The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[SalixIncendium]

NUH UH!!!! It says 1004!!

Oops!!

You're right!

Post #1004

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have a foreman who doesn't understand the space-time continuum. Specifically, we ordered a flow element last Friday afternoon, and were told it will be a 6-8 week delivery. He has asked me 5 times since if it's here. I just had a (loud) conversation with him asking him if he had a lobotomy in high school. His supervisor has been told that the next time the little pecker comes into my office and asks "Did that FE show up?" they will both require alternate employment. I hate when morons put you in a bad mood. I think I'll go do a surveillance of his crew and come up with some horrible stuff for him to do.

Makes me miss power. But I don't miss not getting paid for that power. It's a resume buffer, but behind the resume was a reality of me walking around those I supervised, knowing what they all made on the hour, and knowing that though my responsibilities accumulated to the size of a mountain (took me a good long while to figure out how to put it on a resume because I would have pages if I listed them all), most people I was supervising (and there were only three people in a higher position than me) got paid more per hour to do far less work than I did.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Oops!!

You're right!

Post #1004

NUH! UH! 1005!

 

[SalixIncendium]

NUH! UH! 1005!

You're right again. I suppose I should look into getting some new glasses.

Post #1005

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You're right again. I suppose I should look into getting some new glasses.

Post #1005

Yeah, new glasses, we'll go with that.

 

[Wu Wei]

It is interesting when the salesman who you first talked to is dishonest and the tech who comes later to fulfill the order is honest

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It is interesting when the salesman who you first talked to is dishonest and the tech who comes later to fulfill the order is honest

The job of the salesman is to lie, or least tell half-truths and exaggerate the truth.
What motive does the techie have to lie? Except the serial killer types from Revoltingestan? And when trying to get someone to shut up so they can get to work and move onto the next person that seriously needs to learn how to shut the hell up and let a techie work.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It may have hurt in terms of employment, but god how I am so glad I didn't go into computers/tech as a profession.

 

[Wu Wei]

The job of the salesman is to lie, or least tell half-truths and exaggerate the truth.
What motive does the techie have to lie? Except the serial killer types from Revoltingestan? And when trying to get someone to shut up so they can get to work and move onto the next person that seriously needs to learn how to shut the hell up and let a techie work.

Ran into this when I was an auto mechanic at a VW/Jeep dealer. The people at the desk would diagnose a customers problem and write it up. And when it got to us generally what they wrote up and what needed to be done were 2 different things. What was written up was generally more expensive than what was needed and what was written up was generally not going to fix the issue. I cannot tell you how many fights I had with the front desk staff over this. I usually got in trouble for actually fixing the customers car and not doing what would not fix the customers car. I also was known for kicking the front desk staff (and salesmen) the heck out of the shop too

 

[Revoltingest]

Ran into this when I was an auto mechanic at a VW/Jeep dealer. The people at the desk would diagnose a customers problem and write it up. And when it got to us generally what they wrote up and what needed to be done were 2 different things. What was written up was generally more expensive than what was needed and what was written up was generally not going to fix the issue. I cannot tell you how many fights I had with the front desk staff over this. I usually got in trouble for actually fixing the customers car and not doing what would not fix the customers car. I also was known for kicking the front desk staff (and salesmen) the heck out of the shop too

Where I take Mr Van (Pete's Lakewood Auto), they just write down what I tell
them to address. The mechanic then assesses things, & does what's needed.
They usually get it right. More & more contractors I know are going to Pete's.
I've found that dealers offer poorer service at higher prices.

 

[Wu Wei]

Where I take Mr Van (Pete's Lakewood Auto), they just write down what I tell
them to address. The mechanic then assesses things, & does what's needed.
They usually get it right. More & more contractors I know are going to Pete's.
I've found that dealers offer poorer service at higher prices.

Not surprised, I worked at garages as well and that is pretty much the norm, customer tells you what is going on, then you go look at it to figure out what needs to be fixed and then fix it. The dealership was a strange place...but at least, before I left, they all feared me because I argued with them and kicked them out of the shop.... it was that...or an attitude adjustment...they had two options...I was not unreasonable....they always seemed to pick option 1 though...and customers cars were fixed...every single time...go figure

All they were left with was the embarrassment of having to explain to the customer as to why what they "desk diagnosed" was not fixed and something else was done

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Where I take Mr Van (Pete's Lakewood Auto), they just write down what I tell
them to address. The mechanic then assesses things, & does what's needed.

I wish mechanics like that weren't so hit-and-often-miss. The only good place I've found so far is Midas, and I can do almost nearly everything they do, so it's really a waste of money to go to the only mechanics I've found who answer the phone, take the orders, work on the cars, and take your money when they're done.
Everybody else, I imagine it's more like that Comcast episode of South Park where everybody in tech support is rubbing their nipples.

 

[sun rise]

Not surprised, I worked at garages as well and that is pretty much the norm, customer tells you what is going on, then you go look at it to figure out what needs to be fixed and then fix it. The dealership was a strange place...but at least, before I left, they all feared me because I argued with them and kicked them out of the shop.... it was that...or an attitude adjustment...they had two options...I was not unreasonable....they always seemed to pick option 1 though...and customers cars were fixed...every single time...go figure

All they were left with was the embarrassment of having to explain to the customer as to why what they "desk diagnosed" was not fixed and something else was done

If they were any good they would have just said that the guy in the back started working on the fix and noticed something hidden earlier. And it costs less. Once you tell someone the repair costs less, that's all you have to say.

 

[Wu Wei]

If they were any good they would have just said that the guy in the back started working on the fix and noticed something hidden earlier. And it costs less. Once you tell someone the repair costs less, that's all you have to say.

They were not that smart.... but they made up for their lack of intelligence with rather inflated egos

 

[sun rise]

They were not that smart.... but they made up for their lack of intelligence with rather inflated egos

The followup about a certain President leapt into my mind and danced a jig.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I got the financial green light today for financing my move.
And although I've made a "rough sketch of a preliminary" plan on how to advance from here, I still feel like "oh my god where do I go from here?" I'm finding I need to get over my aversions towards reaching out to strangers, contacting people I don't know, and other such things real quick (it's much easier to manage when that tends to involve no more than a few people).
I'm also going to become a sponge to soak up every last bit of tips, advice, and warnings I can about moving from Amish land to an Amazon-sized concrete jungle.
At this point, the anxiety is almost crippling/paralyzing.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

People have long commented on how "brave" I am, when in reality I'm just good at remaining calm. Right now, starting on down the path that's looked like the best route I've ever had, one that should actually get me there, and now just the thought of knowing it's going to take just a bit of effort and things are going to happen, that there shouldn't be any bars or real barriers in getting things moving along, I'm finding I'm actually quite anxious and scared. But, as Eddard Stark pointed out, the only time we can be brave is when we are afraid.
I'm probably going to take a chill pill (literally), and start working out things I need to get done tomorrow, such as possibly getting my voc rehab transferred (since it is supposed to be a national program of sorts), looking for places that help people with Asperger's/Autism so I can get help adjusting to and assimilating into big city life (and I thought Indy was a big city ROTFLMAO), and prowling over job recruiters and temp agencies and other places of employment. Also looking for places to live, researching different....neighborhoods? communities? areas/regions of towns? whatever the term is for when "west side" or "north end of town" just won't do to describe where the residential areas are. And tonight trying to come up with stuff to ask my therapist tomorrow so she can help me with what she can. I also need to find out what's going to happen with my insurance and if I need to prepare in advance to stock pile a month or two of my meds encase I'll have a gap in coverage. I want to assume that if Indiana classifies me as medically frail, and among the most disabled for voc rehab, then hopefully California would be like "oh yeah we'll give you a hand while you get established here," but I'm going to assume that such a hope is about as likely as waking up tomorrow to find a million dollars in my bank account.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Crap, and I'm going to have to go around collecting all my relevant medical records before this move. I wish it was easy, but a couple of places who hold some of my more relevant records just really aren't all that much into moving their asses and getting them to me.
And also hope I can find a new PCP who is as good as the one I have now.

 

[Wirey]

The snow, she falls.

 

[sun rise]

I got the financial green light today for financing my move.
And although I've made a "rough sketch of a preliminary" plan on how to advance from here, I still feel like "oh my god where do I go from here?" I'm finding I need to get over my aversions towards reaching out to strangers, contacting people I don't know, and other such things real quick (it's much easier to manage when that tends to involve no more than a few people).
I'm also going to become a sponge to soak up every last bit of tips, advice, and warnings I can about moving from Amish land to an Amazon-sized concrete jungle.
At this point, the anxiety is almost crippling/paralyzing.

That sounds like a great plan.