[TrunkCom] re: Technical knowledge

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:41:03 -0500

I just unsubscribed this clown and added his address to the list that hold all
messages for approval, in case he tries to resubscribe.

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> I cannot find without being vulgar, enough degrading words to describe
> most RS staff. These greedy morons being the only electronics show in
> town in many places are a real turnoff insofar as the people they hire.
> All I do anymore is enter the store go the counter and say give me a
> e.g. 95-200 widget. pay and leave, If I am browsing, and the "sales
> clerk" says may I help you, I will say no thank you, If he really hangs
> dumbly over my shoulder, I tell him to go and catch flies if he has the
> ability to do so and if I need help I will call.
> 
> Sometimes I purposely ask a question about how a product works based on
> its electronic principle and when he starts to look bewildered and
> begins to twitch, I proceed to drill him further as to just why he would
> be present in an electronics shop and not be properly trained. Often it
> is the store manager who i wind up berating.
> 
> I am negativly fueled because in the late 1980's a real technically
> orientated manager got fired by those RS idiots because his total year
> sales volume had dropped 2% from the previous year. Need I go on that
> his replacement was as dumb as a stump.
> 
> I dearly miss the Allied Radio shack, Lafayette Radio and other ma and
> pa shops where people knew their stuff. 30 years back, many of the RS
> clerks were technically orientated not these pimpled faced punks who
> only want to look slick, be cool and know nothing who only know fast
> sales pitches drilled into their skulls during their "Saturday Morning
> indoctrination sessions as mandated by Fort Worth.
> 
> I feel real alone these days with few experts to call upon for help.
> Thank god there are a few of the real amateur radio operators that have
> real technical backgrounds I can bounce ideas off of.
> 
> If there are any RS higherups wishing to defend this , the only
> acceptable rebuttal would be the hiring of technically orientated
> people. Any jerk can ring up a sales with todays Pavlove's dogs style
> computer based cash registers which even count out the change for the
> dummies.
> 
> Sorry, but this is a real sore spot of contention for me the past
> decade.
> 
> Mark A. Walker
> AV Services
> 419 530 - 7712
> Customer Services Hotline: 530 - 2428
> Visit us on the web at: http://avs.utoledo.edu
> customer services email: [email protected]
> 
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