These places drive me up the wall. I used to encounter this when contracting.
That happened like twice in ten years.
Oh, are you dealing with the Japanese? Their approach to science and manufacturing is terrible. You'll have a dozen guys working at a plant and no one knows anything but the very specific job he does. When testing something out, they'll iterate for months trying to brute force a solution instead of returning to basic principles. The Japs are also infamously bad at comp sci. Like, seriously bad. They're so bad that Chinese software is a joy to deal with instead of Japanese.
Sounds like Phillipinos. Maybe Malaysians, who can be especially thick.
The mechanisms to accept, count, and deposit paper dollars and especially coins in a fast lane are stupidly complex. Just one shred of paper, foreign coin, or just dust can jam them up and if anything is actually broken the replacement parts are stupidly expensive, too.
This sounds more like the Haitians where one of my sons works.
Aren't those things clearly labeled? Because there's an more important difference than the 34 just being smaller.
You are correct. They sure are. I have no idea how the employee fucked that up, and that's the baffling bit.
From what I'm reading off the web, the main visual difference between them is that one is taller than the other by around 2 inches. But again, voltage labels. Plus, the exact part would have been underlined in the work order if that place actually had their shit together.
The US is at a 79% functional literacy rate. Fully possible when 1 in 5 people can't reliably read, which is an unfortunate reality I think about a lot when I see people doing and saying dumb shit.
Is he able to sue the shop for making such a colossal fuckup?
You can but you have to check the race of the mechanic first. Plenty of franchise places are in on the H1B scheme.
Filipinos are absolutely awful to deal with. People play up their work ethic but that’s a meme. They will look like they’re putting in the hours but when you see the work product, you wonder what the fuck it is that they’ve been spending their time on. They have absolutely zero critical thinking or self directed learning skills. The Filipinas live up to their reputation as LBFMs. They will try to fuck their bosses at the first opportunity so they can secure their employment and so they can start funneling her relatives into positions at the company.
Yep. Avoid these franchise repair shops like the plague. Any mechanic who knows his shit won’t be at any franchise auto body shop. So these places hire dipshits, fuckups, and brownoids. None of them have incentive to do the job properly and if any of these places institute a drug test, they’d empty out immediately.
This has become my work by and large. The CXOs running the company are desperate to lay off a big chunk of the workforce due to AI but they are fortunately just smart enough to wait to see the right time; some companies have itchy trigger fingers and started laying people off before the technology is ready. But oh yes, they want to lay a double digit percentage off. Employees know this too and morale and productivity have fallen off the cliff.
Do you work where I do? I also have a funny related story, my boss got passed up for promotion due to politics, being the #1 of a VP that got sacked. So he just stopped giving a shit about his job and the company.
Flips are fine as laborers so long as their work can be monitored. Anything that requires 'unseen' knowledge though is a total no-go with them. No structural welding. No troubleshooting. Nothing that requires rotating an apple in their mind's eye or any sort of Formal Logic. They're just too stupid for that kind of thing. They also arrange themselves around informal Chiefdoms, where the real 'Yes boss' is decided by whatever guy they've pledged fealty to, so you gotta figure out who the Chief is. Otherwise I find them pleasant. One of the few nons that will do you a good turn and try to include you in their social circles.