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.
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.
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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.