I'm dealing with one of those situations where every attempt to put out what should have been a small fire turns into a thermonuclear inferno. Something I could have fixed myself in a few minutes (not my job though) has absorbed hours of my time and most of my energy over the last few weeks. Meanwhile the Mrs. seems to have picked up RSV and hasn't slept in a few days. I feel like I'm catching something too.
Covid, x2
Actual conversation from a sales trip this morning.
"Hi, I'm Rico from (blank), my partner called earlier this week and you asked for a meeting"
Hi Rico, how are you voting next Tuesday?
"... I'm here to sell you gummies not talk politics"
Why aren't you voting for (redacted)?
"I didn't say I was or wasn't. Here's our samples and info sheet, call me with any questions or to place an order, my number is on the bottom of the page"
You need to go vote for (redacted) because *lies and bullE36 M3*
"Ok, have a good weekend"
I just can't get over that level of unprofessionalism from a 50 something business owner.
I feel like out of spite I should go to corporate and push them to make our product a house brand, would make me a hell of a lot more money serving 600+ locations than just the one.
In reply to RevRico :
In my line of work my personal politics are the complete opposite of the vast majority of people I am sent in to help. They all want to tell me whatever talking points they picked up while I am assisting them. I have gotten really good at going "yeah man, thats crazy" while collecting a paycheck.
In reply to RevRico :
That last paragraph is correct. Do that
It's that time of year for the fun game of "Are my brakes dragging or is someone burning leaves?"
Wires on trailers are perpetually berkeleyed up. Plug's berkeleyed up. E36 M3ty butt connectors are berkeleyed up. Lights are berkeleyed up. Brakes are berkeleyed up.
I spent 8 hours trying to un-berkeley a berkeleyed up trailer, now my back is berkeleyed up.
berkeley trailers.
Rebuilt the front end on the Mazda5, finishing right before I headed down to the challenge. All the way down and back up, I got a worsening clunk in the left front suspension, but the car seemed to handle just fine. Finally got it in the air today, and pulled the driver's strut assembly, since I could not find anything that looked obvious. Compressed the spring, and was able to remove the tamper resistant nut with almost no force. Spec is 49 ft-lbs. I doubt it was tightened to 49 in-lbs. I had bought quick struts so I wouldn't have to deal with this E36 M3. Just in case it was toast from the trip, ran out and picked up a new strut mount, and reassembled everything. Haven't had a chance to drive it yet, but I really hope that fixed it, because if not, I'm out of ideas.
I replaced the struts on my Silverado with the orange Koni's. A year later there's a ton of oil - blown out? They suck to change.
I feel your pain Mazda5 guy.
I once read the quote "I enjoy the hobby but I hate 90% of the people that do it" and, boy, that resonates with me this weekend.
I spent all day yesterday fighting with a 2010 Nissan Rogue. Broken front subframe bushings that I temporarily shimmed out with spacers. Front quick struts and E36 M3 CV axles. Passenger side pooped loose and the driver side was actually broken, so an unplanned replacement. Looked fine from the outside but the inner joint wouldn't collapse to install the quick strut. After wrestling with it for hours I finally gave up and bought a new one. The new CV axel was 2+ inches shorter than the old one. I curse the day my daughter bought this thing, if I have to touch it again it may just mysteriously catch on fire...
The time change...
CVS pharmacy can suck a bag of dicks. That is all.
While I believe that it is important to find missing kids, a child being abducted has absolutely nothing to do with the weather and, therefore, the national weather service should not be issuing a "special weather statement" and my weather-related alarms should not be going off.
My brain just decided not to work this morning. Really not sure why.
wearymicrobe said:CVS pharmacy can suck a bag of dicks. That is all.
CVS is a terrible company and their prices are astronomical. Yes insurance insulates you from that, but after my experience with their pricing I do all I can to avoid using them. A $900 retail prescription at CVS was $330 at Walmart.
I wish this site would either link new posts in the notification emails, or put watched threads with new replies in your dashboard even if you haven't replied in the thread.
If you can't find cashiers that can work at speeds other than dead berkeleying slow, please put in self-checkout registers so those of us that are smarter than a cash register can take care of it ourselves.
Seriously, 4 registers open. 4 people in each line. 20 berkeleying minutes to check out. Not only was she too stupid to run the machine, they all were. You work in a berkeleying grocery store. If you can't ring up a sandwich and a drink and give the person change in less than a minute you need to go back to stocking shelves with the rest of the slow and stupid.
dculberson said:wearymicrobe said:CVS pharmacy can suck a bag of dicks. That is all.
CVS is a terrible company and their prices are astronomical. Yes insurance insulates you from that, but after my experience with their pricing I do all I can to avoid using them. A $900 retail prescription at CVS was $330 at Walmart.
So we used to have to use them. Apparently that changed. My medication went from 821 per month full covered but never in stock. this is mediation I cannot mis.
To 21$ in fees for 3 months delivered to the house with RiteAid with overnight charges.
Yet again, I find my experience to be contrary to the conventional one.
We use CVS / Caremark because they are who our insurance contracts with.
I have 3 maintenance prescriptions. If I need a refill, I push 4 buttons on the app, and usually it's at my door within 2-3 days. If it's not a maintenance item it's usually available for pickup within an hour or two of the doctor's office submitting it.
Contrast that with the consistent "service" at my local Rite Aid:
1) Go in, wait 10 minutes to give prescription to pharmacist.
2) Get told to come back in an arbitrary number of hours, ranging from 2 to 24.
3) Come back at appointed arbitrary time.
4) Wait half an hour because no matter when they tell you to come back, they NEVER actually fill your prescription until you show up the second time.
I won't go there ever again.
Job hunting is frustrating and demoralizing. I thought I would have found something good by now.
(I know I could find something easy if I lowered my standards, but I'm looking for something *better* than what I have now.)
Step 1: Buy large amount of food to stock fridge at work for lunches
Step 2: Prepare large amount of food so lunch just requires popping a Rubbermaid container in the microwave
Step 3: Eat more than half of the food while reading about tomorrow's ballot
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God one of my coworkers is the worst. Every time there is a conversation about anything (sports, cars, anything) he will either most commonly turn it into a political discussion or have the most insane possible take on it. He is constantly dancing on the line of racism or sexism. Yesterday he told two of us that he was worth more to women because he had a Corvette.
I'm getting pretty berkeleying tired of being lied to. If I berkeleying ask you for a delivery time and you tell me 2-3 weeks it god damn well better be 2-3 berkeleying weeks, not mid berkeleying January.
I don't really berkeleying care what the delivery time is, but if you berkeleying lie to me I'm going to be just a little abrupt with you. I will also speak rather harshly to your berkeleying boss and his berkeleying boss if I need to and ruin your berkeleying week. I am spending $$$$$ with your berkeleying company and I expect the berkeleying truth for my money. I need reasonable estimates to pass on to my customers. January would be fine but I god damn well need to know it's going to be January not some number you pull out of your lying stank ass. If you don't berkeleying know, then tell me that. When you berkeleying lie to me, it makes me look as berkeleying useless and incompetent are you are. That is not and never will be acceptable.
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