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Subscribe to commentsAliciaSep 30th 2008 11:03AM
Who really cares where the boxes are stored. I mean your not playing the box...are you?
CarlaSep 30th 2008 11:24AM
just to let you know the bathroom is for employees only. That is why it is locked. Whom ever let a customer use the bathroom with systems in it is at fault because they could have easily stole those systems. As for getting sick they systems are in a BOX. So there is no way someone could get sick. And anyway eveyone uses the bathroom so just chill out and. If you do not use the bathroom, well then you are wearing an adult diaper!
sheriSep 30th 2008 11:19AM
surely to goodness the bathrooms are LOCKED!! they aren't going to let the public in with the game systems. they are trying to keep them from being stolen, not let you have a private area to steal them!!
reneeSep 30th 2008 11:40AM
I also work retail - and we store extras in the bahroom - esp. boxes w/ bags. One store I worked in , we used the 2nd bathrom for our sign storage. Its very common.
youidiotSep 30th 2008 12:09PM
Well, It is sort of gross. but unless you are planning on playing with the box when you get it home...
Also it's not a PUBLIC rest room. So HUNDREDS of people are not in and out of the bathroom all day long. It's an employee bathroom.
Just those that can convince the employee that they REALLY have to go.
CameronSep 30th 2008 12:06PM
I work at Gamestop, and we do this. The back room isn't big enough. There is literally nowhere else to put them. It's not like we go back there and piss all over them, anyway. The bathroom gets used all of once or twice a day.
MikeSep 30th 2008 12:07PM
As long as you're not chewing on the cardboard box, it's OK. Catering to idiot germophobes is what makes Purell Hand Santizer so popular. Just be sure to wipe down the box with an antibacterial wipe and you'll be OK til the kid sneezes all over the game console, or wipes his nose before picking up a game controller. Then what?
MichelleSep 30th 2008 12:18PM
Who Cares. I've had my gameboy in the bathroom since 1989 and play it every chance i get. It's not even in a protective cardboard box!! =)
Convict#4616Oct 1st 2008 9:47AM
I personally make a habit of going into such places for the express purpose of running a few console boxes through my crack, after all, people need to learn to not store things within reach of where I do the deed. Furthermore I'd like to assure all PS3 owners that I only defile the Xboxs, Take THAT Microsoft!
RS employeeSep 30th 2008 1:04PM
Radio Shack has been doing that for over 20 years. I seen bathrooms with computers stacked within inches of the side of the toilet and so much merchandise and fixtures stacked you could not even sit down. People have fished fixtures and merchandise out of the toilet for years. This practice has now stopped in most stores, not because of sanitation,but because the volume and size of merchandise has shrunk. However, fixtures that the merchandise are put on are stored in almost every bathroom in the company.
DavidSep 30th 2008 1:24PM
Gee, isn't that why you're supposed to run your new game console through the dishwasher before using it?
JoebudgieSep 30th 2008 1:50PM
This person is totally racist and his comment should be erased from this board.
stayhomemomof4Sep 30th 2008 2:18PM
I always wash clothes before any of my family wears them. Crabs and strangers skin cells from others are not desired in my home. I always wash my cans and especially soda cans because mice and other rodents like to crawl on them, no matter the cleanliness of the business that makes them. Good hygeine makes for healthy kids.