PCWorld - Always Good For a Laugh!

DPL · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:

I too used to walk from one to the other via KFC until I found that KFC employ PC World failed applicants...
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hobo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 09, 2005 Posts: 9

Lets face it, if you were actually half decent with PC's etc. would you get a job with PCWorld??? You'd be working in the IT industry earning double what the monkey's there get.

The only thing PC World is good for is the fact they are open and you can pop in when your:

a) Bored
b) Wanna have a touch and play with something before ordering it cheaper from the Internet.
c) Need something in a hurry and don't mind being fleeced to get it
d) On the way to KFC :D

nej · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

I applied for a job at PC-World when I was 18 (a part-time one as I was still at school) and got turned down! Didn't even get an interview! 6 months later I'd left school and got a job at Compuserve...

I've always found that amusing, given the level of competence of most of their staff and knowing that, even at 18, I was far more knowledgable than they were!

Snafu · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

PC World is real fun. Last year I heard a salesman tell a potential buyer that "The TomTom" can download the latest maps from the Internet if the road you want is not on it. He also said that it comes with speed cams on it.

I pity the people who got it then having to find out the hard way it doesnt do what they were told it would. Is this misrepresentation? How do you stand if the salesman has given you all the wrong answers?

Darren · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject:

spook51 · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:29 am Post subject:

Everyone has a PC World story; here's mine. A couple of years ago I wanted to buy a monitor for my wife's PC. I went to PC World at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, one evening. Most of the monitors on display weren't connected or if they were, they were badly set up so I spent twenty minutes tweaking them. During this time not one assistant approached me offering help; two were arguing in the next aisle, one was shelf filling, two were superglued to chairs reading magazines, the rest were busy doing very little.
I waited a further ten minutes, still no help was offered, by which time I was feeling a bit

off but also mischievous. I phoned my wife for the store's phone number. I dialled the store and watched an assistant pick up the phone. For five minutes I asked to most idiotic questions I could think of about monitors then suggested that if PC World really wanted to sell me one, could they please send an assistant over to the chap in the green coat talking into a phone by the monitor display who's been waiting half an hour for some help.....
She looked across, I gave a cheery wave. She went to the manager who went to the two who had been arguing and sent one over to me. I asked why she hadn't seen me half an hour earlier, she took offence and fetched the manager, I told him what I thought of his staff and their attitude to customers, he spluttered profuse apologies and by the time it all finished I had staff almost sweeping the floor in front of me as I bought and paid for my wife's monitor and walked to the door.

I've just one message for PC World Taunt

nej · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:18 am Post subject:

Excellent!! The trick is to try and make them bow for you. Laughing

george_mich · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 2

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clivers · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

Spook

you remind me of a trip to halfords in portsmouth one weekend. as usual the Q was 15 deep with one person serving at a snails pace. call directory enquiries and got the phone number of the store. call and asked to speak to the manager, asked him if he was busy? his reply was not at the moment. i suggested in that case he came and helped serve some customers out the front...well no manager appeared so i left without a purchase..
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simon32 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 21, 2005 Posts: 3

P C World eh! part of the Dixsons group, tossers the lot of em.
Cant understand why anyone's suprised at this,one visit should tell you all you need to know.
I hate them.

Darren · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:

src · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 5

When I think of PCW I always think of this image Smile

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michaelh85 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject:

For the record, COMET, have nothing to do with Dixons

Angelboy_Daz · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 30, 2005 Posts: 3

I went into PC World months ago to replace s friend's modem lead which had broken. After being told they didn't sell them I fetched one off the shelf! I then asked a question about modems to which the reply was clearly absolute rubbish. When I asked if the assistant had any sort of qualification or knowledge about computers they asked me to leave the store!! Obviously their cover was blown! :-)

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