# We overcharge you And videotape your kids showering - geek squad **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958 "2007-04-13T15:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/1 "2007-04-13T15:21:42Z")
[Linky](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/la-me-geeksuit12apr12,0,1525781.story?coll=orl-business-headlines) As someone who owns an onsite repair biz, I am torn. On one hand, this is an atrocity, smearing the good name of the technician community by attempting to harvest free porn. My favorite gem [from here](http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_102163605.html) > [@](#): > > Chi later tried to get the chip back, offering a discount for his services if they returned it to them, the lawsuit stated. and here [linky to LA times](http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-geeksuit12apr12,0,5632551.story?track=mostviewed-homepage) > [@](#): > > “You could see him on the video setting it up,” Vasquez said. “I was shocked.” :smack: Smooth. If business drops off I think we should start a class action suit against Worst Buy and The Freak Squad for raining on everyones parade. On the other hand, I don’t think it could have happened to a better company. New hard drive $83 Geek squad installation $129 Being videotaped by the Geek Squad while you shower: -$15,000,000 rebate 😃 Oh wait, this is the pit. To our geek friend: I hope the lawyer spends 12 hours grinding the skin off your sorry excuse for a tech ass with the bottom of a motherboard. May you let the smoke out of everything you touch. May your drives never partition, your fans stop spinning, and your Windows always be dirty. I hope you spend the rest of your life working as a greeter at walmart with a sign around your neck saying “I’m the perv that Best Buy fired” and a bucket of rotten fruit for people to throw at you and $5 Walmart gift certificates for anyone who makes you cry. Yeah its kinda weak, no coffee yet. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/2 "2007-04-13T15:52:19Z")
I was a little surprised that annoying a child under 18 was a misdemeanor. Anyway the guy’s a scumbag and should probably do time. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/3 "2007-04-13T15:55:36Z")
Maybe we can tape him in the prison shower. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/4 "2007-04-13T16:00:40Z")
This one is a solid 9.5/10; for the bile offered up, as well as the creative and evocative use of technical terms to describe his pit-wishes to be heaped on one in his field. Spot on. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/5 "2007-04-13T16:01:18Z")
I wonder what the definition of “annoying a child under 18 is?” Because as a teacher, I do that every freaking day! 😃 But yeah, this guy was stupid and deserves to get nailed. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/6 "2007-04-13T16:28:17Z")
> [@](#): > > “Businesses need to do a better job of screening the employees whom they send to their customers’ homes,” said attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing the family. Did Chi have any kind of a record of doing anything like this before? If not, I don’t see what kind of a screening process could have helped. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/7 "2007-04-13T16:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Did Chi have any kind of a record of doing anything like this before? If not, I don’t see what kind of a screening process could have helped. [/QUOTE] Considering most of these guys are like 20 they haven’t had much time to generate a record. Definitely makes me another step more paranoid about the people I work with. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/8 "2007-04-13T16:55:02Z")
[QUOTE=drachillix] I hope the lawyer spends 12 hours grinding the skin off your sorry excuse for a tech ass with the bottom of a motherboard. [/QUOTE] You, sir, have a wicked sense of retribution. I cringed just reading this. This should go into the annals of curses: “May your life be interesting” “May your children be just like you” “May a lawyer spend hours grinding the skin off your ass with the bottom of a motherboard and may the smoke escape from everything you touch” ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/9 "2007-04-13T17:14:47Z")
Well, in the tech’s defense… Nah, I got nothing. May he forever more forget to unplug the power source before opening the case. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/10 "2007-04-13T17:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] Well, in the tech’s defense… Nah, I got nothing. May he forever more forget to unplug the power source before opening the case. [/QUOTE] ??? I would never unplug the power cord, I would turn the switch on the back of the powersupply off though. This IMHO allows you to be certain that the system is grounded and has no power running through it. I’ve found that less smoke escapes from the system this way. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/11 "2007-04-13T17:35:07Z")
We recently had an incident at the local high school where the #2 computer tech was caught hunched over a video camera in a janitor’s closet next to the girls’ shower. He said he was just adjusting the, ah, “equipment”. :rolleyes: The girls said they saw the camera’s red light thru a vent and got suspicious. Stupid of him to not cover up the red light. :smack: (Reminds me of the dude who had running shoes with flashing LEDs and wondered how the cops could follow him so easily at night as he dashed thru the woods.) He was fired, convicted and is currently doing time (I think). How long, I’m not sure. Needless to say, the school has tightened employee hiring procedures, but I fail to see how it would have prevented this incident. The guy was a former student at the same school and had no employment record. He was hired fresh out of school by the same supervisor who was his superior when he was a senior. The supervisor claimed no knowledge of anything, but he quit rather abruptly not long after. Makes you wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/12 "2007-04-13T17:46:06Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] We recently had an incident at the local high school where the #2 computer tech was caught hunched over a video camera in a janitor’s closet next to the girls’ shower. He said he was just adjusting the, ah, “equipment”. :rolleyes: The girls said they saw the camera’s red light thru a vent and got suspicious. [/QUOTE] Why are these kinds of things surprising? To a computer geek, that’s what girls are **for** : watching naked on a video screen. (I’m sure some kind of smiley belongs here, I just can’t decide which one.) ---
**Author:** ![lowbrass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dc4da7/32.png) [@lowbrass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lowbrass)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/13 "2007-04-13T18:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Did Chi have any kind of a record of doing anything like this before? If not, I don’t see what kind of a screening process could have helped. [/QUOTE] No shit. 1. Do you have any future plans to record 13-year-old girls showering on your cell phone? a. Yes b. No ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/14 "2007-04-13T19:02:53Z")
[QUOTE=lowbrass] No shit. 1. Do you have any future plans to record 13-year-old girls showering on your cell phone? a. Yes b. No [/QUOTE] c. Why would a 13-year-old girl be showering on my cellphone? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/15 "2007-04-13T19:15:16Z")
_sheesh_ How many stupid criminals get busted by the blinking red light? ---
**Author:** ![lowbrass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dc4da7/32.png) [@lowbrass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lowbrass)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/16 "2007-04-13T19:17:59Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] c. Why would a 13-year-old girl be showering on my cellphone? [/QUOTE] You wouldn’t believe the features on these new phones. Actually, I realized how awkward that wording was, but I couldn’t think of a better way to write it, so I said “fuck it”. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/17 "2007-04-13T21:14:28Z")
Smart girl for taking the memory chip, however I would have just taken the phone. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/18 "2007-04-14T06:19:47Z")
[QUOTE=lowbrass] Actually, I realized how awkward that wording was, but I couldn’t think of a better way to write it, so I said “fuck it”. [/QUOTE] As long as you keep it to your thoughts…in fear of joining that member of the Geek Squad in jail. How would they sort that…bloods, crips, dumbass pervy geekboys, just throw him in and let nature take its course I guess. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/19 "2007-04-14T06:22:49Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] Well, in the tech’s defense… Nah, I got nothing. May he forever more forget to unplug the power source before opening the case. [/QUOTE] Unfortunately short of a small second degree burn from a hot chip, theres not really enough juice flowing through there to hurt much. May he slice his thumbs on the replacement backplates of countless cases. (anyone who has replaced a motherboard knows how sharp those damn cover plates can be) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/20 "2007-04-14T06:27:50Z")
I think it says some disturbing things about Best Buy if they’re hiring computer techs so incompetent that they apparently can’t hack their way into a porn site. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958.md?page=2)