has anybody got some good "Dick smith" jokes

Today I was told the thicker wire has higher resistance, (Auckland)


Once I went in and asked if they sold "hockey sticks" so I could put up a
aerial the person said "sorry sir we don't sell sports equipment"


Someone else told me they were in a shop and they heard a salesman saying
to
a customer "Sorry sir, we don't have that IC you are asking for, would you
like this other one? it is one digit off"
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Once I was in one of the Tasmanian stores and the customer in front of me
was being sold a transformer, AC plug and associated odds and ends to build
a battery charger for a marine battery. There wasn't anything there in the
way of a recitifer or regulator and it was being explained to him that he
just had to connect the 240V AC to the mains and 12V AC to the battery.

Obviously neither had a clue and I pointed out that AC would either stuff a
battery or not do much at all so it was all rather pointless and dangerous.

This is probably one of the more 'reckless' pieces of advice I've heard, but
a few other times have just picked up on ones that wouldn't do any real
harm. I wonder if they have any been the subject of any law suits based on
what customers have been told? Seems unusual for a large company that
someone in their legal department wouldn't have picked up on the potential
problems of saying these sorts of things.

I remember years ago I worked for a company that sold roller bearings and
saw a memo to the effect that unqualified personnel shouldn't recommend
'equivalents' as the result of someone selling a dimensionally equivalent
product that didn't meet other requirements and resulted in quite a bit of
damage to a piece of industrial equipment.


Regards,

Peter Johnson, CommLinx Solutions
http://www.commlinx.com.au/
 
Peter Johnson wrote:
I remember years ago I worked for a company that sold roller bearings
and
saw a memo to the effect that unqualified personnel shouldn't
recommend
'equivalents' as the result of someone selling a dimensionally
equivalent
product that didn't meet other requirements and resulted in quite a
bit of
damage to a piece of industrial equipment.
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I was at the Farnell Trade Counter the other month and a guy was asking
for advice on a replacement part. The sales guy said he wasn't allowed
to help with advice on parts. This is the same guy who's been their for
donkeys years and I have heard him freely give decent advice many
times. Guess the policy has changed.

Dave :)
 
For the record:
I have come across knowledgable, helpful sales assistants at more than one
Dick Smith shop.
That said, I've noticed that they don't seem to last very long. I like to
hope that they were promoted.
 
"T.T." <tonyt92@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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For the record:
I have come across knowledgable, helpful sales assistants at more than one
Dick Smith shop.
That said, I've noticed that they don't seem to last very long. I like to
hope that they were promoted.


If you knew something about electronics and worked at the Dickster's, would
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you stay longer than required to get a better job? The store doesn't value
that sort of employee any more, so I wish those few well in moving to better
pastures. I recall really *great* guys there in the early years. <old man
sigh.....>

Ken
 
"T.T." <tonyt92@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| For the record:
| I have come across knowledgable, helpful sales assistants at more than one
| Dick Smith shop.
| That said, I've noticed that they don't seem to last very long. I like to
| hope that they were promoted.
|
|

They usually leave for Hardly Normals - cos the commission is better...!
:-S

Of course there are - Im fact I was one, and we dont last long...
....outdated sales seminars, crap product "training" designed to churn out
"sales drones".

I started there wanting to make a difference, wanting to help people, cos I
was a "people person" - I was interviewed for my position at Gosford by the
then Area Manager (Bill White) and the NSW Manager (Michael, ah, cant
remember his last name) and I was in the interview room for 34min; they told
me before I went in that an interview that lasted longer than 10min was a
great one! :-S

6mths later I was training as a manager and shipped of to Hornsby store,
when it used to be outside the mall, and a pissy little thin store next to a
bakery just off the train overpass!

Those where the days!

I lasted 3 and a bit years - then I got sick of "carrying" the managers and
assistant manager grumbling cos they didnt get picked to work in the then
brand new PowerHouse Stores - hell, I even made a lot of the initial "test
and see" electronics kits from the FunWay rage for the new 1st powerhouse so
people could play with the finished kits - they said it would show how much
we wanted to move up with the company... ...I got an A4 certificate, on
paper.

Im not bitter, I just feel woolworths stole the heat from dickies, when they
bought the last of the company back in '84...

--Richard
 
"John Crighton" <john_c@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:45:11 +1000, KLR <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote:
DSE and customer blunders OK, but that lot were engineers
and techo types mis-using our tax dollars.

Regards,
John Crighton
Hornsby
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John as you would know, its the same in any Govt or large NGO. Point out
mistakes or better courses of action to those who are in "higher" positions
of authority and they will get on your case bigtime. I guess the higher
"they" go, the thicker they get, and the better they become at protecting
their rear ends. Ego may not be a dirty word but it can fall into in the
same bucket. Sadly, one either end up leaving or keeping ones head down.

Cheers
Jim
 
"Jim" <jimshire1_nospammy@spamlessiprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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|
| "John Crighton" <john_c@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
| news:420918a9.769941@News.individual.net...
| > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:45:11 +1000, KLR <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote:
| > DSE and customer blunders OK, but that lot were engineers
| > and techo types mis-using our tax dollars.
| >
| > Regards,
| > John Crighton
| > Hornsby
|
| John as you would know, its the same in any Govt or large NGO. Point out
| mistakes or better courses of action to those who are in "higher"
positions
| of authority and they will get on your case bigtime. I guess the higher
| "they" go, the thicker they get, and the better they become at protecting
| their rear ends. Ego may not be a dirty word but it can fall into in the
| same bucket. Sadly, one either end up leaving or keeping ones head down.
|
| Cheers
| Jim
|
|

One of the BIGGEST catch cries of all the managers and area managers for
dickies was: "C.Y.A."

"Cover Your Arse!" and they lived by it - and its the same in ANY workplace!
 
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