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This was about the time I played blood angels (around when I made this account) On another site I published my list, and the response wasnt very good in that it wasnt a good list (I see this now) But not very much in the way of help. I went in to GW to ask for some help with this possible problem in my list.
He says:
"What no your list was fantastic, it was fine! Where did you get this idea that it was bad?"
I then said:
"A forum"
He replies with
"Screw your gay forums, theyre dumb"
I politely ask him not to use gay as a derogetary term, as it can be offensive. He responds with the must stupid comment I had heard in a long time:
"So what I chose to use it as a derogitary term, so its fine"
I decided to just never enter a conversation with him for more than ten seconds.
Man what a socially inept fool.

Some people may view his actions as fair. I generally dislike the term gay being used as offense. Guess why. (No not because I am homosexual)

you know its funny, I spent 9 months as a red shirt here locally and we had some good times in the store. very rarely did I ever ask anyone to leave or treat them poorly. or my co workers.

that being said.... I now refuse to walk into another store.

I pop my head in from time to time and I get the usual jargan greeting "welcome have you ever played can we help you" blah blah blah, all to be expected and very good.

this last time, I went in and said yea i'm just looking to see whats new. used to work here when it was down the way (store moved a few units down in the mall). haven't been in for a while and wanted to see what was new.

Apoc had just been released and I knew NOTHING about it as I had been out of the game (no pun intended) for a little while.

"oh you were a red shirt? why'd you leave?' just went back to work full time. worked here to make a few extra bucks when I was on disability, helped the family out a LOT.

"oh, so you're a deserter then huh." well no not really, I still enjoy the game.

"I've never seen you before, and I've been coming here for years before I worked here. so you must be lying. I don't like liars in my store."

I smiled, and walked out. called the regional manager. (who hired me)

then about a year ago I popped in again, same gig, different staff. this time I was observing my first game watching people play 5th ed. as I don't have much experience with it, I just watched the game and observed.

after about 20 minutes the guy says "so uh, if you're not going to play or buy anything you need to leave."

oh really? lets just see how well that works out. as a matter of fact I DO play, and i'm observing this game. i'll leave when I am good and ready, or i've violated the stores policy (of which I am QUITE knowledgeable)

I stayed, watched the game, guy told me never to come back. I sa and waited for his manager. pulled him aside, had a chat. I got an apology from the red shirt.

needless to say, DO speak up, it does help.

honestly though, I don't other playing in the malls anymore.

hey! heres a free horror story from the OTHER side of the shirt:

biggest pet peeve of ours was parents dropping off their pre-teens in the store all day and picking them up 8 hours later. GW is not a damn babysitting service for your geeky children. period. and when your kids leave the store and they pick up a bad habit or some word you don't like (had this happen) don't come to me telling me you don't like the values we're instilling in your children... they're YOUR children......

people, 2 things.....

#1 Hygiene. seriously. bathe, use soap, brush teeth, wash hair, DAILY.

#2 personal space. I play a game, we aren't brothers. don't touch me. especially if you don't follow the first part of this.

Rimmy wrote:
hey! heres a free horror story from the OTHER side of the shirt:

biggest pet peeve of ours was parents dropping off their pre-teens in the store all day and picking them up 8 hours later. GW is not a damn babysitting service for your geeky children. period. and when your kids leave the store and they pick up a bad habit or some word you don't like (had this happen) don't come to me telling me you don't like the values we're instilling in your children... they're YOUR children......

That has to be the single worst thing about being in a mall!

We got to the point we simply called security as soon as the parent walked off, pretty much abandoning their 5-9 year-old in our store. We were pretty tight with all the guys working secruity at our mall, so we'd just tell them we'd had another 'accidental-token-child' left loose in our store. They'd come by, pick the kid up and PA the parent over the mall system asking them collect their child which was found wandering alone.

We even thought of putting a little pen in front of store with a sign along the lines of "insert your neglected little brat for pick-up by random stranger here", but HQ wouldn't let us. Gave them a laugh though at the thought!

Rimmy wrote:people, 2 things.....

#1 Hygiene. seriously. bathe, use soap, brush teeth, wash hair, DAILY.

#2 personal space. I play a game, we aren't brothers. don't touch me. especially if you don't follow the first part of this.

#3 The type of unwanted regular 'customer' we termed 'Grossies'. I know you think you're funny and all, but please don't bring your crystal dildo into a store with young children.

Rimmy and Experiment 626, thank you for your "other side of the counter" stories. Experiment 626 your tales of the cursed store were full of lulz.

Experiment 626 wrote:

Rimmy wrote:
hey! heres a free horror story from the OTHER side of the shirt:

biggest pet peeve of ours was parents dropping off their pre-teens in the store all day and picking them up 8 hours later. GW is not a damn babysitting service for your geeky children. period. and when your kids leave the store and they pick up a bad habit or some word you don't like (had this happen) don't come to me telling me you don't like the values we're instilling in your children... they're YOUR children......

That has to be the single worst thing about being in a mall!

We got to the point we simply called security as soon as the parent walked off, pretty much abandoning their 5-9 year-old in our store. We were pretty tight with all the guys working secruity at our mall, so we'd just tell them we'd had another 'accidental-token-child' left loose in our store. They'd come by, pick the kid up and PA the parent over the mall system asking them collect their child which was found wandering alone.

We even thought of putting a little pen in front of store with a sign along the lines of "insert your neglected little brat for pick-up by random stranger here", but HQ wouldn't let us. Gave them a laugh though at the thought!

Rimmy wrote:people, 2 things.....

#1 Hygiene. seriously. bathe, use soap, brush teeth, wash hair, DAILY.

#2 personal space. I play a game, we aren't brothers. don't touch me. especially if you don't follow the first part of this.

#3 The type of unwanted regular 'customer' we termed 'Grossies'. I know you think you're funny and all, but please don't bring your crystal dildo into a store with young children.

hardest part about it was my Manager allowed it, only because he told the parents that they had to buy something in order to leave them there. so they chalked it up to cheap service and we had higher than average sales for it. still sucked.

ah yes the "grossies". agree'd, a non public item was not tolerated, but I also detested the "followers of Gnurg'le" you know, the ones who would pop zits or ooze things on things and just honestly not care about it. totally disgusting. I asked a dude to leave after I WATCHED him pick his nose and wipe it on his shirt they try to continue a game. no dude, you're not spreading your disease with the rest of the world. I still have to work here.

one thing we used to do for fun though, (because it was fun and grabbed peoples attention) is we'd do a WAAAAAAGH!! check every couple hours on the weekends or if the store was slow and it was some regulars. you know, just have everyone let out the biggest loudest WAAAAAAGH!! you can muster up. pissed off the mall management, made me fell SO much better.

never underestimate the power of the WAAAAGH!!




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Gymnogyps wrote:Rimmy and Experiment 626, thank you for your "other side of the counter" stories. Experiment 626 your tales of the cursed store were full of lulz.

bro I got tons of em. honestly one of the funnest jobs I've had in a while. the BS that was included in retail was all there, but my co-workers (who I still talk to) made the whole experience for me. they were (are) awesome.

Experiment 626 wrote:

Rimmy wrote:
hey! heres a free horror story from the OTHER side of the shirt:

biggest pet peeve of ours was parents dropping off their pre-teens in the store all day and picking them up 8 hours later. GW is not a damn babysitting service for your geeky children. period. and when your kids leave the store and they pick up a bad habit or some word you don't like (had this happen) don't come to me telling me you don't like the values we're instilling in your children... they're YOUR children......

That has to be the single worst thing about being in a mall!

We got to the point we simply called security as soon as the parent walked off, pretty much abandoning their 5-9 year-old in our store. We were pretty tight with all the guys working secruity at our mall, so we'd just tell them we'd had another 'accidental-token-child' left loose in our store. They'd come by, pick the kid up and PA the parent over the mall system asking them collect their child which was found wandering alone.

We even thought of putting a little pen in front of store with a sign along the lines of "insert your neglected little brat for pick-up by random stranger here", but HQ wouldn't let us. Gave them a laugh though at the thought!

We had a "Unattended children will be given a double shot of espresso and a puppy" sign for exactly that purpose. Got out of the mall this year, so thankfully that's usually not a problem anymore. We did have a guy drop a couple boys off one morning (likely under the impression that we sold video games), and I'm fairly convinced he then left to go visit his bit on the side. Had to kick them out of the store twice before he got back.

The ultimate horror story is that guy who had a frustrated kid try to eat one of his figures. That is legend.

Howard A Treesong wrote:The ultimate horror story is that guy who had a frustrated kid try to eat one of his figures. That is legend.

Is that the one about the "unbeaten" TS player who clipped off his opponent's Librarian's Force Weapon and ate it, cackling "He can't use it now can he?"?

I'm sure the full story of that is around here somewhere if it's not that one.

Howard A Treesong wrote:The ultimate horror story is that guy who had a frustrated kid try to eat one of his figures. That is legend.

While that is horrble, finding a six foot dislay case that had been filled with scores of models worth many hundreds of dollars (including two complete armies) violently tipped over by vandals leaving a pile of bent, chipped and broken bits was the worst I have experienced...

Waaaay back in I think... 1994? My brother and I had our stuff from the 2nd edition box and went to one of the first GW's to open in Sydney. His Space Marines painted quite nicely as well. We walked into the store and asked if we could play a game on their table, and they said fine. We started deploying our stuff - manager asks us to stop.

Puzzled, we asked why. My brothers Marines had the base trims painted black. The top was in the awful GW goblin green + sunburst yellow drybrush over sand they were doing back then, but the trims were repainted black. He thought they looked neater.

The manager told us we had to use completely green bases in his store. We couldn't even, say, paint them brown as desert bases. The store only allowed bases that looked like what Eavy Metal was producing at the time. As a result, he wouldn't let us use our stuff from the 2nd edition box on a table in that GW store.

n0t_u wrote:Someone started talking to me about lesbians, I was asked to leave[i] (there were kids around) [/i]with them despite them being the only one talking and me try to politely distance myself...

You know, you'd likely never be asked to leave a store for talking about heterosexual people.
If there are kids around, they can deal.

I live in Central MA, and back in the day, the closest store was 45 mins. away from me, in Manchester, CT. The Buckland Hills Mall location.

Now I had a good relationship with the old manager there, he even put my Ghoritch on display for a while. Me and my friends used to save our money and go once a month and buy a bunch of stuff. It was great.

Then they switched managers.

This was back when you could order individual bits (ah the good ol' days.). I used to order a LOT of bitz when the old manager worked there, and never had a hitch. This time I put in an order for some parts from a High Elf dragon, as I was obsessed with the Hell Pit only army from an old White Dwarf issue and was always making bizarre Rat Ogre conversions, Throtlings, and whatnot. I wanted the arms, the tail, and the wings from the Dragon. I also had put in for a few Inquisitorial Henchmen models, and a couple other things I don't remember. But it was a decent amount of bitz, as usual. I filled out the order and gave it to the new manager, who was very polite and friendly. He told me to come back in a couple weeks, and he'd have my order for me. If anyone remembers these forms, they have all your information on them - phone number, etc. So they can get in touch with you.

I came back a month later (as was tradition) and the guy seemed surprised to see me. He apologized and said that he had gotten caught up and didn't put my order in, but if I came back in a couple more weeks he'd have it for me. Mind you this was a 45 minute drive one way. But I wasn't upset, stuff happens.

I waited three weeks, and went back again. This time he was visibly annoyed with me, as if he thought I'd just forget about it. He didn't apologize this time, he just sighed and said it had been sent to the wrong store for some reason, and he said he was going to call that store and have it shipped to him. He told me to come back in another week or so. I was annoyed at this point, but I've worked retail and I'm patient to a fault, so I bit my tongue and left.

Again I waited three weeks, still no phone call, nothing. So I went back, and this time the guy was straight up rude to me. Gave me some excuse that he hadn't gotten to call yet, didn't have my bitz form, nothing. I'm watching my language here but the rudeness of the guy was absolutely unbelievable. As if I was inconveniencing him by trying to order bitz. Mind you it had been over two months since I placed my order. I couldn't remember every little piece I wanted, and he had apparently lost my form. This is almost verbatim how the conversation went:

"Well what did you want?"

"Uh... I know I had some High Elf Dragon parts..."

He then walked over to the shelf, took off a High Elf Dragon, and literally threw it on the counter in front of the guy who was cashing me out. "Open it. Give him whatever pieces he wants." Then he walked away.

The cashier was as surprised as me. He opened the box. Asked me what I wanted. I told him I remembered ordering the tail, wings, and arms, but if I could have anything I wanted I'd take the head of the dragon too. He says okay and starts ringing me out. The manager comes back and sees me holding the sprues.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" he literally YELLS at me. "You can't have the whole damn thing! I didn't say you could have the whole damn dragon!"

"Dude." I replied, "You said I could take the pieces I wanted. I'm going to pay for them."

"No." he says. "You only wanted a few pieces. You can't have the whole kit."

"I'll buy it, I'm going to pay for it!"

The guy stares at me, furious for no reason. "Sell him the whole dragon. ONLY the dragon. Nothing else. Put the employee discount on it." then he looks at me again. "Cash only." Audibly and loudly sighed and left the store.

I went back a month later and the store was closed. I like to think it was all that guy's fault. I understand when you work somewhere it stops being fun and becomes a job - take it from someone who worked at Gamestop and after a while, hated every video game on the planet - but any time I go into a GW store the people seem just kind of indifferent and rude. Not passionate about the hobby, not personable, not friendly, nothing. I now make it a rule only to go to Independent Retailers.

This thread makes me happy im the guiy behind the counter who flips burgers and cooks buns and doesnt have to deal with customers.
Also make me happy i have an FLGS who knew me by name for awhile(know they just know me by face)
But god some of these are hiliarious and just furious.
I can understand not wanting someone to work on a model you dont own.
like going in a McDonald with a burger king.

Rimmy wrote:
ah yes the "grossies". agree'd, a non public item was not tolerated, but I also detested the "followers of Gnurg'le" you know, the ones who would pop zits or ooze things on things and just honestly not care about it. totally disgusting. I asked a dude to leave after I WATCHED him pick his nose and wipe it on his shirt they try to continue a game. no dude, you're not spreading your disease with the rest of the world. I still have to work here.

Eewie! Yep, the local indie store is still full of those unwashed, slimy kids you could squeeze enough grease out of to fill the Wendy's deep fryers.

Parents overall are morons these days... I've politely asked parents to take their child out of the store when they've admited to things like Little Timmy being sick (ie: still very contagious) with crap like chicken pox, flu, strep throat or really bad colds. Sorry, I can refuse you service when you're trying to infect me with god knows what crap!
Funniest was the second manager I had who asked a parent to leave with their child who had pink eye (and was still highly contagious) after the kid had been playing with the demo table models AND constantly rubbing his eyes! Then my manager moved the models back into place instead of burning them... Guess what happened to him?!

Grossest thing that happened in our store; A dad brings his 4 year old into the store to look at the 'pretty toys', sitting him on his shoulders to keep him away from the models. Feels the kid wiggling about side to side, puts him on the carpeted floor just in time for the kid to dump his load of runny, wet poo all over the carpet. Dad laughs a bit trying (badly) to make light of the situation, won't even offer an up apology or offer to help clean up and then leaves with his kid.
We had to close for the rest of the day because of the awful smell and to get a professional carpet cleaning crew in to remove the nasty bio-hazard.

Luckily for me I was off at tournament that weekend so I only heard about when I got back on Monday afternoon!

Rimmy wrote:one thing we used to do for fun though, (because it was fun and grabbed peoples attention) is we'd do a WAAAAAAGH!! check every couple hours on the weekends or if the store was slow and it was some regulars. you know, just have everyone let out the biggest loudest WAAAAAAGH!! you can muster up. pissed off the mall management, made me fell SO much better.

never underestimate the power of the WAAAAGH!!

During our Black Reach release event, I found the store to be far too quiet when I arrived about 2 hours into the festivities with the cake. Under threat of me eating the cake in front of everyone else, it inspired a WAAAAAAAGH! that was clearly heard at the other end of our mall... a 1/3rd of a kilometer away! Over a dozen simultanious noise complaints nearly exploded mall security's phones!
Then we did that 3 more times afterwards too! Mall admin called the head of Canadian retail to complain about us, our boss called and congratulated us for being too loud for a bunch of trumped-up fashionistas.

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Gymnogyps wrote:Rimmy and Experiment 626, thank you for your "other side of the counter" stories. Experiment 626 your tales of the cursed store were full of lulz.

bro I got tons of em. honestly one of the funnest jobs I've had in a while. the BS that was included in retail was all there, but my co-workers (who I still talk to) made the whole experience for me. they were (are) awesome.

You're welcome Gymogyps!

Rimmy - we should have an ex-staff competition perhaps? Who's store was more full of epic-win or epic-fail!

I had an unpleasant incident where I was thrown out of the store because I pulled out some of the old big hat chaos dwarfs, and the red shirt who didn't know anything about warhammer fantasy refused to believe they were Games Workshop figures, thinking I was using other company miniatures, even though two other players there backed me up in saying that they were GW figures

He was one of those RSs who don't know about anything except Space Marines, and even then know not much about them but seem to believe they know more than anyone cos their a RS

One time when I went to a GW store. The store manager was working on some toy soldiers. I also wanted to play with some toy soldiers and he even helped me out with some
painting tips and stuff. He seemed really nice at first but than right in front of people. He started to touch me. In places. Even when I asked to be gentle or go easy they never listen.

I never felt so horrified and no one said a thing or helped me because he told them he would hurt them if they did say anything and than he did horrible things to me when I came there to play with my toy soldiers.

Ah yes, That guy loved to shake hands and touch people from the shoulders upward and do horrible things to people when they played 40k games! ALL the horrible things he would do to people and no one ever said a thing or tried to stop him from going easy on us or be gentle when using his army to smash ours heads in!


what?

What were you thinking I meant? Perverts!

Experiment 626 wrote:During our Black Reach release event, I found the store to be far too quiet when I arrived about 2 hours into the festivities with the cake. Under threat of me eating the cake in front of everyone else, it inspired a WAAAAAAAGH! that was clearly heard at the other end of our mall... a 1/3rd of a kilometer away! Over a dozen simultanious noise complaints nearly exploded mall security's phones!
Then we did that 3 more times afterwards too! Mall admin called the head of Canadian retail to complain about us, our boss called and congratulated us for being too loud for a bunch of trumped-up fashionistas.

My old GW (the same one that denied my brother the chance to play because his models had black base trims) used to decide first turn on games night by doing a Waagh test. Coupled with extremely loud heavy metal, they'd get security come down to complain about noise about every half an hour.

On a completely different note, General Hobbs, you didn't happen to work at a GW in Maryland, did you?

Heh Hobbs did not work at a GW store, but I did. I was banned from posting online because people dug up a couple old threads of mine pre-GW and some tournament organizer who was friends with the CEO got upset about an old opinion of mine about him. As a result, Hobbs sometimes told my stories as his, or he would spread rumors that I accidentally let slip.

As a GW retail employee, I had a fantastic time. I had a great sales record, and was in line to get my own store when I left the company, before coming back at a sales job with corporate. My worst horror story? We had a female customer who would kill the bathroom every day. This made the female employees have to walk across the street to the other building. We also had someone who use the trashcan instead of the toilet. We'd play rock paper scissors to determine who had to clean up.

Oh! There was actually a customer who complained on here that I asked him if he played our games after greeting him. He was standing behind a table holding a case that I could not see, and his comments were pretty much " a dumb redshirt asked me if I played while I was standing there holding a case." <shrugs>

I just shake my head when I encounter douchebaggery at a store. It goes against what we were trained in terms of customer service.

Oh and yeah, I worked in Maryland.

Che-Vito wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Someone started talking to me about lesbians, I was asked to leave[i] (there were kids around) [/i]with them despite them being the only one talking and me try to politely distance myself...

You know, you'd likely never be asked to leave a store for talking about heterosexual people.
If there are kids around, they can deal.

Or you can deal. You have no right to anything, except death and taxes.


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-Loki- wrote:

Experiment 626 wrote:During our Black Reach release event, I found the store to be far too quiet when I arrived about 2 hours into the festivities with the cake. Under threat of me eating the cake in front of everyone else, it inspired a WAAAAAAAGH! that was clearly heard at the other end of our mall... a 1/3rd of a kilometer away! Over a dozen simultanious noise complaints nearly exploded mall security's phones!
Then we did that 3 more times afterwards too! Mall admin called the head of Canadian retail to complain about us, our boss called and congratulated us for being too loud for a bunch of trumped-up fashionistas.

My old GW (the same one that denied my brother the chance to play because his models had black base trims) used to decide first turn on games night by doing a Waagh test. Coupled with extremely loud heavy metal, they'd get security come down to complain about noise about every half an hour.

That...sounds like hell actually.

We had a GW in Houston that would play Wagner and specifically Ride of the Valkyrie for us when a player brought his Elysian Epic players. now that was excellent.

Experiment 626 wrote:Rimmy - we should have an ex-staff competition perhaps? Who's store was more full of epic-win or epic-fail!

why make it a contest? I started a thread a while back in the OT section. no one really chimed in.

I'm proud of my time as a red shirt. I had a LOT of fun!

happy to say we had more fun than not!

so my life changing moment (literally, it HAS changed my life) is as follows:

I got to be pretty good at pumping out terrain and making tables. and I REALLY enjoy it. its one of my favorite parts of this hobby actually.

One week I was given the task of making a grand table for a tournament (note: this was near the end of my employment so I was unable to complete the finish work on the table, but payed out the most of it.)

This table was epic. it was a swap land at the base of a mountain. 6' x 4' regulation size, mountains on the 4' side. I built into the mountains some cracks and openeings, because you could remove the top portion, and I had inserted some aluminum trays to fill with dry ice and literally watch the "mist" roll out from the cracks in the mountain onto the battlefield. it was epic.

the valley had small swamp pits in it to be filled with dead bits and was going to be lit up.

so I have the table turned upside down and I am installing LED's through the whole thing. so being an electronics guy, I designed the whole circuit, went to radio shack and spent about $150 in parts.

a 12 year old kid, comes in, sees me working, and says "what are you doing?" oh i'm installing lights in the bottom of the table to make it light up. "why didn't you just use christmas tree lights?"

...

...

...

damnit!!!!

the ENTIRE store erupted in laughter.

to this VERY day, when I over engineer something, I step back, say Xmas lights, and get back in the game. I am literally getting a tattoo of a xmas tree light on my arm to remind me of that moment.

I left before I could finish the table, but my co-workers knew the vision, finished up the final touches and they had their tournament. they said they skipped the lights because they didn't feel it needed it, but they made sure the Dry ice was on hand when it came time to play. it looked amazing. kind of hard to play because it blocked the sight of the models and you had to blow the mist to see whats going in, but DAMN was it cool.

I intend to make more Dry Ice pieces of terrain.

A lot of you folks are a lot nicer and understanding than I would be.

I would throw a fit if I was treated this way by staff at a gamestore. I don't put up with that Please don't try and work around the swear filter, it's there for a reason. Thanks. reds8n I don't think they would try it with me in the first place though.

Kairos wrote:A lot of you folks are a lot nicer and understanding than I would be.

I would throw a fit if I was treated this way by staff at a gamestore. I don't put up with that Please don't try and work around the swear filter, it's there for a reason. Thanks. reds8n I don't think they would try it with me in the first place though.

got us a ][B /A\ ][D /A\ 'S, 'S, right here.

look, i'm 6'6" and when I was there 260 lbs, my buddy Mike (also a red shirt) is a former marine 6'5" 240 lbs, and we got people trying stuff all day long. trust me, it happens all the time.

Rimmy wrote:

Kairos wrote:A lot of you folks are a lot nicer and understanding than I would be.

I would throw a fit if I was treated this way by staff at a gamestore. I don't put up with that Please don't try and work around the swear filter, it's there for a reason. Thanks. reds8n I don't think they would try it with me in the first place though.

got us a ][B /A\ ][D /A\ 'S, 'S, right here.

look, i'm 6'6" and when I was there 260 lbs, my buddy Mike (also a red shirt) is a former marine 6'5" 240 lbs, and we got people trying stuff all day long. trust me, it happens all the time.

Not sure where you are going with this. If you are talking about physically intimidating customers; that one won't work either. I routinely choke out 300lb guys (I have been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for
over 15 years). I would actually enjoy getting a tough guy routine from a red shirt.

In addition, I wouldn't hesitate to escalate disrespectful treatment to upper management. From what I hear, Red Shirts loose their jobs really easily. Having a pissed off customer report abuse behavior
to the district manager, could very well result in termination, or at the least a poor performance review.

My point was stature, demeanor, race, sex, color nada. people start crazy stuff like you wouldn't believe.

(the above was my piss poor attempt at internet humor)

trust me, i'm not a fighter. i'm huge and all, but i'm not a fighter. hell I was in the AF! if stuff goes down, call the marines LOL

CT GAMER wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:The ultimate horror story is that guy who had a frustrated kid try to eat one of his figures. That is legend.

While that is horrble, finding a six foot dislay case that had been filled with scores of models worth many hundreds of dollars (including two complete armies) violently tipped over by vandals leaving a pile of bent, chipped and broken bits was the worst I have experienced...

What type of vandals would do such a thing? Surely they would have to be inside the hobby to even find such a display case.

That made me cry in the inside

Kairos wrote:

Rimmy wrote:

Kairos wrote:A lot of you folks are a lot nicer and understanding than I would be.

I would throw a fit if I was treated this way by staff at a gamestore. I don't put up with that Please don't try and work around the swear filter, it's there for a reason. Thanks. reds8n I don't think they would try it with me in the first place though.

got us a ][B /A\ ][D /A\ 'S, 'S, right here.

look, i'm 6'6" and when I was there 260 lbs, my buddy Mike (also a red shirt) is a former marine 6'5" 240 lbs, and we got people trying stuff all day long. trust me, it happens all the time.

Not sure where you are going with this. If you are talking about physically intimidating customers; that one won't work either. I routinely choke out 300lb guys (I have been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for
over 15 years). I would actually enjoy getting a tough guy routine from a red shirt.

In addition, I wouldn't hesitate to escalate disrespectful treatment to upper management. From what I hear, Red Shirts loose their jobs really easily. Having a pissed off customer report abuse behavior
to the district manager, could very well result in termination, or at the least a poor performance review.

Regardless of the reason given if your asked to leave a store your asked to leave a store. You have no right to be able to enter or spend time in a privetly run establishment, a local game store is not a public park...

If it was me and I asked you to leave for whatever reason and you refused and started throwing a fit your getting the cops called on you.

Kairos wrote:

Rimmy wrote:

Kairos wrote:A lot of you folks are a lot nicer and understanding than I would be.

I would throw a fit if I was treated this way by staff at a gamestore. I don't put up with that Please don't try and work around the swear filter, it's there for a reason. Thanks. reds8n I don't think they would try it with me in the first place though.

got us a ][B /A\ ][D /A\ 'S, 'S, right here.

look, i'm 6'6" and when I was there 260 lbs, my buddy Mike (also a red shirt) is a former marine 6'5" 240 lbs, and we got people trying stuff all day long. trust me, it happens all the time.

Not sure where you are going with this. If you are talking about physically intimidating customers; that one won't work either. I routinely choke out 300lb guys (I have been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for
over 15 years). I would actually enjoy getting a tough guy routine from a red shirt.

In addition, I wouldn't hesitate to escalate disrespectful treatment to upper management. From what I hear, Red Shirts loose their jobs really easily. Having a pissed off customer report abuse behavior
to the district manager, could very well result in termination, or at the least a poor performance review.

So what is your point exactly? That because your roid raging the store employees will kowtow to you or you'll break their necks, or that little johnny the nurgling is not going to see if muscles equals disease immunity? Where are you going with this? (besides internet tough guy)

EDIT: for the record I can only think of one slightly off experience from an actual GW employee, and that was purely because his innate gaming geek exuberance was overwhelming him. I've never had a bad experience with a GW employee that I can remember, and I have a long memory for personal slights. I have had poor times at GW stores for some of the other reasons cited (ratlings running about, parents who looked at me strangely for playing in a "toy store," people wanting to touch my minis the usual)
I like the horror stories from the actual GW employees. More!

Frazzled wrote:

Kairos wrote:

Rimmy wrote:

Kairos wrote:A lot of you folks are a lot nicer and understanding than I would be.

I would throw a fit if I was treated this way by staff at a gamestore. I don't put up with that Please don't try and work around the swear filter, it's there for a reason. Thanks. reds8n I don't think they would try it with me in the first place though.

got us a ][B /A\ ][D /A\ 'S, 'S, right here.

look, i'm 6'6" and when I was there 260 lbs, my buddy Mike (also a red shirt) is a former marine 6'5" 240 lbs, and we got people trying stuff all day long. trust me, it happens all the time.

Not sure where you are going with this. If you are talking about physically intimidating customers; that one won't work either. I routinely choke out 300lb guys (I have been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for
over 15 years). I would actually enjoy getting a tough guy routine from a red shirt.

In addition, I wouldn't hesitate to escalate disrespectful treatment to upper management. From what I hear, Red Shirts loose their jobs really easily. Having a pissed off customer report abuse behavior
to the district manager, could very well result in termination, or at the least a poor performance review.

So what is your point exactly? That because your roid raging the store employees will kowtow to you or you'll break their necks, or that little johnny the nurgling is not going to see if muscles equals disease immunity? Where are you going with this? (besides internet tough guy)

sadly, his point isn't far from what actually happens. dudes think they're bad over small plastic models. it gets crazy!

sadly, his point isn't far from what actually happens. dudes think they're bad over small plastic models. it gets crazy

I have heard of this. I have told several people - usually spawnlings to go away to good effect, but not seen anything more than that. It helps when you use THE DAD VOICE.

I've heard one comrade get threatened by someone at a Hardboyz tournament.

Frazzled wrote:

sadly, his point isn't far from what actually happens. dudes think they're bad over small plastic models. it gets crazy

I have heard of this. I have told several people - usually spawnlings to go away to good effect, but not seen anything more than that. It helps when you use THE DAD VOICE.

I've heard one comrade get threatened by someone at a Hardboyz tournament.

that dad voice isn't something we're allowed to do. then parents come back and get in your face etc etc. its kind of a nightmare for employees.

We caught a kid stealing once. made him sit in the paint station with a red shirt behind him until security got there. they made him stay there under guard until the kids dad came to get him. and of all things, the Dad demanded proof he did it. we didn't have cameras i the store so we couldn't turnin anything, and the dude blew up in my managers face (who was a former captain in the Army) and just threw all kinds of accusations at us!

people are crazy.

you get the random acts of strangeness too. after closing we had some chicks think it was funny to press they nekkid boobies on the window at us. wasn't funny. it was totally delightful and made my month, but certainly not funny

OMG the cougars that go into the stores though. seriously, if I could count the number of times moms would hit on us for entertaining them and their kids! CRAZY!!!