GameStop employees of Reddit? What are some of your horror stories?

Four come to mind. A woman comes in to trade in an old Xbox 360 in a box. I open the box and the smell hits me.

Rat droppings, grime, cockroaches and all have spent time in this thing. Luckily, my manager noticed and we were able to decline the trade.

Spent five minutes disinfecting the counter before I helped the next customer.

Another time I was trading in a PS4, I think.

We were chatting while I was wiping his hard drive and commenting on all his achievements.

Sometime during his conversation, he got nostalgic and changed his mind.

But not before I had already deleted all his data.

I felt terrible.

Another time, a homeless-looking guy comes in during one of the few times I'm alone in the store.

He was dragging around a trash bag and I was doing my best to keep him in eyesight as he was

all kinds of sketchy. He managed to stuff an Xbox 360 in the bag and walk out, but I ran out

and asked him to give it back,

which he did, saying, please don't call the cops.

Now, this last one kind of shook me.

This woman comes in with a gaggle of kids, maybe four.

They were all terrors, running around to different parts of the store, yelling, grabbing things

and rearranging them, seemingly causing distractions while this

woman tried on three separate occasions to get behind the counter. They end up buying something,

but then I noticed under this big box the oldest kid has picked up, he'd stuffed his hands full of

the little DS games that were on the go-back section of the counter. There was more here,

but I've lost some of the details. But

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