Posted On: Saturday - August 31st 2024 5:51AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Curmudgeonry The Future Customer Care
Cow-g's, pronounced "coe gees"? There are competent young White guys and competent Oriental guys too, but they are not as big in numbers as the contingent that is going away.
It won't be so easy to get your car fixed by a "shade-tree" non-dealer (@ $200/hr) mechanic or find a plumber who does the job right. I refer the reader here to the great 1980s movie Brazil. (It's not that Brazil.) This increasing incompetence is just one of the costs of the Population Replacement Programme. For some of us, there's no getting used to this.
Our mailman retired last Christmas.* He was an Oriental guy - been on this route through our neighborhood and to our house for 20 years. Lately I've seen a new guy who walks half the speed as the previous postman. The new diverse guy or lady - hard to tell because
The late water bill deal was interesting. The 1st time I went in was when the bill just arrived on the due date. Then, another time, they never got my payment, so this was more about the outgoing mail problem. The office is not that far, so I've been twice to pay bills in person. (I know, I should probably get on-line but ... probably won't). The lady in the water dept. office was quite aware of the mail problems. The 2nd time around I did mention that "well, the other outgoing bill I left there the same day DID make it, so... maybe you've got problems here." Diversity is everywhere, so it's a tough call.
I now consider outgoing mail service unreliable, so anything half-way important goes to the local P.O. when I'm on the way somewhere.
A missing bank statement - gotta reconcile the transactions - prompted me to go to a new bank branch I'd never been in. This place has the thick - I'd say 1 1/4" - plexiglas all over, unlike the wide open usual place. The black lady behind all that seemed distracted and possibly worthless at first, but she turned out pretty competent in getting me a couple of months worth of printouts.
I explained to her that I needed this because our mailman had retired and "the mail sucks now". I couldn't help myself: "You know, affirmative action and all..." I don't have any idea how that went back and forth through the 1 1/4" plexiglas!
PS: I imagine this is part of the reason that people go online for their transactions and lots else now. Then too, software is getting diversified too. I've seen this - we've all seen this. See the picture above? My auto mechanic friend orders on-line a lot and has been getting too many wrong parts lately. Is it software, the data itself that's been entered wrong, or the people who pull the parts off the shelves? It's incompetence any which way.
* He told me he was retiring early due to the extra load of the Amazon packages, which he didn't sign up for when he started this as a young man. Their blue-gray vans used to come into this area but don't now.
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Modrator
Monday - September 2nd 2024 4:33AM MST
PS: OK, Alarmist, I"ll change the post title... of the one 2 posts back. That's a good one!
The Alarmist
Sunday - September 1st 2024 3:55AM MST
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Remember the days when dropping a tranny wasn’t a hate crime ?
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Remember the days when dropping a tranny wasn’t a hate crime ?
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Moderator
Saturday - August 31st 2024 8:13PM MST
PS: Thanks for the illustrative anecdote, Old Soldier. I would hope the 1st young kid apologized to you afterwards. Or, you told him "no charge for the work on your TRACTOR."
I'm glad you fixed his viola too, while you were at it, or did I get that wrong. ;-}
I didn't grow up in a particularly mechanically inclined family, but I did most of those jobs when I was in my 30s. The cars were easier to work on, though, at least the old ones I had (and have).
Agreed, Car Issues.
OK, got it, Alarmist. Thanks.
I'm glad you fixed his viola too, while you were at it, or did I get that wrong. ;-}
I didn't grow up in a particularly mechanically inclined family, but I did most of those jobs when I was in my 30s. The cars were easier to work on, though, at least the old ones I had (and have).
Agreed, Car Issues.
OK, got it, Alarmist. Thanks.
Old Soldier
Saturday - August 31st 2024 5:47PM MST
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I talked to a couple of young guys, maybe 18 years old, in a grocery store a couple of months ago. They were talking about engine problems, skipping, sputtering, etc. I mentioned the spark plugs, one said "we're not talking about a tractor, old timer." I said OK. The other one said it was smoking a lot, but still wanted me to look under the hood...a spark plug wire was off so I reattached it, VIOLA...no more skipping. Geez, when I was 16, I was putting in 3/4 cams, replacing timing chains (yes, they were CHAINS in those days), water pumps and fuel pumps and thought that stuff was easy. Nowadays, you see these kids driving their parent's electric vehicles pulling in to gas stations trying to figure it out. This world is hurting for functional brain cells...
I talked to a couple of young guys, maybe 18 years old, in a grocery store a couple of months ago. They were talking about engine problems, skipping, sputtering, etc. I mentioned the spark plugs, one said "we're not talking about a tractor, old timer." I said OK. The other one said it was smoking a lot, but still wanted me to look under the hood...a spark plug wire was off so I reattached it, VIOLA...no more skipping. Geez, when I was 16, I was putting in 3/4 cams, replacing timing chains (yes, they were CHAINS in those days), water pumps and fuel pumps and thought that stuff was easy. Nowadays, you see these kids driving their parent's electric vehicles pulling in to gas stations trying to figure it out. This world is hurting for functional brain cells...
The Alarmist
Saturday - August 31st 2024 2:52PM MST
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Europe. My US postal carrier, last I saw him, was a middle-aged large-girthed White Dude. I wonder how long that will last.
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Europe. My US postal carrier, last I saw him, was a middle-aged large-girthed White Dude. I wonder how long that will last.
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car issues
Saturday - August 31st 2024 2:27PM MST
PS Even dealers have problems with parts ordering. They will tell you how hard it is to find younger people wanting to be car mechanics, even at an escalating pay rate. Same issue in the parts department where shade tree knowledge and general all-around awareness of mechanical items is fading.
Moderator
Saturday - August 31st 2024 1:32PM MST
PS: I don't mean to pry too much, but is that diversity replacement situation in across the pond, or in the Sunshine State, Alarmist? Same situation, I see.
The Alarmist
Saturday - August 31st 2024 12:40PM MST
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My local postal carrier was replaced with an African import; I now only get mail twice a week, and rarely all that I am supposed to receive.
Foreward !
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My local postal carrier was replaced with an African import; I now only get mail twice a week, and rarely all that I am supposed to receive.
Foreward !
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Adam Smith
Saturday - August 31st 2024 7:42AM MST
PS: Good morning, Achmed!
The problem with 50 year old White guys is that they aren't inspirational or diverse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA__7i99KU4
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/why-stockton-rush-didnt-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-for-titanic-sub-tours/
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The problem with 50 year old White guys is that they aren't inspirational or diverse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA__7i99KU4
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/why-stockton-rush-didnt-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-for-titanic-sub-tours/
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