customers can be idiots

docwyte said:

Try working on people.

Nailed it. 

I'll add my own personal perspective to this: try working on people, or their pets.

Some people get really skeptical of an old guy with a degree, licence, and decades of experience if I dare to contradict Dr Google.

Floating Doc said:

docwyte said:

Try working on people.

Nailed it. 

 

I'll add my own personal perspective to this: try working on people, or their pets.

Some people get really skeptical of an old guy with a degree, licence, and decades of experience if I dare to contradict Dr Google.

Well to be fair my brother is a Harvard educated MD, Harvard, Rhodes  Scholar, Johns Hopkins trained Surgeon, Mayo Clinic intern.  Etc.  

So I’m aware of his shortcomings and flaws. (Not that he’d ever treat or give me medical advice) but most Doctors I see and use don’t even have his credentials. 

Luckily for me nurses are well trained too. On two separate occasions nurses saved my life.  

Floating Doc said:

docwyte said:

Try working on people.

Nailed it. 

 

I'll add my own personal perspective to this: try working on people, or their pets.

Some people get really skeptical of an old guy with a degree, licence, and decades of experience if I dare to contradict Dr Google.

My cousin, who is our vet, has told me that sometimes she wants to hand people the scalpel and tell them "here, you go ahead and spay your dog, you clearly think you know what to do more than me. I'm gonna go get a manicure"

mtn said:

Floating Doc said:

docwyte said:

Try working on people.

Nailed it. 

 

I'll add my own personal perspective to this: try working on people, or their pets.

Some people get really skeptical of an old guy with a degree, licence, and decades of experience if I dare to contradict Dr Google.

My cousin, who is our vet, has told me that sometimes she wants to hand people the scalpel and tell them "here, you go ahead and spay your dog, you clearly think you know what to do more than me. I'm gonna go get a manicure"

Good one. I had one knucklehead ask me how much Benadryl he would need to give his dog to be able to neuter him himself.

And he was serious.

mtn said:

Floating Doc said:

docwyte said:

Try working on people.

Nailed it. 

 

I'll add my own personal perspective to this: try working on people, or their pets.

Some people get really skeptical of an old guy with a degree, licence, and decades of experience if I dare to contradict Dr Google.

My cousin, who is our vet, has told me that sometimes she wants to hand people the scalpel and tell them "here, you go ahead and spay your dog, you clearly think you know what to do more than me. I'm gonna go get a manicure"

Maybe I'm an shiny happy person but I once handed my tools to a customer and said obviously you just needed the tools since you know everything about the problem.

In reply to Stampie :

I’m sure glad your businesses isn’t performing vasectomies. 

Check Youtube for do it yourself vasectomy videos.

MadScientistMatt said:

Antihero said:

One unfortunate thing about the modern age is everyone is an expert when it comes to construction and some of the stuff is absolutely batE36 M3, Concrete countertops are apparently huge on pintrest now because i get some odd requests... like 4 inches thick with a 12 inch water fall edge, not polished or finished because "we all know you dont need to really do that". When i explained that concrete was heavy, you have to polish, and seal it, i got "just dont use rock for aggregate, use like....oatmeal"

 

Holy. berkeleying. E36 M3balls

I'm trying to figure out what sort of disaster would happen if you mixed Portland cement with oatmeal. This seems like it would be somewhere between "falls apart in one month" and "burns even when underwater."

Oddly enough ive never tried this particular form of concrete so i cant say. Nothing good though.

In reply to M2Pilot :

Seeing as it took a professional two times to get mine done, I think there's less risky ways to have fun.

A long, long time ago, I used to run shifts at a independent pizza and wing place in upstate NY that catered a lot to college deliveries and walk up slice sales. Every year we would put together a handwritten list of people we would not sell food to- takeout or delivery. If they called, we would provide the number to our competitors and advise them to try them. I think a few of them were completely banned from all of the places. It just wasn't worth trying to satisfy them and/or they were scammers that just wanted free food.

Another quirk was for Super Bowl Sunday, we had way more demand than supply. If you didn't have your oder in weeks in advance, you weren't getting food. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that prompted from people who wanted catering sized orders at the last minute was hilarious. However, if you called in and wanted food for a few people and you weren't a jerk about it, we could probably slide you in. 

The place is still open, even though I helped design some of the recipes. I'm betting they went to computers by now. The customer is not always right. Some of them are shiny happy people and don't deserve your time.
 

In reply to Brett_Murphy :

Im in Albany on a regular basis for work.  I will have to give that place a try.  I think Ive eaten at every place on Wolf road twice!

Be advised it is a dive, Logdog. Try the wings.