[Echo]

So this female engineer wants to use my lab printer for some testing. I spent the last 2 days getting the printer ready for her test, calibrating, adding test instrumentation, etc. I'm almost done. She just called me and said she wants to start the test. Here's the conversation:

Her: Is the machine ready for the test?

Me: Not quite, I just need to finish cleaning the paper path sensors.

Her: Can it run IOI?

Me: Yes, I calibrated IOI.

Her: So we could start the IOI part of the test?

Me: No, I need to finish cleaning the paper path sensors.

Her: Does it pass the xerographic setup routine?

Me: Yes, I made sure that works.

Her: So we could start the xerographic setup part of the test?

Me: No, I need to finish cleaning the paper path sensors.

Her: Are all the convergence settings turned on?

Me: Yes. The printer is almost completely ready for the test, I just need to finish cleaning the paper path sensors.

Her: So we could start the convergence part of the test?

Me: No. I need to finish cleaning the paper path sensors.

Finally she got it :mumble:

 

[stinkyboy]

Is that how engineers flirt?

 

[Westy]

Have you finished cleaning the paper path sensors?

 

[Echo]

Have you finished cleaning the paper path sensors?

It might take a while actually, since she pissed me off... I think I'll oppress monkeys for a while instead of working

 

[LordOpie]

Is that how engineers flirt?

hahhahahaa.

Well,, uhh, is it?

It might take a while actually, since she pissed me off... I think I'll oppress monkeys for a while instead of working

At least you haven't lost your sense of humor. By the way, is her name Heather? Just wondering if my ex got a job there.

 

[Trainwreck]

It might take a while actually, since she pissed me off... I think I'll oppress monkeys for a while instead of working

Good choice! That's our typical helpdesk response.

 

[RhinofromWA]

Engineer huh?

That explains it....try talking to a Sales person lately? Not a retail person but a make more commission then they know what to do with kinda sales person. The kind that heard they have a computer but have never seen it.

It is like talking to a brick wall if it has nothing to do with what makes them $$$. It is like everything aroudn them happens magically....:mumble: Maybe I am just venting?

 

[kizzi77]

I still don't get why she couldn't start printing until you finish cleaning the paper path sensors. Girls are problem solvers. There has to be SOME way for us to do what we need to do

 

[TreeSaw]

LOL....some women

 

[I Are Baboon]

So how long does it take to clean paper path sensors? Can't you just blow on it?

 

[DHS]

echo needs a shot from Dr. Beam

 

[DRB]

It might take a while actually, since she pissed me off... I think I'll oppress monkeys for a while instead of working

That's why the cheerleader thread got locked. Bastid.

I find that hanging up the phone in that situation is the best solution. But hang up in the middle of yourself talking. No one would ever suspect that you did it on purpose.

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

I cant believe I got to post #9 without....





















Is she hot?

 

[RhinofromWA]

I cant believe I got to post #9 without....





















Is she hot?

Errr, uhhmmmm.....

You are showing #13 on my display.

 

[DRB]

Or just tell her it keeps saying "PC load letter".

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

Errr, uhhmmmm.....

You are showing #13 on my display.

Sorry someone called my office, and I was a slow poster

 

[LordOpie]

So how long does it take to clean paper path sensors? Can't you just blow on it?

wow, what's wrong with you?

You don't just blow on it, you first gotta stroke the rollers, play with the gears, make sure you've got the paper inserted in the right direction.

You have to take your time.

 

[RhinofromWA]

Tell her to just hit print....and that you don't care anymore. May god have mercy on her soul.

Then hang up.

 

[Echo]

That's why the cheerleader thread got locked. Bastid.

Not guilty!

 

[Echo]

So how long does it take to clean paper path sensors? Can't you just blow on it?

Most people have never seen a printer like this - most likely there isn't a room in your house that it would fit in. It has a LOT of sensors, and they all have to be removed to clean. Actually I'm done now, but I'm gonna wait a bit before I call her

 

[kidwoo]

LOL....some women

Yeah I still can't believe we ever let them vote.

 

[stinkyboy]

Actually I'm done now, but I'm gonna wait a bit before I call her

Tease her a bit huh?

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

Actually I'm done now, but I'm gonna wait a bit before I call her

Can you have her send a picture while you are at it?

 

[Konabumm]

how much is she getting paid... too much it shoulds like

 

[pixelninja]

Engineer huh?

That explains it....try talking to a Sales person lately? Not a retail person but a make more commission then they know what to do with kinda sales person. The kind that heard they have a computer but have never seen it.

You mean like the sales guy here who would put all his important documents in the "Recycle Bin" because he thought it freed up space on his hard drive?

It is like everything aroudn them happens magically....

The word is "automagically"

 

[allsk8sno]

yay for engineers!! i hope i am not that dumb in another month and week ....

 

[RhinofromWA]

yay for engineers!! i hope i am not that dumb in another month and week ....

I hear each diploma comes with a full frontal lombotamy (Sp? it would seem I had one too )

 

[binary visions]

I hear each diploma comes with a full frontal lombotamy (Sp? it would seem I had one too )

A lombotamy? Maybe you meant "lambadamy", where your ability to do the Brazillian dance is removed

Or maybe you meant lobotomy

 

[RhinofromWA]

A lombotamy? Maybe you meant "lambadamy", where your ability to do the Brazillian dance is removed

Or maybe you meant lobotomy

What does this have to do with wolves? Lobos....geesh!

PS- good one BV

 

[Slugman]

Some people just need things spelled out for them - next time just say "nothing can start until I clean the paper path sensor".

Granted if she is supposed to know everything about the printer than you shouldn't have to. However if she is just an end user maybe she didn't understand how everything was related... and that was your job to explain.









Is it obvious tha I'm an engineer?

 

[Barbaton]

I talk to the customers so the engineers don't have to

 

[BigMike]

So what kind of printer is this?

 

[Skeg]

so.....





Have you cleaned the paper path sensors yet???

 

[binary visions]

I think the only real option here is to administer The Shocker and see if she still cares about the paper path sensors afterwards...

 

[Westy]

A lombotamy? Maybe you meant "lambadamy", where your ability to do the Brazillian dance is removed

Or maybe you meant lobotomy

Once you become an engineer, the forbidden dance is truly forbidden.

 

[Echo]

So I just called her and told her the printer is ready. Now she says she wants to delay the start of the test for 2 weeks :mumble:

And yes, she is sort of hot.

 

[DRB]

I think the only real option here is to administer The Shocker and see if she still cares about the paper path sensors afterwards...

If the Shocker doesn't change her thinking then an angry pirate might be useful.

 

[splat]

How the converstion should have gone !

Her: Is the machine ready for the test?

Me: No

Hang up phone

Engineers think in Binary either Yes or No.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I still don't get why she couldn't start printing until you finish cleaning the paper path sensors. Girls are problem solvers. There has to be SOME way for us to do what we need to do

Go behind the bushes.

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

And yes, she is sort of hot.

Well this changes EVERYTHING

:nuts: