Author Topic: Nintendo retail training video from 1991 unearthed (Read 8268 times)

Flames_of_chaos · « **on:** February 03, 2009, 08:24:14 PM »

Arbok · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2009, 09:56:53 PM »

"Could I bring you a pie later?"

Video game on-store technical service: pimping it since 1991

NovaQ · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2009, 12:03:42 AM »

Snazzy tunes

UncleBob · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2009, 12:13:30 AM »

I've dealt with every single one of those customers. Seriously. Although I've never been offered pie, I have been offered cookies. And EasyCure's mom.

And the guy who's NES was so nasty it stuck to the sale's person's hand? Yeah.... been there. Obviously, I haven't had returned merchandise stick to my hand quite like that, but I've had some pretty nasty stuff that people have tried to return.

"I don't know what's wrong with it. What? It's not supposed to have cockroaches inside of it?"

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2009, 12:32:44 AM »

Yeah, what was the deal with that sticky NES anyway? The customer denied it was Soda, so.... I guess we probably don't want to know, lol.

Caliban · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2009, 02:30:27 AM »

I want to serve customers that will offer me pie.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2009, 02:39:29 AM »

Hey look at the Nintendo sexism!

Caliban · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2009, 02:42:49 AM »

The lady's so nice. Why do you have to call upon sexism every time a woman is shown to want to do something nice to someone else.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2009, 02:53:06 AM »

Quote from: Caliban on February 04, 2009, 02:42:49 AM

The lady's so nice. Why do you have to call upon sexism every time a woman is shown to want to do something nice to someone else.

It was manly her extreme ignorance of the system or electronics in general (How I hate that stereotype!), oh yeah, let's not mention that women can be just as mischievous too, it isn't just the nerdy dork guys who spill slimy stuff on the NES and try to pawn it off

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One of the funnier things is how they were blaming the customer for the NES cartridge slot of doom.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2009, 03:57:20 AM »

To be fair, it looked like ALL the customers that showed up were complete ignoranuses. Yeah, the woman definitely was... yeah, she was pretty dumb for plugging the controller in port 2 and expecting it to work, but look at the dorky guy who acted like he was so bright and didn't even know the Gameboy problem was due to the contrast setting being too high?

They were ALL idiots. There was no sexism.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:05:10 AM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on February 04, 2009, 03:57:20 AM

To be fair, it looked like ALL the customers that showed up were complete ignoranuses. Yeah, the woman definitely was... yeah, she was pretty dumb for plugging the controller in port 2 and expecting it to work, but look at the dorky guy who acted like he was so bright and didn't even know the Gameboy problem was due to the contrast setting being too high?

They were ALL idiots. There was no sexism.

Baking a pie. Case closed.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:17:42 AM »

The video didn't try to suggest all women are pie-bakers; just that that particular woman was.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:20:22 AM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on February 04, 2009, 04:17:42 AM

The video didn't try to suggest all women are pie-bakers; just that that particular woman was.

You mean the only person representing women in the video?

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:23:11 AM »

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on February 04, 2009, 04:20:22 AM

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on February 04, 2009, 04:17:42 AM
The video didn't try to suggest all women are pie-bakers; just that that particular woman was.

You mean the only person representing women in the video?

Hey, now that you mention it... did anyone happen to see any minorities in that vid? Because I sure didn't. Maybe this means the video is racist. :-O

Caliban · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2009, 01:04:29 PM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on February 04, 2009, 04:23:11 AM

did anyone happen to see any minorities in that vid?

GP.

King of Twitch · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2009, 01:14:33 PM »

This video makes me sad. If I took my Nintendo to the store and asked them to fix it, the clerk would give me a dirty look. And now Gamestop is selling $40 shirts while Free Radical needs a bailout? I hate the modern world

EasyCure · « **Reply #16 on:** February 05, 2009, 10:45:27 AM »

That "bully" customer is the worst kind of customer. I don't care much for any of those types, the completely oblivious or ridiculous idiots, but that one is by the the worst kind of customer in history. He's the first person to throw the "customer is always right" **** in your face and demand you to bend over backwards for him.

As for the pie-lady.. i'll choose to refrain from making a sexist joke here since GPs on her war path again, and demands all of us to hear her roar just kidding GP i <3 U! .. I will say.. hey, that sorta stuff actually happens!!

Once when i was working retail, i helped this nice couple out when i was the only one in the store (i was short staffed and sent my only other staff member on lunch) , and they left after purchasing a few things, came back and offered me taco bell! How nice is that?

Oh and just a month ago some nice older women gave me a $10 tip for.. well nothing. I did absolutely nothing. I even told her as much, tried to return it saying i couldn't accept it and she said nonsense.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2009, 12:52:40 PM »

Quote from: EasyCure on February 05, 2009, 10:45:27 AM

Once when i was working retail, i helped this nice couple out when i was the only one in the store (i was short staffed and sent my only other staff member on lunch) , and they left after purchasing a few things, came back and offered me taco bell! How nice is that?

Oh and just a month ago some nice older women gave me a $10 tip for.. well nothing. I did absolutely nothing. I even told her as much, tried to return it saying i couldn't accept it and she said nonsense.

That reminds me. At my college computer lab job, a nice older lady who I had helped several times walked up and handed me a Christmas present at the end of a semester. That's the only time anything like that has happened to me, though.

EasyCure · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2009, 09:45:49 PM »

was it wrapped up and everything? thats pretty damn thoughtful either way.

Dasmos · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2009, 10:28:30 PM »

lol sexism jesus christ

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:59:26 AM »

Quote from: EasyCure on February 05, 2009, 09:45:49 PM

was it wrapped up and everything? thats pretty damn thoughtful either way.

I can't remember. Sadly, it was a bit of a waste. It was a shirt that didn't fit, the receipt wasn't in the box, and I wasn't about to find her and ask for it. But it still gives me the warm fuzzies to think about it.

EasyCure · « **Reply #21 on:** February 07, 2009, 01:56:59 AM »

still awesome. I got a $20 tip today for not doing much at all, pretty much just printing out a peice of paper. AWESOME!

Urkel · « **Reply #22 on:** February 07, 2009, 03:53:12 AM »

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on February 04, 2009, 04:05:10 AM

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on February 04, 2009, 03:57:20 AM
To be fair, it looked like ALL the customers that showed up were complete ignoranuses. Yeah, the woman definitely was... yeah, she was pretty dumb for plugging the controller in port 2 and expecting it to work, but look at the dorky guy who acted like he was so bright and didn't even know the Gameboy problem was due to the contrast setting being too high?

They were ALL idiots. There was no sexism.

Baking a pie. Case closed.

She said "Can I bring you a pie later?". Bring. Not bake. She could go out and buy a pie from a store.

No sexism.

Lol.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #23 on:** February 07, 2009, 04:40:06 AM »

Would it have been less sexist if she had offered to change the oil in his car?

Mop it up · « **Reply #24 on:** February 07, 2009, 12:45:01 PM »

What did that first guy do to his NES? I don't even want to know what that brown stuff was...

$12 for an NES Cleaning Kit? What a racket. Nintendo is lucky enough I wasn't capable back then of spreading the word that a box of cotton swabs and a bottle of surgical spirit is essentially the same thing.

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Author Topic: Nintendo retail training video from 1991 unearthed (Read 8268 times)