Acts of Gord

[Revvik]

http://www.actsofgord.com/

For some time The Gord and I concurrently kept The Retail Faith. His Establishment maintained, surpassed and soon eclipsed mine in sheer Consumer Idiocy. Tales were told that begged disbelief. "No one," we thought, "Is really that stupid." But the stories continued, and the cries of the wretched grew louder and more plentiful. The stories were true: The Gord had become an Owner in Hell. Witness after Witness held forth tales of lunacy and mental vacuousness.

Being someone who works in a retail store (in, but not actually as a retail clerk, more on that later), I can really draw a parallel from some of the stuff I've seen to the stuff you yourself can read about here.

The truth, it would certainly seem, is contained herein. Go now, and read of The Gord, and know that he has walked the path of the Game Store Owner, and that he has suffered for all of us.
Iknew him as Gord.  These were his stories.

[Bardo]

Eh, I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Retail jobs suck...

The pay is crap and most customers are idiots. No benefits either. Unless stealing merchandise is a "benefit". Which, I suppose it is.

Cute site.

[Revvik]

In retrospect, since we sell used ONLY, we don't have to put up with half of the shit listed here.  I guess we just miss the really terrible people.

[Bardo]

But people who want to buy things used are some of the cheapest bastards around*.

When I was running a garage sale out of my house the other week, I had some crap listed for $0.10 and some jerk wanted to haggle with me to get it down to $0.05. Wtf? Cheap-ass.



* Not that everything should be bought new, of course.

[Revvik]

so very true, but the real antisocialites are always looking to get in on the latest video game releases.  Not to mention, that these people often have nothing better to do with their money than to throw it down on the next sports game release with tweaked stats for $40-50.  These kinds of people I can do without.

We're lucky, in that most of our used customers are pretty cool about it - GameStop at the mall also takes away enough of our video game business to where almost no stupid people come to our store.

Also - haggling over a nickel is just the rudest thing ever.  Those are the people that often dig around in our dumpster looking for stuff to sell back to us.  Police are summarily called.

[Jacob Orlove]

Heh. These were pretty funny.

Edit: yeah, I ended up reading the whole thing (even the comic). It was pretty consistent throughout.

[Matt]

I read the whole thing. It was good!