Posts Tagged ‘products’
Wth is wrong with youngsters these days
Written by Arnan on September 6, 2008 – 2:13 pmAre they just getting more stupid? Twice in a day a dumbfounding encounter is not nothing… It’s amazing really. That such people can get away with it. I mean, come on. Read the following and think by yourself, are they that dumb? Or is there some hint of smartness in me after all. I think what i did today was nothing special yet none of the people helping me today, things they do all day long, did get it right…
Today i want to town to get some things, batteries for a labelwriter and some groceries.
At the first shop the girls at the register asked me what kind of batteries i wanted. So i told her “i need those thin-penlight-ones, called AAA”. Calculating that she might not know what AAA batteries are. She then turned around to the rack of batteries, discovered there were like 4 brands selling the same thing and asked me which brand. I said “whatever is cheap, i need 6 of them” i thought this to be enough information for her to get me the cheapest ones she sells. Varta which come in 6 packs, all other brand were either highly expensive or packed per 4. She then proceeded to grab Duracell batteries, which were more expensive then Varta ones and were in a 4-pack. I frowned and asked what was wrong with the Varta brand. “oh nothing” she said “but you asked for cheap ones”. I then pointed at the price. Varta ones were 4.99 for 6 +2 free (8 in total) and the Duracell ones were 5.89 for 4. She didn’t really get it.
I sighed and told her to get the Varta ones. After the checkout she still had that wondrous look on her face as if she had no clue what just happened. Her co-worker didn’t look to bright either, but atleast she smiled nicely 
10 minutes later i was at the supermarket, grabbed the things i needed, went to the checkout, payed and noticed that the wrapping of the meat i bought was torn. I went to the customer service thing and told the girl what was wrong and asked for a new pack of meat. She then looked puzzled at me. I told her again, pointing at the hole in the packaging, that i wanted another pack of meat because this one was broken. “ah, ok, one moment” she replied and went on to give me my money back. While doing that i told her a replacement was fine also since i needed the product later today. I think she didn’t hear me because she was too busy figuring out how the cash register worked. It took 3 of them to figure it out and i got my money back. She handed me a few euros and looked happy with it. I asked her if i could not just get a replacement. Thinking of the mayhem caused if i were to go into the supermarket again and having to explain that everything in my bag was already paid for. She then exclaimed “Ooooh you want another one, i thought you just wanted your money back!” On which i replied; “Ofcourse i want a new one. This one is no good! Why else would i buy it and instantly return the thing.”
She set of to get me a new pack leaving me waiting with the returned money and it took her 10 whole minutes to return. She kindly explained to me she didn’t find one with the same exact price. Which i think is actually nice of her for trying, but if she knew about pricing she would know that that was not gonna work since the meat is priced per kilogram and thus none of the packs have the exact same price. She continued to explain me that the new pack required additional payment of 10 cents and billed me 10 cents. I looked at her puzzled and paid 10 cents. She went on to wrap up the transaction said goodbye and continued to help other customers. I stood there for almost a minute thinking if she really was that dumb then thought “Fuck all” and walked out. So i will be dining cheap tonight! 5 euros worth of meat for 10 cents… not a bad deal after all!
What is the world going to? We’re certainly doomed if this is not getting any better!
Tags: idiots, money, products, random, rant, stupidityWhile cleaning some stuff…
Written by Arnan on July 20, 2008 – 4:23 pmI have this closet, it’s full of computer stuff, tools, materials, pens, cables and other computer/electronics related stuff. Today things started to fall out when i opened the door. So i decided to clean some stuff, throw away some things…
I found some things i thought i didn’t have them anymore or simply can’t remember i still had it…
Also some things that should have put to work or i’m not using anymore.
I found:
- A brand new Sony Ericsson W850i Mobile phone
- A EdiMax SoHo Print server for USB printers
- A Speedtouch Home DSL Modem from the time when 256Kbit DSL was lightning fast
- A Siemens SX551 DSL Home gateway
- 4x 3Com 10/100 Network cards
- A Guillemot Maxi Gamer 32MB TNT2 Video card
- A Voodoo 3 2000 16MB Video card From 3DFX
- A set of Floppy disks labelled “Windows 3.11 for Workgroups”
- A 32 speed CD-Rom drive
- A Floppy drive
- A Newstar NS211micro KVM Switch
- A Harddisk platter (without the rest)
- 2x 4MB EDO ram sticks
- 4x 1MB EDO ram sticks
- 2x 8MB EDO ram sticks
- 3x 1MB of just ram… EDOs predecessor i think…
- 12x 256KB (?) of another undefinable type of ram
- 6x 16MB/32MB 66Mhz SD-ram (some are labelled 16MB some others are 32MB and some look exactly like the labelled ones but have no label)
- Maybe a million sorts of cables/connectors/plugs/couplers/converters for audio, video, phone, peripherals, power, networking and whatever else cables can be used for
- Screws, hundreds of them
- An ECS K7S5A Mainboard with CPU still on it. Its a AMD Duron 1500 i think
- Jabra Stereo Bluetooth headset for mobile phones or Bt enabled A2DP devices
- 2 harddrives, a 2GB SCSI drive and a 525MB IDE ATA-33/66 disk
- A bunch of keys from various security systems, ethernet closets (the cases which hold 19″ panels and switches)
And a bunch of power adapters and other rubbish…
And some images:
oooh shiny!
Written by Arnan on July 18, 2008 – 12:30 pmFollowing the MobileMe update for Mac OSX yesterday i noticed a new icon in Finder today. It looked a bit weird. Further research showed me that this is the new iDisk icon…
Look and see:
It’s a bit pink isn’t it? Not really my choice of an icon color… But i can think of one person who wants MobileMe now… Heh!
Tags: apple, mobileme, productsWho let the phones out!!
Written by Arnan on June 3, 2008 – 1:01 pmToday all our phones died more or less. I’ve been sitting around switching someones data to a Mac from a PC instead of answering calls. While waiting for the data to copy a colleague walked in with a super sexy harddisk… I just had to have one. It has 2 FireWire 400 ports and, and this is the cool thing, a retractable USB2.0 port on a 3 inch cable. Wicked!!
So behold! The latest addition to the storage monsters!
A Lacie Little Disk “designed” by Sam Hecht. I don’t get the design part as it’s just a plain shiny black box… A monkey could be more creative than that. But hey, it looks nice anyway.
