GameStop Staff Making $11 an Hour Miss Out on Rally’s Spoils

  • Most employees haven’t benefited from the colossal runup
  • ‘This company will never pay its workers a fair living wage’
WATCH: Day traders on forums like Reddit drove the GameStop stock surge.Source: Bloomberg
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In a Reddit post last week, a day trader who helped push GameStop Corp. shares to record highs said he stopped by his local store to hand out $100 bills to employees as a thank-you. He encouraged other traders who’d seen a windfall to do the same.

“They are a part of the reason we are up so much,” the trader posted, attracting 442 comments.