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The sensor is on the toilet and reacts well to the color white. If the lights are dim or the sensor is dirty it wont work. Most of them have a push button you can use if it doesn't. If your behind is really white the sensor may get tripped a lot and continuously flush. You don't have that problem, do you? Then again, it could have been a defective sensor. I cant imagine there are too many techs wanting to work on those things nor are there too many management personal willing to pay someone to come out and fix something that is merely a convenience.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Coke in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!".Comment
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I've done something similar to the above many times.
But my best moment of indignation was walking into a banking branch.
I walked through the double push manual doors; I proceeded to fix the copier, as normal.
It was my return out of the manual doors that got the customer amused.
Above the double door was a security camera that made me believe it automatically opened the doors. So I stood in front of the doors for a good 20-30 seconds waving my hands at the camera to make the doors open. Finally after what appeared like eternity, this little voice inside my head yells "hey dipsh!t those doors are manual." To which I suddenly realised; and looked around at the staff behind the counter smiling with big grins on their faces. The young girl behind the counter said to me "we see that a lot so don't feel bad" ...
I just bowed my head low and hurried out...Inauguration to the "AI cancel-culture" fraternity 1997...
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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.'
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I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!Comment
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I had a door incident worth sharing. I think it was a bank, but that doesn't affect the story.
I had gone out to the car several times. The entryway was all glass, a center glass panel with doors on either side. on the way out the third time I chose a door ... well ... a door that was not a door. I returned to consciousness laying on the ground, looking up at concerned faces, and no clue what had happened. Two weeks later I was there, and that center panel was shattered. Apparently someone had struck it harder than I did.
Speaking of unconsciousness:
I had an account in the upper stories of a steel beam structure. Near the top stair there was an I-beam, ~68" above the deck. Painted in 3" red lettering was "OUCH" across the beam. I have a notoriously short memory.
On the way out I beaned myself on that beam. I let go of my case and vacuum, dropped to my knees ... wobbled, and regained consciousness before falling any further. Others before me were not so lucky. One had a broken nose from landing face first on the steel deck ("Timberrrrrrr!"). Another went face first down the stairs.
=^..^=Last edited by blackcat4866; 12-12-2012, 12:52 AM.If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=Comment
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Been there. Years ago, when in high school, I went through a glass window. Lucky me they used those fragile thin glasses, the kind that are usualy used on small windows, instead of tempered glass (the same kind of glass that broke my nose months ago). At the time I only needed some stitches on my right hand (and a ruined summer vacation afternoon when I just wanted to go home and play computer games).' "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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' "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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' "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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Did something similar only a month or two ago. The place was an electronics store. They had a fixed full length glass panel to the side of the main door that was just cleaned nice and fresh. I was racing from the store checking my receipt and change an I just looked up in time to see a full sheet of solid glass at the tip of my nose. Whooaa... I back back and went through the open door.
I didn't mind the people in the store looking weird at me, but at the same time I had the company logo stamped all over my clothing.
Inauguration to the "AI cancel-culture" fraternity 1997...
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Glass stories? I have one, but not from my days as a copy tech.
I was a young lad of about 5, playing tag with a friend of mine... I wasn't exactly the tallest 5 year old, as I had to reach up to the fullest extent of my arm to reach the door handle of a typical screen door. Well I was running in this instance, and I happened to miss the door handle, sending both of my arms straight through the mid-section glass of this particular door and the screen... I've still got scars on my wrists and a piece of glass permanently lodged in my left one. By now it's broken so many times over it's a pile of dust sitting under scar tissue that likely won't be coming out.Cthulhu for president! Why settle for the lesser evil?Comment
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