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[digitalayon]

OK this may be frustration talking.....but I just got a call from one of our departments that just fried a 8 grand Dell computer by a X-RAY tube arcing and throwing 65,000 volts into its USB. The isolator to prevent that from occurring was not used because it takes too long to mess with. 15 Seconds!!!!!????

Then I get a lady who dumped coffee down into her laptop and it went boom!!!


Then a maintenance facilities guy dismounts a projector to replace a bulb and he decided to use a power drill to undo the screws and replace the bulb with and he cracked the internal housing.

Now two of the users clicked on malware links and now their PC's open about 2,000 porn links a piece. I do not know what to say!!!

[CIR Engineering]

What on earth do you do for a living?

craigr

[fragzero]

General IT support?

[Tim in Phoenix]

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You have Job Security provided by the idiots you support : - )


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[dvh99]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

As a matter of fact, yes...

I spent 5 hours working on a $38,000 steamer oven today, and i still need to go back inside to replace the faulty variable speed drive for the top fan motor... Lucky we've got 9 of them here, cause i had to rob the steam boiler from another oven in another kitchen to get it running again.

I had a gas fitter here yesterday to install and commission 2 brand new deep fryers in that same kitchen, calibrated to 172°c and remove temp adjustment knobs, in 1 night they managed to pull a knob from the stovetop and wound them up... Now theyre burning the batter before the fish is cooked...

Dont think it stops there either, i havent moved onto bars, refridgeration or airconditioning yet...

I think you should be thankful youre not working with chefs as well, all those jobs you stated sound real easy!!!

[the big E]

[Curt Palme]

My tale is a bit different, but here goes. You guys know I was out of town for most of April, and right before I left on my first trip, I get a message through eBay from a guy in New Yawk looking for an EHT board for a Barco 808/Zenith 1200. I email back that I do have one, to email me through either this site or via the email address I gave him so I could get his info and send him a Paypal invoice. I get no reply. No biggie, that happens all the time.

A week later, I'm up North, and get a phone call from a guy with a strong accent: 'Did you ship my part yet?' I have no effing idea who it is, but I see on my call display it's from New Yawk. So I ask what part he's looking for, He says 'A Barco part' Greeat!!!. Finally I get it out of him that he's the guy that emailed me a week or 10 days earlier through eBay. I have to ask a LOT of questions to get that out of him. I tell him that I never heard back from him, that I don't have his info, and that he hasn't paid me. I get 'Don't worry my friend, you will get paid'

Yeah right buddy, as soon as I'm 'your friend', I get worried.

So I tell him I'm out of town for another week, that he can email me, I'll confirm that I have his email, but nothing will ship out for a week until I'm back. Then I get 'what kind of business are you running anyway, this is bull****' type line.

It takes a LOT usually to piss me off, but now I've had it. I tell the guy in no uncertain terms that he can go find it elsewhere on the net, and good luck finding it, since I'm probably the last person on earth that has the board, and that even if he came to my door and paid me cash, I wouldn't sell it to him. I thank him for calling, and hang up on him. He calls back twice, I ignore him.

It gets better.... I get a call a week later, right in the few days I'm in town again before heading to LA. Same accent, different person, same New Yawk phone number. 'Hi, I'm looking for a BArco HV board.' I say 'sorry, I've already told your brother/cousin/friend that unless he emails me his info and pays me for the board, I'm not sending anything, and I STILL haven't seen an email. He calls AGAIN while I'm in LA 'have you sent my board?' I tell him no, I haven't, and no, I won't.

I get a call yesterday from a local number 'Hi, do you have a HV board for a Zenith Pro 1200'. DIfferent phone number, same accent. WTF? Turns out, the guy recruited a friend here in Vancouver to buy the board off me. I tell him the price, which is now $25 more than when we started, the terms are CASH only and I will give him a tested board once I see the cash. He then asks if I can send it to his buddy in New Yawk. I tell him absolutely not, that his 'friend' is a moron that can't follow basic instructions, and that I will make an exception, that I will sell it to this local guy with cash, in person. He says fine. He calls me back 5 minutes later, asking for my bank info so that he can pay that day, and pick up the next day. I tell him NO, and if he wants to change the rules one more time, I won't take his calls anymore either.

For shits and giggles, I listed the same EHT board on eBay at a slightly inflated price as well, just in case.

Well, the local guy shows up this morning, and after asking about the warranty, and trying to talk me down in price, and Skyping with his guy in New Yawk to make sure the part is the right one, and asking again if I can send it to New Yawk...... NO!!!... he actually pulls out cash, pays me and walks away.

1/2 hour later, his buddy from the same damn New Yawk number calls me. I ignore it, as I'm buried in a sound rack.

All I'm hoping is that the EHT board really was at fault. He never asked for troubleshooting assistance, so I never offered any.

[Curt Palme]

My tale is a bit different, but here goes. You guys know I was out of town for most of April, and right before I left on my first trip, I get a message through eBay from a guy in New Yawk looking for an EHT board for a Barco 808/Zenith 1200. I email back that I do have one, to email me through either this site or via the email address I gave him so I could get his info and send him a Paypal invoice. I get no reply. No biggie, that happens all the time.

A week later, I'm up North, and get a phone call from a guy with a strong accent: 'Did you ship my part yet?' I have no effing idea who it is, but I see on my call display it's from New Yawk. So I ask what part he's looking for, He says 'A Barco part' Greeat!!!. Finally I get it out of him that he's the guy that emailed me a week or 10 days earlier through eBay. I have to ask a LOT of questions to get that out of him. I tell him that I never heard back from him, that I don't have his info, and that he hasn't paid me. I get 'Don't worry my friend, you will get paid'

Yeah right buddy, as soon as I'm 'your friend', I get worried.

So I tell him I'm out of town for another week, that he can email me, I'll confirm that I have his email, but nothing will ship out for a week until I'm back. Then I get 'what kind of business are you running anyway, this is bull****' type line.

It takes a LOT usually to piss me off, but now I've had it. I tell the guy in no uncertain terms that he can go find it elsewhere on the net, and good luck finding it, since I'm probably the last person on earth that has the board, and that even if he came to my door and paid me cash, I wouldn't sell it to him. I thank him for calling, and hang up on him. He calls back twice, I ignore him.

It gets better.... I get a call a week later, right in the few days I'm in town again before heading to LA. Same accent, different person, same New Yawk phone number. 'Hi, I'm looking for a BArco HV board.' I say 'sorry, I've already told your brother/cousin/friend that unless he emails me his info and pays me for the board, I'm not sending anything, and I STILL haven't seen an email. He calls AGAIN while I'm in LA 'have you sent my board?' I tell him no, I haven't, and no, I won't.

I get a call yesterday from a local number 'Hi, do you have a HV board for a Zenith Pro 1200'. DIfferent phone number, same accent. WTF? Turns out, the guy recruited a friend here in Vancouver to buy the board off me. I tell him the price, which is now $25 more than when we started, the terms are CASH only and I will give him a tested board once I see the cash. He then asks if I can send it to his buddy in New Yawk. I tell him absolutely not, that his 'friend' is a moron that can't follow basic instructions, and that I will make an exception, that I will sell it to this local guy with cash, in person. He says fine. He calls me back 5 minutes later, asking for my bank info so that he can pay that day, and pick up the next day. I tell him NO, and if he wants to change the rules one more time, I won't take his calls anymore either.

For shits and giggles, I listed the same EHT board on eBay at a slightly inflated price as well, just in case.

Well, the local guy shows up this morning, and after asking about the warranty, and trying to talk me down in price, and Skyping with his guy in New Yawk to make sure the part is the right one, and asking again if I can send it to New Yawk...... NO!!!... he actually pulls out cash, pays me and walks away.

1/2 hour later, his buddy from the same damn New Yawk number calls me. I ignore it, as I'm buried in a sound rack.

All I'm hoping is that the EHT board really was at fault. He never asked for troubleshooting assistance, so I never offered any.

[the big E]

[digitalayon]

[Curt Palme]

[Curt Palme]

[AnalogRocks]

[AnalogRocks]

[the big E]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

[Curt Palme]

[Curt Palme]

[the big E]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Curt, i might build a house here soon, what do i get if i am first to install one in the bathroom?

[the big E]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Ill do a hard edge with 2 1001QMs

[AnalogRocks]

When I got my Runco 900 I was testing it in the hallway. The middle 1/3rd of the picture was projecting on my shower wall. I watched cartoons while in the shower and NO there are NO pictures of that!

[AnalogRocks]

When I got my Runco 900 I was testing it in the hallway. The middle 1/3rd of the picture was projecting on my shower wall. I watched cartoons while in the shower and NO there are NO pictures of that!