Poorly informed sales clerks are almost as aggravating as trying to read run-on sentences full of gibberish. Not trying to be a jerk, just trying to say, "no one is good at everything, but everybody is good at something". We all have failings or short comings, but it does not mean we are a failure. Everyone was a newbie once, and many oldies aren't much better. So many of these "dumb guy at the counter" threads turn into an excuse for others to attempt to show their superior knowledge. I've found over the years that sometimes informing in a constructive way works better than blatant criticism. Like this post.
Time to move on.
Yeah that was a run on sentence.
Most the time i'm on my phone and its a little hard with oven mitts for hands to hit every button. I never claimed to have superior knowledge cause who knows maybe certain handguns cant shoot HP but when it sounds dumb, 99.9% of the time it probably is. My point to the post is what if one day the "uninformed newbie" tells someone something that will get them seriously hurt? Should I have walked over and said look what your telling the customer is completely wrong and started issues in the store? Probably not cause it wasn't a safety issue. Now, had i heard some crap like you can shoot a 380 in a 9mm cause its the same i would have spoken up.
I gave criticism because anyone with just a hair of firearm knowledge would know it doesn't matter one bit HP, RN, FN, etc in a gun unless the HP is +p or +p+. Should the customer be informed? Yes. should the person selling the firearm to someone who probably has never owned one before and possibly had an issue like an armed robber kicking in his or her door and now they want to defend themselves and figure okay, someone actually gives this guy a paycheck and entrusts him to sell firearms of all things maybe he would have at least 50% knowledge for the job he is being paid to do. I really don't blame the counter guy i blame cabelas corporation for not paying their employees a decent wage to get more knowledgeable people or providing at least some sort of training instead of sell, sell, sell so we can build our giant extravagant stores.
I was asked by a friend to work with him doing landscaping, general maintenance, etc for a large housing development and not knowing how to run equipment, plant trees, flowers, etc I did everything in my power to learn what i was going because i was being paid to do it and took pride in making sure i earned that paycheck. I don't know squat about fishing and if i got a job in the fishing dept i would do as much research as possible and if i didn't know i wouldn't B.S. my way through it to sell the customer something. I would kindly advise them i do not know and attempt to find a worker who did.
Oh and ...,,,!!!::""':;() I included all the proper punctuation marks please insert in my run on sentences or any i missed on here.
Just joking!
I will also ask this be shut down so we don't offend anyone else.
