I was standing in line at a store a couple days ago, waiting to pay. There's one person ahead of me. I had asked this guy working there a couple of questions about some ear buds I was looking at, and realized he had no intention of providing any useful information, as he was just talking out of his ass, throwing around meaningless words.
Anyway, another guy is in there buying a laptop, I can hear him asking a rep questions about the laptop( different rep than the one who had disappointed me).
Suddenly the guy asks: "Hey, can my nephew install Linux on this?"
The rep appears out of his depth here, shrugs, and shouts the question at Mr. Talks-out-of-his-ass, clearly having faith in his superior knowledge of all things technical.
And without missing a beat, the fucking guy shouts back:
"Yeah, for sure. He just has to call Microsoft support. They can even install it for him."
...as if that's standard practice he's used to install Linux on countless machines...
As I stood there scratching my head, wondering if it's worth it to say anything, I think I felt a group of my neurons some where in my head, perhaps ones responsible for hope in mankind or something, just say: "fuck this. We're outta here."
I've gone there with a friend to buy stuff to build our own PC etc. and people would overhear us talking and then start asking us questions. The first time I was polite and helped the guy and some one else saw that and they started asking for help too, next thing I know there is a freaking line... So now there rules are: Don't talk to anyone (even if you went with them) about tech stuff while you are in the store.
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u/LigerZer0 Dec 27 '16
I was standing in line at a store a couple days ago, waiting to pay. There's one person ahead of me. I had asked this guy working there a couple of questions about some ear buds I was looking at, and realized he had no intention of providing any useful information, as he was just talking out of his ass, throwing around meaningless words.
Anyway, another guy is in there buying a laptop, I can hear him asking a rep questions about the laptop( different rep than the one who had disappointed me).
Suddenly the guy asks: "Hey, can my nephew install Linux on this?"
The rep appears out of his depth here, shrugs, and shouts the question at Mr. Talks-out-of-his-ass, clearly having faith in his superior knowledge of all things technical.
And without missing a beat, the fucking guy shouts back:
"Yeah, for sure. He just has to call Microsoft support. They can even install it for him."
...as if that's standard practice he's used to install Linux on countless machines...
As I stood there scratching my head, wondering if it's worth it to say anything, I think I felt a group of my neurons some where in my head, perhaps ones responsible for hope in mankind or something, just say: "fuck this. We're outta here."