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    Once, long ago, the motor shop I work at advertised on the radio. IT was pretty basic. Who we are, what we do, and how to contact us. It was all fairly useless in the end, as it is simply not the way to get new customers for us.

    But there was one call that stood out.

    Just as the phone is answered the nut on the other end lunches into a rage filled rant on how the sale of motors and drives is corrupting the earth through pollution (He claimed that motors and drives account for 70% of natural resources used. If that is true, then that is not really a bad thing if you know much about motors and drives.) and that motors and drives actually ruin the lives of people by denying them jobs.

    That last one is my personal favorate. I can not fathom the mind that would spew such idiocy. I wonder if he is up set at the steam engine for putting 10 year old miners out of work.

    Bonus Short Story:
    Aboiut two years ago, I over heard this nice little tech call made to us (I heard our side, and had to ask about the rest).

    (Edit: This was not as good as I thought it was at 8AM, as I told the punch line without the joke. So let me try again.)

    A customer called about a broken motor. He then procieded to rattle off, over the course of about 45 minutes every detail he could concive. DFispite several attempts to interupt and explain what had gone wrong, he contiunued. THis is the point where the conversation just had to be stopped.

    Customer: Well, we need to know why it is no longer operational.
    Our Guy: Because you f****** broke it.

    I have no idea how the employee has mastered the skill of telling off customers and retaining them, but I envy that skill.
    Last edited by Mr. Crow; 10-27-2006, 05:24 PM.
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    Sometimes people including SC's appreciate boldness!
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      Quoth Mr. Crow View Post
      Just as the phone is answered the nut on the other end lunches into a rage filled rant on how the sale of motors and drives is corrupting the earth through pollution (He claimed that motors and drives account for 70% of natural resources used. If that is true, then that is not really a bad thing if you know much about motors and drives.) and that motors and drives actually ruin the lives of people by denying them jobs.

      That last one is my personal favorate. I can not fathom the mind that would spew such idiocy. I wonder if he is up set at the steam engine for putting 10 year old miners out of work.
      Hey, a couple hundred years ago mobs went around destroying the newfangled ag equipment that was putting everyone out of a job, and how terrible it was that people woudn't have farm jobs any more...

      How many here want to return to a world where 90+% of the people work on farms? Nothing against farmers (know a bunch, myself), but I like a world that has an internet. Just wouldn't happen in an agrarian society.

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        Yes, I belive they were called the Luddites. Given that they had no understanding of complex economic/technological factors (nor could they) they get a pass from being labeled as utter morons. However, those in the latter half of the 20th century are not afforded the benifit of the doubt.
        "Wait... he's alive, but his head's gone..." -Crow

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