Beer Baron wrote: I hate brewing our biggest beer. Two of us just poured 5800lbs of malt by hand. One 55lbs bag at a time. And we probably get to grind one more batch before the end of our shift. I am exhausted.
I've said it before, I really don't think you are allowed to complain about your job. You get free beer.
corytate wrote: On a 987 (boxster) today, The RR camber was maxed at -1.6* (still in spec but barely) and the LR was able to be moved completely to the nominal value.
"Sir- Your car has bent parts. I can't perform the alignment properly. Your options are to have us figure out what is bent, and replace it, or I can fudge the numbers and get it so it will drive decent, but probably still wear tires. How would you like us to proceed?"
Your mistake was taking ownership of the problem. You made a decision that was not yours to make, and your shop has now taken responsibility for it.
mtn wrote:Beer Baron wrote: I hate brewing our biggest beer. Two of us just poured 5800lbs of malt by hand. One 55lbs bag at a time. And we probably get to grind one more batch before the end of our shift. I am exhausted.I've said it before, I really don't think you are allowed to complain about your job. You get free beer.
Umm... yeah... The opening for the mill is about 7' up. Dumping in a bag means lifting it up about 3' onto a motor housing on a platform, climbing up, lifting it up to head height, and holding it there while it pours in. This with something that is floppy, dead weight. How many times in a row do you want to curl and then squat a bag of grain?
Free beer is nice, but is a perk that equals maybe a $0.50/hr pay raise.
Beer Baron wrote:mtn wrote:Umm... yeah... The opening for the mill is about 7' up. Dumping in a bag means lifting it up about 3' onto a motor housing on a platform, climbing up, lifting it up to head height, and holding it there while it pours in. This with something that is floppy, dead weight. How many times in a row do you want to curl and then squat a bag of grain? Free beer is nice, but is a perk that equals maybe a $0.50/hr pay raise.Beer Baron wrote: I hate brewing our biggest beer. Two of us just poured 5800lbs of malt by hand. One 55lbs bag at a time. And we probably get to grind one more batch before the end of our shift. I am exhausted.I've said it before, I really don't think you are allowed to complain about your job. You get free beer.
Free beer and a workout at work!
Streetwiseguy wrote:corytate wrote: On a 987 (boxster) today, The RR camber was maxed at -1.6* (still in spec but barely) and the LR was able to be moved completely to the nominal value."Sir- Your car has bent parts. I can't perform the alignment properly. Your options are to have us figure out what is bent, and replace it, or I can fudge the numbers and get it so it will drive decent, but probably still wear tires. How would you like us to proceed?" Your mistake was taking ownership of the problem. You made a decision that was not yours to make, and your shop has now taken responsibility for it.
i did cover my ass, I told the manager as soon as I saw what was happening and he said go for it. lol
Four to six hours of sleep a night is just not cutting it, can't wait to be done with class and just working a shift everyday. It'll seem like vacation! 
Dear automotive gods governing Murphy's Law:
QUIT IT!
Sincerely, Me.
*The story is the MIL says her car is turning over funky. I let it sit to cool down. Go to start it with a voltmeter attached and get nothing but clicks and nothing approaching an actual turn of the starter. Voltmeter shows 12.5v starting out and not dropping below 10.5v, but when finished the meter shows 11.xv.... Damn you.
Dear smartphone owners,
I don't care how expensive it was or who makes it. The speakerphone on yours sucks, it's really bad in a moving car with a lot of background racket like reverb, squeals, crackles, buzzes and five screaming kids. Your bluetooth is not any better. So when you call and I can only understand about every third or fourth word in the interest of clarity I'm going to ask you to please pick up the phone. Don't get all pissed off and huffy, OK? We need clarity of communication so that your car gets fixed right the first time with as little inconvenience as possible.
Sincerely,
The jerk on the other end who can't possibly decipher all that reverb, squeals, buzzes and five screaming kids to find out what you need.
I told my sister to get her tires rotated as soon as possible 2 months ago. Well today after plugging two holes, guess who got to rotate them after a long day at work and going grocery shopping then moving furniture....,
and now if I could just go ahead and order some tires for a 17" rim on a 15" inch budget and get those mounted and balanced in my shop to save her the mount and balance fee.
What the berkeley. I hate selling on CL just as much as buying.
Don't offer 350 bucks on an 800 dollar ad. You're berkeleying lucky I was nice enough to just point out that I can get more than that scrapping the damn truck.
Same vein, don't jump first thing to offering 50 bucks on stuff I want 150 for. It's berkeleying irritating. Even when I'm making offers to people I normally only go a bit under what they want.
Also, if you aren't going to buy, just tell me. Don't say you'll go get the money and be back only to never show up.
Dear vehicles other than MX6 GTs,
Stop berkeleying me in the ass every time I try to work on you. It's making me want to sell all of you and keep my crappiest car.
Because it's the only one that doesn't suck.
I've been on a coffee kick for two weeks. As I burned my lege 3 days out of two weeks leaving my driveway. I just now had the epiphany that 2/3 of my vehicles have nothing that even resembles a creature comfort or cup holder!! Manual crank windows no padded dash and coffee stains. Time to get out some PVC PIPE A 2.5 lb weight and an old mouse pad and 'install' a temporary fix till I start drinking water again.
just carry the cup between your legs ... 
Doing some endurance racing this weekend at NJMP. Looks to be pretty hot out. I finally decided it's time for some redneck AC in the trailer so I bought a 20k BTU window unit from CL. ( $50, Sweet!) Last night, cut a big hole in the nose and installed the unit cage but didn't have time for the brace so... figured I'd take care of it today at lunch. It hasn't rained in three weeks. Sky was clear. Woke up at 5am to... deluge. Left the tools right inside the opening ... sawzall, drill... soaked.
Apparently saying to a co-worker "Hey, that's the guy who won Project Runway a couple years ago" can get you called disparaging names.
Grizz wrote: What the berkeley. I hate selling on CL just as much as buying. Don't offer 350 bucks on an 800 dollar ad. You're berkeleying lucky I was nice enough to just point out that I can get more than that scrapping the damn truck. Same vein, don't jump first thing to offering 50 bucks on stuff I want 150 for. It's berkeleying irritating. Even when I'm making offers to people I normally only go a bit under what they want. Also, if you aren't going to buy, just tell me. Don't say you'll go get the money and be back only to never show up.
I have a bunch of stuff to post on CL soon and I berkeleying dread it, same story as you Grizz. Dunno when it devolved into pennies on the dollar offers but it's the CL way now. I have no problem saying NO btw... and if they should raise their offer I've already been insulted so I'll just prolly not sell it to them at any price. berkeleying jerkoffs.
Minor rant to my boss:
NOBODY TAKES CHECKS FROM CRAIGSLIST!!!!!
Two in one day... Grrrr...
I just came from a project architecture/design meeting where our team is presenting a new design to a paying customer we have a good relationship with. I'm doing the whole presentation - it is already signed off - we are just going over it for their management. A guy who works for the same company as I do... spends 20 minutes grilling ME on OUR design in front of OUR CUSTOMER.
I'll still feel bad if the sales guy has him E36 M3 canned on Monday but today... I could pull his guts out with a glowing hot hook in front of his children. berkeleying idiot.
In reply to Racer1ab:
One of my big gripes lately. You want to go through a 20 item checkout lane with 22 items, I won't complain. But you go through with a full cart - yeah, there's a problem. I'm not sure who to be more ticked off at. The stupid dunce going through, or the moronic idiot cashier who won't say, "sorry Jerkoff, pick a different line." Just take down all the "quick checkout" signs and there won't be any cause for bitchin'. Those signs appear to be useless anyway. I've seen people go through with 2 or 3 items and take all day cashing checks, food stamps, corporate buyouts, etc. etc. "Can you give me change for $1? I need 1 quarter, 4 dimes, 5 nickles and 10 pennies please."
People who don't watch their kids.
And then people who want to argue with me about how I complained on facebook about people who don't watch their kids in hopes that other people who don't watch their kids might actually start watching their kids.
My wife recently joined my bank account finally. They said hers would be cancelled as soon as the pending charges went through. They never cancelled it, and something recurring went through (something stupid that WON'T cancel when you tell it to), causing a negative balance, followed by an overdraft fee. I have no problem paying for the negative balance. I'm not paying the fee though, because the account should have been closed already.
Now, though, they add another fee for having a negative balance too long, close the account, and take $111 out of our account. We only had like $50, so now we have yet another overdraft fee in the works. All because the idiots didn't close that berkeleying account!
I wrote them a long angry email, got foiled by their 20 line text limit, so I made it a little less harsh and sent it through. I don't get paid for a week, I guess I'm just not eating for the next week. We have cereal but no milk. I think all we have right now is popcorn.
In reply to ncjay:
I tactfully asked the cashier at our local grocery store about the express lane thing, and she said basically they have to take whoever's there and avoid a confrontation.
Another thing I just noticed, is that the cigarettes are nearly always placed with the Express line registers. And frequently, the customer is asking for their Carlboro Super Filtered 100's Meth edition pack of smokes, and the cashier who is either a very young or old woman has NO idea what the different brands are.
This usually leads to one rather annoyed and pissy customer, as they struggle to communicate what pack they want.
I really wish I could order my weekly groceries off Amazon.
Cars that won't misbehave when they are supposed to. Two at the shop that apparently stumble quite regularly...but not in the 50 miles I've put on each. No codes in memory.
One that is supposed to quit, but hassn't in the 50 miles I've driven it, and only has some misfire codes, which I can reproduce at high rpm, high boost, so thats likely a secondary ignition failure somewhere, which won't make it quit.
One with a gentle surge above 3000 rpm, which I think I might have figured out after 50 or so miles, when I noticed the IMRC actual cycling when its supposed to be stable...except the owner was already there to pick it up after we had called and suggested we were running out of time this week.
Its so easy to fix E36 M3 thats just plain broken. This halfway crap causes me a lot of stress, and takes a lot of time. Luckily I've been around the block enough to know it will eventually get fixed, at which time I get to charge the everlovin dogsnot out of the owner.
Driving in an manual pickup truck in stop and go construction traffic is the worst!
In reply to fritzsch:
How is that possible? I've been pulling a 24 ft gooseneck in a manual all week. I love every second of every day in a manual. I hate autos! I'd rather drive the 3spd Met in traffic than a corvette with an auto.
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