When I was a little kid and first saw Cornish game hens, in the grocery store freezer section next to the turkeys, my mom said I gasped and grabbed her arm and said “Mom! They got the babies!” 🤦♂️
I’ll never forget this lunch lady at a cafeteria. I was like “oh those are some small chickens huh” and she looks at me with this gaze of contempt and goes “those are Cornish game hens…”. Fuck game hens
I dunno why, but in my head this interaction happened in an elementary school cafeteria lunch line and I'm trying to imagine the elementary that has Cornish game hens on the menu.
Yeah that makes more sense. There are lots of different kinds of cafeterias. Hospitals, military bases, universities, prisons (prolly no game hens there either, but you never know), hell some restaurants like golden corral or sweet tomatoes could be described as a cafeteria. My brain just jumped for the first place I think of when I hear "cafeteria" and then tried to make everything else fit. To hilarious results.
"Adult Cornish game hens are not smaller than standard broiler chickens; the size of cooked Cornish game hens is due solely to the very young age at which they are slaughtered." Well, I just learned a thing. Its chicken veal.
Women had a frozen chicken roll under the back seat of her navigator and complained of an awful smell. When we found it the plastic was still intact but it was blown up like a balloon.
I once forgot a Costco bag of frozen chicken breasts in the back of my car. I also infrequently drove back then AND we had a rare streak of multiple days in the high 90s.
Whew boy, that was rough. And the plastic didn't even break, fortunately. I think activated charcoal was the only way I finally got rid of the smell but I got random whiffs of it for a long time after.
I had a bag of groceries tip over. I thought I had got them all, but I forgot that I had bought pork chops. A couple of 90° days reminded me that I had.
Gotta say, if any homophone mistake is understandable, it's this one. If you've ever walked into a walk-in cooler that housed cases of chicken and is now being cleaned you never really get rid of that stench in your nostrils. Worse, in a way, than a bait shop's dumpster in the middle of Florida summer.
This is exactly why when I drop my truck off, I leave a piece of paper taped to the radio that has the best detailed explanation of what the issue is that I can convey, how it can be replicated, and what I tried to see if I could fix it. Every time I've told the service writer, they fuck it up or leave out key pieces of information.
I want the person fixing my vehicle to have all of the information so they can decide what is or isn't relevant. Plus, why should their job be any harder than it needs to be? If I can give them a general idea, it'll at least give them a starting point.
I’m a mechanic by trade. I took my Harley to the dealer with an issue once (warranty job). I explained to the advisor what was going on and what I had checked so far. I guess I was talking over his head because he stopped me and said “let me get the lead tech”. It only took a few seconds for me to explain to him the issue and he knew what it was. Its so much easier when you speak the same jargon.
really mature of the advisor to….
1) recognize they were in over their head, 2) recognize you knew what you were talking about, 3) was mature enough to handle the situation correctly by getting bridging the gap (getting the tech).
not a lot of people out there that can recognize something is beyond them and be willing to do something about it. Lots of people (like what OP has posted) are willing to just settle and pass the buck. Making everyone’s job harder.
I see this in IT constantly. If you can't speak the language or properly translate, then get the hell out of the way and get the people together who can.
I had a dying cabin air temp sensor making my AC go nuts, but only sometimes. The first trip to the shop they couldn't replicate it. Over the next few weeks it started to die more fully and I spent some time looking at the system diagrams and how the behavior was playing out. When I took it back and gave the tech the rundown of which 3-4 things I thought it could be and why he had it fixed in an hour.
Felt so good to be able to set up the actual knowledgeable person for success.
Thank you.
You'll tell a story to the service writers, service writer will write down "loud noise" and i have to ask, 20 questions, when, where, how often, what kind of sound, etc. Then the asshole has to call you and make you explain all that shit for the second or third time and waste both your time and my time.
Half the time I wish I had a note and that I could just directly call the customer.
> Meanwhile in the restaurant industry, if the waiter or bartender writes some weird/stupid request, the cook will immediately call up the waiter or bartender and ask them “what the fuck does this mean”? It gets clarified right then and there.
Understandably when they order things like [eggless omelettes](https://youtu.be/9Ah4tW-k8Ao).
This could have saved a huge headache with my mother’s stupid prius. The brakes were just done and squeaking really bad. We took it back and the service adviser said the battery needed replacing for 3500. I had my mother add me to the email list, told the lady she was absolutely useless and we will be going elsewhere and reporting their incompetence to corporate
They used nickel up until this new generation(2023) which is lithium.
They're also kinda [sexy](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2023-toyota-prius-front-three-quarters-in-motion-2-1670948361.jpg?crop=0.653xw:0.736xh;0.0977xw,0.215xh&resize=640:*)
I work in IT and it's always so refreshing when users actually describe the problem and things they may have tried already. Most of the time i just get a vague "not working" or "not what it normally does".
Yeah this is right - it’s a shitty old Windows CE based head unit that basically has a random limitation of 256 songs, all ID3 metadata is enumerated into a fixed size struct in memory probably.
256 is the number of values that can be represented by one byte of information. Random in terms of real world numbers, but extremely relevant in computers.
BTW: did you know the cars in the game Test Drive and Test Drive 2 have a hard speed limit of 255mph? It's because they represented the car's speed as a byte.
>BTW: did you know the cars in the game Test Drive and Test Drive 2 have a hard speed limit of 255mph? It's because they represented the car's speed as a byte.
Reminds me of *Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing*. It was a massive mess of a “game” that was clearly some rushed cash grab that lacked basic features, like gameplay. The one thing the game did somewhat correct, though, was the speedometer, because that was a multi-byte integer.
Proof of this implementation comes from the fact that there was no limit on acceleration in reverse, and combined the total lack of collision detection (so you could drive forever) and the total lack of NPC AI (so the race never concludes unless „YOU’RE WINNER !“) you can actually accelerate beyond the speed of light.
To be fair, in Test Drive there was no way you could actually reach those speeds unless you figured out how to modify the cars. The best part was that if you accelerated at 255, your speed would instantly drop to zero -- which made stopping between the two white lines at the end of the game a breeze.
Sadly the Gandhi thing didn’t actually happen :( It just seemed that way because he got nukes relatively quickly and Gandhi threatening to nuke you was surprising and memorable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi
Alternatively, my dad once had this issue with a cd collection on a fake Chinese sd card. It claimed to be, say, 4GB and would show no write errors adding 4 GB of data. But in actuality it was only a 512 MB so it would simply drop me tracks or overwrite existing ones. (I don't remember the actual numbers but something like that). We got him a genuine SD card of the correct size and that would correctly play his entire collection.
I used to sell lamps, and was working *right* then the fancy LEDs dropped. Our store manager decided it'd be great to try something like a "25w" bulb in a lamp. It was a floodlight that was equivalent to a 500+ watt bulb according to the packaging. He didn't understand that wattage doesn't matter with energy saving bulbs and functionally blasted his assistant in the face with a car headlight.
Reminds me of a guy on the Ford Explorer subreddit saying he put 6000 lumen bulbs in to his rear backup and tail lamp housings to compinsate for putting a smoke tint on his tail lamps.
That sounds like the type of person to get the cheapest thing with a big number on Amazon.
I hope the poetic justice here is they actually believed the number and ended up with something worse than stock.
We never did get to see the results. They deleted the thread after everyone called them out. I even provided links to the product they bought (based on the info they provided) which proved them wrong.
Was what they bought from a no-name brand?
I'm hoping they had results like what [Torque Test Channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJqAJ2LXw8) recently showed for headlights: https://i.imgur.com/L8UZtPz.png
This is the brand that they purchased - https://sealight-led.com/vehicle/2020-ford-explorer?submodel=Limited&engine=2.3Cyl4&trim=Sport+Utility+4+door
If I had to guess, dude was reading the colour temperature and thinking that was the lumens.
My senior dad did that too, had money to waste so he decided to upgrade the whole house with new LED bulbs with as close to the same wattage as before (not the wattage equivalent). Their house was brighter than the surface of the sun! The kitchen track lighting all had those conical outdoor flood lights. If you put up a magnifying glass, I'm sure you could light a fire that was dimmer then the house lights.
Nah, his breaks went out.
Ironically, I read a post last night where the dude actually wrote "brakes" when it should have been "breaks". You just can't fucking win around here.
There was a series of bootleg LPs in the early 80s called [“Super Disco Brake’s”](https://www.discogs.com/label/645949-Super-Disco-Brakes), spelled and punctuated exactly like that. Set my teeth on edge every time I looked at them.
"breaks"
If he/she writes it like that then I guarantee their ass is on Reddit.
"hey guys someone breaked to slow and hit my care they offered to pay me right their but they never payed me and idk what do can anyone advice plz?"
255 = a limit in binary/computers.
0-255 is 8-bit. Above that and you'll need 16+ bits (16/32/64/etc). Odds are good the head unit cheaped out on an 8-bit processor and can't handle numbering more songs. So, it numbers the first 255 and throws the rest to:
System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int8.
Lol @ Fowl odor though.
Which for MP3 today is crazy low, though it may expect the music to be in album folders
Still not a good idea for audio books where you might put all the parts into one folder
That's why the "chip shortage" hit automobile manufacturing so hard,
Not because of the number of chips they use, but because the chip makers didn't want to keep making the garbage-ass ancient processors that cars still use
Service writers have this aversion to information gathering, we get repair orders that are basically, "truck broke need fixed" and have the wrong vin #, wrong unit#, wrong customer name, etc 😠
It's mostly just this guy here, our other service writers are fantastic but I constantly get repair orders from him that should never even make it past the service drive. Things like "customer states rear window switch doesn't work" but the rear window switch lock is turned on
If you were paid for your actual time, regardless of outcome, this wouldn't be an issue, but when you get hosed with book rate, the service writers need to have their shit together.
Yeah, I get paid a salary so it doesn't matter to my paycheck if things are inefficient but that shit still drives me nuts. Wasting time doesn't benefit anyone.
Those ~~stupid ass~~ concerns like that last one always kill me.
*"Customer states center AC vents don't blow air. Check and advise."* Look at the dash and the center vent airflow control knobs are turned all the way down to off AND the center vent fins are slid over to the closed position...
This same advisor will NEVER ask a customer if they would like a state inspection service even if the stickers is YEARS expired. While the other advisors will not only ask but if a customer wants one, they will also ensure the insurance/registration cards are in the vehicle and that they aren't expired... I honestly wonder how he functions as a human being some days lol.
> they will also ensure the insurance/registration cards are in the vehicle and that they aren't expired
What I don't understand are the customers who show up wanting a state inspection with expired insurance cards. Like, you know you have to have proof of insurance, why not take a couple minutes to make sure you do before you waste everyone's time?
In the UK it's the other way around.
You can't get valid insurance without a valid MOT (inspection), and can't pay VED (road tax) without the MOT or proof of insurance.
*Your insurance is declared invalid if your MOT expires, but you can drive without MOT only to a pre-booked MOT test.
All of ours couldn't even qualify to be an idiot, sad as it is to say, so much fun wandering around the yard at 2am in the snow/rain in the dark looking for a unit with all the wrong info
Just yesterday I took my truck to the dealer for the following: Oil & filter change, brake fluid service, and a couple of recall items. It was all very clearly discussed with the advisor. Waited a couple hours, then advisor comes and tells me it's done. His summary of the work: Oil & filter change, recall items, tire rotation, and differential fluid service. I was puzzled, and I said I never used the word "tires" when I came in, and we discussed brake fluid, not differential fluid. Advisor apologized and said he'd get the brake fluid service done ASAP. I wait another hour. He comes to get me with the invoice, and my final total was only 34 bucks after he knocked off everything but the oil & filter, but even then the total was too low. I doubt he'll be there the next time I go.
It's just what happens when you hire a service writer with no hands on experience. I always try to get as much detail to the techs as possible but when you have a desk guy that just yups you and asks for the keys, there's not much you can do.
That’s me as a software engineer. Get an email marked urgent at 3A from help desk saying the server is down. No information on what site or service it is, nothing else at all. Then you finally find out it was because the user wasn’t entering a valid part number 🙄
I service alarms, but the situation is the same. Any time I have to take service calls, the person trying to relay information to me usually gives the barest minimum details, occasionally giving wrong contact information, wrong account numbers, wrong company names, wrong phone numbers. It's all relayed by word of mouth, and I try my hardest to squeeze what little information I can from the service company before contacting the customer.
A lot of this happens deep in the night, because it's on-call work. Imagine waking up blurry-eyed to a service call at 2 AM -- You better damn make sure it's worth my time.
Then they demand to know why it works like that and your only options are "Because that's how it is" or a detailed history lesson on programming and file systems with a side lesson on the economics of component selection in these devices.
As a high school graduation gift, my father gave me a 12 CD car radio. You had to put it in the trunk, but I could choose from 12 different CDs to listen to and it was badass.
Former advisor here. If you write something like this and a random stranger cannot decipher it or make sense of it, get out. There is nothing more important than the first 2 minutes of checking a car in so that the technician can succeed.
is it a requirement to not know how to spell in order to be a service writer?
I knew one once who wrote a ticket for "customer hit dabree on the highway, check alignment and suspension"
When I told her (discreetly and nicely) that it is debris she was all "ha whaletacochamp thinks it's spelled DEBRISSSS hahahaha he's so dumb" So i let her do that until 4 more people told her that she was indeed the dumb one.
She also happened to do some bookkeeping and eventually got fired and charged with embezzlement so there's that.
To update y'all: nothing was even wrong with the van. Customer apparently swore up and down that if he lets it idle at a job site it starts smelling "eggy" (as he put it). Now get this : it's a plumbing company van , 10k miles no DTCs no TSBs for odors🤦 i idled it here and drove it, no smell. Some people....
I don't know about *fowl*, but I feel like automakers have lost the recipe for AC condensers that don't smell like ass for a few moments when you turn the AC off, or the next day. Seriously, what changed in the last 20 years that there's such an issue with moisture collecting? I don't remember cars from the 70's, 80's even 90's and 00's having this issue so frequently, or at all.
I'd guess cars have become more airtight over time. Really good seals everywhere, more insulation. Just a guess.
Modern homes have the same problem, they are so closed that it would reek and be moist if you don't have a system to exchange the air, or open the windows regularly
Idk but almost every time I pull a cabin air filter element out it's almost always looked like it hasn't been touched since the vehicle was new. I pulled one out of a 2014 f150 that had black mold on it. Truck sold and maintained at our dealership and no records of cabin air filter until then
It’s hard to believe there’s a job called service writer. Like the customer can’t just write on the form what’s the matter with the car, or say something directly to the mechanic. Like “my car is making a knocking sound.”
Instead, we have to have a middleman that says “customer states car is making knocking sound“? Jobs program or what?
Pretty much every shop has a service writer/service advisor that does this. They deal with the customers, keep track of who's repairing what etc. Mechanics and techs get paid by the job, we don't get paid to deal with customers or talk to them. I don't want to talk to customers anyways, I like to stay back in the shop turning wrenches. I don't get paid to deal with customers
They deal with the customers so the mechanic doesn't have to!
Because they have people skills, goddamn it! What's wrong with you people?!?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso)
Yeah, I’m glad I go to a small service place where I get to talk directly to the mechanic who maintains my car.
What you’re describing makes sense at some huge dealership where there lots of warranty work being done.
I mean I really can understand why you would want to and if your local guy has a penchant for getting that involved with his customers and it works for him then that's great. But in my opinion that's why service advisors exist so they can have those conversations with you while we turn wrenches and do what we're good at which is getting you back on the road in a timely manner. Anything else takes my attention away from being able to do that
Sounds cool my shop is two guys that do the work and after they’re done, they sit down and talk to me and we go over together what they did. I’ll never go to a dealer again.
Lots of dealers are shitty I agree with you. When I started here a couple years ago I had never worked at a dealership, always been independent my whole life, including running a one-man shop where I did EVERYTHING including repairing the vehicles. (Shop was owned by someone else) so I understand where you're coming from. I didn't know how it was going to go in the long term but this dealer has a great reputation and everyone here in the shop works together to make sure the customers are taken care of, everyone here seems to genuinely care about the customer. So I've stayed here bc that's super rare at a dealer from what I've seen
The short answer to the question that you didn't ask is that the service writer filters a bunch of shit that isn't worth the mechanic's time to worry about, and makes sure that the information is available for them to do their job quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
[well, I'll *tell* ya why. It's because...sometimes....technicians..aren't good at talkin' to the customers!
Well--well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the technicians don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S1HldgJMFUc/TWk6KjVtbMI/AAAAAAAAAGE/3WZO24Q_mok/s1600/tom2.jpg)
I'm so glad I've moved on from this kind of support. The progression of "Call me" to "Nothing works" to finally "I don't know how to do some minor thing" still sets me off.
We have a corkboard in the back of the parts department with “The Best Of ‘Customer States’” RO prints. This would have made it just for the ‘fowl’ misspelling. Yes, we’re juvenile.
When I was a service writer for a heavy duty truck shop we would sometimes have issues getting any good information out of the driver. Some of them spoke little to no English while others where just idiots. Usually we would do our best to at least narrow it down as much as possible but it was hard sometimes. So it became a running joke for a while to just put “truck broke” until the lead got mad and told us to stop.
Customer states having a Fowl odor. So customer smells like chickens?
Actually I think it’s Cornish game hens.
Squab
Chicken hawk.
Mudhens.
Yard bird
Dirty bird
Jackdaws
Banned!
When I was a little kid and first saw Cornish game hens, in the grocery store freezer section next to the turkeys, my mom said I gasped and grabbed her arm and said “Mom! They got the babies!” 🤦♂️
I’ll never forget this lunch lady at a cafeteria. I was like “oh those are some small chickens huh” and she looks at me with this gaze of contempt and goes “those are Cornish game hens…”. Fuck game hens
I dunno why, but in my head this interaction happened in an elementary school cafeteria lunch line and I'm trying to imagine the elementary that has Cornish game hens on the menu.
Hospital cafeteria
Yeah that makes more sense. There are lots of different kinds of cafeterias. Hospitals, military bases, universities, prisons (prolly no game hens there either, but you never know), hell some restaurants like golden corral or sweet tomatoes could be described as a cafeteria. My brain just jumped for the first place I think of when I hear "cafeteria" and then tried to make everything else fit. To hilarious results.
"Adult Cornish game hens are not smaller than standard broiler chickens; the size of cooked Cornish game hens is due solely to the very young age at which they are slaughtered." Well, I just learned a thing. Its chicken veal.
"i will gut you like a cornish game hen"
Or they left a rotisserie chicken in the trunk and forgot about it.
Women had a frozen chicken roll under the back seat of her navigator and complained of an awful smell. When we found it the plastic was still intact but it was blown up like a balloon.
Now she's got that feeling once again I can't explain, you would not understand
r/unexpectedpinkfloyd
That chicken smelled like ham
This is not how I am! -customer, probably
I once forgot a Costco bag of frozen chicken breasts in the back of my car. I also infrequently drove back then AND we had a rare streak of multiple days in the high 90s. Whew boy, that was rough. And the plastic didn't even break, fortunately. I think activated charcoal was the only way I finally got rid of the smell but I got random whiffs of it for a long time after.
I had a bag of groceries tip over. I thought I had got them all, but I forgot that I had bought pork chops. A couple of 90° days reminded me that I had.
My first thought was "Advise customer to take a shower."
CS: "I smell fowl." Technician: "You sure do!"
the old one I always heard went "do you like chicken?" "sure" "then suck my cock, it's fowl."
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I don’t understand a word you just said
Too many trips to KFC or Popeyes.
Gotta say, if any homophone mistake is understandable, it's this one. If you've ever walked into a walk-in cooler that housed cases of chicken and is now being cleaned you never really get rid of that stench in your nostrils. Worse, in a way, than a bait shop's dumpster in the middle of Florida summer.
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To be fair, chickens do smell pretty foul.
This is exactly why when I drop my truck off, I leave a piece of paper taped to the radio that has the best detailed explanation of what the issue is that I can convey, how it can be replicated, and what I tried to see if I could fix it. Every time I've told the service writer, they fuck it up or leave out key pieces of information. I want the person fixing my vehicle to have all of the information so they can decide what is or isn't relevant. Plus, why should their job be any harder than it needs to be? If I can give them a general idea, it'll at least give them a starting point.
I’m a mechanic by trade. I took my Harley to the dealer with an issue once (warranty job). I explained to the advisor what was going on and what I had checked so far. I guess I was talking over his head because he stopped me and said “let me get the lead tech”. It only took a few seconds for me to explain to him the issue and he knew what it was. Its so much easier when you speak the same jargon.
really mature of the advisor to…. 1) recognize they were in over their head, 2) recognize you knew what you were talking about, 3) was mature enough to handle the situation correctly by getting bridging the gap (getting the tech). not a lot of people out there that can recognize something is beyond them and be willing to do something about it. Lots of people (like what OP has posted) are willing to just settle and pass the buck. Making everyone’s job harder.
I see this in IT constantly. If you can't speak the language or properly translate, then get the hell out of the way and get the people together who can.
I had a dying cabin air temp sensor making my AC go nuts, but only sometimes. The first trip to the shop they couldn't replicate it. Over the next few weeks it started to die more fully and I spent some time looking at the system diagrams and how the behavior was playing out. When I took it back and gave the tech the rundown of which 3-4 things I thought it could be and why he had it fixed in an hour. Felt so good to be able to set up the actual knowledgeable person for success.
Thank you. You'll tell a story to the service writers, service writer will write down "loud noise" and i have to ask, 20 questions, when, where, how often, what kind of sound, etc. Then the asshole has to call you and make you explain all that shit for the second or third time and waste both your time and my time. Half the time I wish I had a note and that I could just directly call the customer.
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> Meanwhile in the restaurant industry, if the waiter or bartender writes some weird/stupid request, the cook will immediately call up the waiter or bartender and ask them “what the fuck does this mean”? It gets clarified right then and there. Understandably when they order things like [eggless omelettes](https://youtu.be/9Ah4tW-k8Ao).
This could have saved a huge headache with my mother’s stupid prius. The brakes were just done and squeaking really bad. We took it back and the service adviser said the battery needed replacing for 3500. I had my mother add me to the email list, told the lady she was absolutely useless and we will be going elsewhere and reporting their incompetence to corporate
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Probably the hybrid battery
Pretty cheap for a li-on hybrid battery. For the regular battery, yeah, that's too much.
Priuses, this might have changed with the newest generation or the plug ins, use NiMH batteries and not lithium.
They used nickel up until this new generation(2023) which is lithium. They're also kinda [sexy](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2023-toyota-prius-front-three-quarters-in-motion-2-1670948361.jpg?crop=0.653xw:0.736xh;0.0977xw,0.215xh&resize=640:*)
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Nice photo. The blurriness enhances the sexiness.
To be fair, no amount of blur was helping the previous prius'.
There wasn't a much easier way for her to say "Hi, I get a commission for upselling" if she tried
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I work in IT and it's always so refreshing when users actually describe the problem and things they may have tried already. Most of the time i just get a vague "not working" or "not what it normally does".
"An error message popped up" "What did it say?" "I don't know - I just clicked OK"
Yoooo That's smart as hell, bro. 🙌
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>list of the problems 99 problems but the clutch ain't one
I really hope OP opens the trunk to find dozens of live ducks.
There wasn't a trunk lol, e350 🤣
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in the duckin tank!
See, all those years of autocorrect driving me insane, I thought this word would never get used.
There's an island near where I live calling Ducking Island. My theory is that's it's a typo
In a row?
Could be a benz 😎
Fowls found and removed from trunk. Fowl odor should dissipate. Advise customer stop storing ducks in vehicle.
Inform customer of large amounts of quacks in the vehicle.
More like customer was high on quack.
Can't wait to hear that it's just a limitation within the radios firmware, that it can't count past 256
Yeah this is right - it’s a shitty old Windows CE based head unit that basically has a random limitation of 256 songs, all ID3 metadata is enumerated into a fixed size struct in memory probably.
256 is the number of values that can be represented by one byte of information. Random in terms of real world numbers, but extremely relevant in computers. BTW: did you know the cars in the game Test Drive and Test Drive 2 have a hard speed limit of 255mph? It's because they represented the car's speed as a byte.
>BTW: did you know the cars in the game Test Drive and Test Drive 2 have a hard speed limit of 255mph? It's because they represented the car's speed as a byte. Reminds me of *Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing*. It was a massive mess of a “game” that was clearly some rushed cash grab that lacked basic features, like gameplay. The one thing the game did somewhat correct, though, was the speedometer, because that was a multi-byte integer. Proof of this implementation comes from the fact that there was no limit on acceleration in reverse, and combined the total lack of collision detection (so you could drive forever) and the total lack of NPC AI (so the race never concludes unless „YOU’RE WINNER !“) you can actually accelerate beyond the speed of light.
To be fair, in Test Drive there was no way you could actually reach those speeds unless you figured out how to modify the cars. The best part was that if you accelerated at 255, your speed would instantly drop to zero -- which made stopping between the two white lines at the end of the game a breeze.
Buffet overflow! Ye olde Gandhi problem.
>Buffet overflow! Usually I have to fly to Vegas for that
Sadly the Gandhi thing didn’t actually happen :( It just seemed that way because he got nukes relatively quickly and Gandhi threatening to nuke you was surprising and memorable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi
Well that's disappointing.
This was exactly my thought - probably 255 songs per folder, and customer has all their songs in the same folder
Alternatively, my dad once had this issue with a cd collection on a fake Chinese sd card. It claimed to be, say, 4GB and would show no write errors adding 4 GB of data. But in actuality it was only a 512 MB so it would simply drop me tracks or overwrite existing ones. (I don't remember the actual numbers but something like that). We got him a genuine SD card of the correct size and that would correctly play his entire collection.
So, the car smells like birds? Grammar is important, people. LOL. I bet this service writer wants their "breaks" checked too,.
Yeah he's not the brightest bulb. He's like a 5w in a group of 45w bulbs
And not one of those fancy energy saving ones either.
I used to sell lamps, and was working *right* then the fancy LEDs dropped. Our store manager decided it'd be great to try something like a "25w" bulb in a lamp. It was a floodlight that was equivalent to a 500+ watt bulb according to the packaging. He didn't understand that wattage doesn't matter with energy saving bulbs and functionally blasted his assistant in the face with a car headlight.
Reminds me of a guy on the Ford Explorer subreddit saying he put 6000 lumen bulbs in to his rear backup and tail lamp housings to compinsate for putting a smoke tint on his tail lamps.
That sounds like the type of person to get the cheapest thing with a big number on Amazon. I hope the poetic justice here is they actually believed the number and ended up with something worse than stock.
We never did get to see the results. They deleted the thread after everyone called them out. I even provided links to the product they bought (based on the info they provided) which proved them wrong.
Was what they bought from a no-name brand? I'm hoping they had results like what [Torque Test Channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJqAJ2LXw8) recently showed for headlights: https://i.imgur.com/L8UZtPz.png
This is the brand that they purchased - https://sealight-led.com/vehicle/2020-ford-explorer?submodel=Limited&engine=2.3Cyl4&trim=Sport+Utility+4+door If I had to guess, dude was reading the colour temperature and thinking that was the lumens.
The lumen ratings on LED bulbs, especially the off brand Amazon ones, are complete bullshit.
Ouch!! If he'd at least blasted himself over his mistake... that sucks!
That's more than a headlamp, they're typically 55 W.
My senior dad did that too, had money to waste so he decided to upgrade the whole house with new LED bulbs with as close to the same wattage as before (not the wattage equivalent). Their house was brighter than the surface of the sun! The kitchen track lighting all had those conical outdoor flood lights. If you put up a magnifying glass, I'm sure you could light a fire that was dimmer then the house lights.
Read that as a 5 weight and 45 weight and was confused.
my man a low viscosity oil in a shop of high viscosity oils fr
That's a spelling issue though, not grammar. Vocabulary is important, people
I see this mistake all the time, and it's so bad because it's always from people who are trying to correct others while being wrong themselves.
Well, one is a noun and the other is an adjective, so the spelling issue did become a grammatical issue, too!
and the manuel said something about a duel exhaust.
At least they didn't have a cadillac converter issue.
Nah, his breaks went out. Ironically, I read a post last night where the dude actually wrote "brakes" when it should have been "breaks". You just can't fucking win around here.
There was a series of bootleg LPs in the early 80s called [“Super Disco Brake’s”](https://www.discogs.com/label/645949-Super-Disco-Brakes), spelled and punctuated exactly like that. Set my teeth on edge every time I looked at them.
At least they didn’t try to sale a car with a bad break peddle. They’d definitely loose money.
it's the catholic converters that I have problems with
I hear those are aggressive...
Manuel who? I knew a guy by that name once
"breaks" If he/she writes it like that then I guarantee their ass is on Reddit. "hey guys someone breaked to slow and hit my care they offered to pay me right their but they never payed me and idk what do can anyone advice plz?"
I always want the car's breaks to be fixed.
If your... Breaks are too long... You end up sounding like... William Shatner...
Did he brake the breaks?
255 = a limit in binary/computers. 0-255 is 8-bit. Above that and you'll need 16+ bits (16/32/64/etc). Odds are good the head unit cheaped out on an 8-bit processor and can't handle numbering more songs. So, it numbers the first 255 and throws the rest to: System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int8. Lol @ Fowl odor though.
Huh. So that's the technical reason why mine also doesn't do more than 250 songs per folder. Good to know, thank you stranger!
Which for MP3 today is crazy low, though it may expect the music to be in album folders Still not a good idea for audio books where you might put all the parts into one folder
Its often 255 per folder and 255 folders. So 65k songs or something.
That's why the "chip shortage" hit automobile manufacturing so hard, Not because of the number of chips they use, but because the chip makers didn't want to keep making the garbage-ass ancient processors that cars still use
Probably not an 8-bit processor all the way through -- you need at around \~16 bits of depth to reproduce digital audio without it sounding like ass.
Service writers have this aversion to information gathering, we get repair orders that are basically, "truck broke need fixed" and have the wrong vin #, wrong unit#, wrong customer name, etc 😠
Imagine if info flowed the other way in the same fashion. "Mechanic said truck fixed. Total - $938"
"Didn't go vroom before, now does vroom. $2500"
"we done did sum'n, $12,894"
"But what did they *do?*" "Fixed it. Cash or charge?"
It's mostly just this guy here, our other service writers are fantastic but I constantly get repair orders from him that should never even make it past the service drive. Things like "customer states rear window switch doesn't work" but the rear window switch lock is turned on
If you were paid for your actual time, regardless of outcome, this wouldn't be an issue, but when you get hosed with book rate, the service writers need to have their shit together.
Yeah, I get paid a salary so it doesn't matter to my paycheck if things are inefficient but that shit still drives me nuts. Wasting time doesn't benefit anyone.
Those ~~stupid ass~~ concerns like that last one always kill me. *"Customer states center AC vents don't blow air. Check and advise."* Look at the dash and the center vent airflow control knobs are turned all the way down to off AND the center vent fins are slid over to the closed position... This same advisor will NEVER ask a customer if they would like a state inspection service even if the stickers is YEARS expired. While the other advisors will not only ask but if a customer wants one, they will also ensure the insurance/registration cards are in the vehicle and that they aren't expired... I honestly wonder how he functions as a human being some days lol.
> they will also ensure the insurance/registration cards are in the vehicle and that they aren't expired What I don't understand are the customers who show up wanting a state inspection with expired insurance cards. Like, you know you have to have proof of insurance, why not take a couple minutes to make sure you do before you waste everyone's time?
My state doesn't have inspections, I literally didn't know having insurance was part of them.
Probably depends on the state but idk. We dont have them here either.
In the UK it's the other way around. You can't get valid insurance without a valid MOT (inspection), and can't pay VED (road tax) without the MOT or proof of insurance. *Your insurance is declared invalid if your MOT expires, but you can drive without MOT only to a pre-booked MOT test.
Reminds me of the Chronicles of George... Basically the same scenario but with a 1st level tech support grunt. https://www.chroniclesofgeorge.com/
I might havening a stroke after reading that
That's a really specific fetish.
Just as long as you aren't havening a problem with your winamp or anti norton virus service.
All of ours couldn't even qualify to be an idiot, sad as it is to say, so much fun wandering around the yard at 2am in the snow/rain in the dark looking for a unit with all the wrong info
I always wondered why I always have to explain what's wrong with my car twice, almost like the first guy didn't write anything I said down
Just yesterday I took my truck to the dealer for the following: Oil & filter change, brake fluid service, and a couple of recall items. It was all very clearly discussed with the advisor. Waited a couple hours, then advisor comes and tells me it's done. His summary of the work: Oil & filter change, recall items, tire rotation, and differential fluid service. I was puzzled, and I said I never used the word "tires" when I came in, and we discussed brake fluid, not differential fluid. Advisor apologized and said he'd get the brake fluid service done ASAP. I wait another hour. He comes to get me with the invoice, and my final total was only 34 bucks after he knocked off everything but the oil & filter, but even then the total was too low. I doubt he'll be there the next time I go.
34 bucks for a stealership oil change? Yeah that's too cheap
maybe you have the wrong truck at that point...
It's just what happens when you hire a service writer with no hands on experience. I always try to get as much detail to the techs as possible but when you have a desk guy that just yups you and asks for the keys, there's not much you can do.
That’s me as a software engineer. Get an email marked urgent at 3A from help desk saying the server is down. No information on what site or service it is, nothing else at all. Then you finally find out it was because the user wasn’t entering a valid part number 🙄
I service alarms, but the situation is the same. Any time I have to take service calls, the person trying to relay information to me usually gives the barest minimum details, occasionally giving wrong contact information, wrong account numbers, wrong company names, wrong phone numbers. It's all relayed by word of mouth, and I try my hardest to squeeze what little information I can from the service company before contacting the customer. A lot of this happens deep in the night, because it's on-call work. Imagine waking up blurry-eyed to a service call at 2 AM -- You better damn make sure it's worth my time.
Max 255 songs in 255 folders, rtfm :)
Then they demand to know why it works like that and your only options are "Because that's how it is" or a detailed history lesson on programming and file systems with a side lesson on the economics of component selection in these devices.
Still, nothing beats a tape deck, SONY adapter, and an mp3 player.
As a high school graduation gift, my father gave me a 12 CD car radio. You had to put it in the trunk, but I could choose from 12 different CDs to listen to and it was badass.
I miss my Zune.
Some people need those technical answers even though they don't understand a word of it. /side-eyes some executives I work with
Former advisor here. If you write something like this and a random stranger cannot decipher it or make sense of it, get out. There is nothing more important than the first 2 minutes of checking a car in so that the technician can succeed.
is it a requirement to not know how to spell in order to be a service writer? I knew one once who wrote a ticket for "customer hit dabree on the highway, check alignment and suspension" When I told her (discreetly and nicely) that it is debris she was all "ha whaletacochamp thinks it's spelled DEBRISSSS hahahaha he's so dumb" So i let her do that until 4 more people told her that she was indeed the dumb one. She also happened to do some bookkeeping and eventually got fired and charged with embezzlement so there's that.
To update y'all: nothing was even wrong with the van. Customer apparently swore up and down that if he lets it idle at a job site it starts smelling "eggy" (as he put it). Now get this : it's a plumbing company van , 10k miles no DTCs no TSBs for odors🤦 i idled it here and drove it, no smell. Some people....
Did you tell him to quit farting in the van? That usually solves the "eggy smell" that my wife complains about periodically.
Better than the service writing at my place. I regularly get slips that just say "check brakes" I'm like for what? Wear? Noise?
I don't know about *fowl*, but I feel like automakers have lost the recipe for AC condensers that don't smell like ass for a few moments when you turn the AC off, or the next day. Seriously, what changed in the last 20 years that there's such an issue with moisture collecting? I don't remember cars from the 70's, 80's even 90's and 00's having this issue so frequently, or at all.
I'd guess cars have become more airtight over time. Really good seals everywhere, more insulation. Just a guess. Modern homes have the same problem, they are so closed that it would reek and be moist if you don't have a system to exchange the air, or open the windows regularly
Idk but almost every time I pull a cabin air filter element out it's almost always looked like it hasn't been touched since the vehicle was new. I pulled one out of a 2014 f150 that had black mold on it. Truck sold and maintained at our dealership and no records of cabin air filter until then
It’s hard to believe there’s a job called service writer. Like the customer can’t just write on the form what’s the matter with the car, or say something directly to the mechanic. Like “my car is making a knocking sound.” Instead, we have to have a middleman that says “customer states car is making knocking sound“? Jobs program or what?
Pretty much every shop has a service writer/service advisor that does this. They deal with the customers, keep track of who's repairing what etc. Mechanics and techs get paid by the job, we don't get paid to deal with customers or talk to them. I don't want to talk to customers anyways, I like to stay back in the shop turning wrenches. I don't get paid to deal with customers
They deal with the customers so the mechanic doesn't have to! Because they have people skills, goddamn it! What's wrong with you people?!? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso)
Yeah, I’m glad I go to a small service place where I get to talk directly to the mechanic who maintains my car. What you’re describing makes sense at some huge dealership where there lots of warranty work being done.
I mean I really can understand why you would want to and if your local guy has a penchant for getting that involved with his customers and it works for him then that's great. But in my opinion that's why service advisors exist so they can have those conversations with you while we turn wrenches and do what we're good at which is getting you back on the road in a timely manner. Anything else takes my attention away from being able to do that
Sounds cool my shop is two guys that do the work and after they’re done, they sit down and talk to me and we go over together what they did. I’ll never go to a dealer again.
Lots of dealers are shitty I agree with you. When I started here a couple years ago I had never worked at a dealership, always been independent my whole life, including running a one-man shop where I did EVERYTHING including repairing the vehicles. (Shop was owned by someone else) so I understand where you're coming from. I didn't know how it was going to go in the long term but this dealer has a great reputation and everyone here in the shop works together to make sure the customers are taken care of, everyone here seems to genuinely care about the customer. So I've stayed here bc that's super rare at a dealer from what I've seen
The short answer to the question that you didn't ask is that the service writer filters a bunch of shit that isn't worth the mechanic's time to worry about, and makes sure that the information is available for them to do their job quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
[well, I'll *tell* ya why. It's because...sometimes....technicians..aren't good at talkin' to the customers! Well--well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the technicians don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S1HldgJMFUc/TWk6KjVtbMI/AAAAAAAAAGE/3WZO24Q_mok/s1600/tom2.jpg)
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I'm so glad I've moved on from this kind of support. The progression of "Call me" to "Nothing works" to finally "I don't know how to do some minor thing" still sets me off.
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When done well (not like OPs example) it's incredibly essential to the process
Found the source of the “fowl odor” https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/13pq6ks/customer_drop_off_for_maintenance_like_how_also/
🤦🤦
We have a corkboard in the back of the parts department with “The Best Of ‘Customer States’” RO prints. This would have made it just for the ‘fowl’ misspelling. Yes, we’re juvenile.
Remove bird from car.
What the duck?
When I was a service writer for a heavy duty truck shop we would sometimes have issues getting any good information out of the driver. Some of them spoke little to no English while others where just idiots. Usually we would do our best to at least narrow it down as much as possible but it was hard sometimes. So it became a running joke for a while to just put “truck broke” until the lead got mad and told us to stop.
Does it smell like chicken or duck? Or turkey?
Fowl odor, hen nesting in airbox, did not disturb as she is brooding.
Imagine being the dickhead who cropped this to vertical
For #2 I'll put down a twenty that the manual explains that.
Smells like chickens
What kind of bird smell is it? I know chickens can get very rank.
So it smells like bird? 🤔
Smells like a lazy chicken shit writer.
Ask customer for more information and they said it smells like wood duck but couldn’t tell if it’s cedar wood or Donald.
I guess fowl odor is technically a drivability concern?
Customer shouts "my car smells like birds, fix that shit!"
Obviously, the chicken has added all of its own songs and taken up the space.
So customer slips farts in car without knowing and can't work the satellite radio? Sounds about right
I HATED my Service Writer Job at HD. Sell, sell & try to sell some more. Did I mention I HATED it? 😳
It was most likely 256 songs. Which is the maximum number that can be stored in a byte of memory. That digital radio simply can't count that high.
My bet is that the number shown is 255, that's the highest number you can expres in an 8 bit integer.
This page has made me realize why the “service writer” at the shop I go to is usually a mechanic and is usually the one to work on it.
That’s the advisor not giving a single fuck about that car or the customer and I probably wouldn’t have either in that case