New job, new woes.

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

Yesterday was my first day at a 'solid' job/contract. It's not much, but I need the money. I feel like it's a sweatshop. I have yet still to iron out the contract details and sign anything. Basic 1099, $10/hr trial run then he 'hopefully' ups it. (I'll make sure to point that out in the contract. Hope runs far but gets you nowhere in life.)

He makes it a point to clean out a laptop that had minimal dust in it. I usually use an air-compressor (if one is available) or a CO2 cartridge (because 'canned air' freezes and leaves a residue). He told me no, that they 'have water in them'. His solution? he blew into it a few times. (Mouths don't contain water, I forgot. Doh!)

Before he did this though, he had me disassemble the laptop, and take out the heatsink just so he could quickly blow on that too. A waste of time. Dells are impossible to get to the fan. I wasted 20 mins.

So, he wanted to put the heatsink back on, and brought me a full tube of silver compound.

He used the WHOLE tube.

I... I tried to stop him, but he just ignored me.

When I told him a few months ago I SAW a motherboard FRY (it left a HOLE though the motherboard!) he retorted with "It can't do that, where did you hear that from?"

I then took it too the back and it looked like a mini sculpture, about an inch high. I did my best to 'scoop' it off, making my hands silver.

He's scaring the shit out of me. Someone will buy a laptop from him, leave it on overnight, and their house will prolly catch fire. I'd like to find a few good pictures, lectures, horror stories, and tutorials to shove in his face, but google's being a bitch. Someone help me out?

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[ofstarstuff.livejournal.com]

Ticket from rival cable $ISP, where a friend works. Mind you, this ticket was filled by one of the customer service reps at $ISP store.

Customer has 8Mb service. Customer has 7Mb access. Please send tech to bring customer the missing 1Mb.

There. are. no. words.