Shenanigans

I love technology.

Not really.

My computer has been acting up for months, and this past spring break I finally decided that I wasn't going to take it anymore. I didn't have any of my warranty info with me while I was on break and I didn't want my computer to have to be shipped back to me by my parents, further delaying my separation, so I waited until I got back to the good old Waco to take it in to be fixed.

I got into Waco, and not wanting to deal with HP customer service, I decided to take it into Best Buy. Best Buy told me that I had to pay a fee to get it sent in. Me being the poor broke sap I usually am, I decided that any fee was not worth the money (I also found out later that I only had $12 in my account). I said, "Screw this, I'll take it in to Restech."


Restech is the crappy Baylor version of Geek Squad. And by crappy, I mean that for every problem the fix, they create a new one. Most of the time their problems are just massively annoying. Needless to say, I've never taken my computer in to them. Also, I can troubleshoot my own computer thank you.


My plan was set, but then the Cahnz told me that my computer would languish there for weeks before it got back to me, and well, I just can't let that happen. Ok, ok. I'll just give in and pay the fee for Best Buy.

(The simple solution, for the layman, would be to deal with HP. Simple layman, you've never dealt with their customer service.)

So back to Best Buy I went. I went to Geek Squad, ready to fork over tons of money for them to deal with it, but lo and behold, there were two workers, only one of which was working, and the person in front of me apparently had a computer with a grand mal seizure because it was taking forever!

At this point, I was angry and desperate. You know what that means.


I called HP. Spoke to three different people, one of which just told me he was sending me a box, and used Geek Squad's tools to troubleshoot the hardware. Now, my computer is off getting fixed in who knows where.

Extra Tidbit: I received a letter today from Princeton Review saying exactly this: "LSAT: Supremacy Starts Now"

Scary? Yes.