Microcenter techs are incompetent.

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anti SJW

anti SJW

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So with my tax money. I decided to get a new PC to game on. I'm pretty sure I'd screw it up if I built it myself. So I picked the parts and had Microcenter make it for me.

Picked it up today and found out that they didn't install one major part.

No wi fi drivers. I had someone on Discord talk me through how to find the wifi drivers for my motherboard and I had a laptop to download them to a flash drive and installed from that. Then I was able to connect to wifi.

How the heck do you not install something as basic as wifi drivers?
 
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Microcenter employees aren't really that smart, most of their tech knowledge is for gaming shit. What I specifically hate about Microcenter is when the employees will vulture customers around the store. It's my biggest pet peeve is when I'm asked if I need help, I say no, then they slap on their commission sticker onto the product I have in my hand. I hope a lot of them eat shit and die.
However, I do like their generic brand Inland

Nguyen Van Phuoc said:
PC's are as easy to put together as Legos, you should've just done it yourself
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Easier said than done for most people. I can assure the average tech literacy among young people is rock bottom after the iPhone was released.
 
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robots.txt said:
hope a lot of them eat shit and die.
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they have quotas and shit like that to hit, they're also nerds or indian immigrants or some other form of shit so they wouldn't have the social skills to be normal and if they were they'd be a saleman literally anywhere else. Microcenter also has some bizarre pay structure for their employees thats closer to waiter pay than a real retail employee. like they say they pay minimum wage but its only when you factor in the expected commission and its on you if you don't make it and they fire you. and they can get away with it because they know only the biggest nerds would apply to work there. Its like how goodwill/salvation army will hire the disabled or retards because they can pay them literally almost nothing only instead of people with downs its autists
 
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Tbh you really should be building your own rig. There really isn't a way to fuck up unless you bend the motherboard pins. Plus if you are a first time builder you won't be buying a really expensive board.

What are you going to do if you need to replace RAM or buy a new video card?
 
robots.txt said:
Easier said than done for most people. I can assure the average tech literacy among young people is rock bottom after the iPhone was released.
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Exactly. I don't have the time, or the patience to do it myself. Even after doing extensive research, I'd be too afraid I'd screw something up, or worse, break a key part.

Looks like they messed something else up. I got a case with a mic and headphone jack. I didn't want to use a USB slot for my headset. I plug my headset into the 3mm Jacks, and it's not recognized at all. I use the USB adapter and plug it into a USB on the case, and it works great. I think they didn't bother to hook up the 3mm Jacks.
 
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Honestly I quite like the guys at my local microcenter. They are all nerdy white guys who have specific interests in the stuff in one part of the store or another, so they can be genuinely helpful and give decent advice, some of which has literally saved me a couple thousand bucks at this point.
They also actually do a good job at assembling my PC when I take the parts in to them (yes building it is easy but my vision is too bad so I need to eithe rrecruit friends or just drop the stuff at microcenter).

Am I just very lucky with the guys at my Micro Center?
 
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Secreta Secretorum said:
Honestly I quite like the guys at my local microcenter. They are all nerdy white guys who have specific interests in the stuff in one part of the store or another, so they can be genuinely helpful and give decent advice, some of which has literally saved me a couple thousand bucks at this point.
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Am I just very lucky with the guys at my Micro Center?
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When I've visited Micro Center, my experiences have been similarly positive. If I ask someone about something that ends up to be in a different department, I'm usually taken to that department where someone is more knowledgeable about those items and better able to assist me.

I'm not sure how much employees need customers to fill out the receipt surveys in terms of commission or performance metrics, but those get pushed nearly every single visit even though I don't like filling out any sort of online survey.

anti SJW said:
Picked it up today and found out that they didn't install one major part.
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Unfortunately, any technology place is going to have the occasional issue pop up whether its defective parts or something that wasn't done or installed right. You probably should have told them even if you got it fixed on your own.
 
Wel I heard back from Microcenter a few days ago. They said they were sorry, said the person that did the build was severely repremanded, and refunded me 100 bucks.

The headphone jack was user error LOL
 
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When I've visited Micro Center, my experiences have been similarly positive. If I ask someone about something that ends up to be in a different department, I'm usually taken to that department where someone is more knowledgeable about those items and better able to assist me.
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My experience with techs at microcenter:
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A couple months ago, a housemate had to return a defective AIO. I tagged along and watched with great amusement as he got rope-a-doped by a clerk for half an hour and eventually bought one that was $100 more than the one he was replacing.
 
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seri0us said:
Unfortunately, only neglecting to install drivers for a Wifi card is pretty good in the prebuilt industry.
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solution: never buy anything pre-built. but I doubt your average user knows anything about assembling a PC.
 
It's really weird, because unless it's some hipster mobo or OP uses linux (then again, if you're autistic enough to use linux, you know enough about PCs to assemble one yourself...), then missing wifi drivers shouldn't be a problem, because windows 10/11 contain basic drivers for pretty much all single and dual band wifi cards out there. Sure it won't be optimal and you may occasionally get a BSOD, but it should be enough to connect, grab the correct driver from manufacturer's website and install it.
 
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Yeah, no shit. Most people in IT are retarded and can't even figure out how to open a laptop.

Honestly, if you're not going to build it yourself, I don't see the point in paying someone to build you a PC as opposed to just say, buying some prebuilt retail PC that meets your needs. Not to be a gay fucking gatekeeper or anything, do what you want, I'm just saying I don't see the point.
 
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