Shut up before I kill you

[GeekGoddess]

Customer comes in and he asks a question. Then it goes to hell.

Me -
SC - words cannot decsribe how much I loathe this f--ker

Me - Welcome to Blank Computer Services, can Ihelp you with anything?
SC - Yes, What's the difference between these two video cards?
Me - Well this one has a fas...
Sc - Do you have any Giganet Network adaptors?
Me - Yes, we ha...
SC - Why would anyone need a 600 watt power supply?
Me - Because some devic...
SC - These cases with the lights and windows in them are too flashy. Don't you find them flashy?
Me - While they're not really for professional use, some peo...
SC - Do you still have 40 GB ATA hard drives?
Me - No but I can still ord...
SC - What about these speakers? How loud can they get?
Me - Ver...
SC - I'll just take these (holding up a wireless mouse and keyboard combo)

He hands them to me and Igo and ring him up. As I'm doing this my boss comes out and the SC looks right at him and says "You need to train your girl some more. She couldn't answer a single one of my questions."

My boss told me to go into the back and finish up on the computer that was on the bench while he finished with the customer. My boss then made the critical mistake of asking the SC if he could answer his questions.

Sc - Still a jackass
B - Boss

Sc - Why do you need Giganet? The best you can get out of a cable modem is 12 mbps?
B - Well it's more...
Sc - Why did they go to SATA? I preferred the old ATA?
B - Because it's...
Sc - How come you never have any joysticks?
B - Because our gaming customers tend to prefer...
Sc - You're not much better than your employee. I can see where she gets it from. Bye!

and he leaves the store leaving my boss like, well lets just say that if looks could kill, CNN would be reporting on the nuclear device that went off just south of DC.

You all talk about the interuptasaurous, this was a case of the interupasarous rex.

[MTNLaurelPoacher]

Wow... His mama didn't give him his Ritalin this morning. His thoughts were skipping
faster than a CD player being thrown down a flight of steps. Either that, or he was not realllllly interested in your answers.


Another question... how could he be moving so fast and jumping from idea to idea and be talking about computer parts from the early 2000? I have one of those computers... 60 gig ata hard drive, no lights, beige case, 10/100 NIC, 2 USBs, and built in modem. It sits under my desk as a foot rest, because that is all its good for. My quad core intel with a terabyte of storage, taunts it nightly sending little messages in binary to it and calling it grandpa. Sadly, it doesn't understand because it still has Windows 98 and does not speak XP or Vista.

Still you handled it well, don't worry, he has taken himself out of the gene pool. My fiance would strangle me if I interrupted her that much. As would well.... most people with manners.

[crazylegs]

One thing I love about my current job is I can interrupt right back and be (a little) bolshy to make them listen.

[Jay 2K Winger]

See, the third time he interrupted me in mid-answer, I would have raised my voice and said, "Stop interrupting me," and kept saying it until he shut up long enough for me to answer him.

I'm very glad that looks can't kill, since if that "nuclear device" had gone off, I'd probably get nuked by it.

[tropicsgoddess]

After the second time I would've told him to stop interrupting me. I have no patience for that crap since that is one of my biggest pet peeves. I don't get what's so hard about people like him shutting the fuck up and listening to the person they went/called to get advice.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I would have been all, "Excuse me? Maybe you should go back to kintergarten for some ettiquette training."

[42_42_42]

Sounds to me that he was either mentally ill or just being an arsehole on purpose. My jaded side thinks the latter.