This is more of a mean/dumb comment. I was explaining to the customer that I will order the part today but someone else will be out next week since I will be on vacation. I think the secretary understood what I was saying but her boss who was listening in stormed out and said "Whaaat? We will have to wait a week to get this fixed??" Somehow he misunderstood what I was saying.
Well after a moment or two of confusion I got everyone on the same page and made it quite clear that it should be no later than Tuesday. I even called the other tech right then and made sure he knew what needed done and could make it as soon as the parts came in, it just needed some feed tires and a clutch just to be sure.
After everything settled down I went on with my day. About an hour later I get a call from my boss. He read off some nasty email he just got about how I told them they will have to wait until I get back from vacation to get their copier fixed. It also said that is "unacceptable" and they want someone out Monday. I'm a fairly easy going type of guy but that just mad my blood boil. That guy knew damn well he wouldn't have to wait for me to come back but still shot off some nasty email to my boss. At least my boss got a chuckle out of it. I swear some people just have too much time on their hands. I didn't know there were such people out there, this is for the local Board of Legislators.
MrWho- I hope my wife doesn't read that, I think I have her fooled. LOL
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I do not think that a female tech and a male tech could get along in a marriage. We have 2 females at the shop and both are very good at what they do, but it seem they may have a little O.C.D. or be slightly anal retentive. I am more of the relaxed sort who does not worry about small details. My wife does manual labor and can instal a facuet or thermostat, as she will tell you she has done in the past, and I am sure if she tried, she could be a tech if she wanted, but then I would have to leave her or kill her or something. After working it all day, I would not want to come home and listen to her bitching about her bad copier day or worse yet, her telling me how to fix a copier and being right about it.
The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking
Now that's the problem with us men, isn't it? When they are right about someting and we are not?
When my wife is right about something and I'm not (which rarely happens, by the way) I just shrug it off as being unimportant and not to the point (even if it was about my hair being on fire). If we give it too much importance they might just get used to it, and we don't want that, do we?
' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!
There is something to be said about like minds. Most of the time they can be in agreement upon any given subject without conflict. But add sex to the equation, a sense of competition will invariably and inevitably be the result. Good or bad, it can add a dynamic to the relationship that is both positive and negative. The balance to the equation is simply to not have equilibrium. If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them will bullshit. Change the subject at first opportunity in other words.
"Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls."
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My wife and I have been happily married for 26 years now.
Whenever she asks me something that I don't have an answer for (like maybe how long it would take to drive somewhere), I get on the "Net and look it up.
She tells me, "You used to always know the answer to anything I asked you - now you need a computer to look everything up."
I reply with, "Back then I was trying to impress you, so if I didn't know the answer, I made stuff up."
That usually keeps her quiet for a while, anyway...
“I think you should treat good friends like a fine wine. That’s why I keep mine locked up in the basement.” - Tim Hawkins
Yeah...have to agree with that one. LOL. Tech guys like to feel needed. The dumb bimbos need someone to take care of them and make the world a safe place. It's not that those of us who have a brain, don't want to be protected and taken care of (I personally love that), but we are not helpless, we can take care of ourselves when you guys aren't around and we like being appreciated for it. It's great working with team of guys, but you get treated like one of the guys. If you are a tech, male or female, you need someone with a lot of patience because we aren't generally people oriented and we don't have any patience for stupidity (probably because we deal with so much of it).There is something to be said about like minds. Most of the time they can be in agreement upon any given subject without conflict. But add sex to the equation, a sense of competition will invariably and inevitably be the result. Good or bad, it can add a dynamic to the relationship that is both positive and negative. The balance to the equation is simply to not have equilibrium. If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them will bullshit. Change the subject at first opportunity in other words.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Coke in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!".
I can handle ignorance - that's something we all have, in one respect or another, since we can't know about everything - as long as the ignorant person is willing to accept some explanation and is willing to learn something from the situation. When that doesn't happen, then it stops being ignorance and starts being stupidity.
As I use to say "Ignorance can be cured - Stupidity can't."
' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!
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