What level of stupid do you have be at to be an employee of and to approved stuff for the patent office?

I'm tired of seeing pathetic patents for generic terms, technology and thought.

I did some consulting for Visa for a week or so near Atlanta a few years back. 14 hours a day; not only was everything I did being watched by camera, but I had to do all my load testing, code review and reporting while standing with my laptop on top of a freaking wire spool because they wouldn't allow chairs in their data centers.

I own a small business that was looking to get some manufacturing work done. While the Chinese were dirt cheap, in the end their version of what is ethical business practice and what are's was turned out to be vastly different.

You also get what you pay for. Look to a company in the US first for starting out. Once you have a proven design and concept, then consider moving elsewhere to build what you have. The extra money up front will give you a better product!

It was disgusting to me to witness this. BTW, they push the warranties so much because of the free trips and stuff that the GMs and Sales Managers get. This results in more money to those directly in charge; store profit is not exactly always the motivator.

In CompUSA's case, no stock was kept on the floor and in my experience no one ever asks if something was in stock first. They just always assume.

I was a commission salesmen for CompUSA for a short stint for some extra cash between jobs. I was amazed when I found out that the same things were going on there, only it was being forced on the salesmen by the General Manager and Sales Manager.

If I couldn't sell a laptop that was on sale without TAP (their protection warranty) we were told to tell the customer that unfortunately the last one just went out. They would change the stock counts so they had full control. Printers, PDAs and cameras were as bad as Laptops; the world stopped and you got a major bitch session if you sold one without TAP.

They even went as far as to reprint their own prices, raising the price of every laptop and some computers and items by at least $100 in the store. If a salesmen was unable to sell TAP then with permission of the sales manager they could "save" the customer $100 of the price of the laptop if they bought TAP... Fictitiously bringing the price down $100-$200.