Thank God for Technological Nincompoops.
I’m talking people so fucking stupid that when you tell them to press any key to continue, they look on their keyboard for the key that says ANY. Were it not for these individuals, the Geek Squad would starve, because these are the only people who would happily pay for what the Geek Squad offers.
For the unfamiliar, the Geek Squad is Best Buy’s squadron of deployable nerds ready, willing, and able to perform ambiguous tasks for outrageously usurious fees. To over-simplify what they do… at best, they either do essentially nothing at all, or they do nothing that the average 12 year-old couldn’t handle if you gave them the quick start-up sheet that comes with every computer. At worst, they completely fuck up everything they touch.
Their services run the gamut from installing bloatware to turning things on to charging you to reboot your computer to not following simple safety procedures to taking forever to fix the simplest of problems. A more diverse non-skillset you would be hard-pressed to find in any competitor’s organization. Case in point… the e-Reader configuration “service” (and I use that term loosely) that they offer.
For a mere $29.95, they will (dramatic pause)… TURN YOUR SONY READER ON FOR YOU! (trumpets, confetti, etc.)!!!! WHAT A BARGAIN!!!!
