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Nov 22nd, 2006 12:11 AM
Fathom Zero Hehe, I can work at Carmike Cinemas if I was able to. They rock with a worker's permit.
Nov 21st, 2006 09:31 PM
Misdemonar go get a life srsly
Nov 21st, 2006 09:13 PM
zeldasbiggestfan No your not the little fucking twat deserved it. Sadly my workers permit doesnt work for jobs that you have to be 18 to work at. Guess its the friers for me... For the rest of my life
Nov 21st, 2006 07:45 PM
ArrowX Yeah the common consensus of games tores is that there not as fun to work at as you'd think

I remember my interview with the manager at EB, I botched the interview because the stupid bitch didn't have a sense of humor.
she asked me why I would want to work at EB Games, I respond with "well I like playing games and their development, so it seemed natural to want to have a job centered around selling them. " She then went on to question me about what kind of employee I'd make I responded by saying something along the lines (I forget my exact wording because at this point I'm fixated on the immense hairs growing from her nose) so I say "I'll be there as much as humanly possible unless I do something stupid and get fired-" I'm interrupted at this point by "Well, what would you do to get fired. I said I don't know I suppose break something or not show up for more than one consecutive day" then in the bitchiest assuming tone I've ever heard. "Like Stealing!" "you can get out right now if you think you can take get away with that right now, we need serious employees not dip shit thieves!" I told her I had no intention of stealing or anything like that. I receive this snappy little comment "then why did you say you were going to?" At this point I was instantly fed up with her bullshit so I told her its a miracle anyone wants to work here, what with her "humorless desert of a cunt." then I calmly walked away, slamming the office door as hard as I could (rewarded by the familiar sound of DVD cases hitting the floor.

Damn I'm an abrasive person
Nov 21st, 2006 06:54 PM
nothing4buddha whoa dude why wasn't i called either if employees got first pick? fucking douche
Nov 21st, 2006 03:35 PM
Comrade Rocket oh boy. manager is a dick.

after all this crap about not being able to buy a wii at our store, he decides saturday night to have a midnight sale. and he sold one to himself, my other co-worker and another kid who used to work there. I didnt even get a call, hell, he's not even gonna tell me. i found out through another customer that got screwed. He was going off on some other people at the shop about how we cant buy them here and how the first shipment of systems have to go to pre-orders.

hes a fucking lying blowhard. this combined with some other stuff he has been doing has got me boiled.
Nov 17th, 2006 04:46 PM
Azrael
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Originally Posted by DuFresne
At least she was just on the phone... :/

I just don't get some people. A store is not going to have exactly who you want all the time, especially if what you want is one the hottest christmas items of the year. Get used to it. You should have told her that now would be good time for her little brat learn the value of some fucking patience.
Sadly our culture has devolved into a state of perpetual demanded instant gratification. George Carlin summed up our culture very succintly:

"Give me it. IT"S MINE!!!!!!!!"
Nov 17th, 2006 04:26 PM
DuFresne At least she was just on the phone... :/

I just don't get some people. A store is not going to have exactly who you want all the time, especially if what you want is one the hottest christmas items of the year. Get used to it. You should have told her that now would be good time for her little brat learn the value of some fucking patience.
Nov 17th, 2006 02:00 PM
Comrade Rocket i got yelled at yesterday by a woman asking why she couldnt preorder a wii. i told her that we stop taking preorders a week before launch and that we will prolly have some extras 2 weeks after launch. she got mad and asked why she couldnt preorder one after launch.... seriously. then she tried to pull some crap about how she has a kid and he is gonna be really sad if he doesnt get a wii.

I was mad at her so i made up a huge bullshit story about how i was in the same boat because me and my kid wanted a wii but i cant get her one because my store isnt letting us buy one. so she hung up and me and another co worker played some excite truck.
Nov 17th, 2006 12:36 PM
DuFresne I've been to that Toys R US in New York. I don't think those are video screens. They're just mosaic panals if I remember right.
Nov 17th, 2006 06:33 AM
Chojin

VICTOLY VIDEO
Nov 16th, 2006 10:12 PM
Emu
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Originally Posted by StupidKraut
yeah eBay is nuts right now Some guy sold a pre-ordered PS3 for over 9K Hes probably not going to get it for months but hes got a phat bank account.
correction, he DID have a phat bank account
Nov 16th, 2006 10:02 PM
Chojin

TIME FOR VICTOLY DANCE
Nov 16th, 2006 09:37 PM
ArrowX yeah eBay is nuts right now Some guy sold a pre-ordered PS3 for over 9K Hes probably not going to get it for months but hes got a phat bank account.
Nov 16th, 2006 09:33 PM
Chojin The manager at an ebgames i know likes MLE and told her that they're getting a huge Wii surplus and that as long as we show up by noon on launch day that we can get one.

I'm thinking we'll each buy 2 if possible and scalp 3 on the internets. :3
Nov 16th, 2006 09:29 PM
ArrowX This is also what happened to Sega and the Dreamcast.

I'm basing my reasons for sony's failure this rotation based on the fact that not many people are willing to shell out $600 for a game machine. Sony hasn't publicly announce its a "HOME ENTERTAINMENT CENTER" to the masses, they just run commercials with Playstation 3 smeared everywhere in that Spiderman font. The average person's gonna think "$600 to play games!?" fuck that I'll buy the one thats 400 or 250.

If I recall isn't this the exact opposite conversation everyone had with the N64?
Nov 16th, 2006 07:36 PM
MetalMilitia Don't get me wrong, I'm not buying a PS3 OR a 360 OR a Wii. I've got £1700 worth of PC sitting under my desk for all the gaming I could ever want.

The thing is, there is so much speculation on the net that it's easy to start believing it - but at the end of the day Sony arn't stupid. It's hard to maintain that point of view in light of recent shinanigans but I fully believe there are too many extremely clever people over at sony for this product to be a failure.

Think about all the average non-technical people out there. As far as they're concerned blue ray IS the next big thing and the PS3 IS the most powerful gaming system on the planet. They're going to lap it up.

And let's not forget that although Sony may be loosing money on the consoles, they are likely to be making a large amount of money on games, peripherals and I would think licencing.
Nov 16th, 2006 07:08 PM
Immortal Goat
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Originally Posted by MetalMilitia
Everyone is always bitching at sony saying they're going to fail etc.
But I'll bet that in 1 years time the PS3 will be selling in huge numbers and Sony will be laughing their stinking rich arses off at all the nay-sayers.
Sony is having financial troubles. As in, if the PS3 doesn't sell, their gaming department goes under. Couple that with the fact that the system costs twice as much as they are selling it for per unit, and you don't have a very good future in store.

Also, Blue Ray may be nice, but nobody needs it yet, and most people can't use it yet, anyway. It will be at least 5 years before Blue Ray becomes the standard , because you need more than just the player to experience it. You also need a friggin' expensive TV for it to make any real difference. 5 years is the basic life span of a gaming console. By the time Blue Ray is standard, people will be leaving PS3 for newer, greener pastures, and Sony will not have a backup plan, because they are banking on this machine to double the current console life (a rediculous idea to begin with).

So, you can have your PS3. While you're waiting for games and movies to come down from their initial 70-80 dollar price tag, the rest of us will be playing our games on the TV's we already have, and having a damn good time doing it.
Nov 16th, 2006 06:52 PM
Dr. Boogie The reason people are speculating about a big failure for Sony is because it seems like everything that could go wrong for them is. The Blu-Ray fiasco, the systems breaking down quickly, the reduced shipments of the PS3s, and the overall cost of the system.

I'm not saying they couldn't turn things around for Sony, but it seems like they might have some trouble what with all that's happened.
Nov 16th, 2006 05:43 PM
MetalMilitia Everyone is always bitching at sony saying they're going to fail etc.
But I'll bet that in 1 years time the PS3 will be selling in huge numbers and Sony will be laughing their stinking rich arses off at all the nay-sayers.
Nov 16th, 2006 04:44 PM
ArrowX My friend tells me that in Alberta alone theres gonna be something like 100 Wii's and at most 30-50PS3's

This rotation is playing out to be one huge stomach punch for Sony. They pretty much have to release this year or no one will bite. With two cheaper and frankly more fun and more friendly looking consoles on the market, the PS3 will die quickly this rotation, Just as the 3DO did before it.
Nov 16th, 2006 03:40 PM
the_dudefather we got word from head office last week that we are getting 120 Wii consoles on launch day, with the remaining preorders being supplied in time for christmas

as of last week we got about 150 preorders, the midnight launch is going to be nuts (only 3 weeks left for us in the UK) :o
Nov 16th, 2006 02:57 PM
Comrade Rocket for a time, it was good.

sony dropped the bomb. 120,000 ps3 in america for 2006. which means we are getting 2. i easily get 30 times in a day where i have to tell people, no, they cant have one and good luck finding one. So some people are actually angry at us for not having them. Those people are forgetible, whatever, they can be mad that they cant blow 1000 bucks for there bratty kids. The real people who should be mad are the ones who pre-ordered it. Aparently the old manager decided that he didnt like to write things down and as a result we have about 30 ps3 reserves written down but in actuallty we have amost 100 in the system. People have been pre-ordering since before the ps3 was orignally announced and because of the shoddy paper work someone who preordered 4 months ago is gtting the first one. Many times people have come in asking about there preorder. I cant find them on the list, but they have down 50 bucks saying they are gonna get one. No fun

The wii is being handled the same way. first i was told we are gonna get 20 because nintedo loved us. Then we actually got our release and we were getting 9. now im finding out we are getting 4... i think. It doesnt matter anyways because according to a new company rule, i cant buy a wii or a ps3 on release from our store. Frustrating. the game store was wii plan 1, wii plan 2 was ruined as well by my current manager.

Wii plan 1 was the idea that on launch we were getting 9 wiis. 4 were going out for preorder and the 5 remaning were first come first serve. i was then informed if i wanted to get the wii tho i had to drop like an extra 200 bucks on accesories and games. If we sell the wiis for more, more will come our way on the next shipment. I have 300 bucks set aside for the wii. thats one game and the system. I dont want to spend 500 bucks, i would just buy a 360.

wii plan 2 was a bit more devious. Customers would come in asking about getting one and i would inform them that we are not gonna have enough. So i would tell them to check wal-mart, best buy, costco. I would tell them every store but k-mart. k-mart is gonna have them and if i didnt tell anyone i figured i was eleminating competers. No luck, my manager has been telling people to got o k-mart ONLY. so him, combined with me telling everyone else to go to the other stores pretty much screws me.

I want a Wii so bad. im gonna freeze my ass to a time where the wii isnt in such high demand and all the games are like 10 bucks.
Nov 7th, 2006 09:48 PM
Fathom Zero

The PAL covers are wayyyy cooler than the U.S. ones.
Nov 7th, 2006 03:55 AM
the_dudefather

think we have a copy of twisted metal black and online in our back room. problem is that they are pal versions. and in scotland
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