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Chinatown posted:I was a service valet at a Lexus dealership for a few months (worst job ever). But but but captains of industry
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Chinatown posted:I was a service valet at a Lexus dealership for a few months (worst job ever). Like buying a Lexus.
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Nov 18, 2013 20:12
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Chinatown posted:People with money are often tremendous idiots. $40,000 Altima Lease anyone?
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Nov 18, 2013 20:28
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Paying more than $50,000 for a set of wheels should mean it never needs maintenance, dammit. Oh well I'll just get a new one and make the same mistake. 
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Nov 18, 2013 20:31
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xzzy posted:Paying more than $50,000 for a set of wheels should mean it never needs maintenance, dammit. Oh well I'll just get a new one and make the same mistake. The only thing I'd ever pay that much for is the V-10 TDI Touareg
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Nov 18, 2013 20:36
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Chinatown posted:I was a service valet at a Lexus dealership for a few months (worst job ever). Oooh gently caress that. I have serious post-traumatic stress poo poo going on from dealing with lexus customers when I worked at a Toyota dealer (dual brand dealership). They expect you to re-engineer the car because it does something they don't like which they chose not to bring up when they test-drove the bloody thing. One guy was complaining that the car made a clunking noise when, and only when, he drove over catseyes. So he would deliberately drive down the center of the road with the right hand wheels on the catseyes so he could hear the noise and complain about it. We told him the car wasn't designed to be driven over catseyes and, really, he should just not drive on them constantly. Guess how well that went down.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:07
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Chinatown posted:I was a service valet at a Lexus dealership for a few months (worst job ever). The better way of phrasing this is that having a lot of money doesn't magically turn people into not idiots.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:08
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torpedan posted:It looks like the adhesive holding the filter together gave out. If that is what happened, the same thing would likely happen to a spin-on filter made from the same materials. The difference is that a spin-on with that type of failure would still be mostly contained to the filter itself, so you wouldn't be scooping poo poo.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:13
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A Rover with a BMW engine would have been from what the late 1990s early 2000s? It's like a $9k car at this point. One doesn't have to be rich to afford one, although maintainance is probably another issue.
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Nov 19, 2013 01:25
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Range rover was rover v8 up to 02. 03-05 is M62 bmw. 05.5+ was jag. discoveries 1/2 was rover v8 Lr3/4 is jag. Early L322s i've seen for as low as 8500 out here. anything older? they'll pay you to take it away. They like maintenance. Keeps me in business 
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Nov 19, 2013 04:15
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IOwnCalculus posted:The difference is that a spin-on with that type of failure would still be mostly contained to the filter itself, so you wouldn't be scooping poo poo. But you'll still end up scooping poo poo from the pan. May take a while, and most of that poo poo may be metallic, but it'll happen.
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Nov 19, 2013 04:31
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 This flexplate made an interesting noise when it spun over.
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Nov 19, 2013 22:37
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They might be taking the term flexplate too literally. What did it sound like when the torque converter engaged?
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Nov 19, 2013 22:44
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Somewhere between dubstep and a cheese grater orchestra.
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Nov 19, 2013 22:53
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So basically a Transformer orgy.
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Nov 19, 2013 22:56
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With no lube.
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Nov 19, 2013 23:00
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The phrase "skeletons loving on a tin roof" comes to mind.
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Nov 20, 2013 00:13
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KozmoNaut posted:The phrase "skeletons loving on a tin roof" comes to mind. No no, that's diesel.
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Nov 20, 2013 00:15
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KozmoNaut posted:The phrase "skeletons loving on a tin roof" comes to mind. I usually go with "skeletons masturbating in a filing cabinet". Here's what my transmission/torque converter failure sounded like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3FHhcWvCe4 I'd guess flexplate but the crank position sensor reluctor wheel is on the outside of the flexplate edge on that vehicle and the other symptoms pointed toward a grenaded torque converter, trans fluid pump, or one of the planetary gearsets. Sadly I had no way to get it home and never got to post mortem the trans.
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Nov 20, 2013 00:19
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Spiders are one thing, but the snakes are another. I believe in Tasmania there are only 3 types or snakes found on the island. The beauty of it is if you're bit there's no need to worry about finding out if it is venomous or not (they all are). The concern if it is the one that isn't deadly. We use a polyvalent anti-venom in such a case, otherwise they use a venom id kit. Works in the same principle as a drug testing kit. :straya: 
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Nov 20, 2013 08:34
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kastein posted:Here's what my transmission/torque converter failure sounded like: I had to watch that twice to realize that it wasn't filmed next to train tracks, with a train going by in the background.
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Nov 20, 2013 09:20
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Slavvy posted:Oooh gently caress that. I have serious post-traumatic stress poo poo going on from dealing with lexus customers when I worked at a Toyota dealer (dual brand dealership). They expect you to re-engineer the car because it does something they don't like which they chose not to bring up when they test-drove the bloody thing. This. Right. loving. Here. This is the kindred bond between auto techs and IT people.
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Nov 21, 2013 00:02
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Farking Bastage posted:This. Right. loving. Here. I would have told him to turn the radio up.
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Nov 21, 2013 00:30
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Farking Bastage posted:This. Right. loving. Here. Never thought of it this way, but you're so right. Does the fact that I've done both mean that I hate myself?
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Nov 21, 2013 00:47
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Motronic posted:Never thought of it this way, but you're so right. I think it gives you the right to hate everyone else.
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Nov 21, 2013 00:57
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:I think it gives you the right to hate everyone else. Working in IT makes me hate everyone that uses a computer. They ALL want to call at some point and ask me a question for personal computers because I'm good at computers and I love doing this for work and in my free time and giving them free tech support and what do you mean you do things outside of work?
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Nov 21, 2013 01:03
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IT is worse.
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Nov 21, 2013 01:31
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Slavvy posted:Oooh gently caress that. I have serious post-traumatic stress poo poo going on from dealing with lexus customers when I worked at a Toyota dealer (dual brand dealership). They expect you to re-engineer the car because it does something they don't like which they chose not to bring up when they test-drove the bloody thing. I had the opposite to deal with, service was careless as gently caress with my old SC400, scratching it and other avoidable bullshit. I complained to corporate and when the GM found out I complained to them he banned me from the dealership. 6 months later he was fired for shouting at a customer in front of a secret shopper.
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Nov 21, 2013 01:41
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Bitch, please. "Hey can you have a look at my friend's/cousin's car?" "What's wrong with it?" "I dunno" "What sort of car is it?" "I dunno" "Well why am I looking at it??" "IT JUST DOESNT GO DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITHOUT SEEING IT?!" Followed by "Slavvy can fix the car sure definitely he loves doing people favours!" Followed by "What do you mean I have to replace the engine? What does that mean?? Can you do it for a box of beer? It's easy right, I've heard Toyotas are really easy to work on!" At least in IT you just sit at a bloody desk and don't get covered in dirt.
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Nov 21, 2013 01:43
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And replacing a motherboard is a bit less intense that replacing an engine.
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Nov 21, 2013 02:06
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:And replacing a motherboard is a bit less intense that replacing an engine. Let me tell you about Dell and HP servers.
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Nov 21, 2013 02:11
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Dells aren't bad, but HP can piss right off. The worst I've had to deal with in my career is sparcstations, installing sbus cards was torture because you had to push really loving hard on a bunch of pointy solder joints to get them to snap into place. Like walking on a bed of nails, but with your thumbs. Maybe it's because it's a hobby and not a career, but I always have more fun fixing my cars than computers.
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Nov 21, 2013 02:24
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xzzy posted:Dells aren't bad, but HP can piss right off. A couple of the earlier model Dell Poweredges were an absolute bitch to do work on, especially their larger ones, larger than 2U. To stay slightly on topic: 
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Nov 21, 2013 02:44
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CommieGIR posted:A couple of the earlier model Dell Poweredges were an absolute bitch to do work on, especially their larger ones, larger than 2U. Looks like the loser in a Korean starcraft tournament.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:21
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Slavvy posted:Bitch, please. Also staying clean while working in IT? Maybe if you work in a call center. Otherwise if you support people you're going to end up crawling under desks and touchy nasty loving computers. Or you might support shop computers in a factory and   there's a reason IT got company uniforms at that place. wilfredmerriweathr posted:And replacing a motherboard is a bit less intense that replacing an engine. IT and Auto techs have the same job but with different tools.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:45
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I'll agree to that. The job is functionally almost identical. If you took away every single technical term out of people's work stories they're basically indistinguishable.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:48
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Galler posted:Until you do it on an old server and have no idea if that thing is coming back up in one piece now that it has been turned off for the first time in 6 years, there are no backups because no one in IT even knew this thing existed, and FIXITFIXITFIXIT THIS IS AFFECTING PRODUCTION! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S COMPLETELY DEAD YOU TOUCHED IT LAST THIS IS YOUR FAULT. "Our RAID Array just failed....yes we were aware that there were some failed drives...no we didn't replace them and rebuild the array. Backups? What backups?" I have a love/hate relationship with being an IT consultant.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:50
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CommieGIR posted:"Our RAID Array just failed....yes we were aware that there were some failed drives...no we didn't replace them and rebuild the array. Backups? What backups?" It should be legal to punch that person in the mouth, and then leave a steamer on their desk before you leave.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:54
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MrYenko posted:It should be legal to punch that person in the mouth, and then leave a steamer on their desk before you leave. They had a tape system too, and it was still running...but someone took all the tapes out and never put new tapes in to keep the backups flowing. Instead of swapping out the weekly backups to move offsite, they just kept taking tapes out of the unit until their were none left 
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I would argue that being an auto mechanic is better than working IT because at least in most shops the customer is not allowed into the shop, allowing you to work on their pieces of poo poo in relative peace. In IT they are right next to you the entire time shrieking in your ear and suddenly all the little tools in your bag start looking like excellent ways to torture the obnoxious waste of life until they stop making noises beyond maybe a softening gurgle, the light dimming slowly in their eyes... I only work on my own computers these days.
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