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thatmariolover · 04-26-2005, 03:04 PM

Well, the merger won't be complete for another four months, or so says our District Manager over at work. I personally think this is a terrible proposition, and I work for Gamestop.

GameStop among a bunch of other retailers (Babbages, Planet X, Software Etc., and more I think) were bought out by Barnes & Noble a year or so ago. They were all merged into one super company that kept the name GameStop. So yeah, EB was doing better than us, but after that GameStop's slowly been strangling EB Games.

GameStop is already one of the worst empoyers around. Offering minimal benefits and average hiring wages at $5.45/h. A lot of people think that you get to play games all day when you work in there, but it's the last thing I get to do. Once, maybe twice a month I'll get to take an hour break and pull out a used game to put in the kiosk. So no, that's not the reason for the lousy pay. I personally fear for all EB employee's and their wages. Gamestop has monopolized the market and the retail employees and customers are the people who will suffer because of it.

04-26-2005, 03:04 PM	#8
thatmariolover GameTavern Plumber thatmariolover is offline Location: Minnesota Now Playing: Posts: 2,556	Re: GameStop Corp. Emerges Well, the merger won't be complete for another four months, or so says our District Manager over at work. I personally think this is a terrible proposition, and I work for Gamestop. GameStop among a bunch of other retailers (Babbages, Planet X, Software Etc., and more I think) were bought out by Barnes & Noble a year or so ago. They were all merged into one super company that kept the name GameStop. So yeah, EB was doing better than us, but after that GameStop's slowly been strangling EB Games. GameStop is already one of the worst empoyers around. Offering minimal benefits and average hiring wages at $5.45/h. A lot of people think that you get to play games all day when you work in there, but it's the last thing I get to do. Once, maybe twice a month I'll get to take an hour break and pull out a used game to put in the kiosk. So no, that's not the reason for the lousy pay. I personally fear for all EB employee's and their wages. Gamestop has monopolized the market and the retail employees and customers are the people who will suffer because of it.