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Apr 18, 2017 11:20 PM
DrForester
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RudyWasOffsides
I worked there for a summer 3 years ago. Shitty corporate leadership, enjoyed the job, though.
ClockworkRepairDroid
CleanLeQueefer
Tried to get a job there in the 80's. they told me I wasn't wearing the right pants for an interview. Yeah, fuck you Radio Shack. Revenge!
pyrrhlis
What are you gonna do, fire me?
ItsAlwaysstoutseason
I desperately needed a Radio Shack a couple weeks ago. Took a long time to find one.
LynchlessMob
Looks like someone doesn't care about burning bridges.
Cuntard
will they still be honoring my battery club card?
Rimok224
Eh Radio shack sucked ass anyways(were i lived) people did not know their ass from a female to female AVC hook up.
Writingthiswhileonthwtoilet
Careful what you say...if you have ever bought batteries there, RadioShack knows where you live.
ryanmason
RIP Heath, OH Radio Shack, too.
jagenigma
Honesty at it's finest. I don't see why companies or stores can't just do this, why cuz of some empty threat "I'll never come back?"
CommanderWilliamTRiker
I used to buy batteries there but then Amazon happened and wow, holy fuck, no more RS
Kraken9
Hah , i thought it was name of radio station
Islaymonsters99
Live about five miles away, can confirm, those people are pricks
youngmountaingoat
You need to look at the bigger picture. The whole world is full of pricks.
AyAyAyAyCantaYNoLlores
This is your tape Ohio...
casuallyalive
Ohio is rad
DancingPanther
BinaryGrapes
This is so beautiful.
impostersquall
uhh there is a radio shack down the street....?
IIIHalezIII
tell em how you really feel tho.. lol
tarataqa
Is Radio Shack still around?
HumanBeingOfPlanetEarth
I remember going to radio shack trying to buy an aux cord and asking about the mono cords. The guy insisted that I wanted stereo and refused
HumanBeingOfPlanetEarth
To answer my questions. Never shopped there again.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
Stay classy, Reynoldsburg RadioShack.
legalbeagleOSU
You've obviously never been to Reynoldsburg.
NewAlbGuy
Ypu mean the new Whitehall?
mugglessuck
My brother worked for Radio Shack. Can confirm he thought this when his store closed down.
speelydan
Me: I need to convert a 2.5mm TRRS headset plug into a 3.5mm headphone plug and a 3.5mm mic plug.
speelydan
RS employee: (blank stare)...........I have a Moto watch, check it out. (p.s. 100% completely true story, without exaggeration.)
TransistorRadio
Your problem is using metric and not English. RS likes to call them 1/8" and 3/32". But the employee still probably couldn't help you.
jridley
Radio Shack. You've got questions, we've got blank stares.
DartTarget13
Stop asking for USB to 1/8th jack!! Yes it exists but not for what you are trying to do!!! Also USB to USB!!!
galilchan
Work for best buy. Can confirm. It doesn't work that way.
wadenelson1
When Radio Shack went from electronics to being a cellphone store they doomed themselves.
NotIrony
Wut, that was a thing. The RS in my mall didn't even make it to the phone phase. Oh.... "mall"... riiiiiight those abandoned things.
APackOfExcitedGingers
They had a strong boom in 2012, when arduino got somewhat popular. But all their parts were overpriced anyway
bud467
I got $60 of electronic components for like $10 because managers gave me the max discounts they could when they closed .
Kairamek
They were doomed when Amazon was created. Once we saw a $3 cable was $3 we stopped paying $17 at Radio shack. They never adjusted.
mithiwithi
Becoming a cellphone store was a futile effort to reverse the fact that they were already doomed by that point.
ohheyimalex
So true. The generation that kept RadioShack afloat was slowly realizing that fixing things themselves isn't worth it anymore.
lmgursLibertarian
Where the FUCK am I going to buy my capacitors NOW KAREN?
outdoorsman
Amazon
Junktrunkjunkie
The ones near where i live were never particularly good electronics stores any. Small and lousy selections.
Typohime
Incompetent management did not help in Ohio.
HotSkittyonWailordAction
I still use my local RS for small computer parts etc. for work. Without their donor boards and replacement parts I'd be doomed to wait.
WuTangoReinhardtUnchained
Same for Dick Smiths here in Aus. Jaycar snapped up their business
Grant0
They should have been the first to capitalize on the Maker market, with DIY CNC/3D Printers, drone kits, etc. Totally missed the boat.
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
Idk if it's in other countries but here in Australia we have a store chain called Jaycar which is that and infinite electrical componentry!
RandomAbscessMemories
I think they were too far gone by then.
swatz
I agree, but now they try, but their shit is usually massively overpriced.
heghmoh
The one near me had all sorts of arduino components and sensors. Was my go-to until they closed...
sponlapp
OHIO
M0ldyChe3se
Reporting from Logan.
hunterbear25
Chillicothe
hihoraptor
Good old morrow county
MikeyDoesThings
Round on the end, high in the middle!
LegoStomper
I'm in Defiance. It's flat here. Glaciers fucked us up good. Good corn, at least. I guess.
Mayz9001
(The promised land) Nebraska!
Carguy97
WE ARE!!!
BambiDefender
Columbus
PastryNugget
North Olmsted standing by.
BeVeryVeryQuietImHuntingWabbit
I grew up and spent my first 19 years in Fredericktown(south of Mansfield). Been in Houston for the last 10 and I do not miss the snow
KCBeard
Holy crap, I grew up outside of Butler, and now I'm in Kansas City!
BeVeryVeryQuietImHuntingWabbit
Very nice! Until like 2 years ago Butler was the closest place to my dad's to get beer anytime I went back to visit.
keyblader1985
Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
ClevelandWHAT
Wooster
IamRickySpanish
Cincinnati!
leumaswhite
SixHundredThousandBees
Akron
alicat143
Kent!!
NubeyTooby
Ayye same
HealerwithaGreatsword
Haha same here as well!!
NewBlackGuy
Dayton!!
TwoSeamer
Moving to Miamisburg from GA for a new job. Tips on fun places, food, etc?
obnoxiouslaughter02
The Oregon district is fun. The proto build bar is great and 3rd street market is a good place to spend a Saturday morning. Air force museum
sponlapp
OHIO
lawlop
Kettering!
TwoSeamer
Moving to Miamisburg from GA for a new job. Tips on fun places, food, etc?
NewBlackGuy
Miamisburg sucks. But, cincy is about a 20 min drive south. Plenty of things to do there. What do you like to do for hobbies now?
TwoSeamer
Anything coffee and all kinds of food. I play baseball and love cars also
FineChizzles
I live near Reynoldsburg, can confirm, we're pricks.
Burghguy
I've been to Reynoldsburg. I'll second that.
WillWheatthins
Used to live there. Now live in Heath, not much difference
BenDismembered
No we're not. Just you are
AquaCrusher
In every group of people there is an asshole. If you can't pick out the one who is in your group...
Strawburyspankings
Delaware Ohio what's up
MrDraftChaff
I too, also live near Reynoldsburg. Fucking hate it.
anonymouslover
I can say all of these are true
thedarksideoftheforce
I'm in Westerville and can confirm that people from Reynoldsburg are dicks.
NewAlbGuy
Woohoo I am stri up the road from you! Main & Brice store?
dnusc09
Dayton, oh woo
SugarDickDaddyWithTheCandyBalls
Think the same people work at the Dayton stores too.
Pandycol
Dublin here! One thing I learned about Reynoldsburg is to stay out of Reynoldsburg.
airplaneface
I would expect nothing less from someone from Dublin.
Plebiosaurus
I do too. Nobody seems to know how to drive either.
IcarusWithALaserBeam
I'm from Toledo, no one knows how to drive here either.
theoneeyedsnakes
Everyone always go 15 under the speed limit. Fuck reynoldsburg
Plebiosaurus
Its either that or 20 over
JabbaTheSwampBandit
As an Ohioan who's been through Reynoldsburg on several occasions you are indeed pricks
kingoftacos
I drove all over ohio, and if you think Reynoldsburgers are pricks all I can say is god damn
JabbaTheSwampBandit
I mean not really I'm just following along the joke but the Reynoldsburg Walmart is just horrible
thedarksideoftheforce
The Wal-Mart on Morse is good if you want to people watch and be scared
prfesser
Applied for a job at RS in the 90s. They asked if I knew anything about computers. "I know enough not to buy one at Radio Shack." No job.
BOSSMOPS
"This is a little savage"jpg.
bitemark
ThatGuyWhoThinksEveryoneIsAPineapple
If you said that, you ain't the brightest bulb are you?
PersonaAuGratin
prfesser is a real life this guy http://img.pandawhale.com/post-20911-Job-Interview-weakness-honesty-EJKd.jpeg
clevernametom
Worked holiday temp work there once in 2011. Most miserably boring job of my life. The people working there loved the place too much too.
NotIrony
Omfg I actually said something like that to a Best Buy interviewer, but for like 45 min. It was bad, like I forgot I was at an interview bad
Helipad0451
I applied for a job there once. They said my IT background made me a flight risk. I literally knew too much about electronics to work there.
Dannyk604
BUT that shouldn't matter.. the real question is can you convince other people to buy one at Radio Shack?
NickRivieraMD
Lol same thing with phones, mostly.
valvarsson
Actually Linus tech tips on YouTube recently did a review of a RadioShack computer, that surprisingly was lots of computer/$.
JesusSaysTheDarnedestThings
You said nothing wrong.
jagenigma
LGR on youtube would like a word
JesusSaysTheDarnedestThings
Is this someone whose opinion I should give a shit about for some reason?
onlyhalfghost
The hell's wrong with a Tandy, asshole?
DartTarget13
Things are getting realistic over here.
ingrowntoenail
Tandy was solid
JesusSaysTheDarnedestThings
He said in the 90's. Tandy's stopped being made/sold at RadioShack around 90/91.
onlyhalfghost
Fair enough. It's been a long time.
sullikr
Why?
spetcnaz
They were a huge Compaq reseller. Compaq in late 90's turned into garbage.
killernerd
2.with a decent GPU but a 5yr old intel i3 cpu, 4 gigs of slow ass ram and a 500gig HDD powered by a chinese-rip-off PSU that might deliver
killernerd
1.most pre-built systems from stores like that are shit or imbalanced. They'll advertise a "gaming pc with latest Graphics!" for $1000
killernerd
3.enough power for the system but it's anyone's guess when it'll burst into flames. So yeah, don't buy those systems.
dovahkiindredspirit
foximillian
It's radio shack. You don't even buy cables from rs. You buy that shit from a real supplier.
vonkeswick
I worked at rs before. It blew my mind seeing people buy shitty, WAY overpriced HDMI cables and stuff
ThatIsMyPassword
*Hides bag with resistors and 555 timers* ... Yeah, what he said!
LetumComplexo
They used to be a pretty good place to get batteries but then they stopped stocking Lithoum Ion rechargeable and now only carry NiCD shit.
LetumComplexo
If anyone doesn't know, NiCD is the old rechargeable battery that you couldn't overcharge or let run out or they'd stop working.
Apolenge
I honestly can't remember actually buying anything when I went to radio shack. Just remember looking at things.
Oalsk
I remember radio shack as the place I went to because it was closer.
NotIrony
Batteries, they always had like 10 dollar battery packs that were like 30 dollars anywhere else.
PolishSpaceProgram
I don't think I ever bought anything else from RS except batteries.
mrtlwolf
Mostly I remember buying XMODS from Radio Shack, remote controlled cars with lots of customization, right when Fast and Furious was big.
Apolenge
Oooh wow. You just sparked my memory LOL. I remember having one, and going to look at all the mods they had.