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Yeah, the wrongdoing happens when he sells it off the Namco floor for more than Namco's price. All he had to do was buy it for $300 and sell it out of his own home and there is no problem.
Correct. I shouldnt have done it, but, I was pretty desperate at the time. New car was $250 month, and insurance for a new driver, even at my older age, was like $240 month. It was a P.O.S. cavalier to boot (which didnt even come with a stereo). I didnt take anything from the store, but the customer was going to pay more. Had I a van, I would have carted it home.
Asked for a raise a few times, and even doing an excellent job, the DM wasnt budging. I was stupidly busting my butt +45 hrs a week, in a skilled and highly responsible position, for a mere $9.13 and hr. (no overtime. fixed salary) Even considering that I didnt do board work, thats really sad for a Mgt. position, let alone for all the mechanical repairs I did.
FYI - not that it makes it any more right... the gamestore owner drives a gas guzzling decked out hummer. And parks some sort of high speed racing / sports car in front of one of his many shops.
assuming there was no refund issued because of it, is it wrong to pocket jammed coins then?
It was extremely rare that any coins were jammed, because the entire room ran on tokens. Tokens left behind were put back into the coin box.
In fact, many of us Mgrs were trying to make the most sales per week. Trying to break a record. Compete against other locations..etc. The better you ran the store, the more that could show, in the form of income.
Me personally, I always loved games, and so I actually had the passion and motivation to fix them properly. Sadly, this actually gt me frowned upon... because they wanted a person to just rig it and keep it collecting. I spent more time on it, but my fixes would last yrs... rather than break down every week. (such as when I re-wired a road blasters wheel with heavy gauge speaker wire, cause the thin stock wires kept shearing) Heh, I was probably the only Namco arcade Mgr. whos T2 had both working force feedback guns, as well as the holographic explosions (working flasher lamps behind the 2way mirror).
In the end, the DM gave me about 6 'destroyed' redemption games right before busy season, with the intent of setting them up after the seasons end. I never had time to work on them. After season ended, I was still repairing games that made decent money.. and then the DM came in with a prize case and reamed me out for not being ready.
I believe I was being set-up, now that I think about it. He gave me like a 2weeks to get a list of things done or Id be fired. I got everything done.. but he sat there and told me he was letting me go anyways, cause he had someone who he 'thought' was more motivated. Id found out he had been training another guy from a different location for some time. I probably could have fought it, but by this time, I was burned out, and just so sick of it all.
The "Kid" they put in there was Useless. Didnt care one bit about the place. Didnt know how to repair even the simple things, nor cared to even try. The place sunk like a stone in no time flat because of it. I think it was one year after he took over, before they shut the arcades doors forever. It was Sad, but it brought a bit of a smile to my face because of my poor experience with them. The DM that axed me, was also let-go.
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