girliegeek

I realize that we’ve all been there. New to the area, first time playing the game, first day on the job, etc. Yeah it’s pretty scary and even sometimes overwhelming but you also know that in order to be successful you need to buckle down and put the work in or at least make an effort. You’re not going to impress people by sucking and slacking!!

In my last post I told you that I got a Presario C700. At the time of the post, this was actually true. Actually, it was writing the post that struck my curiosity because I wanted to have a look at exactly which graphics card I had in my new machine. I checked out the settings and GASP, no graphics card at all!! How could this be?? The sign in the shop clearly stated a Nvidia graphics and a 200gig hard drive. The laptop that I was using did NOT have those things!!

Sure enough, I checked my reciept and I had paid for the Presario F700 but was actually given the C700!! I did not wake up excitedly at 8am on a Saturdayh morning to pick up the wrong laptop! As you can imagine, I was not a happy bunny and L33tz0r and I proceeded to march down to the shop in protest. I swear, we were going to put up a big fight but as soon as we got there we were greeted by the manager who was very appologetic and said that there were new stock boys training that day and this was the second time they had given out the wrong thing. He then sent some other lackey to get the correct laptop and told him to find out who had given me the incorrect laptop and to tell them to go see him right away. For a second I started to feel sorry for the poor little noobie but I quickly remembered how excited I had been and how I had already spent a good 3 hours installing and playing on the C700. That’s 3 hours I’ll never get back and it’s an extra 3 hours I’ll now have to spend on the correct laptop. Bahhh!! What was meant to be a relaxing Saturday spent playing around on my new laptop turned into a Saturday spent fulling back and forth into town. Joy.

The moral of the story? When you are a noobie in a shop and are unfamiliar with the products, double check that you are giving the customer the product that they paid for!!