Carphone Warehouse launching 'The Geek Squad'

Owen · 01-03-2011 12:34am #1

Pretty much as the title says, CPWH are advertising for staff members to join their new 'The Geek Squad' team, which will no doubt be a blatant rip off of Best Buy's version in the States. Now that Best Buy is in Europe, wonder how they'll take to the name being used (That is, unless I've missed something and Best Buy are somehow involved with CPWH?).

Preferred skills include knowledge of Win/MacOS/Linux, Networking, GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc, etc, etc. Knowing Ireland, they'll expect all that tech knowledge and pay buttons for it too.

aidan_walsh · 01-03-2011 2:25am

In the UK anyway it's a joint venture/licensing deal with Best Buy, so I imagine it's the same here.

OMG Its EoinD · 01-03-2011 11:06am

They have the geek squad in PC world in Cork I'm pretty sure. Rip off they are

120_Minutes · 30-03-2011 10:31pm

Im_EoinD wrote: »

They have the geek squad in PC world in Cork I'm pretty sure. Rip off they are

There's no geeksquad without a carphone warehouse, thats the deal they have. so i doubt it.

Kinetic^ · 31-03-2011 2:27pm

Let's hope they're better then their US "techs".

http://www.wimp.com/geeksquad

Jagle · 31-03-2011 2:36pm

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Let's hope they're better then their US "techs".

http://www.wimp.com/geeksquad

and they probably wont

MunsterCycling · 31-03-2011 8:39pm

The one in PC World is called Tech Guys and are pretty dismal at what they do.

sink · 31-03-2011 8:50pm

Nerd Herd, FTW!

Overheal · 01-04-2011 4:42am

I was actually hired by Best Buy a couple weeks ago. The single visit cost might look daunting but contrast that with the service plans which arent that much more expensive than a single repair visit and they are good for any number of visits and fixes while you have the coverage.

As for the particular incident in that video I don't think I can add any more than the response corporate gave, it pretty much sums it up.

Naikon · 01-04-2011 8:18am

Some day I am going to bring in a laptop with a broken Gentoo install. You mention Linux skills, I hand you a borked machine with plenty of circular dependency problems littered throughout the system. Just for the lulz, like.

Overheal · 01-04-2011 5:56pm

huh? *I* never claimed to have any linux experience..

Naikon · 02-04-2011 2:25am

Overheal wrote: »

huh? *I* never claimed to have any linux experience..

It's just that "Linux" is mentioned in the OP's post. I was speaking figuratively.

Tea_Bag · 02-04-2011 2:13pm

Naikon wrote: »

Some day I am going to bring in a laptop with a broken Gentoo install. You mention Linux skills, I hand you a borked machine with plenty of circular dependency problems littered throughout the system. Just for the lulz, like.

they're going to try selling you a seriously overpriced laptop to fix your "virus".

clacks · 02-04-2011 3:34pm

Are they still looking for staff? Any links?

Overheal · 02-04-2011 4:11pm

Tea_Bag wrote: »

they're going to try selling you a seriously overpriced laptop to fix your "virus".

Really? Compare:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+Laptop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%23153%3B+i3+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+640GB+Hard+Drive+-+Slate/1859059.p?id=1218297521191&skuId=1859059
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/retail-product.jsp?poid=501491

/I didn't cherry pick that either

Thing of it is if you're ready to pay for virus removal/repairs that will cost (a specific case) ~$100, and the laptop is 6 years old and cost $400 when it was new: does it make sense to repair it, or replace it?

omerin · 02-04-2011 5:47pm

Lets hope they fix PC's better then they sell phones.

Carphone Warehouse launching 'The Geek Squad'

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