Thursday, June 19, 2008

Geek Squad City Staffers Compared to Mormon Missionaries

How appropriate for the writer of CNET's Geek Gestalt (Dan Terdiman) to compare Geek Squad City's employees to Mormon Missionaries. He describes the "well-groomed young people in dark pants, white shirts, and narrow black ties" as "stylized kind-of-Mormon-missionary, kind-of-G-Men" appearing staffers. I find this to be a very descriptive and complimentary comment on the good grooming of the LDS missionaries. And having served as a missionary for 2 years I would consider this to be a positive nod to our young people serving the Lord today.

What does this have to do with technology? Well, not a lot, other than to say that the technology behind the city is quite sophisticated, efficient and provides a meaningful service to the likes of Best Buy which employs the "Geek Squad" in house (you can sometimes catch a Geek Squad patrol VW Beetle roaming around our neighborhood).

So for the techie geek that may happen to be just returning home from the LDS mission, don't worry about readjusting to the world around you. Just head on over to St. Louis and hire on at Geek Squad City: no adjustment necessary :)

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