Monday, October 16, 2006

Geek Squad... Errr.. Geek Fraud

I'm a college student as you all know, and today, in my business ethics class, we had a presentation from a student who happens to be an employee for Geek Squid.. that adolescent computer tech wannabe taskforce that Best Bought has on staff. I know this, because he pretended to know what we was talking about when our professor couldn't get the projector working and after unsuccessfully jiggling wires, returned to his seat. He had, however, prefaced his "work" with "I work for the Geek Squid... yadda yadda". Anyways, so you may say, "So what, he couldn't figure out a proprietary projection system at your university... that doesn't mean that the Squid is a Sqam..." I would agree with you, aside from him acting like a pompous prick, I wouldn't have given the situation of him a second thought... until today. He just finished his presentation, and he brought his own computer to hook up to the projector (probably loaded with spyware and porn dialers, but far from the point). Attempting to get his laptop working with the system, he grabbed the D-SUB15 VGA patch cable, held it in the air before connecting it and asked our professor, "Does this get sound too?" Wow, here's a winner. Any competent computer user that has ever done any kind of cable connecting knows the answer to that question. I definitely do not want this breed anywhere close to my computer or the computer of someone I love.