I give up

[Debs1964]

OK, I give up, I think I'll get a job stacking shelves in my local supermarket, at least I have a better chance of being able to do that than I'm having this week trying to fix copiers!

[fixthecopier]

Re: I give up

OK, I give up, I think I'll get a job stacking shelves in my local supermarket, at least I have a better chance of being able to do that than I'm having this week trying to fix copiers!

Stand Strong and give no quarter. Remember, a copier is like a dog, it can sense fear.

[Copier Addict]

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I is always amazing to me how there are stretches where everything I touch turns to sh$t, and then there are times where I can do no wrong. I have never been able to figure out why.

[Zackuth]

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I'm sure everyone has gone through this, I know I have. There are a couple times a year for a week or so that I'm convinced I'd mess up closing my ziploc bag after putting my sandwich in it. This phase ends and I'm back to fixing machines again.

Fixthecopier, it's not so much the copiers sensing fear that bothers me so much, I can handle that. It's the smug "I'm going to make him look like an idiot" attitude the copiers give me that I have problems with, because sometimes they do.

[CompyTech]

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Don't give up yet.. When you feel down you'll get a call from some client, show up and fix their problem(it may even be as simple as loading a toner bottle) and you'll be their hero for the day.

[theengel]

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Been there... many many times.

During those weeks, I drive away from the customer's thinking:

"A poser! That's all I am. I've just been lucky for the past 20 years, and that's why I think I'm a tech. But really, I'm just a poser."

But good times come back around. Eventually. And then I think:

"Damn, I'm good!"

[20 year tech]

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I thought I was the only one who comes down with CFS (cant fix shit). Hang in there Debs it goes away, take yourself a long weekend and leave work at work.

[slimslob]

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Just stop thinking about whether you want to stay up late or get up early to watch the Singapore F1 this week end.

[gwaddle]

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Some days the brain just decides, "I'm taking a day off, see you later". But it comes back eventually.

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

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OK, I give up, I think I'll get a job stacking shelves in my local supermarket, at least I have a better chance of being able to do that than I'm having this week trying to fix copiers!

Never 'Give up!' ''Quitters never win, and winners never quit!'', so goes the saying. We all feel like you certain times, but I always console myself that since this is 'my calling', then I should not work just for mere pay, but have a real desire to serve!
I once went to service copiers in a certain large organization that among their other employees also employ medical doctors, as administrators, and while 'eavesdropping' on their conversations, overhead some two doctors complaining about 'how boring' their work had become, and lamenting...'only if they had something else, elsewhere to do', they would quit! I then realized all of us at onetime or the other feel bored with our daily routine.

[Zoren]

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Said it in the analog days of copiers yet still saying the same thing in the digital age of copiers.

[mikadonovan]

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You've fixed em before, and you'll fix em again. I also have days I cant fix my way out of a piss soaked paper bag. I usually attribute it to lack of focus.

[Coptech]

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I spoke with someone the other day that told me "their brain was giving them the silent treatment". I liked that comment.

[Debs1964]

Re: I give up

I spoke with someone the other day that told me "their brain was giving them the silent treatment". I liked that comment.

LOL, that does sum up my week, talking to other members of my team it would appear that several of us are having a nightmare week, roll on 17:30 tomorrow and the Singapore Grand Prix
And roll on Saturday evening, I am going to see Joan Baez, you youngsters won't have a clue who she is, but you tube her, listen to Diamonds and Rust, I can't wait, she has been high on my "must see" list for a long time

[ZOOTECH]

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LOL, that does sum up my week, talking to other members of my team it would appear that several of us are having a nightmare week, roll on 17:30 tomorrow and the Singapore Grand Prix
And roll on Saturday evening, I am going to see Joan Baez, you youngsters won't have a clue who she is, but you tube her, listen to Diamonds and Rust, I can't wait, she has been high on my "must see" list for a long time

You'll be starting off next week with a whole new (hopefully good) frame of mind.