Video: game consoles stored in Gamestop bathroom
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 28th 2008 11:28AM
posted Sep 28th 2008 11:28AM
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posted Sep 28th 2008 11:28AM
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That's just nasty.
*ATTENTION* All GameStop employees are required to wash their consoles before returning to work.
If those were WII's no one would be complaining.
Other places do it too, trust me.
What happens to the consoles on the bottom when the toilet over floods from an "oversized load"?
Always wondered how GameStop is able to stock so many consoles in those puny little stores. Guess we finally know where now.
Damn. Now I'll have to stop giving my consoles to kids for use as a teething toy.
Hey waiter, that sign in the bathroom about washing your hands, that's for the staff only, right?
they pulled the video, i don't blame them. can't just flush all your problems away gamestop!
Pennsylvania Gamestops are like this, next time I buy a game, I'll take a pic or vid of the bathroom! They are stacked like firewood in there!
If I worked at Gamestop and had to take an epic dump I would grab a console box for some bathroom reading. I'm sure someone has done so already.
This isn't uncommon at all, lots of Game & Gamestop type stores are being forced into using any space available as storage due to mainly the Wii and its bazillion add-ons, Rock band and up-coming GH:WT - my mates work has had to close its retro area down to make more storage space.
Oh yeah - for those that think this is just an American problem, I'm from England, Birmingham to be more precise, and most of my mates work in game based stores (Game, Gamestop, CEX and Gamestation). All of them have at some point stored games or consoles in the toilets.
Thats not ONLY in the US!!!!
In Gamestop germany are the same conditions
at least at the Xmas sesason
I wonder if they have cameras in the bathrooms to protect those. o.O
@Blackstar
Especially Carl...
A suppose a person could smuggle one out of the store in such a way that only a full body cavity search would yield results.
I used to manage a gamestop in south carolina and we did this all the time; however I installed shelving to keep the systems from squishing the boxes. this was done as "added security" as the bathroom door could be locked, then if someone broke in to steal the systems they would think the store was out of the really expensive ones.
oh, and yes there was a camera pointed at the bathroom, and no the tapes were never changed, and the system was not ever on the entire time I worked there. only the DM had the key, but you could open the recording system's case with a screw driver)
Eh. I worked for the company when It was funcoland, and then as gamestop. We stored almost everything in the bathroom, and barely used the bathroom as a bathroom. Small stock room. Whatcha gonna do.
The EB Games I worked at did the same thing. Nasty is right.
I was a Assistant Manager for GameStop, and this is not an uncommon practice. i worked in several stores and the back storage rooms are never very big. All kinds of things are stored in the employee bathroom
lol... all kinds of things...
Well this is great news, I wont buy my next game system at gamestop :P hehe Since i'm a germ freak :P
Don't buy batteries from Radio Shack, we used to keep em in the bathroom too...
Boxes for the display phones too, right? ;)
This is suprisingly common in small shops. Whether its a video game shop, or bike shop, or paintball shop. The paintball shop i used to hang out at had merchandise in the bathroom, there just isnt space anywhere else. Oh, and the sink was broken from too much weight and abuse on it...if you know what i mean.
Ppft thats nothing, we use the cystern to store games
A certain Lenscrafters I used to work for stored all kinds of things in the bathroom. Eyeglass cases, safety frame side shields, promotional material, and worst of all, contact lens cases. Yup, all that stuff near your eyes? Totally within a few feet of multiple pounds of poop.
This is true, i used to work at multiple gamestops, and they never built enough storage space, so the bathrooms always turned into the storage rooms. We never used the bathrooms though since they were full of crap.
lol nice pun.
Yup, I worked in an EB Games and that's exactly how it was. The back stores in some EB's are very small, especially those in malls. So in the end, we'd have no choice but to put some stock in the washroom.
Yup, same here. When I was in high school working at EB Games in NJ, they stored a whole bunch of merchandise, including consoles, in the employee bathroom.
Its not just the Xboxs with Red Rings of Death in that bathroom...
You sir just made my day xD
could someone throw in a stack of hdtvs as well, i'm gonna be awhile...
one more... maybe they should rename the store Pitstop.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice to know people take their camera to the bathroom.
Judging by most of the people I've seen hanging out in Gamestop playing those demo consoles I'd have to say that while yes, their hands were in that general area, they were not in fact going to the bathroom.
that's kinda nasty man.
SOFA
What stops somebody from going in there and walking out with one? I can see somebody walking in there with a backpack and leaving an empty box.
im pretty sure its the employee bathroom, in the back of the store. but you have a good point.
Just say you're the plumber, they'll never see it coming
Nope.
1. Employee-only bathroom.
2. Cameras outside the bathroom, both in the back room where the bathroom is and in the main store.
3. You can't leave through the back room, and even if you could...
4. Before leaving the store (for any reason), Gamestop employees have to turn out all their pockets, lift up their pant legs, pull back their shirt sleeves, and empty their backpacks in front of another employee and in view of a camera.
If you think you can get a system out of that store unnoticed, you're crazy.
it reminds me of that seinfeld episode where George takes the book in the bathroom ..............anyone else remember that one?
The consoles have been flagged!
Neebs scores extra points for the obscure Seinfeld reference!
YES