Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I told him to go ahead and ask the GM if he could go back to the spring shop. I knew the answer would be no. Sales manager left early today. So he is either getting a nasty email or will get talked to tomorrow.

I had about a dozen things I could put him on, but I have already suggested these things and they didn't get done so I get tired of arguing with the sales manager. Most recently he had the parts department rearrange a small section of the warehouse. I told him that the way they where doing it was not smart. He argued with me about it and they didn't do it either way so now it is worse. I don't have enough time in my day to argue my case on 12 more things and it's not my department so i'll continue to watch them struggle.

Oh, I misunderstood.

What is your position (job) in the organization?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Well, I'm Going to say it.

Well now, THAT post outta gin up some posts in ye ol forum -

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

/endthread

Quick, we need like 50 more pages of posts!

In other news, I finally got my new phone!

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Quick, we need like 50 more pages of posts!



In other news, I finally got my new phone!

pics or it didn't happen

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[Spuds]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

pics or it didn't happen

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[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Spuds

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[Spuds]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

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Also, congratulations, you are now the first image file on my phone.

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Also, congratulations, you are now the first image file on my phone.

I am honored and humbled.



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[NoHaveMSG]

I love playing in TinkerCad. Makes it easy for someone like me to design simple brackets and 3D print them.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I love playing in TinkerCad. Makes it easy for someone like me to design simple brackets and 3D print them.

I need to get back into 3d printing now that I have a workbench to print on.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Spuds

I need to get back into 3d printing now that I have a workbench to print on.

It is fun, I enjoy making stuff. I am currently looking to upgrade printers.

I keep trying to use Design Spark to make more detailed models, but I can't get into it. I just don't have enough time to learn it at the moment. I am determined to get it figured out before the end of the year.

[spike021]

This fairly well-known guy I ordered a nice, expensive custom titanium shift knob from (won't name names) messed up my custom order of it (gear shifter print was for a WRX/STI so reverse was on the right side), made me pay for the knob to be shipped back to him, and then even though he said it'd take two days to fix, it took him 3 weeks of forgetting and me needing to email to remind him about it :|.

Today I finally got it and he had left a bunch of smudges/fingerprints from his grimey fingers from working, and some of the work has more blemishes than I'd expect (because he said he would have to re-sand the whole piece, re-work it, and then re-laser the top design).

Based on his attitude in emails he got super frustrated, and what I got today shows he rushed it, again *.

Reason I say he rushed it again is because even for the first knob he sent me there were _three_ things in the box that he straight-up ignored and didn't check to confirm he made me the right pieces: the outside of the box had the design drawn on it, there was a sticky note on the soft packaging wrap he used to protect it that had the correct design and other info, AND the packing slip "certificate of authenticity" had it correct.

What's with small businesses these days getting too big and losing what made them awesome?

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by spike021

This fairly well-known guy I ordered a nice, expensive custom titanium shift knob from (won't name names) messed up my custom order of it (gear shifter print was for a WRX/STI so reverse was on the right side), made me pay for the knob to be shipped back to him, and then even though he said it'd take two days to fix, it took him 3 weeks of forgetting and me needing to email to remind him about it :|.



Today I finally got it and he had left a bunch of smudges/fingerprints from his grimey fingers from working, and some of the work has more blemishes than I'd expect (because he said he would have to re-sand the whole piece, re-work it, and then re-laser the top design).



Based on his attitude in emails he got super frustrated, and what I got today shows he rushed it, again *.



Reason I say he rushed it again is because even for the first knob he sent me there were _three_ things in the box that he straight-up ignored and didn't check to confirm he made me the right pieces: the outside of the box had the design drawn on it, there was a sticky note on the soft packaging wrap he used to protect it that had the correct design and other info, AND the packing slip "certificate of authenticity" had it correct.



What's with small businesses these days getting too big and losing what made them awesome?

So HE messed it up, and YOU had to pay return shipping? I would be threating stop payments on everything.

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[spike021]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

So HE messed it up, and YOU had to pay return shipping? I would be threating stop payments on everything.

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I was _this_ close to having paypal/my CC doing a chargeback. The guy got increasingly rude about it. Basically he'd say "I'll have it done in a couple days", then a week would go by and nothing, so I'd send an email just asking for an ETA of when he expects to have the time to do it, not even saying "I need you to finish it today!", and he'd get annoyed and say "it'll be two more days". This happened 2 or 3 times, and that's why it wound up being about 3 weeks turnaround for him just to fix it; meanwhile he was posting a bunch of items to his Instagram and tagging people with thousands of followers, so clearly he's doing it for the popularity now.

One time he told me this:

I'm working as much as I can and I have to sometimes balance things and sacrifice my schedule for a customer that wants immediate shipment or a cancelation, or a company that needs their parts to complete a job, and those push back the normal orders like yours sometimes.

So I guess he was saying he ignores the "7-14 day ETA" posted on his website and re-prioritizes based on his choosing of whoever is ordering from him (in total it took 3.5 months to get what I ordered).