What do you mean you won't inconvenience yourself for me?

[An Haddock]

Just had this guy call:

UG: Unrealistic Guy
ME: Technician who can't wait for 5pm


UG - My computer went down. I need someone out to the house to look at it. It's pretty new, about three years old.

(a 3 year old computer is hardly considered new, but I digress)

ME - I'm by myself in the shop right now. Can you bring it over here?

(recommended, anyway, since it's cheaper to diagnose here than if we go onsite, which is hourly)

UG - I'm not going through all that. Can't you come here and look at it?

ME - Like I said, I'm by myself here. I can't close the shop to come over and check out the system. I can have a technican there Monday morning.

UG - That's too late... I'll try somewhere else to see if they can come out today.


Okay, granted - there's usually another tech here Saturdays but I don't know if he'll make it in today. I could have tried explaining it would be cheaper for the guy to bring it here, but to hell with it. We've got plenty to work on in the shop today.

Maybe next time your computer dies on a weekend have slightly more realistic expectations on how soon someone can come out to take care of you if you can't be bothered to take it to them.

[MoonCat]

UG - I'm not going through all that.

But it's okay if you do?

And what "all that" is he talking about...unplugging things and putting the computer in the car, then driving over? Is it really all that complicated?

[Midnight]

People are dumb. "yeah, let me close up my place of business potentially losing out on more business just to diagnose the virus on your computer cause you watch too much porn."

[Jay 2K Winger]

People are dumb. "yeah, let me close up my place of business potentially losing out on more business just to diagnose the virus on your computer cause you watch too much porn."

Not saying you're wrong, but it's equally likely that the computer done just stopped workin'. If it's three years old, it's gonna be more use as a paperweight.

But it's probably a combination of it being old and pron-virus that's got it borked.

[notalwaysright]

I think it's pretty crazy to expect same day in-home service on a weekend for a computer. A furnace, fridge, toilet, roof, etc those would merit same day service. A computer, serious?

[It shouldn't]

I work at a locksmiths. I get "Can you send a technician out to make me a couple of key copies, today/right now?"
Uhm, that does NOT constitute an emergency and those copies will cost you around $ 70, what with the service call charge and labor of the road service guy.

A few special snowflakes will get all indignant. How dare I charge them that much for just a couple of keys.

Then bring you happy a$$ on in here and they will be less than $2 a piece.

[sirwired]

I work at a locksmiths. I get "Can you send a technician out to make me a couple of key copies, today/right now?"
Uhm, that does NOT constitute an emergency and those copies will cost you around $ 70, what with the service call charge and labor of the road service guy.

A few special snowflakes will get all indignant. How dare I charge them that much for just a couple of keys.

Then bring you happy a$$ on in here and they will be less than $2 a piece.

Do people ever actually go through with dispatching a locksmith to copy a couple of keys? Ever since they got those automatic machines, even the Big Box copies seem to work smooth as silk, so you don't even need to go to a specialist any more.

[protege]

And what "all that" is he talking about...unplugging things and putting the computer in the car, then driving over? Is it really all that complicated?

Well, it would take away time he uses to download porn, play World of Warcraft, etc. Plus, he'd have to put on pants...and preferably a shirt that did not have Cheetos residue all over it

[jedimaster91]

Do people ever actually go through with dispatching a locksmith to copy a couple of keys? Ever since they got those automatic machines, even the Big Box copies seem to work smooth as silk, so you don't even need to go to a specialist any more.

I don't know if those kiosk machines are able to make keys that have chips in them. Maybe they do. But they work awesome for house keys.

[mjr]

If it's three years old, it's gonna be more use as a paperweight.

I dunno...My wife and I had a couple of WinXP machines that lasted dang near a decade. They were still running (albeit more slowly) when we decided to retire them last year.

[An Haddock]

He actually called back a little later. I guess no one else was available to go out at the last minute on a Saturday, either, oddly enough.

[sirwired]

He actually called back a little later. I guess no one else was available to go out at the last minute on a Saturday, either, oddly enough.

And did he get off his lazy tuchus and bring the box in to have it looked at?

[Kittykat]

I have a Windows 7 Acer I've had for 5 years now, I keep it regularly updated and it works great.

[An Haddock]

And did he get off his lazy tuchus and bring the box in to have it looked at?

Nope! Guess it wasn't that much of an emergency.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I have a Windows 7 Acer I've had for 5 years now, I keep it regularly updated and it works great.

I have 2 laptops: the older one is a Dell Insprion that runs Vista (approximately 7 years old now), the other a Toshiba Satellite that originally came with 7 (since upgraded to 10 and purchased in 2011) and both are chugging along fine.

But then I'm almost anal about keeping anti virus updated as well as Windows and other software updates.