Anyone with the merest knowledge of DC Electrical Fundamentals can go
into about any Radio Shack company store and be in a position to
tech-slam the employees. Radio Shack has pursued a policy of not
hiring electronics people for decades, they have remained to the small
extent that they are in the electronic parts, tools, books, and 'test
equipment'for image purposes and I have been repeatedly told as much
by Radio Shack management.

Radio Shack is a cancer on the ass of all electronics hobbies and all
electronics professionals, what few remain.

They should be stripped of their image by persistently and
consistently reminding the technically less knowledgeable that "real
nerds won't set a foot in there". Radio Shack's death would be a good
thing IMO.

__________________________________________________ ____________________________
Putting MM on the dime would serve a lot of purposes. It would
displace the devious FDR, send a signal to the Islamist world, make
the currency more attractive, and be a thorn in the ass to the Kennedy
Family, to name four good ones.

"Sam Byrams" wrote in message
om...
Anyone with the merest knowledge of DC Electrical Fundamentals can go
into about any Radio Shack company store and be in a position to
tech-slam the employees. Radio Shack has pursued a policy of not
hiring electronics people for decades, they have remained to the small
extent that they are in the electronic parts, tools, books, and 'test
equipment'for image purposes and I have been repeatedly told as much
by Radio Shack management.

Radio Shack is a cancer on the ass of all electronics hobbies and all
electronics professionals, what few remain.

They should be stripped of their image by persistently and
consistently reminding the technically less knowledgeable that "real
nerds won't set a foot in there". Radio Shack's death would be a good
thing IMO.


I don't understand this attitude towards RS at all. If you don't like it,
don't buy from them. You now have a zillion alternatives right through the
internet.

Then again, you may actually be the type of guy that walks into Best Buy or
Circuit City and actually relies on the snot-nosed salesperson knowing all
about TVs and giving you advice on which to buy. It's a self-serve world out
there now. If you want premium service, you'll have to pay extra for it and
buy from a smaller shop in which you can get help. But you'll pay more for
it.

This thread reminds me of a conversation I overheard in a Radio Shack store
many years ago.

Salesman, trying to sell customer a Micronta sliderule: "See, if you want
to multiply 2 by 2, you put this 1 here on this slider over the 2 down here
and move this window thing so this line here is on the 2 over here. Then
the answer is down here, see, 2 times 2 equals, hmmm, about 3.95.



"Miles O'Neal" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:59:52 +0000, mark wrote:

I don't understand this attitude towards RS at all. If you don't like
it,
don't buy from them. You now have a zillion alternatives right through
the
internet.

Hmmm... What's that they say in all their ads?
"You have questions? We have answers." Oddly
enough, if your question is even the least bit
technical, their answer is either "I don't know",
or it's bogus.

Every once in a while they screw up and hire folks
who understand electronics. But IME, not too
often. And heir selection is *abysmal* - and
getting worse.

Granted, the hobbyist market is down. But I contend
that RS helped destro it.

"Sam Byrams" wrote in message

I don't understand this attitude towards RS at all. If you don't like it,
don't buy from them. You now have a zillion alternatives right through the
internet.

Not on Sunday afternoon when the transmitter is down and the boss is screaming
at you and you're trying to explain to the man that you want an XLR plug with
four pins, and not three, and he's telling you that nobody uses XLR plugs any
more.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

;-)

Chuck wrote:

I do that pretty well...butt suck.

Chuck muck bophuc

"Miles O'Neal" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:59:52 +0000, mark wrote:

I don't understand this attitude towards RS at all. If you don't like it,
don't buy from them. You now have a zillion alternatives right through the
internet.

Hmmm... What's that they say in all their ads?
"You have questions? We have answers." Oddly
enough, if your question is even the least bit
technical, their answer is either "I don't know",
or it's bogus.

Every once in a while they screw up and hire folks
who understand electronics. But IME, not too
often. And heir selection is *abysmal* - and
getting worse.

Granted, the hobbyist market is down. But I contend
that RS helped destro it.

Yeah. We've seen this thread before -even heard from the guy with the
website too, IIRC. The place definitely isn't a hobby shop anymore.
Closer to a home electronics specialty shop. It may do that pretty
well, but certainly it DOES suck at its 'old' business.
Chuck

wrote:
Or you could go to my local RS and talk to the kids who don't
know a carburetor frlom a klystron.

Or you could go to the same store and talk to the retired HP
tech who knows more than any of you.

Your choice.

In your experience, which is the rule, and which is the exception?

--
John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when
you get what you want.

Phil Witt wrote:
On 11 Aug 2004 10:02:56 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Not on Sunday afternoon when the transmitter is down and the boss is screaming
at you and you're trying to explain to the man that you want an XLR plug with
four pins, and not three, and he's telling you that nobody uses XLR plugs any
more.

Could you elaborate on that particular trouble? I'm having a hard time
figuring out how an XLR connector could go bad or what you would need
one to get back up.

In this case, the XLR connector didn't go bad, the %^$%#@!!! TFT remote
control unit blew up, with a nice hole in the PC board of the horribly
undersized power supply and all sorts of collateral damage. And one
of the other stations in town had a spare Moseley unit that I was able
to grab, but not the connectors for the thing.

I swear, my contract is going to say "no Sparta consoles, no TFT STLs"
soon.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:43:36 GMT, "Martin"
wrote:

This thread reminds me of a conversation I overheard in a Radio Shack store
many years ago.

Salesman, trying to sell customer a Micronta sliderule: "See, if you want
to multiply 2 by 2, you put this 1 here on this slider over the 2 down here
and move this window thing so this line here is on the 2 over here. Then
the answer is down here, see, 2 times 2 equals, hmmm, about 3.95.


They had Pentium sliderules?


"Miles O'Neal" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:59:52 +0000, mark wrote:

I don't understand this attitude towards RS at all. If you don't like
it,
don't buy from them. You now have a zillion alternatives right through
the
internet.

Hmmm... What's that they say in all their ads?
"You have questions? We have answers." Oddly
enough, if your question is even the least bit
technical, their answer is either "I don't know",
or it's bogus.

Every once in a while they screw up and hire folks
who understand electronics. But IME, not too
often. And heir selection is *abysmal* - and
getting worse.

Granted, the hobbyist market is down. But I contend
that RS helped destro it.

wrote:

Or you could go to my local RS and talk to the kids who don't
know a carburetor frlom a klystron.

Or you could go to the same store and talk to the retired HP
tech who knows more than any of you.

I liked going to some of the Radio Shacks in San Antonio, TX, back
when I was in the Air Farce. Most of the [classified school]
instructors seemed to have part-time jobs at them, and that was a
group with really serious clue.

--
Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin, USAF 1967-1971