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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 10, 2008, 12:33:59 AM

Title: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 10, 2008, 12:33:59 AM
Me: Do you have Baroque?
Gamestop: Roach?
Me: No, Baroque.
Gamestop: Broke?
Me: Ba-roque. B-A-R-O-Q-U-E. Like, Baroque furniture or Baroque music.
Gamestop: How can you break music?
Me: *hangs up, calls Fry's, buys Baroque*
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: The Sceneman on April 10, 2008, 12:39:59 AM
 :lol

what a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 10, 2008, 12:44:59 AM
Maybe if I had mentioned it was Portuguese for "distorted pearls."
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: drohne on April 10, 2008, 12:46:26 AM
just as well -- gamestop employees can't pronounce the names of niche games, but they can take them out of their cases and scratch them up
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: demi on April 10, 2008, 01:02:19 AM
willco owned
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: Smooth Groove on April 10, 2008, 01:35:01 AM
Patel, maybe it was your Paki-British accent?
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: Eric P on April 10, 2008, 09:01:39 AM
I'm sure he was just confusing it with rococo, which is a common mistake.

lol

Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: Eric P on April 10, 2008, 09:02:18 AM
you should have just shouted

"no you idiot.  baroque, like when you don't have any monet!"
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: The Sceneman on April 10, 2008, 09:40:49 AM
you should have just shouted

"no you idiot.  baroque, like when you don't have any monet!"

 :lol
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 10, 2008, 12:48:33 PM
We only sell RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2 and GRAND THEFT AUTO IV.
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on April 10, 2008, 02:36:28 PM
you should have just shouted

"no you idiot.  baroque, like when you don't have any monet!"

LMAO
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: DJ_Tet on April 10, 2008, 02:48:41 PM
you should have just shouted

"no you idiot.  baroque, like when you don't have any monet!"

Classic, that would have cleared it up for sure.
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: tehjaybo on April 11, 2008, 02:04:11 AM
We only sell RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2 and GRAND THEFT AUTO IV.

We sell "that game" in Ky. 

"Y'all got that game?"
"Which game is that, sir?"
"You know, that game.  08"
"Right.  And for what console?"
"[scoff] That playstation game machine.  Y'all sell the tapes for it right?"

I fucking hate my job some days.
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: bork on April 11, 2008, 02:12:12 AM
We only sell RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2 and GRAND THEFT AUTO IV.

We sell "that game" in Ky. 

"Y'all got that game?"
"Which game is that, sir?"
"You know, that game.  08"
"Right.  And for what console?"
"[scoff] That playstation game machine.  Y'all sell the tapes for it right?"

I fucking hate my job some days.

I used to get various members of the same gypsy family that would come in asking about "tapes" and "paddles" all the time.  Since they were the ONLY people that would say this, I could tell they were related.   :lol  The father in this family also once followed me several miles across town and into a parking lot to ask me if I wanted the dent in my car door fixed. 
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This was not the first time he had asked this question.
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  He once stopped in the middle of a turn, and yelled/mouthed  "DO YOU WANT YOUR DOOR FIXED?!" through his window  on a busy road during rush hour.  This was always then followed-up by the inevitable "then you wanna sell your car?  Five hunnred dollars?"  Multiple fucking times.  Every time he'd come into the shop with his kids.  For like two years straight.

The classic moments for me were customers getting the Gamecube, Xbox, and Playstation 2 all mixed up and asking for a "Microsoft Cubestation," "Nintendo Box," etc.  Also one lady that asked for Donkey Kong on the Playstation multiple times, and my favorite, the guy who screamed at me and thought I was a fucking idiot because "Area 51 DID come out for the Dreamcast!" 

And the dirty, filthy systems and games people would bring in...never saw so much tobacco and dirt caked into anything else.  It's like people lived in barns or something.  Occasionally you'd open up a Playstation to clean it, only to find dead bugs inside.   :-X  What bothered me more than the dirt and nastiness was that my boss would always take this shit from people...I don't care if we did offer 50 cents, a dirty, disgusting Sega Genesis was not going to sell, right?  Sadly, they did.  Every time. 
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: pilonv1 on April 11, 2008, 02:19:25 AM
We only sell RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2 and GRAND THEFT AUTO IV.

Didn't you have a conference recently saying you needed to sell Me & My Horse and Pet Vet 2 instead?
Title: Re: Gamestop employees are as deaf as they are incompetent
Post by: Mr.Wuggles on April 11, 2008, 03:26:29 AM
Must have been static, or just a misunderstanding.


I have trouble hearing on the phone as well.

If that were the case, then he shouldn't even have his job.