Rebuttal to “Surretard”

Original Post: Surretard
Submitted By: Anonymous

Hello Nathan, I stumbled across your website and was more than a little
surprised to find this post;

https://preorderpushers.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/surretard/

Because yeah, that was me. My names not Joe Moron, either. I was that
employee and I totally remember that entire incident. Look man, I’m just
trying to do my job. It sucks working where I work. They make you force game
insurance, second-hand software and pre-ordering onto every customer with
absolutely no incentives. If I can lie my way into some John Anybody buying
a set of speakers, then they consider that a job well done.

This isn’t a rebuttal so much as a suggestion. Remember that the employees
at major gaming chains are, for the most part, good people who have sold or
are in the process of selling their souls to the corporate giants that hand
out their paychecks. Yeah, there’s some real _ssholes that work for stores
like mine, I know quite a few. But I also know heaps of nice people who
unfortunately are in the employ of a evil retail corporation.

Thankfully, I’m not working there much longer. I’ve handed in my notice and
am leaving within a month to pursue other work. Honestly, I won’t miss
working there at all.

Anonymous

PS – Trading is such a rip off it boggles my mind. I’ve seen games traded in
for $5 that were then on the shelf for $94.95. That’s close to a two
thousand percent markup in price. GameStop sales hit $5.3 billion US dollars
last year, because people like me make minimum wage and sell games that are
95% profit. I hate this company.

Surretard

Store: EB Games
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Employee: Joe Moron
Submitted By: Nix

I foolishly asked if any of their Logitech 5.1 speaker sets had optical input, because I was looking at something for surround sound gaming and the XBox supports dolby digital via optical… I got a lecture on how I didn’t need optical for 5.1.

“That’s just it you see, they have lots of RCA ports in the back… you don’t need 5.1, just go down to Dick Smith and get these things called “splitters.” Plug the cables from the PS2 into those and you turn your two RCA leads into four! And plug in another set, and you get 6, and that’s enough for 5.1 sound. I have this setup at home and it sounds awesome! It makes such a difference!”

Rebuttal: https://preorderpushers.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/rebuttal-to-surretard/