First World Problems

2014-12-08 21:34:49

#5976

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +641|3964

Because dealers actually guarantee their work and have people who are constantly trained and updated. At a dealer, if your car is still messed up after you get it serviced, you can come straight back and they will correct it for free and apologize too. You pay for what you get.

2014-12-08 22:22:02

#5977

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +691|6535|Washington St.

by "guarantee their work" do you mean a warranty? I have that for my alignment. It's 6 months/6 thousand miles. Ill go to a different goodyear next week when i have time and ask the if they can do it because it has issues. If they make me go back to the original I will, it's just nowhere close to where I live.

and no, I don't want some 21 year old just out of mechanic school working on my car. they also use OEM parts and charge $209348/hr because they think they're the only people certified to work on cars and have to do everything by their brand of cars book. most mechanics can fix things with aftermarket parts and don't have to spend hours doing it.

I didn't go to a dealership because I don't want to spend $400 to have an alignment done with lasers when a normal shop can use normal tools for $80. I just didn't think this POS shop was gonna specifically turn the one wheel I said I had changed the control arm on as opposed to doing the actual alignment.

2014-12-09 00:47:43

#5978

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,741|6981|Cinncinatti

was it really only 80

2014-12-09 05:21:09

#5979

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7073

That sounds about right. My girlfriend just had her Subaru aligned for $85.

2014-12-09 23:32:27

#5980

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6961|Riva, MD

Some smaller places do it for less, my local shop does it for $70 but they're such shady fuckers that I wouldn't do it anyway. I had my alignment on my old car done at NTB for $85, that's probably where I would go again, and I might go soon since my new car seems to have the slightest pull to the left. Most people I know go to Sears but I've heard bad things about their alignments like what happened at GoodYear to Pirana where they fuck it up and you either have to keep going till they get it right or take the loss and bring it somewhere else.

2014-12-10 02:03:28

#5981

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,815|6350|eXtreme to the maX

I went to one place were the guy jacked the car up on the gearbox with a hydraulic jack, then worked underneath it without propping it.

It was really cheap.

Fuck Israel

2014-12-10 08:21:56

#5982

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +691|6535|Washington St.

Dilbert_X wrote:
I went to one place were the guy jacked the car up on the gearbox with a hydraulic jack, then worked underneath it without propping it.

It was really cheap.

The worst part about that is, if something goes wrong because of them, you have to prove it was because of them, not just your already shitty car.

Half the reason I do 75% of my car work myself.

2014-12-10 13:36:41

#5983

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +641|3964

I have a Christmas party for work to go to today. I am being coerced to go. This should be illegal

2014-12-10 13:43:31

#5984

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +691|6535|Washington St.

coercion IS illegal

2014-12-10 18:23:47

#5985

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|6926|Disaster Free Zone

just don't go then.

2014-12-12 06:14:52

#5986

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6961|Riva, MD

Management at my job gave everybody who didn't go all kinds of grief and guilt-tripping last year about not going, I assume there was a poor turnout. Do most companies make a big deal about Christmas parties or something?

2014-12-12 09:41:36

#5987

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +691|6535|Washington St.

companies think what they see on tv is how it should go, or how it goes for other people.

it's not.

christmas parties are generally pretty lame and a waste of time. I never go and have never been told I missed out on anything but food.

2014-12-12 10:02:10

#5988

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +641|3964

The worst part was that it was on a Wednesday. We had an open bar but had to work the morning after.

2014-12-12 11:14:42

#5989

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6876|949

You guys don't have raffles and prizes and gifts at your company parties?

2014-12-12 11:16:31

#5990

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +691|6535|Washington St.

we have food and middle-aged people talking about work... when they're not at work. ill pass thanks.

2014-12-12 11:34:49

#5991

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +641|3964

We had a raffle for a flat screen and some paid vacation last year. Nothing this time. I think the boss blew the budget on the high class Italian restaurant we went to. It was a really nice place but am I supposed to be impressed by that? Might as well been at Chucky Cheese for all I care.

2014-12-12 14:23:03

#5992

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7073

Ungrateful Bastard

2014-12-12 15:47:04

#5993

DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +796|6929|United States of America

For some reason the Christmas party for my group is happening Monday, which is before several departments go into shutdown, so those of us on off-shifts are getting shafted. I suppose it's fair enough, in that I was able to go to several celebrations for things to which I contributed nothing last year.

2014-12-13 15:09:21

#5994

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,054|6867|Little Bentcock

We had our christmas party yesterday. We had a bbq and beer and jetskis. I don't know what you guys are complaining about.

2014-12-14 08:14:42

#5995

globefish23: sophisticated slacker; +334|6568|Graz, Austria

Can't complain about my Christmas party.

That's the old Graz university from 1607, made into a venue with fancy catering.

2014-12-14 15:33:21

#5996

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|7016|PNW

globefish23 wrote:
Can't complain about my Christmas party.

That's the old Graz university from 1607, made into a venue with fancy catering.

So were you sorted into Hufflepuff or Gryffindor?

2014-12-14 16:22:43

#5997

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,741|6981|Cinncinatti

its un

2014-12-15 02:13:38

#5998

globefish23: sophisticated slacker; +334|6568|Graz, Austria

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
globefish23 wrote:
Can't complain about my Christmas party.

That's the old Graz university from 1607, made into a venue with fancy catering.
So were you sorted into Hufflepuff or Gryffindor?

Endocrinology

2014-12-22 11:43:29

#5999

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +641|3964

I want to join the national guard but can't. I would be a lieutenant. Lt. Macbeth. That would be great.

2014-12-22 12:36:50

#6000

DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +796|6929|United States of America

Why not, exactly?

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