[QUOTE=fixthecopier;194743]The sad thing is that my customers are Special Forces. They are the cream of the crop. QUOTE]
Your starting to get me worried, fixthecopier, I hope none of these guys have access to a nuclear trigger!
[QUOTE=fixthecopier;194743]The sad thing is that my customers are Special Forces. They are the cream of the crop. QUOTE]
Your starting to get me worried, fixthecopier, I hope none of these guys have access to a nuclear trigger!
At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.
Is your location correct as Kampala City. Based on news of that part of the world, I would think bad language would be the least of bad things that could happen. Am I wrong? If words hurt that much, you folks would have died if you ever walked into the steel plant I used to work at. Ex soilders, bikers and rednecks. The "F" word getting used 500 times a day.
I am referring to the part of the world you live in , not your country or city , which I guess has changed a lot from the 80's. Words only have the power people give them.
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The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking
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No nukes here, but the Special Warfare School has one badass weapons facility. A 14 million dollar building with every kind of small arms and assault weapon you have ever seen. At one range I had to move a pile of assault rifels off the front of a machine so I could get a meter read. At another site I was talking to a soldier while he was working on a rather large 50 cal machine gun. I was going to get a pic of him holding it on me demanding I fix the copier, but had no camera that day.
The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking
' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
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'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
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I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!
The only problem with the stories which get out of this part of the world is that they are compiled and written by Journalists from the 'WEST'---meaning from America or Europe, who usually spice it with their own SENSATIONS inorder to attract the " western" audience & entice them to buy the news. IT is BIG Business for them and their firms. They concentrate their articles on war related stories,hunger, epidemics, famine ,diseases etc, but rarely on development issues taking place in this part of the world, like infrastructure developments.
But as u have said, working in those steel plants or army facilities in your country where the use of the word 'F' is as common as 'Good morning, sir' would require one to have some ' GUTS' to get used to it. Needles to say there are many of our citizens who live and work in your country (I assume it to be the USA), yet when they come 'HOME' for their annual leave or visit, still we rarely hear those "WORDS" from their mouth.
I think excessive cursing, especially on the job, is a symptom of poor vocabulary skills. Or lack of self control. Cursing with your buddies, drinking beer and watching the game is one thing, but cursing on the job is quite different. May I recommend substituting other words for curse words. "blueberries", and "dang" work for me. It just requires a little practice. Ranting to a customer, no matter the reason, just reflects poorly on you and your profession. Try teaching the customer, or in the case of idiots dumping crap in the toner hopper, try being proactive. Any customer of mine that can't handle installing toner, I tell them to just place a "jam" call, and I'll gladly replace the toner for them. Also check every customer's toner inventory while you're there. If a customer runs out of toner shortly after a visit from me, then I just had a fail. Just saying.
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