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14-12-2007 2:36pm#1
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And they're (for the majority) vastly unqualified for the job.
I like going up to my local PC World and messing with them by asking them "tricky questions" and by "tricky", i mean a typical question which would stump them would be: "Is this hard drive IDE or SATA?". They response is typically something like "well... ummmm.. uhhhh.. that's a 500GB hard drive there and it'll hold all your music, documents and pictures. We also have it in 250GB."
And yes, it's on the box!
PS - the staff in Currys really do seem to know their stuff most of the time though.0 -
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And they're (for the majority) vastly unqualified for the job.
I like going up to my local PC World and messing with them by asking them "tricky questions" and by "tricky", i mean a typical question which would stump them would be: "Is this hard drive IDE or SATA?". They response is typically something like "well... ummmm.. uhhhh.. that's a 500GB hard drive there and it'll hold all your music, documents and pictures. We also have it in 250GB."
And yes, it's on the box!
PS - the staff in Currys really do seem to know their stuff most of the time though.
yeah PC world are fairly cluless but i never thought of purposfully confusing them!
now i've got a reason to travel into Cork city this weekend!:D thanks mate !0 -
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Well they don't have a .ie website even yet and I'm sure it would be much cheaper for them to put that together than for them to have to film two different sets of ads becasue a few people are "offended" by the English accent on their telly.
They did, going by the products on show they only updated it about once every year though, and seems they forgot to pay their hosting bills lately.
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Ger the man wrote: »Lol! I was actually barred for my local PC-World!
I remember being in there about 6 years ago and had a few things open on a PC (the registry being one of them). Along comes the sales assistant and I bombarded him with questions that he couldnt answer, with that he went to another customer and was trying to convince the sell. The other customer approached me and said to me 'You look like you know what your doing, can I ask you........etc. The sales assistant wasnt too happy as I showed the other customer how to control the speaker volume in Windows!!! (No joke!)
yeah, I went for an interview at a compustore... I think I was overqualified - but they didnt hire me anyway and i still have no job, so sometimes I hover in and when I catch someone thinking about buying microsoft office I give them a card on it telling them about http://www.openoffice.org
Thing is I wouldve still done it if i was working there... there is no way I can sell them stuff like that with a straight face
As for four nine nine - why arent you asking why its 499 and not 500? They've already tricked you.0 -
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is that a trick question? IDE hasn't been around for ages. The correct terminology is PATA or SATA. IDE is usually colloquially used to describe drives that have the drive controller on the drive itself. In this sense both PATA and SATA are forms of IDE drives.
He got you there ! :rolleyes:
Meh, PCW ain't so bad..
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yeah, I went for an interview at a compustore... I think I was overqualified - but they didnt hire me anyway and i still have no job, so sometimes I hover in and when I catch someone thinking about buying microsoft office I give them a card on it telling them about http://www.openoffice.org
Thing is I wouldve still done it if i was working there... there is no way I can sell them stuff like that with a straight face
As for four nine nine - why arent you asking why its 499 and not 500? They've already tricked you.
That is a blast from the past. That company died a messy death over three years ago. I remember as I was working in Dublin the day they shut the doors for good. Led to a mass of guys and gals trying to get jobs in PCW.
There were a few guys in the PCW in Limerick that really knew their stuff a few years back, not sure if they are still there. One was a guy with a bushy beard that worked in the repair centre, Dave something. There were two on the floor that stood out for me too, a big guy with glasses and a smig, think he was a supervisor or something, he was always friendly and had good knowledge and never had a problem in saying when he did not know something, but made a point of getting the info for you, Mark or Mike is his name. The other guy was a Ger or Joe, he came across as a shark salesman (then again he would be trying to earn comission I guess) but he knew his stuff, software, hardware etc, no matter what question you tried to catch him out on, he always had the answer.0 -
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And they're (for the majority) vastly unqualified for the job.
I like going up to my local PC World and messing with them by asking them "tricky questions" and by "tricky", i mean a typical question which would stump them would be: "Is this hard drive IDE or SATA?". They response is typically something like "well... ummmm.. uhhhh.. that's a 500GB hard drive there and it'll hold all your music, documents and pictures. We also have it in 250GB."
And yes, it's on the box!
PS - the staff in Currys really do seem to know their stuff most of the time though.
And try sell you Norton for near a €100 same in Dixons, the look on your their face when you tell na it's grand I'll download mine.
Bought a laptop in Dixons, the sale assistant tried to sell me Norton, a case, mouse and about 5 different insurances packages when I said no to everything about three times he then start telling me how I didn't have to pay for it today and could pay by installments, does my nut in.0 -
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