Background info: Last night I was doing some laundry and my washing machine started smoking really bad and refused to work, I was pretty much out of clean clothes and didn't even get the first load done so I was pretty upset. I called maintenance for my complex this morning and they came out and told me that my washer was dead and that it would take 2 weeks to get a new once in! I REALLY don't have time to go to a laundromat and do my laundry so I was a little distraught at the prospect of not having a washer for 2 weeks.
One of the maintenance workers saw that I'd run cat5 in my apartment and dropped it down through the conduits while he was cleaning the dryer duct and asked if I was good with computers. Normally I just lie so I don't get pulled into doing a bunch of free work for people but it was early in the morning and I guess I was still a little groggy so I told him that I run an IT consulting firm, so naturally he asked if I could fix his computer because it wouldn't connect to the Internet. He seemed like a nice guy so I said I'd take a look at it. He'd already taken it to two shops who told him that the only thing they could do for him was to put XP on it to replace ME, they wanted to charge him $250!
Anyways I get it up on the bench and find out the problem is just an inordinate amount of spyware, so I get spybot running on it and get a little bit of work done, then rebooted all is well, so I hand it back to the guy and he asks me if he owes me anything and I just said, anything you can do to speed along the process on the washer will be appreciated.
My new washer AND dryer are being installed now 😀
Cliffs:
Washing machine broke last night
maintenance said it would take 2 weeks to get a new one
I fix maintenance guys computer and have a new washer and dryer being installed less than 4 hours after they came out 😀
One of the maintenance workers saw that I'd run cat5 in my apartment and dropped it down through the conduits while he was cleaning the dryer duct and asked if I was good with computers. Normally I just lie so I don't get pulled into doing a bunch of free work for people but it was early in the morning and I guess I was still a little groggy so I told him that I run an IT consulting firm, so naturally he asked if I could fix his computer because it wouldn't connect to the Internet. He seemed like a nice guy so I said I'd take a look at it. He'd already taken it to two shops who told him that the only thing they could do for him was to put XP on it to replace ME, they wanted to charge him $250!
Anyways I get it up on the bench and find out the problem is just an inordinate amount of spyware, so I get spybot running on it and get a little bit of work done, then rebooted all is well, so I hand it back to the guy and he asks me if he owes me anything and I just said, anything you can do to speed along the process on the washer will be appreciated.
My new washer AND dryer are being installed now 😀
Cliffs:
Washing machine broke last night
maintenance said it would take 2 weeks to get a new one
I fix maintenance guys computer and have a new washer and dryer being installed less than 4 hours after they came out 😀
