Customer buys two oil filters in January from the dealer I work at. And now needs to exchange them because both of them are missing the gaskets. Sure.. Ok..
Customer buys two oil filters in January from the dealer I work at. And now needs to exchange them because both of them are missing the gaskets. Sure.. Ok..
I swear people took stupid pills today. I have a lady call me that lost her keys for her "hyundai" and said do I need to pay for those? i explained that it was her fault she lost them and not my problem, in the nicest way possible. she didnt understand why she had to pay for them. She eventually understand and I told her the key fob (push start) was 243$ and programming was 125$. she says " you have to be berkeleying kidding me, you are an shiny happy person" and hung up.
after this I get a guy calling asking for a seat belt pretensioner, once again, for his "Hyundai" no make model year vin, nothing and insisted I could look it up because it was a Hyundai. Thank you kind people of central MA for making my day
Lady pays a plumber to thaw out her frozen pipes. A week later she calls him back and says they are frozen again and wants him to honor his work. Wait what??? Obviously he didn't go back. I get a call from the church to go help this lady out. Thaw out the pipes for her and spend another hour and $50 of my own money to reinsulate where the pipes were freezing. Hoping some good karma comes my way.
Don't have anything quite like that, but I was asked on our Facebook page "When are you guys going to get ahold of a ND and give it some real power?"
The specifications of the car were only released this week. Production has not yet begun. So, umm, we don't have any parts available yet.
Keith Tanner wrote: Don't have anything quite like that, but I was asked on our Facebook page "When are you guys going to get ahold of a ND and give it some real power?" The specifications of the car were only released this week. Production has not yet begun. So, umm, we don't have any parts available yet.
Would those be the same people who want to hire someone with a minimum five years' experience working with software that is only one year old?
Weird stuff: Late model dump truck. Rear lights inoperative and airbag light is on. When bringing into building, noted that the extremely heavy and thick dump bed has been hit hard enough to buckle it slightly.
Turns out, someone backed it into something hard enough to unplug the lights. And fire the pre-tensioning seatbelts. My neck hurts just thinking about how hard you have to back a dumptruck into something to crumple the bed.
Knurled wrote:Keith Tanner wrote: Don't have anything quite like that, but I was asked on our Facebook page "When are you guys going to get ahold of a ND and give it some real power?" The specifications of the car were only released this week. Production has not yet begun. So, umm, we don't have any parts available yet.Would those be the same people who want to hire someone with a minimum five years' experience working with software that is only one year old?
So youre saying every single person who works here lied on their resume?
At one of my previous gigs, they put out a job listing for a webmaster. Tim Berners-Lee was qualified...barely.
Our job description for new-hires clearly implies I'm not qualified to install or troubleshoot the line of software I designed and wrote for us 
i thought just I was having that kind of day. guy came in to work at 8am this morning and wanted a coolant flush because his truck was over heating. coolant all looks great so I start the truck and let it run a while and theres zero circulation and coolant leaking from the weephole on the pump. tell him he needs a water pump and that we cant flush it. he proceeds to tell me how much of an idiot I am and storms out. 3hrs later a friend of mine who works at a local parts store sold the man a water pump.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Our job description for new-hires clearly implies I'm not qualified to install or troubleshoot the line of software I designed and wrote for us
Get used to it. I have been told that I do not know how to program and run instrumentation that I actually designed and coded in the first place. That was a fun meeting when I started taking notes to show my Boss.
" I used to be disgusted, but now I'm just amused"
^ ahh, Elvis Costello
one of my favorite lines
Had a girl last night, "online it said this was in stock, in a bigger size. Why can't I find it"
Your first clue should've been that our website doesn't ask you to specify which store it is 'in stock' at.
" I get a call from the church . . . "
Well there's a problem right there——
wearymicrobe wrote:Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Our job description for new-hires clearly implies I'm not qualified to install or troubleshoot the line of software I designed and wrote for usGet used to it. I have been told that I do not know how to program and run instrumentation that I actually designed and coded in the first place. That was a fun meeting when I started taking notes to show my Boss.
Yes, as a developer doing maintenance and support, I was consistently passed over for jobs designing the new replacement software.
"Hello, if I'm smart enough to figure out what's wrong and write patches when it breaks, just MAYBE I'm smart enough to write it so it works correctly the first time around"
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Our job description for new-hires clearly implies I'm not qualified to install or troubleshoot the line of software I designed and wrote for us
GOOD!! Bring that up the next time someone is unhappy with it!
In reply to erohslc: When I announced I was retiring they talked me in to staying an extra six months to train my replacement. It was only when we were talking about him buying a new car that I realized they hired him at a higher starting pay than they were paying me after eighteen years.
His resume other than schooling? He worked two months as an intern in a another industry, during summer semester break. He must have been a Hell Of A Good Interview! I don't know. I interviewed people over a several years period for various positions. But I wasn't asked to be a part of his interview.
I retired effective the next day, changed my phone numbers, and put in call blocking from my company, just in case they got my new number. Others I know who are still there tell me, he didn't last six months. I assume his successor had a real mess on his/her hands starting the first day!
And no, I don't go to the annual company Christmas Party as many retirees do.
In reply to Rupert:
Standard situation in the corporate world. If you don't change positions every few years you won't get any real pay increases.
As for the newby, again some are great interviewers and with the right connections can get into many positions they may not be qualified for or even capable to do. I suspect they knew his lack of experience and we're going to have you train him up.
Apparently some guy is going to drive up here from North Carolina to have us go through his 396.
I bet he'll spend more in fuel than a complete good-running 396 is worth down there.
And, well, if anybody anywhere can speak pushrod Chevy, the first place I'd look would be NC. Not that we can't do it right, but it's just... weird.
Rupert wrote: In reply to erohslc: When I announced I was retiring they talked me in to staying an extra six months to train my replacement. It was only when we were talking about him buying a new car that I realized they hired him at a higher starting pay than they were paying me after eighteen years. His resume other than schooling? He worked two months as an intern in a another industry, during summer semester break.
Nepotism.
In reply to bentwrench: Hey it worked out great! I got out within months of when I wanted to before they dumped this guilt trip on me. And I now have zero guilt feelings!! I gave them exactly what they wanted all along! My IRAS etc. sold all of their stock long before retirement anyway!
For the first few years after the total breakdown of the '70s, we and a few other North American companies really tried to make a good product. Of course Chrysler took the US dollars, laid off their North American people and imported cheap E36 M3 from Korea, etc. during that time. After we started having huge profits from making a good product, the "father corporation" (Thyssen Krupp) from the "father country" (Germany) stepped in like corporate raiders and took all the value out of the company and had no interest in the long term. In fact long term was described as "what will your, our, stock be worth after the next quarterly statement?" At that time I realized they were still part of what took North American branded auto manufacturers down in the '70s and again around 2,000. So as the song says "Take the money and run!" Which is exactly what I did!
If you're wondering why the quality has gone out of the German and several other European branded cars on the market today. They adopted the North American methods and sunk to at least as low a level as we in North America were in the '70s! Sad to say, their corporate goals seem to mirror those of the North American "Big Three" more and more every day!
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