Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

Rodan said:

Why do smoke detector batteries always wait until the middle of the night to start chirping for replacement...?

 

That and you're out of town and the spouse is home alone.

In reply to Karacticus :

Messages like that is why I'm dreading listing my Kei truck on Facebook. Well for I'd love to not sell it. But secondly because of the messages I know I'll receive. 

Peabody said:

That was a good comeback. I had one recently where she had something listed, I asked when I could pick it up and she said it was sold. I responded with lol, idiot.

Yeah, you deserved a smack upside the head for that one. Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.) She did you the favor or letting you know it sold and you responded like a child. The world needs less of that, and more "thanks for letting me know," which is how I reply when that happens.

Peabody said:

Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.)

I hoped that she took enough offense that she realized what she did, and never did it again.

We need less of that, people wasting our time with items listed that don't actually exist.

I have never forgotten to delete a listing. When something sells I immediately delete it. It's something I take very seriously, and I wish other's did too

It's spelled "others".  That's not an appropriate use of an apostrophe.

lol, idiot.

In reply to wae :

I will never do that again. Thank you for taking the time

Peabody said:

Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.)

I hoped that she took enough offense that she realized what she did, and never did it again.

We need less of that, people wasting our time with items listed that don't actually exist.

I have never forgotten to delete a listing. When something sells I immediately delete it. It's something I take very seriously, and I wish other's did too

Being an shiny happy person to people is no way to go through life. Calling a total stranger an idiot for a minor mistake is very rude.

I'm happy you've never forgotten to do anything like that in your life. I, however, recognize that it's hard to keep track of the million things everyone has going on and that deleting a listing for something that was previously for sale is easy to forget. At least she didn't let you go to her house, check it out, and then refuse to sell it to you for her asking price, which is what the last guy did to me. I still didn't call him an idiot.

I once had a hobby business. Some of my customers were Canadians.

I stopped selling to Canadians. Reasons.

"Famously polite", they said...

In reply to Appleseed :

Sorry, sorry..

My rant today is that even after making the deal, telling the sales person all the details they needed for the paperwork, and OKing everything, it took 2.5 hours from the time I left my office until I was back here from having bought my parent's car. That's just too long. Car dealers are SO SLOW.

In reply to dculberson :

You know what I would have done...

dculberson said:

In reply to Appleseed :

Sorry, sorry..

My rant today is that even after making the deal, telling the sales person all the details they needed for the paperwork, and OKing everything, it took 2.5 hours from the time I left my office until I was back here from having bought my parent's car. That's just too long. Car dealers are SO SLOW.

My buddy went and bought a truck for his company, previously communicated with dealer on which truck, agreed on price, etc. 

Day he went to pick it up with a check for $68,xxx, still took 2 hours. 

Why? I mean I've participated in real estate closings at 10x that number that didn't take 2 hours. 

In reply to Spearfishin :

They have a script. It's insane. 
 

A few years ago, I found a used car at an out of town branch of a local dealer. I clicked to have it shipped to the local dealer, printed all the documents, confirmed the price... walked in with a check. Hey sales person, "I am here to pick up this car, paying by check, here is the paperwork...easy sale...." The salesman hemmed and hawed. "I have the check here, ordered the silver car over there"  Gets the Sales manager...waiting... song and dance .... "See, I ordered this delivery for the silver one with the six speed, yes, that one, the same one on this paperwork...here's the check...."  Then they still took me by the finance guy's office. I have no idea what they were thinking. They literally could have been selling someone else a car or having a coffee break while wasting time on me. 

In reply to tester (Forum Supporter) :

It's a very deeply embedded part of car dealer culture, unfortunately. There is a belief that they have to give everybody the chance to buy whatever it is they are selling. What if you were willing to pay full price, and nobody gave you the opportunity? What if you had your rock-dumb heart set on a great big extended warranty, and nobody offered it to you? What if you wanted the Tru-Coat and they didn't give you the chance to buy it? What if you said "no" the first three times, but you would have said "yes" the fourth time? What if?

I did sales, then parts.  I don't miss either one.

In reply to DarkMonohue :

That's funny stuff - great point too!  

You wouldn't want to leave money on the table, would you?

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

In reply to Toyman! :

Right now I'm just waiting for them to ship out the 2TB SSD for my laptop (our computers are locked down so we can't use external drives, but apparently we can install the 2nd internal drive ourselves and the encrypted bios will take care of it). It's not as much of an issue for the majority of people who are at least a few times a week in a facility hooked in to the company network and can back things up to network shares, but I'm completely remote and doing so takes a lot longer. 

I'm also supposed to be able to remotely access a higher-capacity analysis box back at the plant and send analysis jobs to run there... but for some reason when I connect using the VM client I don't see the Tier 2 box on the systems I can access. I'm curious which is going to happen first, getting the new internal drive or the help desk figuring out why I can't access the remote analysis machine.

This sounds exactly like stuff that happens where I work.  Mega corp bureaucracy can mean something as simple as a bigger hard drive or network access takes an act of god to straighten out or takes weeks of patience at the expense of productivity.

As if the whole job search process isn't a big enough pain in the rear, scammers have entered the chat.  I had this guy call me claiming to be a recruiter with an opportunity at Dell.  The line was that they wanted to submit me and they had great contacts and so on, but there was just something there that was just...  off.  The biggest flag was that they kept talking about how they would want a Scrum Master certification, but that as long as I could have that done before the second interview it would be fine.  Number one, for full-remote jobs, they surely have enough people with these certs already that are floating around that they wouldn't bother with someone who lacked it at the pay range they were talking about.  Then they sent me the job description and some of the wording was just...  weird.  Like this gem:  "The Headquarter of the client is in Round Rock, Texas and after every 3 months you have to visit the office to interact with the team and implement the motivation factor in them." 

Earlier this evening, they called me again and said that they were ready to schedule an initial phone screen, but I had to have proof that I was taking the class first.  I decided to test this by telling them that I was going to go ahead and schedule a time to sit the PSM 1 exam from scrum.org and that it would be done before the interview and I didn't need to take the class.  Oh, no, they said, that certificate is no good.  But he would email me a link to the class that Dell would accept.  And, as I expected, it was a site with an extremely low rating that doesn't actually provide a certificate that's worth anything.  It seems like an awful lot of work to go through to get $450 out of me, but I know a lot of people that are out there looking right now don't have the money to lose.  It irritates me that they're targeting folks that can't afford to learn the lesson.  I did a little searching to see if this was something new, but apparently they've been going strong with this scam for a couple years now.

In reply to wae :

The last few CL/FB scammers I've dealt with have been far more sophisticated and more willing to have extended interactions before the scam becomes obvious.  I don't know if it's just the evolution of scammers, or if AI is playing a bigger role...??

AI is going to make it extremely difficult to root out scammers in the future unfortunately. 

In reply to wae :

Job agencies are scams, even the legitimate ones.

I remember the mid 90s when my mom was working through one of those while trying to find a permanent job.  She was getting something like $8 an hour while the regular employees were getting $20.  The agency was getting the rest 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to wae :

Job agencies are scams, even the legitimate ones.

I remember the mid 90s when my mom was working through one of those while trying to find a permanent job.  She was getting something like $8 an hour while the regular employees were getting $20.  The agency was getting the rest 

Unfortunately, many larger corporations will only hire through an agency. That way they don't have to offer benefits during your trial period. They can also let you go without having to deal with unemployment, taxes, and other paperwork that employees generate.

Toyman! said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to wae :

Job agencies are scams, even the legitimate ones.

I remember the mid 90s when my mom was working through one of those while trying to find a permanent job.  She was getting something like $8 an hour while the regular employees were getting $20.  The agency was getting the rest 

Unfortunately, many larger corporations will only hire through an agency. That way they don't have to offer benefits during your trial period. They can also let you go without having to deal with unemployment, taxes, and other paperwork that employees generate.

We do both. If you're "off the street", you are hired through third party for first 90 days, for all the reasons you just said. If you're recruited through college internship program, direct employee referral, known to us via working with us but maybe for another company, you get an offer and are hired direct. 

From what I know, it works well for us that way. 

Dimples on the FOOT of the router. I wondered WTF was going on. Fixed. Now back to making shavings.

Waiting is the hardest part!!! I don't think this one is gonna happen but I hit the ATM immediately to have the cash ready. 
 

I've been jonesing for a wagon again. I even have an opportunity to buy "my" wagon back that I sold to Golfduke, from the person he sold it to. 

But this popped up on Friday. Now the wagon elitists might don't consider this a wagon but close enough for me. A3 Hatchback (err wagon?) 3.2l VR6 with the DSG transmission. 
 

I saw it two hours after posted and trying to send a message got this from Facebook. 
 

No response but sent another message later as well. 

24 hours later and no read receipt and no change to the listing. Ugh. Just tell me either way!

My history, I started at New Milford VW in 2004 ad left (err fired, interesting story) in 2009. So I saw the release both generations of the VW R32. One manual only and one DSG only. Finding an A3 3.2 would be acquiring the Audi cousin. Already have the other cousin of sorts with the manual 3.2 TT.