Do you curse when working? (Warning: Could be baaaad words inside!)

[Dark Helmet]

The sad thing is that my customers are Special Forces. They are the cream of the crop. They will tell you that they are trained to kill and not to run office equipment.

You could tell them instead of fucking up the copier they could be out killing all the camel humpers that need to be killed!

[prntrfxr]

I've said things under my breath when I've gotten hurt, but I've never gone that far on a customer. I heard of a tech somewhere who changed the control panel to read something like "Wait until it warms up, you idiot" (initializing), "Add paper, stupid" (add paper), or "F#$% you!" (when it jammed). Don't ask me how he did it, but I thought that was really funny. When the customer asked about it, they were told "all the new machines do that". The customer actually liked it. Go figure.

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

Honestly speaking, the type of "BAD LANGUAGE" you people use there in that part of the world is totally unheard of in this corner of the globe where i live except may be among the city riff-rafts, lump ens or thugs. ( No offense intended). We are raised up from childhood with very strict moral values such that ,to hear a word like 'F**k you' in this part of the world uttered from your mouth, would make you liable to be EXCOMMUNICATED from the society!
The only best word u may use even if a machine u r working on chops off your fingers is JESUS!!!!!! or Oooh MY GOD, I have hurt myself!!! Any other word used other than these is assumed to be coming from the devil. In any case the customer would politely request you to leave her premises and not comeback again!

[TonerMunkeh]

You could tell them instead of fucking up the copier they could be out killing all the camel humpers that need to be killed!

Amen brother, amen.

I unfortunately worked for a construction firm for approximately 7 years and every other word that came out of my fellow employees' mouth was "fuck". I can swear with the best of them. The only down side is I have to bottle up what I think and say during the week to put up a nice front for the customer. Unfortunately, I am a total bastard on a Saturday as all the shit I've buried through the week comes out. The missus calls it "grumpy Saturday".

With regard to swearing in front of customers, the worst I've said is "jesus christ" when I got belted by a Stella's power supply while plugging the fuser back in. I discretely swear under my breath when a machine is severly pissing me off, but my best way of calming down if copiers are giving me shit is to go and loiter outside and have a cigarette, take 5 minutes, kick the nearest cat then put my smiley face back on!

[fixthecopier]

You could tell them instead of fucking up the copier they could be out killing all the camel humpers that need to be killed!

They have all been there and done their time. They go often and look forward to it. In all the years I have been there, never seen fear. One thing that is different about where I work is that when I am going to units that see combat, they have markers or some kind of memorial for each person who did not come back. Sometimes there are family members grieving as you walk by. The worst is when I look at a plaque on the wall and see somebody I remember dealing with. Some kid I showed how to put toner in, or a Sergent that would talk to me while I worked on his machine. It helps me keep things in perspective. Every day I get up and my family is O.K. , is going to be a great day.

[Lagonda]

[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!

[fixthecopier]

Honestly speaking, the type of "BAD LANGUAGE" you people use there in that part of the world is totally unheard of in this corner of the globe where i live except may be among the city riff-rafts, lump ens or thugs. ( No offense intended). We are raised up from childhood with very strict moral values such that ,to hear a word like 'F**k you' in this part of the world uttered from your mouth, would make you liable to be EXCOMMUNICATED from the society!
The only best word u may use even if a machine u r working on chops off your fingers is JESUS!!!!!! or Oooh MY GOD, I have hurt myself!!! Any other word used other than these is assumed to be coming from the devil. In any case the customer would politely request you to leave her premises and not comeback again!

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.

[fixthecopier]

[QUOTE=Lagonda;195254]

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!

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.

[mrwho]

I was going to get a pic of him holding it on me demanding I fix the copier, but had no camera that day.

That would be a prize-winning one!

[jcontractor]

[QUOTE=fixthecopier;195377]

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.

They can use as masters all those weapons at a perfection, men and killing machine running as a Swiss clock, but the can' ever press the star button in a copier and don't make a big mess and broke it at perfection!!!!!!!!!

[jcontractor]

[QUOTE=fixthecopier;195377]

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.

They expent hundreds of million of dollars in buldings, weapons and gadgets, but they comply for a bottle of tonner few dollar cost!!!!!!
That the reason the technician course to the machines.

[slybot]

The sad thing is that my customers are Special Forces. They are the cream of the crop. They will tell you that they are trained to kill and not to run office equipment. From the stories I have overheard they are very good at what they are trained to do.


One of my customers unit motto is "We do bad things to bad people, Cause some people just need killing"

My first call this morning will be with one of their combat companies. They called yesterday and said they ran something sticky like labels through the machine and now it jams. I just could not deal with it yesterday.


Did I fail to mention the one where I am downtown and I am having an awful day and one of them calls me and says "we only needed one overhead transparency so someone said we could use one of those plastic page protectors out of a binder, and well it melted in the machine" I actually told him I was going to go home and get my gun and shoot his stupid ass when I got there. Of course it was an idle threat, but when I got there he had picked all of the plastic out already. This guy was an instructor or teacher.

LOL love it! such a classic

[slybot]

You could tell them instead of fucking up the copier they could be out killing all the camel humpers that need to be killed!

amen to that

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

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.

[KEVIN900]

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.