Other Former GameStop Employee Suing Company

[Demon_Skeith]

On Wednesday, former retail worker Trevon Mack filed the class-action lawsuit in New York’s eastern district court. Mack worked for GameStop from 2016 to 2020, and he argues that GameStop retail workers qualify as “manual workers” under Section 191 of New York Labor Law. This means they are legally entitled to be paid every week instead of every two weeks, like GameStop and many other retailers do. The class-action suit could potentially include hundreds or thousands of workers if it goes forward.

 

[Ash]

Do GameStop employees normally have to do a lot of manual work? I would have assumed it's more of a sales job where you don't have to do a lot of proper manual labour

 

[Grungie]

Do GameStop employees normally have to do a lot of manual work? I would have assumed it's more of a sales job where you don't have to do a lot of proper manual labour

Unless the boxes of merch off of trucks/vans are heavy, doubt it. Though it also depends on what technicality New York labor laws state as manual labor.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

Oh geez, I can't wait for the Gamestop stocks to plummet and pay you less for used games. Even if it isn't the case, it will make the poor people from working retail slightly less poor, but the lawyers get just as rich.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Do GameStop employees normally have to do a lot of manual work? I would have assumed it's more of a sales job where you don't have to do a lot of proper manual labour

I invite you to read their subreddit, it is an eye opener.

A few things:

They do have to do price changes, meaning every game that gets a price change needs a new sticker put on it.

They have to clean and organize the store.

They have to move stuff around and do planograms.

And from my understanding most of them open with just one person running the store, which is madness.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

I invite you to read their subreddit, it is an eye opener.

A few things:

They do have to do price changes, meaning every game that gets a price change needs a new sticker put on it.

They have to clean and organize the store.

They have to move stuff around and do planograms.

And from my understanding most of them open with just one person running the store, which is madness.

I feel like because of their generally smaller size in places like malls (but slightly bigger in plazas) this may sound excessive, but based on what I do every day this sounds like fun. New York or a bigger city sounds crazy. And I get it, when a new game releases they have lines. But knowing me running a register might be unnerving, or ordering new games to meet demand.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I feel like because of their generally smaller size in places like malls (but slightly bigger in plazas) this may sound excessive, but based on what I do every day this sounds like fun. New York or a bigger city sounds crazy. And I get it, when a new game releases they have lines. But knowing me running a register might be unnerving, or ordering new games to meet demand.

Other things include that they gripe about:

Answering the phone to answer the same question 100 times a day.

Meeting insane sales goals

Underpaid.

 

[Grungie]

Other things include that they gripe about:

Answering the phone to answer the same question 100 times a day.

Meeting insane sales goals

Underpaid.

Tbh, is the phone one really GameStop’s fault? That just sounds like dealing with any job that answers the phone.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Tbh, is the phone one really GameStop’s fault? That just sounds like dealing with any job that answers the phone.

Just pointing out the daily grind of the job, nothing that GS is at fault other than under paying these workers.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

Other things include that they gripe about:

Answering the phone to answer the same question 100 times a day.

Meeting insane sales goals

Underpaid.

Same question answering sounds like you can wing it the first time and then script it in your head for the rest of them.

Every business needs sales and having it be based on each employee I've read didn't sound like a big deal, but I think it can be an issue based on location and concurrent pricing in the market for each game.

Being underpaid sucks, but I don't want everyone asking for more pay and having inflation kick in later.

 

[froggyboy604]

Hopefully, Gamestop employees can be fairly paid for their work in the future. I feel Gamestop workersare manual workers because they carry game consoles, game boxes, and prevent theft which are manual work.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Same question answering sounds like you can wing it the first time and then script it in your head for the rest of them.

Every business needs sales and having it be based on each employee I've read didn't sound like a big deal, but I think it can be an issue based on location and concurrent pricing in the market for each game.

Being underpaid sucks, but I don't want everyone asking for more pay and having inflation kick in later.

Underpaid is somewhat fine if you just stand in one spot and do a mundne task, but under paid while doing several jobs worth of more employees should be a crime.