I wandered into a different GW store over the weekend and came across a female blueshirt. Having not seen this in 20 years of frequenting GWs across the UK, it made me wonder whether they have started an equalities recruitment drive to balance out the male dominated workforce

So, start of a trend or just a one off?

Female ok I get it, but Blueshirt?

Just like you see fewer female gamers, so you will only see the occasional female staffer..

Anarchyman99 wrote:Female ok I get it, but Blueshirt?

Blueshirt = GW staffer

I know of at least two others. One worked for the Tunbridge Wells Store, and the other worked for the Oxford store.

It's been known to happen in the past occasionally.

*raises hand*

What's a female?

They're actually robots designed to sell more GW products to poor defenceless female starved wargamers.

"If it means being able to be near you for another 10 minutes of course I will buy 7 Baneblades and 4 battle forces!".

malfred wrote:*raises hand*

What's a female?

It's latin for cat, dumbass!

How do they paint without thumbs?

A woman... I'm scared

The female game store employee is believed to be related to the phenomenon of female video game store employee and female comic book store employee. The logical explanation is that the OP was hallucinating.

GW might lose sales cus the geeks are afraid to go in.

There was a pretty blond girl working the bar at Warhammer World!....she was really nice, but I knew straight away that she was there for the money

If you want to meet girls, going to GW is not the way to do it.....

My local EB has two female staff. I found that surprising.

Wait, a bartender there for the money? Incomprehensible!

My preferred comicbook store had a female staff member for quite a while.

She didn't happen to look like this eh?

Your mum.

Gemma (a friend of mine) used to work in GW portsmouth.

How do we know the employee was a female. Chromosomal testing may be in order.

Sorry to be ignorant - what does blue shirts particularly mean?

olympia wrote:She didn't happen to look like this eh?

No, closer to this:


Which, in a Comicbook store, is equivalent to this:

One wonders how all you handsome devils cope without beautiful models and actresses to cater to your whims...

Nurglitch wrote:One wonders how all you handsome devils cope without beautiful models and actresses to cater to your whims...

Liquor.

Eh, it could happen more with the economy the way it is. A GW store is probably more willing to hire a woman to try and improve the atmosphere at the store, and with the job market so poor, more women might consider working these temporarily.

For all that can be said of stereotypes, they are stereotypes for a reason.

GW headhunts the h00ters staff...

GW couldn't afford that quality of help.

the guy in our local GW has been known to invite his gf over mid his shift and make out with her in the basement..

Delephont wrote:There was a pretty blond girl working the bar at Warhammer World!....she was really nice, but I knew straight away that she was there for the money

Not all the hot nerds? As a gamer, I'm outraged.

This thread is all the explanation one needs as to why so few woman are gamers...

Almost every female I've ever worked with in a nerd environment has had the same degree of social under-exposure as many of the males suffer from. I've always been the guy who put half an ounce of effort into caring about his appearance, and being slightly metro in an environment with no other guys of equal caliber gets you lots of nerd-girl attention. I met my current girl of 3 years while I was working at a comic store Honestly though, give them space and treat them like you would anyone else.

Women are cats and men are dogs.. thats how you should treat em.. Jimowen (dunno how he spells his name.)

Stand up comics are always right.

Ive never seen a female GW staffer.. The whole idea of it seems weird.

@HBMC there were girls at my EB too, they didnt last only d00dz now.

solkan wrote:The female game store employee is believed to be related to the phenomenon of female video game store employee and female comic book store employee. The logical explanation is that the OP was hallucinating.

Of the 5 comic stores I used to frequent in my youth, 4 had female employees. All the video gamestores in major malls tended to have female salesclerks then too. I don't visit such stores at here since it is cheaper and easier just to order online.

RogueMarket wrote:Sorry to be ignorant - what does blue shirts particularly mean?

GW staff in the UK currently wear blue polo shirts as staff uniform and are hence referred to as blueshirts. Managers wear black shirts. This varies from country to country, so other posters might refer to redshirts.

Regarding the girl I came across, I suppose the polite word would be "kooky", a bit like Zooey Deschannel.

Flashman wrote:
Regarding the girl I came across, I suppose the polite word would be "kooky", a bit like Zooey Deschannel.

I just googled that name, I want all GW staff to look like that.

Real Mature.

CT GAMER wrote:This thread is all the explanation one needs as to why so few woman are gamers...

Damn Straight! QFT

Hmm

giggidy giggidy...

JD21290 wrote:Gemma (a friend of mine) used to work in GW portsmouth.

That's a lie!! I've been going in there for 16 odd years now and have never once seen a nerd rush to get in the door.

Although when my girlfriend goes into GW none of the staff will go up and speak to her. And we were sat down painting the other week while everyone else was gaming and all you could here were hushed whispers of "A girl"

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

Flashman wrote:
Regarding the girl I came across, I suppose the polite word would be "kooky", a bit like Zooey Deschannel.

I just googled that name, I want all GW staff to look like that.

Even the blokes?

I suspect female GW staff is a bit like officers in Vietnam; they only have a fifteen minute mortality rate.

infilTRAITOR wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I just googled that name, I want all GW staff to look like that.

Even the blokes?

No blokes, at the price GW is charging, I want to buy my miniatures from shops like the bar in Coyote Ugly.

I want Charisma Carpenter leaning over a bar, covered in baileys and whispering 'Mmmm, all this talk about ork clan fluff talk makes me hot... now see what I do when you reminisce about genestealer cults...'

WAAAGH!!!!!!!!!

olympia wrote:She didn't happen to look like this eh?

Suzy never believed her mom when she was warned that all that bacon would go straight to her thighs.
Learn from Suzy's mistake.


On topic - Yeah... I got nothing...


Eric

The GW closest to me had a fairly attractive female staffer.

The problem is, every time I see a female employee in a geeky store I frequent, I can't interact with them naturally, lest they think I'm just another drooling nerd trying to flirt. It's a hard knock life.

That's a lie!! I've been going in there for 16 odd years now and have never once seen a nerd rush to get in the door.

Gemma worked in there for a few months i believe in 07
Also, your from the pompey area correct? interested in airsoft?

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
I want Charisma Carpenter leaning over a bar, covered in baileys and whispering 'Mmmm, all this talk about ork clan fluff talk makes me hot... now see what I do when you reminisce about genestealer cults...'

WAAAGH!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

infilTRAITOR wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I just googled that name, I want all GW staff to look like that.

Even the blokes?

No blokes, at the price GW is charging, I want to buy my miniatures from shops like the bar in Coyote Ugly.

I want Charisma Carpenter leaning over a bar, covered in baileys and whispering 'Mmmm, all this talk about ork clan fluff talk makes me hot... now see what I do when you reminisce about genestealer cults...'

WAAAGH!!!!!!!!!

Too many winning statements here!

I had a couple of gals working for me at a comic store, one of them had a job at night jumping around stages with high heels and swinging on poles. Funny how that worked, you would never have guessed...

I count my blessings daily .. my gf

is hot
plays video games
plays, assembles and paints WH 40K

for some odd reason puts up with my BS.

nivekdaork wrote:I count my blessings daily .. my gf

is hot
plays video games
plays, assembles and paints WH 40K

for some odd reason puts up with my BS.

... and exists only within the confines of your own imagination?

The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright, trying to tell my dad that I needed to stop doing Guard and instead get Orks.

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright, trying to tell my dad that I needed to stop doing Guard and instead get Orks.

Is that her picture you have as avatar? Is that your girlfriend? Do you know the girl in your picture? Are you the girl in your avatar?


....

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright, trying to tell my dad that I needed to stop doing Guard and instead get Orks.

Is that her picture you have as avatar? Is that your girlfriend? Do you know the girl in your picture? Are you the girl in your avatar?


....

Whenever Brook posts, I always wonder that...but I never asked.

-Kyley

Brook is a guy i think

I like girls.

I know two that play 40k

The mere fact that the notion of a female staffer has prompted a thread probably explains why there are so few of them!

When a female does venture into a GW (other than a mother clutching a Christmas or Birthday list) the staffers tend to look at them like they are a skinhead at an R'n'B night, then the typical "do you need any help?" gets uttered, which is said in a tone that infers she is probably lost and a little bit simple.

Meanwhile the regulars, most of whom consider soap and social skills to be an alien concept, go through the classic 3 stages of "how to cope in the vicinity of non related females"

1. Stare or leer (think Richie from Bottom or Vic Reeves from Shooting stars) in disbelief, and whisper "oh my god a girl" in not so hushed tones to there mates

2. Begin to talk very, very loudly about their wargaming prowess "AND MY CHAMPION WILL SMITE YOU WITH HIS MIGHTY WEAPON" (I guess this is the nerd equivelant of a mating call)

3. Sidle over and make some sort of embarasing attempt at conversation "so being a girl I guess you like high elves?"

No one likes to be gawked at like some sort of Victorian freak show, or being made to feel like they are stupid or incapable of making choices by themselves.

Before I get flamed for making sweeping generalisations these are all examples of behaviour I have witnessed on a number of occaisions when in a GW store or when my girlfriend has come into the store to meet me. Thank god she finds this sort of treatment amusing!

I am doing my part

SilverMK2 wrote:

nivekdaork wrote:I count my blessings daily .. my gf

is hot
plays video games
plays, assembles and paints WH 40K

for some odd reason puts up with my BS.

... and exists only within the confines of your own imagination?

That's not true - ask the neighbors dog ...

...Is the neighbor's dog your girlfriend, nivek? ; )

Eric

no but he talks to me .....

heh

@muzzlehead

Very nice! I tried to get my 12 year old cousin to paint a space marine, but alas she went and watched TV instead.

Children these days...

I think its pretty much established that chicks just dont like cool things. They do not really have hobbies. I often wonder what goes on in their heads. Girls do not really have things that they like to do. Unless it involves some pointless fitness/spirituallity thing like yoga or counseling. That is why they are never around cool things like warhammer.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

infilTRAITOR wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I just googled that name, I want all GW staff to look like that.

Even the blokes?

No blokes, at the price GW is charging, I want to buy my miniatures from shops like the bar in Coyote Ugly.

I want Charisma Carpenter leaning over a bar, covered in baileys and whispering 'Mmmm, all this talk about ork clan fluff talk makes me hot... now see what I do when you reminisce about genestealer cults...'

WAAAGH!!!!!!!!!

That's the store I want to visit!!!

Wolfstan wrote:That's the store I want to visit!!!

"Hi! I know you're working and all right now... but I find you very attractive. I was wondering if you'd like to go get a cup of coffee or something after work?"

"Dude! I'm a guy!!!!"

"Ah! Oh. Umm... My bad. Sorry." (pause) "...So, uh, anyway, about that coffee..."

Eeeew.


Eric

Some dude with some cash is gonna get real smart and open a store with women only and double the prices..

smart_alex wrote:I think its pretty much established that chicks just dont like cool things. They do not really have hobbies. I often wonder what goes on in their heads. Girls do not really have things that they like to do. Unless it involves some pointless fitness/spirituallity thing like yoga or counseling. That is why they are never around cool things like warhammer.

Pardon me while I pick up my jaw. I seem to have laughed it right off.

I'm a gamer, I'm female, and up until college, I never gamed with guys unless they were the boyfriends of someone in my all-female group. We did tabletop RPGs, with minis, which led to my love of painting.

All of my exes have been gamers, or became so very quickly. My ex-husband and I met through Call of Cthulhu, and when we divorced we split our geekery as fairly as we could (he got the Space Marines and I got the Orks, he got the 360 but I got any the games I wanted). We still get on well, and he's asked me to help him build some drop pods in a few weeks.

So, yes, female gamers do exist. Female wargamers do exist. And we're pretty awesome.

nivekdaork wrote:Some dude with some cash is gonna get real smart and open a store with women only and double the prices..

Hmmm, something like a gaming version of a juicy bar might work. Gamers can use the facility to paint their figures, and pay extra for a "hostess" to sit next to them/on their lap/etc. and chat them up about wargaming/encourage them to buy stuff.

Finding talent willing to become knowledgeable enough about minis to hold a decent conversation is the hard part.

Demeaning comments (as a joke or otherwise) about gender and/or race will not be tolerated on Dakka. The only reason that Smart Alex's comments have been left is because I feel that 'Memory' has done such a good job pointing out how ludicrous they are.

Anyone who continues to post demeaning comments will be suspended.

Came across this chart to explain why some of you may be searching for love.




Some ladies love the gaming. Some not so much. Most will be tolerant and supportive to a degree. Female employees in GW stores or other classicly male dominated areas is to be celebrated.

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright,

I'm not a girl.....


I've met a few female staffers- very nice people- and well used to the "jaw dropped" look from people

The Dark Elf (Eldar for today) hottie on the left is probably my favorite GW female sculpt for a handful of reasons;

1. She is wearing fishnet stockings - and fishnet stockings are hot.
2. She has a bare midriff - and bare midriffs are hot.
3. She has Dark Elf boobies and...well, you get the gist.

Posts like these are probably why there aren't more female gamers in the hobby.

yakface wrote:
Demeaning comments (as a joke or otherwise) about gender and/or race will not be tolerated on Dakka. The only reason that Smart Alex's comments have been left is because I feel that 'Memory' has done such a good job pointing out how ludicrous they are.

Anyone who continues to post demeaning comments will be suspended.

I'm gonna put my balls on the wall here.....and yes, I feel like a rather giddy Luke Skywalker as he back talks the Emporer!....we all know how that ended don't we....Vader lost his life, and Luke can charge light bulbs by licking his fingers and holding the ends!

I read Smart Alex's comments, and I don't see how they fall into an offending catagory! I get the impression that he's making an observation based on his experience of females and what he classes as cool hobbies.....

On the flip side, Memory openly hints at having a (determined!) all female group, and only includes men if they are invited by being a "partner" of one of the members!!! To me, this is openly sexist, and massively against what the whole ethos of wargaming is about! If anyone has played the "sex" card it was Memory, by hinting at an exclusive atmosphere based on gender, rather than character or playing ability!

As an aside, my wife "plays" Capoeira, which she got into based on her own interests....I'd class that as a very cool sport/martial art, her getting into it had nothing to do with me, as I don't do it!! So women can and do involve themselves in cool hobbies and past-times.....to each their own!

lol - the very fact that this thread exists is a sad indictment on war gamers. Is it any wonder Memory's all-girl group existed? Be honest - how many of you had the initial thought of 'all-girl gaming group... that's pretty sexy!'?

Exactly.

Being a kid and all I have a Mother. And, in her attempts to keep 'in' and 'happening' (which sometimes can be fun mind you) she tried to get me to play a game of 40k with her. Knowing that saying no would crush her utterly, I said yes.
She whooped my ass in a well played 1000 pt game.

Ha!
lol lol

Yes, this thread is confusing. And why can't you people see that female wargamers is like male horse riders. There is nothing wrong at all and I'm not saying horsriding is for girls it's just that most guys don't like it.

Kyley wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright, trying to tell my dad that I needed to stop doing Guard and instead get Orks.

Is that her picture you have as avatar? Is that your girlfriend? Do you know the girl in your picture? Are you the girl in your avatar?


....

Whenever Brook posts, I always wonder that...but I never asked.

-Kyley

I have a penis and you twits lack a brain, I'm just as smelly and loud as you, I can't be a grrrl!

Wait, imagine I'm the girl but with a BIG flaccid garden hose flopping between the legs.

@ BrookM

Why oh why would you have a female Avatar when you are in fact a male.....what are you trying to say?

Note: To those not versed in the art of irony, I am joking, as indeed I am also a male, and not a female Vampire....with Red Hair and a generous cleavage!

Delephont wrote:@ BrookM

Why oh why would you have a female Avatar when you are in fact a male.....what are you trying to say?

Note: To those not versed in the art of irony, I am joking, as indeed I am also a male, and not a female Vampire....with Red Hair and a generous cleavage!

In both our cases, Ackbar is somewhere around?

Delephont wrote:On the flip side, Memory openly hints at having a (determined!) all female group, and only includes men if they are invited by being a "partner" of one of the members!!! To me, this is openly sexist, and massively against what the whole ethos of wargaming is about! If anyone has played the "sex" card it was Memory, by hinting at an exclusive atmosphere based on gender, rather than character or playing ability!

Haha, nah, I should have been clearer. My first gaming group was all-female, because the majority of my friends were female, and that's who introduced me to gaming. Being as that was in high school, whenever someone in the group did partner up, we quickly invited them to the games, but there was about a 50/50 shot of them actually joining for any length of time.

Once I got into college, most of my friends were partnered or married, so my gaming groups were pretty evenly split along gender lines.

I would love there to be a woman staffer at the newcastle GW! id go in more!

actually i'm rather frightend of GW. The men in there are less then skilled at "oggling" discretely...i actually turned round and walked into a bloke behind me who was POINTING yes POINTING at my bum...lucky for me he almost died of embarrasment, made the whole thing funny. I got my burnt grass and got outa there...:p

BrookM wrote:

Kyley wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright, trying to tell my dad that I needed to stop doing Guard and instead get Orks.

Is that her picture you have as avatar? Is that your girlfriend? Do you know the girl in your picture? Are you the girl in your avatar?


....

Whenever Brook posts, I always wonder that...but I never asked.

-Kyley

I have a penis and you twits lack a brain, I'm just as smelly and loud as you, I can't be a grrrl!

Wait, imagine I'm the girl but with a BIG flaccid garden hose flopping between the legs.

Dude, you told me months ago you keep getting those comments pm'd to you, I put a smiley on the end of my message...



it

was

a

joke.

Memory wrote:

smart_alex wrote:I think its pretty much established that chicks just dont like cool things. They do not really have hobbies. I often wonder what goes on in their heads. Girls do not really have things that they like to do. Unless it involves some pointless fitness/spirituallity thing like yoga or counseling. That is why they are never around cool things like warhammer.

Pardon me while I pick up my jaw. I seem to have laughed it right off.

I'm a gamer, I'm female, and up until college, I never gamed with guys unless they were the boyfriends of someone in my all-female group. We did tabletop RPGs, with minis, which led to my love of painting.

All of my exes have been gamers, or became so very quickly. My ex-husband and I met through Call of Cthulhu, and when we divorced we split our geekery as fairly as we could (he got the Space Marines and I got the Orks, he got the 360 but I got any the games I wanted). We still get on well, and he's asked me to help him build some drop pods in a few weeks.

So, yes, female gamers do exist. Female wargamers do exist. And we're pretty awesome.

And we kick a$$.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

BrookM wrote:

Kyley wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store used to have a girly red shirt aeons ago. She was a big nutter alright, trying to tell my dad that I needed to stop doing Guard and instead get Orks.

Is that her picture you have as avatar? Is that your girlfriend? Do you know the girl in your picture? Are you the girl in your avatar?


....

Whenever Brook posts, I always wonder that...but I never asked.

-Kyley

I have a penis and you twits lack a brain, I'm just as smelly and loud as you, I can't be a grrrl!

Wait, imagine I'm the girl but with a BIG flaccid garden hose flopping between the legs.

Dude, you told me months ago you keep getting those comments pm'd to you, I put a smiley on the end of my message...



it

was

a

joke.

I know, I appear to have forgotten a smiley of my own. Here's a belated one along with a swift apology.

Oh well, all's forgiven, how could I stay mad at that pretty face and those full, pouting lips...





/smirk

Let's powerhug, you know I can't resist such a big bushy beard and that manic gleam in your eyes!

Anyway, I think that a GW store somehow has these invisible negative vibes that makes grrrls feel unwelcome. And that's before you add in the clientèle and staff.

I went in to get some primer and the prat behind the till said "Bag"

I responded "Do I want one or are you calling me one?"

Miss Dee wrote:I went in to get some primer and the prat behind the till said "Bag"

I responded "Do I want one or are you calling me one?"

I lol'd...I hate rude staff, anywhere. I always go out of my way to make them feel bad if they are a 'D-bag'.



All these sexist accusations going around ... "Well, so what? What's wrong with bein' sexy?" - Nigel Tufnel

Miss Dee wrote:I went in to get some primer and the prat behind the till said "Bag"

I responded "Do I want one or are you calling me one?"

Is that what he said or was it 'bag?'

If you know he was trying to be funny at your expense, complain to the management.

BrookM wrote:Let's powerhug, you know I can't resist such a big bushy beard and that manic gleam in your eyes!

/pats knee...

What GW stores need is several staff courses in proper etiquette and plenty of ADHD meds as well. Hmm, maybe chemical castration while we're at it. Let's bring back good people to staff these stores.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:/pats knee...

You're the uncle I've always wanted..

I think a 2'x4' works better.

Or we could ask good ol' Frazz to make a few house calls.

I figure girls in game stores tend to get the same sort of looks I got in AC Moore when I spent an hour or so trying to figure out of those "Kricut" things in the scrap booking section would cut styrene. Sort of the "He is too ugly to be gay, but why is he here? Is it a trap?" Granted, it might have been the aura of trying to kill the packaging designers with my brain I was giving off, but of the women that did say hi, most were approaching me like an Animal Planet star approaches a wounded leopard.

However guys, there is hope! (Just not in the scrapbooking aisle). There was/is a rather cute redshirt at the Franklin Mills GW who got me in a fair bit of trouble with my then fiance. You see, if you don't get all sweaty and mumbly, she was quite happy to make small talk and mention how much she likes the Witch Hunter's line and ask how your painting is going. Enough so that upon leaving the store, my fiance peppered me with the "Where do you know her from? Why was she talking to you!?" sort of questions. (Though Pro Tip: The correct answer is not "What, afraid I am going to trade you in for a gamer girl with better grammar?")

statement of opinion
As an aside, tact and diction not withstanding, Smart_Alex does have a bit of a point. Memory and crew are a rare and wonderful thing: a girl with full fledged hobbies, and more, hobbies that guys also like. Many women just don't seem to have the obsessive drive that men have when it comes to the concept of hobbies. Those they do have tend to be much less social than even wargaming, such as the various cloth/yarnwork fields and gardening, and tend to be more generalized (i.e. they dabble more.) I suspect that those two tendancies (which are not universal of course) tend to make it seem that women have zero hobbies, as you rarely see them practice them in groups, and they rarely become the type that spends every spare second on them.
In fact, it might be said that many men have hobbies that focus on social aspects, while women socialize as a past time and have hobbies as something to do outside of that.
I could also be completely wrong. I often forget that I am a strange minority in the human family Still, it seems likely that women and men do generally like different sorts of things for different reasons, and those are worth talking about if you want to get your S/O into your war gaming or gardening or something.
/statement of opinion

Brook, MGS: can you take the bromance to PM please? lol

Who needs girls in a gamestore when you have a wife who lets you set up your own battle bunker in the basement? :p Honestly I dont see why girls would want to work in a gamestore and prob be hit on, looked at or otherwise annoyed all day by gamers

I dont even like gamers that much and Im a gamer

I have a busty female friend who plays nids. She won't go enar the local store, becuase all the staffers there keep trying to look down her top and won't leave her alone.

Wehrkind wrote:I figure girls in game stores tend to get the same sort of looks I got in AC Moore when I spent an hour or so trying to figure out of those "Kricut" things in the scrap booking section would cut styrene. Sort of the "He is too ugly to be gay, but why is he here? Is it a trap?" Granted, it might have been the aura of trying to kill the packaging designers with my brain I was giving off, but of the women that did say hi, most were approaching me like an Animal Planet star approaches a wounded leopard.

I lol'd here. I've had the same experience at Michael's Crafts. After a hard days work at the grime pit, you're standing in the craft store going through the chains, clasps and beads looking for the perfect ornate Warhammer doorknob for a bit of terrain as "Crafters" aren't sure why you're in their territory checkin' out "girl stuff".

I dont even like gamers that much and Im a gamer

QFT ...

It's funny,
when my wife walks in a store alone she says it's hilarious as all the boys don't know where to look. Really funny.

Just shows the type of person playing the game in general. But hopefully they grow up (I think I did )

I also had a friend that walked in to buy a present,
Being a ballet dancing model, I don't think that the staff were prepared, hilarity ensued.

I don't think I care whether there are Female staff,
only that they are good staff. But for the other women gamers and Mums etc it would be a good thing.

I remember during the short time I worked for my local GW store as few years ago, one of the girls from Spearmint Rhino came in to buy some stuff for her little brother. That was fun I'm 6'5 tall and she must of been just over 5. Well stacked and wearing a low cut top... sigh

Similar stuff happens to guys as well if in places that are traditionally for women - I get real funny looks when browsing the racks in the Lingerie department at the local M&S (Just trying to find something in the right size for the missus - honest!)

And just try even reading the 'bounty' forums (website about babies and birth) whilst the wife is posting - they really don't like that!

There is a chick that works in the Ottawa store. "You're so nice!"

Honestly, they should just make all of them chicks. Everyone except cool Manager guy and cool red shirt guy at my local store. In fact I think I am going to bring this up with Jervis next time I see him.

**inserts bad joke about lack of females who play wargames**

Wow, this is such an important subject. Because, you know, women don't work in almost every line of business already...

When I worked for M&S the manager kept calling me dave I warned him 4 times then I decked him, and resigned.

Miss Dee wrote:When I worked for M&S the manager kept calling me dave I warned him 4 times then I decked him, and resigned.

Was it Trigger from Fools and Horses?

And why weren't you charged with assault?

MGS: Because most guys don't want to admit they got hit hard enough by a girl to charge for assault. Either that, or the police operator hung up on him because he couldn't be understood over all the laughter in the background

I don't know Dave, I think you'd have a fight on your hands then.

I bet half of you guys are saying sexist things coz you'd be scared if there were women in the stores. I know I would..

He did breach the 2004 gender recignition act.

Wehrkind wrote:MGS: Because most guys don't want to admit they got hit hard enough by a girl to charge for assault. Either that, or the police operator hung up on him because he couldn't be understood over all the laughter in the background

You'd cry too... if this girl hit you

M..m..mmm..MONSTER!

suppose GW stores are jsut like the COmputer place i work at the ratio must be 95% blokes 5% women and its quite a big place.

Its much better to have girls in the workplace, it sorts out the ying and yang mix. When i have worked in 100% blokey workplaces it ends up being a miserable geek zone where hardly any work gets done.

the thing i dont get is the girlfriend, she watches sci-fi, works in IT and still calls my minis "little soldiers" !

When my wife and I first started dating, I took her along to my FLGS. She handled it better than I expected she would. No obvious 'Gamerisms' (leering/stinking/pointing) until we were walking out, when she went to push the door open (I was carrying a bag of stuff - excuse me).
Another customer was pulling the door open, just as she went to push it. She nearly fell into (clutz) the guy, who immediately retracted his head into his heavy winter coat like some kind of a turtle, and make this odd giggly wheezing noise.

She never wanted to go back.
For some reason she married me six years later, and gets to come spend time at the new GW store with several other GFs who no longer feel as out of place when there are a few of them together.

Skarwael wrote:GW might lose sales cus the geeks are afraid to go in.

qft!

Actually, my GF and I were talking about this at GD this weekend; none of the female staff from the stores we knew to have them (like Wycombe) seemed to be there, and even the ladies from the 'Eavy Metal team seemed absent. However, the latter might be due to the fact that I don't think they speak great English...

Theres a female blue shirt at my flgs....with steel toecaps.