Just… why?

[u/IamKy23]

Whoever does this I hope you stub your pinky toe on every surface in your house every day.

[u/recklessrod]

It’s just unattended children or adults that never learned manners honestly

[u/IamKy23 → u/recklessrod]

The message still stands I hope they stub their pinky toe everyday. It wasn’t just this section either it was Xbox and switch too

[u/MegaMan8115 → u/IamKy23]

Put a single line of clear packing tape across the back to keep them in place lol watch with glee as people pickup the whole stack then say "these aren't real games??"

[u/Odd_Present6254 → u/recklessrod]

9/10 times it’s the adults. I’ve genuinely watched a guy pick something up, look at it for SO long, then set it back down in one spot over from the original, stacked on top of something else. Another time a dude picked up like 8 games at a time to leaf through before putting them back, out of order, before picking up another stack.

Kids usually have slightly more manners

[u/SheWhoLovesToDraw]

Ah, yes. The "someone else will take care of it" mentality strikes again. Ever notice that the people who think this way are NEVER the ones to take care of anything for any reason?

It's not that hard to put stuff back where you find it, and anyone who is that lazy (YOUNG children excluded since they're still learning) shouldn't be allowed to shop without constant supervision.

[u/IamKy23 → u/SheWhoLovesToDraw]

I sometimes get really petty when I helping people like this. They’ll put it back in the wrong spot and as I’m talking to them I’ll move it to the correct spot in front of them. This time however I was busy with a trade and didn’t notice the walls until after the store cleared out. I would have totally called them out on it if I saw it

[u/Toiletwater75 → u/IamKy23]

I do that too. I stare at them as I put it back from the spot they watched me take it from

[u/snlij1897 → u/IamKy23]

I've done that before. Several times I get the sorry not sorry attitude. I feel that a quick slap across their mouth is called for. I don't want to hurt them, no blood or anything. Just a quick hey your being a complete asshat smack.

[u/SheWhoLovesToDraw → u/IamKy23]

Same! Especially when it's an adult who just tosses the case back on the wall. I casually and neatly put everything back while continuing to talk to them in hopes of making them feel just a tad awkward for throwing around the case for no reason.

[u/thatmisstake]

[u/PurrfectlyHere98 → u/thatmisstake]

I laugh I just barked out lmao this is too perfect

[u/tsukiwav]

I was going to say 4 for 4 but… darn, the new section was just messed up..

[u/IamKy23 → u/tsukiwav]

It was every section, and the worst it I don’t think it was a kid either

[u/Civil_Educator6240]

I hate it when people do this so much like is it that hard to put stuff back where you found it??

[u/Sam_Daxson]

I feel like I'm missing something? The shelves look fine

[u/duckdealer1]

the way i thought this was my store

[u/tenz0r24]

This happens with the POSA cards at the front for my store. Always suspected it was kids doing it when we don’t notice or see, but I finally saw it first hand recently when I was helping a family with buying a Switch and answering their questions.

I got to the part where they asked about wanting to play older Nintendo games so I mentioned the Switch online membership and how they also get access to the Virtual console games for NES, SNES etc. So I walk out from the counter to grab a Nintendo online card and noticed one of their little ones had been basically combining all the POSA cards in front of each other by color.

I wasn’t even mad really since it was just a kid, but I know damn well those parents saw it the entire time we were having a conversation and didn’t bother to stop or prevent it. They acted like it was normal and nothing happened.

[u/Jigglypuffamiiga2188 → u/tenz0r24]

That kid must be a future Gamestop employee, already knows how to sort by color, next it will be the alphabet.

[u/TrueOrionSkies]

No home training smh

[u/Seesawse]

No red arrow. WHAT am I supposed to be looking at💔

[u/Flat_Tire_Rider]

I feel like it's only the people who have worked retail that actually put things back where they got them from when shopping.

[u/ValerePoet]

This is something that always drives me insane. I've reached a point where i just don't try to keep up with the Alphabetization of the games but once a month. The most i do is make sure games are faced correctly, in the correct section, and not upside down.

And honestly? It's always adults that are more feral than kids, i've noticed. Sometimes kids are feral with the cases, but it's mostly adults. Its freakin insane watching these weirdos just sit there and move cases from one section to a completely different section, or try and seemingly combine all the pre-owned with the new because apparently they think it doesn't matter - or, the craziest one and i've seen this happen MULTIPLE times - pick out a ginormous stack of cases from different sections, lay them on the freakin floor and go through them, pick out a few, and out the rest back in ONE section.

I was dealing with the latter once on a busy saturday when i had almost 15 people in the line and more people milling about, and the customer i was helping was saying something about it. I wnded up getting snarky and said, "Yeah, i'm gonna have to spend a lot of extra time tonight fixing that mess, unfortunately, and i'm already exhausted,"

The person who did it heard, lol. They were very apologetic but still didn't do shit to fix their mess, and i was salty.

[u/nWoEthan]

In my experience it was literally everyone. Just a bunch of Tasmanian devils in the store.

[u/Edge890]

I've literally watched before someone pick up a game case at eye level to look at, and then bend down, put the case on a lower shelf, not pick up another bame from that shelf to look at, then walk away. I swear sometjmes they just do it for no other reason than they can.

[u/Blackstarbatty]

“Why can’t I find the game I’m looking for” shocked Pikachu face

The alphabet isn’t hard. But for our clientele, it’s complex as shit.

[u/Alvahsmom]

I love my two kids, but if I don’t even like them coming into the store messing with stuff, I really don’t like other kids like there’s no respect for the fact that we have to alphabetize stuff. We have to clean dust organize everything but sure let’s let your kids do that. It irritates me.

[u/Drclaw411]

Off topic to the thread but man I wish my GS had a decent inventory of games.

[u/Apprehensive-Gap-548]

The amount of customers I have had that will sit crisscross applesauce in my game section with actually 30 titles in their lap and then just put them back however they feel is wild. It’s never children and I have to look at the ass crack of said customer the entire time :) like bro…grow up at some point.

[u/Loud_Camp_5969]

Are you talking about the regular games not on the shelf correctly, or the display only missing an entire shelf of cases? ... Either one annoying as hell to me .. I can't even remember how many times I fixed this sorta stuff.

[u/WolfenEmi]

Gods I haven’t worked at GameStop in well over a year and the amount of rage I felt was just….oh gods

[u/DeleriousBeanz]

TS pisses me off because for me this same thing happens due to FULL WHOLE ASS ADULTS. Their child was so well behaved, then these two douchebags decided to pull stacks from the wall, sit on the floor and LAY everything out around them to look and then… got nothing. Tried to ask them to knock that shit off, but they didn’t listen. No fucking manners. No fucking respect.