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' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
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Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...
...when you get a call 3 hours away from a major account and the message is to install a maintenance kit. It's a customer supply item that you don't carry and aren't supposed to install for them, so if you make the drive you already know it will be a hold call (the boss will bitch), you'll have to go back after the kits arrive (the boss will bitch), and the customer is supposed to do it to begin with (the boss will bitch).
But if you don't go the customer will complain (the boss will bitch), they'll screw it up somehow (the boss will bitch), and you'll end up going up there anyhow (the boss will bitch, see above).73 DE W5SSJComment
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Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...
......you're underneath your car doing a routine oil change when you notice a small drip on the plastic radiator drain plug. You pick up a spanner to tighten it but the moment you put the spanner on it the head shears off. So you battle for a half hour to get the thread out and knock the bucket over and loose all the coolant. At that moment you realise that Mrs Lagonda's car is in the driveway behind yours and its a long walk across town to the only spares shop open on Sunday afternoon.....At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.Comment
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Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...
It's been a long and hard day at work ..... normal idiot's ( oops, I meant 'customer' ) complaints:
You get home...walk in the door...your wife greets you...then says...
" You know... I was just thinkin' ... ""The Serenity Prayer" . . .
God grant me the serenity to accept stupid people , the courage to not waste my time and energy on them , and the wisdom to know that I cannot fix STUPID .Comment
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Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...
... you get home to find out your 5 year-old decided to play with your spindle full of data CDs and DVDs by spreading them all over his bedroom floor and walk over them.' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!Comment
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Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...
1st call of the day and you return to your vehicle, arms loaded, and place everything in the back. the meter says you have 2 min left and the meter maid is coming towards you. you desperately search for your keys, they are laying in the back of your vehicle. the doors are all locked!!!!!!!!!!
the wife is at work and you have no way to get the spare set of keys.
the meter maid just laughs and waits for the meter to expire...............
now try finding your cell phone to call the tow company to get you in to your vehicle.........
its next to your keys..........
public telephone $00.25
parking ticket $45.00
tow truck $75.00
trying to explain it all to the other techs ...... Priceless......................$hit Happens - Deal with it and move on.....................................sigpic....................................Lock & LoadComment
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Re: You know your day just went in the toilet when...
...when you have a call show up on your board with an incorrect address that's really in a TOTALLY different part of the country and you send your supervisor a message explaining. He sends a message back telling you to suck it up and just help out XYZ Tech who is out sick today...
...then he calls you 20 minutes later and asks if you ever took care of that call on the far edge of your territory that's been hanging out for a PM, but the call has been closed for DAYS...
...then you get a message from him there will be a district wide service meeting before 8:00 the next day, and even some of the out of town guys are required to be there in person instead of conference call... because the Operations Manager will be there...
...and you just found out at least one of the on-site guys has been laid off...
...and the company has been doing their darndest to flush themselves down the toilet for years...
...you've also just been put into a new territory where it's nearly impossible to "make your numbers" without some serious begging for calls outside your territory and / or creative (but honest) accounting. (and numbers is all they care about anymore)...
...last but not least, you have a seriously low tolerance for B.S. and an inability to keep your mouth shut once you've had enough of it.
Somebody has to tell the Emperor he has no clothes.73 DE W5SSJComment
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' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!Comment
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