Surreal Borg Experience

[RonB]

We can only hope that the bastards who design the impenetrable plastic packaging get to spend their afterlife opening that crap with butter knives.

RonB

[Ed Pawlowski]

Most can be opened easily with a can opener. The manual kind you squeeze and turn the handle. See it here

[Matt]

What kind of tool is needed to open the package the package opening tool comes in?

I find the packaging that has evolved today is often bizzarre some is as described - tough plasic that is hard to open, while others are cardboard packaging that are sealed with a security type tape.

[Lee Michaels]

"Matt" wrote

Exactly.

I got a gift card and decided to get another pair of diagonal cutters. It is tool I need from time to time and they vanish from the earth around here for some reason. I have one pair near my workbench. I buy this new cutter, in bright neon colors so I can SEE it, and get it home. And what do you know, I needed the other diagonal cutters to cut the new pair of of its package.

I assume when buying this new package opening tool, you have to take your life in your hands to open this safety device.

Ironic, eh?

[upscale]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:04:26 -0500, "Lee Michaels"

Nah! It's only ineptness on the part of most.

[Juan Trippe]

Not one with any sympathy for the big borgs unfriendliness, but you did get your padlock. They probably had the best crew they could get when everyone else is closed. Credit where it's due, they've gotten me out of a few jams too.

Happy New Year

[LDosser]

How did you get the package open?

[Lew Hodgett]

Whatever happened to your basic avaition snips?

Take your choice, left, right, center.

No wait, that's an NPR program.

Lew

[Morris Dovey]

I've found that my band saw is an effective opener for that kind of packaging...

[Leon]

IIRC they are held to the package with twist wire ties or zip ties.

[Leon]

The blade is spring loaded, you have to hold it in the open position otherwise it springs back closed.

If these things hurt you you have other problems. LOL

[Mike Marlow]

The problem with that is that the checkout points are all monitored by video camera, and a quick review of the transaction process would almost assuredly have indicated some pretty serious exaggeration on Lee's part.

Your point though, is well taken. Most people don't complain to management in businesses, because the event was really not as bad as the way they describe it in forums like this, where it's fashionable to write about horror stories. Of course the horror stories always include the claim that the subject of the post was patient, polite, respectful, etc., and the BORG folks were incompetent, rude, dazed, etc. Genuine bad experiences should indeed be reported to management. Right on the spot is better than using web or email services. That does require though, that the complainer have the right personal qualities to face those he's accusing and stand accountable for his claims against someone else. Far easier to just come to a place like this and rant on and on.

[Larry Jaques]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:47:48 -0600, the infamous "Leon" scrawled the following:

There is a lock on it and I'd be willing to bet that most people would use it while they work if it's more than one slash they need. I'll bet these guys get sued over it by some idiot who loses a little finger.

Suicidal tendencies?

-- It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:04:53 -0800 (PST), the infamous RonB scrawled the following:

Them and the shoplifters and thieves who drove mfgrs to use that kind of packaging to avert loss at the stores.

-- It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:09:06 -0800, the infamous "Lew Hodgett" scrawled the following:

I picked up another bundle of 3 when they were on sale for $10 earlier this year. I couldn't find my righties. I keep the straights in the truck.

Har! There's nothing but Left on NPR, sir.

-- It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor

[Larry Jaques]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:06:11 -0600, the infamous Morris Dovey scrawled the following:

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz...Oops, that was one of the handles. Damn.

-- It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor

[Lew Hodgett]

Bullshit.

That crap didn't work with Trickey Dickie when he tried it and it doesn't work today when you try it.

Lew

[Robatoy]

NPR seems to be the polar opposite to Fox News. (The only difference being that NPR doesn't fabricate their news)

No siree... I stay firmly in the middle with my news sources. Fark.com

[notbob]

LOL....

Look for "center" aviation snips in cooking section, labeled "kitchen shears".

nb

[Swingman]

Didn't know that Dan Rather worked for FN??

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