We work an 8-7 Monday and Wednesday for one half of the staff. Tuesdays and Thursdays for the other half of the staff. Every other Friday you get off. This works well because then its only 2 days a week for a couple of extra hours to make up those 8. We work on a commission basis so a lot of people are still on their day off but it gives them free time to work on what they want.
I was working at a computer shop and it was around the same time when building your own rig was better than eMachines and some of the other failures out there. A guy comes in with a box of assorted parts he ordered from a magazine or somewhere. His story is the best I have ever heard. He tells us how he had it all together and except for the drives, he just wanted it to POST cuz he read you never waste your time putting it all together unless it will post with just the RAM, CPU and Vid Card if needed. Apparently the article failed to mention how crucial the CPU fan is. Any ideas where this leads... Fries the CPU, gets AMD to RMA it. Next go... Tries to use a screwdriver to power on the system, again instead of wasting time with the pinouts just in case. Fries the board and CPU somehow. Gets two more RMAs. This is when he finally brought to us and told us the story, personally I wouldn't have told the story but he thought it was hilarious. Granted we still talk about it to this day and laugh about it, always at him though, not with him. The other biggest thing that really gets me is when people buy a computer and do one of two things, it used to be they got broadband and tried to plug the ethernet cable into the modem. Then when most motherboards started carrying NICs onboard they would try to plug their phone line into that...
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We work an 8-7 Monday and Wednesday for one half of the staff. Tuesdays and Thursdays for the other half of the staff. Every other Friday you get off. This works well because then its only 2 days a week for a couple of extra hours to make up those 8. We work on a commission basis so a lot of people are still on their day off but it gives them free time to work on what they want.
I was working at a computer shop and it was around the same time when building your own rig was better than eMachines and some of the other failures out there. A guy comes in with a box of assorted parts he ordered from a magazine or somewhere. His story is the best I have ever heard. He tells us how he had it all together and except for the drives, he just wanted it to POST cuz he read you never waste your time putting it all together unless it will post with just the RAM, CPU and Vid Card if needed. Apparently the article failed to mention how crucial the CPU fan is. Any ideas where this leads... Fries the CPU, gets AMD to RMA it. Next go... Tries to use a screwdriver to power on the system, again instead of wasting time with the pinouts just in case. Fries the board and CPU somehow. Gets two more RMAs. This is when he finally brought to us and told us the story, personally I wouldn't have told the story but he thought it was hilarious. Granted we still talk about it to this day and laugh about it, always at him though, not with him. The other biggest thing that really gets me is when people buy a computer and do one of two things, it used to be they got broadband and tried to plug the ethernet cable into the modem. Then when most motherboards started carrying NICs onboard they would try to plug their phone line into that...
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