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2009/09/07 13:26:14
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Fixture of Dakka
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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?
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2009/09/07 13:45:34
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Road-Raging Blood Angel Biker
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Female ok I get it, but Blueshirt?
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"...THIS IS THE INTERWEBZ! Where people aren't about to let the lack of having the slightest idea what they are talking about slow them down one bit! ;-).....And they'll get angry at others for disagreeing." - jmurph
"Disclaimer: I am not one of those who is going to tell you that you must change your list to find success. If these are the models and the list that you want to play, then play them." - Feldmarshal Goehring |
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2009/09/07 14:43:24
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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The Hammer of Witches
A new day, a new time zone.
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Just like you see fewer female gamers, so you will only see the occasional female staffer..
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"-Nonsense, the Inquisitor and his retinue are our hounoured guests, of course we should invite them to celebrate Four-armed Emperor-day with us..."
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2009/09/07 15:20:29
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Fixture of Dakka
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Anarchyman99 wrote:Female ok I get it, but Blueshirt?
Blueshirt = GW staffer
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2009/09/07 15:35:09
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
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I know of at least two others. One worked for the Tunbridge Wells Store, and the other worked for the Oxford store.
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2009/09/07 15:48:08
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Charging Wild Rider
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It's been known to happen in the past occasionally.
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And so, due to rising costs of maintaining the Golden Throne, the Emperor's finest accountants spoke to the Demigurg. A deal was forged in blood and extensive paperwork for a sub-prime mortgage with a 5/1 ARM on the Imperial Palace. And lo, in the following years the housing market did tumble and the rate skyrocketed leaving the Emperor's coffers bare. A dark time has begun for the Imperium, the tithes can not keep up with the balloon payments and the Imperial Palace and its contents, including the Golden Throne, have fallen into foreclosure. With an impending auction on the horizon mankind holds its breath as it waits to see who will gain possession of the corpse-god and thus, the fate of humanity...... |
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2009/09/07 15:50:51
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Madrak Ironhide
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*raises hand*
What's a female?
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2009/09/07 16:11:05
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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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!".
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2009/09/07 16:11:56
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Fixture of Dakka
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2009/09/07 16:19:39
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
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A woman... I'm scared
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2009/09/07 17:01:53
Subject: Re:GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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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. 
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2009/09/07 17:08:16
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
UK
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GW might lose sales cus the geeks are afraid to go in.
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2009/09/07 17:42:59
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Longtime Dakkanaut
United States of England
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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.....
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2009/09/07 21:34:34
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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My local EB has two female staff. I found that surprising.
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2009/09/07 21:36:29
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Wait, a bartender there for the money? Incomprehensible!
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2009/09/07 21:37:08
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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My preferred comicbook store had a female staff member for quite a while.
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2009/09/07 21:51:01
Subject: Re:GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Major
far away from Battle Creek, Michigan
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She didn't happen to look like this eh?
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PROSECUTOR: By now, there have been 34 casualties.
Elena Ceausescu says: Look, and that they are calling genocide.
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2009/09/07 21:57:11
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Dakka Veteran
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Your mum.
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 -STOLEN !  - Astral Claws  - Custodes  - Revenant Shroud
DR:70-S+++G++M(GD)B++I++Pw40k82/fD++A++/areWD004R+++T(S)DM+
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2009/09/07 22:01:44
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Horrific Hive Tyrant
London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)
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Gemma (a friend of mine) used to work in GW portsmouth.
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 Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor. |
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2009/09/07 22:05:15
Subject: Re:GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Major
far away from Battle Creek, Michigan
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How do we know the employee was a female. Chromosomal testing may be in order.
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PROSECUTOR: By now, there have been 34 casualties.
Elena Ceausescu says: Look, and that they are calling genocide.
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2009/09/07 22:09:55
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Soul Token
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Sorry to be ignorant - what does blue shirts particularly mean?
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The fastest, safest, and largest trade market on the net.
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2009/09/07 22:16:12
Subject: Re:GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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olympia wrote:She didn't happen to look like this eh?
No, closer to this:
Which, in a Comicbook store, is equivalent to this:
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2009/09/07 22:17:38
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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One wonders how all you handsome devils cope without beautiful models and actresses to cater to your whims...
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2009/09/07 22:34:51
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Major
far away from Battle Creek, Michigan
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Nurglitch wrote:One wonders how all you handsome devils cope without beautiful models and actresses to cater to your whims...
Liquor.
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PROSECUTOR: By now, there have been 34 casualties.
Elena Ceausescu says: Look, and that they are calling genocide.
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2009/09/07 22:37:53
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Krazed Killa Kan
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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.
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2009/09/07 22:46:54
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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GW headhunts the h00ters staff...
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2009/09/07 23:59:35
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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GW couldn't afford that quality of help.
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2009/09/08 00:25:12
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Nimble Pistolier
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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..
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2009/09/08 00:26:23
Subject: GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Enigmatic Sorcerer of Chaos
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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. 
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2009/09/08 01:42:34
Subject: Re:GW Female Staffer Recruitment Drive
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Anointed Dark Priest of Chaos
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This thread is all the explanation one needs as to why so few woman are gamers...
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