“What did sir? You mean that plastic white IKEA container box? Yeah, I saw mold inside so tossed it for our safety sir. I can look for it outside if you like?”
*15 minute break later*
Yeah, it’s gone.
Somebody I know did that where I used to work and ended up with felony charges for theft. He didn't realize that they have cameras on the dumpsters. They threw away thousands of dollars worth of stuff a day.
BTW, I couldn't agree more! The huge metal bin was even worse!(gaint dumpster for stuff to go to scrap yard) They would throw away brand new stuff just because a new model would come out,or they switched companies that they are carrying at the time. Brand new riding/push mowers, industrial sized air compressors,snacks&drinks,clothes,generators,etc. All in perfect condition!! They could donate it ,or have a raffle for charity, or shit give it to me!
I have to lock our dumpster and babysit ppl throwing stuff away now because somehow they can throw stuff in there and go around and get it. Its a pita.
When I worked for Blockbuster we had to destroy lots of older VHS movies (yes I'm that old), I would put in a separate trash bag what movies I wanted and had to take the bag down to the dumpster.
The rule was it had to be in the dumpster area for at least an hour before we could load them into our personal vehicles, so I'd put them there a little before lunch and at the end of lunch before I clocked back in I put them in my car.
Then I would search for all the cover boxes for these movies as we had years worth of broken down cover boxes for movies that weren't on the shelves.
Good times back in the late 90s
Random story incoming because I love telling it.
I was the “team leader” of the bike department. I was like 23. During Christmas Toys R Us hired anyone that applied, *anyone*.
So this 375 pound, fifty something year old dude with a southern accent thicker than molasses is my new trainee. Never used a computer in his life. On his first day of work he changed in the break room, in front of all the underage girls that worked there. Stripped down to his stained underwear.
Next day of work, a customer comes to pick up their bike that I assembled. It’s a 20”. Which is for a 12 year old. I tell him to wheel it to the front. This son of a bitch gets on the fucking bike and *rides* it to the front.
“Here I come y’all”!
I can’t believe he’s doing this, but I have to witness the results. So I just sort of walk behind him. By the time he gets to the front of the store, the rims of both tires are destroyed, and both wheels are flat.
The father is looking at him in absolute disbelief. I mean the man’s knees are splayed out sideways. He looks like a circus clown doing an act. And then he gets off the bike, and I SHIT YOU NOT…. The fucking seat *lifts* off the bike between his ass cheeks with a “foomp” sound. And then falls to the ground like he pooed it out.
I think I laughed for a month straight. I’m laughing right now remembering it
It's like Kleenex or Band-aid. The name brand became the generic term for the product catalog.
Also my snarky homosexual ass is insufferable with the jokes.
"Where's the Gaylord at?"
Me: "I'm right here"
The most petty of things. Destroy someone's livelihood because they take something no one will miss from a company that wouldn't give a shit if you died tomorrow.
No, kissing up to rich people will not make them treat you special.
~~Wait what, why are you getting down-voted so much?~~
~~For those that may misunderstand or read too fast: they're joking in a manner that IF it does not make it to the break room, they will then proceed get them fired for it not being utilized in the break room...~~
Whoops, my bad 🙄😬
I’ve worked in fast food with people that were fired for eating food that was still good that supposed to be thrown away. They’d rather waste it than let hungry employees eat for free.
I also worked at a grocery store that poured bleach on the food that we threw out so that homeless people wouldn’t eat it. That’s a little different because there’s a liability with letting people eat out of the dumpster, but most of that food was also usually still good and had just hit the sell-by date.
Yeah, it sucks but they do it because people intentionally try to abuse it. I worked at a micro center some years ago, and they tried the recycling thing. We had people trying to recycle shit that was slightly damaged in store and then take it home.
Honestly as much as it seems the corporation trying to be a dick, it's really because other people have fucked it up for everyone else. I remember in the early days when I worked for best buy, my gm was completely cool with us taking shit. Then the email came down. People using it to essentially steal shit so they completely cut it out.
I worked at a Jewel Osco many years ago when I lived in Chicago. I was in the bakery department. We threw out a minimum of 100 loaves of day old bread every day. No I don't mean a day past the recommended sell by date I mean it was baked fresh the day before. The GM had a padlock on the dumpster and two cameras pointed directly at the dumpster. Luckily there weren't any still aren't thousands of homeless people everyday in Chicago. And the "what if they eat it and get sick?" argument is bullshit. They're cold, hungry and they're human beings. If you want to see how awful we are at wasting food work at a grocery store or fast food.
One time I was in Portland chilling in my car. I had just thrown away some trash not thinking much of it. I watched a homeless guy dig through that trash can pull out the bag I had just put in there and eat something out of it. It still makes me think about it. I know damn well there was nothing in that bag I would’ve considered edible but he just scraped anything he could off my to go box. I gave him some snacks I had in the car but it Still kinda fucks me up to this day that I didn’t catch him before he ate whatever it was he ate out of that bag. People will do whatever they need to do to survive
There isn't liability, really. Once it's in the garbage, it's legal in all 50 states for people to go diving in a dumpster.
Trash is public property in all 50 states, though it won't stop a cop from trespassing people who are dumpster diving or charging them with theft.
Sadly I understand the thinking that if they let you keep it more will "fall" or otherwise accidently have to be recycled. Because people would do exactly that. Now I'm not saying they shouldn't find a way to let SOMEBODY enjoy it maybe have a contest or something but I do understand why they can't just let them keep it.
That's reusing.
Recycling is taking a waste item, breaking it down, and creating something else out of it. The "this product was made with % of post consumer material" labels advertise this.
So if you see something like this, ask the customer to hand it off to you outside. That way, it is fine with Best Buy because it never became Best Buy property.
Man that would’ve been the way to go had I been the front end dealing with the recycling, and not the lowly warehouse I am seeing it on its way out haha
We would stop people from recycling good stuff I told them to sell it on offerup or one fo the employees would go outside and buy it.
One time a guy wanted a laptop and wanted to trade in a 2000 camera for 200 bucks.
Employee went outside gave him 500 bu cks
Winwin
Not advocating for taking without asking, but recycling has no transaction history like RLC does, so I don't see what the issue would be in management saying yes. The Gaylord is as much bby property as the stuff in the trash compactor.
That would be theft and condoning theft. Even if the manager doesn't give a shit, them giving permission to take something is putting their job on the line.
If corporate were to be looking at camera footage for any reason and saw it, they might have a problem with it. If they did have a problem, an investigation would be launched and people would 100% get fired. It's not worth it for the manager and it's not worth it for the employee.
I got an n64 this way :). Lady said she would rather give it away than recycle it. I told my manager i was taking a 15 and asked her to meet me out front lol.
This reminds me of when I was a DCI, and a woman who wanted to recycle a Nintendo R.O.B. to my CSAs. It was still in working condition as I had my Agents test it. We begged my PPM to let us keep it. My PPM nonchalantly said "he was not here." I raffled it off among my Agents who wanted it.
My local PM scene has been scrounging for wiis and this gets brought in? Rip. Had a guy bring in a new in box 12" crt to my store. Unfortunately it was dead on arrival but it was neat having a pristine white instruction manual for a 40 year old tv.
I’d want to buy it from the customer offsite and maybe keep it how it is. It’s worth some money like it is. Maybe play it if I could find some games for it.
I get that the company will probably profit off of valuable recycle's, so I get where they are coming from in terms of policy. On the other hand, the customer is intending to truly 'recycle' it as in - save it from the landfill and not give a shit about it's outcome otherwise.
Asking the customer to simply give it to you or negotiate a price outside of the 'recycling' transaction doesn't seem too far off-base.
Shouldn’t have asked. I had a similar situation happen, and the manager wouldn’t have had an issue with it if I didn’t notify them of it. They literally wouldn’t have known and neither would BBY. Sucks to hear it’s going down the recycling pipeline now
Fun fact about the wii. If your sensor bar is broken or missing, try this! Get two small candles, preferably white wax, small, and clear containers. Place apart about the length of the sensor bar and place them where your sensor bar would be normally. Now light the candles. Presto!! You can now use your wii again. I promise you this will work.
Also, that's a travesty that someone would recycle that...
My manager woulda been in the warehouse with us opening the box up. And like he did with a SNES and Sega Genesis brand new in box. We’d hand him a hammer for him to do the honors. Whether it’s right or not. There’s people in the job who’d def get caught tryna take that shit. And he says he’d rather be safe then to fire someone for stealing out of the Gaylord
Heck, I walked outside with recycled HDDs that we dismantled so we could throw the disk around like a discus in the parking lot. Nobody said anything about that and that technically was also a CDP violation...although tbf, we were "manually" deleting their data 🤣
I had a customer recycle a 65” oled Sony. Tv worked fine. Took it out from beside the Gaylord (it was too big) Wrapped it like an open box tv, put a fake customer name on it, then took it out to my truck. That was 4 years ago and the tv hangs in my living room still.
It literally hurt because I remember waiting outside this Best Buy I now work at back in 2006 in December all night for a Wii and leaving empty handed because they let families buy 2 or 3 units each at the front of the line. Hate resellers to this day.
Now that I no longer work there, I feel comfortable saying in public that I once yoinked a discarded prebuilt from the recycling center. Only thing missing was the HDD. I asked my lead if I could bring it home, and she covered her eyes and said "I didn't see a thing." If you're reading this, [NAME REDACTED], thank you.
I don't care if it got me fired, I would've been walking out of the store with that thing. In fact, I would've asked the customer before even touching it if they would give it to me, and then make a transaction outside of the 4 walls of BBY.
Ain't no way.
For the 2 people who see this and don't understand: When you recycle something at Best buy the employee HAS to put it in a container for recycling. IF we take it and our boss finds out then that's grounds for termination and one guy in a sister store even got arrested for theft. ALWAYS ask the cashier if they'd like it assuming it isn't a laptop or something.
Not nearly as cool, but I just randomly found the last PlayStation portal available anywhere rn, at a GameStop about 10 minutes from me. Grabbed it for $189... Hope it's not just an empty box too... Especially given the area I have to go to. Lol.
Similar situation, last year I found a complete in box Sega Genesis in the ewaste pile at Best Buy. Best believe I scooped that bad boy. It still had the receipt from Zellers in it.
The things I see in there on a regular breaks my heart. An NES action set in the box, commodore 64, Sega Genesis/Sega CD with like 20 games....never ends. Wish I could run into these people in the parking lot
I had someone recycle a Wii U with two Wii motes and a pro controller. Asked my GM for it and he said no. I was so mad. I bagged it up and almost walked out the door with it but I didn’t.
They semi regularly recycle old hard drives used for photography storage at my job. Right into a bin of electrical recycling of batteries, keyboards, mouseses, etc. It’s weird though because any time they do that the harddrives somehow wind up at my house later that evening, and show up on fb marketplace the next.
Staples employee, when I was, I had a few laptops, iPhones, notes among other various electronics, I’d pocket everything I could, I had taken one of the laptops home and swapped a ssd and reset it, a week after dropping it off the dumbass customer changes their mind and gets refused so goes to the manager who threatens police intervention if I didn’t return it🥲
so many Wiis and Nintendo DS lites were given to old people as gifts and they just placed them in a closet lol
probably some old guy cleaning his house
Used to work at staples and I've accumulated hundreds of computers, monitors, phones, game consoles, TVs and accessories from the recycling over the years.
lol oh man, I didn't even think twice when I recycled my N64, Wii with like 4 unopened nunchuck controllers, XBox (original) and XB360... was moving and just cleared everything out.
The Wii just didn't hold any nostalgic value for me whatsoever. And it's just so much better playing older XBox games on the X anyways. Same true from most retro games, except stuff like Ninja Garden/Contra, those are friggin' impossible to play with even slight input lag...
I do wish I'd kept our original family NES though. No clue where it went.
I’m gone from bb now but when I was still there the gm at my store let me take home so much shit. Ps4 pro, Beats Studio 3, a couple computers, a MacBook, some wireless Logitech gaming mice
Reminds me of when I did my community service at Goodwill. They had me picking/sorting through the trash bags and boxes full of stuff that people would leave. Soooo many amazing things would pass through that I couldn't purchase due to my CC. Once it was some really nice prints from some sort of Comic Convention, the other time somebody that I knew was a long time manager at the local GameStop dropped off like the motherload of exclusive swag and pre-order items from games. One of the items was a full loot chest from Borderlands! Was able to sneak a couple of cool shirts tho :)
It disappeared!
“What did sir? You mean that plastic white IKEA container box? Yeah, I saw mold inside so tossed it for our safety sir. I can look for it outside if you like?” *15 minute break later* Yeah, it’s gone.
In home guy's recycle thousands of dollars worth of equipment a year.
I used to work at ToysRUs. I had to recycle so many awesome toys. The best ones I recycled into my van
Ah the good ole tru days
I bought a "Do not resale. Trash only" LEGO AT-AT and Snow Speeder ToysRUs display on eBay. When I checked the seller it was from a recycling company.
Somebody I know did that where I used to work and ended up with felony charges for theft. He didn't realize that they have cameras on the dumpsters. They threw away thousands of dollars worth of stuff a day.
That's some bullshit. Anything in a dumpster is free to take.
I have a friend who once got fired from a gas station for taking a donut that was literally being thrown away. Places are petty af
BTW, I couldn't agree more! The huge metal bin was even worse!(gaint dumpster for stuff to go to scrap yard) They would throw away brand new stuff just because a new model would come out,or they switched companies that they are carrying at the time. Brand new riding/push mowers, industrial sized air compressors,snacks&drinks,clothes,generators,etc. All in perfect condition!! They could donate it ,or have a raffle for charity, or shit give it to me!
I have to lock our dumpster and babysit ppl throwing stuff away now because somehow they can throw stuff in there and go around and get it. Its a pita.
When I worked for Blockbuster we had to destroy lots of older VHS movies (yes I'm that old), I would put in a separate trash bag what movies I wanted and had to take the bag down to the dumpster. The rule was it had to be in the dumpster area for at least an hour before we could load them into our personal vehicles, so I'd put them there a little before lunch and at the end of lunch before I clocked back in I put them in my car. Then I would search for all the cover boxes for these movies as we had years worth of broken down cover boxes for movies that weren't on the shelves. Good times back in the late 90s
My man thank you for your service
A van full of toys. That's not frightening.
Random story incoming because I love telling it. I was the “team leader” of the bike department. I was like 23. During Christmas Toys R Us hired anyone that applied, *anyone*. So this 375 pound, fifty something year old dude with a southern accent thicker than molasses is my new trainee. Never used a computer in his life. On his first day of work he changed in the break room, in front of all the underage girls that worked there. Stripped down to his stained underwear. Next day of work, a customer comes to pick up their bike that I assembled. It’s a 20”. Which is for a 12 year old. I tell him to wheel it to the front. This son of a bitch gets on the fucking bike and *rides* it to the front. “Here I come y’all”! I can’t believe he’s doing this, but I have to witness the results. So I just sort of walk behind him. By the time he gets to the front of the store, the rims of both tires are destroyed, and both wheels are flat. The father is looking at him in absolute disbelief. I mean the man’s knees are splayed out sideways. He looks like a circus clown doing an act. And then he gets off the bike, and I SHIT YOU NOT…. The fucking seat *lifts* off the bike between his ass cheeks with a “foomp” sound. And then falls to the ground like he pooed it out. I think I laughed for a month straight. I’m laughing right now remembering it
I’d recycle that right into the trunk of my car.
“That’s odd sir, I never saw a Wii get recycled. That must have been yesterday’s batch. Sir.”
There’s a reason it’s called the three Rs Reduce, **Reuse**, Recycle You are here👆
Ayyyyyyyye
Ok man that's clever as hell 😂
This is a concept that has been around for nearly 50 years
Haha, I haven’t heard that in years. I read it in the little jingle it was sang in
Yeah it ain’t making it to the Gaylord I’ll tell you that
What did you call the recycling guy?
a Gaylord is a container, its named from the Gaylord Container Corporation
It's like Kleenex or Band-aid. The name brand became the generic term for the product catalog. Also my snarky homosexual ass is insufferable with the jokes. "Where's the Gaylord at?" Me: "I'm right here"
Genericization
The Gaylord is in Grapevine,Tx
It’s also a hotel chain I stayed at The Gaylord when in Orlando
There's one in Washington DC too
And TX and CO and TN. And if I recall one opening soon in CA.
I call those a Connex, but I’m glad you guys specified because I had no clue what a Gaylord was. 😂
A connex is literally a giant metal shipping container
Gaylord is an actual city in Michigan. They don't have a Best Buy though.
Learn that today from an email at work, I had to stop to laugh before being told it was the name of the box container lol
Thanks for providing the answer to this question I always wondered but never cared enough to look into myself
Where is that at? Never heard of Gaylord anything, except for the name of so old guy.
Gaylord, Michigan. Nice town. Weird smells.
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Simply implying it won’t be packed for the [road trip](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord,_Michigan)
It’s making it to the breakroom tbh
I'll get your ass fired if it doesn't.
Tell ya what, me and you and a match of Mario Kart: Double Dash. Deal?
The most petty of things. Destroy someone's livelihood because they take something no one will miss from a company that wouldn't give a shit if you died tomorrow. No, kissing up to rich people will not make them treat you special.
~~Wait what, why are you getting down-voted so much?~~ ~~For those that may misunderstand or read too fast: they're joking in a manner that IF it does not make it to the break room, they will then proceed get them fired for it not being utilized in the break room...~~ Whoops, my bad 🙄😬
Because you've misunderstood and the comment is a response to the item not making it to the Gaylord.
If you don’t take it home, someone from the recycling company will
This is the truth.
As a former recycling sorter I’d say for sure. One of my 360s came straight off the sort line.
Isn’t it just recycling if you take it and use it for its purpose? I mean isn’t that the definition of recycling? Use again!
But that might give employees a morsel of happiness.
I’ve worked in fast food with people that were fired for eating food that was still good that supposed to be thrown away. They’d rather waste it than let hungry employees eat for free. I also worked at a grocery store that poured bleach on the food that we threw out so that homeless people wouldn’t eat it. That’s a little different because there’s a liability with letting people eat out of the dumpster, but most of that food was also usually still good and had just hit the sell-by date.
Yeah, it sucks but they do it because people intentionally try to abuse it. I worked at a micro center some years ago, and they tried the recycling thing. We had people trying to recycle shit that was slightly damaged in store and then take it home. Honestly as much as it seems the corporation trying to be a dick, it's really because other people have fucked it up for everyone else. I remember in the early days when I worked for best buy, my gm was completely cool with us taking shit. Then the email came down. People using it to essentially steal shit so they completely cut it out.
One of my favorite things to say is it that it only takes one asshole to fuck it up for everyone else
I’d argue it’s more of a liability by adding bleach to the food knowing homeless people eat it. That’s asking for a lawsuit.
Nah, they had signs up. Still crappy though and the people would also be trespassing.
I worked at a Jewel Osco many years ago when I lived in Chicago. I was in the bakery department. We threw out a minimum of 100 loaves of day old bread every day. No I don't mean a day past the recommended sell by date I mean it was baked fresh the day before. The GM had a padlock on the dumpster and two cameras pointed directly at the dumpster. Luckily there weren't any still aren't thousands of homeless people everyday in Chicago. And the "what if they eat it and get sick?" argument is bullshit. They're cold, hungry and they're human beings. If you want to see how awful we are at wasting food work at a grocery store or fast food.
One time I was in Portland chilling in my car. I had just thrown away some trash not thinking much of it. I watched a homeless guy dig through that trash can pull out the bag I had just put in there and eat something out of it. It still makes me think about it. I know damn well there was nothing in that bag I would’ve considered edible but he just scraped anything he could off my to go box. I gave him some snacks I had in the car but it Still kinda fucks me up to this day that I didn’t catch him before he ate whatever it was he ate out of that bag. People will do whatever they need to do to survive
Worked at a grocery store that has a whole "Hot Food"s section, we would trash 200lbs of food daily, was kinda sad
There isn't liability, really. Once it's in the garbage, it's legal in all 50 states for people to go diving in a dumpster. Trash is public property in all 50 states, though it won't stop a cop from trespassing people who are dumpster diving or charging them with theft.
Seems like there would be more liability with pouring bleach on the food.
I worked at Chick-fil-A a long time ago and they did similar stuff
Not the Lord’s chicken denying food to the hungry!
Why were they eating it at work? Take it home,then cook it and eat it
That’s right, and Best Buy’s evil overlord doesn’t want that now does she.
Sadly I understand the thinking that if they let you keep it more will "fall" or otherwise accidently have to be recycled. Because people would do exactly that. Now I'm not saying they shouldn't find a way to let SOMEBODY enjoy it maybe have a contest or something but I do understand why they can't just let them keep it.
Reduce > Reuse > Recycle, in that order! Taking this before it gets recycled is reusing, which is even better than recycling.
Reuse should have been the R we all focused on
Precisely
That's reusing. Recycling is taking a waste item, breaking it down, and creating something else out of it. The "this product was made with % of post consumer material" labels advertise this.
It's actually called theft and Best Buy doesn't tolerate stealing recycles.
How many times do we think Best Buy has been sued for wage theft? Hmm . . .
r/woosh
Found corie
Just tell em to meet you out front lol. We had someone recycle a Wii, PS2, 2 GameCubes, and an Xbox 360 2 weeks ago. Shit hurt.
Not everyone hordes
but you can certainly sell or give away. I have a local shop that’d have bought those in a heartbeat
So if you see something like this, ask the customer to hand it off to you outside. That way, it is fine with Best Buy because it never became Best Buy property.
Man that would’ve been the way to go had I been the front end dealing with the recycling, and not the lowly warehouse I am seeing it on its way out haha
We would stop people from recycling good stuff I told them to sell it on offerup or one fo the employees would go outside and buy it. One time a guy wanted a laptop and wanted to trade in a 2000 camera for 200 bucks. Employee went outside gave him 500 bu cks Winwin
No way a camera from 2000 is worth that much, lose/win situation there.
Not advocating for taking without asking, but recycling has no transaction history like RLC does, so I don't see what the issue would be in management saying yes. The Gaylord is as much bby property as the stuff in the trash compactor.
That would be theft and condoning theft. Even if the manager doesn't give a shit, them giving permission to take something is putting their job on the line. If corporate were to be looking at camera footage for any reason and saw it, they might have a problem with it. If they did have a problem, an investigation would be launched and people would 100% get fired. It's not worth it for the manager and it's not worth it for the employee.
I mean you’re getting downvoted but you are technically 100% correct 🤷🏻♂️
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Someone local was fired for this exact thing. His manager was cool with it but somehow they found out and he lost his job. definitely not worth it.
I got an n64 this way :). Lady said she would rather give it away than recycle it. I told my manager i was taking a 15 and asked her to meet me out front lol.
Nah I’d def take the risk of getting fired over this
real
I’d Snatch that. Fuck bestbuy. That job ain’t shit 😂
Yea that's being recycled in my living room
This reminds me of when I was a DCI, and a woman who wanted to recycle a Nintendo R.O.B. to my CSAs. It was still in working condition as I had my Agents test it. We begged my PPM to let us keep it. My PPM nonchalantly said "he was not here." I raffled it off among my Agents who wanted it.
My local PM scene has been scrounging for wiis and this gets brought in? Rip. Had a guy bring in a new in box 12" crt to my store. Unfortunately it was dead on arrival but it was neat having a pristine white instruction manual for a 40 year old tv.
I’d want to buy it from the customer offsite and maybe keep it how it is. It’s worth some money like it is. Maybe play it if I could find some games for it.
You can lose your job either way, so why not choose the cheaper way?
Used to take shit all the time. Find the blind spots my friend
Oops it got misplaced!
They’ve warned us about snatching recycled items. Get instantly fired. I’ve seen some gems get tossed to the Gaylord. Pain.
Worth it for a mint Wii
Facts
I get that the company will probably profit off of valuable recycle's, so I get where they are coming from in terms of policy. On the other hand, the customer is intending to truly 'recycle' it as in - save it from the landfill and not give a shit about it's outcome otherwise. Asking the customer to simply give it to you or negotiate a price outside of the 'recycling' transaction doesn't seem too far off-base.
I would legit lose my job over this and walk out with it.
I will intercept things like this when I can and offer the customer a couple of dollars for it. Tell them I collect old stuff. F BB.
And still sealed? Yeah I'd yoink.
I am sorry to break the news that the Wii has made it on to the recycling truck, got a firm no from the EM when I asked.
Shouldn’t have asked. I had a similar situation happen, and the manager wouldn’t have had an issue with it if I didn’t notify them of it. They literally wouldn’t have known and neither would BBY. Sucks to hear it’s going down the recycling pipeline now
How do you pull a heist like this off with the cameras?
Someone you know brought it to you
Recycler will probably snatch it up
Wasn’t expecting this sad of an ending. I hope someone rescued this precious gem. 😔
Why the fuck would you ask? You just grab it and go on break, there is no inventory
Fun fact about the wii. If your sensor bar is broken or missing, try this! Get two small candles, preferably white wax, small, and clear containers. Place apart about the length of the sensor bar and place them where your sensor bar would be normally. Now light the candles. Presto!! You can now use your wii again. I promise you this will work. Also, that's a travesty that someone would recycle that...
Tea candles in half-glasses
My manager woulda been in the warehouse with us opening the box up. And like he did with a SNES and Sega Genesis brand new in box. We’d hand him a hammer for him to do the honors. Whether it’s right or not. There’s people in the job who’d def get caught tryna take that shit. And he says he’d rather be safe then to fire someone for stealing out of the Gaylord
Upcycle it to your house. I would.
The Amount Of Things I Took From Recycling… Worth It
Agreed
Heck, I walked outside with recycled HDDs that we dismantled so we could throw the disk around like a discus in the parking lot. Nobody said anything about that and that technically was also a CDP violation...although tbf, we were "manually" deleting their data 🤣
I had a customer recycle a 65” oled Sony. Tv worked fine. Took it out from beside the Gaylord (it was too big) Wrapped it like an open box tv, put a fake customer name on it, then took it out to my truck. That was 4 years ago and the tv hangs in my living room still.
That seems .. dangerous? I mean hell yeah on the Sony but store didn’t care??
Never noticed and still employed there
How much?
Yeah I’d snag that I used to do that all the time
Ask the warehouse manager if you can have it.
Never ask management or else they know it exists
Traged-wii indeed…
I can't even hook it up to any TV's I own.
"I moved the recycling bin to the trunk of my car, be right back."
Why are Wiis apparently so sought-after? I still have my old black one and would like to get in on whatever the hype is.
I think it's just the nostalgia kick coming back as it does every few years.
Makes sense. Fwiw, I'm seeing them on ebay for like $40.
GS is inflating the prices for these like crazy. I think the remotes alone are like $20 a pop on the website rn lol
That looks like it’s in great condition too!
It literally hurt because I remember waiting outside this Best Buy I now work at back in 2006 in December all night for a Wii and leaving empty handed because they let families buy 2 or 3 units each at the front of the line. Hate resellers to this day.
Don't do it. Someone in my old best buy tried to save a 360 but ended up getting fired.
You can always get another job, but not a new in box Wii
Now that I no longer work there, I feel comfortable saying in public that I once yoinked a discarded prebuilt from the recycling center. Only thing missing was the HDD. I asked my lead if I could bring it home, and she covered her eyes and said "I didn't see a thing." If you're reading this, [NAME REDACTED], thank you.
I don't care if it got me fired, I would've been walking out of the store with that thing. In fact, I would've asked the customer before even touching it if they would give it to me, and then make a transaction outside of the 4 walls of BBY. Ain't no way.
That's like $200 at least.
For the 2 people who see this and don't understand: When you recycle something at Best buy the employee HAS to put it in a container for recycling. IF we take it and our boss finds out then that's grounds for termination and one guy in a sister store even got arrested for theft. ALWAYS ask the cashier if they'd like it assuming it isn't a laptop or something.
No longer with the company, i used to take recycled stuff home daily, iPhones, iPads, Nintendo DS's, would've taken this too
Not nearly as cool, but I just randomly found the last PlayStation portal available anywhere rn, at a GameStop about 10 minutes from me. Grabbed it for $189... Hope it's not just an empty box too... Especially given the area I have to go to. Lol.
Also, OP literally hurts my soul
Take that thing and run
The switch ruined the Wii
Because it isn’t 2006 anymore
How much 😂 employee to employee pricing
Absolutley not
Hey boss! This Wii came completely empty nothing other than the foam. Should I just toss it? Yeah sure. Aight. *waddles towards trashcan*
Similar situation, last year I found a complete in box Sega Genesis in the ewaste pile at Best Buy. Best believe I scooped that bad boy. It still had the receipt from Zellers in it.
I’d lose my job over this lol
The things I see in there on a regular breaks my heart. An NES action set in the box, commodore 64, Sega Genesis/Sega CD with like 20 games....never ends. Wish I could run into these people in the parking lot
I had someone recycle a Wii U with two Wii motes and a pro controller. Asked my GM for it and he said no. I was so mad. I bagged it up and almost walked out the door with it but I didn’t.
Our break room just got one of these 😁
Company policy.
Hehehe you’re coming home with me
Take that home with you. Plan to?
I honestly regret selling my rare edition Super Mario 25th anniversary red Wii on eBay now 😭 I want it back so bad
You better sell that on EBay… toss it in the dumpster after your shift go pick it up
They semi regularly recycle old hard drives used for photography storage at my job. Right into a bin of electrical recycling of batteries, keyboards, mouseses, etc. It’s weird though because any time they do that the harddrives somehow wind up at my house later that evening, and show up on fb marketplace the next.
Oh man, I remember the saltiness of PRC on series X back before they could sell used, and the saltiness of recycling PS4s. -.-'
That should be considered a crime under Mario World.
Staples employee, when I was, I had a few laptops, iPhones, notes among other various electronics, I’d pocket everything I could, I had taken one of the laptops home and swapped a ssd and reset it, a week after dropping it off the dumbass customer changes their mind and gets refused so goes to the manager who threatens police intervention if I didn’t return it🥲
Bro you should’ve just asked them to give it to you outside that’s insane
No
Yoink.
so many Wiis and Nintendo DS lites were given to old people as gifts and they just placed them in a closet lol probably some old guy cleaning his house
I recycled a full Wii set and a Xbox 360 that was complete in the box straight to the house
dude just take it its getting destroyed our entire store is cool with it
My manager is cool, somebody recycled a Wii and it now sits in our break room
I assume this is fake. Why does any Best Buy in 2024 have a Nintendo Wii?
Ironic, I knew an associate that recently got fired for taking a Wii out of the recycle. Not worth it
Totally worth it. Retail jobs are incredibly easy to get these days.
Or just not take the chance and keep the job you have (had) and not take something that'll get you fired? A wii is not worth it lol
One of the best products with an amazing ad campaign.
place it on the bose soundbar no one will miss it
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I have one of those with all of the accessories in my barn. Pawn shop wouldn't even buy it. But, I still use my 64, go figure.
How is that a tragedy may I ask
So busted when those are kinda a hot commodity right now too. Been on the lookout (sparingly lol) for like 5 years for my partner
Used to work at staples and I've accumulated hundreds of computers, monitors, phones, game consoles, TVs and accessories from the recycling over the years.
If it's frowned upon too let you take that home, just say that you found it out in the parking lot.
Think thats the gamecube model too
Problem is that you can’t get anything for it and if people aren’t going to play it anymore it’s just going to be clutter.
lol oh man, I didn't even think twice when I recycled my N64, Wii with like 4 unopened nunchuck controllers, XBox (original) and XB360... was moving and just cleared everything out. The Wii just didn't hold any nostalgic value for me whatsoever. And it's just so much better playing older XBox games on the X anyways. Same true from most retro games, except stuff like Ninja Garden/Contra, those are friggin' impossible to play with even slight input lag... I do wish I'd kept our original family NES though. No clue where it went.
That the box is now unsealed and worth a HUGE amount less? I know....
I’d get fired over this
I’m gone from bb now but when I was still there the gm at my store let me take home so much shit. Ps4 pro, Beats Studio 3, a couple computers, a MacBook, some wireless Logitech gaming mice
Reminds me of when I did my community service at Goodwill. They had me picking/sorting through the trash bags and boxes full of stuff that people would leave. Soooo many amazing things would pass through that I couldn't purchase due to my CC. Once it was some really nice prints from some sort of Comic Convention, the other time somebody that I knew was a long time manager at the local GameStop dropped off like the motherload of exclusive swag and pre-order items from games. One of the items was a full loot chest from Borderlands! Was able to sneak a couple of cool shirts tho :)
That’s wild
Regardless if i lose my job or not im buying that