A rogue manager of a GameStop video game store in Dallas, Texas, named Brandon Scott won't sell games to any minor unless an adult confirms that the kid is GETTING GOOD GRADES in school. Scott also throws out any kids who use profanity in the store, use the "N-word," or wear their pants pulled down. And if any kid can prove he's got straight As, Scott will buy him a free video game.
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...awesome !!!
I think that is awesome! Cheers to him! I wish other store managers/ entire companies would get a backbone and do something like this !
Great now all the gamer parents can give their kids who get straight A's 20 bucks and go get a game for free it works out for all of us. Congrats on that.
Apparently this man doesn't want to sell anything!
agree with paulo there.
fantastic. Just saw this man on CNN and support it. As a psychology major he's making the kids WANT to be better students and citizens. Awesome!! A+ !
I'm a manager at GameStop, and let me say this. This man was not a manager, he was an assistant manager. All the store managers were away on meetings, myself included.
While this employee may seem to be doing something noble, keep in mind that he has blatantly broken company policy, and Gamestop has no such policy in place to support good grades or any other behavior as a means to sell or deny a sale of product.
Think of it this way - you go into a place of business and you're told that you cannot buy their product because of how you're dressed or how you carried yourself while in the store. Would you feel that business was acting correctlt? Or would you demand that as a customer you have a level of liberty to buy whatever you please without baseless, subjective rules?
It sounds great, but this manager may be a rogue vigilante that is acting with poor behavior. You decide, but I cannot stress enough this employee's wrongdoings.
Wow so it was only an assistant manager that did this - that makes it even better! Since none of the managers have the balls to do any thing that would help parents out the assistant manager stepped up to the plate. I am sure he will lose his job for having a backbone but he shouldn't - I have 5 teenagers and just found out because of this story that we have a Game Stop in our small town. The marketing that comes from this alone for Game Stop they should give this man a huge raise!
Store managers don't have a lack of balls, they have a job to keep and a guideline to follow, same with ANY OTHER BUSINESS. You think this guy's a hero, he's not. He's a dumbass.
This is discrimination, plain and simple. He's discriminating his customers.
Haha! This is too funny. They might keep some kids away from buying games but it'll be the same as drugs. If you can't get them one way, there'll always be another way. =D
Also your picture, that's of one of the gamestops in Ireland lol
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