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Brook, MGS: can you take the bromance to PM please? lol

Who needs girls in a gamestore when you have a wife who lets you set up your own battle bunker in the basement? :p Honestly I dont see why girls would want to work in a gamestore and prob be hit on, looked at or otherwise annoyed all day by gamers

I dont even like gamers that much and Im a gamer

I have a busty female friend who plays nids. She won't go enar the local store, becuase all the staffers there keep trying to look down her top and won't leave her alone.

Wehrkind wrote:I figure girls in game stores tend to get the same sort of looks I got in AC Moore when I spent an hour or so trying to figure out of those "Kricut" things in the scrap booking section would cut styrene. Sort of the "He is too ugly to be gay, but why is he here? Is it a trap?" Granted, it might have been the aura of trying to kill the packaging designers with my brain I was giving off, but of the women that did say hi, most were approaching me like an Animal Planet star approaches a wounded leopard.

I lol'd here. I've had the same experience at Michael's Crafts. After a hard days work at the grime pit, you're standing in the craft store going through the chains, clasps and beads looking for the perfect ornate Warhammer doorknob for a bit of terrain as "Crafters" aren't sure why you're in their territory checkin' out "girl stuff".

I dont even like gamers that much and Im a gamer

QFT ...

It's funny,
when my wife walks in a store alone she says it's hilarious as all the boys don't know where to look. Really funny.

Just shows the type of person playing the game in general. But hopefully they grow up (I think I did )

I also had a friend that walked in to buy a present,
Being a ballet dancing model, I don't think that the staff were prepared, hilarity ensued.

I don't think I care whether there are Female staff,
only that they are good staff. But for the other women gamers and Mums etc it would be a good thing.

I remember during the short time I worked for my local GW store as few years ago, one of the girls from Spearmint Rhino came in to buy some stuff for her little brother. That was fun I'm 6'5 tall and she must of been just over 5. Well stacked and wearing a low cut top... sigh

Similar stuff happens to guys as well if in places that are traditionally for women - I get real funny looks when browsing the racks in the Lingerie department at the local M&S (Just trying to find something in the right size for the missus - honest!)

And just try even reading the 'bounty' forums (website about babies and birth) whilst the wife is posting - they really don't like that!

There is a chick that works in the Ottawa store. "You're so nice!"

Honestly, they should just make all of them chicks. Everyone except cool Manager guy and cool red shirt guy at my local store. In fact I think I am going to bring this up with Jervis next time I see him.

**inserts bad joke about lack of females who play wargames**

Wow, this is such an important subject. Because, you know, women don't work in almost every line of business already...

When I worked for M&S the manager kept calling me dave I warned him 4 times then I decked him, and resigned.

Miss Dee wrote:When I worked for M&S the manager kept calling me dave I warned him 4 times then I decked him, and resigned.

Was it Trigger from Fools and Horses?

And why weren't you charged with assault?

MGS: Because most guys don't want to admit they got hit hard enough by a girl to charge for assault. Either that, or the police operator hung up on him because he couldn't be understood over all the laughter in the background

I don't know Dave, I think you'd have a fight on your hands then.

I bet half of you guys are saying sexist things coz you'd be scared if there were women in the stores. I know I would..

He did breach the 2004 gender recignition act.

Wehrkind wrote:MGS: Because most guys don't want to admit they got hit hard enough by a girl to charge for assault. Either that, or the police operator hung up on him because he couldn't be understood over all the laughter in the background

You'd cry too... if this girl hit you

M..m..mmm..MONSTER!

suppose GW stores are jsut like the COmputer place i work at the ratio must be 95% blokes 5% women and its quite a big place.

Its much better to have girls in the workplace, it sorts out the ying and yang mix. When i have worked in 100% blokey workplaces it ends up being a miserable geek zone where hardly any work gets done.

the thing i dont get is the girlfriend, she watches sci-fi, works in IT and still calls my minis "little soldiers" !

When my wife and I first started dating, I took her along to my FLGS. She handled it better than I expected she would. No obvious 'Gamerisms' (leering/stinking/pointing) until we were walking out, when she went to push the door open (I was carrying a bag of stuff - excuse me).
Another customer was pulling the door open, just as she went to push it. She nearly fell into (clutz) the guy, who immediately retracted his head into his heavy winter coat like some kind of a turtle, and make this odd giggly wheezing noise.

She never wanted to go back.
For some reason she married me six years later, and gets to come spend time at the new GW store with several other GFs who no longer feel as out of place when there are a few of them together.

Skarwael wrote:GW might lose sales cus the geeks are afraid to go in.

qft!

Actually, my GF and I were talking about this at GD this weekend; none of the female staff from the stores we knew to have them (like Wycombe) seemed to be there, and even the ladies from the 'Eavy Metal team seemed absent. However, the latter might be due to the fact that I don't think they speak great English...

Theres a female blue shirt at my flgs....with steel toecaps.