Hmm. The clutch in the Miata has finally given up the ghost. Drove it earlier in the day and it was fine. Went to move it a couple hours later and nearly lurched through the back wall of the garage. The clutch isn't releasing or engaging properly so no season end autocross in it tomorrow for me. 
Oh well, extra cars for the win. I'd actually be upset if I had to DD this thing.
In reply to KyAllroad:
Could be clutch, or it could be the clutch master or slave. Similar symptoms in either case.
If you have that tough of a time parking your big truck in between the lines, perhaps you should get a smaller vehicle. Every other person with the same vehicle is capable of parking without having the wheels on one line.
Stupid previous owners....
I would like to off a big Berk you to Selene Finance. This Mortgage company somehow got my number for somebody else's loan and they have been calling me incessantly for weeks. After finally leaving a message, I called them back.
Without an account number nobody there will help me. They are basically making my cellphone unusable as I can't turn the ringer on (and mine is not new enough to block their number) so I am stuck for now.. but I am going to start answering ALL their calls and telling them that I am not the people they are looking for and if they don't stop calling me, I may lawyer up and see if I can get anything back
Windows 10 is incredibly slow compared to 7.
Calculator takes two minutes to load. This is an improvement compared to before the most recent update, where it would just fail to load at all. It might have been fixed before that, I accidentally clicked it today and was amused to find that it sort-of works now. I've trained myself to simply open a new Firefox tab and do math in Google's command line.
Shutting down takes 30 seconds to actually get to the power off button. Click the icon... wait... wait.. waaaaaaait... go get a snack, come back, waaait... okay there's the option to shut down!
I'm going to start shutting my machine down by just holding the power button down. That or just unplug it, and come in to work early so I can let it sort out its improper shutdown before we can get back to work.
tuna55 wrote: I really hate the icky vibrate-y feeling you get after using the sawzall for too long.
Also applies to the weedwacker
All my hobbies make me want to put a gun in my mouth.
Currently hoarse from screaming for the second time in a week.
And winter is coming, so SAD is going to make everything worse.
Yay
berkeley you VW yet and still. I hope you die and are found naked with your hands tied behind your back, ballgag in place, and a gaping #2 hole.
Sick of "better German engineering" refusing to work. I'll be glad to own an unreliable American nameplate again.
Getting up at 3am to go to work and getting done at 9pm only to do it again, and again sucks ass.
It took every ounce of my being not to laugh while a lady, who can obviously not afford to pay for the car payment and repair bill of a Jaguar, tries to put me in my place. How I sabotaged her 09 XK into breaking down so she would have to get her car towed back to the dealer. RIIIIGGGGHHHTTTT....
Continue to tell me about how you "crunk'd da car ova", I'll continue to tell you about "Stoich" and "injector duty cycle" and "throttle body adaptation". You will not win this argument. You are a stupid human being who thinks life is a rap video and your Jaguar that your Grandmother pays the bill on will run forever and you will obviously get it repoed in less than year.
Rant over.
I wanted a day off. I did not want to get the pukenE36 M3s to get it.
Bonus rant: Why are vw parts so freaking expensive?? Really? 90 bucks for a flexible tube for the egr? 20 for the egr gasket?
why is it.. as one of people who actually gets work done around here, do I get threatened for a write up for not doing my job? Supposedly during the last loadout, I "disappeared" and could not be found. My boss said if it happened again, I would get written up and gave me no chance to even figure out what happened.
I wish I knew, I never left the stage until the show was down the hall and heading for the trucks.. I will have to approach him on Friday (my Monday) and see if I can find out what happened.
If my position was eliminated and you chose the layoff option, why are you still sending people to me with issues? Me thinks it is time to bill you for my time.
In reply to mad_machine:
Lazy guy continues to be lazy, and no one bats an eye.
Hard working guy takes it easy one day and everybody looses their mind.
Strike_Zero wrote: If my position was eliminated and you chose the layoff option, why are you still sending people to me with issues? Me thinks it is time to bill you for my time.
So, you no longer work for the company? In any capacity? I'd be getting some invoices in there pretty darn quick.
I understand why someone wouldn't want to list their phone number in a craigslist ad but... is it just me or does the email reply system never seem to work?
Appleseed wrote: In reply to mad_machine: Lazy guy continues to be lazy, and no one bats an eye. Hard working guy takes it easy one day and everybody looses their mind.
I didn't even take a lazy day... I worked my butt off and somebody told my boss I went "missing". He never came to me to ask me about it.. just pulled us all aside and told me flat out that A: He didn't want to discuss it. B: if I did it again I would get a write up.
I still have no idea what I supposedly did
mad_machine wrote:Appleseed wrote: In reply to mad_machine: Lazy guy continues to be lazy, and no one bats an eye. Hard working guy takes it easy one day and everybody looses their mind.I didn't even take a lazy day... I worked my butt off and somebody told my boss I went "missing". He never came to me to ask me about it.. just pulled us all aside and told me flat out that A: He didn't want to discuss it. B: if I did it again I would get a write up. I still have no idea what I supposedly did
That's the type of E36 M3 that will send me if the deep end. If that had been me I would have been fired on the spot and likely arrested. I don't have the patients to play politics like that.
well.. he is going to discuss it with me on Friday.. even if I have to drag him to HR and do it there. You do not just accuse me of doing something, yell at me in front of my co-workers, and tell us that you do not to discuss it.
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: It took every ounce of my being not to laugh while a lady, who can obviously not afford to pay for the car payment and repair bill of a Jaguar, tries to put me in my place. How I sabotaged her 09 XK into breaking down so she would have to get her car towed back to the dealer. RIIIIGGGGHHHTTTT.... Continue to tell me about how you "crunk'd da car ova", I'll continue to tell you about "Stoich" and "injector duty cycle" and "throttle body adaptation". You will not win this argument. You are a stupid human being who thinks life is a rap video and your Jaguar that your Grandmother pays the bill on will run forever and you will obviously get it repoed in less than year. Rant over.
This is exactly why we try hard to not be the cheapest shop on the street.
We're still cheaper enough from the dealerships that we get a lot of Audi/BMW/Mercedes maintenance and repair (we had three >3yr Mercedes in today, one of them was for the car's inaugural service) but at the same time we're not racing to the bottom trying to compete with Lube Stop loss-leader mentality. We recently raised our hourly rate 10% and probably going to go another 10-25% in the next few months.
There is no money to be made in courting clientele who don't spend money!
Also, saw a Lincoln LS go to the scrapyard. Shame, as it had a "new" Southern subframe as of this spring, but you could see through the trunk floor and various other places, and the engine had so little compression that it sounded like a bad starter drive. No need for a fork, it's just plain done. Not even worth an engine swap...
You OWN the place and you're complaining about the toilet paper. Maybe instead of buying increasingly unreliable vehicles every other month, you spring for some quality paper. I guarantee it will make everyone happy, and happy, comfortable employees are hard working employees.
Pizza in a ziplock been in our work fridge for over two weeks. Only five people and it ain't mine and I ain't yur cleanin' lady so how about cleanin' up after yourself. Got bored on midnight and took a look... pepperoni and mushrooms I thought. Nope, pepperoni and mold.
Get the berkeley out.
RevRico wrote: You OWN the place and you're complaining about the toilet paper. Maybe instead of buying increasingly unreliable vehicles every other month, you spring for some quality paper. I guarantee it will make everyone happy, and happy, comfortable employees are hard working employees.
Yes... but people with a sore ass don't sit around :)
Ranger50 wrote: berkeley you VW yet and still. I hope you die and are found naked with your hands tied behind your back, ballgag in place, and a gaping #2 hole. Sick of "better German engineering" refusing to work.
I'm not sure what you are on about but it's my understanding that what you are suggesting, except for the dying part, is considered a happy ending to a lot of German films.
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