GameStop hiring 15,000 temporary employees this holiday

Yeah, I used to work at EB during the time the merger happened. I was DAMN lucky I got my job. I didn't really know anyone in the store at all. I was only on for the holidays (I actually had another job as well), but the next holiday the store manager brought me right back and I stayed on part time after that.

The pay sucks, but if you get a good manager it can be a lot of fun. :)

I'm an SGA and we're hiring 7.

What someone mentioned above is true though. Come in every once in awhile and get to know the staff and make a good impression on the management. Usually when it comes time for hiring and you put in an application we'll actually make sure the manager gets it instead of sitting it on his desk to be buried by mountains of crap.

On the other hand, don't be that annoying guy who shows up all the time begging for a job. We can't stand you, no one likes you, stay away. If we're all going to be friends its going to happen naturally, not by you brute forcing your way into a friendship. Those are the people whose applications get filed immediately with no mention of it even existing.

People who know tons about video games are useful, but they generally don't make good salesmen. Good salesmen can learn a lot about video games, that's why they get hired instead of the other guy. Its much easier to teach someone about video games than how to sell them.

Then again, why the FUCK would you want to work for this terrible company? Seriously, fuck getting screwed over with trade-ins or missing reserve premiums. The actual job part of it sucks 10x more than shopping there.

@ Malachi
Your right on the people who can be annoying in coming in all the time but I disagree with you on the company. I really like working for GameStop! I worked myself up from a GA up to LGA, then SGA, then ASM in a 1 year span. I am a really good salesman and although I do think we can be a little annoying asking for Subs, Reserves, add-ons, etc. It's what we do and I mean come on, this is the best place to work in retail! Even when I get my associates in CNS/IST, I will probably still stay at gamestop for a part-time 1 or 2 day a week job just so I can get my discount, free check-outs, and to know all the new stuff coming out!

Yeah, it's because of people like you that small town guys like me can't ever find a job. Everyone just hires their buddies from church or whatever, leaving guys like me (with actual real skills but no higher-up friends) with no job. Good going ruining it for the rest of us, pal.

It could be the stores we each work in. Our store is always understaffed and heavily overtasked so it gives the store a very hectic and depressing feeling of hopelessness because our DM is always on our backs making us change stupid things that he set up less than a week before. Then we get customer complaints because he's tying us up doing other things instead of allowing to help the customers.

I've heard quite a bit from stores are mine that its not that bad, but the bar was set so high at my store that if we fall below it we're failing as a store but to get above it we have almost no choice but to be assholes and push every sale full of extra crap that we know and you know you don't need but we've got to sale it. I really wonder what its like with other DMs because ours is a complete failure but they keep him around because his district does well, not by anything he does but because he has good people on staff and 90% of them were there before he arrived.

As for the guy complaining about not getting hired despite being highly qualified for the job. That's part of the problem by itself. You don't want to hire someone OVER qualified for the job because then they tend to get resentful at how much they're being paid so its easier to get someone slightly under qualified and train them up to the level they need to be. GA positions are entry level, thus they are best suited for people looking for their first job or people who just don't have that much experience in the workplace.

MasterInsan0 ,

It's called *networking* and *socializing*, man. Get out and try to meet some people in the field you're interested in.

$150-250 for the 8 weeks ur there...?
ROFL...

yeah i assume that was per week

Dude i know the feeling, when i was working there we were getting like 5 hours a week. Complete garbage..

I don't get it. You'd think they'd save money by hiring less people and working the current employees more. They'd save on training and paperwork at the very least.

I remember this one EB Games store in my area (6-7 years ago) that had only girls working there with the exception of one guy. It was a military town too, so I'm sure it was a plot to get young marines to buy games.

I was offered an Assistant Store Manager position there after interviewing for a "normal" position there. During the interview process the manager gave me a pen & told me to try to sell him the pen. I was like WTF? lol

Anyways I turned the job down because I was in school @ the time & couldn't just drop out. Plus the store manager seemed a bit fruity to me (whether or not it was true I don't know), but it made me uncomfortable. That store seemed to have such a high turn over ratio. From managers to typical employees.

Isn't that pretty much their entire workforce besides 30 year old, hairy, fat virgins who smell of jackals?

Isn't that their entire workforce? Have I been banned or something? I can't see my first message.

HAHAHA *FUCK* there it is, my bad.

I know someone that worked @ an AMC in the mall. I heard that people would piss on the carpet & whatnot. In fact on the few times I went to that theater, the carpets in the hallways were stained horribly bad, & did in fact smell. Gotta love mall "rats".