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

Streetwiseguy wrote: Yeah, but hustle is how flat rate works. As long as you get some good with the bad, it works. You, judging from your posts here, are getting berkeleyed in the ass, and should understand why toolboxes have wheels.

just trying to find somewhere 100% better, last time I went from a horrible situation to something only a little better. I love the people I work with, just hate a lot of things about this place.
I know hustle is how flat rate works, but I have a carpet burn on my forehead from hustling to do that 18 minute occupancy sensor replacement. lol
what is involved is:
undo the little shield for the underside of the back of the passenger seat
take three screws (two of which are in stupid spots, impossible to reinstall so I throw them away) out of the inside finishers for the seat in the rear
yank the finishers off, remove two 14mm holding the seats on, unplug rear sensor
go to the front, remove those 14s, unplug front sensor, rock the chair up, remove two 12s holding sensor on, get it out and replace
go back to the back, remove the rear sensor the same way
plug em back in, button it back up, hook up scan tool
reset the zero point for the sensors
erase the b00a0 code
verify airbag light goes off
(they are simple but when you factor in the fact that to do the rear part you have to lay across the rear seat with your head upside down on the carpet, and the fact that the scan tool is usually being used, and the fact that you have to drive 20 minutes each way to get the car, you're still getting effed in the a) When I actually do get something halfway decent, I can usually do it in about 1/2 flat rate time. I'm just limited on what I can work on (even though I was doing warranty CVTs by myself a month earlier when I was an hourly apprentice) so most of what I can do is BS that it is impossible to beat FRT on, like oil changes and bulbs. Drive belts are 15 minute affairs on fwd (pay 1 hour), alignments are 15-30 minutes (pay 1.2), I just can't get much of that because nobody is buying E36 M3. lol
and it doesn't help that the small pool of work I'm allowed to draw from is shared with someone else. Now they are giving tickets that used to come to me (oil change, alignment, cabin filter) to the regular line techs because they are slow.

I'm hoping to hear back from a performance shop nearby, its 20 minutes even closer to where I live now, and its what I actually want to be doing, but still on nissans and infinitis so I didn't waste these last few years lol.

oh, and the parking lot is garbage here. theres nowhere for employees to park, nowhere for customer cars to be parked, nowhere for anything to park. if you do find a spot, some shiny happy person will block you in and go on vacation (this seriously happened to me once. parked right in front of me and took a cab to the airport)

I think this was taken on a very good parking lot day, possibly a sunday, when none of service or parts is there:

You think working on performance cars being abused by idiots, thrashed within an inch of their life then brought to you will be easier than pulling a couple seats?

That's like taking a fleet diesel mechanic to a tractor pull and saying find the weak points.

FranktheTank wrote: You think working on performance cars being abused by idiots, thrashed within an inch of their life then brought to you will be easier than pulling a couple seats? That's like taking a fleet diesel mechanic to a tractor pull and saying find the weak points.

no I didn't say it's easier, its what I want to do though.
I don't like what I'm doing now because it's only the easy stuff, no challenge, therefore no advancement of my career and skill.

and you actually can't pull the seat for the recall (if you do it properly), you have to leave the seat in the car and rock it forward and back=]

I never wanted to get sucked into the dealership life, I just kind of got into it because of how difficult it is to get on at a performance shop as anything but a gofer.

I want to know why it is almost June and I still need the heat on

I think I just crossed the fine line between dedication and obsession.

Just came in for bed (its past midnight) my GF has gone to visit family for the weekend because she can't stand to help me turn one more wrench and I refuse to take her out until the Ford is complete. My DD broke down (earlier rant) and I've been working overtime at work then going to the garage, showering sleeping a few hours and repeating. I fell asleep talking to her this afternoon before she left.

I guess I really can't be too down on her but I need a hand, my friends know better than to help because I don't feed them very well when I'm in shop mode. They tire out pretty easy too. I can usually only con a buddy into swinging by long enough to help me pick up a truck bed or if they need something fixed while they are at it.

Dear local motorcycle shop. I special ordered a part through you on Monday because you told me you'd have it in "next day" and you'd charge me about $20 less than what it would cost to purchase online.

I understand you can't control the warehouses, but taking a full week to get a part is kind of crazy. I really wanted to be able to fix my bike up over the weekend so that I could ride around while I have three days off.

After this inconvenience, you'd darn well better give it to me for the price originally estimated, or there are going to be some words.

It's Memorial Day weekend. Why is there snow in the forecast?

Has there ever been a non-E36 M3 weather Memorial Day? (Chicagoland)

I was just at a grocery store getting my shopping done. I had just gotten off of a busy ass day at work and have had my allergies screwing with me all damn day. So I am walking around the store sniffling and sneezing and just generally miserable. I was kinda taking my time and just a little out of it. Combine this and that I wear all black for work, am a big guy, nearly shaved head and a couple of tattoos(from when I was young and dumb in the military). I must look like a bit of a biker or a skinhead up to no good or something. The store manager asked me if I needed help while looking in the frozen food section and basically followed me around while I finished up. It was irritating me a little. When it came time to check out, I went to the self checkout lane like I usually do. I have the habit of swiping my discount card and my check card before I start scanning items just so I can put my wallet away. Just an efficiency thing with me. Well I decide to do $20 cash back because I need some cash for next week. I get done with my checkout and left the $20 there. All I was thinking about was how annoyed I was about being followed around like I had done something wrong.

Oh well, chalk that $20 up to the stupid tax tally.

there is pretty damn fun driving road between bessemer city and cherryville.
Only problem is, everytime I get on it, I'm stuck behind a member of the plebian masses who refuses to see what a great road they have in front of them and insists upon braking way too much for every turn and going 5 under. The road is fantastic at generally 10-15 over speed limit, and I had a fun little stretch for a while with a civic in front of me actually driving the road, but then we got stuck behind an old optima doing about 35 in the 45 area=/

Only passing lane on the entire 10 mile stretch is towards the end, after the best parts are through=/

Stupid Trailblazer front and rear brakes. It took me all day as those rear shims rubbed and made noise. When paying extra to get the AC Delco official pad kits; I expect more.

Stupid 25 year old Sears floor jack that has a loose handle as I remove, reinstall, and torque these wheel beasts 3x. Stupid only deep well 18mm socket I own that bumps into the sway bar that forces me to use a wrench.

Stupid Lockport Napa Store that won't cut my decent looking rear rotors because that's a thing of the past suggesting I drive 30 minutes to Joliet, Illinois.

Crazy lady at aaaaaahhhhhhh Toe Zone store that keeps trying to upsell me as I buy your cheap rear rotors. Don't ask me twice if I need pads and I don't want any fuel injection cleaner on special.

thestig99 wrote: It's Memorial Day weekend. Why is there snow in the forecast?

I would rather snow than rain and gale force winds

To those of you who drive automatics with both feet..

berkeley YOU!

The guy on the bike behind you is going insane trying to predict when you're braking and when you're not.

not just bikes.. anybody behind them.

My rant of the day.. I love getting home at 5am all tired and ready to go to bed.. until I go to bed, then I am wide awake

2nd that! Spend all day at work dragging, get through the day, go to bed - BAM, can't sleep at all. What's up with that?

Construction Zones
The NJ Department of Time Wasting (abreviated NJDOT) has closed off various parts of the Atlantic City Expressway (should have been palled a "Parkway") to expand it to four lanes for 5 years After 5 grueling years of lane closures and traffic jams, some of the areas w/ 4 lanes have actually been opened. Naturally, you would expect the speed limit on these sections of road to be consistent with the rest of the highway. Wrong, 35mph. When it went down from 65 to 35 there was literally a speed trap 1/4 of a mile down the road, a customer 3/4mi. Down the road and another speed trap 1.5mi. down the road, I suppose they have to pay for it somehow.

Somethin' is amok at work, sense it, smell a rat scheme, set up. Tired of crawling out from under rocks for others sport. BTDT, how berkeleying juvenile. May be time for a new job.

was asked to go to the other lot to pick up a z car that wouldn't start, which was already sold.
Of course, as soon as I left for the other lot, 4x tires and an alignment came in, and also an oil cooler o-ring. This totals out to be 3.8 hours, more than I have today total.
Know what I made on the stupid z car, after probably 45 minutes investment? .30
thats it.
somebody else got the good jobs of course, even though they brought them back for me.

can't do anyone a favor or it ends up biting me in the ass.

I'll be lucky to make 40hrs this week, and thats with 11hrs of holiday pay.

Also, I hate being so dependent on a gps. Trying to learn this new city, but this POS gps takes me by stupid circuitous routes that take way longer than they should, so it's proving to be impossible.

My truck is finished finally after three years and total rebuild... I called the exhaust shop two weeks ago about getting my electric cutouts installed. Made an appointment. Let my mom drive a 500+ hp truck 35 miles to the shop while I'm at work and they called me to say they have to order parts.

Now my truck is on display like an adviretisement for their business out front and I am having to leave it until the parts come in (locked up of course) so it doesn't have to make two more 1,000,000 decibel drag passes on the 445 big block back and forth.

On the upside its kind of cool that everybody liked my truck so well (says my mom) haha

I sent a priority mail envelope last Wednesday to someone in DE. Was told by the postal worker that it should be there by Friday. Nope. It's been sorted and resorted 3 times in Philadelphia according to tracker and still stuck in Philly. Estimated delivery is now June 1st. 11 frickin days??? I want my $6 back. It's proof that They don't know how to deliver the mail anymore.

I work with somebody I swear subscribes to the conspiracy of the week club. Last week he was all about "chem trails" and this week, with monsato in the news, it is all he is talking about. I understand that it is the big bad boogyman we should all be worried about, But:

1. I would like to talk about something else at least once.
2. Having a new conspiracy theory every week does not give you much credence

Some times I feel like the zomby apocalypse happened and I am the guinea pig retraining what I think are life forms with brains but they are really soul sucking braineaters that want what few braincells I have left.

mad_machine wrote: I work with somebody I swear subscribes to the conspiracy of the week club. Last week he was all about "chem trails" and this week, with monsato in the news, it is all he is talking about. I understand that it is the big bad boogyman we should all be worried about, But: 1. I would like to talk about something else at least once. 2. Having a new conspiracy theory every week does not give you much credence

Cause-heads. They pick a world threatening issue and stick with it..for about a week.

MEAT TOSSER!

I would rather listen to a mindless conspiracy theory rant than a mindless old dude at McDonald's talk about black people being on welfare and being lazy while the restaurant is full of black people.

I know I am one of the only other white people in here but there is no us verses them old man. I just want to eat my mcmuffin and not get stared down while doing so.