GameStop has found itself in hot water once again, this time for promoting a TikTok dance competition among its staff. The controversy surrounding this situation isn’t so much about the competition itself, though there are plenty that find it extremely odd, but rather about the prizes being given away to the winners.
The competition, which was initially found on GameStop‘s employee portal, was removed and is no longer visible after the company received serious criticism from its followers. The big issue here was GameStop’s main prize for competing, 10 labor hours for Black Friday week. Onlookers aren’t entirely sure what this means, but it seems strange nonetheless.
Earlier this year when the Coronavirus was at its peak, GameStop claimed it was an essential business in order to stay open despite state mandates that it close. This earned the company the ire of its employees and followers alike, but it seemed to have recovered for the most part. This TikTok challenge has only served to reignite concern about GameStop’s business practices.
In all fairness, the extra 10 hours aren’t the only thing employees would have been competing for. In addition, the winner would receive Echo 8, Echo Auto, $100 VISA gift card. Despite this, there are still many that feel this is a patronizing move from GameStop, asking its employees to compete in an embarrassing way in order to earn more work hours during what must be one of the busiest weeks for the store. It’s no wonder that public outcry eventually led to this contest being wiped from the records on the GameStop employee portal.
There is also some confusion around the situation, with some claiming the wording of the contest made it sound as though GameStop employees would be competing for paid time off or simply for 10 hours worth of pay. Unfortunately, GameStop hasn’t yet made a clarifying comment, so it seems that speculation will have to do for now. While it’s nice to see GameStop making an effort to interface and engage with its employees more, most would agree that this was not the right way to go about doing that.
It remains to be seen whether GameStop will make a public statement about the incident or whether some other contest will pop up on the employee portal in this one’s stead. Understandably, both customers and employees are upset about GameStop and its competition, so it was probably the right move to take it down in the end anyway.
Source: TheGamer
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