Can Best Buy become your IT shop?

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Here's how to become a 'geek' in the 'squad' (aka "GS"):

1. Be a blue shirt do-nothing paid-for-parrot at Best Buy for at least 6 months.

2. After completing #1 successfully, apply for a GS position and hope they deem you 'the pick of the litter', so to speak. For GS (which ought to be known as BS given the quality of their service) will NOT hire anybody directly from the outside and with pre-employment profiling questions about graduating high school, amongst the usual garbage about being introverted and extroverted, it takes little to deduce what they are looking for. They do not want technically inclined people working there.

And coming in to these stores, often just to test the competency of the workers, all they care about is selling the biggest product. I do not want a sales lecture. I want empirical knowledge. They can't even sell the product, much less try to fix the thing!

Best Buy needs to stay out of the service industry if "Geek Squad" is anything to judge them by -- and they have every right to be judged. Leave it to the small businesses who actually DO this sort of thing for a living and as such take the time to really know things, rather than being an ex-floor walker with a white shirt instead of a blue one.

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As for CompUSA, I don't know about all the stores they were closing, but the ones in my area actually knew something and were loyal to their employer. Can't say that about Best Buy either...

And I agree with the other person, who is right in saying corporate culture has no place for quality. It's an all-too-common factor showing itself time and time again.

Posted by: HypnoToad72   Posted on: 03/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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