I enjoy the joke, but I think the key difference is that people still regularly visit Home Depot to buy things while Best Buy is a ghost town. Kinda hard to sell your services as a day laborer in IT if you’re not getting any foot traffic.
Does this really happen at Home Depots? Or is this all derived from the family guy scene?
It absolute does
It was a thing, briefly I think. It might still happen some places. I haven’t seen anybody hanging out in a HD lot for probably 20 years now. When I lived in TX the local HD usually had a half-dozen guys give or take for hire for odd jobs.
Can someone explain the joke to the Europeans? We don’t have either of those and I have no idea what this means. I know Best Buy is a electronics store and Home Depot is a hardware store, but I have no idea what the parking lots have to do with it. In Europe it’s more common for shops to be all close together with a shared parking lot in between.
I’m not sure about Home Depot but Walmart is known for letting people camp in their cars on the parking lot where as many other stores don’t so I assume this is a joke about IT people sleeping in their cars on the Best Buy parking lot.
I didn’t get it either and am American.
Can someone explain the joke
I assume the joke is (usually undocumented) people look for work in the parking lots of Home Depots, hoping to be hired for day labor, and the same may happen with the nerd glut in our culture and Best Buys.
I’ve never witnessed this as I live in a smaller city in Northern MN but it’s a cliche here in the States.
This is probably it and I was totally lost. Thank you.
The nerds haven’t hung out at best buys in years. They’re a glorified appliance store now.
Last time I went into one for a computer part, they had 3 colors of the same case fan and two different GPUs, and that was it.
Now MicroCenter, that’s where it’s at.
Where is there one? I know of one north of Atlanta and one in Dallas. There just ain’t one in Washington
Ah, right, Best Buy was the Geek Squad. That’s who would be hanging out there.
I’ve seen this at every Home Depot and Lowe’s that I have ever been to. There are always day laborers looking for work.
I wonder if it’s regional
I’ve lived and traveled all over the Pacific Northwest and been to many hardware stores throughout, and never seen it myself.
I have not seen this myself, but I have relatives that own several rental property and they often see people in Home Depot parking lots just standing around waiting for work. They’d then talk to them and offer them to work on their properties. I think the reason is that these are likely either undocumented immigrants or new immigrants that cant find a job, so they just stand around hoping someone will offer them work. They are probably cheaper than a US citizen worker doing the same thing. Although, the quality of work will vary, and the quality of their work is… questionable. (I mean, they aren’t gonna have licenses or anything)
A bunch of young white guys standing out front offering cheap IT services?
“I need 3 guys to help install a router.”
The router is a Juniper MX960
I like working in those. JunOS seems to give the most helpful error messages compared to Cisco IOS or Nokia SR OS.
I used to cable them up or swap out PICs, never got a chance to try JunOS though.
That thing looks like a module for a spacecraft. :O
It might as well be if it weren’t for the weight lol
Imagining a bunch of guys in polos posted up on the corner. “Hey bro, I’ll install your printer, $10”.
I don’t care how desperate things get. I will NOT do printer work.
I’m more desperate and will do the printer work
Cheap labor in a nutshell
slut
🥵 please daddy let me siphon the ink out of the used printer cartridges to fill up my aftermarket resettable cartridges
But will you install the printer…naked?
clicks a remote, and the room gets dark with a blacklight disco ball, and Barry White playing
I’ve taken the liberty of purchasing two snickers bars…one for you…one for daddy!
sweet! relaxed dress code, free music and snacks, and a family workplace culture!? this is what us millenials want for our careers after all!
How do printers get so fucked up?
Relatively new in IT and think they must mess up more than anything else
Couple of things that I’ve observed. It’s a combo of shit design and poor human behavior.
-the ones in an office setting take an absolute fuck ton of abuse from people who can’t reload paper or replace an ink cartridge; I have seen punching and slamming on the regular -as a corollary to the above, no one fucking trains workers on copiers. The workers have to figure it out on their own. Violence is a natural response. -as a secondary corollary to the above, you can absolutely fuck with hated colleagues by removing their names from the user list simply by using the manual keypad (or changing the name from TooBeeSan to TooBeeNasty) -the ones in a home setting are persnicketty about color toner and are shit at Bluetooth connections (and thus also take a fuck ton of abuse)
Nothing more commonly fruitful than a misconfigured print server.
