Sheogorath
08-15-2009, 23:50
I wasn't QUITE sure where to go with this particular topic, I really just wanted to get it off my mind since I've been hyper all day from not being able to express my confusion and irritation properly. I trust a mod will move it if this is the wrong forum.
Anyway...
A few months ago I had a shortlived job at a computer repair store. All was good. Unfortunately I was let go after my first week since the store couldn't make payroll. No big deal, I was the newest person, and if you can't pay your employees the rules say the newest person goes.
So, fastforward to the present. My computers motherboard finally gives up the ghost. I'm a bit annoyed, because I don't have a lot of money and gaming is an expensive hobby. Fortunately my parents volunteered $400 to help me get all the new parts (my computer was quite old by computer standards, so I'll need to replace almost everything).
Just wanting to be sure there was nothing that could be done, I took the computer in to that repair shop. The manager declared that it was dead, but offered a quite good deal. She said the store would order and pay for parts equivalent in value to my paycheck which I never got. That works for me, so I accepted the offer.
A week later I called in, to find out that they had yet to order the parts because the vendor they were using wouldn't give them enough credit for their usual weekly order. Alrighty...
Next week the order gets canceled because they didn't pay for it. Understandable. I'm willing to wait two weeks for four hundred dollars of (sort of) free stuff. They said the order would probably go in this week.
This is the end of the third week of waiting, I called in today and asked the status of the order, and was put on hold for a minute or so. That's fine.
Then the receiver picked up, the person on the other end asked for my name and then mumbled something into the phone and hung up. Thinking they hit the 'end call' button by mistake, I called back. After I said my name, the same person promptly responded with 'go (expletive deleted) off' and hung up.
I'm a little shocked here.
I know the manager personally quite well. I was on good terms with the three other people that worked there. Now, suddenly, I'm getting told to (expletive deleted) off.
Now, personally, I don't really care what they say. The thing that's got me irritated is that I've waited three weeks for nothing. I'd rather owe my parents $400 and have had my computer weeks ago than owe them $400 now. Especially since, in anticipation of this particular event, I put my own savings towards a higher end graphics card which requires a new power supply, which they said they would provide.
Anyway...
A few months ago I had a shortlived job at a computer repair store. All was good. Unfortunately I was let go after my first week since the store couldn't make payroll. No big deal, I was the newest person, and if you can't pay your employees the rules say the newest person goes.
So, fastforward to the present. My computers motherboard finally gives up the ghost. I'm a bit annoyed, because I don't have a lot of money and gaming is an expensive hobby. Fortunately my parents volunteered $400 to help me get all the new parts (my computer was quite old by computer standards, so I'll need to replace almost everything).
Just wanting to be sure there was nothing that could be done, I took the computer in to that repair shop. The manager declared that it was dead, but offered a quite good deal. She said the store would order and pay for parts equivalent in value to my paycheck which I never got. That works for me, so I accepted the offer.
A week later I called in, to find out that they had yet to order the parts because the vendor they were using wouldn't give them enough credit for their usual weekly order. Alrighty...
Next week the order gets canceled because they didn't pay for it. Understandable. I'm willing to wait two weeks for four hundred dollars of (sort of) free stuff. They said the order would probably go in this week.
This is the end of the third week of waiting, I called in today and asked the status of the order, and was put on hold for a minute or so. That's fine.
Then the receiver picked up, the person on the other end asked for my name and then mumbled something into the phone and hung up. Thinking they hit the 'end call' button by mistake, I called back. After I said my name, the same person promptly responded with 'go (expletive deleted) off' and hung up.
I'm a little shocked here.
I know the manager personally quite well. I was on good terms with the three other people that worked there. Now, suddenly, I'm getting told to (expletive deleted) off.
Now, personally, I don't really care what they say. The thing that's got me irritated is that I've waited three weeks for nothing. I'd rather owe my parents $400 and have had my computer weeks ago than owe them $400 now. Especially since, in anticipation of this particular event, I put my own savings towards a higher end graphics card which requires a new power supply, which they said they would provide.