>> ^tedbater:

So when does the TBS show start?


Monday, November 8th 2010.

I found myself with a monitor lacking a vga cable so I figured while driving by BestBuy that I'd pop in and see if I could get a replacement cable. Long story short: 45 !@#! dollars for a !@#! vga cable. I didn't even look at the HDMI cables lest my head explode.

Fuck Best Buy, stupid twats.

ps. Ordered one from newegg for 5$

>> ^bamdrew:

... hmm, I always imagined they had security cameras at Best Buy.

... also,... Conan is awesome.


They do, however, I won't go into full details on how the security works, but there's usually the guy who greets you on the way in. He's got a monitor infront of him with all the cameras in the store on a 4-split screen. They can put whichever camera they want into one of those slots and are able to control its movement so it can watch up and down isles.. Sometimes if someone went out of view, they'd call a code, been ages, can't remember what it is, but it's to make all the employees go to hot spots, and in our store, blow a clown "Honk Honk" horn.

The horns were placed in strategic areas the camera couldn't see well, so it would essentially sound "fun" while at the same time get employees to cover areas where something was potentially going on. However, they'd sometimes slip up, especially in the CD dept. because since they're the cheapest item in the store, they're not high on priority.

Once anyone, but for continuing the story, we'll use me, found a wrapper of a movie or CD, you take it to the front of the store to the "greeter" and they log the time as to go over that part of the cam footage later, and try to catch the person should they come in again.

However, my manager didn't care about watching the footage, and just used those kinds of excuses to keep the less qualified person on instead of me.

... hmm, I always imagined they had security cameras at Best Buy.


... also,... Conan is awesome.


>> ^Shepppard:

Really though, I started my shift (I was in media, cd's, movies, etc.) went over and instantly found 2 wrappers for CD's. I took them to my manager and got blamed for not watching my section properly.. even though I'd been there for 5 minutes, and nobody had even been in my section yet.
/sigh, but I guess that's more of a single person rather then bestbuy as a whole.

>> ^cowboydan:

yeah, that was really boring. I miss the good ol days when they used to freak out best buy employees.


Entertaining people is boring. Please go give underpaid retail workers a bad day.

yeah, that was really boring. I miss the good ol days when they used to freak out best buy employees.

>> ^Kevlar:

Aw, man, I thought I read you saying you hate seeing people like me saying Apple hates people of a certain handedness. I was going to make some kind of sweet Hate Recursion commentary, but then I realized I just can't read.

Yeah I probably could have used more punctuation...

Like logix said, if this turns out to be a really big issue, I bet Apple will give out bumpers, or at least drastically reduce the price of them. $30 is a little ridiculous. I saw packs of 2 ipod touch cases at Best Buy for $10. And they were from a real brand (Belkin), and came with a screen protector....

I've grown weary of these apple parody videos, but I really loved when he complained that the Best Buy guys brought the wrong mount.

I used to work at Best Buy and take calls like this at least 2-3 times a shift. I'm just sorry that the public school system has failed these individuals so badly. Seriously, where the hell are your basic problem solving skills people???

WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?!?!??!!?

A brief example of how I write. This has no spell checker to back me up. I will just write things as they come to my mind as to how to spell them. It will not be edited by concience or googled to find the approprite spelling. Truely, the only thing that frightens me more than spelling is grammer. Who can it be that I can talk with someone and convay and idea, but when it comes to sentence structure of the written lanugage I fail so hard. Why does a run on not look like a run on? How the hell do I really use this comma thing? Semi-colen...now your just fricken around right? O there is a normal colen too...I use that for pooping! In all, if I had no aid of a word processor, writing would take me ages, I would never do it and it would still come out looking like a monkey trying to write shackspere trying to hammer out a litterary work. Yes, it is safe to say I hate writing because it hated me first. However, I love it. It is the same with art, I see what other masters are able to make and it truely inspires me. It is my ineptitude that makes it ever more wonderus. So I compair your aditude to the same I get when I see ads for best buy. I look at what they sell people and I am shocked. You can't do that? Really? Are you an idiot? I can do that and not ever break a sweet. But others really can't do it, or can't be bothered. For me, I just can't. My brain be broken when it comes to diction and conciceness. WHen I use the wrong word or run on and on, it because I really, really don't know what I am doing. It hasn't been for a lack of trying, it is just my efforts are rewarded with only marginal movments in progress. Hard to believe, but this might be the best I have ever writen!

(ack that's terrible, though I didn't take any time to edit that, I wrote it straight out which I would never do in reality)

Ok, I think I know the problem now. We aren't talking about the same thing. Your are talking about legalism, I am talking about a moral argument. I am talking about how WRONG what they are doing is, not about how against the law what they are doing is. I approach the law as a means of maximizing freedoms and minimizing evils. So the problem I have here is with the very laws you seem to defend.

The very existence of the TSA is bad. The government has no place hijacking the security of airports. While their may be a case for the existence of federal police in airport just as their would local cops and emergency workers, to say they should OWN security of airports if wrong. I don't care if it was ratified by congress and signed by the president, it's wrong. It would be akin to them taking over security at the movies, or at your local shopping mart. Lets look at the case of Best buy. I can't walk out of best buy without getting checked out by security, however at target, I get no such harassment, and as a result I typically choose to go places I don't get haggled with. You pay a higher price, but it is worth it to me. Now, if they government took over all security in all retail stores in America, that choice would be eliminated. I would have to put up with the same old nonsense everywhere I went, my freedom, my choice would be gone.

The same could be true of airlines. One airline might adopt an anal probe philosophy and people whom generally like to be alive and are afraid of terrorists could pay the extra buck or 100 to go on such airlines. Me, I don't care, let me fly cheap, I don't care if I die...F it. With the TSA, I get no such choice. The government has hijacked my ability to make my own choices on how I want to spend my dollar. And it isn't just a few dollars, it is billions...and I don't even fly that often anymore but yet still I pay.

I think that also falls into your first point a bit. An airport is NOTHING like the Pentagon. An airport is completely private in nature. Everything they do is for customers. It is NOT a government institution in anyway...at all. So, this "screening area" idea to me is incompatible with that. Plus, do you only get the freedom to film if you have a press badge, is that your idea of freedom? Papers please? Really? Come on, freedom of speech is way more than a press badge. Plus, you are watching his video on the Internets...sounds like a member of the press to me...whatever member of the press means.

Secondly, I can't honestly believe you think talking about how dumb not allowing blankets on a plane is as some kind of security risk. I talk about how dumb it is they don't allow water on planes. Should that warrant some kind of investigation of my loyalty? Should I be searched and striped naked because I question the value of a rule? This seems more like your are grasping at straws here. Seriously whining about how dumb not letting blanks on a plane is, is about as dangerous as complaining about traffic. If not, then every child in an airport is a threat, they do nothing but moan about every procedure...those damn terrorist children (sorry for the demagogy).

Your third point I think is the weakest of them all. There is a difference between someone who is a threat and someone who is being petulant. This is the main difference between security and a bouncer. A bouncer deals with people who are jerks and causing trouble, security is for those people that might bring harm to those around him. The TSA is supposed to be security. After 3 different conversions, one of whom is their job to directly gauge the threat level of someone, failed to properly gauge him. What really happened here is TSA got but hurt and went after this guy with no remorse. They used many of their powers on a non-threat. They improperly assessed the situation, continued to do so to the violation of this innocent, if not slightly jerky, man. Let us get that point very clear. This man is guilty of no crime. He was doing what normal people do in a normal space.

Your last point is completely erroneous. At first, we was fairly respectful. The lady approached him and asked if he was a member of the press. Once they started following him and hounding him, he responded in kind. I don't know if you ever had any run ins with the police, it doesn't sound like it. It is a very threatening situation. More over, from the get go they were yanking him around by the arm and being very authoritative, ordering him around like they owned him...he responded in kind. They tried to trap him into saying something damning, he responded by saying things damning of their very institution. This is MUCH different than the gun stunt...which was exactly that, a stunt. This was a display of the system in action. It would be more akin to getting pulled over and getting searched anally just because you mouthed off. There again is the main difference between what you and I see as the role of government and laws.

Like many other people on the sift have said that are smarter and more well spoken than I, the police should fear the people. They work for us, to protect us. The shoe has gotten on the other foot now. Now they are above us, protecting themselves against us. I have known many wonderful policemen in my day. I have also known people like these officers who forget what their job is. For these tragic people, their job isn't to help us...their job is us. We are the thing that has to be dealt with, not the people they are helping dealing with things. The difference in mind set is ever so slight but o so important.

A home beer brew kit (fermenting a pale ale right now), a gunmetal business card holder etched with my initials, a Rubiks Cube, Best Buy gift certificates, and a director's chair with my last name embroidered on the back.

^Sorry about the Best Buy commercial. I wish I could end the vids whenever I wanted.

....not to mention a BITCHIN'! ®Best Buy© commercial at the end-
upvote for "Two pets, two pets, two pets in one!" hook....Fuck Best Buy. Hope they go under faster,sooner,stronger than ever before!

>> ^rosser99:
My monitor went bad last week, but at the time of failure, I didn't know if it was my monitor or video card. So, I took my monitor to geek squad because it was the only computer place open at the time. The plan was to have them hook up the monitor to their signal.....if it worked at Best Buy, my video card was toast, and if it was the monitor, it would have the same fault there that I had at home....
After very clearly explaining the plan to the girl (and informing her that if the monitor was bad, I would be buying a new one from them that day), she informed me there would be a $60 dollar diagnostic fee. Yes...to hook it up to a DVI cable running off one of their systems. $60. After I had a brief chat with the GS manager and explained how hooking it up to a computer should not count as a payable "diagnostic," she went ahead and hooked it up gratis. I watched her the entire time and realized that she didn't correctly hook the thing up (I could tell from some of the indicator lights on the monitor). She brought it back and informed me it was a bad monitor, to which I had to insist that she hook it up again, correctly this time. She refused, and again I had to explain to the manager how I knew that she hadn't correctly hooked it up. He did it for her, and voila, things went as they should have and I knew for certain it was a bad monitor.
If GS is employing workers who literally don't know how to hook up a monitor, god help the person going there with a real problem......


Dude, we'll forgive you for going to Best Buy with a computer problem - as it's a source of spare parts of all else fails - but why didn't you just hook it up yourself to one of the monitors on the showroom floor?

Seriously...