New pet peeves
I have just found two new pet peeves to rant about,
1) the morons who post a blog and remove the navbar so you have to back track to get to the next blog. What is with that?? Do they honestly think I want to spend the rest of my evening looking at their blog??? How about the morons who use public domain for free advertising??
2) fellow employes who brag about their skill in the trade but refuse to do any work that pushes the limits of their abillities. Come on give me a break... how else do improve your skill if you don't push the bounderies every chance you get. This is an example of what I'm talking about, today I had to meet one of the other service techs I work with to do a repair to a table top in a customers home. This tech had told the customer that this could not be repaired in the home and the entire table would have to go into the shop for repair. The damage to the table was two small (grain of rice sized) dents in one table leaf, just dents. Total actual (not counting drying time) time spent on the repair and touch up was 30 - 40 minutes, and the customer couldn't find the repair even after I pointed it out to him. I have been doing this type of work for twenty years now and I have seen just about every thing that can be done to a piece of furniture. Now I admit there are some things I can not fix in a acustomers home but very little in comparison to the amount of work that I do. If I'm not sure it can be done I try anyway, and most of the time I can make it work, if not the customer is warned before hand and has the option of letting me try or going straight for the more expensive shop repair, their choice. There is one good thing about his incompitence I suppose, i will never be out of a job...
1) the morons who post a blog and remove the navbar so you have to back track to get to the next blog. What is with that?? Do they honestly think I want to spend the rest of my evening looking at their blog??? How about the morons who use public domain for free advertising??
2) fellow employes who brag about their skill in the trade but refuse to do any work that pushes the limits of their abillities. Come on give me a break... how else do improve your skill if you don't push the bounderies every chance you get. This is an example of what I'm talking about, today I had to meet one of the other service techs I work with to do a repair to a table top in a customers home. This tech had told the customer that this could not be repaired in the home and the entire table would have to go into the shop for repair. The damage to the table was two small (grain of rice sized) dents in one table leaf, just dents. Total actual (not counting drying time) time spent on the repair and touch up was 30 - 40 minutes, and the customer couldn't find the repair even after I pointed it out to him. I have been doing this type of work for twenty years now and I have seen just about every thing that can be done to a piece of furniture. Now I admit there are some things I can not fix in a acustomers home but very little in comparison to the amount of work that I do. If I'm not sure it can be done I try anyway, and most of the time I can make it work, if not the customer is warned before hand and has the option of letting me try or going straight for the more expensive shop repair, their choice. There is one good thing about his incompitence I suppose, i will never be out of a job...
posted by MadNorthman at 9:57 PM
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