From: John Grigg (starman2100@lycos.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 21:40:43 MDT
Spike wrote:
Yes, I do confess, I striiiive for geekdom, I yearrrrn
for geekdom. I was geeking out just this afternoon,
while on a motorcycle trip. If they made a movie of
my life it would be a geek tragedy. Or comedy.
(end)
Spike, should you ever need a second job(like that is going to happen!), I recommend a place for you to go and fill out the application. : ) There is a computer maintenance company quite literally called "The Geek Squad" which has its employees running around to help their customers in classic cars which have emblazoned on the side in bright, big, colorful letters..., "The Geek Squad!" And as a Geek Squad employee you are required to wear dark pants, a white short sleeve shirt, and a tie which is way to wide and short!! The dress requirement is shades of the classic IBM employee of yore!
Employees are instructed to act in a somewhat imperious way reminicient of the two detectives in the old "Dragnet" tv show! "Just the facts Ma'am, what exactly did you do to your computer??"
The founder of the company purposely went after this image since he felt if he and his employees looked "maximum geeky" that the people they called on would not feel so bad about not knowing how to fix their computer problems. After all, "just look at that super geeky guy, he is obviously a whole other breed!"
Customers are sent billings which are titled in big red letters "Pay Up Sucka!" Their customers must get a huge kick out of that! And this company is as you could guess..., doing VERY well! lol
It's too bad I'm not a computer techie, because I sure do look the part! I would have never heard of this company if not for a humorous article about them in a business mag a few years back.
http://www.geek-squad.com/index.htm
best wishes,
John : )
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