The random thought thread

[ZOOTECH]

Dear Boss,
I really can explain why my End of Financial Year stock take is so far out.
The first reason is that you refuse to put your hand in your pocket and buy a new warehouse stock control software package and still insist on using the one you brought in 1975. The rest of the world has moved on and uses barcode scanning and doesn’t have to enter everything using hex coding.
The second is it appears that most of the techs we employ are left handed and have trouble filling in stock transfer information legibly. It doesn’t help if the Storeman is a dyslexic OCD sufferer either. Most of the stuff is there, it’s just in the wrong bins.
No, all the missing stuff hasn’t been stolen, if you check on ebay you’ll find that there just isn’t a market for vertical transport guides and paper end sensors.
And since I spend most of my time trying to magic obscure parts out of thin air don’t be surprised if some parts vanish back into thin air. It helps maintain the equilibrium of the universe.
Anyway you need a tax loss to offset the obscene profit you made last year.

Is this just 'pent' up anger, or just a really bad Monday morning😉 ?

[Lagonda]

Is this just 'pent' up anger, or just a really bad Monday morning😉 ?

It seems to be a Monday morning that goes on for 8 hours and lasts for 7 days

[fixthecopier]

It seems to be a Monday morning that goes on for 8 hours and lasts for 7 days

So far, my Monday has consisted of laying out of work to crawl under the house to repair a water leak. After completing the task I was laying on my bed and my son comes in.

Are you working on the leak?
No, I am finished.
No you're not. There is water coming out of my bedroom wall.

I hope that by comparison that makes some of you feel good about your Monday.

[Sgt. Hulka]

I really need a break.

[Lagonda]

Are you working on the leak?
No, I am finished.
No you're not. There is water coming out of my bedroom wall.

Thats the reason Mrs Lagonda doesn't let me do plumbing any longer.

[ZOOTECH]

So far, my Monday has consisted of laying out of work to crawl under the house to repair a water leak. After completing the task I was laying on my bed and my son comes in.

Are you working on the leak?
No, I am finished.
No you're not. There is water coming out of my bedroom wall.

I hope that by comparison that makes some of you feel good about your Monday.

You may want to limit repairs to office equipment. 😜, just kidding

[fixthecopier]

Actually the two were not related. The first leak was a cross over from 1 side of the house to the other. Had been leaking a while.The second was on the other end of the house. The water in the wall was from the tub spicket in the boys bathroom. I guess the pressure from starting the pump back up, blew a badly coroded connection. Funny thing was, after fixing the first leak with 1 trip under the house and only 1 trip to the hardware store, I was laying on the bed thinking how my plumbing repairs never end with less than 3 trips to the hardware store when the boy walked in.

[Lagonda]

................I guess the pressure from starting the pump back up, blew a badly corroded connection. .......

Similar thing happened at our warehouse recently. The mains water was turned off while the badly cracked concrete loading pad out the front was dug up and relaid and when the water was turned back on a rusty pipe in the toilets blew out. For once the damage was minimal and the only loss was a carton of toilet paper unlike when the river flooded 10 years ago and we lost $1.25 million worth of stock.

[Iowatech]

Similar thing happened at our warehouse recently. The mains water was turned off while the badly cracked concrete loading pad out the front was dug up and relaid and when the water was turned back on a rusty pipe in the toilets blew out. For once the damage was minimal and the only loss was a carton of toilet paper unlike when the river flooded 10 years ago and we lost $1.25 million worth of stock.

River floods are the worst, I got to see the Mississippi overflow something like that back in '93.Theoretically I've still got video of a two story house floating downriver from somewhere near St. Louis and a river barge settling in against a convenience store in West Quincy MO on VHS from then. While it is probably a good thing that smart phones weren't available then, it still would have been kind of neat to take a video of driving across the thirty foot tall limestone gravel berm to get from Hamilton IL to Keokuk IA, as that was the only place to do so north of St. Louis and south of the Quad Cities then.

[fixthecopier]

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