Gah! leave me alone, damn retail employees!

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: MangoTBG

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: Walleye
maybe i should get a sign that says "dont talk to me. i know more than you." 😉

Maybe you should get a sign that says "I'm an arrogant prick who thinks he is a badass because he knows more than a computer store clerk"

"Jealousy and envy will leave you broke" - Notorious B.I.G.

And being a fat, black rapper will leave you dead. What's your point?

 

[SyahM]

I used to work at Circuit City and thankfully my coworkers at computer, pda and digital camera department really knows their stuffs. At computer, there's a senior electrical engineering student working part time, a guy who's part-time job is providing computer support to about 300 clients mostly families/personal, two guys who knows how to assemble PC and mod XBOX/PS2, one guy whose his previous job is a service center tech with Circuit City and me a college grad with experience as lab consultant and assembling PC etc.

We don't BS our customer but usually its the customer who comes to us acting like a badass who knows everything about computer but ends up making a fool of him/herself.

Please don't be so arrogant since you have no information about their level of education/experience/knowledge etc.

 

[Platypus]

How long have you had this god complex balleye?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Walleye
alright now, i got a question for you.

if a salesman is making his pitch to another customer, and i know for a fact he is lying his ass off trying to sell something more expensive or grossly inadequite or whatever, (like the dumbass trying to convince me there is such thing as CD+R's...(as opposed to CD-R's, or CDR's) is it my responsibility to beat that salesman down? this is to another customer, i'm not dumb enough to buy anything a frys employee reccommends based on their reccommendation.

would i be right in doing so?

Would that go something like this?

"Hi, my name's Walleye. I don't work here, and have no real qualifications other than you can look me up on the internet as a compulsive liar, but please believe me when I say I know this salesman is trying to cheat you".

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Walleye
alright now, i got a question for you.

if a salesman is making his pitch to another customer, and i know for a fact he is lying his ass off trying to sell something more expensive or grossly inadequite or whatever, (like the dumbass trying to convince me there is such thing as CD+R's...(as opposed to CD-R's, or CDR's) is it my responsibility to beat that salesman down? this is to another customer, i'm not dumb enough to buy anything a frys employee reccommends based on their reccommendation.

would i be right in doing so?

Would that go something like this?

"Hi, my name's Walleye. I don't work here, and have no real qualifications other than you can look me up on the internet as a compulsive liar, but please believe me when I say I know this salesman is trying to cheat you".

Oh wow, the vitriol in this post is bleeding through. This is the best reply I've seen from you in a long time

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: Walleye
so i was just walking through Frys, and some jackass comes up to me and points at the mac i was just looking at the display on (big cinema somethingorother) and says "Fastest computer in the world, right there". doh, *slaps forehead*.... *steps away from the g5* i respond with "depends on the method of benchmarking". and he says "huh?"


gawd, why are retail employees so unknowledgable about what they sell? oh well, i guess it's my fault for looking at a display on a computer. what the hell was i doing in that section anyway? ........ i need a frying pan.

A) You're a dick.
B) He was just doing his job.
C) That was a pretty damn good opening. Not a lie, and had more thought behind it than "Can I help you?"
D) You're a dick.
E) I don't believe anyone had disproven Apple's claims that it's the fastest. Sure, you can make a faster computer if you keep throwing money at it (Ex: any supercomputer) but the G5 has a price/performance ratio that is very unlike Apple
F) Did I mention you're a dick?

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: MangoTBG

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: Walleye
maybe i should get a sign that says "dont talk to me. i know more than you." 😉

Maybe you should get a sign that says "I'm an arrogant prick who thinks he is a badass because he knows more than a computer store clerk"

"Jealousy and envy will leave you broke" - Notorious B.I.G.

And being a fat, black rapper will leave you dead. What's your point?

LMFAO

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: MangoTBG

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: Walleye
maybe i should get a sign that says "dont talk to me. i know more than you." 😉

Maybe you should get a sign that says "I'm an arrogant prick who thinks he is a badass because he knows more than a computer store clerk"

"Jealousy and envy will leave you broke" - Notorious B.I.G.

And being a fat, black rapper will leave you dead. What's your point?

LOL!!!

 

[kevinthenerd]

Some dude at Best Buy was trying to argue with me over the differences between a hub and a switch. (He told me the switch I picked up wouldn't do what I wanted to do. I was up and running in 30 seconds when I brought it back to my dorm. He also told me that a switch was the same thing as a router. He failed to mention that switches don't have gateway, port-forwarding, or firewall abilities by nature.) He didn't know his rear end from a hole in the ground, but I did manage to learn a thing or two... I managed to get a few buzz words about the product to Google up the facts.

I wish I didn't have to sift the BS from the facts. I don't care how much you get paid. I've worked in retail for a bit of a stint now. Honesty keeps customers loyal. They'll find out the truth sooner or later, and they'll come to the source of that truth for more stuff. I sold pianos at minimum wage during my first job. Repeat business in that industry is hard to come by.

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews

Originally posted by: Walleye
so i was just walking through Frys, and some jackass comes up to me and points at the mac i was just looking at the display on (big cinema somethingorother) and says "Fastest computer in the world, right there". doh, *slaps forehead*.... *steps away from the g5* i respond with "depends on the method of benchmarking". and he says "huh?"


gawd, why are retail employees so unknowledgable about what they sell? oh well, i guess it's my fault for looking at a display on a computer. what the hell was i doing in that section anyway? ........ i need a frying pan.

A) You're a dick.
B) He was just doing his job.
C) That was a pretty damn good opening. Not a lie, and had more thought behind it than "Can I help you?"
D) You're a dick.
E) I don't believe anyone had disproven Apple's claims that it's the fastest. Sure, you can make a faster computer if you keep throwing money at it (Ex: any supercomputer) but the G5 has a price/performance ratio that is very unlike Apple
F) Did I mention you're a dick?

cliffnotes: YOU ARE A DICK


*just the translator, not my opinion *cough*

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: SyahM
I used to work at Circuit City and thankfully my coworkers at computer, pda and digital camera department really knows their stuffs. At computer, there's a senior electrical engineering student working part time, a guy who's part-time job is providing computer support to about 300 clients mostly families/personal, two guys who knows how to assemble PC and mod XBOX/PS2, one guy whose his previous job is a service center tech with Circuit City and me a college grad with experience as lab consultant and assembling PC etc.

We don't BS our customer but usually its the customer who comes to us acting like a badass who knows everything about computer but ends up making a fool of him/herself.

Please don't be so arrogant since you have no information about their level of education/experience/knowledge etc.

i dont act badass. in fact, i prefer never to talk to the salesman at all, if i can avoid it.

i only posted this rant because i dont like it when people with less than half a brain claim to be knowledgeable about computers (or anything they're selling). i'll admit i'm not hot sh1t, but i can at least put together a computer reliably, and know some basics when it comes to software. i dont think many of these people can even claim that.

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews

Originally posted by: Walleye
so i was just walking through Frys, and some jackass comes up to me and points at the mac i was just looking at the display on (big cinema somethingorother) and says "Fastest computer in the world, right there". doh, *slaps forehead*.... *steps away from the g5* i respond with "depends on the method of benchmarking". and he says "huh?"


gawd, why are retail employees so unknowledgable about what they sell? oh well, i guess it's my fault for looking at a display on a computer. what the hell was i doing in that section anyway? ........ i need a frying pan.

A) You're a dick.
B) He was just doing his job.
C) That was a pretty damn good opening. Not a lie, and had more thought behind it than "Can I help you?"
D) You're a dick.
E) I don't believe anyone had disproven Apple's claims that it's the fastest. Sure, you can make a faster computer if you keep throwing money at it (Ex: any supercomputer) but the G5 has a price/performance ratio that is very unlike Apple
F) Did I mention you're a dick?

A: hell, i know that.
B: so?
C: i would prefer a "can i help you". i can quickly respond with "just browsing", instead of getting hooked into a convo i dont want.
D: yes.
E: price/performance? you serious? apple uses GROSSLY inflated prices..
F: Yes, but if you need to once again, i'll just aggree in advance.

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Walleye
alright now, i got a question for you.

if a salesman is making his pitch to another customer, and i know for a fact he is lying his ass off trying to sell something more expensive or grossly inadequite or whatever, (like the dumbass trying to convince me there is such thing as CD+R's...(as opposed to CD-R's, or CDR's) is it my responsibility to beat that salesman down? this is to another customer, i'm not dumb enough to buy anything a frys employee reccommends based on their reccommendation.

would i be right in doing so?

Would that go something like this?

"Hi, my name's Walleye. I don't work here, and have no real qualifications other than you can look me up on the internet as a compulsive liar, but please believe me when I say I know this salesman is trying to cheat you".

yeah, something like that.

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
How long have you had this god complex balleye?

bout 18 years. why?

 

[Silex]

I wanna post that "arguing over the internet is like running in the speical olympics. even if you win, nobody cares" or however it goes, but I think you guys get the general gist of it with my quote 😛.

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: Walleye

E: price/performance? you serious? apple uses GROSSLY inflated prices..

Going by the NASA benches, a 2GHz G5 is roughly the equivelant of a 2.66GHz P4.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W463&l=en&oc=ws650t

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70802/wo/Hj4s31tkCtcg2cNcxQkCmu9FhfM/1.0.7.1.0.5.3

And, this isn't even fair as the Dell is using inferior parts to the Apple. Radeon VE (7000) instead of 9600 Pro, 120GB IDE instead of 160GB SATA.

EDIT: I evidently suck at using Dell's web site. At any rate, the total I came up with is $3,084. To Apple's $2,770.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Walleye
they arent underpaid. and you would expect people selling a product to know *something* about the product.

I disagree. BB starts people out at $6/hr here. For $6/hr I would expect the salesman to be an advanced sandwich maker.

🙂

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Walleye
alright now, i got a question for you.

if a salesman is making his pitch to another customer, and i know for a fact he is lying his ass off trying to sell something more expensive or grossly inadequite or whatever, (like the dumbass trying to convince me there is such thing as CD+R's...(as opposed to CD-R's, or CDR's) is it my responsibility to beat that salesman down? this is to another customer, i'm not dumb enough to buy anything a frys employee reccommends based on their reccommendation.

would i be right in doing so?

Would that go something like this?

"Hi, my name's Walleye. I don't work here, and have no real qualifications other than you can look me up on the internet as a compulsive liar, but please believe me when I say I know this salesman is trying to cheat you".

LOL..u had me in tears for a moment
:beer:

 

[Goosemaster]

Seriously Walleye.....u have to open your eyes.

Not everyone knows as much or as little as you do. What you're doing is disrespectful as hell to those people.


I'll admit I've helped out customers out before right after a salesmen had his way with them, but in the end, the people don't care. I haven't done that in years. Worst off, you're making someone's job just that much harder.

1) Aunt susy DOE NOT CAR ABOUT VOLTAGE RAILS:|
2) THAT PIMPLE-FACED SALESMAN MIGHT HAVE TUITION TO PAY OFF:|
3) IN THE END PEOPLE GO INTO DEBT OUT OF THEIR ASSES IN THIS COUNTRY. YOUR LITTLE 'AID' ISN'T DOING SH!T for them.


YOU WANNA HELP PEOPLE AND BE PROUD OF IT..TUTOR OR MENTOR A STRUGGLING STUDENT. YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE GAMES @ FRY'S OR WHATEVER DO NOT COUNT.



<---still irrate from the car accident

 

[Kadarin]

One other note about salespeople who work on a commission or spiff basis: They will not necessarily want to sell you the best part or best value for the job, but instead the part that makes them the most money. Even if they have to bend the truth to do it.

 

[psianime]

I normally ask them some technical jargon and they walk away.

 

[FuZoR]

hey now, i worked in retail (footaction) and when a customer ask about some stupid ass sneaker i say I have no freaking clue i just tell em what the shoe is and if they ask anymore i just strug

😛

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: minendo
Retail employees are fun to screw with. I was watching a guy attempt to sell the most expensive cable modem since "it was the only one that would work with the specified service" when I jumped in with the true technical explanation. It is quite fun to get into arguments with the blue shirt genuises.

I like the "you better get the $190 UPS to go with your P4 system or your cpu may burn up" story that I got from Best Buy.

 

[dolph]

look.
most of the people on this board know more about the products they browse through at cc, bb, etc. than the people trying to sell said products. unless you take some perverse pleasure in being a dick, don't be a smartass to people simply trying to do their jobs. we all know they're usually full of sh!t, so there's no reason to rub it in. just politely decline any help they may offer and be content that you took the high ground and passed an opportunity to expose the ignorance of someone.

 

[bubbadu]

I have worked at Staples for the past 2 years.. and I make about $11 an hour with the bonus.... I can honestly say that my product knowledge is excellent... and I dare someone to say otherwise!

-Bubbadu