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From: maybee@gpp1.UUCP (Joe Maybee)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Seething hate... burning rage... searing anger...
Message-ID: <48@gpp1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 13:03:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: gpp1.48
Posted: Fri Jun 14 13:03:12 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Jun-85 00:27:44 EDT
References: <979@trwatf.UUCP>
Reply-To: maybee@gpp1.UUCP (Joe Maybee)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
Lines: 27
Summary: 

In article <979@trwatf.UUCP> root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes:
>Ya know what's REAL fun though?  Go into one of these stores dressed
>in a t-shirt and jeans.  Of course they'll think you're just some bum
>off the street.  If you look to be very young for your age and
>corporate position (which I am) then all the better!  They'll
>think you're some high-school hacker.  The trap is set!

NO SHIT.  However, I almost always walk around in a T-shirt, jeans and
tennis shoes.  When I was out shopping for my machine, I went to the
BYTE SHOP and BUSINESSLAND...the "computer whores" (I like that, Firth!)
in those stores wouldn't even give me the time of day (even though I was
prepared to write a check ON THE SPOT for a machine!)  

>Then you storm out of the store....

After hanging around for a half hour, my solution was to find the
manager, hand him my business card (says "Software Engineer") explain
to him that I thought his store sucked, and that his entire staff was
incompetent at spotting potential sales, and that I entended to tell
the entire engineering staff at my shop what a sleazy shop he ran.
This usually brought a unenthusiastic "one of our salesmen will call
you, sir" response. ("No, thanks!")  They don't care, THEY DON'T HAVE
TO... they're making plenty of sales to small businesses with large
equipment budgets ("Mindrape advertising Corp." and the like....)

                         ----Joe Maybee
                             Member: "'Puter leat"