Thread: Made my day
View Single Post
sammyg2 sammyg2 is offline
Unregistered
 
sammyg2's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: a wretched hive of scum and villainy
Posts: 55,652
Made my day

About 7 years ago I was running a repair service center for the largest pump manufacturer in the world.
The average pump repair through that shop was in the $50k range and some of them got up into the quarter mil range.
These were very large, very exotic and high energy pumps.

One of my "best" customers was a total PITA. He sent me about $1-1/2 mil work of work per year (from the company he worked for) but this asshat thought he was was God's gift to pump engineering.
He was constantly trying to prove that he knew more than anyone (including me) about all things related to pumps, even though he could barely spell pump.

I tried to be nice and explain the affinity laws and how things actually work but it wasn't easy, he'd be making up technical words trying to bluff me like he did his bosses, it was all I could do to keep from slamming him hard. Especially when he'd get condescending and say crap like "I don't know why I waste my time dealing with people like you". He was in a word, a BLUFF. That summed up his career and his person. a BLUFF.

Well anywho, I just recieved a e-mail invite to a BS seminar, the type that come along, .... oh about every half hour.
Industry spam is basically all the are.
I glanced at it, and this enema-nozzle (tm) is presenting it.

MR. expert at everything is now hocking 3rd rate gimmick products. Not quite down to the sham-wow level but awful close.

isn't irony ironic?
Old 02-01-2011, 05:04 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #1 (permalink)