First day of training at my new job.

[Sunni Man]

 

[JOSweetHeart]

If my trainer were to take that long to show up, I'd simply look for another job. If the people who are to already know the job don't give a flying flip, why should I be any different?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Concerned American]

If my trainer were to take that long to show up, I'd simply look for another job. If the people who are to already know the job don't give a flying flip, why should I be any different?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

I think you're missing the point. It is a cable TV installation course. All they need to know is how to say "We'll be there to install your cable between 9 and 5." LOL

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I think you're missing the point. It is a cable TV installation course. All they need to know is how to say "We'll be there to install your cable between 9 and 5." LOL

And they usually show up at 4:59....

 

[toobfreak]

It is a cable TV installation course. All they need to know is how to say "We'll be there to install your cable between 9 and 5." LOL

TV cable is a racket. Be wary of those people they send to your home to install stuff as half of them don't know what they are doing. Worse, up to ten years ago, I had satellite TV for which I paid to rent the required receiver and equipment to get the service, and every couple of years, either the receiver acted up or the antenna did, so, one day when the gear quit working again and I called to have a technician sent out to get my service I was paying for fixed, this time they told me there would be a $95 charge up front to cover the cost!

When I balked at paying them a service fee to fix gear I was only renting which was supposed to work, they tried to continue billing me for my subscription even though I wasn't receiving any service! So when I refused to do that too and canceled my subscription, they would not even come get their gear, they tried to get me to uninstall it all, box it up and ship it back to them which I refused to either.

 

[Sunni Man]

Worst is after you wait on them for hours.
They call to reschedule for sometime tomorrow.

 

[Concerned American]

Worst is when you wait on them for hours.
They call to reschedule for sometime tomorrow.

Between 9 and 5, LOL

 

[toobfreak]

Between 9 and 5, LOL

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I think you're missing the point. It is a cable TV installation course. All they need to know is how to say "We'll be there to install your cable between 9 and 5." LOL

I've never been a follower which could very well be my best quality for all that I know. I only know that if a person needs money bad enough, they won't ever drag foot in order to earn it. In other words, they will be there as soon as possible.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[toobfreak]

I think you're missing the point. It is a cable TV installation course. All they need to know is how to say "We'll be there to install your cable between 9 and 5."

Secret cable TV technical trick: If you want to get even with someone using a coax set up, what you do is shove a pin in through the side wall of the coax as deep as you can get it.

Then you snip off the protruding pin with your sidecutters.

Rub the spot with your thumb to heal the vinyl and you won't even be able to see where the pin is. Thing is, this will do one of two things:

1. It'll either short the ground shield to the center conductor to totally screw up the cable.
2. Or it'll miss the center conductor, but still totally change the characteristic impedance of the cable, reflecting the signal back to the load.

Either way, when they call a technician out to troubleshoot why the TV isn't working, it'll drive the technician nuts trying to figure out why and where the problem is. And without a TDR, he will never tell where the problem is in the cable so will have to rip the cable completely out to run a whole new one.

 

[Concerned American]

I've never been a follower which could very well be my best quality for all that I know. I only know that if a person needs money bad enough, they won't ever drag foot in order to earn it. In other words, they will be there as soon as possible.

That isn't at all what I was trying to imply. I simply stated the fact that cable/satellite TV installers will only tell you that they will arrive between 9 and 5. It isn't the installer's fault--he doesn't know what situation he will encounter. The blame goes to the company. They assign probably more jobs than the installer could do in a week. It is the nature of the beast--as everyone knows, humor has a basis in reality.

 

[Concerned American]

Secret cable TV technical trick: If you want to get even with someone using a coax set up, what you do is shove a pin in through the side wall of the coax as deep as you can get it.

Then you snip off the protruding pin with your sidecutters.

Rub the spot with your thumb to heal the vinyl and you won't even be able to see where the pin is. Thing is, this will do one of two things:

1. It'll either short the ground shield to the center conductor to totally screw up the cable.
2. Or it'll miss the center conductor, but still totally change the characteristic impedance of the cable, reflecting the signal back to the load.

Either way, when they call a technician out to troubleshoot why the TV isn't working, it'll drive the technician nuts trying to figure out why and where the problem is. And without a TDR, he will never tell where the problem is in the cable so will have to rip the cable completely out to run a whole new one.

Wow, that rates right up there with putting a bag of rotting grunion under someone's house.

 

[toobfreak]

Wow, that rates right up there with putting a bag of rotting grunion under someone's house.

Good way to screw with the next guy on the shift if you work with somebody you don't like.

Years ago I was watching a TV series called 'Storm Chasers' where they went around trying to catch tornadoes to study, and this one guy drove the DOW truck (Doppler on Wheels). This guy was the head of everything, in charge, a PhD but the biggest onion-head jackass you ever saw--- not only full of himself but the worst storm predictor of the whole lot.

One day the computer that controlled the radar quit working, the screen when blank (no raster), and the FIRST thing any worthwhile technician would check is the interconnect between the computer and the monitor by swapping it out with a new one!

Well, this boob shut down the entire operation (they had a team of vehicles that went around together), took the computer to a repair store in the nearest town and the guy there spent the entire day testing the computer looking for the problem. It was not until after he could find nothing wrong with the computer that the storm guy thought to try checking the interconnect. That was about par for the course for the guy.

These are the kind of people you like to throw a monkey-wrench into their works just to see if they can figure anything out, much the same way Chef Gordon Ramsay likes to test a prospective new master chef for one of his restaurants by swapping out a different kind of meat or fish or something to be the wrong kind on a dinner they are preparing just to see if they can catch the mistake.