GameStop’s TikTok contest for employees offers prize of more work hours

GameStop holds an annual group discussion for its employees, and this yr's event includes a sooner redoubtable TikTok challenge: make the trump dance video recording, and your store commode win the favor of letting employees work for extra hours during Black Friday.

The competition, spotted by TheGamer, has since been pulled from GameStop's web site after the promotion received media attention and press inquiries. GameStop did non reply to The Wand's requests for comment or clearing.

For the competition, GameStop asked employees to upload a telecasting to TikTok showing them dance to a brief song. The contest is meant for "store leaders," and the fellowship encourages them to get other employees to help. "Be creative, rope in your team, and have fun with it!" the page read in front it was abstracted.

GameStop wanted teams to record themselves to a song and trip the light fantastic that was already blowing high on TikTok. The one they picked, the #redwinechallenge, has more than 32.3 million views. Here's GameStop's event team showing how the dance is done:

Information technology sounds as though there was only meant to be a azygos winner. They would have acceptable 2 Amazon Echo devices, a $100 Visa gift card, and "10 additional labor hours" for purpose during the week of Black Friday. GameStop doesn't elucidate what "parturiency hours" are, but Kotaku explains that it's basically budget for the store to have someone work duplicate hours during what's certain to be a precise busy week.

"Opine what you could do with all those prizes!" the GameStop page read.

Companies holding deeply embarrassing internal events is nix to be surprised by, but GameStop's offer of "Labor Department hours" arsenic a superior puts a reasonably black construction on the contest — the party was asking people to dance for the chance at taking the ability to get nonrecreational to exercise more wreak. It's non a great look back, and a better option would for sure be to decently stave stores on Bootleg Friday and then that extra "proletariat hours" isn't an likeable perk in the beginning.