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Re: Warning about Best Buy!

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From: Doobie
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:00
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:41:12 GMT, aleinss@REMOVETHIS.mindless.com
(Adam Leinss) wrote:


>First day, I'll never
>forget this.  Woman calls up asking if we had external cdrom drives.
>So, I walk with the cordless phone to the cd-rom wall and tell her, of
>course we do, we have a whole wall of them.  When she comes in, I
>realize that I was wrong.  We only had one external cd-rom drive for
>$299 (I still remember the price!!!! hehehe).  Any ways, I felt like a
>real idiot.  

Hmmm, makes be wonder why such stores don't require new employees
to have degrees in computer science and a decade of retail experience
before they'll hire them for the $6/hour job.   And, even if you were
right, you wouldn't have made an extra cent.
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From: doobie**remove**@mailexcite.com (Doobie)
Subject: Re: Warning about Best Buy!
Date: 1998/08/26
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