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I dunno if this topic belongs in this thread, but earlier today there was this really annoying necron noob who was wandering around doing nothing, asking people questions like "What are you doing?" while they paint and shouting not-funny jokes about an apocalypse battle going on, and generally winding everyone up. Everyone was bitching about him- I told him to go away, a friend told him to shut up and to stop being irritating, another told him to burn in hell and called him a prick. (this may seem harsh, but he was seriously the most incredibly annoying kid I've ever seen).

My LGS manager was having a bad day, and I found a £20 voucher on the floor. I gave it to the manager, who told me it belonged to afore-mentioned kid and said that he didn't deserve it and that he deserved a smack around the head. Someone said to the manager (jokingly) that he would give him his army if he kicked the kid out of the store. The manager mentioned, out loud, that he would do it for £10 (Jokingly). Out of sheer boredom, we were saying what would the maximum we would pay to have the kid chucked out. We rooted around and came to about £65. From about 8 people.
Anyway- the point is, are there any people who can remember a GW staff member flipping out at an annoying customer and calling him/her names or anything like that or massed behind-the-back name calling/bitching?

Just wondering.

Please use this handy scale:
1- just whining/boasting about his/her army, being generally annoying, someone to just look out for and bear with him/her while you nod and paint/game/build.
2- loudly whining/boasting about his/her army, someone to be avoided.
3- asking annoying questions, mentioning that his/hers army could beat everyone else's, someone to be avoided and called minorly offensive names behind thier back.
4- asking annoying/personal questions, bumping into people and not apologising, loudly announcing that his/her army could beat everyone else's, someone to be avoided and called minorly offensive names to thier face.
5- insulting others, calling others names, breaking stuff and not apologising, bumping into people and blaming them, someone to be avoided and called offensive names to thier face.

This kid was a 4.
I also have a 3 and a couple of 1's at my LGS. All kids.
Adults? I have one "TFG", rated a 3.
Post your anecdotes, how much you'd pay to get him/her kicked out of the store and scale rating!
BTW I offered £10 to get him out.

Because you've never gotten on someones tits before have you?

yes, but not on this scale. The point is, has this happened to you?

Actually my GW store has one of the best people around, since I have never met anyone who was annoying. Well, I am kinda paranoid that I may be annoying to others.

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

Now that is a DARNED interesting expression, there.

I guess the closest we have at our GW is this one kid who does not know when to shut his mouth. He is not really annoying, more entertaining. He does get kind of annoyed when we put verbal pranks/abuse on him, but he brings it on himself. Really does not know when to keep his mouth shut.

I don't know about the other people at the local GW, but there is another kid who drives me nuts. However, it's only because he has a terrible lisp and I can only understand about every third word he says when talking to me.

What would you rate someone who posts a thread about something they made but refuses to put up pictures?

OT:

Yes, sometimes there are bothersome people at gaming stores. I'll alert the press.

No need to flip out. GW shop is private property.

Some gets on your tits as an employee, you politely explain that they are causing annoyance, and they are to pack up their gubbins and leave for the day.

If they persist the next day, you ban them for a couple of days. So on and so forth until they wind up banned from the store permanently, or the message sinks in.

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.

shrike wrote:I dunno if this topic belongs in this thread, but earlier today there was this really annoying necron noob who was wandering around doing nothing, asking people questions like "What are you doing?" while they paint and shouting not-funny jokes about an apocalypse battle going on, and generally winding everyone up. Everyone was bitching about him- I told him to go away, a friend told him to shut up and to stop being irritating, another told him to burn in hell and called him a prick. (this may seem harsh, but he was seriously the most incredibly annoying kid I've ever seen).

My LGS manager was having a bad day, and I found a £20 voucher on the floor. I gave it to the manager, who told me it belonged to afore-mentioned kid and said that he didn't deserve it and that he deserved a smack around the head. Someone said to the manager (jokingly) that he would give him his army if he kicked the kid out of the store. The manager mentioned, out loud, that he would do it for £10 (Jokingly). Out of sheer boredom, we were saying what would the maximum we would pay to have the kid chucked out. We rooted around and came to about £65. From about 8 people.
Anyway- the point is, are there any people who can remember a GW staff member flipping out at an annoying customer and calling him/her names or anything like that or massed behind-the-back name calling/bitching?

Just wondering.

Please use this handy scale:
1- just whining/boasting about his/her army, being generally annoying, someone to just look out for and bear with him/her while you nod and paint/game/build.
2- loudly whining/boasting about his/her army, someone to be avoided.
3- asking annoying questions, mentioning that his/hers army could beat everyone else's, someone to be avoided and called minorly offensive names behind thier back.
4- asking annoying/personal questions, bumping into people and not apologising, loudly announcing that his/her army could beat everyone else's, someone to be avoided and called minorly offensive names to thier face.
5- insulting others, calling others names, breaking stuff and not apologising, bumping into people and blaming them, someone to be avoided and called offensive names to thier face.

This kid was a 4.
I also have a 3 and a couple of 1's at my LGS. All kids.
Adults? I have one "TFG", rated a 3.
Post your anecdotes, how much you'd pay to get him/her kicked out of the store and scale rating!
BTW I offered £10 to get him out.

Well, on the douchebag scale of shop managers and gamers your store certainly hits a high 7.

Give a noob some slack and maybe try and help the guy and keep him engaged.

When anyone was too annoying in store or club, we pulled them to one side and set them on the right path (nothing is worse then a geek upsetting the geek apple cart). so yeah it has happened, but, no, we went total dicks about it either.


And knowing shop managers, If they were being a dick about this guy, they will certainly be a dick if your name is mentioned.

Monster Rain wrote:What would you rate someone who posts a thread about something they made but refuses to put up pictures?

seriously- SHUT UP ABOUT IT. It's not my fault. Do you have nothing better to do than follow me around threads annoying me about a dead thread?

JOHIRA wrote: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.

Seriously, I don't know why everyone at my LGS was so annoyed at him- he does this most weeks, so I would have thought they'd have gotten over it by now. We're used to having annoying people at our LGS, so I think that either:
a) The kid had been winding everyone up all day, so it kinda built up,
b) We have a lot of annoying kids, so maybe this was the last straw,
c) We overreacted (but our store is quite lenient towards annoying kids normally, so I don't think this was the case.)

JOHIRA wrote:
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.

Truthfully, the manager here is too nice. Like, he lets people comein and start a game 5 minutes from lunchtime (we only have 1 staff member, so he has to close for 30 minutes for lunch). The most he did was say to stop pestering the other customers and go and build his wraith (which he'd been "building" for about 3 hours). A friend just told him to stop being so irritating and go and build it when he returned 10 minutes later, with one arm glued on.
I was only there for two hours yesterday, so I don't know the full story. All I did was told him to "please go away" and ignored him.

As an x-staffer i can say that we are the very best of gents, and that we are all very nice & professional all of the time...

afterall - we know our 10 commandments...

hahahaha (for those in the know)

I hate not being in on inside jokes

shrike wrote: I hate not being in on inside jokes

youre not missing out on n e thing!!!

it was a 10 point customer service system we all had to learn and carry out everytime we had a customer enter the store - if we failed to do so we got whipped during lunch breaks and lemon juice (possibly Jif) was poured on the resulting wounds in the back office ... or was that just at my store?? hahaha

Meh, I've allways worked in pubs, and not very nice ones, I have to kick people out, split up fights, pretend to like gakkers and occasionally mop up blood and puke, so I think I have a fairly high tolerance for idiots. I had some fat kid near enough jump on me in GW fairly recently and he wouldn't shut up about the new dark eldar, so I just said "Sorry mate, but I'm really not interested" and walked away, he seemed to take the hint. so yeah, It's not hard, allthough it helps to be a grumpy looking skin head

I agree people do tend to leave you alone if you are a grumpy skinhead haha COCK SPARRER is my Imperial Guards victory anthems haha... But i feel your pain. There are plenty of annoying little turds running around the store i play at it is unfortunate that most of these turds are the children of some of the older guys playing. I usually just try and be polite and when and if they get out of line there Dad will tell them to pipe down or sit down.

It's happened to me & I'm sure I did it when I was younger too. Usually I try & be nice & polite for the first few minutes, then rude & dismissive at which point they generally get the picture.That said when they don't I have a distinct stare my friends call the "brock sampson stare" because it kind of looks like his face here :


Now I'm not a big guy, just about average, but my friends have said it just looks like there is something not right with me when I give that out.

I'm about the same as you- I put up with it for the first few minutes, but after that I:
a) walk away
b) tell them I don't care
c) tell them to shut up
d) just look up and glower at them for 5 seconds. If they don't get the hint, I go to e).
e) tell them to go away.

shrike wrote:I'm about the same as you- I put up with it for the first few minutes, but after that I:
a) walk away
b) tell them I don't care
c) tell them to shut up
d) just look up and glower at them for 5 seconds. If they don't get the hint, I go to e).
e) tell them to go away.

you wanna know the trick? i mean really know the trick???????

just use closed answers to all of the open questions you get

gw staff questions have to be open = they cannot be responded to with a yes or no - this basic pshyc lesson ensures that you get dragged into a conversation you dont want... so just use the yes & no reply......

morning matey how are you today?
yes
what army are you collecting at the moment?
yes
er... is that space marines?
no
warhammer?
no
40k?
no
er... ok......

try it just for 1 week and see the response... then go back to being normal of course.... hahahahaha

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.

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.

Mewiththeface wrote:if you haven't noticed TFG at your game store, then you probably are.

I lol'd hard.

I have never seen anything like that before. I just played at a GW last thursday -- had some people come up and look at my army, ask me some questions about the Blood Angels, borrowed my rulebook temporarily, but nothing that would drive someone to kill or anything. The store employees are always nice....but then again, Im not an annoying wandering turd asking arbitrary questions and shouting excrement from my mouth --then again, I dont spend much time at stores anyway, usually just go to buy supplies

My FLGS seems to have less annoying people than most of yours. I can only remember one TFG in the store, and I would rate him a 1.5 on your scale; he was tolerable to play with some times. Other than that there is just someone who had a short temper and gets angry if he thinks you are taking to long with movement or shooting, but is still relatively tolerable to play with.
Though the reason why only 1 TFG comes to mind may be because there are only 15-20 people total that ever attend the store regularly.

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.

Dosen't look like anyone said "Hey kid your annoying everyone keep it down a little!" Seems like everyone just bitched about him indirectly (not constructive), but then if this was the case the kid must be a bit of an r'tard not to get the message.

Do an Adam West, "I can't see you now, I can't hear you now! LALALALALALALA!"

shrike wrote:a friend told him to shut up and to stop being irritating

Mighty Simo wrote:Dosen't look like anyone said "Hey kid your annoying everyone keep it down a little!"

no problem my bad it's hard to do this while at work

there is a store near me(cant say which one or who the person is) but he has stated that some of the ard boys people he hates with a passion. Now I will say some ard boys people can be giant D-bags.

But for a manager to be joking like that is very un professional. 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......