No, sometimes the customer IS completely full of shit. While the customer does not need to be dressed down in front of everyone else, the management should be able to say, after trying to make an accomodation, "I'm sorry, we can't help you more than that."
While I appreciate when McCrappald's screws up my drive-thru order, and they include a missing or fixed meal element for free, I don't expect them to do it. I'm more than happy to pay for something that was missed. I will not argue about it if they don't.
I've seen more than one jackass get pissed off over goofed up or missed cheeseburger in line, and getting verbally abusive with the manager and staff.
I guess I'm lucky, in that except for farm equipment, car tools or things like that, when I go to Pest Pie I know more or less what I'm looking for, and they either have it at a price I like or they don't. If I'm there, it's because it's either the only thing open or I don't want to drive to Fry's.
While I don't like Pest Pie, it is more because of their lack of depth of selection (and prices) when compared to Fry's than anything else. We've bought several things there, and been happy with them all.
The coolest was price-matching at Tweeter's for my TV (Wega XBR 34"), because I didn't want to buy it at Circuit City, and they threw in the $300 stand also...
Funny thing is, way back in the C-64 days, it was feasible for mags to print 2-D bar codes of code or ASM on the page, and with a funky reader, you could load it onto your computer. "Compute" at least did this. No, I never bought a reader, but the idea seemed cool. Instead, I just typed in the funky VM code into the "interpreter" instead, when I felt ambitious enough to do it.
Hey, when you pick strawberries for 3 weeks during the summer to make money for a computer...
No, just depends on how focused the newsgroup is. The more specific the newsgroup, the less likely it is to be spammed or full of dorks. Of course, the baud rate will probably be lower as well.
It is good sometimes to see how lucky you are wrt someone else's fuckups, bad luck or pure accident.
It's just about tech-free.
It is also full of some good tidbits should you ever work yourself into a legal jam, such as where to commit petty crimes and assaults (Chicago, just need to get your case in front of the judge who let off the baboon who assaulted the 1st base coach of the KC Royals at Comiskey a couple of years ago), etc., things that would be fit in '2600'.
Then there's "Auto Week". The others cowtow too much to the SUV market. Sure, car people have SUVs too, but how come they don't also cater so much to the "minivan" crowd? Oh well. I guess plopping down $40-50G on a nice Suburban, Yukon, etc. entitles one to more attention than a mere $30G minivan purchase would.
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Computer stores:
#1: Fry's.
#2: MicroCenter (or CDW's retail store, if you live in northern Chicago burbs).
#3: Circuit City/Best Buy.
No, sometimes the customer IS completely full of shit. While the customer does not need to be dressed down in front of everyone else, the management should be able to say, after trying to make an accomodation, "I'm sorry, we can't help you more than that."
While I appreciate when McCrappald's screws up my drive-thru order, and they include a missing or fixed meal element for free, I don't expect them to do it. I'm more than happy to pay for something that was missed. I will not argue about it if they don't.
I've seen more than one jackass get pissed off over goofed up or missed cheeseburger in line, and getting verbally abusive with the manager and staff.
I guess I'm lucky, in that except for farm equipment, car tools or things like that, when I go to Pest Pie I know more or less what I'm looking for, and they either have it at a price I like or they don't. If I'm there, it's because it's either the only thing open or I don't want to drive to Fry's.
While I don't like Pest Pie, it is more because of their lack of depth of selection (and prices) when compared to Fry's than anything else. We've bought several things there, and been happy with them all.
The coolest was price-matching at Tweeter's for my TV (Wega XBR 34"), because I didn't want to buy it at Circuit City, and they threw in the $300 stand also...
Funny thing is, way back in the C-64 days, it was feasible for mags to print 2-D bar codes of code or ASM on the page, and with a funky reader, you could load it onto your computer. "Compute" at least did this. No, I never bought a reader, but the idea seemed cool. Instead, I just typed in the funky VM code into the "interpreter" instead, when I felt ambitious enough to do it.
Hey, when you pick strawberries for 3 weeks during the summer to make money for a computer...
No, just depends on how focused the newsgroup is.
The more specific the newsgroup, the less likely it is to be spammed or full of dorks. Of course, the baud rate will probably be lower as well.
...at least, while sitting on the crapper.
It is good sometimes to see how lucky you are wrt someone else's fuckups, bad luck or pure accident.
It's just about tech-free.
It is also full of some good tidbits should you ever work yourself into a legal jam, such as where to commit petty crimes and assaults (Chicago, just need to get your case in front of the judge who let off the baboon who assaulted the 1st base coach of the KC Royals at Comiskey a couple of years ago), etc., things that would be fit in '2600'.
Then there's "Auto Week". The others cowtow too much to the SUV market. Sure, car people have SUVs too, but how come they don't also cater so much to the "minivan" crowd? Oh well. I guess plopping down $40-50G on a nice Suburban, Yukon, etc. entitles one to more attention than a mere $30G minivan purchase would.