People who are "master techs" who don't know what the hell they are doing...
new person is a "master tech" with 18 yrs experience, has done some of the most noobish E36 M3 I've ever seen.
Doesn't know how to do alignments, tires, tpms sensors, rear drums on a chevy 1500, etc etc
needs help with everything from me, an admittedly extremely-un-masterful tech, all the time (even monday when I stopped by on my day off)
They did an oil change on an ls460 the other day and put the o-ring in the wrong slot on the filter housing. car gets towed back in because the low oil light is on, new person is gone and of course it's ten minutes til closing time.
I put it back together correctly and the store manager and service manager had to drive all the way back to the customers house (hour away, same town store mgr lives in) to bring them the car back, then come all the way back to the store, then he has to go back to the town he just left to get home.
Reeeeeeeally don't think the aforementioned FNG know what the hell she's doing.
Datsun1500 wrote: In reply to corytate: So far you've know more than anyone else in the last 4 jobs you've had, yet they keep letting you go!
He keeps letting them know.... Nobody likes to have their inferiors be superior publicly. How do you think I keep a job? Playing dumb.... It's not an act for us with the knack.
I ate lasagna... It had cottage cheese and a ton of cheese in it. I'm lactose intolerant.
While taking dump number 6 for the day I was read up on a drag class (true street) I hoped to enter while taking my truck 150 miles to. They have to prove their car is street able during a 30 mile drive then race 3 consecutive passes.
I've put almost 1k miles on my tires in the last 6 months but because I have piecrust cheaters and buffed fronts with no DOT code I can't drive on the street part or race. I would buy two tires and put them on spare rims to race but no way am I buying a set of cheater slicks eith DOT codes and a set of front runners when my wheels and tires are perfect!!
"I ate lasagna... It had cottage cheese..."
That's not lasagna, that's a berkeleying travesty.
N Sperlo wrote: I have six days of medicine left, my wife hasn't gotten me back onto her insurance, It'll cost 350/mo with MY insurance, I can feel the other medicine poking a the back of my brain telling me to break someone's neck, I gotta take a piss and I just tried to sign into the grasstootsmotorsports.com forums, the Ranger needs a 2.3 ASAP, I need to go qualify with my weapon next week using money I don't have, and AT&T just over charged me by $50. berkeley berkeleyety berkeley berkeley
"ROADTRIP" How far away is the back forty?
Layoffs were today at work. I hate that E36 M3.
In reply to tuna55:
What you don't want that free government Kool-Aid either?
The non-working pos welfare Americans need to have a moment of silence for guys like us. Not that we'd notice.... We'll be at work.
Appleseed wrote: "I ate lasagna... It had cottage cheese..." That's not lasagna, that's a berkeleying travesty.
Making the ricotta the day before or right on the spot, from whole milk(makes it better), isn't that hard.
Why is it so berkleying hard to find the oil I want in this flippin' town? I want Mobil 1 5w30 ESP. E S P, Echo Sierra Papa. I don't care what you, "sell to the indy VW shop." I miss my good parts store, who kept a case behind the counter just for me.
Also I hit a deer in the Volvo last night, well the deer hit me. Now I need a new P/S front fender... sigh.
People that don't ship things when promised, then get mad when a month later, you nicely remind them that well... they need to ship that E36 M3.
http://www.performanceprobe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49239&page=3
Am i really in the wrong here?
FranktheTank wrote: I ate lasagna... It had cottage cheese and a ton of cheese in it. I'm lactose intolerant.
I'm lactose intolerant too- have you tried drinking about a half cup of Kefir daily? I heard about it a few years back and found out that if I drink a small glass of it (or, more commonly, a few chugs from a quart bottle 
) daily- usually first thing in the morning- that I can eat/drink all the dairy I want with almost no adverse effects. It's WAY more effective for me than Lactaid pills or the likes. Something you might want to look into- has made my life a LOT better food-wise...
Got in to work today to find an email from corporate telling us that thanks to the shutdown all of the government employees that our company needs to receive, approve, sign off on, and- most importantly- PAY FOR our products are furloughed, so for the duration of it we basically can't move any product or get paid for anything we've already delivered. As such, if it continues into next week, they will be furloughing a LOT of people, and if it continues further they'll be forced to furlough even more.
Thankfully the expectation is that my position should be pretty safe from this initially... but nobody here will be if it drags out. REALLY do not need this now when I'm already running pretty thin financially with having both the mortgage on the house I'm trying to sell and the rent at the GF's place...
Goodyear next door shut its doors , business was way off over there. Twenty year employee found out an hour after getting there . " Well you won't ever see the inside of this office again" was his let go announcement . They over there taking everything down spray painting over signs s ect................
bigdaddylee82 wrote: Why is it so berkleying hard to find the oil I want in this flippin' town? I want Mobil 1 5w30 ESP. E S P, Echo Sierra Papa. I don't care what you, "sell to the indy VW shop." I miss my good parts store, who kept a case behind the counter just for me. Also I hit a deer in the Volvo last night, well the deer hit me. Now I need a new P/S front fender... sigh. - Lee
It took me calling 5 different parts stores & researching online to find the oil I want local. Then I had to initiate the stock transfer from the parts store 45 miles away to the one in my town. I had to provide the part number, they list on their website, they couldn't look it up. Why did I have to do all of that? I swear, counter monkeys . I've got what appears to be the only case in the entire state allegedly coming to my local store tomorrow. We'll see. 
In other news I found a fender, allegedly the same color as my car, semi local for only $40. Maybe things are looking up?
phone bell outside goodyear ringing and ringing 
Swank Force One wrote: People that don't ship things when promised, then get mad when a month later, you nicely remind them that well... they need to ship that E36 M3. http://www.performanceprobe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49239&page=3 Am i really in the wrong here?
I had the same thing happen to me on BF.c
I bought parts after the shiny happy person made me wait all day. I accidentally shorted him $20 in rush to get back on the road. After he brought it to my attention, I Paypal'd him the $20 . . . He promised to ship the rest and two months, he didn't. When I gave him negative iTrader feedback for not shipping the parts. He responded bay giving me negative feedback. His reason . . . I shorted him $20 . . . Dumb berktard
LOWBALLERS! I have a car for sale. 350. Needs starter. Guy knew it. Wants to call it rough and offer me 200. REALLY? It's a 350 Chevy Prism. It's not rocket surgery.
Datsun1500 wrote: In reply to corytate: So far you've know more than anyone else in the last 4 jobs you've had, yet they keep letting you go!
lol.
this alleged master tech has, in the last week, broken water pump bolts during install, broken tpms sensors, scratched wheels, completely FUBAR'd the lock nut for the rear toe adjuster on a yota, incorrectly installed the filter housing on a $60k lexus, misdiagnosed a coolant leak as lower hose for the aforementioned WP job, bent a 1/2" thick steel valve stem puller beyond all recognition (until that point, it had been going strong for ~15 years) and several other near misses as well.
I had to help said person with an alignment the other day (on my day off), where she said the front toe was maxed out. front toe is NEVER maxed out. I've never seen it even close to the ends of the threads. There should be like 15*+ per side adjust-ability on any normal r&p tie rod setup. I get over there and she is trying to twist the outer tie rod end!!
I was speechless after that one. Just walked away after showing how to do it correctly. Very puzzling person.
And no, I don't want to let anyone know that I know more than them. I've found myself out to be a retard numerous times in the past, and I'm a pretty humble person. But when someone with 18 years experience has problems like this, it risks the reputation of the shop and, thus, my paycheck..
I previously mentioned working on MILs car.... I got a call to work today that she was stranded and it quit steering and oil was everywhere....
I'm like holy crap... After work I got hose clamps. Electric impact. Every fluid and hose I could find. Spare bolts.... Gasket board rtv. I was ready for anything.
A 6in long 5/8 cookant line was leaking. Causing the PS pully to slip and there was no PS fluid oil or tranny leak. Just coolant which I topped off.
She wanted me to follow her home... Again. I'm seriously contemplating throwing a lit road flare in the backseat of her car so she can buy a new one. It'd be ok I'd she didn't always break down 50 miles from home.
I even offered to buy the car.... No go.
berkeleying piece of E36 M3 Honda Insight!! EFF YOOUUU. IMA light on, okay I'll replace it. Here, lets install this shiny new 2000 dollar battery for you, that'll fix you right up. But does it?.. berkeley no it doesn't, same effing light check engine, no charge on the IMA light. Piece of E36 M3, as soon as I get get this fixed it's getting sold. 60mpg isn't worth dealing with this effing thing. Anyone near Fort Myers Fl with a Honda code reader?
bigdaddylee82 wrote:bigdaddylee82 wrote: Why is it so berkleying hard to find the oil I want in this flippin' town? I want Mobil 1 5w30 ESP. E S P, Echo Sierra Papa. I don't care what you, "sell to the indy VW shop." I miss my good parts store, who kept a case behind the counter just for me. Also I hit a deer in the Volvo last night, well the deer hit me. Now I need a new P/S front fender... sigh. - LeeIt took me calling 5 different parts stores & researching online to find the oil I want local. Then I had to initiate the stock transfer from the parts store 45 miles away to the one in my town. I had to provide the part number, they list on their website, they couldn't look it up. Why did I have to do all of that? I swear, counter monkeys . I've got what appears to be the only case in the entire state allegedly coming to my local store tomorrow. We'll see.
I jinxed myself
I called yesterday to verify that the salvage yard indeed had the fender that was listed on car-part.com, they did. I told them I would be there today to get it. They suggested I call this morning before I left, so they could have it off of the car & ready for me. I did. I called at about 11:30 AM, met SWMBO for lunch in neighboring town of said salvage yard, then went to get the fender.
I show up at about 1:30 PM, tell them who I am, what I'm there to get, and one guy even finds the quote that whoever I talked to yesterday had given me. Then he says, "boy I hope we haven't crushed that car yet, we've been crushing all morning." Say, what???
They can't find the car on their lot, then they get their "crush list" and it had long ago been crushed. It had to have been crushed before I even called this morning. I saw red, I was so pissed. I kept my composure, but did ask what the point in me calling was? So about 90 miles round trip for a fender I didn't get. Sooo pissed.
So I call the parts store when I leave the salvage yard, and the oil that I had transferred from the other store hasn't showed up yet. Counter monkey said, "maybe tomorrow." Sigh...
Ticketmaster and all their new "scalper stopper" crap can eat a big ole bag of dicks. Don't even get me started on the whole 24k seat arena can be sold out in under a minute....
"TicketMonopoly?" I still don't understand how this is legal.
anybody seen my chamois
no less than four here
geezus
I am in the house on the computer because of the stupid shiny yellow jackets that keep chasing me down in my garage every fall......(they are attracted to darker colors - and those are the t-shirt colors I wear).
Yesterday everyone was on speed and doing 20 over the limit.. today everyone must be doing downers because it was rare to find somebody even up to the speed limit
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