Hold on to your credit cards. According to a past post (which you can read here), I named names at a Games Workshop in Glendale, California. I basically documented the abuses that my husband (and fellow employees, not to mention female clientele) have to endure.

So here's the latest update in chronological order:

1. Shawn, the cell manager guy who quit Games Workshop in Glendale and then told Shad (the district manager who enjoys bullying timid employees and ignoring the employees he knows would stand up to him) all the nasty things the employees said about Shad (sucker DM) behind his back, called B last Tuesday. Shawn claimed he couldn't get a hold of our number until then, because every time he called the store, Jimmy (the manager of Games Workshop in Glendale) and Shad (stupid DM) would answer the phone and refuse to disclose B's number.


2. Shawn proceeded to explain the circumstances under which he left: when he put his two weeks notice in, Shad was going to take over the store, and Shawn knew that if Shad took over, there was a high probability that all of the employees would blanketedly quit, and that would kill the store (at least for a little while). Shawn was trying to make the transition of management an easy process and attempted to convince Shad (bully DM) not to manage the store. But bull-headed as Shad (really thick-headed DM) is, he wouldn't listen, so Shawn was forced to disclose the complaints the employees had about him in order to convince him otherwise.


3. Once Shad (moron DM) realized how much he is not respected at Games Workshop in Glendale, but rather is dealt with as a playground bully is dealt with: either ignored (by the same employees who don't like him) or feared (by the employees who are timid by nature), Shawn (the guy quitting) asked what was going to happen to B, because Shawn, again, told Shad (stupid DM) that he brought B to Games Workshop in Glendale in order to train him to be a manager.


4. That's when Shad (really ugly DM) told Shawn, "B's just not management material. He's not a corporate guy." And that's why another Games Workshop employee informed B that he no longer had a chance at being a manager because Shad (bigot DM) didn't like him. Shawn passed that information on, hoping it would be passed to B.


5. So B goes into work later that same afternoon after his conversation with Shawn, and Jimmy (current manager) asks B why he has a chip on his shoulder and if he wants to talk about it. So Brad does. He tells Jimmy exactly what went down, and Jimmy was like, "I'm sorry Shawn lied to you but like I told you, no one in the company knew you were moved here to be trained as a--" but luckily B interrupted that nonsense and set the record straight. "No. Shad did know because (insert anonymous GW employees here) told him." In fact, I remember one time when the employees were doing something, maybe running an Intro Game, and Shad (ass DM) asked why they were running it that way and they replied, "Because Brad suggested we do it that way since it worked in Northridge." And Shad (big fuckin' asshole DM) said, "Who said you do what B says?" And the employees replied, "Shawn did. He said to listen to B and do what he says because it's as good as Shawn telling us himself. B's here to be trained as the new store manager." And that's when Shad (shitface DM) said, "Oh really?! We'll see about that!" --Now, I will interject here that perhaps all these lies were fed to Jimmy (i.e. that no one knew B was there to be trained as a manager), but then how did Jimmy know to approach B about it in the first place 2 weeks ago? But anyway, maybe it's true that Jimmy didn't know why B was at Games Workshop in Glendale, other than he was just another peon employee. So it's not entirely Jimmy's fault, but I will, also, interject that Jimmy is still an ass in his own way.


6. So to Jimmy's credit, he listens to B and says, "Well, do you think you're going to be able to move past all this and like your job again?" Hmmm... B has gone to 3 (that's right, 3 interviews so far, so I'm going to take a wild guess and say....) "No. I don't think I can do that." So Jimmy responds, "Well, you know that will eventually only leave us with two options. You know what those two options are, right?" Oh yeah, B knows. "I'll quit right now if you want me to." Heh. "Oh, that's not necessary," Jimmy is quick to get on B's good side because they had a giant grand re-opening weekend this last Saturday & Sunday.


7. B put his two weeks notice in. That was exactly one week ago. But I haven't gotten to the good part yet!


8. There was a little bit of panic down at Games Workshop in Glendale on Sunday. Turns out there has been some chatter regarding complaints about the customer base and the ogling of women. Heh. Turns out my friend Des read my journal and told his sales rep in Michigan and that information trickled all the way back to Glendale. It was so freakin' awesome. Jimmy took everyone aside for a meeting and was like, "You guys have to watch what you say around here. There have been some complaints about what you guys have been saying about the customers--" COUGH, it was Jimmy's comments, but whatever--"Yeah, and you guys can't make any more comments about the women in the store." And B's like, "I never made those kind of comments to begin with." And Jimmy was like, "Oh. Yeah. Well. You're happily married." Hahahahaha. Please recall the entry where I chronicle what Jimmy says about wanting to fuck the women walking by and cheating on his wife here ).


9. The shady raffle competition, where a customer was literally ripped off (read all about it in my comments below) is under investigation. Hahahahahahaha! Jimmy is an ass! Jimmy is an ass!

All this courtesy of your local Nerdslut.

Labels: real life, work

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at August 30, 2005 8:29 PM  Lorie said...

I don't see the raffle rip-off story in your other post. You can't just taunt us with juicy gossip like that and then not deliver!

(Or if I just can't read, ignore all that and kindly point out where it is in the post.)

 

at August 30, 2005 11:21 PM  Samantha said...

Oooh, you know, you're right. It's not in that post. But here's the juicy gossip:

So people who bought a Wood Elf army box (it's the new/revised army that just came out) could choose to enter a raffle in order to win back their money. Because let's face it, Games Workshop crap don't come cheap. It was about a hundred bucks.

So, if you bought the wood elf army box, you could enter a raffle to win your money back. Well... This guy, Chris, a regular, buys the army box because Brad told him, "The raffle is in a couple days, and well, if no one else enters then it's basically a default you know?" So Chris pays full price for it, mostly because the chances are very slim that anyone else is going to enter.

However, one of the employee's girlfriends, uses the employee discount to buy the box and enters the raffle as well. Well, that's not really fair to start with anyway... but whatever. So the day of the raffle, Jimmy says, "I don't like Chris. I don't want him to win the raffle. So, congratulations (insert anonymous GW employee herer), your girlfriend just won."

The worst part about this situation is that Jimmy makes sure to tell the employees that they're not allowed to reveal how the raffle was determined to anyone, and that they are to just make like the raffle actually did go off.

But we all know that ain't gonna happen when one of the employees is married. Especially when one of the employees is married to a Nerdslut out to seek justice.

And so I passed that information on as well, in addition to everything that was originally posted.

 

at August 31, 2005 9:31 PM  Alex_Knight said...

Well, I had to do my civic duty and point this out as it was well... crap.
I told my friend Greg (Games dept. manager at work.) about this and he okayed me telling the rep when I placed the order last Monday. He was surprised I didn't mention the rule of fear and intimidation that Shad uses. I wanted to keep things as anonymous as possible, so I couldn't use too much info that an employee would know.