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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!!!