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Oh the geeksquad is an ancient and troubled guild, known far and wide. They need not a mystical machine for which to practice their codified incompetence
I think they purposefully train their employees to be incompetent. Too competent? Off to the uneducation camp.
when I was in college I worked at a Best Buy. this was in the early 00s. when I worked there in the media department they had just transitioned the tech bench over to geek squad. Yeah none of those dudes were trained in any of it. Most were just guys they pulled from other departments who essentially knew how to turn on a PC and swap out ram. that's it. There was all of ONE dude who actually knew what he was doing but the rest had no clue. I remember buying a graphics card from the PC dept cause I got a decent discount, they offered to install it for me. that was a hard pass.