Not Blue Now.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Dude! You need to post that @#$%er on youtube. Seriously! Give that dimbulb her 15 minutes of shame.

M

[Ackee]

Its not blue now

This is just classic, it will keep a smile on my face today.
We should make a sitcom about this...

[HawaiianShirts]

We have customers who try to install new ink cartridges into their printers without removing that protective strip of plastic. Then, of course, they call or come back to complain. When we explain that they have to remove the plastic, we'll sometimes get responses like, "How was I supposed to know that? I don't understand all this technical stuff!" Granted, technology can be confusing, but what's so difficult about a strip of tape that actually has "Remove before use" written on it?

[Hempress]

What a shame. I wish they did make blue microwaves, because I'd totally buy one.

[FenigDurak]

I'd like a pink one please.

[myswtghst]

They do make colored microwaves. In college, we had a blue one, then a red one. Of course, they're kind of cheap looking and made of plastic, but still. Pretty colors.

[wagegoth]

Back in the 80s (I am sooooooooo old), I was working in Housewares for a now-defunct department store. Food processors were just becoming popular, and everybody was buying Cuisinart.

We had so many customers trying to return them because they wouldn't work. We would pull the processor out of the box, plug it in under the counter, assemble it, and then turn it on. It always worked perfectly.

The problem? You had to turn the top until it locked into place. It was a safety feature. Customers would only turn it until it gave some resistance, so it wouldn't turn on. See, customers have never read the instructions to anything, despite it being a big, expensive item, with incredibly sharp blades that spin at the speed of sound.

In fact, that was how I got one of my own at a discount. The customer was so embarrassed when they found out how stupid they had been, that they still returned it (we always took stuff back), but we couldn't resell a food preparation device. Rather than take the write-off, my manager sold it to me at cost. It still works.

[Crawley]

I actually had this microwave in my room when I was about 15.... great for late night popcorn without heading to the kitchen.

[Strikesfirmly]

Sigh, I think I actually hate more checking something out, finding nothing wrong, and then having to say "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong..."

It is almost easier if the damn made to be obsolete POS cut rate junk the SC took forever to choose actually is broken than try and explain every little detail so the owner might possibly rejoin reality enough to operate it. Or at least glance at the manual before using it to prop a couch.


I sold a cordless phone with digital answering machine today. I'm sure it will be back; she didn't want to have to wait for the battery to charge. But she only bought the phone because she didn't want to spend $15 on a new battery for her ancient cordless handset which, shockingly, would also need to charge.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I actually had this microwave in my room when I was about 15

I remember those . . . we had those one Christmas back at the ol' WD . . . and one of those actually walked out the front door (with help of course.)

Right now, I have a red Farberware microwave in my kitchen. Not sure what I'll put in the office yet, but I'm considering a microwave in there.

I mean, I can't have a coffeepot in there all alone . . .

[booger]

I have had a few "blue" microwaves come to my return desk. The blue microwave people probably hang out with the people who return digital cameras because they don't stay on (get the right batteries, sillies), and the ones who have been returning a music DVD because it doesn't play in their CD player *headdesk*

[Andara Bledin]

I'd like a pink one please.

Pink? No problem!

[pink microwave]

In fact, you can pink your whole home!

[pink fridge], [pink oven], [pink toaster], [pink mixer], [pink kettle], [pink mini vaccum], and [pink radio].

Of course, all of this is to go into your pimped out pink kitchen!

Frighteningly enough, I would actually buy that fridge... I want appliances in the sort of fuschia that causes eyes to bleed at 20 paces.

^-.-^

[IlovemyGeek]

Sniff Sniff...What smells like blue?

[OfficeSlug]

Maybe you can check around on places like YouTube.com to see if it's on there anywhere, because I'd LOVE to see it, too!!!!!!

I'm totally agreeing!

We READ about customers flipping out.

Rarely do we get to see them flip out (without being on the recieving end of the abuse)!!!

[Nutjob R/T]

I had to join just to post this one.

I worked in Radio Shack in Canada during the 2000/2001 christmas season. First job, wasn't the greatest, but I did what I could...

Anyhow, the one moment that stuck out in my mind the very most, was right near the beginning of December. A big, overmuscled, I-am-beautiful-so-worship-me moron shows up, tosses a rather mangled, overstuffed, bloated-looking box on the counter, and demands a refund. No explination of anything, I'm sure he expected I just hand him cash and he'd walk away. I don't think he even had the reciept, now that I try to remember.

So I eventually get out of him that he bought a very expensive, very flashy remote control for his entire entertainment system. A fancy one that had a PDA-style touch screen, and said touch-screen 'Don't work for crap.' And yes, he put batteries in, don't call me an idiot, see they're right...

So he's pulling the thing out of the box, and I see right away what the problem is.

While he's fiddling with the catch on the back of the thing, I reach out and wordlessly peel the still factory-applied heavy plastic protective sheet off the screen.

'Is there anything else I can help you with today?'