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I just love it when the idiots come to electronics before the electronics people have to deal with them.
Today's dumbfuck du jour was a larger, tattoo-bedecked guy, evidently wanting a 6-to-8 GB MP3 player (there's no such animal as a 6 GB MP3 player: there's 2 GB, then 4, then 8, 16, 32, and so on). So I show him our selection.
The cheapest 8 GB MP3 player, as well as all the others, has a video screen for watching movies or viewing pictures. This apparently ruled out that particular MP3 player, because he "didn't need all that shit." The packaging said there was room on the MP3 player for...some number of pictures (I'm guessing 4,000 but I'm probably wrong), a certain number of hours for videos, or 8,000 songs or so, and this completely threw the guy. I tried to explain to him multiple times that those were just indications of storage space, and that the player would work perfectly fine for just music; in fact he'd be able to get more songs on it because he wasn't using it for video. Each time he dismissed me with an "I don't need all that."
Then he wanted me to take a bunch of MP3 players off the locked peghooks so he could see if there was any specification for battery time. The one person working on the floor happened by, and I brought her over because she had the key for those hooks. So then she tried explaining the same thing about the storage space on the MP3 player and got dismissed again. "I don't need all that shit!" A distinct hint of "you're a girl so you can't know anything about this stuff" came through, because for the rest of the time I was stuck with him he only wanted to talk to me and not my co-worker.
Then he started ranting and raving about somebody he talked to over the phone at Wally World, saying this person lied to him about the battery time. As he was scouring the packaging of several MP3 players in an unsuccessful search for that information, the reason for the "lie" became clear: the manufacturers can't give a very good estimate of battery time and thus don't include this information on the package, so he probably just kept pushing and pushing for an answer from the Wally World person until he/she told him a number to get him off the phone. He asked me at least 6 times about battery time, and I couldn't answer his question with anything other than "it depends on how you use the player."
Finally he lets on that he rides his bike everyplace, he had been riding it for an hour and a half from the next town over to get to the swamp, and the MP3 player was for him to listen to as he was on his bike. Because things like traffic noise, train horns and emergency sirens shouldn't be able to invade his White Stripes, Black Keys or Silver Bells world.
Finally he just left, without listening to a word I said and without buying anything.
Today's dumbfuck du jour was a larger, tattoo-bedecked guy, evidently wanting a 6-to-8 GB MP3 player (there's no such animal as a 6 GB MP3 player: there's 2 GB, then 4, then 8, 16, 32, and so on). So I show him our selection.
The cheapest 8 GB MP3 player, as well as all the others, has a video screen for watching movies or viewing pictures. This apparently ruled out that particular MP3 player, because he "didn't need all that shit." The packaging said there was room on the MP3 player for...some number of pictures (I'm guessing 4,000 but I'm probably wrong), a certain number of hours for videos, or 8,000 songs or so, and this completely threw the guy. I tried to explain to him multiple times that those were just indications of storage space, and that the player would work perfectly fine for just music; in fact he'd be able to get more songs on it because he wasn't using it for video. Each time he dismissed me with an "I don't need all that."
Then he wanted me to take a bunch of MP3 players off the locked peghooks so he could see if there was any specification for battery time. The one person working on the floor happened by, and I brought her over because she had the key for those hooks. So then she tried explaining the same thing about the storage space on the MP3 player and got dismissed again. "I don't need all that shit!" A distinct hint of "you're a girl so you can't know anything about this stuff" came through, because for the rest of the time I was stuck with him he only wanted to talk to me and not my co-worker.
Then he started ranting and raving about somebody he talked to over the phone at Wally World, saying this person lied to him about the battery time. As he was scouring the packaging of several MP3 players in an unsuccessful search for that information, the reason for the "lie" became clear: the manufacturers can't give a very good estimate of battery time and thus don't include this information on the package, so he probably just kept pushing and pushing for an answer from the Wally World person until he/she told him a number to get him off the phone. He asked me at least 6 times about battery time, and I couldn't answer his question with anything other than "it depends on how you use the player."
Finally he lets on that he rides his bike everyplace, he had been riding it for an hour and a half from the next town over to get to the swamp, and the MP3 player was for him to listen to as he was on his bike. Because things like traffic noise, train horns and emergency sirens shouldn't be able to invade his White Stripes, Black Keys or Silver Bells world.
Finally he just left, without listening to a word I said and without buying anything.
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