[ale] Not so evil empire

[Geoffrey]

Dylan Northrup wrote:
> Or have a serious attitude.  I've offered my advice many times to customers
> in Best Buy (even in contradiction to what a sales associate has said) and
> not once have I had an issue.  Perhaps it's because I don't call them
> dweebs, but it could be something else entirely.

So you judge me based on the fact I called the sales person a dweeb? 
Note, I called him a dweeb because he went looking for his manager to 
have me ejected.  I was not confrontational in any way.  Maybe you 
should get to know a person before you start judging them.

> 
> A long time ago, (15.07.09), in a galaxy far, far away, J. D. wrote:
> 
> :=If you get ejected from a best buy, you must be a geek.
> :=
> :=On 7/15/09, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> :=> Jim Moore wrote:
> :=>> This was a timely post in that yesterday went looking at Best Buy for a
> :=>> new cable modem.  Have been using a Linksys which keeps losing the
> :=>> connection.  Oh well the thing's more than five years old and was a hand
> :=>> me down from my brother in law.
> :=>
> :=> I won't darken the doors of Best Buy.  Do a google search on "best buy"
> :=> "bait and switch".
> :=>
> :=> Also, I was once asked to leave because I gave advice contrary to a
> :=> salesperson to a prospective customer.  The customer actually had asked
> :=> my opinion as we had been discussing computers before the sales dweeb
> :=> showed up.
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin