[Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

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Its my opinion that they were trying to find bad consultants rather than 
an accurte survey of the situation. We dont know the whole story, did 
they find the 10 worst consultants to "test"? did they mislead any of 
the techs with misinformation ? (I've had many issues with customers 
telling me one thing, and the problem turns out to be completly 
different). 
That said, there are bad consultants out there, and its not just 
ignorance, but sometimes it is.) Sometimes replacing the whole computer 
is the cheaper option, but if the only problem is bad ram, ram is 
usually cheaper. 
When I first moved here I looked into what you could do as a consultant, 
and there really are no regulations/certifications, so prettymuch anyone 
can say they are qualified to repair computers. I ended up going to 
school, and getting some peices of paper that say I do actualy have a 
clue, but nobody has ever asked about my qualificatinos.

Jamie



On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:57:41AM -0700, marbux wrote:
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:57:41 -0700
> From: marbux <marbux at gmail.com>
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad
> 
> On 10/30/07, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As for incompetence, I cannot count or remember crap but I think they
> > tried like 10 advertised in-home repair services and only 2 id'ed the
> > bad memory.  To me that begs a different question:
> > Is the market burdgeoning so much that 8 of 10 are clueless (sorta
> > like cellphone market boom, anyone can sell phones & service plans)...
> > or is the audience/customerbase so fiscally fit and clueless that they
> > usually don't notice? (yea I know users are always clueless blah blah)
> 
> 
> In answer to your last question, I think the answer is yes. But I'm coming
> from a different place. I suspect there is a lot of fraud going on. But I'd
> like to see news reports that go a bit more in depth. For example, did any
> of the ones who got it wrong run any diagnostics? I just think the report
> could have been far more convincing if they hadn't tried to cover it in a
> very short piece. As far as the evidence went, I think it would have been
> more persuasive to put a "fools or crooks" slant to the story rather than
> trying to force "crooks" as the only explanation. Either that or show the
> proof of dishonesty.
> 
> This sort of media blitz seems to beg for industry regulation.  I've
> > noticed the trend toward excessive legitimization by some of the firms
> > like GeekSquad with their uniforms and almost-police-looking cars,
> > lately -- what think ye?  Is our wild west eroding to gentrification?
> >
> > Being born in 1946 and raised in the last town at the end of the gravel
> road before the Great Idaho primitive area, literally five years after the
> last horse-drawn stage coach run pulled out, I can answer this one. :-)  Our
> wild west is long, long gone. But I'm not sure I'd call our local crime and
> employment statistics a sign of gentrification. At least in Springfield,
> things seem to be heading the other way.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marbux
> 
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