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So I work at Blockbuster, which deals primarily in renting Movies. But we also have a video game section... It's quite honestly badly managed, stocked, and all around is handled poorly. From what I've heard Blockbuster intends to increase it's attention to gaming and make a larger game section. I think this is a mistake, cause they will be TROMPED by Gamestops and Best Buy's.
See when I had my interview, my Boss had mentioned that since I was heavily into Video Games I could be the store's Game Guy (not joking THAT'S the title.) When I heard this I thought it simply meant the game expert, the guy who KNOWS about the games, boy was I wrong.
The position turns out, simply means that the entire game section is my responsibility. Stocking, fixing, checking numbers, all my job. It sucks because the section is handled so badly that the job is just shit.
Now, while I did have responsibility over the section, I had no actual control. I had made several suggestions to make it easier to handle. Such as using demo boxes and place holder cards, one demo per live game, unlike the way its done now, one demo as a place holder, and one 'deadbox' per live game. This leads to the demo box being brought up to us when there's no dead box for it...Or even IF there was a dead box.
I've also suggested getting proper shelves for the unused demo boxes, which are just stuck in a large cardboard box, making it difficult to find them if a game that was sold out of our inventory and Demo box taken off the shelf comes back, or if a demo box just goes missing and we need a replacement. I have offered to buy the shelves myself, but this is not allowed.
But the main problem...comes from kids. I have literally spent two hours doing nothing but rearranging and reorganizing the entire video game section till it was immaculate, only to come back to it 20 minutes completely obliterated. It was so demoralizing to put that much effort into something, only to have it ruined so shortly after.
I never enjoyed the position, it gave me more responsibility, more work, and no reward. I wasn't paid more, and with the section being ruined constantly there was no sense of accomplishment since it always needed to be redone. After a few months of it I passed the position off to someone else, I didn't trick her, she specifically asked me if she could do it.
It is still the worst section (aside from Family) to work on.
See when I had my interview, my Boss had mentioned that since I was heavily into Video Games I could be the store's Game Guy (not joking THAT'S the title.) When I heard this I thought it simply meant the game expert, the guy who KNOWS about the games, boy was I wrong.
The position turns out, simply means that the entire game section is my responsibility. Stocking, fixing, checking numbers, all my job. It sucks because the section is handled so badly that the job is just shit.
Now, while I did have responsibility over the section, I had no actual control. I had made several suggestions to make it easier to handle. Such as using demo boxes and place holder cards, one demo per live game, unlike the way its done now, one demo as a place holder, and one 'deadbox' per live game. This leads to the demo box being brought up to us when there's no dead box for it...Or even IF there was a dead box.
I've also suggested getting proper shelves for the unused demo boxes, which are just stuck in a large cardboard box, making it difficult to find them if a game that was sold out of our inventory and Demo box taken off the shelf comes back, or if a demo box just goes missing and we need a replacement. I have offered to buy the shelves myself, but this is not allowed.
But the main problem...comes from kids. I have literally spent two hours doing nothing but rearranging and reorganizing the entire video game section till it was immaculate, only to come back to it 20 minutes completely obliterated. It was so demoralizing to put that much effort into something, only to have it ruined so shortly after.
I never enjoyed the position, it gave me more responsibility, more work, and no reward. I wasn't paid more, and with the section being ruined constantly there was no sense of accomplishment since it always needed to be redone. After a few months of it I passed the position off to someone else, I didn't trick her, she specifically asked me if she could do it.
It is still the worst section (aside from Family) to work on.
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