Tinkerton Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 An excerpt from this morning's conversation with a customer. Customer: "I know what I'm talking about, I'm an engineer. You have to send me this part free of charge" Me: "So where did you say the wheel was fouling? I've never heard of them doing that." Customer: "It's fouling on that little silver thing." Me: "Silver thing?" Customer: "Yes, that little silver fixing." Me: "Do you mean the rivet?" Customer: "Yes, that's what its called. Rivet" Me: "So... What kind of engineer did you say you were?" The customer is always right. Except when they're a *fruitcage* liar. I had that yesterday. Customer phoning up for price on a towbar. Total price comes to north of £900, customer flips.Why is it so much? Well, the towbar itself is 200, the electrics are 180 and its about 7 hours to fit it. Don't lie to me, it only takes a few hours to fit a towbar! I used to be a mechanic! Maybe it used to, back when cars had no *fruitcage* electrics,but these days you got to splice it into the vehicle loom proper, and that takes time. Book time for this particular towbar was 6.5 hours, and I *know* it'll take our techs longer than that, because they always under quote time on towbars for some reason. If you don't want to fit it yourself, fine. *fruitcage* off. Link to post Share on other sites
paranoiddroid Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Just tell him fine... you fit it then and wait to boom in an expensive repair when he *fruitcage*s it up. Also why do they under quote tow bars? Why would they under quote at all (other than of course making the bill more attractive to customers), wouldn't that really *fruitcage* with your day schedule. Spending 7 hours when 5 have been quoted meaning you are two hours behind Link to post Share on other sites
Desolation mkII Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Tailgaters. Driving to work through my town, doing 30 (limit). Some knob came screaming up behind me and sat 4 mm off my bumper. I slow down to 25, he gets closer. I slow down to 20, still doesn't take the hint. Little scrote got the message when I stopped in the middle of the road and got out to have a quiet word with him. He suddenly wasn't so big and hard and drove off to somewhere far more important than being up my chuff, which seemed like his life mission up to that point. Hahaha, don't come to this city mate, I see three or four driving incidents equal to or worse than that on my drive to work every day. Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore1-6 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Hahaha, don't come to this city mate, I see three or four driving incidents equal to or worse than that on my drive to work every day. Or country drivers - 20mph in a 40mph, 40mph in a 20mph. Link to post Share on other sites
Skarclaw Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 The phrase "lovely people" especially "all you lovely people" . Makes people sound like 1) Jamie Oliver or 2) a voice over on those bank adverts where they are super chummy in the hope you'll forget how they fleeced the country out of billions Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Hahaha, don't come to this city mate, I see three or four driving incidents equal to or worse than that on my drive to work every day. It just *fruitcage*ed me off that he was doing about 60 by the way he caught me up. There was only us 2 on the road.Or country drivers - 20mph in a 40mph, 40mph in a 20mph. Half my commute is country driving, and I grew up there. That's about right! I reckon half if not more of the drivers on the roads don't deserve to be driving. Link to post Share on other sites
paranoiddroid Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 There are some people who would fail a retro! Also trains irritate me. Link to post Share on other sites
Tinkerton Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Just tell him fine... you fit it then and wait to boom in an expensive repair when he *fruitcage*s it up. Also why do they under quote tow bars? Why would they under quote at all (other than of course making the bill more attractive to customers), wouldn't that really *fruitcage* with your day schedule. Spending 7 hours when 5 have been quoted meaning you are two hours behind mainly to provide a more attractive price. Also, probably, to convince people to just order it from the factory with one. The quoted times are technically possible, provided you've experience doing them before, all your tools ready, require no tea breaks or toilet breaks, and no interruptions whatsoever, and nothing goes wrong, and the example car in the instructions is exactly the same as the one you're working on. Realistically, it's because the wiring is ALWAYS a *badgeress* to splice into. fitting the bar itself is easy as pie - take the old bumper cover off, take the bumper bar off, spray paint the old holes, mount the towbar in place of the bumper bar, cut a hole in the bumper cover and put that back on. If you motored you could probably get that done nicely in about 2 and a half hours. Todays rant: Impromptu forced stock takes. Being told i've got to do one, "because you didn't do one in december" even though I did one in september. Stock doesnt change that much. But nooooooooooooooooo, i've got to do a full stock take, before friday, when the company directors are on site and are apparently nit picking. so not just stock take, but clean to showroom condition with everything labelled properly and all that . Idiots. Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 I don't see what's wrong with that, my label maker says label maker on it and lives in a drawer that says label maker on it too. Link to post Share on other sites
Azubi Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Worse thing they ever did was give it to us to label stuff up as a part of some sort of LEAN exercise. Even the dead spider in the corner that kept getting missed was labelled up. Link to post Share on other sites
Wild_XIII Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Give a man a label maker and the next thing you know is that everything suddenly has a name. At the paintball site I used to marshal at (quiet you lot!), the manager had a serious hard on for labeling everything. I'm surprised each paintball wasn't labeled with the way he ran things! Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore1-6 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 The clerk ironically labelled the label machine and used the last of the label cartridge.So she ordered more, missed the decimal and ordered 10 times what she needed. Without realising that they're in boxes of 10 and not singles.We won't be running out of label cartridges for a while. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Make sure you label every single thing in her office to remind her of that mistake! Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore1-6 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 My average label is maybe 10cm tops.The labels come in 7m cartridges - and at 60 boxes of 10, 600 catridges, that's 4.2km of labels. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 You have enough to label the labels then... Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 So unbelievably tired today. I'm literally falling asleep at my desk. Link to post Share on other sites
DrAlexanderTobacco Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 So unbelievably tired today. I'm literally falling asleep at my desk. My manager always calls that "Consulting one's sub-conscience" Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 My manager always calls that "Consulting one's sub-conscience" That would be pointless. My subconscious is a *rickroll*. Link to post Share on other sites
DeltaZero Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Snow on the M25 took traffic to a crawl.. police escorts the lot. Was on the way to an evening game at The Mall but didn't want to risk the hour and a half return journey late tonight.. I haven't played a game in months.. I freaking hate snow. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 We had some excellent weather till today, actually could see grass. Still haven't played in over half a year. I still chuckle at how crazy folks were in other states about the "incoming storm of doom" that didn't occur. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Snow on the M25 took traffic to a crawl.. police escorts the lot. Was on the way to an evening game at The Mall but didn't want to risk the hour and a half return journey late tonight.. I haven't played a game in months.. I freaking hate snow. Southerners... Police escort? Pa. Drove 150 miles today, tons of snow in Liverpool and we got around without help! Link to post Share on other sites
DeltaZero Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Was all a bit ridiculous to be honest.. but the wind was crazy, my car was actually being blown across the road on the ice. Still if people had more common sense Britain wouldn't grind to such a halt when the snow hits. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Ok, being blown across the ice while driving a car is pretty scary *suitcase* actually... Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Yup, even when I had it happen at all of 15-20mph I was bricking it. However for me it is just that we have gotten a little bit of snow and now everyone is going spare round here. At work they are all moaning that they can't get in even though the roads between work and them are the typical heavy commuter roads that never fail to be gritted (because like they are not going to grit the Forth Road Bridge and the main motorways, seriously). However it means less people at work which makes things altogether more tranquil. Though airsoft wise I haven't been in about 3-4 months myself, stupid weather. Oh and now having to waste the hours of 8am-1pm for a frigging boiler engineer from British Gas as my landlord is to 'busy' to be there instead on a weekday. I know it is only because a lack of water pressure is making the shower go from hot to cold every now and then but seriously it is annoying. Oh and as I type this all I can hear is the sound of cars outside (which is fine) and the bang of a headboard and some very staged moaning (which is just annoying). 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
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