The amount of rage would make me disregard how much pain I'm in just long enough to stand firm and knock him right the hell out.

I also don't understand people like that, you would think they'd know better but that would be too easy.

Today I went to buy two big SATA hard drives, to be used with an external USB container I bought at the same time.

I'm not sure how much abuse desktop hard drives are supposed the stand these days, but the stupid (lady) clerk practically slammed my hard drives quite hard to the hard stone desk. WTF?

I haven't used them yet and I presume they still work, but I really should have just told her to get two new pieces, I don't want to pay for mishandled electronics. They were not in any cardboard boxes, just in those small antistatic bags. Stupid me, but I guess I thought I'll know quite soon if they still work.

Maybe I am all wrong and non-running desktop hard drives don't care even if you thrown them at a concrete wall, but I still would have preferred that the clerk handles electronics that I'm just about to buy more carefully. After all, that's one of the main reasons I went on site to fetch them myself (and not through mail), to handle them with care.

I'm so pissed off that I'm probably going to kill some NPCs in Baldur's Gate later today, even if my reputation goes down.

As I recall, the more recent HDD do lock the head when they are not in use, so the chance of the heads being scratched is lessened. That doesn't mean that slamming them on the desk is proper handling, but it is quite possible that they will work.
The mass murdering of NPCs though sounds like a good way to vent your frustration ;)

They should be pretty resilient; I've mishandled my external hard drive occasionally and it's fine. Mind you, I would be pretty pissed if a shopkeeper did that, and I would certainly ask them to give me a replacement - if the HDD refused to work and you asked them to replace it (warranty and all), they might decline on the basis that you've dropped it or hit it on the corner of your table or something.

After today, I can never post on the GOG forums again. :/

PREVIEW EDIT: Rep ...

I'm sure people will downrate you if you ask them nicely.

What?!

Look below my avatar! >:)

The 666. I saw that.

I was talking about the previous bit. Sorry for the confusion.

It's all tied in. If I want to preserve the "666", then I can't post any more after today! :/

Oh..I though was something horrible happened!

That's nothing...I fondly remember when I had -666 rep....good times.

Toyota sacking 700 people. Optus getting rid of 700. Railways planning to get rid of 4500 people. Farking hell. Who said the economy here was doing well? :/
Maybe u should start posting useless threads that offend everyone :P

Useless? USELESS?!? bAHAHDFEJFERNMFDKJDFK

Got a referral from my chiropractor to see a back specialist this afternoon.

This thing has me all-but-useless right now. Took almost ten minutes to get out of bed, grab my glasses out of the bathroom, go down the stairs, and make the ten-foot walk to my office chair - the only place I get any relief. Crossing my fingers that they can identify the problem and figure out a timely course of action. If this drags on or - worse - is permanent, that won't be good at all.