re: Quiet MCE, Part Deux

Jeff Atwood — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:14:00 GMT

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re: Quiet MCE, Part Deux

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:26:00 GMT

I hate Fry's in Renton. I hate walking in there and seeing all the aisles of missing or misplaced parts. Best of all is that each aisle has a picture of the person responsible for it. Perhaps the pictures are there in a vain attempt to shame the salespeople to clean up their section? I certainly wouldn't want my face associated with the majority of the aisles at Fry's.

I hate having to hunt down the sparse salespeople who avoid making eye contact. Sometimes I feel as if I am on some sort of surreal African safari hunting the elusive "salespersonus Fryus."

Every time I escape from Fry's I promise myself that I will never go back. Invariably the memory of the painful experience fades and I find myself mistakenly thinking, "Fry's is so big that they are bound to have what I need in stock. I'll just pop in on my way home from work."

I always end up making two trips. One to Fry's to find out that they are out of stock on what I need, and a second trip to a local computer store that actually cares about customer service and keeping items in stock.