Next time you go to that electronics store and ask a few questions the staff could be smiling and friendly but then when you are gone call you stupid. They even had the audacity to put their comments on facebook. I don't have a facebook as these things are for geeks, but I'm wondering why the tech-savvy staff who assume their customers are stupid, post to facebook using their real names.
Electronic store staff call customers "stupid"
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I once worked in an electronics store when I was a student and to be honest some customers are so dumb it made you wonder how they managed to get to the store in the first place. Like people who buy HD TV’s for huge sums but don’t subscribe to an HD TV reception or own a Blu-Ray player, you just wonder what planet these people are from.
As for staff posting comments, a lot of them would be ex-staff and as for the current employees I can’t imagine that they’d care too much if they were fired for making those posts, the majority of staff there are students or school kids just earning a bit of extra cash anyway, retail jobs are pretty easy to come by too
As for staff posting comments, a lot of them would be ex-staff and as for the current employees I can’t imagine that they’d care too much if they were fired for making those posts, the majority of staff there are students or school kids just earning a bit of extra cash anyway, retail jobs are pretty easy to come by too
How is facebook for geeks? I mean I had it when it first was only open to college students, and it was great to know what all the people did after highschool. But now it kind of gotten annoying with all these random invites.
Anyway, as for calling customers "dumb." That's pretty common for computers. I mean the thing I learned about "computers" is that everyone is smarter than the next person. So it's like when one person has an idea, if everyone doesn't share that tech idea or understand it, they're considered "dumb." If you don't believe me, go to a college and hang out with the computer science, engineer, or whatever IT major. And I guarantee you, someone is bound to call you an idiot no matter what.
An interesting thing about these things is that most people don't like HD or BluRay. For example, I own a huge 52 inch hdtv, and I have yet watched a single thing above 480p and I also have a ps3, and I never watched a blu ray. Most people cannot even tell the difference between each. I mean I don't want to watch Family Guy in HD and could care less and don't want to spend tons of money on services I'm never going to use.
I mean think of this, you just can't buy a tv anymore without buying all sorts of features. I just want a TV, that I can sit down and watch. I don't want to spend 25.99 for a bluray when I can buy the same dvd for 9.99 or less. I don't want to purchase more cable/equipment from my cable company when I only want to watch one or two channels.
By dumb, I mean people asking how paper travels through the phone line when you send a fax, they just don't seem to get how you keep the physical copy but the person at the other end gets a replica on a completely different piece fo paper, I mean really dumb. They're almost as dumb as the people who buy an HD TV but don't upgrade their TV reception and think they're watching a clearer picture
And yeah, Facebook is for geeks, I do have a profile after being bullied into it by friends who said it was great but I now have to admit that the people who use it regularly are weird, lonely geeks
These guys who sell electronics and computers should welcome customers who know nothing about technology - it gives them the most chance of selling them stuff the customer doesn't actually need.
Look at all the fraud committed by the guys who make fake spyware programs then create ads that say "your computer is at risk", you click on the ad and buy a fake spyware then the ad disappears. People don't have a clue about computers, if they wise up then the salesmen will be the losers.
Look at all the fraud committed by the guys who make fake spyware programs then create ads that say "your computer is at risk", you click on the ad and buy a fake spyware then the ad disappears. People don't have a clue about computers, if they wise up then the salesmen will be the losers.
These guys who sell electronics and computers should welcome customers who know nothing about technology - it gives them the most chance of selling them stuff the customer doesn't actually need.
Look at all the fraud committed by the guys who make fake spyware programs then create ads that say "your computer is at risk", you click on the ad and buy a fake spyware then the ad disappears. People don't have a clue about computers, if they wise up then the salesmen will be the losers.
That's very true, I now work in new business development and if it weren't for borderline idiocy and complete laziness on behalf of account directors I wouldn't sell half as much
if facebook is for geeks, then bow down before your geek/nerd overlords.
seriously, facebook is just a social networking site for people that feel myspace is too juvenile (it is!).
People I lost track of after high school, due to college, etc, I have finally reconnected with.
Plus i can play Mafia Wars while at work
seriously, facebook is just a social networking site for people that feel myspace is too juvenile (it is!).
People I lost track of after high school, due to college, etc, I have finally reconnected with.
Plus i can play Mafia Wars while at work
if facebook is for geeks, then bow down before your geek/nerd overlords.
seriously, facebook is just a social networking site for people that feel myspace is too juvenile (it is!).
People I lost track of after high school, due to college, etc, I have finally reconnected with.
Plus i can play Mafia Wars while at work
See that's a good reason. I guess if you're on it specifically to communicate with current friends, then I can see why it would appear geeky.
Did you know once someone found a long lost brother on facebook? I remember hearing about it recently on the news.
if facebook is for geeks, then bow down before your geek/nerd overlords.
seriously, facebook is just a social networking site for people that feel myspace is too juvenile (it is!).
People I lost track of after high school, due to college, etc, I have finally reconnected with.
Plus i can play Mafia Wars while at work
Unfortunately my work place bans those types of sites, I am surprised I can even get here so Mafia Wars has to wait until night time after the kid is in bed....give me time to save up all my energy though...LOL
ON a similar note to yours, I have reunited with several people that I haven't seen in years, including a few from grade school that had moved away.
I do not think Facebook is a geeky thing. It is like Linkedin...just non-professional.
I once worked for a car dealer. You should hear what the sales manager and the salesman say about customers when the salesman goes to the back room to check your offer with his manager. It ranges from extremely degrading to unbelievably vulgar.
A funny story: I used to design radar detectors for Whistler. One day I was in an electronics store and looking at the radar detector display and a salesman came up to me and, unsolicited, started to tell me how radar detectors worked. When I tried to correct him (he was completely and utterly wrong) he insisted that I was misinformed. I didn't bother to tell him I had designed half of the detectors that were on display there and had disected and analyzed the rest, since he didn't seem to care to listen. Some people are too far gone to even bother with. As my favorite comedian says: "you can't cure stupid" (extra credit for anyone who knows who he is). The moral of the story is, the smug saleman may not be so smart after all!
A funny story: I used to design radar detectors for Whistler. One day I was in an electronics store and looking at the radar detector display and a salesman came up to me and, unsolicited, started to tell me how radar detectors worked. When I tried to correct him (he was completely and utterly wrong) he insisted that I was misinformed. I didn't bother to tell him I had designed half of the detectors that were on display there and had disected and analyzed the rest, since he didn't seem to care to listen. Some people are too far gone to even bother with. As my favorite comedian says: "you can't cure stupid" (extra credit for anyone who knows who he is). The moral of the story is, the smug saleman may not be so smart after all!
Here are some of the comments of the store staff branding customers “retards” and “twats”. A member of staff boasts of sexual liaisons with a customer after using details from a sale to add her as a "friend" on MySpace (how many laws has he broken?).