Saturday, January 2, 2010

Best Buy can suck it.

I think that's the last time I'm gonna go into Best Buy by myself.

Firstly, WHY does it always smell like nerdy sweat in there? WHY?! Oh that's right. Technology, games, computers, music, etc. I get it. And it was like 80% asian people in there. I am not being racist or racial here, because I am asian... I am merely stating the obvious. Not that I have anything against my own kind of people.

Once I stepped in there, it smelled like sweaty socks. I could not browse the place properly. Not to mention the workers there are poorly trained or perhaps somehow they just decide to hire anything with legs. I was at the Computer section, looking at the video cards, and some guy there walks up behind me and in a monotone creepy voice says "Can I help you?!" It kind of startled me, and when I turned around, it was some scrawny asian kid that worked there. First of all, what kind of customer service is that? He didn't seem like he wanted to help me at all, despite asking me if I needed help. He just wanted to look "busy" in front of his co-workers it seems. And practically yelling "CAN I HELP YOU" will not get a customer to feel comfortable asking about something.

Learn a few things about customer service, fucking noob.

If he would have waited until I made eye contact with him, or said something like "Excuse me, is there something I can help you find?" or "Hello there ma'am, are you finding everything okay?" then I might have considered being courteous in return. So I just muttered half-politely "No thanks, just looking around." Two minutes later, I see him out of the corner of my eye walking towards me in another aisle. I turn the other way to look at computer monitors to kind of avoid him, and he walks up to me again and said "Sooo.. is there something I can help you find or... what?" I kind of scoffed a bit and said "No, I'm just browsing really." And he stands there staring at me as I look at the shelves. At this point, I'm kind of uncomfortable. Then he says "You know, my best friend is Filipino" ..Immediately my face turned into this --> o_O. I was like "Oh, that's cool. Wait, how did you know I was filipino?" And he points to my purse with my keychain hanging out of it that had the Philippine flag. So I just laughed and slowly walked off.

I pretty much walk around over to the other side of the store where the CD's and DVD's were, and I see that guy again, just watching me from a distance. Then when I was about to leave, a man walks up to me and says "Hello Miss, I noticed you walked passed me a few times and I also noticed you're not smiling. Why don't you smile?" He was black, and looked like he was about 30 years old. I simply said "That's just how I am, It's just my normal facial expression" Then he goes on about asking me where I'm from and how old I am and how I'm apparently old enough to go out and hang out blah blah blah. At this point it's pretty obvious what his intentions were, although I kind of saw it coming as soon as he asked why I don't smile.

I honestly was afraid he was gonna try to follow me to the car and try to kidnap me or something, so I waited until there were quite a few people in the parking lot before I left the store to get to the car. And left as fast as I could.

I find I can't ever really go shopping and be satisfied at the end of the day. Something always happens or I never find what I'm looking for. Such is life.

3 comments:

  1. Oh god those people are creepy. You should bring at least someone with you when you go there (if you ever do go there again lol). I'd be pretty much freaked out if that happened to me. D:

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  2. z0mg wth >_> you keep meeting creepy people there >/ Seriously. And yeah like Eva said, get someone to go with you I guess (*coughmeifievergototheusacough*) xD

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  3. Lol yeah, it was rather creepy. Heh, you should be my bodyguard Yuui :3

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