I used to torture Time salesmen, just for fun.
God, they were shit at their job. Most of them were retreads from double glazing, and knew as much about the product as a haddock. But the best bit came when they tried to run the scams that Time made them sell. You thought Comet were bad with extended warranties? How about a £30 printer cable? An £11 mouse mat? £150 for the "back up discs" i.e. the software you'd already bought installed.

When you pointed out that a cable cost £5, a mat could be improvised from a bit of Flotex and the back up discs would actually be your property anyway, some would look blank, some would threaten violence and the clever ones would ask where they could get the cheap bits so they repackage them and cheat both their employer and the customer.

Belmtards.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 20:48, Reply)