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Old 11-06-2016, 10:46 PM   #20
barryem
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I hate to tell you this but I always ignore the sales people's suggestions. I've heard too much lunacy from them over the years. Once, between programming jobs, I worked for a couple months in a computer store. I was the only one in the entire store, from the manager on down, who knew how to use a word processor or format a floppy or copy a file. These guys were salesmen and they were trained to turn the computer on, demonstrate MS-DOS and loading programs, etc. None of them could use a single program. While I was there I did teach them all how to play Sopwith. None of them knew how to play any other game. Of course this was in the days before most people ever saw a computer.

While shopping in stores I've often overheard people asking sales clerks basic questions and getting inane answers. For example, I overheard a clerk telling a customer that the internet was unreliable because portions of the things that were sent over it kept getting lost. That just doesn't happen and never did. Error correction was always part of the internet. I interrupted and tried to explain to the customer. Both the customer and the clerk told me to mind my own business. So I did.

Sorry but clerks are notoriously unreliable. If you had sold me a washing machine and given me that advice I probably would have looked for confirmation. If I didn't find it I would have screwed it up. And you'd be at fault for being a clerk.

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