/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.

I don't really have fond memories of working at bestbuy.

I got blamed for things that weren't under my control, and they kept someone with less experience and knowledge then myself on because of A) that, and B) because she had a pre-existing friendship with my manager.

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.

... 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.

>> ^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.

If I saw Conan working somewhere I'd probably run the other direction.

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$

So when does the TBS show start?

>> ^tedbater:

So when does the TBS show start?


Monday, November 8th 2010.

I was hoping for Conan the Barbarian...

>> ^ant:

/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.


Those are Office 2007 actually

>> ^blackjackshellac:

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$


I had a similar experience looking for HDMI stuffs only to come across 6' cables ranging from $50 to nearly $100 (?!) The sad part is I later found a Belkin 6' HDMI for $20 at Lowes. A hardware store. What the fuck Best Buy? (Guess which one I wound up buying)

>> ^Croccydile:

>> ^ant:
/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.

Those are Office 2007 actually
>> ^blackjackshellac:
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$

I had a similar experience looking for HDMI stuffs only to come across 6' cables ranging from $50 to nearly $100 (?!) The sad part is I later found a Belkin 6' HDMI for $20 at Lowes. A hardware store. What the fuck Best Buy? (Guess which one I wound up buying)


Look at the end of the rack with yellow and black boxes.

"Conan works for Best Buy"

No that's a shameless lie! I'm a professional greeter for WalMart.