Gross misrepresentations or estimations of time.

[Expertise]

This morning i'm backing out of my driveway in snow that is mid-thigh deep thinkin' yea I get to use 4X4 on the way to work when all of a sudden BING my ABS light goes on.

The brakes still work fine so I think no big deal i'll zip in to the dealer since it needs an oil, lube and filter anyway. Since there is a freakin' blizzard outside I figure that they won't be busy. I get there about 0900 and my hunch is correct.

I ask the "service advisor" if they can get me in ASAP. Not a problem she replies. I tell her my problem and request the OLF in addition she informs me that there is a recall on some sort of speed sensor do I want to have that fixed as well? Sure I say. Do you want to wait or do you want our shuttle to take you to work, she asks? How long is it going to be, I ask? Thinking that if it isn't to long i'll wait and peruse some of the new vehicles. Oh, we'll have you out of here in an hour.... FAMOUS LAST FUCKING WORDS!

I got to work at 1248. FUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK

God I hate that. Be it in this situation or when a restaurant says there will be a 20 minute wait for a table that invariably turns in to an hour and twenty. Or the infamous "Allow six to eight weeks for delivery" which turns mysteriously in to 90 days.

Why do people misrepresent these things or grossly underestimate the time involved. It pisses me right fucking off.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

 

[April]

I hate that too. Unfortunately, I'm also horribly guilty of the exact same thing. Consistently underestimate how long it will take me to get to work. I have no time management skills at all. It runs in the family, too.

 

[KillerMuffin]

In auto repair, time isn't a static, forward moving rigid concept. It's malleable and entirely subjective. You're going to adore Labor Rate, if you're not working under warranty. Otherwise, they'll tell you it takes so long for the job to occur and it happens however the mechanic feels like making it happen. Usually it's quickly, they get paid by the Labor Rate hour, not by the actuall time it takes.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

We could be riding the same Kharmic wave...

I've been dealing with one systems problem after another since walking in this morning, it seems I am now the fucking Systems Help Desk - fucking ME? Things just now seem to have settled down.


So you all know, you know I don't know shit - so you must understand how fucking frustrating fixing shit you know very little about can be. I'm a fucking Broadcast Tech for christ sakes, a TV producer - and here I am, because of downsizing - the damn help desk.

It's taken more than half my day and I have a real, my real job - TV show this evening.

I totally understand.

 

[Expertise]

Warranty work KM, and the OLF is flat rate. Bastards!!

The only consolation was getting to play around in the snow with an Excursion for a half an hour.

Damn those thigs are big. But since I can't afford one I called it a grossly oversized penis extender.