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I got the job! W00T!; I know get paid to fool around with VGs
Topic Started: Jan 26 2006, 12:18 AM (934 Views)
Evil Cleric
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I now get to work at E.B. and I get employee discount on all console and games.
The rush to get in my application before all the high-schoolers was a bit of close, but I got it. 360 here I come....of course that's after I pay for a new car to drive after some random bitch t-boned me at 50mph.
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red demon
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hmmm. I wanna get a job at a game shop. But I guess I'll have to start small first.
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Master Shake
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Oh ho ho, the characteristic short-lived joy of a video game retail store newbie.

I give him 2 months until he's angry and bitter.
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Master Shake,Jan 26 2006
12:50 AM
Oh ho ho, the characteristic short-lived joy of a video game retail store newbie.

I give him 2 months until he's angry and bitter.

that's mostly true of any job.
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Lothar Hex
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I was young and naive like you were once. Poor bastard.
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Felix
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It doesn't matter which shop you work in, you will always have to deal with idiots and arrogant bastards who think they know better because you're working for them. It's a feature of shopping life that is universal. At least working in a games shop means you'll be surrounded by shiny games and get a staff discount.

If you ever get any pissy customers, my advice is to take three slow breaths before responding, whilst thinking the words 'Peace, Calm, Tranquility' over and over in your head.
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HunteRS
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If you ever get any pissy customers, my advice is to take three slow breaths before responding, whilst thinking the words 'Peace, Calm, Tranquility' over and over in your head.


Good advice. Just don't do as I did and threatened to beat into unconciousness a prick who thinks it's YOUR fault his delivey arrived late...just after Britain suffered some of it's worst flooding ever.
Anyway-it's a job. They all suck to varying degrees. Yeah you'll get the staff discount-but are you really looking forward to explaining, in a loud slow voice to fat angry woman WHY you won't sell her bastard 12 year old offspring a copy of FEAR?
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Evil Cleric
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I was young and naive like you were once. Poor bastard.


Hey, I just happen to try to keep things optimistic, I know what happens after the first few weeks, but hey I get paid so i don't really care how boring it gets or how annoying. Also I'm only 2yrs younger than you.
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Four points to the newbie in the job:

1) Your boss, no matter how initially nice they appear will be a bastard/bitch
2) You will be lumped with all the worst jobs untill someone else joins the company.
3) You co-workers will all tell you what you should do but that will differ from person to person, therefore your always doing something wrong in someone's eyes.
4) Everything will be your fault, even if it's not
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Red Blaze
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heh, that's how I felt when I first started working in Pizza Hut. All the free pizza (believe it or not, I'm skinny) and goodies.

But everyone else pretty much covered it. You will wish you never worked there. :P
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Rawkko
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I had to walk ponies at a christmas party for kids for about 6 hours once, they told us that the ponies out ranked us. Mine kept trying to eat my pants too :P.

What I'm trying to say is don't complain, the money is the prize, the discounts are bonuses. Besides I'm sure your superiors are much less than large, stinking animals? Be optimistic it'll work out for the better ;)
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Hmm suddenly my dream of working at GAME in 2 years is vanishing...
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Vigilante
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I worked at a chippy over summer (boiling hot outside + boiling hot fat inside aint pretty), after a week or so you start to ignore the fat burning your arms.
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Gyser
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Just let it be known, as a fellow EB Games employee, I hate you.

We don't get ANY discount on consoles, only 15% off games and other stuff. >>


I hate working at EB with a passion.
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Gyser,Jan 29 2006
09:45 AM
Just let it be known, as a fellow EB Games employee, I hate you.

We don't get ANY discount on consoles, only 15% off games and other stuff. >>


I hate working at EB with a passion.

Actually my employer told me he was being sarcastic about the console discounts,so now I hate him for being a bastard and I hate myself for being so fucking gullible. So Yes, it has taken less than 4 days to hate my employer. I'm off to a great start. :<_<:
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Gyser
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^^^


Wow. Your boss sounds like a real dick. There was no reason for him to even say that, apart from being a right royal wanker.
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Hercule Pyro
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This is why I hope to get the Borders job I applied for. At least the place is quiet.
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HVanime
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I remember when I had a similar job, but I was fired because I was to short...tempered...

Good luck though :)
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HVanime,Feb 11 2006
07:15 AM
I remember when I had a similar job, but I was fired because I was to short...tempered...

Good luck though :)

Ha! If I had a job I know I would get fired for short temper and swearing too much.


Good luck though! :^_^:
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Four points to the newbie in the job:

1) Your boss, no matter how initially nice they appear will be a bastard/bitch
2) You will be lumped with all the worst jobs untill someone else joins the company.
3) You co-workers will all tell you what you should do but that will differ from person to person, therefore your always doing something wrong in someone's eyes.
4) Everything will be your fault, even if it's not.


Sage advice. And so completely true it's not even funny... The only thing to look forward to is seeing them hire some other sucker and no longer having to work ALL the worst jobs.

Of course, reading your later post(s?), it looks like you're well on your way to finding all this out for yourself.

I'm curious, however. Directed at everyone else here: is your boss the in-your-face type jerk, or the lying bastard described by EC? Mine definitely leans toward the fake smile type who will ask how you're doing using the same breath they fire you with...
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Was definatly the "in-your-face" type, my belief was that I was being used as a stress ball whenever they got worked up, they went against all logic and fact just to make a flawed point.

"I know that's what you've been told but it's wrong" - Actual quote
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majesticturkey
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The general rule of thumb is, if you're good at what you do, you'll be placed under someone who isn't. If you're a good person, you'll be placed under someone who isn't.

(boss intelligence) x (boss friendliness) x (boss competence) = C

C always = 0.

The only exception seems to be when working under a PhD, as I've held jobs in three different laboratories, and all of them were pretty good PIs. Worked me to the bone, but at least they were fair about it.
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Well, here's what we got from Mr. Lothar Rex on his own forums:

Lothar Hex wrote:

STOP THAT RIGHT FUCKING NOW OR GET BANNED! ESPECIALLY YOU KATPHISH! TYPE PROPERLY OR GET THE FUCK OUT!

I am not putting up with retarded little spamming pieces of shit like yourselves, so either Act like decent members of a forum or fuck off. We do not have a spam thread, so don't treat the entire forum like one.

The person who questions this Post will get all of you banned.


Well, allow me?

First of all, yourselves can only be used when you are talking about the people doing an act to themselves. As in, go fuck yourself. The addition of 'self' to the end of the word shows that it is that person performing an action on their own person. This is why when people say "Come meet Mr. X or myself after lunch" they are wrong.

Strike 1.

Secondly, I can't say I really understand The Random Capitalization.
I know you dislike people who Act like us, but does it really deserve a capital letter in the middle of a sentence? Last I checked, unless you are referring to an Act of God, act isn't any kind of proper noun, so it doesn't need a big letter. Same goes for Post. Perhaps we're so amazing that you mistook our posts for The Posts of the Lord? Who knows.

Strike 2.

Finally, this comes from your post here.
Lothar Hex wrote:

So, if any member of Team Genesis posts anymore fucking annoying spam-happy bullshit...


A note: anymore, as used here, is nonstandard english. similar to alot being wrong, and a lot being correct. Anymore may be used in the sense of any longer if you're from the midwestern US, last I checked, you were from the UK, so it's just plain wrong.

Strike 3.

Mr. Hex, if you're reading this, I'd like you to know that you sir, are a hypocrite.
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Hercule Pyro
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Frankly mate, right here and now, I don't want to get involved in your little argument with Lothar. However, in light of this, if you really, really need to continue this for whatever reason, don't do it here. I locked the other topic for a reason, that being I didn't want the shit to spill over across the forum.

If Lothar wishes to involve me, or anyone else on here for that matter, in this, that's his decision not mine. As such, take it to e-mail, private messages, instant-messaging, or for all I fucking care right now carrier pidgeons.

As far as I'm concerned, the matter is closed on this forum. Whether you decide to take it elsewhere is between you, Lothar and anyone else who decides to get involved.
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East, I completely agree. Congeniality only goes so far, however, and if Lothar wants to take it to a certain level, he can feel free to do so. The point of the matter is that he wants to do things with his forum which incite animosity with another group of people, and this group of people, using me as an avatar, will just continue to do what he wants. We're good people like that. I made a few points showing Lothar that while he wants to blame people for their grammatical errors, he himself is far from innocent. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Having done so adequately, I can be satisfied. This was the whole purpose of the expedition to this forum. We're a collective of people who are very much against the stringent hatred of the casual. So to speak. We just want people to relax and chill the fuck out. Again, so to speak. For every intelligent, clear-minded moderator like you, there will always be two incompetent sixteen-year-olds like Hex and Lothar who feel it's better to act first than to actually repair anything.
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