Recently, I asked Kotaku Australia readers to share their most cooked video game retail stories with us, and you lot did not disappoint. From disgruntled parents, dodgy trade-ins, and a surprisingly large number of tales featuring actual human faeces, retail staff in brick and mortar game stores have seen it all. Your stories truly make Rostered On skits look like they’re part of a documentary, which I find simultaneously deeply amusing and horrifying.
There was a whole tonne of responses on the original article and social media, so we collate them here for posterity. This is a piece for those of you keen to either commiserate with other video game retail staff. For those who wish to share further war stories, or for the nosy among you that want to know just how cursed things can get behind a till.
In this piece, you’ll find some of the most wild (and hilarious) experiences you’ve reported in the comments and on social. You’re troopers, the lot of you, and living proof that time spent in retail customer service is important for character-building purposes. As I mentioned, there were a strangely high number of shit (and other bodily fluids) stories to wade through.
Honestly, one story probably would’ve still been too many. From our very own David Smith: Someone straight up took a shit in one of the games aisles. Just a huge triceratops grogan right there between the headphones wall and the PS3 games.
From Craig: When I was 21...
yes, someone once, somehow, left behin.