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Gamestop Employee Fired For Planking


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Unfortunately planking is not a laughing matter for some people and one unfortunate Gamestop employee has been fired after five years of service for planking within a Gamestop store. John Mazzocchi pictured below posted a picture of himself planking between two in-store kisoks and posted it with : When I go #planking I go hardcore..

Gamestop Planking

Unfortunately some one within Gamestop management didn’t take kindly to the display of planking prowess and both John Mazzocchi and his colleague who took the photo where fired. The pair were probably made an example of by Gamestop management to stop other employees following suit.

Source: TFTS : John Mazzocchi (@Mazzlow on Twitter)

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  • Mr. Bonski

    lol, he’s isn’t #planking, he’s #cheating.

     (There’s an actual plank stuffed up his shirt. Note how his pants are strangely not affected by gravity, yet his shirt is… h’mmmmm)

  • Erdem Y?ld?r?mer

    They would use this as marketing opportunity like “shoot the extreme planking scene in store and get the game bundle” share it on FB twitter or 4sq
     hokus pokus online markettting inferno :)Are all managers dumbs? 

  • Anonymous

    5 years at GameStop? Man they were probably just looking for a reason to fire his butt anyway!

  • SashaConstantine

    The store sells games and they fire two employees for a harmless game. I won’t spend my money in one of these places.

  • This is too funny…The image of course, not the fact that he got fired over it.

  • Anonymous

    Good. I don’t understand or like this “planking” crap one bit. Where the hell did it come from?

  • Old Jo

    how bloody miserable can anyone get…it’s a game, fer cryin; out load!!!!!  good job he didn’t Owl…they probably would have shot him….and then fired him…

  • Binay 01

    The planking It’s better then  owling hhhhhh if you want to be fired of your job try one  this shit

  • Ghghghg

    What an silly store, gamestation is better anyway.

  • Masher445000

    good, just because games are for sale doesnt mean this guy can fool around and play while he is working.

  • Melinda_cook68

    They should have just lied and said they photo shopped it…

  • Matt

    Harmless game? You know people have died doing this right? I’m not even kidding.

  • Matt

    Harmless game? You know people have died doing this right? I’m not even kidding.

  • Anonymouse

    I doubt they died in a gamestop store though.

  • Anonymouse

    I doubt they died in a gamestop store though.

  • FART

    Dumbass deserves to be fired.

  • FART

    Dumbass deserves to be fired.

  • Bug Loaf

    The two stands he was planking upon are not the sturdiest in the world. He’s lucky he didn’t damage them. I would have at least suspended him, and probably fired him if I were in the position of Gamestop. Good for them.

  • Bug Loaf

    The two stands he was planking upon are not the sturdiest in the world. He’s lucky he didn’t damage them. I would have at least suspended him, and probably fired him if I were in the position of Gamestop. Good for them.

  • grammar nazi

    someone*

  • grammar nazi

    someone*

  • Kinanalog

    *really stupid people have died planking.

  • Is better than you

    I approve, planking is dumb, and if you’re one of those people that like that, then you should go plank into a volcano. 

  • Is better than you

    I approve, planking is dumb, and if you’re one of those people that like that, then you should go plank into a volcano. 

  • Al

    If only I had even the slightest bit of sympathy for him.

  • Al

    If only I had even the slightest bit of sympathy for him.

  • Mayacluck

    Thank God.  This planking shit is so stupid.

  • Mayacluck

    Thank God.  This planking shit is so stupid.

  • Tahoeboarder11

    Yes, but if they get injured doing it in the store, the company is liable…

  • Tahoeboarder11

    Yes, but if they get injured doing it in the store, the company is liable…

  • MBD

    People have died falling off ladders. What’s your point?

  • Solution: GameStop employees unite! If you all plank at once, they can’t fire all of you.

  • CindyLouWho

    People die in cars everyday…not outlawing those.

  • CindyLouWho

    People die in cars everyday…not outlawing those.

  • barreltrollololol

    what “a” silly store

  • barreltrollololol

    what “a” silly store

  • Hmm, but they wouldn’t let you drive one of those inside the store either.

  • Hmm, but they wouldn’t let you drive one of those inside the store either.

  • Jordan ?

    thats pretty unfair! Or not! For the truth, it is really unfair, how could an Innocent man lose his job just for planking, and showing the pic to his friends? i mean, we share our random pics on facebook all the time. 

  • Jordan ?

    thats pretty unfair! Or not! For the truth, it is really unfair, how could an Innocent man lose his job just for planking, and showing the pic to his friends? i mean, we share our random pics on facebook all the time. 

  • Mary Glancy Buchanan

    They deserved to be fired.  They are being paid to work and this does NOT look like work to me.

  • Mary Glancy Buchanan

    Yes they can.  How hard do you really think it is to replace Gamestop employees?

  • Anon

    NO FUN ALLOWED. But for real, I can understand why they fired him. He was supposed to be doing his job, not taking pictures and playing around on his phone.