Comments on: Teaching Computer Store Sales Staff Their Job http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/10/18/teaching-computer-store-sales-staff-their-job/ Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:26:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: watermelonpunch http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/10/18/teaching-computer-store-sales-staff-their-job/#comment-10452 watermelonpunch Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:10:45 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/10/18/teaching-computer-store-sales-staff-their-job/#comment-10452 Oh I never purchase this sort of thing in a store, unless it's something I'm picking up quickly & wouldn't need a sales person for it. Easier & more reliable to do the research yourself, even if you don't know more than the Circuit City employee. haha. You will with just a bit of on-line research in my experience! You forgot to mention though, the ones who don't really know all that much, but love the non-savvy people revering them as knowledgeable all day long... so when they come in contact with someone who knows as much or more than them, they become weird, almost competitive - which doesn't make sense when it's a customer. I used to have a friend who called it the "I'm the Manager of Burger King Syndrome". Oh I never purchase this sort of thing in a store, unless it’s something I’m picking up quickly & wouldn’t need a sales person for it. Easier & more reliable to do the research yourself, even if you don’t know more than the Circuit City employee. haha. You will with just a bit of on-line research in my experience!

You forgot to mention though, the ones who don’t really know all that much, but love the non-savvy people revering them as knowledgeable all day long… so when they come in contact with someone who knows as much or more than them, they become weird, almost competitive - which doesn’t make sense when it’s a customer.
I used to have a friend who called it the “I’m the Manager of Burger King Syndrome”.

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