Thread: How to excell in business- rant..

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Was he a Yank, no one calls people here dude do they?

Almost certainly a 'Gen zzzzz'.(ie. half a sleep, when awake!!)

Us oldies grew up on a diet of Aussie shows and sitcoms; Aunty Jack, Norman Gunston, Kingswood County, Mother and Son, Hey Dad .. and so on .. so our 'elocution lessons' were learned via the good 'ol Aussie vernacular.
"dude" never really featured in our vocabulary due to a lack of exposure.

Gen zzzzz's on the other hand all learned to speak 'Merican. 'sup .. 'sappn'n ... and dude all feature prominently in US sitcoms.

Originally Posted by AK83

Gen zzzzz's on the other hand all learned to speak 'Merican. 'sup .. 'sappn'n ... and dude all feature prominently in US sitcoms.

Fair suck of the sav, cob.

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

Fair suck of the sav, cob.

I take it you've found your Gen tag Cobber.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

I take it you've found your Gen tag Cobber.

My guess is: The email correspondent was the bosses son, in for work experience. He'll be back in year 10 in a couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

My guess is: The email correspondent was the bosses son, in for work experience. He'll be back in year 10 in a couple of weeks.

Yep, and in the Managing Director chair in a few years!

Originally Posted by AK83

Going by the reply, I have a 99.9% nagging suspicion that this dude was displeased that you're query took him away from his 'Facebook time'.

Had you posted the quiz via facebook(ie. not email!!) .. he'd have been more responsive.

email is point to point, so no one else gets to see the results. He gets no 'cred' answering via email.
Facebook tho is seen by all his e-friends, so he's obliged to respond. He gets lots of likes if he answers via Fb!


it's what the world is descending into, no matter how hard we resist.

I'll counter this by prefacing .

I work in retail .
Manufacturing a product we then sell to the general public .
I have met some really nice people - some are even on here ! Have also had contact with some real winners .

Unfortunatley its not generational when faceache is involved , the new threat is

"Are you on FaceAche " , " Watch Out "

No , comeback , less instant and the internet is forever - at least email will be deleted .

And i'm a fairly mellow person , but it is becoming harder to counter the "me " generations - old and young .

Well, they got my order despite the attitude.
It's a case of time and they were actually cheaper than O/S.. Funny how I was quoting their part numbers off their website too - I don't have any sprockets.
Here was the (edited) reply.

Dave,
Well, I’m an engineer...just not a mechanical engineer, but not knowing the sprocket that you have (the number means nothing to us), for us it would have been a wild guess!
The Sprockets are removable from the motor by bolt and I think they have a key that holds them in place!

I wasn’t meaning to be rude though, we have a lot of unskilled people that ask similar questions and the thought of them fumbling with power tools truly scares me!
That’s why we always push towards visiting someone that has the skills and tooling to do the job! Its nothing personal !

Cheers!
Shane

He seemed to come off his high horse as he thought I am an engineer- I never said I was He is possibly a good engineer but a lousy sales guy... Notice I am Dave now?

David - Dave to my mates

You should have insisted upon henceforth being known as the 'dude-a-rini'.

From the technical questions you asked him...I would have thought it obvious that you weren't unskilled, and did indeed have some idea of what you were talking about.