[geeks] Octane light bar

[Mike Hebel]

Ahem.  As an ex-Rat Shack employee...

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Yeah, but can you escape RS without the sales drone trying
> (over-)enthusiastically to sell you batteries, blank video tapes, cell
> phone service, and satellite TV?

Yeah, that's the worst reason I had trouble even tolerating the job.

Here - sell this item.
Now - sell these related items.
Finally - sell these _totally unrelated items_.

Surprisingly I lasted almost three months at that job.

> I stopped patronizing the store on ethical grounds years ago because of
> the policy of overaggressive sales tactics.  I say "policy" because it
> was observed by multiple sales drones in multiple stores before I
> stopped patronizing them.  The last time I was there I left about $100
> worth of stuff on the counter and didn't pay for it, and explained that
> their aggressive salesmanship has lost them a customer for a long long
> time.

You know - I unfortunately "worked" for a certain "religious" 
organization for a time and oddly enough Rat Shack has almost the same 
"sales" techniques.
At the risk of incurring "Rambo Lawyers" upon Bill I will say no more.

> These days, I go out of my way to get parts elsewhere, even if it costs
> more $$$.

If only there was another local place I could buy them I would but there 
isn't really.

> RS is dying?  No great loss.

Does this sound like a BSD is dying Troll to anyone besides me? *grin*

Mike Hebel