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At my local gamesworkshop I went out to subways to get something to eat . I ate and then asked if I could put the wrapper in the bin the staff said I could so I put it in there and then said I can't and told me to fish it back out. Then they told me to take their bag of rubbish and put it in the bin. Lastly I came back and asked if I could enter my army into the painting competiton and they said no when I had convereted nurgle bezerkers that looked real good and lots of other things. I want to hear your veiws on this... I thought they trusted me there because I'm not a trouble maker or really loud.

Son, you mean to tell me that they managed to get you to take their trash out?



The father in me says:
You got suckered. Suck it up, equate it to a learning experience to not be so gullible. Don't go back. I'm betting you're a youngin about what 13? No offense meant the other guys sound like they are working on on a younger mental level. Go to another store.

The Frazzled in me says:
Get a stick. Drive a nail through the end. Go back to the store. When the see you just smile. Lock the door. Then you'll know what to do...

(ok I'm recommending the opposite but you can daydream a little until you go to a new place)

Write a calm and polite letter about how annoyed you are and how this has made you feel and then send it to the head of customer relations in Nottingham.

Just remember that when you get older and get a job, short of a paper round you will be getting paid far more than a GW store staff member... The basic office admin where I work, the ones who just photocopy, data input and talk about big brother, those folks get paid more than the store manager of a games workshop. The only way those poor hapless imbeciles can feel better is bullying someone into taking out their trash... They don't even have the healthy staff discount they used to.

But yeah, your treatment stinks, complain.

The staff were just being big meanies to you. It's ridiculous.

Complain with a polite letter as MeanGreenStompa said. Give the date and time so the management can check who was on duty. That will help to stop them being mean ot other youngsters.

Not all GW staff are like that, so try to find a different shop.

How old are you, mate? Sounds like they thought they could boss you around cus you might be a kid. Don't do people's dirty work for them.

You might aswell write a letter, perhaps even exaggerating how badly you were treated. You never know, might get some freebies. ^_^

Just write the letter saying what happened and how it made you feel.

You don't need to exaggerate and the point is not to get freebies, it is to stop the louts at the shop from being nasty to other customers.

You probably would get something anyway. GW takes junior customers very seriously because they are a big part of the business.

Most important, you need to make the company aware that these people are acting out of order, you are their customer and should be treated well. If their bosses are made aware, then they can make sure they are retrained so they are nicer to folks shopping at the store.

This book... read it.



I need to find that stamp... seriously though, I could have so much freaking fun with it .

learn from this. People will try to get you to do things-to lead you around by the nose for affection or goodies. Men will do it. Women will do it.

Its an excellent learning experience.

ALWAYS HAVE THE LAST WORDS IN AN ARGUMENT WITH YOUR WOMAN.


and those last words should always be 'yes dear'.

Well it depends. Where you eating it in the store? If so I suppose there is no logical reason for them not to allow you to dispose of it in their bin.

However if you were eating it outside and then subsequently came in the store and threw your rubbish in their bin then the staff where well within their rights to tell you to get bent.

As for the carrying out the trash thing, well it was always one of the unwritten rules, when I was a red shirt, that if you where present at some kind of gaming night or just generally painting or gaming in the store and thus contributing to the general mess and untidiness of the place, if the staff asked you to do them a favor by picking up some stuff or putting the paints back in their containers or taking out the bin bags then you did it. After all you are hanging around the store for free and making the place look untidy in the process.

As long as the staff don't take the mick then I don't see the issue. I've never met a regular that had an problem with giving the staff a hand with something. Are you sure you aren't reading too much into this?

Sue them for hurt feelings.

Or claim they molested you, and you've been left with emotional scars that only an 'all you can carry' trip around the local GW can heal.

There's no provision in English law for hurt feelings.

Yet.

Sorry, let me rephrase, 'deep mental emotional scars that leave you unable to look anyone in the eye, or assert yourself, thus forcing you to hire someone to do all your shopping for you from this point on. ' Because of this scarring, you'll require a sum in excess of £100,000

LuciusAR wrote:Well it depends. Where you eating it in the store? If so I suppose there is no logical reason for them not to allow you to dispose of it in their bin.

However if you were eating it outside and then subsequently came in the store and threw your rubbish in their bin then the staff where well within their rights to tell you to get bent.

As for the carrying out the trash thing, well it was always one of the unwritten rules, when I was a red shirt, that if you where present at some kind of gaming night or just generally painting or gaming in the store and thus contributing to the general mess and untidiness of the place, if the staff asked you to do them a favor by picking up some stuff or putting the paints back in their containers or taking out the bin bags then you did it. After all you are hanging around the store for free and making the place look untidy in the process.

As long as the staff don't take the mick then I don't see the issue. I've never met a regular that had an problem with giving the staff a hand with something. Are you sure you aren't reading too much into this?

I would have laughed in your face, found your dad and then laughed in his face if you tried to get me to take out the trash. I'm a customer, not your friend, not your bro. I am the guy who pays your paycheck.

I agree, send a letter, might make things better. I do also think the taking the rubbish out was a bit over the top, in our GW if your there at closing time the staff might ask you to put some paint's away but thats about it, not taking their rubbish out of the shop. Mind you our GW is really friendly and doesn't have a bin...

action-man09 wrote:At my local gamesworkshop I went out to subways to get something to eat . I ate and then asked if I could put the wrapper in the bin the staff said I could so I put it in there and then said I can't and told me to fish it back out. Then they told me to take their bag of rubbish and put it in the bin. Lastly I came back and asked if I could enter my army into the painting competiton and they said no when I had convereted nurgle bezerkers that looked real good and lots of other things. I want to hear your veiws on this... I thought they trusted me there because I'm not a trouble maker or really loud.

May I ask - What store was it???

I wasn't eating in the store



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