Comments on: Very Dangerous, Remove Immediately

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:28:13 +0000

Yet another reason why I refuse to ever purchase or read another GW product.

It started for me with their mini’s and ended with their attack on internet Blood Bowl.

Buy Reaper! lol

By: Rich C

Rich C — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:58:36 +0000

As a one-time 7 year veteran of GW this kind of shit is just another easily found example of how a company which under-values it’s staff manages to push the envelope of crapness. I can totally empathise with your whole situation, man. I found out that I was being replaced as store manager when my replacement turned up for his interview in my office downstairs! Still, at least I got to live the dream – I quit taking all my staff and customers to the local indie hobby shop :)

Geeky as it sounds a friend of mine once summed it up as,
“We’re fighting under the right flag but Horus is giving the orders now”
In other words, a hell of a hobby, job, company ruined by tards.

By: AnmanIndustries

AnmanIndustries — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:24:02 +0000

Oh GamesWorkshop. Hate their customers, hate their employees. So awesome.

By: Agramar

Agramar — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:47:32 +0000

Uuufff incredible,oh holy shit….what crackpot idea..Mr Kirby is definitely retarded.
In the GW are all fucking crazy,is the ultimate evidence.
Greetings from Spain!

By: Lead

Lead — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:07:52 +0000

That “manager” pretty much sums up my entire experience of Games Workshop stores.

I have not been to a single one where the staff have done anything but ignored me, or approached me with the most disingenuous “can I help you” patter. As such I’ve never spent a penny in them; get my stuff off ebay or from the more passionate independents.

Hope you have found a much better job by now!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:14:00 +0000

As requested: I was linked from Frothers: http://frothersunite.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=26120

By: André

André — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:14:10 +0000

Well, over here in europe we old gamers are more and more often asked to leave the store if we only show up a certain number of times and don`t buy anything. But we had a similar story like yours at our local GW store and the guy that got fired was the guy that really kept the store making money.

By: C-dog

C-dog — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:40:48 +0000

Sucks for you, man.
I settled for pdf copies of the RT/2nd ed books I didn’t have.

The staff are the One reason I don’t go to the Newcastle store (and I live here) anymore.
I used to drop in all the time when Jim was in charge and it was a cool place (with crappy, smelly aircon). Now it’s just another creche with hard-sell hard-cases.

Oh, link via Warseer.

By: Super monkey

Super monkey — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:06:45 +0000

I have gone though the manager training in the uk for GW and worked for them for over 4 years. Retail staff are seen as expendable.

BUT and its a big BUT its not the red book. I have a copy of that book and its a great book to refer to if you are a manager.

The table show has been kind of taken out of place. Its trying to show that some people don’t fit with the way GW does not want to do things but they still get good results. Now if you are getting good results the wrong way why would you ever change? You would never change so you cant work as part of the team and that’s why you need to be spotted and asked to leave.

What’s wrong in this case is also covered in the book in one chapter

Honesty humility and courage.
The Newcastle manager failed in this by not saying that he had an issue with you picking EBay items form the store and again later by lying to your manager.

They also have a great line about you know when you are doing things the right way or the easy way… always pick the right way.

I am in no way condoning what’s happened to the OP or any one else. I’m just saying that the little red book is a great management book but a lot of GW don’t understand that.

Best way to look at it any job you get now is a pay rise :)

By: T

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:40:56 +0000

Jeez. That really sucks. Strange though, from my perspective, how much of an ass that manager was. The employees here in Ottawa are pretty damn nice though, and not too annoying. Sucks how you had to get stuck with a total asshole. Good luck on getting another job