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Office Depot Employee — "We Changed Prices Too"
Avram Piltch writes "Last week, LAPTOP reported that Office Depot employees were routinely lying to customers about notebook inventory, telling them that systems were out of stock if they didn't want to buy extended warranties or tech services. Now LAPTOP has spoken to more Office Depot associates, one of whom goes by the name Alex and reports widespread altering of prices in his region. He says he even Photoshops higher price tags on clearance notebooks so that associates can tell customers that they're getting a free warranty or tech service, when the price has been raised to cover it. LAPTOP also talked to a representative from the FTC, who would not comment on Office Depot specifically, but said that the sales practices described by LAPTOP clearly violate federal law."
I sat with a couple of sales guys (friends at that) last weekend who bragged back and forth about how they were literally screwing associates.
But surely their sex lives are perfectly fair game for a bit of bragging?
Oh no... it's the future.
Of course selling a tire with a hole in it is good business! Ever tried selling a tire without one?
... or it's a dynamic IP.
GP has probably just learned what an IP address is and he thinks it's "kewl" to say things like "I no ur IP lolzor pwned" all the time.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Just what would DESKTOP and SERVER think of all this? Let alone how NETBOOK would feel about being left out and poor old MAINFRAME in the corner has been all but forgotten.
Seriously though, I can't help but feel there's something inherently lame about naming your group/publication/whatever after a common peice of hardware then capitalising it.
With the random littering of LAPTOP in capitals throughout the summar it read more like an advert.
I think when you get modded -1 troll your IP should be revealed.
His IP is 127.0.0.1, have fun.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
...to make Dunder Mifflin your sole supplier of office goods.
Good Business is how much you can milk from your customers and how fast regardless of the consequences.
In my experience "Good Business is how much you can milk from your customers and how fast while staying out of jail". But then anyone who has talked to the sales guys from his company (or who has been on the receiving end of the sales guys of any other company) knows this.
(very) Slightly modified pitch I was delivered a few years ago :
"Oh yes, our router cures cancer, sure."
"And we'll have world hunger as an option next year"
"Would you sign here please ? I'll let you keep the pen you know. It's shiny."
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Clearly he meant literal in the figurative sense. Seriously (by which I mean I'm not serious).
Often it doesn't matter if you have a valid point, it's just that people disagree (which is not a valid reason for modding down IMO).
I disagree.
(Oh, you're lucky I don't have mod points.)
they were literally screwing associates.
But surely their sex lives are perfectly fair game for a bit of bragging?
No flame intended, but I can't resist observing this. GP misused the word "literally", but you responded with another figurative use of the word screw! Unfortunately, while your post was amusing, my post is about as funny as a guy literally screwing his associates.
Actually I was more thinking of sub-par pulp-board quickly warping furniture, and I "shopped" trash to furnish my house.
and screws/nails that bend way too easily.
Crappy food is crappy food, and I eat it with glee.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Sorry, I have to ask - what kind of freaky weirdo wasn't using his computer at 3AM? Takes all kinds, I guess.
No, they use the "catch and release" method :-).