OT: Local Radio Shack unsuccessfully attempts to expand line

[ErikMiller]

I just read in the paper that a 19-year-old clerk at one of my local Radio Shacks was busted for selling meth over the counter.

I think I remember the kid. If it's the one I'm thinking of, he seemed a bit too clean-cut and ambitious to be working at Radio Shack....

[Brian Marshall]

so you are saying that meth dealers are just a little higher up the evolutionary chain than radio shack employees.

I agree.

[Ansil]

so you are saying that meth dealers are just a little higher up the evolutionary chain than radio shack employees.

I agree.

lol................................ too damn funny. maybe thats why i can't get a job there lol

[drew]

d-d-do you want a cell phone man? (hurriedly) man it's real good it's got email and everything and internet and here's your receipt sign here!! what's your address never mind we don't ask for that anymore!

(turns around to scrub out the CB radios on display with a toothbrush) GET CLEAN DAMMIT


drew
www.toothpastefordinner.com

[petemoore]

A so called Auto Mechanic and Wheeler Deeler [I went to HSchool with] got busted with pounds of wead in his trunk...the cop pulled him over and was trying to give him a hand fixing the light...right....lol...ouch////dohh!!!2 yrs...
 When there's more than a pound of incriminating substance in YOUR trunk...Check your tail lights before setting out...

[Somicide]

the local RS seemed impressed that i called regarding an app.  here's hoping!  God I need a job.  and then there'd be one of us on the inside, muahahaha!

[Brian Marshall]

at the rat shack near my house i always go in there and the same 2 guys are always there.  one guy is about 500lbs, and stays behind the counter pretty much all the time.

the other guy is skinny, and always follows me arround, and asks me if he can help me.  I think that he thinks i'm stealing stuff from them.

a typical day at the shack

him- can i help you find anything?
me-  I need some wire strippers
him-  here's our selection, we have coax strippers, multi stripper tool, blah blah blah
me--  do you have anything that will strip 20 to 24 gauge wire.
him-  welll we have this one that will do 18 gauge.  we used to have one, but we dont stock them anymore.
me- that's funny you stock telephone wire which is 24 gauge, but no strippers.

another customer comes in

him-  oh hi how can i help you
some stupid old guy-  yeah, my cable box has this funny looking little connector on it, and i need to plug it in to my 1986 beta vcr.

me-  waling out the door.

Brian

[Ge_Whiz]

Okay, so he was selling meth. But his defence will be (a) he didn't know what it was for and (b) he didn't know about the effects. And it was on special offer.

[Peter Snowberg]

Over here on the other side of "the Bay" in Mill Valley there was a guy working at the Kentucky Fried Chicken that was selling ganja through the drive-thru. The code was to ask for "extra biscuits". One day a lady used the words to actually mean she wanted extra biscuits and she freaked out when she got her order. Whoops! :shock:

Take care,
-Peter

[blabj]

A so called Auto Mechanic and Wheeler Deeler [I went to HSchool with] got busted with pounds of wead in his trunk...the cop pulled him over and was trying to give him a hand fixing the light...right....lol...ouch////dohh!!!2 yrs...
 When there's more than a pound of incriminating substance in YOUR trunk...Check your tail lights before setting out...

no offence man but im sure that i have seen that on america's dumbest criminals  :lol:
callum

[Paul Marossy]

There are two things I almost always do when I go to a RadioShack:

1. As soon as the "sales associate" asks me if I need any help, I tell them in a rather stern voice, "No, I know exactly what I'm looking for." Usually they don't bother me after that.

2. When I'm at the check out counter and they start asking me if I have a cell phone or if I like my current service, I tell them "No, I don't want a new cell phone", or "I'm not interested" in a more stern voice. I totally shut up one guy the other day. I think he was kind of mad... Oh, well. I'm there to buy parts, not be coerced into buying electronics crap that I don't need.

The other thing that generally bothers me is that the people who work there most of the time couldn't tell a resistor from a battery.

[RDV]

They always tell me they'll give a better deal than the cell phone in my pocket, and I say "you mean you'll pay me to use it? cause this one's free from work." Chirp Chirp Chirp(crickets)

Everybody needs a gig though, & a good friend actually manages one, so I gotta cut em' a little slack.

Regards

RDV

[Peter Snowberg]

Growing up, the local "shack" was managed by a Ham operator (who was also the the old mayor). He was quite happy to talk ohms law if it was needed. A couple weeks ago I found myself explaining things to the counter person in the local store. What a reversal.

Gone are the days.

Take care,
-Peter

[Hal]

the funny this is that as little as the rat shack empyloees know, most of the cutomers know less.  Brain Marshall kinda toutched on it in his post...

One of my friends used to work there.  He was amazed at how often people would come in with a blown fuse, with no markings at all, and say "I need one of these," and get angry at him for telling them that he has no idea what type it is.  For those people i'd get pissed, give 'em a high current fuse, and hope to blow the crap out of whatever they're putting it into!  (probably their car cell phone charger).

[MarkDonMel]

funny.  reminds me of when I was a kid in high school, a buddy worked at a local del taco and used to sell grass over the counter.  His thing was if you came through the drive thru and ordered a taco with no meat, he slip a sack out.  pretty stupid I guess, but such is the genius of the adolesent.

I think back to that and just laugh.

Matt.

[Somicide]

thank god i quit "the drugs".  it gives you a bit of a temper, though, when your buddy gets your plans for the weekend (ie 40 bucks worth of chronic) flushed down the crapper by his dad.  ON 3 SEPERATE OCCAISONS.  I tell ya, the money I look back on that i coulda used for components, it makes me sad...  

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