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cgage00 wrote:I would go as far as the kid was annoying but all of you are just out of line and should be kicked in the......

I can best say it as "You don't know, man- you weren't there!"

I would like to repeat myself here- All I did was ask him to go away and go and build his wraith instead of bothering everyone.

All the annoying people at our local GW are known as vets.

But seriously, we do have one or two people that make us roll our eyes, but nothing too bad. There is a guy who comes in and tries to steal people's models from their cases, but as soon as the staff spot him he is kicked out.

Misguidance wrote:All the annoying people at our local GW are known as vets.

But seriously, we do have one or two people that make us roll our eyes, but nothing too bad. There is a guy who comes in and tries to steal people's models from their cases, but as soon as the staff spot him he is kicked out.

I think I may know him as I'm close to your store.

My recolection of an anoying kid was back in the day, he was always known for butting in on others battles or convosasions but my most vivid memmory was during a battle.

A massive battle (Chaos against Blood Angels, Eldar, IG and Ultramarines) was taking place what you would now call Apoc but back then (2nd edition rules) we just called it HUGE!!!!.

About the 3rd turn the Ultramarines player (this snot ball of a kid) fires his dreadies misslies at a beast men squad...which i was in CC with at the time (I was IG). He wipes the squad from the bord. Needless to say I was less than happy about it, he shugs and goes "It was friendly fire and any ways your only Guard you can't order me around, your just here to make up the numbers".
The both the Blood Angel and Eldar players (we had 4 on our side) look at me with this "we know he is a prick but we need him" look.
"Fine" I thought.

5th turn I'm in CC again this time with some CSM's and Yarick is wipping some major a$$, but gues what. Yeap the snot ball fired his dread at me again. Wiped out most of Yaricks squad. He giggels like a fracking school girl as the wounds pile on. The Chaos players are looking alittle perplexed at what was going on, the BA player tells the snot ball that he shouldent do that any more as its just wrong, I've gone all quite mornning the loss of Yarick. He pays no attention to the BA player and the proceeds to fire at one of my LRBT declaring me a "Chaos loving heratic that must be purged".

Turn 6, every thing I had I turned on the snot ball.
"You can't do that! I'm Ultramarines" he crys "You can't shoot me". A red shirt (Manager back then) looks up from the painting table and says "You just killed a lot of his army, I think the guard would turn on you."
He pleaded to the others in my team to turn on me, the BA player said some thing like "your on your own". The Eldar player grined in the fasion that i would think Eldrad would when comming up with some thing d**kish and cast fortune on most of my force. The Chaos players steped back from the table.

Never before had so much blue been turned a mushy red, for two turns the main battle stoped as I hammerd his army into the ground.

Before I tabled him he packed up all of his stuff then took a swip at Yarick sitting on the table edge (were we kept the resurves pool). Yarick went flying across the room and his power clawr snaped off, poor Yarick was never the same after that day.

I never did see that kid again for some odd reason. Might have been some thing about that if i were to see him again i would rip his arm off and beat him with it.

Misguidance wrote:There is a guy who comes in and tries to steal people's models from their cases, but as soon as the staff spot him he is kicked out.

why don't they ban him? He's obviously done it a lot.

Ribon Fox wrote:

Misguidance wrote:All the annoying people at our local GW are known as vets.

But seriously, we do have one or two people that make us roll our eyes, but nothing too bad. There is a guy who comes in and tries to steal people's models from their cases, but as soon as the staff spot him he is kicked out.

I think I may know him as I'm close to your store.

My recolection of an anoying kid was back in the day, he was always known for butting in on others battles or convosasions but my most vivid memmory was during a battle.

A massive battle (Chaos against Blood Angels, Eldar, IG and Ultramarines) was taking place what you would now call Apoc but back then (2nd edition rules) we just called it HUGE!!!!.

About the 3rd turn the Ultramarines player (this snot ball of a kid) fires his dreadies misslies at a beast men squad...which i was in CC with at the time (I was IG). He wipes the squad from the bord. Needless to say I was less than happy about it, he shugs and goes "It was friendly fire and any ways your only Guard you can't order me around, your just here to make up the numbers".
The both the Blood Angel and Eldar players (we had 4 on our side) look at me with this "we know he is a prick but we need him" look.
"Fine" I thought.

5th turn I'm in CC again this time with some CSM's and Yarick is wipping some major a$$, but gues what. Yeap the snot ball fired his dread at me again. Wiped out most of Yaricks squad. He giggels like a fracking school girl as the wounds pile on. The Chaos players are looking alittle perplexed at what was going on, the BA player tells the snot ball that he shouldent do that any more as its just wrong, I've gone all quite mornning the loss of Yarick. He pays no attention to the BA player and the proceeds to fire at one of my LRBT declaring me a "Chaos loving heratic that must be purged".

Turn 6, every thing I had I turned on the snot ball.
"You can't do that! I'm Ultramarines" he crys "You can't shoot me". A red shirt (Manager back then) looks up from the painting table and says "You just killed a lot of his army, I think the guard would turn on you."
He pleaded to the others in my team to turn on me, the BA player said some thing like "your on your own". The Eldar player grined in the fasion that i would think Eldrad would when comming up with some thing d**kish and cast fortune on most of my force. The Chaos players steped back from the table.

Never before had so much blue been turned a mushy red, for two turns the main battle stoped as I hammerd his army into the ground.

Before I tabled him he packed up all of his stuff then took a swip at Yarick sitting on the table edge (were we kept the resurves pool). Yarick went flying across the room and his power clawr snaped off, poor Yarick was never the same after that day.

I never did see that kid again for some odd reason. Might have been some thing about that if i were to see him again i would rip his arm off and beat him with it.

I wish those days were still here- that you could shoot an ork mob when one guardsman is in CC, and you could kill friendly units...
I would have seriously confronted the kid's dad as he left and tell him he deliberately broke your expensive model.
by the sound of it I would rate this guy a 4/5.

@ Ribon Fox

I remember many years ago when I played in the LGS with the huge battles. I rememeber my friend just started an IG army and I had my chaos army (we was on opposing sides). We used to play every week or so in massive battles at the store up to 6 a side! There was this kid about the same age who used to hammer me (it was when they released the falcon for the first time and fire prisms).

Anyway one day my mate got sick of him saying his IG were useless and never contributed and that his falcon did more then his entire army. Well my mate decided to turn heretic and destroy half his army, the lad was not impressed (im not surprised) anyway he stopped being suck a d**k after that.

But yeah I'm not surprised you turned on him glad to hear you tabled him!

Mighty Simo wrote:Anyway one day my mate got sick of him saying his IG were useless and never contributed and that his falcon did more then his entire army. Well my mate decided to turn heretic and destroy half his army, the lad was not impressed (im not surprised) anyway he stopped being suck a d**k after that.

I would just destroy his falcon, and see how good the rest of his eldar did...
I would rate him a 3.

shrike wrote:

Misguidance wrote:There is a guy who comes in and tries to steal people's models from their cases, but as soon as the staff spot him he is kicked out.

why don't they ban him? He's obviously done it a lot.

Ribon Fox wrote:

I think he technically IS banned, which is why they keep throwing him out. What I'm more surprised about is that he has never been arrested.... but then, I don't think he has ever made it out the store with anything- just grabbed stuff and tried his luck.

I remember when I worked at the bunker in seattle years ago, we booted several people out. The first was a older falla in his 40's who kept hitting on the kids moms, and butting in conversations the employees were having with customers. In fairness some of the moms were really hot, and one or two of the french moms were nice enough to tell me what they thought of me, and what they wouldn't mind doing.... never mind that part. The second was a kid who would come in and bash GW and phrase Warmachine since he worked as a mould pourer there.... OO and I do remember a couple of annoying little twits here and there.

ratings?

of the hot moms?

Mewiththeface wrote:

sourclams wrote:

Mr Mystery wrote:Because you've never gotten on someones tits before have you?

Now that is a DARNED interesting expression, there.

I lol'd hard.

Also, I got some news for you guys, if you haven't noticed TFG at your game store, then you probably are.

Sigg'd.

Viktor von Domm wrote:of the hot moms?

nah, you know what I mean.

ahhh too bad...

but to the topic, i would go easy with underaged annoying kids...they have the need to learn still. the kids gloves are definatly off if mature players or heinis would tick me off... i have a reputation of being a bit nasty to people that tick me off....personally i dont see why some peeps tend to behave that anoingly when in public...if all you want is to paint/play or learn or even buy stuff at a store then there should be a code of behavoir going with that need to be there...but i guess attention wh...s are everywhere the same...

to bad. but on the upside i had never played a game so i am not yet spoiled^^

vik

If people are not being appropriate then staff should ask them to leave. It's not difficult, there's no need to make a scene or behave unprofessionally.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Not flipping out.

Before Christmas my wife went into the local GW to get me a WD subscription for Christmas and she had to leave the BO of the guys playing in there was so bad.

She stood at the door and the manager took the order at the door with her. I went in later and it was like being hit in the face, it stunk bad.

See, thats just horrible, if you're going out where you might encounter another person, basic hygene is rule #1. Mrs. Gonads (that sounds wierd ) must have strong will power not to of just given up and ordered online.

I used to get kicked out all the time. The staff were generally pretty good about it though. I remember when 3rd edition was released, and I got into an argument with the staff running my game that Splinter Cannons were strength 5. I was fething positive. I read that entry in the codex just before going into the store. I was wrong.

I got kicked out for 2D6 minutes (ended up being 7 minutes).

-Loki- wrote:

I got kicked out for 2D6 minutes (ended up being 7 minutes).

Lol good idea.
"Son, go to time out... *rolls dice* for 11 minutes!"
"AHHHHH MAN"

Every one in the club is basically a 1-3 cuz we dont let kids in rofl

I've had the same problem with this kid at my LFGS. He plays warhammer skaven and i play 40k, so we really don't have anything to talk about, but i'll say something along the lines of "sorry dude, don't really know anything bout warhammer, just 40k". Seems like he'll get it for a little bit, go bother some one else, and then he's back to bugging me. He also picks up models of mine without me allowing it, which is a huge pet-peeve of mine. Him and his dad are arguing just about everyday they're there. So I'd rate this kid prolly a 4 without the whole his army can beat anyone thing. Other than that he is quite annoying.

I had a kid (maybe 12 or 13) like this harrass me during a monthly tournament at my LGS a while back. On a good-natured challenge, I brought an All-Infantry IG list, and it made the games go a little long.

I was haranged for 6 hours with comments like "wow, your only on turn 3?" (heard this one 5-6 times), and "wow, you should bring tanks next time, Guardsmen just can't do anything.", and an assorment of other comments that began with "You should...". His step dad was behind me palying, so I held my tongue.

When I asked where his army was, he responded that he diden't have one, but that he used his step fathers sometimes. (Note: he wasen't playing in the tounry). I meant this as "where the heck is your army? Oh, its not here? Oh, you don't even have one? Ahh, I see, you don't have a frigging clue about what your talking about? Then shut the heck up".

He just diden't get it. I put up with it becuase...well, at the end of the day, he's just a kid. Sometimes, you just have to ignore schmucks like that, and hope not to encounter them again. Next time this happens, i'll probably have the moderator make him leave me alone. And as I said, he just diden't know what he was talking about. Maybe a little slow, too.... (his step father was really a good guy, though. Not sure how his step son missed the gamer etiquette lessons.)

This happened roughly 6 hours ago, I went to my local gaming store to grab 3 valkryies and 2 sentinals for my IG army. this random "kid" (more like 20 year old imature @#$#) walks up to me, and goes " psh IG suck, my necron army cant beat any army you have"

first off i was like what? then who the f$%^ are you? then really?

So first off being clearly older then him, i politly asked him, may i help you with something?

TFG: yeah you can help me get a win.

at this point the store owner said sorry to me as the kid walked away for a sec to joke with his buddies. i said it was ok and so forth kids will be kids.

so as im leaving this kid starts yelling "hey the IG players leaving see he wouldnt even play little old me."

at this point i was on my way to my car to get my tau army with my wife to show the store owner (he wanted to see some conversons ive done)

so i come back into the store and TFG starts again.

TFG: Aww the ig player brought his army, then he looked at my wife when she comes in about 6 mins later with the other battle bag (holds about 400-500 units). so this kid walks over and starts hitting on her. at this point im laughing.

so once he gets shot down in a halarous manner (my wife told him she would rather kiss sludge then be near him)

he starts on me again saying oh that his 4000 point necron army could beat anything i have. so i took this challange. and told him if i win, he not only matures the hell up. but will also start acting more freindly and not annoying.

arrogently he accepted.

so my wife walks over we open both bags and 12000 points of tau comes out.

needless to say after 30 mins of carnage he lost but he was more mellow. and learned his lesson.

store owner gave me a discount after XD

*sniffs* lovely story Pogo, made my heart skip a beat. nothing says behave like an apoc sized slapping down.

you've earned my first internet hug, be gentle with me its my first and i'm giving it to you.

Every store has them and I think as we get older we realise that there are more and more of them, but I think this is because we get older. I also have less tolerance now and am not as chilled as I once was, the weight of the world is on my back

20 year olds have no excuse however and I salute pogo and his misses

If the kids are running around and being annoying I tend to ignore them or just give them an evil and they tend to stop. One declared the other day 'I don't think he likes me'.

I think the staff do have a hard time on occasion having to deal with members of the public like this. The guys at the store I go too are all sound gents and are always professional in a jovial way. 'If you keep running around you will be declared a heretic and shot' kinda style.

I think for the OPs store to act like is a bit unprofessional regardless of how annoying the kid was.

I remember one GW staff member going a little OTT at a friend for playing dwarves, who are a tedious static gunline army, and should be removed from the game and a special place reserved in hell for people like him.

The funny thing was this staffer then proceeded to use a gunline Dark Elf force, without any hint of irony....

JOHIRA wrote:

Mr Mystery wrote:Some gets on your tits as an employee, you politely explain that they are causing annoyance,

Yes, this is the key. Sorry OP, but I don't think your store handled this very well. It sounds like everyone was quite passive-aggressive. Which doesn't really solve anything.

Basic manners say you overlook people being slightly annoying in public. If the person is being annoying enough that the customers can't overlook it, then the manager should deal with it.

It's not always necessary to deal with the problem by throwing the annoying party out though. I'd bet a plate of chips that the kid in this story wanted attention from the older staff and wanted to fit in. If there's a big age gap between them and you, then it's to be expected that this kid will do things that you think are annoying. But if it's truly as inconsequential as cracking bad jokes and asking annoying questions, then you have the opportunity to be a role model and show them how to behave differently, if necessary directly telling them how their behavior is inappropriate. Then if it continues, they can asked to leave.

This pretty much sums up a lot of my feelings on this. The staff and manager should have handled this better and not been childish/cliquey about it.

pogo wrote:This happened roughly 6 hours ago, I went to my local gaming store to grab 3 valkryies and 2 sentinals for my IG army. this random "kid" (more like 20 year old imature @#$#) walks up to me, and goes " psh IG suck, my necron army cant beat any army you have"

first off i was like what? then who the f$%^ are you? then really?

So first off being clearly older then him, i politly asked him, may i help you with something?

TFG: yeah you can help me get a win.

at this point the store owner said sorry to me as the kid walked away for a sec to joke with his buddies. i said it was ok and so forth kids will be kids.

so as im leaving this kid starts yelling "hey the IG players leaving see he wouldnt even play little old me."

at this point i was on my way to my car to get my tau army with my wife to show the store owner (he wanted to see some conversons ive done)

so i come back into the store and TFG starts again.

TFG: Aww the ig player brought his army, then he looked at my wife when she comes in about 6 mins later with the other battle bag (holds about 400-500 units). so this kid walks over and starts hitting on her. at this point im laughing.

so once he gets shot down in a halarous manner (my wife told him she would rather kiss sludge then be near him)

he starts on me again saying oh that his 4000 point necron army could beat anything i have. so i took this challange. and told him if i win, he not only matures the hell up. but will also start acting more freindly and not annoying.

arrogently he accepted.

so my wife walks over we open both bags and 12000 points of tau comes out.

needless to say after 30 mins of carnage he lost but he was more mellow. and learned his lesson.

store owner gave me a discount after XD

I lol'd when I read this

shrike wrote:ah. We here in bedford have a lot more than that. We have a lot of gamers, but for some reason it's a small store and we have only one staff member on a shabby road.

Do you mean the store in Bedford, Bedfordshire? I live in Luton but with no store I have no where to play much nowdays. I don't really like the club held at the working mens club in luton. Whats it like at the Bedford store? How easy is it to get a game down there? Sorry to wildly off topic. Also im not annoying if thats any help!

Boomer wrote:

shrike wrote:ah. We here in bedford have a lot more than that. We have a lot of gamers, but for some reason it's a small store and we have only one staff member on a shabby road.

Do you mean the store in Bedford, Bedfordshire? I live in Luton but with no store I have no where to play much nowdays. I don't really like the club held at the working mens club in luton. Whats it like at the Bedford store? How easy is it to get a game down there? Sorry to wildly off topic. Also im not annoying if thats any help!

I'll PM you so it doesn't get OT.