This Best Buy just needs a little more...me.
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Imagine the hushed whispers among the employees when they recognized the guy the next time he comes in
dude that's the legendary one, he will free us all
His story has passed down from cashier at register 5, to cashier at register 5 through the ages!
The sword of a thousand truths
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The entire time reading that I had this image in my head of French kisses and people eating each other out.
Does it have a name? https://imgur.com/r/MovieDetails/4MPToEB
Now available for the cheap cheap price of only $29.99!
Ahhhh hhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhh hhh ....Sharon!
Stahn! Staaaaahn!
I was a worshipper of the Great One, like my shift manager before me, and his shift manager before him...
They say he will one day appear like the whiff of mango-flavored sanitary napkins out of thin air, the scriptures i found tacked up at the notice board in the staff room claim it will be in the yogurt isle, but i have undying confidence in the righteousness of the "10% off due to expired date" basket.
Register 5? They only have 3 registers
Heretic!
He is the one who wears 2 chins!
Actually they'll probably think he's annoying because people do this all the time
As someone who worked in a phone retailer for a long time, can confirm. It's as old and tired as just about every other joke customers think are original.
Most likely we'd just be glad it wasn't another dick pic this time.
Yep pretty much, because that happens too. And oh god the number of nudes and just porn I've seen on customer phones is ungodly. Had a woman come in with some issues with her iPhone and it ended up needed to be swapped out. Was within the 14 day return window for our store so we handled it in house and did an iCloud restore for her. Well that iCloud backup in case anyone wasn't aware makes an exact copy of everything selected at the time of reset. Well we restore this woman's phone and once we get through the set up the background is just head to toe the backside of a naked man. I don't say a word when I see this ( I was holding the phone she couldnt see it at first) I just hand her the phone and as soon as she sees it she goes "oh my god, I have no idea how that is my background, how could that have happened?" To save her some embarrassment I just made something up about how sometimes the backup files get a little wonky and swap some stuff around. But we both know what the situation really was lol.
Speaking of dick pick, I used to work retail too, and once some really old couple, like between 70-80, took a pic. But the guy dropped his pants to his ankle while the woman posed besides his dick with both thumbs up.
How the fuck they managed that without being caught will forever remain a mystery as this is a pretty busy store.
Used to work at Apple Store and can confirm the amount of penis I saw on demo devices was insane.
People love showing other people dicks.
Yepp. And then we have to go in and revert every single phone back to the default wallpaper.
Yep, and over the course of the 20-30 phones the store likely has its an annoying ass thing to do. Which has to be done 3-4 times a week because every child and goofy adult that thinks they're clever does it.
If they're enrolled on Apples demo service then they reset themselves every day.
A lot of android demo's self wipe as well if set up correctly.
If it only has the generic Apple demo software then you have to go in and change it manually which is a complete pain in the arse across a store. If I came across photos like OPs i'd piss myself though just from the effort taken!
Don't understand why the manufacturers can't be bothered to build in a protected demo mode. Even Chromebooks have this
No joke, when I was about 12 my friend and I would ride our bikes all around town anywhere the bike path could access. One of our frequent loitering spots was Circuit City when they still existed. One day I decided to do this exact thing on all the Motorola Razr flip phones, along with and ridiculous videos. Cut to a month later im back in there with my dad who's looking at some stuff, and I'm roaming around on my own. All of a sudden an employee comes over, gets a look at me and goes "it's you!" I say "WUT?", and he goes "You're the kid from the videos!! We've all been playing your videos on the big screen all month!" At this point I begin to panic that my dad will over hear and be pissed, so I begin to awkwardly apologize and scurry away with this guy still cackling behind me.
You will be 30 in 3 years.
2, but thanks for reminding me asshole š
I like this reaction. But also, I'm 32 and... it's not a big deal!
It's just a number :) we only as old as we feel
Is that The_legend27?
More like "there the asshole that resulted in me having to take his face off of all these phones."
When I worked retail tech this happened like weekly. It was amusing when it was something like this. Less amusing when some 25 year old douche put pictures of dicks on things. That said most of our displays had demos running that reset their backgrounds every hour or so (some were like every 5 minutes).
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Well, he was already douching, so it was really no trouble.
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I'm no depraved idiot putting dick pics on anyone's phone, but if I were, I'd just take a picture with my phone and take a picture of my phone with the display phone.
It's not hard for people to do bad things, but most people who want to do bad things don't think long enough to make a plan.
It can become a feedback loop of not thinking and doing bad things as a result.
Edit: Just to be clear, No one should do what I just said. It's wrong. Don't be an asshole.
When I was 12 I had the idea of changing a couple of Macs in the apple store to have a Windows logo background. Definitely thought I was a mad lad and snuck out after two computers because I got scared they would confront me
I've had kids do that all the time when I worked retail. I'd usually just snicker at them and pretend I didn't see anything. When they left I'd just undo whatever I saw them do.
It would be funny if they use one of his pictures on the phones and make a ālook out for this guyā flyer
His coming was foretold by the tablets
I used to work there. Nobody paid attention to that. Thereās always somebody making a stupid face on the iPhones. Itās like the usual man.
I like to take pictures of my elbow, it looks like a butt. Watching people looking at the phone afterwards is quite amusing. Also going in a week later and seeing the picture is still on the camera roll is great.
Hate to be that guy, but if Best Buy uses the standard apple demo software, they reset these settings usually every hour or so.
So then I donāt have to worry about some poor schlub having to change it himself
Depends on the store.
Source: I am the poor schlub you speak of. Literally just a few hours ago had to reset some iPads backgrounds cause some younger teens came in and took a bunch of group selfies flipping the camera off and changed them to the background pictures on all our displays.
Dude same I used to sell phones at a warehouse store I wonāt name and it was a pain in the ass cause every time some kid came in and changed the backgrounds Iād have to go around and reset them all and check them all or my boss would have a fit.
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depends on the retailer, but for most major retailers, apple sends a "retail demo unit" where you lose admin functionality on it.
UK?
yeah iām ok
Like a warehouse for car phones?
Have been that schlub. Fucking hate people who do this.
You must hate OP?
Exactly. Used to work in Wireless and we ALWAYS had to wipe all photos and data off every thing by the end of the day to be audit compliant. 99% sure an employee is going to have to factory reset every device that OP just manipulated.
have also been this poor schlub. going through 20 devices and deleting the 50-100 photos taken on each of them daily was less than fun.
and we didn't have the option not to, as 10-14 year olds would take dozens of selfies, and then if we missed deleting them, sometimes you'd catch creepy old dudes browsing the photos.
Back when I was an edgy teen thinking he was slick, I would put the passcode lock on all the iPhones on display at your local Mal-Wart.
Yep! Still had fun though, thats what counts.
Eh. Where I work with, the background doesnāt change itself for phone demo.
I wish I could curse people who do this with having their face expression stuck, forever, like the one their took their picture with.
You should print them out and put them on some sort of wall of shame. So next time they come in they can still see their picture, along with every other shopper.
i feel like that'd only encourage it
They probably use the retail apple demo software. I work for a cell phone provider company and we have to reset them manually.
While this little joke is harmless (although it gets really boring really quick when you get the same thing every single day), sometimes girls will put links to their patreons, or put in their "private" Snapchat names, and we even had a guy hotspot his phone to them, open up really nasty porn, then close safari, so that the next person to open safari gets a surprise.
I don't know if places like Walmart even still have a wall of alarm clocks anymore as it's been many years since I've even looked, but when I was a teenager some buddies and I would go in and set all of the alarms on all the display models of alarm clocks to go off within about a 5-minute span of each other so that employees would have to keep going back to unplug them or turn them off.
I was walking through Walmart the other day and found myself in the kitchen aisle. I saw that someone had set at least 15 of those old fashioned dial-and-ding kitchen alarms to the same time, three minutes away. I got out of there quick.
It's good to know someone is keeping the tradition alive.
Do you really hate to be that guy?
Time for a full chinventory.
Weāre fully stocked
As a best buy employee I guarantee you we do not care.
Thanks homie! If I had thought about it further, Iād have changed them back afterward out of courtesy
What a Canadian thing to say
Iām in Milwaukee so itās only an 8-hour drive or so to Canada.
Dude Wisconsin is like Illinoisās Canada
So apt
I hear that. I live in San Diego so itās only like a 20-hour drive, ay
Yeah I'm in another continent it's not even possible to drive to Canada but I get it
If you come to Toronto hmu I'll get you anything from tims
Milwaukee represent! Nice to see we contribute something to the world, even if it is just a silly internet video
Some teens probably came in 30 minutes later and changed it to their selfie anyway.
Also as a best buy employee I donāt care either and keep them on for the giggles
Another blueshirt who doesn't give a shit checking in.
Former blue and yellow shirt. Still attempting to give a shit years after leaving.
I'm just amazed that every display worked and was turned in. Times really are changing aren't they guys?
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This the best thing i have read today
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If someone hits up the Best Buy in Greenfield, Wisconsin, please do this and post it.
That used to be my Best Buy before we moved out of Wisconsin. Too bad I canāt accommodate!
Like 30 from me.
So you posted 10 minutes ago. We expect to see an update from you in about 25 minutes. [Foot tapping]
Doors were locked. Sorry
Oh man, you and I wouldāve had a great time. I used Aperture and the demo iPhoto content when I worked in the fruit stand retail store. Iād use the healing brush to remove the eyes, and then the clone stamp to replace them with mouths/noses/etc. I (temporarily) āruinedā so many stock family photos during slow times...
Now see this is original and funny. We had someone one time that came in and changed all the backgrounds to random Nic Cage pics
I work at Best Buy and I once found all our iPads wallpapers set to John Cena. I didnāt see that one coming whatsoever.
Real question is... Did anyone see him?
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Whenever I search for his theme song itās always just audio. You have that issue too ?
r/madlads
I use to work somewhere that sold phones. People would do this all time and we'd have to set it back. Got old pretty quick.
Yeah, this is the "if there's no price tag it must be free" of electronics retail. Every single group of teenagers that comes in does this and thinks it's clever and hilarious. 30 times per day.
Then we have to reset them one by one.
It was always the middle aged adults at my store.
Hehe. If I were working there and encountered those phones. This would have made my day
They did enjoy it.
Is smalls killing you?
I lold
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Be nice to Seth MacFarlane.
But his characters actually sound unique and different ... Dr. Hartman and Carter being the exception
I used to work at the Apple Store. Kids did this shit all the time. I guess adults do too.
r/cringe
So you are "that guy"
I half expected him to lift the camera up to a huge tv with his face on it at the end
If it wasnāt spontaneous, Iād have tried to talk them into it.
You look like a fucking pixar character come to life lol
The tablet one got me good.
I deal with this shit almost everyday and it's never been funny...and not just because it's something I have to deal with...even from an outside perspective it's just juvenile and stupid. If it were a food store it would be the equivalent of walking down an aisle and trashing the shelves. Someone has to fix every phone and in the meantime any customer that sees it is gonna think less of any store...aaaand if there's a corporate visit and a DM sees that on the phones...you're just fucked. This is stuff we see 10 year olds do...if you're a grown man doing that then you're just an inconsiderate prick.
A piece of fine modern art.
Best Buy employee here. This happens literally every day. Thankfully the demo phones reset after a few minutes so we don't have to deal w/ it for very long
...except for the AT&T phones. Go crazy.
What your SO sees
"Who has done this?!" -Best Buy Manager
"I don't think we'll ever know." -Best Buy Employee
That neck..ugh
You don't have any shame, do you?
Yeah I would have preferred to go my whole life without seeing that much... neck.
They'll never know it was you! Muahaha
Thanks. I hate it.
r/madlads
Did I miss something? This is an old gag already. Why the Reddit gold?
Am I tripping?
I work in a small phone shop and we clear down the photos at the end of every shift. My favorite thing I ever found was a photo in the recently deleted folder of the iphone X of an elderly couple pulling funny faces at the camera.
They're regular shoppers at the supermarket that our shop is based in but always look so miserable whenever i've seen them. I just like that they had to delete any evidence of them being fun.
That tablet was your piĆØce de rĆ©sistance.
When I worked at a best buy, i thought these customers were so cringey.
Most people think Iām pretty cringey so it fits.
Thatās so annoying
Wot that is so funny and original, I donāt think Iāve ever seen someone take pictures of themselves with a display phone and change it to the wallpaper.
Lol exactly. Why are people enjoying this so much? Just some big guy pushing his neck fat up so he looks funny.
I know right? Who would have even thought to do such wacky and wild thing???
Oh, my son like a decade ago. š
So youāre like an asshole, right?
In my own opinion. This is not funny, and it borderlines cringey more than anything.
My reason for this, is because OP is the one that took the pictures and then uploaded it to reddit. Like "Look at this wacky thing I did today guys!" If OP wasn't the person that took the picture, then I could see the humor in it.
Like if OP were my friend, and they came up to me and showed me this video of him, I would not think it's funny. I might chuckle, but just for his sake. Now if he came to me with a video of someone random guy taking the picture, I would laugh a little more genuinely.
But this is just my opinion. And since I know reddit likes to downvote people based on their opinions, feel free to do so.
Exercise if you don't want to die before 50
Oh I was thinking it was a fat filter guess I was wrong
I work at Verizon and occasionally have to clear the display phones of the selfies and apps people download. No one has taken it to that level in my six months. :)
You guys donāt have services that do all that for you?
Unfortunately none are installed/enabled at least!
Wow so original
Yes, me!
Me.. me.. me...
..me too.
And they still try to figure out why customers donāt want to buy fridges with screen
Looks like you need a little less you
How does your neck... do that..?
While you were sleeping, he ate the pizza.
If only you spent this much time in the gym...
Ahh the things people will do to get thousands of up votes
Thanks. All my love for the phone would vanish seeing that face.
Okay so youāre telling us youāre still a child
Hehehe, that's funny because you're very unpleasant to look at. :)
r/trashy
You only think its funny if you never worked at retail
Shits cringe worthy because the employee has to go through all those phones and delete your dumb ass picture.
I audit apple devices. Honestly, shit like this gets on my nerve because I have to change them back
OP claims thatās no big deal because the employees allegedly loved it. Something I seriously doubt because I used to work retail and pretty much NO ONE thought customers were cute and funny.
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Yup. Worked for a T-Mobile for a few years. Customers thought they were being cute, I found it annoying as fuck. Like, thank you for wasting twenty minutes of my time.
So you are the reason all the tech shops near me just have dummy phones and tablets. Now I both can't feel the weight and shape of the thing due to the security cord and can't see how the screen looks and the level of bloatware.
Me, me, me...
Me too.
that would be me haha
I remember I thought about doing this with lemon party but then I reconsidered.
Was hoping to see the guy from the picture live at the end with the similar expression.
We get these all the time at my store. Sometimes theyāre funny and admirable and other times itās trash teens duckfaces and we unfortunately had several kids record themselves twerking. They were briefly dismissed from our store.
absolute mad lad
I did this in a random classroom in my college a few months ago. I took a picture in photo booth that made me look cartoonishly deformed and put it on all the desktop backgrounds then I printed it out and nailed it to the wall and then spelled out āstrudelā in thumbtacks on the bulletin board.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine who had class in there told me they kept everything up in there for the entire semester and any time someone used a thumbtack they would make sure to return it to the strudel board. Apparently on the last day of class a girl just walked up to the wall said āwell thatās thatā and then tour up my picture and threw the shreds into the air.
I like to add contacts such as "drug dealer" and then some random mobile number.
You've got some legendary moves here lol
I made a notepad file on an Alienware PC in a best buy one time that said "if you buy this you are an idiot".
God I'm cool.
This wouldve been great to find while doing func checks. Well done sir.
Still 1000 times less evil than tampering with food items
I loved the last one
When you have a little too much time on your hands
Fun fact: the image of iOS Apple provides for retail demo devices will automatically wipe these photos and reset the home to its demo setup/settings when the device is restarted
Back in the 80s you used to have home computer sections in big stores, showing off the latest games. Games, I should remind you, that had to be loaded from cassette and took like 20 minutes to load.
Teen me used to stop a game and run a few lines of code that would make the screen flash and flicker and look like it was loading The Next Big Game that wasnāt out yet. Then wander off.
You could go back anytime over the next few hours and find it surrounded by excited kids who thought they were about to play a cool game.
Cartman?
What is this soy humour?
This is such a pain in the ass for employees during closing time, at least at the wireless stores. We had to stay after closing time to delete all pictures (as well as texts, calls, browsing history) and reset the wallpapers customers left on the phones. Please donāt do this.
Can confirm, worked at a Best Buy Mobile standalone store for 6 years. I haven't worked in the industry for 3 years, but most of the demos at that time still saved stuff. Things could have changed since then.
People do some weird things on phones that don't belong to them.
The place I work has a very strict policy on not storing customer information, including pictures, on any device in our store; that also means the demo phones and tablets we have on display.
If the wrong HO person comes in one day to this, there could be some serious reprimanding.
I echo the point: please don't do this.
That shit is so annoying. Someone has to fucking reset all that shit if the programs on the phone donāt auto reset (LG is the only one I remember doing it)
You don't have a life, do you?
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Too many chins. And no, Iām not worried about the downvotes. Tonight is when I meet my maker. Goodbye world.
I hope youāre okay.
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r/madlads
Do why but his reminds me of the time my dad and I were playing with Verizon store phones and I said āSiri... call me an ambulanceā thinking it would just change the name to āan ambulanceā but it straight dialed emergency services and we booked it laughing. Love you dad.
Ah yes every 12 year old in an apple store
A LOT of people that used to sell cell phones are in this thread... And theyre mad.
Ex-BB employee here. This happens far more often than you might think. Contrary to what the others said below, I actually loved when this happened, absolutely cracked me up every time!
Wow this is cringy.
It sucks when I clock in and have to take time out of my shift to remove shit like this, we really need display phone to be able to deny access to changing wallpapers.