 3 years and was vocal about wanting to move up from assistant to store manager.
Oh btw, Gamestop has the policy. You can have 0% knowledge of the product they sell and a little sales experience or a cute face and a nice rack. Either way it's a hard sell when the only controller you know how to use looks like a toy guitar.[/QUOTE]
To comment on Sigma's 2nd post, that makes sense about the 60/40
I know that if I were hired for Geek Squad...I'd be fired. I wouldn't be able to maintain lies and half-truths. While I have worked plenty of retail jobs in my days...I've always felt bad about lying to customers. And I've seen some of the prices geek squad charges. And I know how EASY some of the stuff is (IE: installing ram)
I'd rather tell them where to find the product in store and give them simple instructions on how to install it themselves or run the programs to clean their computers than rack up my sales goals with pointless shit. Or try to upsell them shit they don't need. And this is why I'm actively pursuing a non-public pc tech job!
BUT...if I were a shareholder, I'd actually want 70/30 sales to knowledge. Few people actually know what these people are doing and even worse, some people don't want to know what these people are doing. They just like the way the geek squad member (or any sales associate for that matter) looks or speaks or carries him/herself. If they really wanted information, they'd easily hop on google and find out.
So you might as well have people who can sell...
ing games, you don't really need any gaming knowledge to do that just be a good salesman. I think an attractive girl would sell games better than all of you.
(where i live anyways)
