A GameStop location at Gateway Mall in Lincoln, Nebraska, unexpectedly shut down over the weekend after four employees walked out permanently, leaving behind a single note on the front door.
“We regret to inform you that we all quit,” reads the note via 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 [six] months ago. Which was [three] months before [a lot] of us even got hired. Unfortunately, despite the staff’s best efforts, we are not god.”
The message then lists several competitors, insisting customers “Spend your money at an establishment that respects [its] employees.”
Check out the full note for yourself below.
Gateway mall GameStop is closed til further notice from lincoln
“For my health, I had to leave,” Frank Maurer, former store manager, said via Kotaku. Citing alleged low pay, impossible-to-meet sales quotas, and an abusive district manager as reasons for staff walkout. Maurer had only begun working at the location late last year and apparently never received proper training.
Earlier this year, another GameStop in the Lincoln area also left a sign on the front door claiming the district manager made working conditions unbearable.
“There have actually been four walkouts since August 2021 because of him,” wrote one former employee on Facebook. “Two at each location. The first ones were kept pretty quiet, though.”
These incidents are all part of the ongoing turmoil between GameStop and employees. The company also made headlines earlier this year with its cryptocurrency investments.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
