Best Buy CMO Responds With ‘The One Type Of Gizmodo Blogger’
Yesterday, I did a fun post describing the Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy, complete with illustrations by Dan Meth. And now, Best Buy has responded. And they’ve been spying on me.
You’ll find this guy on his couch, sporting an ironic t-shirt with a delivery-food stain of some kind. He “commuted” minutes earlier by rolling out of bed and over to his laptop in his shoebox-sized Brooklyn (Williamsburg) apartment littered with empty Redbull cans. He came to Gizmodo 9 months ago after deciding that “traditional media” wasn’t edgy enough (read: required pants and didn’t like it when he powered down walls of TVs). He only puts on pants in order to put electronics down them, and he gets very upset if you mess with his Star Wars legos. He genuinely believes that the hot PR girl is into him and not just trying to get a post. He overuses the word “fail.”
OK, so I might commute from my bed to my desk, sure. And yeah, I order a lot of delivery. But I live in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, not Williamsburg! And PR girls love me because I’m charming! Go ahead, ask any of them! Also, I don’t wear glasses. Fail, Best Buy. Major fail. 
Update: It looks like he pulled the post for some reason. What’s the matter Barry? It was all in good fun. Here’s a screencap so you know I didn’t make this all up:
[Barry Judge]
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These are the two types of Gizmodo commenters:
OMG! Ponies! and everyone else...
Jamo
RuBBa_cHiKiN
elduro13
DoctorZoidberg
spikespeigel
MrBlahBlah
Double post removed. Self edit.
Yeah I remember the evil looks our old sys admin used to give me after running WireShark on the switch that I am on, wondering why the network is flooded from the traffic of my 18 gizmodo firefox pages streaming videos. Fortunately she left the company and I can giz in peace.
I had three tickets today so I upgraded to bourbon!
Trust me, they were interested, but they just couldn't handle the Kosher Kielbasa. That's my porn nickname, look it up.
Milkham
aupton
Now it's time to head home and have some beers!
taniquetil
taniquetil
badweasel
adhir
F.D.V
ViciousWarGoose
psychiccheese
Evidence that being a Type 1 eventually led to being a Type 2 was never found.
adhir
darknecross
Huh, apparently it won't let me. Maybe next time...
olternaut
I'll explain.
I have a job. But I never read Giz at work. (honestly; everything is tracked like none other). But, I do read Giz from home, sitting in front of my computer wearing only underwear while I'm pretending to look at my bills and stuff online, while making snarky comments.
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He's updated again, this time a repost and disclaimer to cover his ass. Blames his "team". Real classy. http://barryjudge.com/the-one-type-of-gizmodo-blogger...
PascalHastings
Wait. So the reason my comments never get through is because I'm not a hot PR girl? Shenanigans!
YashwantGautam
DaShocKer
ester
Veddy Inteddesting
bonedog73
dwarf74
valkilmerisawful
amandizzle
wkm001
Curtis Dietrick
myneid
drokcab
reddingofish
Con Seannery
Type 1: You'll find this guy at work, but he won't be working. Instead he'll be spending his time switching between reading Gizmodo and perusing Wikipedia. Occasionally he may take a 15 minute break to resume the work for which he is paid.
Type 2: This person will either be unemployed, or working from home. While sitting in front of his computer wearing only underwear, he'll be pretending to work or search for jobs online, while posting snarky comments on Gizmodo.
psychiccheese
Though it does seem to describe the staff pretty well =P
Zkdog
spannu
great scott! this is heavy!
he'll do the 'white guy dance' for $20 - and he does - often.
Dustin Hess
notfred
Patrick Roanhouse
Not only was I amused that you made me relive my experience as a ex-best buy drone, but now reading this made me laugh even harder. Lovely exchange, sirs, lovely. And kudos on showing him not all tech savvy folks live in Hipstersburg with their trust fund.
SejalHypnos
The star commenter
Compelled to promote these words
He does have a heart.
Con Seannery
ninjagin
Con Seannery
Happy New Year!!!! I can't wait to see our Hippie Vision for the Future Flourish in the Next Decade!
Con Seannery
deux_ex_machina
badhatharry
AlexLand
Spliner
jugg2driver
Spliner
MissingPieces
There, it should be solved in a few seconds, Margatron.
I ain't ever commented on Gizmodo before, and it's likely i may not again. But this. is. BEAUTIFUL. Wars of words, when well chosen, can go a long way to restoring some kinda faith in humans. Not just for me, i'm not speaking solely out of personal experience, being a selfish bastich. Hoomans. People, generally speaking. Love gizmodo and pretty much everything you post. Please keep it up!
SakinaOrthrus
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
silyman1
Darrone
prunetracy
I wear Chuck Taylors, not Docs.
badhatharry
ssoltero
Intelext
trtrunner
Pokeysticks
RickAKATed10
bitslammer
Ponies! doesn't make mistakes.
Nick
beekerstudios
cdann
Nick
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
crushallcakes
encyclia
Hi Andi.
Nick
Skeetz
g2drummman
Jingles8302
dnheller
Vyccid
Nick
Hello Mister Walrus
Gerald Onyango
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
jetRink
Hello Mister Walrus
jetRink
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
MadCrazy
...and then Robin Hood stepped up and split his arrow right down the middle.
bloknayrb
scoobydoo
Digital9
DivideMeByZero
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Chief Marketing Officer?
Nick
albokay
Good job there, Best Buy. And I don't care what anyone says about you. You were always there for me when GameStop wouldn't sell me a video game on release date because I didn't pre-order it.
Nick
IcemanD
TheFuzz53
Nick
bloknayrb
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
brundlefly76
Calquon
The management is truely clueless, didn't even install bar code scanners till circa 2000.
dingus
@darknecross: +1
hahaha, i like this. it's fun to see he had a good humor about that, thought he could have had some funny things to say about jesus too... but i guess it was not jesus that had offended=) good post adam.
Looks like he nailed it, except for not noticing the Cheetos dust on your keyboard. I wonder how he overlooked that.
clickable
I guess he assumed you had a window in your apartment that didn't look directly into a brick wall.
nizz
i love how they were a good sport about it.
Jonathan Butler
@Milkham: As do I.
Best Buy should spend more time on not sucking and less time on writing blog entries.
Kris Aubuchon