Yet another business rant

Huntsville / Madison has a business called “The Technology Recycling Center” Great idea really and I am sure many cities around the country have similar establishments. I have not checked yet any of the surrounding cities but I hope they are more tuned in than ours. I had known about them for a while because a past employer used them to get rid of some outdated monitors. I was reminded of them at their booth at the TAC (Think that stands for Technology Awareness Conference) held recently on Redstone Arsenal for NASA. Their booth/table was essentially a place where a coupel of folks were available to talk and pass out fliers. I grabbed one, thinking I might find a use for them at some point.

Well last week I found a use. My secondary PC decided to take a dirt nap, it really only serves as a file server at this point, but not having my iTunes library and all my graphic files, etc available has been annoying. So last Saturday I jump on the web and do a search for “The Technology Recycling Center”. Best result I get is a yellow pages link and the google maps link to where they are. The place does not have a freakin webapge. They may recycle technology, but they sure as hell do not know how to use it. It is not like this place has not been around for a while, I know they have been there for at least 1 year probably more like 2 or 3. I grumble and figure, what the hell, I’ll run by. I was planning on getting out anyway.

So I run by knowing full well there is a chance they are not open. For the record I think this is possibly the dumbest move a retail business can make. Not maintaining some hours of operation on Saturday is like a big “kiss my ass” to anyone who maintains a 9 to 5 job for themselves. I am not going to take part of a day off from work to go visit a business. There is this thing called the internet and if I want something, and you place barriers between yourself and my money I will go elsewhere. You do not deserve my money, I refuse to work to give it to you. Not only were they not open, they had no posted hours on their door.

So today I finally got around to checking out the brochure I picked up from their table. It has an address and phone number for them. It also lists no hours of operation. They tout their services and how wonderful they are, heck according to them you could potentially outfit your whole office, including furniture from them. You just need to be lucky enough to find them open.