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[petepete]

 

[Landbo]

Hmm, there must be missing something in the middle between the person's ear. LOL

Happy new year 2015 from here.

 

[Ipol]

I think in the end she arrived with the filler cap on the right side by accident .......blond......english.......must be an essex girl..........Essex people will be able to relate to this 😵 Ipol

 

[kamkar]

laughed my ass of when i first saw this yesterday 🙂 same class as the 46 point turn.

 

[sludgeguts]

When I watch stuff like this, my first thoughts tend to be "setup".
Someone's set this up in the hope of putting a viral vid on youtube. The car's an 04 plate, so 10 years old - surely she knows where the filler cap is by now?
(unless she's recently bought this car)

 

[throrope]

My mother-in-law has the same car. After complaining to her mechanic about stations changing at will, he showed her the steering wheel mounted radio controls.
🙄

 

[Gibson99]

My mother-in-law has the same car. After complaining to her mechanic about stations changing at will, he showed her the steering wheel mounted radio controls.
🙄

and i'm sure she vehemently denied pressing those buttons, too.

Users will be Users... whether it's in a car, at a computer, or walking down the street.

god help us (us being IT support) when they invent a telepathic computer that actually does what you're thinking. imagine how chaotic THAT will be!!

as for the original video, i have to wonder how many more laps she would have done if the black VW hadn't showed up? or would she have just left, either out of embarrassment or frustration that they kept moving the fuel pumps...

 

[jokiin]

god help us (us being IT support)

when I worked in IT the helpdesk was always referred to as the Helldesk

front line support for end users is the worst of the worst, I did 2nd level Unix support so was removed from that fortunately but I would overhear mind numbingly stupid conversations on a daily basis, The IT Crowd was obviously written by someone that has worked in the field at some time

 

[DT MI]

...
Users will be Users... whether it's in a car, at a computer, or walking down the street...

Yep, the worst part about software development were the users that would give you one set of requirements/specifications at the start of the project and once the system was delivered for 'alpha' testing would almost go so far as to say someone forged their signatures on the documents.

The real issue most of the time is they didn't even know what they were doing or why. (Usually it was a mid-level manager who thought they knew everything and could not 'lower' themselves to talk to the people doing the actual work.)

🙁

 

[Gibson99]

one of my absolute favorite comic strips: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990814

@jokiin if you did unix support you'd enjoy the original BOFH stories. contains gems like "setting the user's home dir to /dev/null or setting their disk quota to 1k? please, that's kindergarten-level stuff. i prefer to kill -9 users directly."

ok... so while that quote might not actually be in there, it does get a bit gruesome sometimes. but its a good way to while away an hour or three, even if you may have already read them years ago.

 

[Gibson99]

Yep, the worst part about software development were the users that would give you one set of requirements/specifications at the start of the project and once the system was delivered for 'alpha' testing would almost go so far as to say someone forged their signatures on the documents.

The real issue most of the time is they didn't even know what they were doing or why. (Usually it was a mid-level manager who thought they knew everything and could not 'lower' themselves to talk to the people doing the actual work.)

🙁

this is relevant (and hanging on the wall in my office): http://xkcd.com/844/ 😀

 

[jokiin]

I had this one

 

[DT MI]

this is relevant (and hanging on the wall in my office): http://xkcd.com/844/ 😀

I used to have this in my office:

-----------------------------------
You can have it RIGHT
You can have it FAST
You can have it CHEAP

Pick any two...
----------------------------------

Sometimes people even got the message. 🙂

 

[Gibson99]

I used to have this in my office:

-----------------------------------
You can have it RIGHT
You can have it FAST
You can have it CHEAP

Pick any two...
----------------------------------

Sometimes people even got the message. 🙂

I have a variant of that as my signature on some car forums:
(Cheap) (Fast) (Reliable) Choose any two

 

[kamkar]

(Usually it was a mid-level manager who thought they knew everything and could not 'lower' themselves to talk to the people doing the actual work.)

One of those asshats cost me my last job, the firm now have a 1/2 mill DKkr robot and a painter that do the painting, the robot use at least 200% more paint - the filters in the paint booth have to be changed 200 % more often, and i was 300% faster then the robot painting the gears.

Allso due to the allready inept layout of the paint booth - drying room and the conveyor on witch the gears travel, even the slow speed when the robot was painting mean you have to stop everything before still wet gears started to come out of the dry room.

And you where not able to walk avay from the place as even at the slow 90 cm / minute conveyor speed ther still was not enuff time to cover the parts that shoudent get paint and remove that again when the gears come out of the dry room.

Allso due to the shape of the gears the robot couldent paint them good, i even couldent do that due to ther shape, but i did it a lot better then the robot could.

I painted at 300 cm / min conveyor speed without stopping on each gear like the robot do, i then filled the dry room in no time, and then stopped everything and did some cleaning or preparing on the next batch of gears, or anything else while waiting for 30-40 minutes while the dryer catch up to me.

I can only do work the right way, when i am forced to do less than that for no good reason i have to go.