A rose by any other name...<br><br>Is a 'Customer Specialist' automatically a dweeb? They are when I hear them spout off on non-existent technology or information that's so contextually inaccurate that it makes my head want to explode and that's 90% of their staff.<br>
<br>--Dennis<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Dylan Northrup <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docx@io.com">docx@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Or have a serious attitude. I've offered my advice many times to customers<br>
in Best Buy (even in contradiction to what a sales associate has said) and<br>
not once have I had an issue. Perhaps it's because I don't call them<br>
dweebs, but it could be something else entirely.<br>
<br>
A long time ago, (15.07.09), in a galaxy far, far away, J. D. wrote:<br>
<br>
:=If you get ejected from a best buy, you must be a geek.<br>
:=<br>
:=On 7/15/09, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>
:=> Jim Moore wrote:<br>
:=>> This was a timely post in that yesterday went looking at Best Buy for a<br>
:=>> new cable modem. Have been using a Linksys which keeps losing the<br>
:=>> connection. Oh well the thing's more than five years old and was a hand<br>
:=>> me down from my brother in law.<br>
:=><br>
:=> I won't darken the doors of Best Buy. Do a google search on "best buy"<br>
:=> "bait and switch".<br>
:=><br>
:=> Also, I was once asked to leave because I gave advice contrary to a<br>
:=> salesperson to a prospective customer. The customer actually had asked<br>
:=> my opinion as we had been discussing computers before the sales dweeb<br>
:=> showed up.<br>
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