Why oh why...

.. is there always a storeman who knows better than anyone else?

I went to the local lawnmower/garden tools shop and asked for a new chain for my Partner chain saw.

Storeman: Have you got a chain already? Me: Err yes, you see I own a chainsaw, the one I'm buying the chain for. SM: You won't need a new one then, bring the old one if for sharpening. Me: I'd still like to buy a new chain. SM: I've told you you don't need one, bring the old one in. Me: Do you have any of the chains in stock. SM: Yes. Me: Good, I'll take one. SM: You don't need it. Everyone thinks the chain is worn out when it goes blunt but you can resharpen it. You amateurs, you know you have a lot to learn about tools. Me: I need a new chain, if I buy a new one I can keep using the saw while the chain is being resharpened. I tell you what, I'll buy one somewhere else.

So I did, at SCATS.

Sod it, for a moment there I thought I had met IMM in real life. Pigheaded, stupid and unwilling to listen to anyone else.

Reply to
Steve Firth
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I would have said to you buy two chains at twice the normal price and have the old thrown away. I would have also have called the police, as such dangerous tools in the hands of fools is something they like to know.

Reply to
IMM

Alternative ending: SF: Oh alright then, can you sharpen this one ? SM: Certainly mate. Just a few details. Your name is... SF: Leatherface.

SM: Ere you can't do tha..

Fade to red.

Reply to
John Laird

I really wish you wouldn't make me laugh out loud in the office when I'm supposed to be working.

Reply to
Ric

[snip amusing story]

I'm a little nervous about the way that chains stretch. It makes me think that the next thing will be a snap. One re-sharpen and it is time for a new one. Fairly cheap if you can find an old fashioned hardware shop that keeps chains on the reel, cut to length as req'd.

Reply to
Tony Williams

Err, at the risk of asking a daft question, how do *you* sharpen your chainsaw blade? Whenever I saw it being done (specialist tree cutters, full time work) it was always done on the saw. Ten minutes filing with a suitable guide and file. With guys doing it full time, chains were subjected to really heavy use, and weren't replaced that frequently.

Reply to
Wanderer

Switch off the Internet, then :-)

Reply to
John Laird

Could you see a car salesman doing that? "Nah mate, you don't want a new car - you just want a set of seat covers, oil change, bit of a polish up....."

Si

Reply to
Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot

LOL!

It was his approach which was wrong, wasn't it. I mean much of what he said is right but he shouldn't have said that about having to learn about tools, he had no idea of your knowledge. You were the customer, you're always right even when you're wrong.

Well, that's how I am with our customers :-)

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

And will sell you one :-)

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

Take the chain around the corner to Big Dave and tell him to let me have it back when it's sharp.

Reply to
Steve Firth

Is a phone a "dangerous tool"? Still I suppose they may nick you for the hell of it.... ;-)

Reply to
John Rumm

This is the classic storeman.

You made the fundamental mistake. Stores are for putting things in, not for taking them out.

Many years ago when I worked for a well known but nameless electronics company, the storeman was exactly like that. He knew that he had the power of life and death over young engineers and exploited it to the Nth degree.

His staff also lived in fear and trembling of him and of course he treated them as if they were something stuck to his shoe.

However, his most famous exploit led to his downfall.

One autumn a young apprentice was assigned to him to learn how to be a storeman. Unfortunately, in the case of this young man, "the lift didn't quite go to the top floor".

It was stocktaking time and the young apprentice was given the task of counting the contents of bins of nuts and bolts. Of course there was a weighing machine for this, but the storeman told him to count them one by one. When lunchtime came, the apprentice asked what he should do and was told that he had to clear everything up before leaving his table, so he put the items that he had been counting back in the bin. He then started again after lunch.

The following day, the production manager (storeman's boss) came around to see the storeman and to ask how the apprenctice was getting on. The storeman and other staff told the production manager about the clearing up story, having a good laugh about it.

The expression on the storeman's face was a classic when the production manager told him that the young man was his nephew...........

.andy

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Reply to
Andy Hall

Ah! The ultimate in nepotism :-)

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

Hi,

Looks like you met your double there! ;))) Can they sharpen them while U wait BTW?

cheers, Pete.

Reply to
Pete C

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