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| Thread ID: 21286 | 2002-06-22 02:00:00 | OVERHEARD IN A COMPUTER SHOP | Baldy (26) | Press F1 |
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| 56318 | 2002-06-23 10:41:00 | Wasn't it American sport? Baseball or some such? Babe Ruth a famous star? | Heather P (163) | ||
| 56319 | 2002-06-24 03:48:00 | Babe Ruth was an American Baseballer. He played for the Yankees. I think he also played for the Red Sox and the Braves at one time??? Real name is Greg or Goerge or something like that. Called Babe by his coach, or manager when he was the "new kid on the block". Died of cancer. I am not a baseball fan or anything, but watched a docco about him once a couple of years ago. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 56320 | 2002-06-24 03:54:00 | Yeah pretty much spot on there Graham, I got my moniker of "Babe' when I was a 'newbie' on the block and kinda added Ruth as my father had played baseball against the Yankees just after WW2. Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 56321 | 2002-06-24 05:08:00 | LOL How many guys would have the self-confidence to call themselves Babe Ruth, a totally feminine name, other than drag artists? Not many I bet! :D Oh well, it adds to the spice of the forum. And who cares what name someone's got if they've got the answers. ;-) PS I am not saying that Babe Ruth is a drag artist, by the way. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 56322 | 2002-06-24 05:14:00 | The thing is Most people at this forum will never meet each other so you can never really tell what sex a person is, even if they tell you. There are some very crafty people out there. :) I'm not one of them :D |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 56323 | 2002-06-24 05:45:00 | Hmmm, makes note to drop the blonde wig and fishnets while sitting at computer... Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 56324 | 2002-06-24 08:16:00 | I've had friends buy name-brand computers, and have nothing but trouble from them. One friend in particular has had their HP back to the shop about 5 or 6 times with hardware faults (real hardware faults, not just idiot faults). The last company I worked for used Dells for almost everything. Admittedly they weren't bad computers, but lack of space inside the case and proprietary BIOS turn me away real quick. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything from a chain store such as Noel Leemings et al. Most of their staff are trained from the product brochures, and wouldn't know what a PCI slot was if it came up and bit them on the bum! ;\ Just for the record, my computer started off nearly 10 years ago as a 486SX25. Since then it's had all the internals replaced (at least twice over!), other bits added, and then all the externals replaced. I've almost got enough bits now to put back together the old computer :p |
JamieA (546) | ||
| 56325 | 2002-06-24 08:28:00 | i know that one well, i'm about to put together a second computer, using many parts left over after upgrades. The spare parts from my last series of upgrades got swapped for something, and is still a working computer some small distance up the road |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 56326 | 2002-06-27 07:25:00 | forum newbie here...hold the flames :p I notice a lot of guesses are Noel LEEMING (not lemming, those are little green-haired things from 286 days)/Computer City...If you actually went to the Dunedin one, you would find most of the staff are reasonably well trained now and know their stuff. Of course they will never be able to answer 'What speed ram is on the graphics card' type thing, but do know the difference between PCI and AGP, how much your ram can be upgraded etc etc. I should know this, because it's ME that teaches them. But as someone says...leave the mess for the techs to clean up ;-) So MAYBE...check things out before jumping to conclusions huh you dunedin people... *puts on flameproof suit* |
Rich (547) | ||
| 56327 | 2002-06-27 07:49:00 | At least on my part the lemming was intentional (the staff don't think for themselves). Ummm, Noel Leemings in Dunedin - I was in there, and a sales person was explaining to a man in his early fifties about the PC he was considering buying. To give the guy credit, he had good communication skills - was able to explain to the customer clearly how to set the PC up, which plug went where, and that the plugs were all diferent shapes to avoid confusion. Also asked the guy what he wanted the PC for when the customer queried what the difference was between two models, and the told the customer that for what he wanted it for (accounting, word processing etc), the more expensive model would not show a marked improvement, althouh it would be faster overall. That was when I went out of earshot. However, generally, salespeople at chains like Noel Leemings are trained monkeys, and typically useless. Congratulations on training your staff well, but I'm sorry, that won't change the opinions of people who have had generally bad experiences. The bad reputations has not come out of thin air - maybe your store can be the beginning of a revolution whereby sales staff are hired because of their learning ability and product knowledge, not just on their sales ability. But then again, maybe pigs can fly, and the salesman I overheard that day was you, and the rest of the staff are the trained monkeys i have grown to expect. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
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