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Well, I've been working at Gamestop/Funcoland for about three and a half years now, so I have some good ones to share.
Funcoland days:
1. Second day of work ... I come in and Mike is pouring cleaner fluid [light alcohol solution] on his shoe. I'm all like "wtf are you doing" and he says "I'm going to prove to Stew [our assistant manager] that I'm immune to all pain." So he takes out his lighter and lights his leg on fire. In the store. He almost immediately starts to scream in pain and starts to drag his foot along the ground to put out the fire. The result is a HUGE burn mark in the rug, still there to this day. It was awesome.
2. Pre-Christmas 2000 ... our keyholder at the time, Dan, and our ass. manager Stew take turns answering the phone in their "gay voices." Which was actually pretty funny at the time. So it's Dan's turn, and he answers the phone in his "gay voice." The man on the phone can tell he's being dumb, so he asks what his [Dan's] name is. He says "I'm Gary." Stereotypical "gay guy" name, I guess. So the man on the phone goes "Well, this is Gary M. Can I talk to whoever is in charge?" Gary M. was the District Manager at the time. Nice work, Dan.
3. Pre-Christmas 2000 ... we used to have cleaner wars. Well, actually, just the other dudes that worked there. I just played video games all the time. Anyway, if any of you used to work/shop at Funcoland you remember the cleaner kits we used to sell. Well, Stew and Greg [the manager], and Darryll [the other associate besides me] would throw the boxes at eachother. One night, my mom comes by to pick me up from work, and see this HUGE mound of hundreds of these kits laying on the ground, and she goes "Emily why aren't you helping clean this up?" And I was like "whatever, I didn't throw any of these, I shouldn't have to clean them up."
4. Pre-Christmas 2000 ... Stew is throwing around a screw driver, trying to get it to stick in the wall. He used to do this a lot, actually. So anyways, his throw goes a bit to the left and goes straight through one of the huge windows at the front of the store. Luckily for him the DM [District Manager] believed that a kid's bike on the outside of the store did the damage, and he didn't get in trouble for it.
5. Beginning of 2001 ... We get a new DM, Scotty Niles. At the front of our store there used to be arcade units and above them there was a little bit of an alcove that went from the front of the slatwall to the back part of the real wall. [Sorry, kind of hard to explain] Anyway, Stew and Greg and Darryll used to through old PSX cd cases up there and bust them, etc., when they were thrown. Scotty comes in one day and decides he wants to use that space to display system boxes. I go up there on a ladder to check out the area and there is at least three inches deep of pure broken plastic sitting up there. So I grab a trash bag, wrap it around my arms, and proceed to use the full lenghth of my arms to shove it all of to the far right side. The pile of broken glass on the ground was an amazing sight to see.
Okay, my brain hurts. More tomorrow. |
