Gamestop Fail

I just returned home (it is now 1:00pm) from visiting Gamestop #5232 on New Bern Ave in Raleigh North Carolina.  I left without making a purchase.

I had stopped by the store to use a gift certificate I got as a gift for Christmas and to take advantage of your buy 2 get one free pre-played game sale.

I spent about a half hour picking out the games I wanted to buy and then got in line for the registers.  There were a lot of people and what appeared to be two lines,  one for each of the registers.  Both lines were long and I expected to be there for some time.  I did not mind, it was expected.

While picking out my purchases I heard the manager of the store shout loudly that he was able to help anyone with questions or to find a game.   The one person I heard ask him a question was treated poorly.  They asked about a game and he said it did not exist.  They tried to explain what they meant but he seemed more interested in teasing them than helping them.  I had seen this behavior from him before when I have shopped there.  I actually nicknamed him Steve Dave in my mind,  named after the power hungry retail clerk in “Mallrats” and other Kevin Smith films.

After waiting in line for about 10-15 minutes and hearing him yell his offer for help, which no one took him up on,  he yelled, “There is only one line,  it goes that way…”  and he explained how the line was to form.  After 45 minutes in the store this is the first I heard him explain the line system.  When a customer in line let it be known that he was not happy, that this was the first he heard of only one line,  not one for each register as people had lined up for,  the manager again insulted a customer,  and informed him “This is the way we have been doing it all season”.  The gentleman in front of me put down his purchases and left,  I did the same.

While I am sure this is a stressful time for retail employees, as a customer I will not tolerate or shop at a location that has openly hostile employees.  I will use my gift card at another location and that will be the last time I shop in one of your stores.  There are other places that sell pre-played games and I will begin using them.  I would suggest that you inform your employees that the customers come first, and that the managers have a responsibility to make sure customers are being taken care of,  this includes controlling crowds,  helping the clerks find the used games and not just standing around pretending to work.  I heard several people talking and they were buying games for a new system they had gotten for Christmas,  so this may have well been the first time they were in the store,  the first impression they got probably was not a good one.  They probably also had no idea on how the lines worked as they had not been there “all season” to witness the line formations used in the past.

I have had a Gamer card and gotten Game Informer for at least three years and probably longer, I will let it expire and not renew it.

Thank you in advance for the form letter I am sure to receive.

Chuck Reisinger

You Live, You Learn

I was logging into my account on E-Rewards today and noticed a few things:

1)  When you click on North America you select you language by country, instead of you know, language. Canada offers English and French. The United States only offers English. If you work in the landscape industry for less than ideal wages, you are shit out of luck, we don’t speak Spanish in North America.

2)  Greenland is part of North America, I am not shitting you.

I did not believe it,  I really didn’t.  So I checked Wikipedia, and it said it was.  I checked various other websites and indeed, Greenland is part of  North America.  I have no idea why I forgot this fact,  somewhere between school and reality I forgot this fac

Now this bothers me for only one reason,  I have been wrong all of these years.  Not in thinking that Greenland was  a part of Europe  that was forgetfulness or ignorance.  No I was wrong in thinking Canada was the lamest part of this continent!  Fucking Greenland.

The only thing more useless than a Canadian is some Greenlandian.  We get some piss poor beer and Hockey from Canada, but what do we get from Greenland?  We get fish?  I can get fish from the stream down the road from my house.

I am not sure who the current King of North America is, but we need to remedy this Greenland situation so I can get back to shitting on Canada.

PS E-Rewards we can select language based on language not geography.  English in Canada and the United States Of America is pretty much the same give or take an aboot, eh.

I almost forgot how to blog

I am sure a lot of people wish I had forgotten.

A quick update on things not covered on this blog.

1) I lost the City Council Election.  This was expected.  The only thing that shocked me about it is that people ask the government to do a bunch of things they should do for themselves.  People also have no idea of what local vs state vs federal government should be doing.  We are a nation of idiots.  Our only hope is a hostile takeover from the Canadians.  They have a good sense of humor and a good respect for beer,  well the English speaking ones anyway,  the French speaking ones are a bunch of fucking wankers.

2)   I got engaged to Melissa.  I cooked her a nice meal of Manwich and tater tots.  Then I learned I got 15% of the vote.  Then I gave her a ring and asked her.  She punched me.  That is how I roll bitches,  be jealous.

3)  I went to Melissa’s hometown for Thanksgiving.  We also went to her high school reunion.  It was a good time.

That is pretty much the big picture of things since I last posted on this site.  Now it is time to move forward.

I read this today: “If North Carolina has no interest in enforcing the speed-limit laws …, then why have the laws?” asked Donald F. Carter of Raleigh. “Why doesn’t the federal [government] require North Carolina to enforce them?”

So fucktard here wants the state government to give up power to the federal government.  Do I really want the Feds demanding any more than they do?  They hold State power for ransom to get Federal money to pay for roads as it is.  People like this should be sent to Mexico so they do not ruin things when the Canadians buy us out.   Think then talk.

That is all, except for one little thing: