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Watching my brother in laws retirement package become a postcard led me to get out half way to retirement.
It was a steady pay check though.
What does an EW tech translate to here on the outside?
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"Meinen dispatcher sent me to fix einen cahble."
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Wow, 7 pages. TL;DR. But, Hobbes, congrats on that choice. I seriously considered the Air Force until I decided it conflicted with my morals a bit too much. Much more importantly, I was 30 pounds too fat and I didn't want to diet. So congrats on being in shape too
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While a submariner, one of my manager's duties was to make sure that all loose items were secured during angles and dangles (when a submarine dives and climbs repeatedly to see what shakes loose). While coming down some steps, a large encyclopedia feel from a shelf, he stepped on it, and broke his ankle and tore every ligament in it except for his Achilles tendon. With less than a year left in the Navy, he was given a medical discharge. He's still a bit upset about that.
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God, all those years ago. I remember when H joined the Navy, and when he had his accident. I didn't realise though that the latter had put such a kibosh on the former. So what are you doing now?
Just to provide proof of service, it's also the source of my sig quote.
As for now, I work for Best Buy doing what's called corporate field deployment. Basically travel around doing big redesign projects, remodel old stores, open new stores, etc... Right now we just finished doing an extensive redesign to a store, the oldest in fact in the whole company, in Minnesota. About to fly back to Denver. Then in a few weeks I have to spend about a month New Mexico doing some stores there. It's a decent job. I get to travel a lot. Done shit in Syracuse, NY, Orlando, FL, Washington DC, and so on.
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BEST BUY! You fuckers sold me a computer that died in 5 months! Ok, that's really HP's fault but still. Fuckers.
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Syracuse is a nice place. Some good food joints around there.
I've heard of the best buy problems too. My dad remodeled our basement, and bought huge ass speakers for the stereo, a new dvd player, and a flat screen TV. The DVD player didn't work, and the speakers on the tv didn't work. He returned them, and the girl that worked there told him that he didn't know what he was talking about, so he just returned them, and went to circiut city. At least every thing from there worked. The girl got fired for mouthing off and being rude, so I cant really blame Best Buy for the whole thing. THey do stock an impressive library of games though, so I do go there for that.
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I have never been in a shortcut shity that had any service. Clerks walked right by me when I was looking for a game system for my son.
I left there and went to best buy, paid a bit more, but was far happier. On another occasion though the stupid policy in some stores of checking bags on the way out though pisses me off. The counter is right next to the door, the dumbass watched the entire transaction, and still wanted to search my stuff. I told,him if he had probable cause I would wait for the cops to show up and they could search, but my attorney would be informed. The manager thought it was a good idea not to waste my time. He watched me buy one stinking DVD.
Need to fix that Hobbes.
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I personally think FYE is the best electronics store. About the same price as BB or CC, but the service is overly helpful. I was browsing once, and this sales guy came up and asked if he could help, but I said I was just looking. 5 minutes later, he came up to me again, and engaged me in conversation, then 10 minutes later as I was checking out, He went through all my purchases and told me how cool they are and what they do, and how cool the graphics are, and he wouldn't shut up! It took me 8 minutes to ring up 3 things. Even worse, he seems to be there every time I go. His new name is Overly Helpfull Twit. I'm scared. I think he likes me.
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Heheh was just reading on improveverywhere.com about one of their 'events' that involved a Best Buy. Hang on Hobbes - when were you discharged from the Navy!?! I thought you were still out there floating around... I was waiting for you to have a stop-over in Brisbane!!
I've been on this internet too long... every year just becomes one big blur. Especially when I'm like - oh yeah - that whatever-thing only happened in '99 - that was just... err... oh shit nearly 10 years ago.
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But, Hobbes, congrats on that choice. I seriously considered the Air Force until I decided it conflicted with my morals a bit too much. Much more importantly, I was 30 pounds too fat and I didn't want to diet. So congrats on being in shape too ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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