PRO TIP: If you don’t know shit about electronics, don’t try your hand at a repair job just to see if you can figure it out. Secondly, don’t make this attempt while you’re high or drunk. Lastly, don’t ask me to fix the broken clusterfuck that you actually made worse! I’d suggest asking me if you should do something before you fuck it up and make it worse. I don’t do this shit as a hobby, I do this out of my own necessity, not to impress anybody. I’m not a teenager anymore.
I guess maybe drugs and alcohol aren’t solely the cause of this. I remember about 10 years ago, my girlfriend thought she’d try her hand at taking her carpet shampooer apart and couldn’t figure out how to put it back together. I followed her to this spare bedroom to take a look – and there were parts and screws everywhere! No idea what part or screw came from where, and the manual was long gone so there was no exploded view diagram…I was expected to fix this.
There’s no way that I’d ever start up a business doing electronic or computer repair. Too many idiots in this world too full of confidence. Ever seen those signs in a mechanic’s shop where they state their hourly rates based on various rather humorous conditions? The highest rate is always due to you working on your car before you took it to the mechanic. The rates in my shop would also include a special rate for just how incoherent your explanation of the problem actually is.
This is just as bad as those people who get a random pimple in their ear and go look up their symptoms on WebMD, and 30 minutes later arrive at the conclusion that they only have 30 days left to live. Sadly, people I know who I always took to be relatively intelligent, regularly do this exact thing. They’re the same people who encounter a minor computer hiccup, they Google the problem, then fall for the first paid ad search result, and now the computer needs to be reformatted.
So, here I am, staring at a 3D printer that looks like it got hit by a tornado. This guy tells me that there was a problem with the fan on the print head section, but everything else that’s not even related to that fan is torn apart. However, getting even that much of an explanation of the original problem was as painful as listening to a toddler telling a story. What I have here is the equivalent of going in for a tune-up, but the mechanic decides to simply castrate you instead.
I’m seriously losing faith in common sense ever making a comeback. This is what happens when kids are disciplined with time-out rather than ass whoopin when they fuck up shit that costs their parents money to fix. Telling idiot kids “you’re so smart” when they’re clearly not, is what leads to shit like this. Just because he wiped his ass without being told, does not make him “so smart”. Quit encouraging idiots to work on electronic devices that they don’t understand!
NOTE: After re-assembly, nothing was found to be wrong with the printer whatsoever. [FaCePaLm]
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