Seagate Sends You A "Mavericks Suck" Hard Drive
Reader Dan tells us:
"I received an order of three Seagate hard drives today, either someone in the Seagate factory has too much time on their hands, or Seagate has a “Mavericks Suck” model drive now."
Well, well, well. I guess we know where Avery Johnson is working these days.
(Thanks, Dan!)
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@jessemoya: Seagate is headquartered outside of San Jose, California which is part of the fan base of the Golden State Warriors who, back in the 2007 NBA playoffs, famously upset the... (what, I'm the only Bay Area sports fan here right now?)
OTOH, if the drive was shipped from Malaysia or something, never mind.
@MissedTheExit: Malaysia? I think you may be forgetting about the Mavericks' cross-state rivals, then?
Well this one is setting off my "BS Alert" big time. The bar codes are used to quickly log stock in and out of the warehouse. Whoever was scanning the stock prior to shipment would have noticed the different identifier code (which is probably just "Mavericks Suck" in barcode font).
The Mavericks barcode is clearly different from the other two and the label isn't even completely attached to the ESD bag.
@Fadamor:
This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
/sarcasm
Of course the barcodes are different. That is an evil ploy by barcode companies to make all barcodes different. Those evil bastards.
@BuddyGuyMontag: What I meant was that this could have been a really cool, really funny joke by some bored Seagate employee/NBA fan, whether in the Golden State, Texas or whatnot.
OR
it was completely random.
Or maybe the guy who made the sticker doesn't like the $10,000 gym by that name.
@MissedTheExit: My joke was, if the drive was built in Malaysia, the "Mavericks Suck" would have been done by a disgruntled Yao Ming fan, who would root for... the Houston Rockets. Hence Maverick suckage.
@Fadamor: If you bothered to look at the other two drives, you would see that their stickers arn't completely attached to te esd bags either. ESPECIALLY the one in the middle.
@jessemoya: For instance, I go to school at Mankato State University. Our mascot is the Mavericks. Made me wonder if they were sent here?
@BuddyGuyMontag: As a die-hard Mavs fan, I know that too many of the die-hard other sports fans like to attack the Mavs... you've got to give credit to LAST YEAR'S Golden State team for beating the COACH (note that I didn't say players - it was a failed coaching plan that got the Mavs in trouble after a picture-perfect 67-win season)... too bad they couldn't have followed up with another trip to the playoffs... ;-D Well Avery Johnson is gone now, and Dirk Nowitzki said it best: Dallas loved him but changes needed to be made. He had to go. Now maybe we'll get a coach who can help out Dirk and get something useful out of Jason Kidd....
Seriously, though. This wasn't a smart thing to do... although, even as a Mavs fan, it is a bit amusing... although it may be funnier if they replaced "Mavericks" with "Spurs" :-D
That just seems really improbable. I've bought quite a few hard drives recently, all have barcode stickers, and my shipping invoice from the supplier lists serial number and model of each drive.
In this case the Mavericks Suck drive has a Code 128 barcode that also reads mavericks suck, which I would assume would throw up errors in the inventory management software. If not at the distributor, then surely at the factory?
@jennieblue22: As someone that's lived in Dallas the past 10 years (not a Mavs fan), Mavericks will never will with Dirk being the focal point of the team. He lacks the grapes to do it...Whoa, for a second I thought I was on ESPN.com there. What were we talking about again?



























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