Why EB Games didn't hire me

[rolenta]

Last month I complained that EB Games didn't hire me because they said I didn't have enough retail experience. Well I just learned that it was because of my lack of videogame knowledge!

EB Games has an ad in the new issue of GMR (actually they have ads in every issue of GMR since GMR is their official magazine). Anyway, on page 49 of the September issue (#8), they have an ad where you could buy pre-owned gaming systems for only $19.99 each. And they have photos of the three systems along with their names. I've heard of the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Dreamcast but the NINTENDO PSX is new to me. I guess since I never heard of a Nintendo PSX, I have no right trying to get a job at EB Games.

[Oberfuhrer Hamm]

Man, a Nintendo PSX must be a really oddball system.

[Raccoon Lad]

Wouldn't that be a SNES CD unit?

Quick, everyone, EB has Prototype hardware for only $20!

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I just learned that it was because of my lack of videogame knowledge!

That's all I gotta say about that.

[Raedon]

it is a REGISTER J.O.B. :P Beware.. Beware.. You can NOT put a register job on a resume EVER!!!! OMG what are you people thinking.

[RetroYoungen]

For about a year period (when they were still just Funco, if I remember right) I had them giving me an application like every week. I would always help the customer quicker and with more knowledge than they did, so they wanted me on staff. I still don't work there, haven't even tried for a while (that and I don't have a ride and I HATE the bus).

[kainemaxwell]

I've heard of the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Dreamcast but the NINTENDO PSX is new to me. I guess since I never heard of a Nintendo PSX, I have no right trying to get a job at EB Games.

You check ebay for them yet? :P

[davidbrit2]

Maybe they're selling PSX lookalike Famicom clones.

[Achika]

For about a year period (when they were still just Funco, if I remember right) I had them giving me an application like every week. I would always help the customer quicker and with more knowledge than they did, so they wanted me on staff. I still don't work there, haven't even tried for a while (that and I don't have a ride and I HATE the bus).

No, never.

Funco, Babbages, Gamestop, Software, Etc., Planet X

EB Games, EBX, EB Kids, EB Planet


@Rolenta--if you want a job at one of the Gamestop stores, LMK and you can put my name on the App.

[Videogamerdaryll]

..As I ran to check the magazine..They did write Nintendo PSX... x_x

I just can't take it guys..it's funny..

I was wondering rolenta ..when you went for the job did you ask to buy a Nintendo PSX,or what it looked like?

I may know why they didn't do any hiring that day..

[rolenta]

@Rolenta--if you want a job at one of the Gamestop stores, LMK and you can put my name on the App.

Thanks, but since then I was offered a reporting job with the local newspaper. However, instead of taking that, a friend gave me a job working on his website (www.sageontheweb.com). I'm making a lot more than I would have at EB Games; I work my own hours; dress however I like; don't have to deal with the public; and NO POLITICS!!!!

[rolenta]

Not enough experience? LOL Hmm....maybe you should show them a couple copies of your resumes (books)

For my interview I brought a copy of Phoenix; a CD containing a G4 show about Atari in which they interviewed me throughout, and Ralph Baer as a reference. And the kicker is that I had about five years of retail experieince before I became a programmer.

Anyway, do you really want to work for a company that clueless?

Of course not. But after being out of work for two years, I was at the point where if I had to take anything, I might as well do something that I at least enjoyed.

[XpOsUrE]

Man thats a good one I noticed quite a few E&B workers are like totally clueless .

[Videogamerdaryll]

@Rolenta--if you want a job at one of the Gamestop stores, LMK and you can put my name on the App.

Thanks, but since then I was offered a reporting job with the local newspaper. However, instead of taking that, a friend gave me a job working on his website (www.sageontheweb.com). I'm making a lot more than I would have at EB Games; I work my own hours; dress however I like; don't have to deal with the public; and NO POLITICS!!!!

Congrats on the new job..

[rolenta]

Congrats on the new job..

Thanks!

[chadtower]

Len, want me to head over to EB and put my foot in someone's ass?

[rolenta]

Len, want me to head over to EB and put my foot in someone's ass?

:smash:

Only if you're in King of Prussia, PA, where their headquarters is!

[SoulBlazer]

The lady who takes care of me at my local EB is great, she really is -- always friendly, polite, suggesting new things I'm actually interested in, always calls on my pre-orders, and knows what she is talking about.....recently, I came in with a bunch of pre-orders to take care of me for the rest of the year, and when she realized she had missed one, she added it herself so I was plesently surprised by getting a call the day it came out.

The point? She's also not afraid to poke fun at the company, some of her bonehead co-workers, and the retail/gaming industry in general.

When I told her the story about what happened to Leonard Herman at EB last month, she said she'd try to work up the chain so some day SHE could send him a personal apology letter along with free games for life.

I'll be in there next week to get my Madden 2004 and Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII when they come out. I'm sure someone has already told her about the magazine (I get it also) but I can't resist the temptation to rub it in. She allready knows what a bunch of idiots she works for.

Just goes to show there are good people in any line of work.....