You know your day just went in the toilet when...

[kyrenecopy]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

When you wake up on May 22, 2012 and realize that there will be no more new episodes of House!

[Lagonda]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

.....you wake up in the morning and realise your still a photocopier tech.

[nmfaxman]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Went to fix a 380 code on a ricoh 2238C and found a connector broken.
Opened up the controller and got a handful of toner mixed with fuser oil.
Fixed the wiring harness and now I got a 260 code.
I asked the customer if they had moved it and he said yeah, we laid it on it's back because we were afraid it would fall over in the truck.
I had to tell him that he just hosed his machine and it is going to cost more to fix it than the machine is worth.
He had just bought it for $700 and tried to save money by moving it himself.
Too cheap to buy new or rent.
What a day.

[KenB]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

.....you wake up in the morning and realise your still a photocopier tech.

Oh, the horror!

[KenB]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Went to fix a 380 code on a ricoh 2238C and found a connector broken.
Opened up the controller and got a handful of toner mixed with fuser oil.
Fixed the wiring harness and now I got a 260 code.
I asked the customer if they had moved it and he said yeah, we laid it on it's back because we were afraid it would fall over in the truck.
I had to tell him that he just hosed his machine and it is going to cost more to fix it than the machine is worth.
He had just bought it for $700 and tried to save money by moving it himself.
Too cheap to buy new or rent.
What a day.

Maybe your day didn't go in the crapper, but his sure did!

Cheapskate.

[Shadow1]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

He had just bought it for $700 and tried to save money by moving it himself.
Too cheap to buy new or rent.

$700 lesson. Sad thing is he may or may not learn from it.

...so what's he going to do to replace it? Buy new or rent?

[blackcat4866]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Went to fix a 380 code on a ricoh 2238C and found a connector broken.
Opened up the controller and got a handful of toner mixed with fuser oil.
Fixed the wiring harness and now I got a 260 code.
I asked the customer if they had moved it and he said yeah, we laid it on it's back because we were afraid it would fall over in the truck.
I had to tell him that he just hosed his machine and it is going to cost more to fix it than the machine is worth.
He had just bought it for $700 and tried to save money by moving it himself.
Too cheap to buy new or rent.
What a day.

Quite a few years ago I had the same situation: Canon NP-6060 shipped from Florida to Michigan in the back of a tractor trailer. The customer was worried it would tip over so they flopped it on it's back and banded it down with 3/4" metal banding to a pallet.

When they showed it to me I couldn't think of anything to say. They kept asking me "How do we get it upright?" (It's about 600 lbs) I thought "Why bother?"

It took 6 of us to get it on it's wheels. Of all the boards on the back of the machine the largest single piece was the size of a silver dollar. It was a total loss. I scavenged the imaging unit, a fuser, and a few pieces of the RADF. They still had 3 years on the lease.
=^..^=

[KenB]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Quite a few years ago I had the same situation: Canon NP-6060 shipped from Florida to Michigan in the back of a tractor trailer. The customer was worried it would tip over so they flopped it on it's back and banded it down with 3/4" metal banding to a pallet.

When they showed it to me I couldn't think of anything to say. They kept asking me "How do we get it upright?" (It's about 600 lbs) I thought "Why bother?"

It took 6 of us to get it on it's wheels. Of all the boards on the back of the machine the largest single piece was the size of a silver dollar. It was a total loss. I scavenged the imaging unit, a fuser, and a few pieces of the RADF. They still had 3 years on the lease.=^..^=

That was about the best thing that could have happened to a sicky-sicky...I mean 6060 .

[Shadow1]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Had the movers literally roll a brand new Lanier 5722 (Big Color Toshiba FC-22) off the back of the truck. It never made a single copy in it's short, tragic life.

[HenryT2]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Shadow .... and Ollie .....
Thanks for the laugh's ......
Just makes a good day get better .

P.S. Shadow ... it's good to have you back.
Keep up your good work for us here in Mi'sip .

[kyrenecopy]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

When the company you work for (Ricoh) buys a company who's management seems intent on flushing the business down the toilet (IKON) and your paychecks start showing up with the other company's name on them.

Just like when Konica buys you out after they bought out Danka (who was going belly up) and then lets Danka management run everything?!

[JustManuals]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

When you get an email out of the blue from a stranger asking for your street address..............
Then 2 hours later receiving a cease and desist letter from a manufacturer ordering you to stop selling their manuals. There are workarounds though.

Major Bummer!

[fixthecopier]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

.....you wake up in the morning and realise your still a photocopier tech.

For me it would be, wake up and realize I am no longer a copy tech and have to find a new career at my age.

[jonezy999]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

Members adverts show up in posts on CTN?

jks

[igi]

Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...

For me it would be, wake up and realize I am no longer a copy tech and have to find a new career at my age.

With your experience any copier company will be privileged.
to have you!!!