This woman was a complete bitch through the whole job. The perma-scowl on her face just let us know what we were in for and made it just such a pleasure to deal with her or just to have her eye-balling you while she paced around. We had a couple of issues come up and her bitchiness made it virtually impossible to see the solution.
One such problem came with the CPU holders. They were designed to be screwed under the desk perpendicular so that they'd run beside your legs. But these desks had a metal bar running across their entire length. It was impossible to get the solid metal of the CPU holder to pass through the solid metal of the metal bar. This is simple physics, simple reality, not much room for argument here, as a matter of fact, absolute zero room for argument. Try to get this bitch to understand this reality. She spent a good five minutes trying to get the 18 inches of the CPU holder to fit into one of the 10 inch spaces that was availalbe. She finally concluded that this was impossible, or at least decided to give up the futile battle. Another 10 minutes was spent explaining to her how the metal bar was vital to the structure of the desk, if it was removed, the whole thing would fall apart. This 10 minutes was spent having blame hurled at us because of the engineers who created it and the designer who chose these products. Somehow we were to blame for that.
Okay, I've had enough of this bullshit, shut the fuck up and listen. I think I said that, but it may have come out as: okay, well we can come up with a solution. There are products out there that will work, she'll have to talk to the designer and find one of these products that will work. Well this won't do. She needs these products put in now. It will be a disaster if they have to put the CPU's on the floor until suitable CPU holders are found, ordered, and installed. Why you ask? Because the whole system was designed to have nothing on the floor so that the cleaners could clean the whole floor. I couldn't agree with her more here that this was a good plan, but it will take less than a week to take care of the problem, how much dirt will accumulate that can't be cleaned once everything is off the floor? No no no, that won't do, it has to be fixed tonight! She goes back to trying to make it fit in the slot / gettting solid metal to pass through solid metal.
I had to walk away from her at this point and left it in the hands of the supervisors to try to get her to accept reality. They got her on back to the realization that her efforts were impossible, and she came up with the idea of cutting a notch in the CPU holder to make it work. Okay, we're in reality now, but into the virtually impossible. We don't have the cutting tools to do that. WHY NOT!?! Because we don't bring speciality tools to ordinary jobs. ** listen to her bitch and whine ** Second, we're on pace to be finished at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, even if we had the cutting tools, we couldn't take on an extra 4 to 6 hour job of cutting each one. ** listen to her bitch and whine ** Plus we don't even know if these things will still work and/or be safe if such a notch was cut in them. The only option is to find and order something else and get it installed at a later time.
Some more bitching and whining ensued plus a couple of final efforts to make them fit before she finally gave up.
One such problem came with the CPU holders. They were designed to be screwed under the desk perpendicular so that they'd run beside your legs. But these desks had a metal bar running across their entire length. It was impossible to get the solid metal of the CPU holder to pass through the solid metal of the metal bar. This is simple physics, simple reality, not much room for argument here, as a matter of fact, absolute zero room for argument. Try to get this bitch to understand this reality. She spent a good five minutes trying to get the 18 inches of the CPU holder to fit into one of the 10 inch spaces that was availalbe. She finally concluded that this was impossible, or at least decided to give up the futile battle. Another 10 minutes was spent explaining to her how the metal bar was vital to the structure of the desk, if it was removed, the whole thing would fall apart. This 10 minutes was spent having blame hurled at us because of the engineers who created it and the designer who chose these products. Somehow we were to blame for that.
Okay, I've had enough of this bullshit, shut the fuck up and listen. I think I said that, but it may have come out as: okay, well we can come up with a solution. There are products out there that will work, she'll have to talk to the designer and find one of these products that will work. Well this won't do. She needs these products put in now. It will be a disaster if they have to put the CPU's on the floor until suitable CPU holders are found, ordered, and installed. Why you ask? Because the whole system was designed to have nothing on the floor so that the cleaners could clean the whole floor. I couldn't agree with her more here that this was a good plan, but it will take less than a week to take care of the problem, how much dirt will accumulate that can't be cleaned once everything is off the floor? No no no, that won't do, it has to be fixed tonight! She goes back to trying to make it fit in the slot / gettting solid metal to pass through solid metal.
I had to walk away from her at this point and left it in the hands of the supervisors to try to get her to accept reality. They got her on back to the realization that her efforts were impossible, and she came up with the idea of cutting a notch in the CPU holder to make it work. Okay, we're in reality now, but into the virtually impossible. We don't have the cutting tools to do that. WHY NOT!?! Because we don't bring speciality tools to ordinary jobs. ** listen to her bitch and whine ** Second, we're on pace to be finished at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, even if we had the cutting tools, we couldn't take on an extra 4 to 6 hour job of cutting each one. ** listen to her bitch and whine ** Plus we don't even know if these things will still work and/or be safe if such a notch was cut in them. The only option is to find and order something else and get it installed at a later time.
Some more bitching and whining ensued plus a couple of final efforts to make them fit before she finally gave up.
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