CHAT What causes staff rants?

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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OK, here's the progression that leads to rants.

Conversations that go something like this...
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My car won't start.

What kind is it?

My last car was a (whatever) that wouldn't start if the remote battery was dead.

Is your remote battery dead on this car?

I don't know.

Click the unlock button...

Well, did you click it?

Yes

What happened

I don't know, the car is in the garage.

Do the lights stay normal when you try to start it.

Don't know, they come on automatically when it starts.

(from another member) Look in the cup holder, there is a little rubber flap, open that and stick the remote in and try to start it.

Which cup holder, there are six in it

....and so on.
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My computer won't come on.

Does it have power?

Not sure, the ceiling fan works.

Do the lights come on.

Only two out of three...Do you know where I can get ceiling fan bulbs with the small screw in thingee?

(sigh) Is it a laptop or desktop?

It's a Dell.
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My A/C won't come on.

Did you check the breaker?

Which breaker is it?

FOR F's SAKE! HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW, HOLD YOUR DAMN COMPUTER CLOSER SO I CAN SEE IT! (double facepalm)

Does the fan come on?

I can't turn it on, the screen on the t-stat is not on.
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And you wonder why we are on our third shot of tequila before the second cup of coffee is finished.

So...

Someone who is consistently starting conversations like the ones above...they ask a question in a thread.

Not just any question, but one that has been answered 50 times in the last year, twice in the last week and once in the thread where they asked it.

By then, we are twitching and going into convulsions like a dayum epileptic starting a Grand Mal seizure.

(I'm sure someone will tell me that their ex-husband's, step sister's cousin suffered from something that ain't epilepsy...but still, you shouldn't make fun of epileptics)


After two more shots of tequila...barely enough to calm the tremors...We spin a bearing and their ass gets raked over the coals.

At that point, they get all butt-hurt and ask why you are being such a dick, "I just asked a simple question".


THAT is why it happens.




And armadillos carry leprosy. :rolleyes:
 

TammyinWI

Talk is cheap
LOL. Yes, that sort of thing is "rantable," but also people that can't converse anymore because they talk and talk and talk and don't stop. There seems to be an epidemic of people who cannot pause and let a conversation happen, but they go on and on about 10 different things before giving the listener a chance to respond...then a person doesn't know what to reply with first, and forgets some of the points until later, or they talk again. Frustrating.
 

Matt

Veteran Member
You should spend a day at a modern corporation.... these people are exponentially worse in person..... at least in the virtual world you can say what you are thinking.... at mega Clown Corp you have to smile and nod... lest the crones in HR steal your soul!
 

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
Wait until you hear what my last job did to me:
I got picked to go do a pee test for about 12 months in a row. I was the ONLY person they could count on that they knew didn't do drugs.
I took the bus a lot there, so I usually had to take the company car. I finally complained and they stopped it.
 

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
OK, here's the progression that leads to rants.

Conversations that go something like this...
=========

My car won't start.

What kind is it?

My last car was a (whatever) that wouldn't start if the remote battery was dead.

Is your remote battery dead on this car?

I don't know.

Click the unlock button...

Well, did you click it?

Yes

What happened

I don't know, the car is in the garage.

Do the lights stay normal when you try to start it.

Don't know, they come on automatically when it starts.

(from another member) Look in the cup holder, there is a little rubber flap, open that and stick the remote in and try to start it.

Which cup holder, there are six in it

....and so on.
================

My computer won't come on.

Does it have power?

Not sure, the ceiling fan works.

Do the lights come on.

Only two out of three...Do you know where I can get ceiling fan bulbs with the small screw in thingee?

(sigh) Is it a laptop or desktop?

It's a Dell.
==============

My A/C won't come on.

Did you check the breaker?

Which breaker is it?

FOR F's SAKE! HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW, HOLD YOUR DAMN COMPUTER CLOSER SO I CAN SEE IT! (double facepalm)

Does the fan come on?

I can't turn it on, the screen on the t-stat is not on.
=====================

And you wonder why we are on our third shot of tequila before the second cup of coffee is finished.

So...

Someone who is consistently starting conversations like the ones above...they ask a question in a thread.

Not just any question, but one that has been answered 50 times in the last year, twice in the last week and once in the thread where they asked it.

By then, we are twitching and going into convulsions like a dayum epileptic starting a Grand Mal seizure.

(I'm sure someone will tell me that their ex-husband's, step sister's cousin suffered from something that ain't epilepsy...but still, you shouldn't make fun of epileptics)


After two more shots of tequila...barely enough to calm the tremors...We spin a bearing and their ass gets raked over the coals.

At that point, they get all butt-hurt and ask why you are being such a dick, "I just asked a simple question".


THAT is why it happens.




And armadillos carry leprosy. :rolleyes:
OMG thats hilarious!
 

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
In sympathy and commiseration for Admin's plight, I'm going to have some 8 or 10 YO Rye over ice & tuck in; PET Scan tomorrow @0700 & NPO in about 50 minutes local.

Ciao
BFN
 
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