It is amazing how stupid people are that work in retail. I have a
sprawlmart battery in my Suburban tow pig, it had developed a dead cell. How do I know this? Because I have been doing both automotive and commercial/residential work for the past 30 years or so, and I HAVE TOOLS! After not only verifying a dead cell via my test equipment, but also swapping batteries with a known good one and verifying no problem with my ride (which I carried the stupid battery back to the idiot mart, by the way...) I have to wait while the one celled Amoeba behind the counter tried to hook the battery up to the amazingly complex
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test machine behind their counter. About 10 minutes later, surprise, surprise, it spit out a printed reciept saying the battery had a dead cell...
Now begins the fun part. Idiot can't figure out how to work the register to do a battery swap. Mind you, the battery is 26 months old, has a 36 month free replacement. Genius comes up with me owing them a prorated difference of $92.02! He finally talks the older moron, who has worked behind the counter ever since I have been going there to help him, and, you guessed it, he also comes up with $92.02
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SO they draft the new guy, under the theory the younger kids know more about computers, and what was behind door number 3? $92.02.
By this time, another hour has passed, and I am running close to being late for an appointment, so I get my old battery, and the printout showing it was bad, so I wouldn't have to wait next time, and jet. Go back this morning after gym, different set of morons, same store, lol...
This time, I get an assistant manager, who I also recognise as having been there for several years, so I think "hey things are looking up!"
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He rolls through the process and guess what. $92.02!
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So he gets a CSM, which must stand for contagiously stupid moron, to help him, and away we go again, with another, you guessed it, $92.02. I finally asked them if I could try, they got mad, as they though I was being a smarta$$, but hey, I had more experience by now than any of them...
Finally, a young lady on break from the produce section got me checked out. And NO, I ain't kidding about any of this. Now I know how Bruce Banner felt at times...
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