My local Goodwill

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Aug 10 11:30:30 2001

At 09:32 PM 8/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
>If your Goodwill is anything like my Salvation Army, it's a waste of a
>good business card. They've been given my card weekly for about six
>months now with me offering as a volunteer to set up and test any
>computer equipment that might come through the door and every time I go
>in it's like they've never seen me before. I've spoken with everyone
>involved from the 'commander' (and his wife) down to the mentally
>challenged individual that actually does the stocking and had absolutely
>no success.
>
>This whole exercise in futility started when I found an ADB NeXT
>keyboard on the shelf. After questioning everyone there, the
>'commander' finally admitted that they plug them in and if they don't
>get a Windows or Mac desktop, into the dumpster it goes. He vaguely
>remembered busting the black monitor and pitching the slab...
>
>Idiots. (the kindest expletive I can use...)


      I love dealing with people like that. I just tell them something like
I would have paid $200 for that piece. I once told a a scrap yard operator
that he had just shredded about $6000 worth of HPs. He nearly fell off his
forklift! Now he calls and tells me when he gets interesting things in.

      Joe
Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 11:30:30 BST

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