In contrast, I'm a GameStop assistant manager NOW, and I get a 15% discount on everything in the store besides new hardware, make over $25K a year, and find my managers, colleagues, and overall work environment preferable to any job where I could have "used" my college degree.
My store does NOT allow employees to check out new games, ever. Once they've been played, they're no longer new. We carefully open the packages for gutted merchandise, transfer the disks (with CD keys when applicable) to an envelope without touching the non-printed side of the disk, and then no one touches it again until it's sold. Everyone who works there is a gamer. We know what a new game is as opposed to a used one.
No one is ever told or led to believe that a gutted copy is a sealed one, either via shrinkwrap or other means. There are several regular customers who will refuse to buy a gutted copy of a game, and that's more than fine--we'll even offer to hold the next one for them without gutting it.
You can't judge a company with over 6,000 stores based on one single store. I'll be the first to admit that my store might be one of maybe 100 good ones in the whole company, but please, don't tar us all with the same brush. I'm sincerely sorry you worked for a shitty store.
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In contrast, I'm a GameStop assistant manager NOW, and I get a 15% discount on everything in the store besides new hardware, make over $25K a year, and find my managers, colleagues, and overall work environment preferable to any job where I could have "used" my college degree.
My store does NOT allow employees to check out new games, ever. Once they've been played, they're no longer new. We carefully open the packages for gutted merchandise, transfer the disks (with CD keys when applicable) to an envelope without touching the non-printed side of the disk, and then no one touches it again until it's sold. Everyone who works there is a gamer. We know what a new game is as opposed to a used one.
No one is ever told or led to believe that a gutted copy is a sealed one, either via shrinkwrap or other means. There are several regular customers who will refuse to buy a gutted copy of a game, and that's more than fine--we'll even offer to hold the next one for them without gutting it.
You can't judge a company with over 6,000 stores based on one single store. I'll be the first to admit that my store might be one of maybe 100 good ones in the whole company, but please, don't tar us all with the same brush. I'm sincerely sorry you worked for a shitty store.