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AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
« on: Nov 5th, 2002, 6:57pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I'm having a bad day Angry Angry Angry Angry Rant session follows...
 
My boss sent me to collect 16 laptops today from the other side of the city (10 miles). When I get there, there's only 4 Acers waiting. Turns out when he tries to order the 16 Acers I recommended, the price was not as listed, but was now above our unit cost allowance under the Government grant scheme we're using to buy these. Acer had bodged, not included Office, and stuck the price up by £80 - the agency was trying to secure something nearer the original deal, especially since 2 months had passed. In the mean time, he is told to order 4 low-spec Acers and some Compaqs that were somewhere in betweeen the two Acer models the agency could supply and wait to see if the original 16-Acer deal could be done.
 
He gets an email telling them the Acers have arrived (no number stated), tells me to go and collect 16 Acers, meaning I have to cancel another meeting (which he'd asked me to go to 'cos he'd double-booked and had another one elsewhere) at short notice to 'get them in school ASAP', and I've got to leave work early (4pm) because the agency wants me there before 4.45pm - normally I'm there till 6pm. I even rang the agency to let them know I'm collecting 16 Acers, they confirmed we had ordered 16 laptops and said thanks, because it will give them time to get the packages out and ready.  
 
I get there at 4.55pm - rush hour city traffic nightmare. The agency wheels out the 4 Acers andwhen I tell them I'm collecting 16 they say 'the email clearly stated Acer laptops - check your order - your Compaqs aren't here yet.' I look silly 'cos this is the first time I'd known about any Compaqs on the order. Everyone finally leaves at 5.20pm, following lots of stuff that boils down to a) my boss assumed the 16-Acer deal had gone through (because there's no mention of Compaqs in the email); and b) the agency assumed that he'd know the 16-Acer order hasn't gone through. The school's order even has the 9/7 Acer split order Tippexed out, and a 4/12 Acer/Compaq one over-written in a different handwriting to his...
 
As my Sgt told me, 'Never assume anything - it always makes an ASS of U and ME... and if you ever make an ass out of me, son......'
 
The Compaqs, I'm told when I get there, will arrive tomorrow... Someone else can go and get these, and I'm glad my boss is retiring soon...
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Re: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
« Reply #1 on: Nov 5th, 2002, 7:25pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Hi Ian,
I'll do my best to help your guarding angel to help you to
have better days soon
Keep  your head up
Kindeeest Regards
 
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Re: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
« Reply #2 on: Nov 9th, 2002, 4:15am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Here you go Ian, someone brought this to my attention.  In the US Navy the Electronic Technicians has PMS Preventative Maintenence Sheets (cards).  There is a one card that requires them to have a high speed jet aircraft run pass the ship at a set speed to zero in their Radar System.  As a Joke on the card they include the naval supply system number for an F-14.  So every now and again the ET's onboard these ships use the Supply Number to order the tool (the F-14) that is needed to do their prevented maintnence.  It gets up pretty high in the supply system before it gets kicked out.  Can you imagine if they ever delivered the jet to one of the small ships.  Grin
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Re: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
« Reply #3 on: Nov 9th, 2002, 3:22pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Brilliant! And I thought it was only Snap-on kit was over-priced (an expensive way of tightening nuts) - imagine having to fork out $30 million for a 'calibration device'!!! Grin Grin Grin I wouldn't want to explain that one away if I was the commander who authorised it...
 
I'm surprised someone hasn't figured out a way of having a freebie ride to the International Space Thingy on the premise of servicing the drinks dispenser. There must be a 'location ID number' for that one to go on some piece of paper somewhere. Or send someone up there a UPS hand-to-hand personal delivery. Marked 'urgent - legal documents to be viewed immediately - response required'. Would one of their brown trucks get there on just one tank of fuel?
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Re: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
« Reply #4 on: Nov 9th, 2002, 3:39pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Oh, BTW, I got back to work and my boss was in the same mind as I was about the mix up - he'd actually known about the 4/12 laptop amended order (of course, since he made the alteration over the phone - hence the Tippex), but his assumption was that the agency would confirm the actual order (9/7 Acer, or the alternative 'backup' to ensure we got something this sde of Christmas) - he took the absence of any mention of Compaqs to be confirmation of our original order.
 
I told him I'd basically tore a strip out of 4 people there, so he could expect some complaints about my rather - err - 'abrupt' nature that evening. Sure enough, this came 2 days later, but forewarned is forearmed, and since he'd been made to look a bit silly, he let them have both barrels too. Grin The problem stems from the nature of the agency - back a few years, we were all part of the same education authority, which went from the schools right up to the Director of Education as one organisation. Now, various bits have been 'sold off', and the agency is one of these bits. It has to return a profit on its operations (which it is doing to a 'healthy' degree, after only 2 years operation). Despite basically being a separate company, it expects schools to treat them like colleagues, but stiffs the schools for a profit and complains if we don't buy into its over-proced schemes.
 
When my boss told me the complaint had arrived, it was as an 'oh, by the way...' whilst we happened to meet on the corridor in between lessons - not a full 'in my office' official passing on. He and I both considered that this complaint by the agency head, (working on 2nd-hand accounts of the events as relayed by two of his four staff members involved) carried as much weight as if the head of Goodyear rang in to demand I stop abusing his products because he's heard that I had spun my wheels on the way to work that morning.
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