Gareth
23-10-2004, 23:36
Here's what happened to me earlier on today, whilt on holiday in Montpellier, south of France. Thought this might make some people laugh.
We (me, my wife, our 7-year old son, his uncle and his grandfather - all of whom except me are French) went looking to buy some rollerblading stuff for our child. So we drove to the nearest big sports shop (Decathlon for anyone that knows it) but we were out of luck as they didn't stock what we were looking for in that particular branch, so we had to drive several more miles to a different Decathlon where we were told they would have it and would be able to help us.
Upon arriving at the 2nd store, we found that they did have some stuff but not exactly what we were looking for, and what they did have was not in our son's size anyway... so we decided to ask one of so-called shop assistants for some help. She told us she couldn't help but she'd get the person responsible for that particular area to come see us straight away, so we sat down and waited..... and waited..... and waited.
After 5 minutes, I'd decided to leave and buy it elsewhere as they were obviously not bothered about our custom, but the others wanted to stay, and as my brother-in-law had driven us there, he got to decide. After 10 minutes I was livid and was desperately trying to get the attention of other members of staff.... but they all just ignored me (preferring to deal with the Frenchies who had arrived after us).
After 15 minutes, I'd really had more than I could take, so I took the initiative in my own hands and walked over to a PC they had for this non-existant sales assistant to use, and started playing with it. Turns out that not only was it left unlocked, but that PCs in Decathlon stores allow users to execute pretty much any command ...including the Net Send command :D For those who don't know it, Net Send allows you to send pop-up messages to either a specific machine in a domain or to all the machines in a domain.
So, naturally, I sent a Net Send message to all machines saying that there was a customer who had been waiting in the rollerskate aisle for approximately 15 minutes to be served, and please would someone serve them.
Strangely enough, loads of people (including the Decathlon security guards) suddenyl appeared wanting to know who had been playing around with their machines and who had given me authority to do so.
Things got pretty heated when I let slip that I could've done a lot worse than just a Net Send, such as wiping their machine completely ...which was pretty much when their jumped-up sales guy/techie bloke almost fainted and wanted to have me arrested (not sure under what grounds he thought it was possible, but he wanted it done anyway).
But, the good news is that, strangely enough, we got served straight away by the original sales assistant who had previously been too busy for us ...although in the end, we didn't buy what we needed from them anyway :D :D :D
We (me, my wife, our 7-year old son, his uncle and his grandfather - all of whom except me are French) went looking to buy some rollerblading stuff for our child. So we drove to the nearest big sports shop (Decathlon for anyone that knows it) but we were out of luck as they didn't stock what we were looking for in that particular branch, so we had to drive several more miles to a different Decathlon where we were told they would have it and would be able to help us.
Upon arriving at the 2nd store, we found that they did have some stuff but not exactly what we were looking for, and what they did have was not in our son's size anyway... so we decided to ask one of so-called shop assistants for some help. She told us she couldn't help but she'd get the person responsible for that particular area to come see us straight away, so we sat down and waited..... and waited..... and waited.
After 5 minutes, I'd decided to leave and buy it elsewhere as they were obviously not bothered about our custom, but the others wanted to stay, and as my brother-in-law had driven us there, he got to decide. After 10 minutes I was livid and was desperately trying to get the attention of other members of staff.... but they all just ignored me (preferring to deal with the Frenchies who had arrived after us).
After 15 minutes, I'd really had more than I could take, so I took the initiative in my own hands and walked over to a PC they had for this non-existant sales assistant to use, and started playing with it. Turns out that not only was it left unlocked, but that PCs in Decathlon stores allow users to execute pretty much any command ...including the Net Send command :D For those who don't know it, Net Send allows you to send pop-up messages to either a specific machine in a domain or to all the machines in a domain.
So, naturally, I sent a Net Send message to all machines saying that there was a customer who had been waiting in the rollerskate aisle for approximately 15 minutes to be served, and please would someone serve them.
Strangely enough, loads of people (including the Decathlon security guards) suddenyl appeared wanting to know who had been playing around with their machines and who had given me authority to do so.
Things got pretty heated when I let slip that I could've done a lot worse than just a Net Send, such as wiping their machine completely ...which was pretty much when their jumped-up sales guy/techie bloke almost fainted and wanted to have me arrested (not sure under what grounds he thought it was possible, but he wanted it done anyway).
But, the good news is that, strangely enough, we got served straight away by the original sales assistant who had previously been too busy for us ...although in the end, we didn't buy what we needed from them anyway :D :D :D