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Customer service.....Dropped off some original decals I had made for a sign company to make. The original guy who made mine has now retired so I went seeking a new supplier for my equipment.
Last May (yes 2022) I had this conversation with this guy looking over the truck and promising me the world to make new ones. So after several phone calls over several months communication stopped and i sort of couldn't be bothered chasing it up. Until one day a client explained how faded my signage had gotten on one truck. I thought bugger it I'll paint my own. In the meantime I called into to see these jokers yesterday to get the originals back and now they have total memory loss, can't find them and pretend I was never there. Upside to this story is I'm teaching myself signwriting trucks with the truck coming out better than expected. before... ![]() after... ![]()
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I just want my originals back. btw got a beauty for your cut once measure twice thread.
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Necessity is the Mother of invention.
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Had a total mental blank at the ATM, guessed my PIN wrong - it retained the card and returned cash I was trying to deposit. I’m reckoning that with all the recent data leaks and necessary re-issuing of things, this (forgetting details) is probably quite common. Still adds another mission to the day for retrieval.
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Have to credit the bank (one of the four pillars), they actually called me to advise; when I went in it was sorted in just a few minutes. Not your usual banking “experience”.
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Received a text message yesterday with banking screenshot to show my $11K trades invoice for painting at the nominated address was paid, with apology for the delay in settling.
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Location: Canberra
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I went into a meeting on Thursday. For context this problem has been going around in circles for 2-3 years even though it is simple to solve.
So I went in strong saying I can code it to basically solve all the problems, I said I will do everything and this ******** says "we need to to the analysis" There is no other ****en option, there is nothing to look into ![]() And the same person has already said the same thing 3 times and never got back to me. The benefit this time is we had a third party involved. **** me dead ![]() |
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People with no idea of measurements…….
We have to re-cover a couple of long benches at work. They are 600mm wide x 3200mm long. We ordered a sheet of rubber 1210mm wide x 3.5m. Boss asked one of the guys to cut it in half so we’d have a sheet for each bench that would be close to size. He cut it straight down the middle. Now we have 2 pcs that are 1210mm wide x 1750 long….. I ordered a new bathroom mirror glass to replace the one that was “corroding” inwards from the edges. Called the glazier, and he asked the size. I told him it was 1200 x 900 to the edges of the frame, but the glass inside would be smaller. He tells me he knows what he’s doing. I asked if I should take the frame apart to accurately measure the glass itself. No, I’m an expert, I know these things inside out. Later that arvo the Ute turns up with a mirror on it - 1200 x 900. He’s looking at the frame, and wondering why it’s short….. I told him the mirror that came out of it was 12mm smaller in each direction - so it should be 1188 x 888mm to fit. He gets a phone call and tells his offsider to cut 12mm off adjacent sides. I think to myself, this is gonna be risky, I’d like to see if he has the skill to nip off a slim strip without breaking the entire mirror. He does one side, and it’s perfect. He then moves to the opposite side. I point out that it needs to be the adjacent side. I get the “I know what I’m doing” crap again…..before he cut it, I said if it was 12mm off each opposite side, why wouldn’t you just cut 24mm off one side? It was a futile effort to make him see the error in his ways. He pushed ahead and took that other 12mm off….. and then his boss wondered why the frame was still too short……. They had the audacity to suggest I could cut the frame down by 12mm to make it fit the now undersized glass. No thanks, I don’t want a 12mm gap along the tiles because the offsider was that silly. They had to come back the following afternoon with the correct size mirror…… |
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The only way it could have been better, is if Rubbercutter and Mirexpert were related.
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My cat has been enjoying the crunchy noises and human reactions when he leaps onto the aged polycarbonate awning. It now leaks like a sieve.
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The dic.head two doors down the road cracking a whip.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Bummo, just remembered Winton Supertruck racing is on today but being too far away to go.
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Pedestrian. Yesterday, Reynolds Rd, Templestowe, heading west; about 4:30 PM, gloomy conditions, it was either raining or had been; the road is two lanes each way with wide grass median strip down the middle; I should have had the demister on but he had crossed the grass strip and steps out onto the road; I was probably doing 60 in a 70 zone, saw him, slowed down, no problem but if there had been a car on my left and slightly further back and doing 70 the driver might not have seen him until ... He was in his 70's, dark clothing.
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I just noticed 4 dodgy purchase transactions on my account going back to March. So far taken me for about $120 and not even a regular amount
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Getting sent a private message and being grilled over a supposed grammatical error in one of my posts, not on this forum by the way.
This from a person who comes from a country that cannot pronounce JAGUAR correctly. Or the country who gave the world the word "y'all". And from a person who made a post about people being "proud" of one's achievements as a "deadly sin". ![]()
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Probably say the same about me reading and responding to it.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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did they get the royal salute emijo
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No, not worth it.
This person is likes to drop bombs and when called out on it, turns the blame back on you, even though he dropped said bomb in the first place. I could name a particular member here who likes to do that in two key threads, like clockwork. Having said that, this person also likes to ask for advice. If he's so dam smart, then why is he asking me for help?
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I spend much less time reading **** online these days. World has gone bat**** crazy and can only take it in limited doses.
Oh and an update to my previous post. I traced the transactions back to Pizza Hut from my deleted emails which explains why I found **** all about the ABN/ACN online. My confusion came from checking the wrong month on my calendar which had them on Wednesday rather than Saturday and no mention of pizza in the debit ![]() Rang the bank up on Sunday morning to tell them they don't need to take any further action. I looked a bit of an idiot. Don't drink bank ![]() |
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However, it can be hard to avoid reading crap when the person in question sends you two private messages on something that I wrote, something that was carefully researched and written. As others mentioned, this person clearly has a lot of time on his hands.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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