GameStop employees walk out due to bad working conditions

Angry staff at a retail gaming store walked out on their jobs, leaving a brutal note for customers on the door.

A GameStop store at a shopping centre in Nebraska shut down unexpectedly after four staff members abruptly quit.

Once they left, customers found a brutal note on the front door.

“We regret to inform you that we all quit,” the note said, which was posted on Reddit.

“Our district manager has no respect for us as employees or as human beings.

“We have been told by our district manager that we were supposed to have had this store achieving sales quotas and running perfectly months ago. Which was months before a lot of us even got hired. Unfortunately, despite the staff’s best efforts, we are not god.”

GameStop is an American video game, electronics and gaming merchandise retailer. The note listed several GameStop competitors, with customers urged to take their money elsewhere.

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The brutal note was posted on Reddit.

“Spend your money at an establishment that respects it’s (sic) employees,” the note stated.

“For my health, I had to leave,” former store manager Frank Maurer told Kotaku.

The worker alleged he was forced to try meet near-impossible sales figures while working for low pay.

Despite working there for almost a year, Maurer claimed he never received proper training and had to deal with an abusive district manager.

This isn’t even the first time this has happened in Lincoln. Earlier this year, another store under the same district manager closed its doors due to a walkout, also citing management as an issue.

A GameStop store in Brooklyn, New York. Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP

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These incidents are all part of the ongoing turmoil between GameStop and employees, which comes at a time when digital game sales are making it tough for traditional brick and mortar stores to compete.

GameStop became the world’s biggest meme stock last year, with its shares rising about 1000 per cent in two weeks.

The GME share price surged thanks to a group of amateur investors on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets who banded together to fight short sellers.

Hedge fund Melvin Capital was nearly ruined after it made huge bets that GameStop stock would crash.

The share price of a little-known Australian mining company — GME Resources Limited — piggybacked on the surge.

Investors apparently mistook the Aussie company for the similarly-named cult US stock.

— written by Kirk McKeand on behalf of GLHF