The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Computer ShopsFresh out of school still waiting for GCSE results and I get the biggest eye opener working in a local computer shop as a saturday lad.
We used to build PCs for people, and although a good price for the time. You could be rest assured that the copy of Windows on it wasnt legit. Neither was monster truck madness that was pulled off the shelf, installed, and put back on the shelf again and sold as new.
We had people complaining that there were saved games on the disk when games were sold as new.
Best one, built a computer for someone. Then 4 weeks later someone brings a computer in for sale. Flogs it back to us for peanuts. As im testing it i realised it was this guys PC. My boss (the owner) quickly gave the dude his money and off he went. Few days later, original guy comes in saying hes had his house broken into and has anyone been in to try and sell a computer. My boss instantly jumps in. nope, sorry! Then proceeds to change the system board, military format the hard drive. Reinstall the OS and resell his old (and stolen) computer for new to someone else. Original guy comes back in and buys another one.
They were all cloned PCs so no serial numbers to trace.
When i got to work one day the door was locked, the police had seazed the shop. And more CID officers were at the boss's house getting him up out of bed. Seems a batch of Playstation games he had bought off a guy on the markets were counterfeit.
I soon found myself another job! :)
(, Tue 2 Oct 2007, 8:45, Reply)
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