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edwardspoonhands:

So I’m sure that there are Best Buys in the world that know what they’re doing, but the one in Missoula is just pathetic. 

I’ve had a number of not-great experiences there, but today was especially hilarious. I went in to get a Windows laptop because I want to play more video games (SimCity was the straw that broke this particular camel’s back). And as luck would have it they had a Samsung Chronos 7 open-box marked down from $900 to under $650. So I was like, yes please! 

I should have known something was wrong with it, but I figured they wouldn’t sell it if it was totally busted.

Well, it was totally busted. The trackpad was completely unusable, it clicked one out of every three actual clicks and activated phantom clicks constantly while I was typing. I figured before taking it back, it was worth updating the driver for the trackpad to see if maybe it was a software problem.

Well I check and THERE IS NO DRIVER FOR THE TRACKPAD! When the person who returned it brought it back, the “Geek Squad” did a full wipe and Windows re-install and DIDN’T RE-INSTALL THE DRIVER! They, I assume, discovered the trackpad problem and put it back on the shelf with a steep discount because they couldn’t figure out how to fix REINSTALL A DRIVER!

So I install the trackpad driver and the computer is 100% fine. I mean, obviously I came out on top here, I got a nice laptop very inexpensively, but it’s unconscionable to sell a broken laptop, and it wouldn’t have been so steeply discounted if they didn’t know it was broken. 

Brick and mortar stores are not going to be able to keep existing if they don’t provide services that you can’t get online. Why would I buy an expensive protection plan from a store with a support department that doesn’t know how to install a hardware driver?

Why are they hiring people to work their support department who don’t know how to do the basic stuff?

I mean, geez, a few years back when I needed a job and was desperate I applied, and when I followed up was told I wasn’t what they were looking for. Oh I’m sorry, you don’t want someone who can build a computer themselves? Afraid you’ll have to pay them more than minimum wage? Or was it because I’m a girl and y’all are afraid of the Manly Men (TM) who won’t buy from a girl because there’s no possible way she can know anything other than how to be in the kitchen?

rennerface:

amyrenneraddict replied to your post: hey bitches, get a job and stop being lazy maybe that will help your money problems stop complaining!

*smh* wow & just wow&

Fun times!

Because it’s just so easy to get a job in this economy, I don’t know why you people aren’t all magically employed!

I’m going to bet that Anon isn’t even out of high school yet and has no idea how the world works.

sidhera:

takanye:

• How to do taxes
• What taxes are
• How to vote
• What political parties are
• How to write a resume/cover letter/anything related to getting a job
• How to write a check/balance a check book
• Anything to do with banking
• How to do loans for college
• How to jump start a car or other basic emergency things
• How to buy a car or house

but I’m so glad I know the fucking pythagorean theorem

thank you

this post is so fucking stupid it hurts me every time I see it on my dash

news flash school is not going to teach you everything you need to know in life ever, also some schools DO teach you about some these things but not all of them and IT’S NOT REALLY A SCHOOL’S JOB TO TEACH YOU EVERY SINGLE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW EVER?? assuming you have internet and/or library and/or adults in your life it shouldn’t matter because there is always a way to learn things you want to know that they didn’t teach you in school, such as:

• RESEARCH IT ONLINE(!!!)
• CHECK OUT A BOOK AT THE LIBRARY ON TAXES/FINANCES/JOB-FINDING SKILLS/POLITICS THERE ARE LITERALLY TONS OF INFORMATIVE BOOKS ON THESE SUBJECTS AND OTHERS
• ASK THE ADVICE OF SOMEONE YOU TRUST. it doesn’t even have to be a parent or a teacher if you don’t feel comfortable, maybe you have friends who know or can ask for you? THERE ARE A LOT OF OPTIONS so come back when you’ve tried at least one of these

also the pythagorean theorem isn’t useless, if you’re sitting in a fucking building right now then that building was designed and constructed using principles of the fucking pythagorean theorem? if you’re trying to walk from one corner of a street to another wouldn’t you rather be able to cross diagonally than at a 90 degree angle?

I hated high school math and yeah a lot of the time I felt like I was wasting my time but you know what, they make you learn those “useless” theorems and proofs and equations for a reason. They make you learn math in high school because problem-solving and abstract thinking is an actual, universally applicable SKILL. Plus, nobody would ever become an engineer or an architect or an accountant or ANYTHING that involves figures obviously requires math skills higher than high school level and who the fuck takes calculus without knowing what the pythagorean theorem is?

Even if you specifically don’t plan to be an engineer or take calculus whatever and feel like it has nothing to do with what you want to do or that you’ll never use it again (which isn’t true at all), why close off that choice for yourself? or the guy next to you? or everyone else that has to go through high school ever? Should they just stop teaching a basic mathematic principle like the pythagorean theorem in school because you feel like it’s not “relevant” to you personally?

answer: of fucking course not go away

Come on, I wasn’t the only kid in the world who knew to look for answers when I had questions instead of waiting for information to be handed to me on a platter.

And let’s be honest, the voting process is different in every state, so even if they had taught that in high school, if you would have moved away you would have been clueless again. Not that I thought it was that confusing in the first place…?

P.S. Why would you be bitching about high school not teaching you how to write a check? I’ve seen 10 year old kids write them when they went shopping with their disabled parents/grandparents. I’m more pissed off that high school didn’t teach me how to perform surgery on rockets.

EDIT: I see the OP is from Minnesota. You know where I went to high school? Washburn, in the Minneapolis Public School system. Probably one of the worst high schools, actually; back in 2008 it managed to fire its entire staff due to low test scores. Why the god donkey did you expect high school to teach you how to vote in this state?! We fill in BUBBLES! We literally vote with a bubble sheet, like standardized tests! You literally take your state ID, like a driver’s license or learner’s permit, to a public school or a church, answer a couple questions, and fill in bubbles on a sheet!

(Source: boguskudos)

ladypandacat:

hellishhallelujah:

withlovethelavendermenace:

tomwhiddley:

Am I the only person who gets really fucking pissed off when people use the term ‘cis’ (or ‘cis-scum’)?

It’s just endlessly annoying because it makes me feel like there’s no place here for Caucasians/males/heterosexuals/regular people with justified opinions, and all it does is make me think you’re an oversensitive, irritable asshole. Just please, for the love of Tumblr, stop; you sound stupid.

That’s all.

what? you mean you can’t find a place where people listen to caucasians/males/heterosexuals/cis people?

oh honey

it’s called everywhere

“it makes me feel like there’s no place here for Caucasians/males/heterosexuals/regular people with justified opinions”

REGULAR PEOPLE.

Cis is short for cisgender. It’s not an insult, it’s a descriptor.

And let’s face it, if you’re cis you have no. fucking. idea. what a trans person goes through or deals with.

Man, if you’re so concerned about your white straight male privilege, go play on Twitter. There’s plenty of ignorant dicks there who would love to talk to you.

(Source: tardisatthebarricade)