This is why I practice non-redundancy. Redundancy is too redundant, so constantly repeating words and/or redundant phrases becomes a redundant factor in helping people to determine who you are on the internet when you post as an anonymous coward redundantly.
Remember, kids, practice redundant privacy measures to ensure you will never be exposed.
Don't take this wrong, but you could always do something more manual as far as labor goes.
Paint houses.
Dig ditches.
Flip burgers.
Toss dwarves.
Teach Canadians about beer.
Become a chauffeur.
Rob banks.
There are lots of things which are WAY more satisfying at the end of a day/week than coding will ever be. Unless you code fun things like trojans or adware and the like.
So no matter which road you choose, I want to personally wish you the very best of luck in finding something which will suit your financial and mental needs.
I can barely GIVE pennies away, and they are worried about making them cheaper.
While I know they are "legal" currency and shops MUST take them, they often flat-out refuse to. It might be cheaper in the long run to just stop making them altogether and force these stores which refuse to take them to stop having prices where you NEED to pay with pennies. That way, they can't refuse to take them anymore.
Back in MY day we didn't have high-fructose corn syrup and anti-depressants!
No! All we had was cocaine, marijuana and LSD for our depression and nothing but pure, sweet honey harvested by Cuban children to tame our cravings for sweets.
Makes sense, but I am still a little wary of it. Seems like it would impact overall profit on someone's end and negative numbers are almost always passed on to consumers.
Thanks, though. Your reply was insightful. I'd even mark it as such had I any mod points to pass around.
Wouldn't winning this particular case end in the increase of online music sales prices? I mean... if the distributors of digital music are forced to pay more money in order to "license" these songs/albums, won't they just pass those price increases on to the consumer?
Admittedly, I only read the summary as I am lazy before coffee time.
So you came in during the busy season and obviously stood next to a cheap "end-cap" (at the end of a row) item designed for "grab and go" or you stood in the 32" and less section. No one buying low margin tvs gets much attention during the busy season, just the facts of life when you're busy selling 42-60" models that actually have more than $15-75 margin and a much better chance at attaching a service plan. It's the same as you standing next to the $1000 special at a used car lot while they're busying selling $8000-12000 cars to everyone else they can get a chance to help (and boy they are busy), and then you boohoohooing that no one wants to help you. It's not that they didn't want to help you, it's just that you're not worth their time versus the other customers.
So you constantly keep 47" televisions on end caps? If they are on end caps, then why are they still so damned expensive?
As far as "busy season" goes... why does it matter? Good customer service is a 24/7/365 job. It doesn't stop when you NEED people's business most, which is DURING the "busy season." And yes, that Samsung WAS $70 cheaper online. Not a high margin, but still $70 I could have used to shop in a better store with more intelligent "Anonymous Cowards" to show me their quality service.
Anyway, your inane and very bitter post makes no sense all over. Even if someone were going in to a store to buy a pack a batteries and nothing else, they should still get help and respect. Something not a single Best Buy employee, past or present, has ever been able to provide to customers. This is why you will be flipping burgers when they close, instead of moving up in the world.
office depot and officemax have computer stuff too. and there is Fry's and there is still Radio Shack.
Yeah... but Rat Shack probably won't last much longer, either. They are insanely overpriced. Hell... going from RS to a Best Buy is like walking into the biggest sale you've ever seen.
Best Buy is a horrible, horrible place. Those stores are typically overpriced, asshole-filled warehouses with a stench I can only guess is dead animals hidden in the car audio department. Lump all that in with morons on the sales team and even bigger morons in management and you have the reason this place will not be missed by most people.
If you are a Best Buy idiot (read: employee), I apologize for offending you... but you deserve it. Last time I went to a Best Buy was to buy a family member a flat-screen LCD television. I asked for help from no less than 5 people before someone ACTUALLY came back "in a couple of minutes" as promised repeatedly. It was a mistake, especially since the same set was $70 cheaper online. Too bad it was too close to Christmas at the time to bother ordering it online.
Good riddance, assholes.
P.S.
I am sure this will be modded flamebait or troll or whatever... I simply do not care. Especially since those titles (flamer and troll) are used to say "I disagree with you" these days, instead of what they are really meant for. Which is to label someone who actually IS trolling.
Yeah... "generalization's" were dispensed. But what was it belonging to "generalization" that they dispensed? I couldn't find that in the article. Or should I start spelling that "A-R-T-I-C-A-L'-S" now?
What we really need to do the world over is force them to pass bills which allow citizens to spy on government officials at home and at work and at play. Where ever they may roam, we should be able to see what they are doing, where they are doing it and how much of our money they are spending to do so.
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This is why I practice non-redundancy. Redundancy is too redundant, so constantly repeating words and/or redundant phrases becomes a redundant factor in helping people to determine who you are on the internet when you post as an anonymous coward redundantly.
Remember, kids, practice redundant privacy measures to ensure you will never be exposed.
I'd be tempted to do it in English, but, given current demographic patterns, Chinese may be better in the long run...
English? Really?
I was more thinking of crayons, construction paper, a juice box and a nap to call it a day.
It's about time Apple got pimp-slapped for trying to steal someone else's REGISTERED trade mark.
FTFY
If my WHAT is bored? I don't get this line.
Don't take this wrong, but you could always do something more manual as far as labor goes.
Paint houses.
Dig ditches.
Flip burgers.
Toss dwarves.
Teach Canadians about beer.
Become a chauffeur.
Rob banks.
There are lots of things which are WAY more satisfying at the end of a day/week than coding will ever be. Unless you code fun things like trojans or adware and the like.
So no matter which road you choose, I want to personally wish you the very best of luck in finding something which will suit your financial and mental needs.
These aren't the avian pathogens you're looking for.
Like, totally, like...
I can barely GIVE pennies away, and they are worried about making them cheaper.
While I know they are "legal" currency and shops MUST take them, they often flat-out refuse to. It might be cheaper in the long run to just stop making them altogether and force these stores which refuse to take them to stop having prices where you NEED to pay with pennies. That way, they can't refuse to take them anymore.
Back in MY day we didn't have high-fructose corn syrup and anti-depressants!
No! All we had was cocaine, marijuana and LSD for our depression and nothing but pure, sweet honey harvested by Cuban children to tame our cravings for sweets.
There grammerz grate, to.
Fixed yours to match the title.
Makes sense, but I am still a little wary of it. Seems like it would impact overall profit on someone's end and negative numbers are almost always passed on to consumers.
Thanks, though. Your reply was insightful. I'd even mark it as such had I any mod points to pass around.
Wouldn't winning this particular case end in the increase of online music sales prices? I mean... if the distributors of digital music are forced to pay more money in order to "license" these songs/albums, won't they just pass those price increases on to the consumer?
Admittedly, I only read the summary as I am lazy before coffee time.
So you came in during the busy season and obviously stood next to a cheap "end-cap" (at the end of a row) item designed for "grab and go" or you stood in the 32" and less section. No one buying low margin tvs gets much attention during the busy season, just the facts of life when you're busy selling 42-60" models that actually have more than $15-75 margin and a much better chance at attaching a service plan. It's the same as you standing next to the $1000 special at a used car lot while they're busying selling $8000-12000 cars to everyone else they can get a chance to help (and boy they are busy), and then you boohoohooing that no one wants to help you. It's not that they didn't want to help you, it's just that you're not worth their time versus the other customers.
So you constantly keep 47" televisions on end caps? If they are on end caps, then why are they still so damned expensive?
As far as "busy season" goes... why does it matter? Good customer service is a 24/7/365 job. It doesn't stop when you NEED people's business most, which is DURING the "busy season." And yes, that Samsung WAS $70 cheaper online. Not a high margin, but still $70 I could have used to shop in a better store with more intelligent "Anonymous Cowards" to show me their quality service.
Anyway, your inane and very bitter post makes no sense all over. Even if someone were going in to a store to buy a pack a batteries and nothing else, they should still get help and respect. Something not a single Best Buy employee, past or present, has ever been able to provide to customers. This is why you will be flipping burgers when they close, instead of moving up in the world.
office depot and officemax have computer stuff too. and there is Fry's and there is still Radio Shack.
Yeah... but Rat Shack probably won't last much longer, either. They are insanely overpriced. Hell... going from RS to a Best Buy is like walking into the biggest sale you've ever seen.
Best Buy is a horrible, horrible place. Those stores are typically overpriced, asshole-filled warehouses with a stench I can only guess is dead animals hidden in the car audio department. Lump all that in with morons on the sales team and even bigger morons in management and you have the reason this place will not be missed by most people.
If you are a Best Buy idiot (read: employee), I apologize for offending you... but you deserve it. Last time I went to a Best Buy was to buy a family member a flat-screen LCD television. I asked for help from no less than 5 people before someone ACTUALLY came back "in a couple of minutes" as promised repeatedly. It was a mistake, especially since the same set was $70 cheaper online. Too bad it was too close to Christmas at the time to bother ordering it online.
Good riddance, assholes.
P.S.
I am sure this will be modded flamebait or troll or whatever... I simply do not care. Especially since those titles (flamer and troll) are used to say "I disagree with you" these days, instead of what they are really meant for. Which is to label someone who actually IS trolling.
I've got a marshmallow fluff six-pack.
Sadly and admittedly, it's only because I eat so many fluffernutters every week.
Someone... please... help me... *sob*
Yeah... "generalization's" were dispensed. But what was it belonging to "generalization" that they dispensed? I couldn't find that in the article. Or should I start spelling that "A-R-T-I-C-A-L'-S" now?
What we really need to do the world over is force them to pass bills which allow citizens to spy on government officials at home and at work and at play. Where ever they may roam, we should be able to see what they are doing, where they are doing it and how much of our money they are spending to do so.