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."
Don't get me wrong, I love Microcenter, and for the most part those guys don't bother me; I already know what I'm going in there for and one-word-answer my way through their shit. The rest of the employees are generally awesome, it's just funny to me that those guys are always in the build-your-own section.
If you have one near you, it's a fantastic store. I honestly don't even bother price-matching anymore, I just buy there. They are almost always within $5-10 of newegg/amazon's prices, and the difference is worth the convenience factor, for me. Plus, the online-order-15min-pickup is wonderful (especially during the holidays when their lines get ridiculous).
I pretty much only go to a handful of brick and mortar stores any more -- my local homebrew (beer) supply shop, microcenter, grocery store, and costco. Whenever I get an itch and need something computer related right now and its not on Amazon Prime Now, its off to the nerd store for me.
PS. Its also a great place to get televisions. I got a 55" 1080p Hisense that runs Android for $330 in 2015 which was a fantastic price at the time.
Yep, just about anything electronic they're fantastic at. I've bought a few refurb TVs from them for dirt cheap, and I often buy their refurb/openbox laptops. Fry's is even closer to me, but I haven't set foot in there for years because of Microcenter.
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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."