Sometimes you just have to wonder . . .

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Yep, back in the day, go out, put power on the a/c, light up the system, verify the write-up in the forms. If verified, write down the corrective action, if not, sign it off as a “CND”.

Was in line at Wally yesterday. Checker was handed cash by customer, counts it twice, customer ads to it, counts twice more, hands some back, counts twice more before ringing it up. Next customer in front of me, starts through. Checker passes about one item every 7-10 seconds past the barcode reader.

Turned to the older gent behind me and told him—wish they would pay these knotheads on commission of what goes through the till, rather than hourly. If he didn’t have a cart to lean on, think he would have been on the floor laughing.

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I am constantly reminded of how “silly” the humans on this planet really are.

I drive dump trucks, and cement mixers. People order 20 tons of gravel, and want me to dump it in the back yard. The truck is 8 feet wide … the gate is 6 feet wide ! They look at ME as if I’m purposely causing the problem !

A cement mixer has chutes on the back to deliver the concrete. The concrete comes out of the drum, and “GRAVITY” causes the concrete to flow down the chute to where you want it. I once had a customer with a 8 foot tall cinderblock wall try to convince me that raising the chute to its upper limit would get the concrete into the wall. ( most cinderblock walls are filled with concrete) the chute would have been inclined in the wrong direction and the concrete would NOT have flowed UP!!!

I just hate trying to explain " Gravity" to people still living in the dark ages…

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Yup. In many cases it just turns out to be something that wasn’t set up right by the pilot. Sometimes I want to write the corrective action up as “R&R BFCS.”…with BFCS being my acronym for Biological Flight Control System. But, the only way to know is to go look. The plane doesn’t magically fix itself because a bunch of eggheads are sitting around talking about it.

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Heh…kinda reminds me of people on the road who tailgate you because they don’t like how fast everybody is going. How do you explain to someone like that that the cars in front of you are solid?

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DITTO!!!

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The pandemic has certainly changed my view of humanity, and not for the better. Early in the pandemic, a young woman here in Vancouver told a Global News reporter that the pandemic was a hoax. She knew that because there were no bodies in the streets! And now, the growing number of Covid-19 infections among anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers is proving that stupid people are actually dangerous, and not just the fools who used to send rants to “Letters to the Editor” section of newspapers. Remember newspapers?

Our family’s best “Stupid” story comes from an incident experienced by our son, Paul, when he was working at a Cole’s bookstore in Victoria, the provincial capital, where he was attending university. An American woman came into the store. She picked out several books, and paid for them in American currency.

Paul figured out the exchange rate and handed her change, in Canadian currency. She looked at the money in her hand, paused, looked up, and said, “What’s this?”

“That’s Canadian money,” he said. “Your change.”

“My change?” she said. “Am I in Canada?”

Bob

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You don’t, and I made a decent living for 40+ years fixing that little shortcoming, and the shop is still full, and getting better as more people get back on the road after a year of not being out and about.

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I’ve literally had people say that exact same thing to me at work when they witness interactions between she and me.

I have multiple stories of her incompetence and poor behavior. She is on this low level test job because she was banned from working in one building (GE has various plants on the same campus, each making different appliances) and lacks the ability to get higher level jobs that require testing and training to attain.

The refrigerators coming down the line do not have door handles on them. Those items are added inside the unit farther down the line and the customer or installer adds the door handles after purchase (some assembly required).

So the tester either opens the door by grabbing the top of the door edge or by using a dent puller (a hand held suction cup). It is a simple, self expanatory item to use; place it against the smooth surface of the door, flip the little grab handle and open the door. Close the door, flip the grab handle and it releases the suction cup.

When she was first handed one back in January, she kept loudly proclaiming that she didn’t know how to use it. The woman to her right showed her how, but she kept insisting that she wasn’t trained. So I went to train her. She stood in front of the refrigerator door throwing the dent puller at the door like it was a magnet.

Well, these are stainless steel refrigerator doors which are non-magnetic. She kept trying to place the suction cup along the edge of the door, which won’t get suction. Or she places it so far away from the opening edge of the door that it requires more suction and leverage than the dent puller is designed to handle.

It’s bascially like watching a person try to open a refrigerator door by grabbing the hinge edge of the door and trying to open the door by yanking it off the hinges. Sne eventually got it, but by then, the other five testers thought she was a moron.

Everyone of them learned how to use it without instruction. Just like they learned how to “open center drawer” without instruction.

Dent puller image just for reference; ours are exactly the same, but the handle portion are orange. They come from Harbor Freight and are like $5 a piece.

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I’m sure you’ll be getting more and more business. The numbers of these morons on the road seem to be increasing well beyond pre-pandemic numbers. It makes me glad that I have the early work hours that I do. Not many people on any road at 4:15AM, and not many at 2PM if you avoid the interstates. During the work day, for the most part, all I have to do is yield to taxiing aircraft…don’t have to worry about any of them having rage issues.

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Plenty of silliness on both sides of that argument that isn’t necessarily rooted in reality. What I remember of newspapers is that they tended to be very inaccurate when it came to reporting anything of a technical or scientific nature, so I always took them with a grain of salt…just like I do with all of the on-line sources and all of the cable news networks these days.

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Might be time to let that one mosey along…

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True story, not fiction but factual. My friend goes to McDonalds and orders a cheeseburger, plain. Simple enough…the clerk asks him what that is. My friend replies a burger, cheese with the bun and nothing else. The clerk looks at my buddy with a clueless expression and replies "so what you want is a burger with cheese? Ok the clerk says but next time ask for a hamburger with cheese and not a cheeseburger!![:S]

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Sounds like Five Easy Pieces.

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Great story Rob, I laughed at her all the way through. UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE MILLENIA

YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!

or my old tag line " is it better to be the village idiot or know your the village idoit.

Your co worker was probably talking as to keep the vaccum between her ears from imploding her face…do us all a favor Rob cork that hole ans save air for the rest of us " smart" folks.

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The line I used to use to tell someone that they were somewhat inadequate in their job was “well, after this just remember, the cheeseburger goes in the yellow wrapper.”

AND, So there we were . . .

I had been aboard my first ship probably a month or so and we were finishing up a overhaul up at Puget Sound. Taking on lubricating oil, we had a large, probably 500 gallon, tank up in the hangar bay anf we were using gravity feed to run it down to the engineering spaces.

Well, some brain surgeon aviation type decided that it would go faster if he hooked up a 150psi air line to the tank and give the oil a little ‘push’. Oh, and he didn’t bother to tell anyone about it. So, at about 11:00 p.m. that night, the tank decides that 150 psi is a bit more than it can handle . . . (the tank was rated at about 10psi).

Because we were sending the oil to my space, #1 Auxiliary Machinery Room, Some guy comes on down to our berthing space and wakes me up (rudely) and tells me that the tank leaked and we had to go up and clean it all up. I head up to the hanger bay to find the now seriously abused tank split open and probably about a hundred gallons of oil allllll over the hangar bay! Then I find the air hose still connected. I tell the guy in charge that not only were we (as in ‘my people’) not responsible for the issue, but that ‘we’ were not going to help clean up.

End result; after explaining things to the boss the next morning, I was very popular with ‘my guys’.

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At least the aviator didn’t try to ‘warm up’ the tank.

Bill

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I mostly believe that a lot of it is the way some people are brought up…

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I’ve often referred to her by the old Army expression, “oxygen thief”, stealing valuable oxygen from hard working Americans around her. Ever since she got to my section in January, she’s been the proverbial “turd in the punch bowl” and contaminates all those around her.

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somebody must have been really desperate for that Revell Arizona model as went for US $535.00 (approx C $667.55).