I don't know what the temperature is outside, but probably around 38. There is snow on the ground. And the AC in this office building is on. WTF? I'm freezing here, and I'm a guy who likes cold weather.
I don't know what the temperature is outside, but probably around 38. There is snow on the ground. And the AC in this office building is on. WTF? I'm freezing here, and I'm a guy who likes cold weather.
In reply to mtn :
Sounds like my work.
Recently sold off the campus and the new landlords have banned space heaters and what not. Everyone is pissed and now buying electric blankets.
Alright, dude, I told you last week that I was going to have to gut your car's interior to hunt down a single broken wire somewhere between the ABS module and the LR wheel speed sensor and that it was going to take at least a full day, probably more. 1) Why are you trying to wait here while its being worked on? It could be days and we already have you set up for a rental that GM is paying for. 2) I told you I was going to have to remove the entire interior, so would it have killed you to clean the 12" deep layer of soda cans and fast food wrappers and trash bags and receipts and clothing off the floor? Inconsiderate jerk. And I'm going to lose my ass on this job because GM warranty won't pay for wiring repairs. Ugh, this car was almost out of bumper-to-bumper, why couldn't this wire have waited another 900 miles to break.
berkeleying dealerships...
So I used to get spam texts and emails on the reg from the Toyota dealership I bought my FR-S from asking if I wanted to schedule service for my "Scion TC." After simply ignoring them for a while, one day I was feeling a bit uppity and wrote a snarky reply indicating, in so many words, that I did my own work and was less than impressed that they could not even get the model right, which effectively put a stop to that business for a while.
The past month or so they've been back at it again, knowing I'm due for state inspection (they were always good at knowing when I was due for an oil change, too.) I've been busy lately and have procrastinated scheduling the inspection, so today I finally bit and replied that I'd like to know when I could get it in. Mind you, these emails are pretty obviously coming from a real person, not some automated mass spam mail system, so I figured surely the person whose job it is to mindlessly pump out these spam emails all day every day must also serve some scheduling function. Nope, of course not, instead she directs me to either call some other woman or follow the link to their online scheduling tool.
So I click the link, type in some basic info (creepily, it had already auto filled a darn close guess on the mileage), and I'm presented with two options: for $550, that's five hundred and fifty berkeleying dollars, I can get an oil change, tire rotation, cabin air filter, and fuel filter. Or, for $838 I can get the above, plus "Fuel additive", "motor oil additive", PS fluid, and wiper blades.
I just did all of the above, save the snake oils and PS fluid, two weeks ago for probably $80. Took me like half an hour. I get that people need to make money to stay in business, but Jesus berkeleying Christ that's highway robbery! How many little old ladies do you think get taken for that ride?
And here's a tip: maybe if you'd cut your overhead by, say, not paying a full time employee to do nothing but send spam emails all day, you wouldn't need to charge $550 for a routine oil and filter change.
At this point, I'm refusing to give them my business on principle.
Six hours today, not including previous days I've worked on these two doors to get them to work as they should. That's multiple days + 5.45 hours too long for a door.
The programming is fine. The panels are working as they should. The doors themselves work. The people have the correct credentials and those are set as they should. Yet, they just would not work.
Finally a tech that knows what he's doing spent his day trying to make these doors work. We checked every output where a lock should be programed and landed to no avail.
He decided to manually trace them and lo n behold, he found where the wires landed....on the main board...for power fail relays....
I set up the programming on open outputs, he moved the wires over, and he tested the doors...voila. Doors work.
$150.00 It's $150.00 to register a vehicle in Illinois. And it only goes up from there. Its thr highest base cost in yhe nation. The new governer is trying to tax the state out of the hole, instead of figuring out where the money is leaking.
No wonder we've had over a million people leave this state in the past 5 years
FuzzWuzzy said:In reply to mtn :
Sounds like my work.
Recently sold off the campus and the new landlords have banned space heaters and what not. Everyone is pissed and now buying electric blankets.
I work with people who like it around 60 degrees. I am not warm unless it is closer to 75. Guess who has to wear a fleece all year at work?
mad_machine said:FuzzWuzzy said:In reply to mtn :
Sounds like my work.
Recently sold off the campus and the new landlords have banned space heaters and what not. Everyone is pissed and now buying electric blankets.I work with people who like it around 60 degrees. I am not warm unless it is closer to 75. Guess who has to wear a fleece all year at work?
This appears to be very widespread.
The office where my wife works is overcooled in the summertime down into the 60's. Under every virtually every desk sits an inefficient little space heater, maxxed out and blowing hot air to warm up the ladies who work at those desks.
There has got to be a better way.
1988RedT2 said:mad_machine said:FuzzWuzzy said:In reply to mtn :
Sounds like my work.
Recently sold off the campus and the new landlords have banned space heaters and what not. Everyone is pissed and now buying electric blankets.I work with people who like it around 60 degrees. I am not warm unless it is closer to 75. Guess who has to wear a fleece all year at work?
This appears to be very widespread.
The office where my wife works is overcooled in the summertime down into the 60's. Under every virtually every desk sits an inefficient little space heater, maxxed out and blowing hot air to warm up the ladies who work at those desks.
There has got to be a better way.
Meanwhile this plant has no AC and when the temps started dropping they cranked the heaters wide open so it was still hot. Apparently people in the offices complained about it being cold. Dammit you people have your own sepeseparate hvac in an enclosed part of the building, leave ours alone dammit.
In reply to Appleseed :
I always brag on Delaware's DMV. A regular car renewal is $40 / year with the safety and emissions inspections included, and it has been probably 5 years since it took me more than 30 minutes from arrival on site to departure with paperwork in hand, also including the inspections.
Plus, new cars can get 4-year tags at first registration and any car can get 2-year tags ever after. Trailers under a certain weight are renewed online for $10 / year.
In reply to Daylan C :
My office has no windows and the antique ac system hasn't worked properly in years.
My local brewpub is suddenly closing after ~13 years in business. It was an easy walk from my house and had legitimately good grub and great atmosphere. I am sad.
In reply to Wally :
We have random birds flying around during the summer. Attempts to domesticate them have failed so far but we're going to keep trying.
I think I begin to dislike my new mailman. The lady we had up until the first of October was slow, but we never had any problems. I was literally the last house on her route, so often the mail arrived around 5pm. Now we have a newer and younger guy. My mail often arrives at the house across the street or next door and vice versa. Right now I am awaiting a bottle of touch up paint, it was supposed to be delivered today, the website says it was not delivered and may take longer than expected.
We did not get any mail today at all.
The Union Underground only made one album...
Missing the wife and this was her fave when she was stressed and needed to be distracted. I am in need of emotional distraction...
In reply to NickD :
You fix that wire yet? It's dark out here.
It was hot here, then I traveled to the Challenge. Last Thursday I was dying in the Florida weather.
This Thursday morning it's 27 degrees.
Fall failed.
Heck, the leaves didn't even fall. First good use of the leaf blower was blowing snow off the deck and cars! 
In reply to Bent-Valve :
It's currently in the 60's and raining hard here at 8:30 in the morning. By the time I will be heading home from work they're saying it'll be pushing freezing out and tonight the low will be in the high 20's. The trees here are quite solidly confused- half of them out in the Gorge where our cabin is have already dropped their leaves, the other half are still green as can be.
I think my miata might be giving me hip pain that I have had for the past month. Going to drive the land cruiser for the next week or so to see. If it helps I am going to be annoyed cause I like my ND RF.
Here in Delaware they are predicting a high of 74 this afternoon. Hopefully the rain will clear out by trick-or-treat time.
Customer: Help, our door is not locking automatically anymore!! It's an emergency!!
Me after looking at the door: Have y'all been working on it?
Customer: NO!
Me: Then who took out all the relay boards and wiring that I installed 2 months ago when I installed the door?
Customer: Not us. We wouldn't do such a thing.
Me: Well, I'm going to have to order new relays and rewire the whole thing to get the locks working again. You'll have to post a security guard on the door or lock it manually until the parts come in.
Customer: Oh those relays. One of the wires was hanging down so we took all of that out to keep it from getting tangled in the rollers.
Me: Did you consider that maybe that is why the door no longer locks?
Customer:
Me:
Customer: No.
Me: Just a FYI, if I install something in a automatic door, it is usually required for operation. You might give me a call before you start cutting wires next time. And about that warranty...
Toyman01 said:Me: Did you consider that maybe that is why the door no longer locks?
Customer:
Me:
Customer: No.
change "customer" to "wife" or "kid(s)" and "door no longer locks" to pretty much anything else, and you're in my house.
In reply to Toyman01 :
I wish you were local to me, I'd have you do our door service just to hear some stories.
In reply to MrChaos :
So you're saying you think you have a case of Miatica?
In reply to dculberson :
I am constantly amazed that some people manage to tie their shoes in the morning.
It's a good thing they don't have to remember to breath.
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