Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Doc wrote:
> I will agree that expecting *help* there is nuts. But folks, I
>bill in the neighborhood of $100/hr for knowing what to do
>with/to/about a computer. Can I *really* expect a $9/hr
sales kid to
know more
than I do?
Perhaps not, but I sure the hell expect them to be able to say more
than, "I don't know".
Why? Much better "I don't know" than "I don't know, but
instead of
admitting it, I'm gonna try to blow smoke up your butt."
I keep hearing that "smoke up your butt" stuff ever since I moved to
the
West Coast. In the midwest, it was always "blow sugar up your ass" --
makes more sense if you ask me.
-W