GameStop cancels TikTok contest after anger over 10 hours overtime prize Blizzard Entertainment\/TikTokUPDATE November 5, 2020: GameStop has apparently cancelled the upcoming TikTok competition. According to The Gamer, the listing for the contest has been removed from the GameStop employee website, although the company has yet to officially announce its cancellation. While no official reason has yet to be given, one has to imagine it was due to the enormous backlash GameStop created, as many viewed the competition as distasteful. Original story follows\u2026 Video game retailer GameStop has announced a new TikTok contest for employees, and while that might not seem very odd, the fact that one of the prizes seems to be 10 hours of extra work during one of the biggest shopping weeks of the year certainly is. TikTok, whether you love it or hate it, is the latest social media trend sweeping the globe. Because of its popularity, it\u2019s now getting embraced by every company, brand, and store you can think of. This apparently includes GameStop, who have announced a new TikTok dance challenge for employees. Basically, workers have to record a video, then the submissions will be voted on by other staff members, with the winner taking home a number of winnings. Rewards include an Amazon Echo 8, Echo Auto, and a $100 VISA gift card \u2013 pretty standard contest fare. However, it\u2019s the last prize that\u2019s turning some heads: \u201c10 additional labor hours to use during Black Friday week.\u201d A lot of people took this to mean that the winner would earn an extra shift, and if you think this sounds like a bit of a lame prize, you\u2019re not alone, as the company has been getting roasted for it all over Twitter. \u201cThey deserve to go out of business,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cGamestop is so unbelievably pathetically evil,\u201d another user added. \u201cLike it\u2019s the most boring kind of evil.\u201d But, others pointed out that the \u201c10 additional labor hours\u201d could just be extra time employees can tack on to their paychecks, which would make this a pretty decent prize instead. Because who wouldn\u2019t want to get paid for not working? It\u2019s also worth considering that as we head into the holiday season, one or two Gamestop employees might be looking for extra hours to make a bit more money, which would make this prize, especially if you don\u2019t have to work at all, a very worthwhile winning indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GameStop cancels TikTok contest after anger over 10 hours overtime prize Blizzard Entertainment\/TikTokUPDATE November 5, 2020: GameStop has apparently cancelled the upcoming TikTok competition. According to The Gamer, the listing for the contest has been removed from the GameStop employee website, although the company has yet to officially announce its cancellation. While no official reason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}