can't sleep, need distractions

Gatsby

Okay I'm surprised I'm the first to post this

Bendery It Like Beckham

I work at Bestbuy, I am a "Geek Squad" Agent... its okay I guess.

YaYa

Gatsby: I was extremely close to making that the thread title

also, Gatsby/Pipe/other australians in here

The Good Guys are evil and deserve to be firebombed

discuss

Bendery: we don't have Best Buy here but I know of this Geek Squad

what exactly is your job? are you just there to hook up consoles and entertainment centres and provide advice, or?

Bendery It Like Beckham

YaYa wrote:

Gatsby: I was extremely close to making that the thread title

also, Gatsby/Pipe/other australians in here

The Good Guys are evil and deserve to be firebombed

discuss

We used to have "The Good Guys" in 'The States', we already firebombed em.

E^(i Pi)+1=0

I am a full time-student and part-time deli guy.

Bendery It Like Beckham

We don't need 2 creepy but loveable posters, we already have Chico, and he will out creep and out love you. So....

Tef

I work as a training coordinator out on a gold mine in WA. We're pretty close to the SA border; about 500kms north east of Kalgoorlie if you've heard of there.

I enjoy the work, but it's hard to stay positive when I was meant to be landing in Perth right now but haven't even left site yet

E^(i Pi)+1=0

I'm not at all loveable anyway.

Gatsby

I work at Cotton On. Just started, haven't had any problems yet of course. And the employee discount is nice.

Also I've never actually gone into The Good Guys, come to think of it.

YaYa

Symbob: we've noticed

Tef: what sort of training do you do? is it more physical or part of the business side?

That Dave Fella

I do stuff for this games company.

Bendery It Like Beckham

YaYa wrote:

Gatsby: I was extremely close to making that the thread title

also, Gatsby/Pipe/other australians in here

The Good Guys are evil and deserve to be firebombed

discuss

Bendery: we don't have Best Buy here but I know of this Geek Squad

what exactly is your job? are you just there to hook up consoles and entertainment centres and provide advice, or?

I work in the store, fixing peoples shit (little known fact, geek squads first advertisement was "We fix your shit" this was before geeksquad was bought by Bestbuy). I'm what is known as an "Advanced Repair Agent" or someone who works on computers every day, from hardware replacement to virus removal and data back-up. It's kind of sisyphean in nature, I repair the same virus between 50-100 times a week and then a new virus comes out and I repair that one in a similar but more annoying way.

YaYa

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Gatsby: I was extremely close to making that the thread title

also, Gatsby/Pipe/other australians in here

The Good Guys are evil and deserve to be firebombed

discuss

Bendery: we don't have Best Buy here but I know of this Geek Squad

what exactly is your job? are you just there to hook up consoles and entertainment centres and provide advice, or?

I work in the store, fixing peoples shit (little known fact, geek squads first advertisement was "We fix your shit" this was before geeksquad was bought by Bestbuy). I'm what is known as an "Advanced Repair Agent" or someone who works on computers every day, from hardware replacement to virus removal and data back-up. It's kind of sisyphean in nature, I repair the same virus between 50-100 times a week and then a new virus comes out and I repair that one in a similar but more annoying way.

how much of virus repair is reformatting hard drives

#pipe

I don't mind the Good Guys

Ive bought 2 TVs from them

Got a good price both times

Bendery It Like Beckham

YaYa wrote:

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Gatsby: I was extremely close to making that the thread title

also, Gatsby/Pipe/other australians in here

The Good Guys are evil and deserve to be firebombed

discuss

Bendery: we don't have Best Buy here but I know of this Geek Squad

what exactly is your job? are you just there to hook up consoles and entertainment centres and provide advice, or?

I work in the store, fixing peoples shit (little known fact, geek squads first advertisement was "We fix your shit" this was before geeksquad was bought by Bestbuy). I'm what is known as an "Advanced Repair Agent" or someone who works on computers every day, from hardware replacement to virus removal and data back-up. It's kind of sisyphean in nature, I repair the same virus between 50-100 times a week and then a new virus comes out and I repair that one in a similar but more annoying way.

how much of virus repair is reformatting hard drives

For me? Maybe 1/100, for my coworkers who can't read crash dumps and dont make registry backups before they delete shit? 1/10

Arang

I have a friend who fixes people's computers at a high school and 95% of all he does is reformat people's computers

can't change your background? let's format

YaYa

#pipe wrote:

I don't mind the Good Guys

Ive bought 2 TVs from them

Got a good price both times

out of curiosity if you pay cash how much do they actually take off

Arang: at my job some of the repairers we assign are for computers, and we have to inform every single customer that their data might be wiped and they need to back up, no matter what the actual PC issue is

I'm sort of wondering if the repairer we use sees that the problem is a couple of loose keys, fixes it and then formats the hard-drive out of spite

Bendery It Like Beckham

Arang wrote:

I have a friend who fixes people's computers at a high school and 95% of all he does is reformat people's computers

can't change your background? let's format

I absolutely hate people like that, you can't call yourself a "computer repair person/technician/artist" if all you do is put everything back to square 1. It's like when you car breaks down deciding it needs a new engine.

ChicoBlue

When I was in high school I got in trouble for setting the desktop background of my computer in the computer lab to a big picture of Charisma Carpenter posing all sexy like.

YaYa

alright I need to try and get some rest

if I'm back here later tonight I will continue to engage in discourses, otherwise I'm excited to see what topics you guys will have stumbled on when I wake up

Chico, you're in charge

Arang

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote:

Arang wrote:

I have a friend who fixes people's computers at a high school and 95% of all he does is reformat people's computers

can't change your background? let's format

I absolutely hate people like that, you can't call yourself a "computer repair person/technician/artist" if all you do is put everything back to square 1. It's like when you car breaks down deciding it needs a new engine.

I think he's actually there to manage the networks and keep students from abusing it for torrents and stuff and the repair part was mainly just tacked on and now 3 people are in charge of like 1600 constantly-breaking computers

Bendery It Like Beckham

A customer asked me to change my workstation background because they thought it promoted a bad message for their children.

BEHOLD, MY WORKSTATION BACKGROUND

Spoiler:

My manager gives me crap for the ponies, but my fellow geeks approve. (there are some hidden eastereggs in our toolset about ponies)

#pipe

YaYa wrote:

#pipe wrote:

I don't mind the Good Guys

Ive bought 2 TVs from them

Got a good price both times

out of curiosity if you pay cash how much do they actually take off

they straight up give you 5% no questions

But they're actually happy to let you haggle if you want

Bendery It Like Beckham

Arang wrote:

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote:

Arang wrote:

I have a friend who fixes people's computers at a high school and 95% of all he does is reformat people's computers

can't change your background? let's format

I absolutely hate people like that, you can't call yourself a "computer repair person/technician/artist" if all you do is put everything back to square 1. It's like when you car breaks down deciding it needs a new engine.

I think he's actually there to manage the networks and keep students from abusing it for torrents and stuff and the repair part was mainly just tacked on and now 3 people are in charge of like 1600 constantly-breaking computers

I suppose if thats the case then yeah, format the shit out of it. I guess I read it as "this guy fixes peoples computers" as in, students bring a guy a computer and $50 for a repair and he just reformats it.

Arang

my background is the darkest gray windows 7 offers under the solid colors tab

whenever people complain I open it up, do custom color and change it by a few shades toward black or white

Bendery It Like Beckham

I honestly dont know if the ponies were the problem or the rainbow was the problem.

ChicoBlue

I need a pretty someone to sit on the top of my rowing machine and whenever I row a mile, you undo a button on your blouse and hike up your skirts a little bit.

Arang

this post is the evil twin post

or is it

e: ... it's so evil it ate the actual post of the double post pair

what I was saying is that he has to fix them basically overnight which kind of limits his options in actually fixing anything

Crimson King

ChicoBlue wrote:

I need a pretty someone to sit on the top of my rowing machine and whenever I row a mile, you undo a button on your blouse and hike up your skirts a little bit.

where do i sign

#pipe

ChicoBlue wrote:

I need a pretty someone to sit on the top of my rowing machine and whenever I row a mile, you undo a button on your blouse and hike up your skirts a little bit.

If my gym offered this service I would be 100 pounds lighter

Tef

It's all operational stuff. So using forklifts and bobcats and a lot of jobs that our geological technicians do. Stuff like delineating ore zones, processing gold samples; stuff like that.

Are you studying yaya?

Arang

this color, all over:



e: that's a 109-pixel square on the first try

ladies

Gatsby

This is my wallpaper

E^(i Pi)+1=0

I'm fond of the black background and green text motif.

#pipe

Pro wallpaper right here
http://lukemcreynolds.com/files/wallpaper/sts30nightlaunch_nasa_big.jpg

E^(i Pi)+1=0

(dumb double post)

Arang

use this on my phone, though

Bendery It Like Beckham

My phone is also pony themed

Phant

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote:

Arang wrote:

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote:

Arang wrote:

I have a friend who fixes people's computers at a high school and 95% of all he does is reformat people's computers

can't change your background? let's format

I absolutely hate people like that, you can't call yourself a "computer repair person/technician/artist" if all you do is put everything back to square 1. It's like when you car breaks down deciding it needs a new engine.

I think he's actually there to manage the networks and keep students from abusing it for torrents and stuff and the repair part was mainly just tacked on and now 3 people are in charge of like 1600 constantly-breaking computers

I suppose if thats the case then yeah, format the shit out of it. I guess I read it as "this guy fixes peoples computers" as in, students bring a guy a computer and $50 for a repair and he just reformats it.

Oh wow, I've heard that story. That is basically my moms job except with her its one person for like, 800 computers or some ridiculous number now. Apparently its cool to continue cutting the tech department while maintaining the amount you spend on the tech you need them to run. Which is absurd considering how much physical labor is involved because that includes setting up the machines and basically anything involving computers at all. A few years back I took a few days off to go in with her because she had something like 3 days to pallet up something like 400 CRT monitors spread all over the building.

YaYa

I actually managed to get to sleep, and I'm even in a slightly better mood! thanks, thread