Imbecile alert - trip to a phone store

[Streetstar]

I was getting some coffee at a little shop next to a Sprint phone store --- after downing my Joe, i wandered into the phone place to see if they had the new super-duper Apple phone (they didnt )

So i checked on how much it would cost to order one in ---- the dork behind the counter asked for my PIN # twice and twice i told him i had never set one up
-- then, - looking at me like its my fault -- he asks the street i grew up on -- this would be Prairie Lane --he stammered around a bit trying to spell it - so i spelled it for him --- twice -- then he looks to his manager with a quizzical look --- Then he asked for my id because he said he couldnt verify my account
I then told him he couldnt verify it because he didnt spell a 2nd grade word right

The manager told me " Yes he did, I just googled it for him ! "
--- my reply was - "You had to google Prairie to figure out how to spell it?" - and at that point - goofball #1 told his "boss" - i think i put one of the I's in the wrong place -- classic

After verifying that i was not my wife - who is also on the account - he spat out my pricing options

--- i then bid adieu and advised i would go the next town over to get my new phone when they are available in this region as i didnt want to deal with this lunacy again

The manager's response was - "You have to understand sir, we grow up in an era of spell check and voice recognition software --- plus its kinda' a tricky word " (I'm 43 --- and have not reached curmudgeon status yet, - and these 2 dingleberries looked to be at least between 30 and 35 -- shouldnt be a huge difference)

LOL --- Its Prairie! - P-R-A-I-R-I-E - Prairie -- i would expect an astute 1st grader could handle that, and almost any 3rd or 4th grader


--- rant over --- I was sorely tempted to drive to a watering hole of a different sort and start in on a pitcher of bloody mary's while i contemplated the problems with the somewhat younger set ,

[Old Ironsights]

It's "kinda" a tricky word... that even Google can correct... that they can't even look cup correctly... (note, I just googled the Liberal Edukashiun (i.e. we mock Church Types) spelling "Prayery" ... and LO! It doth come down from above as "Did you mean: Prairie".

Not only should you have left, you should have done the gene pool a favor and shot them, then firebombed the place on your way out.

[GonnePhishin]

Maybe you should have just texted him the question.

[Gaucho Gringo]

Sadly, this is happening more and more with each passing day. I am seeing a lot of misspellings on business websites lately. The education system today is more concerned with wiping out any reference to guns than educating the kids.

[vancelw]

Imbecile...phone store....??

If that's not redundant, I don't know what is

Our wireless account was messed up for years and we just finally gave up trying to make customer service fix it. Every attempt made it worse.
Finally switched this summer and it was deja vu all over again. Same stuff, different carrier. Took three months to sort it out....well past the time you can supposedly return your phone and walk away if not satisfied. Then I lowered the features on my home phone to reduce costs (same as wireless carrier). Holy stuff! I talked to people in every country and couldn't get a simple thing done....finally got connected with an American CS rep and she got it done...almost. Had to call back the next month and sort it out the rest of the way.

Funny thing is, once I could get them to understand that I wanted to reduce the landline services I had (rebuking multiple attempts to get me to go with a wireless or VOIP home phone) each rep would then say, "First we have to verify that we can actually provide you landline service at your address." Sigh... I had to explain each time that I was talking to them on a landline that had been provided by their company for the past 20 years.

Customer service is a thing of the past with most companies.

[Ysabel Kid]

Unfortunately, imbeciles now outnumber the rest of us (proven by the results of the last two Presidential elections).

[Streetstar]

The BEavis and but - head generation is now entering their thirties

You know --- this experience somewhat reminded me of this movie ---- i dont think its going to take 500 years to dumb down the masses though --
The internet has only been widely available for maybe 20 years -- and the age of the "smartphone" is 8 years (I-phones and androids - not counting blackberry) -




From wikipedia -- Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society wherein advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly unthinking society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.

[Larkbill]

I hate to say it, but that's one of the reasons we switched to Cricket Wireless. Virtually everything you "need" them to do can be done online, on ATT's network which works best in the areas I go. We're not big Smart phone people so we bought my wife a $100 LG, I kept my Pantec Breeze. Our bill is $60/mo for 1G of data on her phone. She's pretty much a home body so most of the time it runs on our wifi. Roughly half what our bill was at ATT for no data. Yeah, you have to buy your phone, but it's still not bad.

[Old Ironsights]

Good on ya Lark. FWIW, the Breeze can be bought online for around $60. Good phone. It's what I had for my wife until we had to move to where GSM doesn't work right on Pre-paid.

A lot of really good basic phones - even with QWERTY for texting - can be had for less than $100 NIB. Get a good Per Paid and you are golden.

I'm actually running a QWERTY Smartphone on Verizon's Pre-Paid for a whoppiing $45/mo and while not unlimited, it covers more data than I use.