Posted on 05/06/2011 7:52:15 PM PDT by rawhide
And what reason would that be? Have you ever dealt with the cops? Call the cops if you want some fat bored ticket-jockey to come on your property, treat you like crap, tell you all kinds of things that you did “wrong”, complain that he shouldn’t even be there, over-talk you and answer zero questions, and leave you with a police report that looks like it was written by a fifth-grader.
your imagination is running away with your sense of logic....Police officers investigate crime and try to solve it....they are not there to prevent crime in most instances. I think the employee was a hero, and it shoud start sending out a message that the stores are not there for the takink.....how many armed clerks would it take to end this nonsense?????
We’ve had tech’s hired recently.
I work in the IT field for like 30 years now. I asked them where they got their training. A few have said the Geek Squad.
“Are you serious?”
That should be a disqualifier in my opinion.
They keep hiring them.
I already don’t shop there so now I’ll not shop there even more! :) I can’t see why anybody besides thieves would want to shop there anyway.
I tried to buy a computer there a few years ago and after several minutes 3 things became clear:
They had no idea what they were talking about,
They were only trying to steer me toward the most expensive items, and
They were more interested in selling me extra service features and extended warranties.
I said forget it and left. Haven’t been back since.
FU Best Buy! Thanks for sticking up for the American way, you sh!tards!
I’ll send hate mail to them in the morning.
Yep, the “young men” in gang flash mobs, who have been hitting convenience stores and clothes stores, will now go to Best Buy.
Maybe the employee saw the shoplifter wasn’t armed, was smaller than he was, or for whatever reason, saw that he had a clean shot at him. For him to get fired for this is crazy.
Best Buy has a “zero tolerance” rule. The bureaucratic language of the termination notice shows that nobody in management is capable or willing to use any judgement in this matter.
A VERY good friend of mine is a GM of a Best Buy store. He says the amount of stuff that people walk out with in under 30 seconds is astonishing to the average person. But their policy is just like dozens of other stores who are too afraid to lay hands on anyone due to insurance and lawsuits.
The only company that I know in major retailing that licenses their LP staff to tackle or do what ever to get the perp down and the merch back is Federated Department Stores.
Best Buy banks on deterrent camera guys at the front of the store and door alarm sensors to stop you. Basically, run in with a mask on and run out and by the time the cops get there a robber could be on the highway on the way home.
We need tort reform.
Sounds like you have quite a bit of babysitting/BS control to do. My sympathies.
That sums up the promotion practices of half the elements of South Carolina Educational Televison's engineering department. I was stuck in that half. Throw in closet racist and anti-veteran for good measure.
I left there a few years back but have kept in touch with a few of the remaining good people. It has gotten progressively worse. I had found out apparently that me and the other competent and capable person apparently had a few games ran on us by the only token AA in management. He is another story.
Anything we did usually resulted in inquisitions and being raked over the coals plus being portrayed as incompetent to upper mgt. Take the redneck good ole boy and another AA who apparently did a lot of horrendous stuff and they are covered for and painted as the greatest employees ever.
However in recent months the masks are finally coming off and the favorites are showing how incompetent they are from what I have heard.
The first time I ever went shopping for a wireless router, the fruitcake that I talked to at Best Buy tried to sell me a $180 router that wasn’t worth $60 and told me that they could install it and set up the security for $160. Get out of town. I had a buddy who had set it up at his house come over and “help” me do it.
It was the easiest thing in the world. If you can read, do the most basic research there is, and you can set a password then you’re more than good-to-go. But people set up home networks that are totally open, their neighbors and any passerby gets free internet, so some people can screw up anything, I guess.
I can relate to baby sitting. At my last full time job, being an ex-geek squaddie would have been a huge plus. Also being able to read, handle basic organizing, math, and knowing what the fundamental components of a PC (such as RAM and where it goes and what a processor looks like) are were also desired but not necessary.
If I owned a company nearly Billings, I would hire this guy immediately. Sounds like a good employee.
If you hit the BSOD screen enough times with a stick it goes away.:)
Most people either can’t or won’t try to learn anything about the technology that in essence rules all our lives.
I saw the handwriting on the wall years ago in TV-ville about jobs and futures, there wasn’t much of either. I picked up fixing computers and technology as a secondary skill. I am glad I did, it has saved me and I least have some options, granted contractor stuff which is what I am in now.
I was never one of the special ones who was invited to work the good paying sports gigs. The ones I knew of were either big libs and/or eye-candy or boy-toy. Average looking working guy - forget it.
These guys know just enough to be dangerous.
Do you know how many times I’ve told them they are not working on their moms pcs?
To give them credit, they do know their moms pcs. I need network guys. Guy who can look at a workstation and determine whether it is a network, or pc issue.
Most of these guys think nothing of spending 30 or 40 hours to try and figure out what the problem is.
Reimage it in 20 minutes and get it back out there. If I want your opinion, I’ll squeeze it out of you.
Management, however, wants them to explore their intuition, and learn from their experiences.
Their trying to take me away, ho ho, who, who, to the funny farm where life is wonderful.......
I use linux live discs to blow people’s minds and make a few bucks recovering data when Windoze blows out.
And in many instances nowadays they try to convince you that a crime never happened. It's good for their crime statistics and it's what the mayor wants.
Sheesh.
Why have I spent thousands of dollars there, then?
I can just get what I want and leave, from now on.
The house of cards usually crashes when they have a major problem with something and, since they ran too many or all of their good people, there’s nobody left who can fix it. Suddenly the golden-boy is looking like the turd that he really is and the wonder-manager is going to the bosses with outlandish stories about how NOBODY can fix their problems, it’s like the super-ninja gremlins-on-steroids were unleashed to wreak random havoc.
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