The scary call outs

**mrwho** · 08-30-2011, 11:26 AM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by igi

and keep away from libraryans

Of course it had to be a woman.

**fixthecopier** · 08-30-2011, 12:34 PM

Re: The scary call outs

I do not scare easily, I have an x wife.

**mrwho** · 08-30-2011, 12:35 PM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by fixthecopier

I do not scare easily, I have an x wife.

Was she like that when you married her?

**kingarthur** · 08-30-2011, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by fixthecopier
I do not scare easily, I have an x wife.

Originally posted by mrwho

Was she like that when you married her?

Well she wasn't his x wife

**prntrfxr** · 08-30-2011, 01:05 PM

Re: The scary call outs

Fixing a printer at a nuclear power plant was kind of scary. I've never dealt with security that tough. But they never waived a firearm in my face, so I think your story tops mine.

**Kidaver** · 08-30-2011, 02:07 PM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by fixthecopier

I do not scare easily, I have an x wife.

^^ very little scares me as well...I have a redheaded ex wife!

**CT Copier Repair** · 08-30-2011, 04:01 PM

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one week after the Oklahoma city bombings I was covering another service territory and we get a call for a machine down at the federal building. Now this was in the days of suit and tie service so I arrive in a black suit and as it was raining I had on my black lopndon fog trench coat.
I go to the desk, introduce myself, proceed to give them my license and they search me and then they ask me to open my tool kit. Well I always carried a tube of plumbers epoxy ( and still do) to temporarily fix broken doors and actuators etc. I got jacked into the wall with a gun placed to my head and had about 5 federal officers bringing me to the ground. As I am laying there the SAC for my normal service territory walks in and sees me on the ground. He stops the whole process as he has seen me fix his copier several times with the plumbers putty. Shaken I proceed to go to work on the copier. WOuldn't you know it had a broken door actuator and i take out the tube of plumbers putty and hear Stop or I'll shoot. I drop the putty and raise my hands stuttering don't shoot. It was the SAC from my territory laughing his ass off. NEedless to say I was not pleased. Next time his copier was broken ( the door again) he had to wait a week and a half until I ordered the new door and charged them for it.

**mrwho** · 08-30-2011, 04:40 PM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by CT Copier Repair

one week after the Oklahoma city bombings I was covering another service territory and we get a call for a machine down at the federal building. Now this was in the days of suit and tie service so I arrive in a black suit and as it was raining I had on my black lopndon fog trench coat.
I go to the desk, introduce myself, proceed to give them my license and they search me and then they ask me to open my tool kit. Well I always carried a tube of plumbers epoxy ( and still do) to temporarily fix broken doors and actuators etc. I got jacked into the wall with a gun placed to my head and had about 5 federal officers bringing me to the ground. As I am laying there the SAC for my normal service territory walks in and sees me on the ground. He stops the whole process as he has seen me fix his copier several times with the plumbers putty. Shaken I proceed to go to work on the copier. WOuldn't you know it had a broken door actuator and i take out the tube of plumbers putty and hear Stop or I'll shoot. I drop the putty and raise my hands stuttering don't shoot. It was the SAC from my territory laughing his ass off. NEedless to say I was not pleased. Next time his copier was broken ( the door again) he had to wait a week and a half until I ordered the new door and charged them for it.

We don't get that excited here where I live. The closest thing I had was to get the glue out of my suitcase and hear some comment about sniffing it instead of fixing the machine.

**gwaddle** · 08-30-2011, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by CT Copier Repair

one week after the Oklahoma city bombings I was covering another service territory and we get a call for a machine down at the federal building. Now this was in the days of suit and tie service so I arrive in a black suit and as it was raining I had on my black lopndon fog trench coat.
I go to the desk, introduce myself, proceed to give them my license and they search me and then they ask me to open my tool kit. Well I always carried a tube of plumbers epoxy ( and still do) to temporarily fix broken doors and actuators etc. I got jacked into the wall with a gun placed to my head and had about 5 federal officers bringing me to the ground. As I am laying there the SAC for my normal service territory walks in and sees me on the ground. He stops the whole process as he has seen me fix his copier several times with the plumbers putty. Shaken I proceed to go to work on the copier. WOuldn't you know it had a broken door actuator and i take out the tube of plumbers putty and hear Stop or I'll shoot. I drop the putty and raise my hands stuttering don't shoot. It was the SAC from my territory laughing his ass off. NEedless to say I was not pleased. Next time his copier was broken ( the door again) he had to wait a week and a half until I ordered the new door and charged them for it.

If it was me, they not only wouldn't have gotten anything fixed that day, I wouldn't have set foot in the place again. I guess I'm not that forgiving.

**gwaddle** · 08-30-2011, 07:51 PM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by igi

hi all

years back i get a call from a customer their sf-7750 jamming from adf

i get there its a library,no problem testing the adf about 50 copies no jams

the labraryan passing by and asks what is the problem,i answer nothing is wrong with the machine

she looks me in the eyes and tells me are you calling me a liar this machine jams every copy

and she goes to her office,30 seconds later i hear her voice behind me,are you calling me a liar

i turn around just to see a fire-arm in my face,my knees start to shake but i droped all my tools and run to my car

i sat in the car shaking for an hour atleast,then i saw her leaving maybe for lunch or maybe to see her psyciatrist

i took ma chance and run in to collect my tools never to see this customer again,i told my boss you can fire me know but i never going there again

even after all this years as i write this my hands start to shake

good luck all

and keep away from libraryans

This one not only wouldn't have gotten the copier fixed but would have been in jail.

**fixthecopier** · 08-30-2011, 10:41 PM

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As I get to make up my own rates, I do not believe anyone could afford a "gun in the face charge"! The baby face kids with guns out here do not bother me. On the rare instance that I have had one of them point a gun at me i usually tell them to fuck off and that this isn't Iraq and you will really fuck up if you pull the trigger. One time a senior NCO came in and heard me fucking with his solider and told him to "shoot the son of a bitch", referring to me. there was a long dead silence before me and the sergeant busted out laughing. The poor kid stood there and did not know what to do. I went back to fixing the fax and ignored him.

The thing that scares me out here are the working dogs. They take no shit from no one.

**blackcat4866** · 08-30-2011, 11:17 PM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by mrwho

We don't get that excited here where I live. The closest thing I had was to get the glue out of my suitcase and hear some comment about sniffing it instead of fixing the machine.

... or the time at the maximum security prison, where I spent two hours looking through trash cans for an empty tube of superglue that I had consumed onsite, and not present at the post service call inventory. We never did find it by the way. I assume they just got their fill of hassling me. =^..^=

**pacman** · 08-31-2011, 12:03 AM

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I can honestly say I have never had a weapon pointed at me while fixing a call.

Not on a call, another story.........lol.

**Jules Winfield** · 08-31-2011, 01:34 AM

Re: The scary call outs

Originally posted by igi

hi all

years back i get a call from a customer their sf-7750 jamming from adf

i get there its a library,no problem testing the adf about 50 copies no jams

the labraryan passing by and asks what is the problem,i answer nothing is wrong with the machine

she looks me in the eyes and tells me are you calling me a liar this machine jams every copy

and she goes to her office,30 seconds later i hear her voice behind me,are you calling me a liar

i turn around just to see a fire-arm in my face,my knees start to shake but i droped all my tools and run to my car

i sat in the car shaking for an hour atleast,then i saw her leaving maybe for lunch or maybe to see her psyciatrist

i took ma chance and run in to collect my tools never to see this customer again,i told my boss you can fire me know but i never going there again

even after all this years as i write this my hands start to shake

good luck all

and keep away from libraryans

You should have sued her or at least got the police on her ass. Don't let people get away with that kind of bullshit....

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