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GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tonytins@pawb.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.polygon.com/gamestop-trade-anything-promo-credit-workers-customers/

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stores are supposed to then take what they’ve received and donate it to a local charity. The workers have to figure out what charity they’ll partner with, and have to do the leg work of coordinating the donations themselves.

    And let me guess, they’re either expected to do this in their free time or not drop miss their targets if they do it during work

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    • Sludge@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gonna be donated to goodwill

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      • Coyote_sly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gonna be donated to the dumpster out back, more like.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t work there and I also say it will be a huge mess

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GS execs really did a fat line and said “lol what if we subject our wagies to crackhead craigslist”

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well the upper management wont have to deal with the mess so they’re fine with putting it all on the employees that they’ll be exploiting that day

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Silly, they’re exploited every day.

      … Though that day will be particularly… exploity…

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  • Ashtear@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Holy hell. I have some bad GameStop trade-in stories, and that’s just from taking in normal trade-ins. I can’t even imagine the clusterfuck this would be. I’d be calling in sick.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish my grandmother were still alive. She’d be the type to go down there and play along with me.

    “Hi, I’d like to trade in my 103 year old grandmother for $5.”

    And then we both poker face our way through a gamestop employees reactions.

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  • deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well. I would have been interested in donating canned goods for charity, but not like this. This is a terrible idea.

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  • pyria@kbin.melroy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was a dumb idea from the beginning, trying to be an electronics pawn shop. Only the trade-ins are just as worthless as the game ones were.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The number of memestock bros who still hype Gamestop despite all the massive missteps they’ve made in the last few years is fucking unreal. They desperately meme “diamond hands” when they’re fucking bagholders.

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      • missingno@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The memestock thing started because people realized they could try to make a quick buck by betting against those who were shorting the stock. But the stock was being heavily shorted for a reason, GameStop is a dying business, one that likely would've gone bankrupt by now if the apes hadn't rushed to prop it up. Anyone who didn't cash out at the peak, anyone who seriously believes GameStop has a long-term future, is a sucker.

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Mfw no gme_meltdown on Lemmy 😩

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I bring in some old Bad Dragon toys, am I gonna get more than $5? 🤔

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I bring in a box of rocks will I get credit for that.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Only if your name is not Charlie Brown.

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    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can they run Crysis?

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  • Embargo@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look out, Gamestop! About a billion scratched copies of FIFA are coming your way!

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