Nine times out of ten, radio shack either drives me insane, doesn't have the part I'm looking for, or tries to sell me iPod accessories and TVs.

Future Shop is worse; the lady tried to sell me a mousepad when I told her that I program with my computer (she was following me around since I was looking at the Mac display for a part, asking me what I needed it for), saying it was really good for programming. :S

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Original post by Programmer One
Well, not thrown out...but I was asked to leave.
Why? I opened up Windows Help by pressing the F1 key.

I was in a Wherehouse Music store and I started using one of their search kiosks. I was looking if they had any Star Trek DVDs in stock. The search page was actually a website which could be viewed in some fancy-pants tweaked Internet Explorer.

I got to a point where I needed to go back to the previous page, but there wasen't a back button. I tried Alt + Left Arrow but that didn't work. So I minimized IE and pressed F1 for Windows Help. I wanted to see what the shortcuts in IE were (as I don't use IE at all). At this point, the manager of the store comes up to me and tels me "I don't know what you are doing, but I am going to have to ask you to leave the store".

So, I'm like WTF. I told him I am trying to search around for Star Trek DVDs. He then asked me again to leave the store.

I went out to my car to get a notepad and went back into the store to get his name and telephone number, as well as the name and telephone number of the district manager. He then asked me quite rudly "Are you leaving now?"

I got so pissed that I went home and wrote an e-mail in the most polite and elegant manner possible about how much of an asshole this asshole was. After a bit of googling, I got the e-mail address for the CEO of the mother company (Trans World Entertainment), CFO, Sales, complaint department, and a whole bunch of other important-sounding people and sent off my e-mail to all of them.

I await this manager's ass on a golden platter.

(rant, kthx)

Well, the manager had every right to ask you to leave, and no matter what, once you have been asked to leave, then well you better well do it. A store is a privately owned space after all.
Just because he didn't know what you were doing doesn't make you right.. I'm pretty sure they would be told that anyone using the systems in a way that wasn't part of the intended use should be asked to leave. It's a pretty logical thing on their part. And really you didn't have any real reason to minimize IE. They must have disabled the back button for a reason

So from his point of view; he's now asking an iritated customer to leave after you had potentially been trying to do something to the PC. Who knows what. It'd be a fair bet that at least one machine in the past had been 'hacked' by someone visiting the store. I'm sure a managers nightmare would be to walk past a kiosk thats got a porno playing on it, or something of the like. I'm sure thoughts like that would make them very paranoid.

Then you come back and demand the guys name/phone/email whatever. Of course he's not going to be happy. He's already asked you to leave at least once.

So while he may have seemed stupid, ignorant and maybe rude, then again I'm sure you didn't come accross too well. And he was just being over protective I guess.

If you do manage to get him fired, then well it can rest on your concience I guess.

*removed.. venting.. not relevant*

-Greven

[Edited by - Evil_Greven on January 9, 2005 3:15:42 AM]

Quote:Original post by Ravuya
Future Shop is worse; the lady tried to sell me a mousepad when I told her that I program with my computer, saying it was really good for programming. :S

Wahahah!

Quote:Original post by RipTorn
Well, the manager had every right to ask you to leave, and no matter what, once you have been asked to leave, then well you better well do it. A store is a privately owned space after all.
Just because he didn't know what you were doing doesn't make you right.. I'm pretty sure they would be told that anyone using the systems in a way that wasn't part of the intended use should be asked to leave. It's a pretty logical thing on their part. And really you didn't have any real reason to minimize IE. They must have disabled the back button for a reason

So from his point of view; he's now asking an iritated customer to leave after you had potentially been trying to do something to the PC. Who knows what. It'd be a fair bet that at least one machine in the past had been 'hacked' by someone visiting the store. I'm sure a managers nightmare would be to walk past a kiosk thats got a porno playing on it, or something of the like. I'm sure thoughts like that would make them very paranoid.

Then you come back and demand the guys name/phone/email whatever. Of course he's not going to be happy. He's already asked you to leave at least once.

So while he may have seemed stupid, ignorant and maybe rude, then again I'm sure you didn't come accross too well. And he was just being over protective I guess.

If you do manage to get him fired, then well it can rest on your concience I guess.

Things obviously work differently over here in the United States than they might in New Zealand, even more so in California.

You never throw out a customer. You throw out destructive children and punks. You never toss the customer. Ever.

If he loses his job it is his fault. Why did he throw out a customer? He made the business lose potential buying power.