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#1 Mar 11 2012 at 3:39 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm a bit of a Wii nerd, so I called my local WalMart and asked the girl working the counter in Electronics if they got any copies of the new Mario Party 9 in. Didn't bother calling GameStop because, due to transportation issues, I wouldn't be able to get there until around midnight.

The girl on the phone asked me, in all seriousness, "Which console is that on?"

Smiley: disappointed
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#2 Mar 11 2012 at 4:45 PM Rating: Good
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I would have asked the same question. I'm as big a gaming nerd as the next guy, but Mario Party 9 sounds like it could be on the DS as well as the Wii.
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#3 Mar 11 2012 at 5:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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OH MY GOD A RETAIL WORKER WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE PRODUCT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR AND ASKED A QUESTION SO SHE COULD BETTER ASSIST YOU. HOW AWFUL!
#4 Mar 11 2012 at 5:14 PM Rating: Excellent
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Goddamn, I hate when people ask clarifying questions.

I wish they'd just make something up when they don't know what I'm talking about.

"Yeah, we've got all the mario parties on the xbox 375"


Edited, Mar 11th 2012 7:15pm by Timelordwho
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#5 Mar 11 2012 at 7:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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I hate going to GameStop.

No, I don't want to wax intellectual about the latest Halo map packs. Just sell me my ******* game so I don't have to smell your body odor anymore.
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#6 Mar 11 2012 at 7:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Is Mario Party the one with the gorilla and the barrels and stuff?

I dislike GameStop because they open the packages and I always walk out feeling like my purchase came from a garage sale rather than it being shiny new.
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#7 Mar 11 2012 at 10:13 PM Rating: Decent
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you should have asked her about blackberries.
#8 Mar 12 2012 at 10:58 AM Rating: Good
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axhed wrote:
you should have asked her about blackberries.

She probably would have transferred me to the produce department.
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#9 Mar 12 2012 at 4:40 PM Rating: Good
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axhed wrote:
you should have asked her about blackberries.

She probably would have transferred me to the produce department.


Hehe, when I was 17 and worked at K-Mart, some kid asked "Do you have 50 Cent"? I reached into my pocket and gave him two quarters. I will never forget the bewildered look on his face.
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#10 Mar 12 2012 at 9:44 PM Rating: Good
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I could understand not knowing if its a WII or DS game. Walmart is bad to put people in departments that they know nothing about though. Best was when my Dad was asking about a gun in sporting goods and this little old lady told him how she hated guns and knew nothing about them.
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For those of you not near a Walmart, yes, they can really be that bad.
#13 Mar 12 2012 at 11:28 PM Rating: Default
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i hate you for that link.
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#14 Mar 13 2012 at 7:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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Iamadam wrote:
I hate going to GameStop.

No, I don't want to wax intellectual about the latest Halo map packs. Just sell me my @#%^ing game so I don't have to smell your body odor anymore.

Would you like to buy the one-year warranty on your game for only $5.99 extra? If you ever scratch the disc by using it as a coaster, frisbee, teething toy, or just trying to nail squirrels in the tree outside your balcony, we'll replace it!
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#15 Mar 13 2012 at 7:50 AM Rating: Good
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Demea wrote:
Iamadam wrote:
I hate going to GameStop.

No, I don't want to wax intellectual about the latest Halo map packs. Just sell me my @#%^ing game so I don't have to smell your body odor anymore.

Would you like to buy the one-year warranty on your game for only $5.99 extra? If you ever scratch the disc by using it as a coaster, frisbee, teething toy, or just trying to nail squirrels in the tree outside your balcony, we'll replace it!


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What if I try to have sex with it?
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#16 Mar 13 2012 at 7:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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Iamadam wrote:
Demea wrote:
Iamadam wrote:
I hate going to GameStop.

No, I don't want to wax intellectual about the latest Halo map packs. Just sell me my @#%^ing game so I don't have to smell your body odor anymore.
Would you like to buy the one-year warranty on your game for only $5.99 extra? If you ever scratch the disc by using it as a coaster, frisbee, teething toy, or just trying to nail squirrels in the tree outside your balcony, we'll replace it!
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What if I try to have sex with it?
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#17 Mar 13 2012 at 7:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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If you're able to have sex with a CD, I have some e-mails in my spam folder about some pills that you might be interested in.
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#18 Mar 13 2012 at 8:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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If you're able to have sex with a CD, I have some e-mails in my spam folder about some pills that you might be interested in.


Pffft, those pills never work.

Wait, what?
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#19 Mar 13 2012 at 11:25 AM Rating: Good
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fronglo wrote:
I could understand not knowing if its a WII or DS game. Walmart is bad to put people in departments that they know nothing about though. Best was when my Dad was asking about a gun in sporting goods and this little old lady told him how she hated guns and knew nothing about them.


Walmart doesn't care who they put where. Having worked there for many years, I can tell you that if an associate in any department knows anything about the products in the store it is by sheer luck. When you are hired at Walmart, you receive no job training outside of a few brief flash applications on a computer in the back room. If a customer asks you a question about something you don't know about, you either tell them you don't know or ******** your way out of it. Although 99 times out of 100 they will ask you a common sense question that any idiot should know already, if they aren't simply asking you where the bathroom is.

The real problem is when you are expected operate machinery (forklifts, cheap old fashioned paint mixers, handheld computer terminals, cash registers) and know all the proper procedures for every conceivable situation the day you are hired, and do it all for $7 an hour(your bosses will resent you for even making that much, and do everything in their power to make sure you do not get full time benefits or overtime pay)-- Which is why Walmart has one of the highest turnover rates in the country.

You will find yourself running around like a headless chicken with the workload that 5 years prior was handled by a dozen different people. Should you have any questions on what you're supposed to do, you will simply be told that you are expected to already know, or they will find somebody who does. So figure it out, and pray you don't **** it up.
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#20 Mar 13 2012 at 12:55 PM Rating: Decent
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