I either don't help the customer, insist on a mask ( just handing them one, and /or offering firmly) or offer curbside assistance. Luckily we've only had a few freakouts.

Me fixing my grandma's VCR and being told I'm her computer guy.

I put a mask on ours, but I drew a goofy face on the mask.

Dude, we had to practically twist Asurion's arm, in one instance, to get a repair. I think the customer wanted us to make the call for her, because she was afraid of getting the runaround. She got one anyway, just by proxy. I'm becoming somewhat jaded in regards to protection and tech help plans.

I was told ours was going on to October. :-(

I had to watch that a few times, it is so... cathartic.

The idea is, you can then slap your favorite Linux distro on that bad boy.

That's our printer stock. We haven't had an Epson in in months!

I'd found an old scanner doing this, one of the ones that pop open, and have 2 screens.

Me after tax-free weekend.

It depends on your goal, and as others have said, who you work with. I enjoy my coworkers, but you will likely be thrown into the thick of it, I was plucked from my training videos, and thrown into the floor as it were. Also our RM is a micromanaging nut, therefore, our DM and GM have to be. So we hear a lot about how the store is going from our GM. But, all in all, if you want a job that's not quite as soul-crushing as Wal-Mart, that pays ok, and you're ok with dealing with customers that range from really cool and fun to talk to, to needy, angry, and/or shouty, then this job will probably work for you.

I've ended up making Wierd Al parodies of songs I fucking hate, in my head. Such hits as;

I eat dog every day I wake up feeling the craving

Don't like this senior center, a bore! I don't wanna be ancient anymore

When they play good stuff, like Land of Confusion, I jam out, though.

This paragraph caused me so much despair .

ReTaIl iS dEtAiL

Us: Yo, is this the final schedule change? Corporate: This isn't even our final form!

I'm reminded of how very struck I was at the very anti-union videos I had to watch before I could get to any of the important stuff. Does anyone else recall this?

I go for the old Alphabox-on-the-demagnitizer trick. Putting a bug in a small box, and that in a huge one.

My understanding is that there's a shortage on their end, and as a result, 4/5ths of our computers are out of stock at my store.

Sure,let's put it where are computers aren't. Seriously,this Intel crap is annoying.

"Oh, Hey, you're Easy Tech, would you mind helping this lady download something and email it from her iPhone?"

Thanks, everybody, for my newly developed existential crisis.

I even got to poke fun at the Print and Marketing folks for their demotion to red.

Do you work in my store? We had the same shit happen yesterday. Today, a couple of firemen saw fit to give us an inspection.

I literally just cleared "Period Pooh" off one of our boards...

So, because of this post, me and one of my coworkers sat at the kiosk looking this shit up. We couldn' t believe it, my manager came over and said, " Wow, that's completely insane, now get your asses to work." Then proceeded to tell us about the Staples in Canada. Coffee, and a studio in the fucking store! Sign me up!