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A, firstly, because your a genius, secondly because you use OSX all day, as apposed to Windows, and lastly you get store discounts. As you may have guessed, I'

by ashleyw 18y ago

A, firstly, because your a genius, secondly because you use OSX all day, as apposed to Windows, and lastly you get store discounts. As you may have guessed, I'm an Apple fanboy, so fixing adware/spyware/malware infested windows machines all day at geek squad would likely give me nightmares! ;)

mattmaroon 18y ago
Wait, so as an Apple fanboy you abhor working at the Apple store more?
- unalone 18y ago
  No. Note how he said "geek squad" would give him nightmares.
  - mattmaroon 18y ago
    I was just being a nit, but the original comment asked which would be abhorred more, and he responded with A when he clearly meant B. Let us all agree to never speak of this again.
silencio 18y ago
Geek squad employees get discounts at Best Buy, which is arguably better than an Apple Store discount in the variety of things you could get. At any rate, both are typically overpriced to begin with for accessories, and just how many times are you going to buy a computer? I'd rather spend the time getting to know an Apple employee to buy me hardware, or to get an ADC membership with a hardware discount. One thing you haven't mentioned is pay though, as far as I know, geniuses are paid higher than the geek squad you usually see in best buy stores and the like (http://tr.im/7mo http://tr.im/7mo which afaik is one of the better paying geek squad jobs, although if I remember correctly it's also the one involving off-site jobs). Job satisfaction is quite lower than you'd expect though (as a genius). I hear nothing but horror stories from my genius friends who bitch that the pay is very low and the scheduling is awful and they'd rather go work elsewhere (and, true to their word, many of them have quit and moved on to better-paying less stressful jobs). edit: Ugh, excuse the link. I think it's checking referrers to decide what to display. The average Geek Squad Double Agent hourly pay is $17.23/hour, with $7000-10000 in bonuses. If I remember, it's possibly the "highest" ranked Geek Squad job and one of the better paying tech-related Geek Squad jobs as well.

by ashleyw 18y ago

mattmaroon 18y ago

Wait, so as an Apple fanboy you abhor working at the Apple store more?

unalone 18y ago
No. Note how he said "geek squad" would give him nightmares.
- mattmaroon 18y ago
  I was just being a nit, but the original comment asked which would be abhorred more, and he responded with A when he clearly meant B. Let us all agree to never speak of this again.

silencio 18y ago

Geek squad employees get discounts at Best Buy, which is arguably better than an Apple Store discount in the variety of things you could get. At any rate, both are typically overpriced to begin with for accessories, and just how many times are you going to buy a computer? I'd rather spend the time getting to know an Apple employee to buy me hardware, or to get an ADC membership with a hardware discount. One thing you haven't mentioned is pay though, as far as I know, geniuses are paid higher than the geek squad you usually see in best buy stores and the like (http://tr.im/7mo http://tr.im/7mo which afaik is one of the better paying geek squad jobs, although if I remember correctly it's also the one involving off-site jobs). Job satisfaction is quite lower than you'd expect though (as a genius). I hear nothing but horror stories from my genius friends who bitch that the pay is very low and the scheduling is awful and they'd rather go work elsewhere (and, true to their word, many of them have quit and moved on to better-paying less stressful jobs). edit: Ugh, excuse the link. I think it's checking referrers to decide what to display. The average Geek Squad Double Agent hourly pay is $17.23/hour, with $7000-10000 in bonuses. If I remember, it's possibly the "highest" ranked Geek Squad job and one of the better paying tech-related Geek Squad jobs as well.