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I know this forum dislikes Red Shirts but do you guys actually have any Friends as Red Shirts?

dude, your premise is wrong and a little short on real life - just because some people don't happen to like how they get treated in shops and are incapable of separating a person from their job doesn;t mean most of us "dislike" redshirts.

Most of them are average joes earning a living and on average are reasonable people.

Just because a forum laughs at a stereotype doesn't mean we all dislike redshirts.

fullheadofhair wrote:dude, your premise is wrong and a little short on real life - just because some people don't happen to like how they get treated in shops and are incapable of separating a person from their job doesn;t mean most of us "dislike" redshirts.

Most of them are average joes earning a living and on average are reasonable people.

Just because a forum laughs at a stereotype doesn't mean we all dislike redshirts.

I know, I know. I am ONE, I mainly wear my Black Shirts most days but I sometimes wear my old Red One. It's just many people dislike redshirts and GW. I mean check this out: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/320421.page

Yes well, the rantings of one socially maladjusted forum-dweller doesn't necessarily mean the rest of us feel that way.

I second fullheadofhair's point of view.

I used to be buddies with the guys down at The Gateway in Mountain Village, but they have a new guy and I'm not too sure...

I used to get free stuff from those guys... =/

lol, i thought you were talking about freshman on football teams in college who are on the team but dont get to play and are called "red shirt freshman", but before my GW closed, i liked the redshirts there

Red shirts don't have friends. Only enemies.

Cowin' heck

Who'd be a redshirt
The punters hate you (appaerntly) cos you try and sell them too much stuff
The bosses hate you cos you aren't selling enough stuff.

poor buggers

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Cowin' heck

Who'd be a redshirt
The punters hate you (appaerntly) cos you try and sell them too much stuff
The bosses hate you cos you aren't selling enough stuff.

poor buggers

Too true my good man,i've seen a few red/blackshirts come and go in my local gw and to be fair they have been fantastic people and proper hobby lovers.The red/black shirt who is currently in charge is a decent chap who always does his best to make people feel welcome or regulars to feel part of the gang(i know).In all walks of life you are not going to get on with everybody but thats life.

OMG, Shingouki, your signature may be the funniest thing that i have ever seen!

By the title, I assumed we were talking about the friends that never seem to survive 'away missions'. Probably would have been more entertaining my way. :(

dajobe wrote:OMG, Shingouki, your signature may be the funniest thing that i have ever seen!

Many thanks i however cannot take credit for the wonders of the interweb.

i think i have just watched it 14X straight through and it is still hilarious

on topic: people hate on redshirts, and sometimes with good reason, but i find that it is usually just angst

Depends on who it is, the last new Redshirt I was talking about Malifaux to anothe rplayer in the store, the redshirt got involved in the conversation and a week later She was playing it down at the local club now we have the regular redshirt back, he's a nice guy that does not try to sell stuff all the time.

the red shirts i've met have all been nice people though i've only been to a few events and one official gw store, the smallest gw store in the world at a mall in il i believe the mall is woodcrest or somethign liek that, visited it while at ACEN just outside chicago IL

pretre wrote:By the title, I assumed we were talking about the friends that never seem to survive 'away missions'. Probably would have been more entertaining my way. :(

I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking that the redshirts of wargaming were the people that we knew would never win a game at any costs but have the heart to keep going.

brave souls

Call me a noob, but can someone explain the roles of red shirt, black shirt and blue shirt?

The guy who runs the local GW is a black shirt so I'm assuming that's a managerial role. He's a really nice guy too, I'm glad to have him at the store.

I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking that the redshirts of wargaming were the people that we knew would never win a game at any costs but have the heart to keep going.

I would call that person a hero and a friend.

NoBaconz4You wrote:Call me a noob, but can someone explain the roles of red shirt, black shirt and blue shirt?

The guy who runs the local GW is a black shirt so I'm assuming that's a managerial role. He's a really nice guy too, I'm glad to have him at the store.

Black Shirts are managers.

Blue shirts (in the UK) and Red shirts (elsewhere) are general staff.

I hav'nt been into a GW store for over 2 years so not sure what they are like now. I don't like being hard sold anything.

In the past I got along fine with most GW staff I had dealings with. They were friendly and loved the hobby and a bunch of good blokes.

In fairness to the current day, it is hard to find good service anywhere from any company.

Its the age we live in, we traded good service for convenience in retail and services many years back.

I shop a lot over the internet these days.

Staff are staff you get the good ones and the bad ones.


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Oh and on a side note I love that sig block too. Very funny stuff, made me laugh

And here i thought this thread was going to be about Star Trek and the Red shirts die first :/

I was a red shirt once, and a good friend of mine was one at a different time. In the end, the discount didn't make up with the crap you got from head office, from hyper-active kids, and from chavs coming in to try and take the michael. I feel sorry for the shirts, they have unpleasant jobs, but I have little interaction with them now, as I do not go to GW shops any more.

former red shirt here as well. I LOVED the staff I worked with. excellent gamers and REALLY fun people. our Manager was fun as HELL to game with, but ran a tight ship, and he should have.

good times while it lasted. glad I have re-connected with with them again though!

I don't know any well enough to call them friends, but I get on quite well with my local blackshirt. A thoroughly down to earth bloke, who never spouts any nonsense.

Yes I did, Steve the Awesome. This guy was a former lawyer and is now a professor for a school, damn was he awesome he constantly made jokes about the races and kept the games funny. Helk he owned a dwarf army saying they look just like himself.
OH boy do i miss the good ole GW before the one man per a store retinue came in...
Steve was an awesome guy but he had a stroke sadly and moved on with his life. I then met him at a gamesday and he is still funny as he was before.
Chris. Oh dear god was this guy gifted, he made events that sounded boring sound awesome, helk he made a customer club just because he got bored.
Though those days are now past :(

GazzyG wrote:

NoBaconz4You wrote:Call me a noob, but can someone explain the roles of red shirt, black shirt and blue shirt?

The guy who runs the local GW is a black shirt so I'm assuming that's a managerial role. He's a really nice guy too, I'm glad to have him at the store.

Black Shirts are managers.

Blue shirts (in the UK) and Red shirts (elsewhere) are general staff.

My local GW store has around 4 staff and they all wear black shirts. Maybe it's an Australia thing. I haven't seen a red shirt in a long time.

All the redshirts I have met lately where actually wearing blue shirts.

A lot of them are actually really cool and friendly. Some of them I really enjoy chatting to when I stop by GW (which admittedly I haven't done since the last price increase). Occasionally you meet one who is a douche bag but that can happen anywhere.

They all switched to blackshirts to make everyone seem equal to shoppers.

Happygrunt wrote:They all switched to blackshirts to make everyone seem equal to shoppers.

Only elsewhere.

In the UK it's still black for managers, blue for general monkeys.