![]() We weren't allowed to chase down thieves anyway, so all he was doing was drawing a lot of attention to himself. Only problem was that you could hear his coat crinkling when he came in, and it was super obvious that he was being sketchy. There was a guy that would come in to steal the games en masse, and his technique was wearing a trench coat lined with aluminum foil to shield the alarm from detecting all the games he stashed.Nothing super interesting to talk about, but a few highlights: I worked in R Zone at Toys R Us for a couple years. Witnessing the seismic shift in market perception of Xbox 360>PS3 to PS4>XB1 was wild to see happen in real time. At least through 20 for sure, folks still commonly thought the system was fully online only, couldn't play used games, etc. I don't think I have anything particularly scandalous I feel comfortable sharing, but this store was located in a pretty low-income area, and the poisonous "online only" stigma for Xbox One followed that consoles for YEARS after launch. I'm still regularly in touch with most of my associates from that period too we play games, meet for D&D weekly, etc. Now that precious store isn't staffed by anyone who worked there when I did. Everyone, including me, eventually moved onto other ventures. Our team had a lot of agency, everyone was really well trained and informed on how to do things, everyone on staff was reliable, etc. I legitimately hated my job before this point. We got a new manager, I was promoted to assistant manager, and everything coalesced really beautifully and it was a terrific job for a few golden years. There was a period of a few years where me and coworkers really something special. I stopped feeling super anxious and awkward talking to people and gained just enough assertiveness to feel comfortable holding my ground in conversations.Ī long ass time ago. There were plenty of pleasant interactions as well but it was mostly the difficult stuff that made me better at talking to folks. Working retail really got me out my bubble and made me a much more social person than I was when I started, but boy did that change feel like a trial by fire of having to deal with difficult customers as well as talking shop with regional managers. ![]() We had a turnout of about 150 people for it and I felt like folks had a good time. My final day working there was Batman: Arkham Knight launch day.ĭestiny launch was my first midnight launch that I was left in charge of and I had fun running it with my colleagues. The latter of which sent me to the hospital to get stitches for a split ear. At gunpoint on Valentines Day, and then physical assault by hand on Call of Duty launch day later that year. I quit because I got hit by robbers twice in one year at my location. I was an assistant store manager for half of that time. That store closed down a year later because there was no one to manage it. I put my 2 weeks in, my last day being Xbox One launch day, which was a week before Black Friday. ![]() I told him that either you make me SM and give me a raise since I'm already doing the work for the store or I'm putting my 2 weeks in. ![]() ![]() I ran that store by myself for almost a full year getting paid barely $10 an hour before I lost my shit and gave an ultimatum to my DM. They never did counts, they rarely ever did distros, they didn't do holiday training. These SMs had their own stores but now were also told to manage mine…they didn't give a shit about my store and did absolutely nothing the entire time they were there. Was fun at first, but then my SM and ASM quit, and instead of promoting me to SM since I knew that store like the back of my hand and had great rep with all my regulars, the DM decided to play musical chairs with SMs from surrounding stores. ![]()
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