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June 03, 2014, 09:55:47 PM
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Long rant
I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
Anyone else out there that has their own agent as well? I just need to find comfort in knowing
it doesn't happen to me all the dang time!
2 examples that happened in less than a week.
1) I need a large diameter fuel line hose. Only 1 place carries it in stock and they are about 13 miles away.
Ok good deal! I get there right after they open in the morning. Tell the guy this is what I need..
He than spends the next 20 minutes looking for this hose and coming back to me to show me what they have in stock even though
it isn't what I asked for. He tells me they don't have it and I tell him that I verified the night before, it was there in stock.
It's on the website inventory
So 5 minutes later he find the hose.. Imagine that..
Great I think.. He hands the hose off to another lackey to cut it the length I need. I noticed it wasn't an even cut.
I don't pay much mind to it since I assumed the guy started at the length I needed and cut a little longer (angle side)
I get home get to work and BAM.. the dumarse cut the hose 3/4" too short and the angled side was the actual measurement I needed.
Fortunately I was able to make it somehow work but seriously a 35$ hose needs to be cut right the first time..

2) I'm working on modifying a PSU and I go to the hardware store to pick up supplies.
They have only 2 10 gauge connectors that I need and no more in stock.. WTF kind of store is this..
Next I tell the girl working I need some 12 awg cable and how many feet of it.
I pay for my items go home and guess what? I get (1) 12 awg wire and (1) 14 awg wire..
WTF!!!!

Seriously this crap happens on almost a weekly basis.
I know shit happens right?
Every dam day here..

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June 03, 2014, 10:41:43 PM
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Have faith in god and things will get better.

Dank's law: anything that can go right will go right.

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June 04, 2014, 12:56:22 AM
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Dank is better at making laws than most politicians
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June 04, 2014, 01:53:04 AM
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I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
That's actually Finagle's Law. Murphy's law is "If there is a right way and a wrong way of doing something, someone will do it the wrong way." Murphy was an optimist.

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June 04, 2014, 02:44:05 AM
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Murphy law can be even more radical: if something can go wrong, it will, at the worst possible moment and with the most devastating consequences possible.

Some of its corollaries:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. But if we try to do something, they will go from bad to the worst possible.

The chance of the buttered side of the bread falling face down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage:

1) A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.

2) A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

3) A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place

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June 04, 2014, 11:05:46 AM
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I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
That's actually Finagle's Law. Murphy's law is "If there is a right way and a wrong way of doing something, someone will do it the wrong way." Murphy was an optimist.
If it can go wrong it will. that would be me Tongue
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-laws.html
Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment. Finagle. I've ran into him too a few times.
Not as much as Murphy though.

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June 04, 2014, 01:43:55 PM
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Finagle's law is just another bunch of simple corollaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law

The real one, where all things started, is Murphy.

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June 04, 2014, 01:50:53 PM
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I repeatedly get this happening to me all the time, any time I have something that revolves around chance, it always tends to backfire on me, I get round it though by planning carefully and being as systematic as possible in eliminating the chance element, things have been going a lot better since Tongue
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June 04, 2014, 06:33:43 PM
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Long rant
I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
Anyone else out there that has their own agent as well? I just need to find comfort in knowing
it doesn't happen to me all the dang time!
2 examples that happened in less than a week.
1) I need a large diameter fuel line hose. Only 1 place carries it in stock and they are about 13 miles away.
Ok good deal! I get there right after they open in the morning. Tell the guy this is what I need..
He than spends the next 20 minutes looking for this hose and coming back to me to show me what they have in stock even though
it isn't what I asked for. He tells me they don't have it and I tell him that I verified the night before, it was there in stock.
It's on the website inventory
So 5 minutes later he find the hose.. Imagine that..
Great I think.. He hands the hose off to another lackey to cut it the length I need. I noticed it wasn't an even cut.
I don't pay much mind to it since I assumed the guy started at the length I needed and cut a little longer (angle side)
I get home get to work and BAM.. the dumarse cut the hose 3/4" too short and the angled side was the actual measurement I needed.
Fortunately I was able to make it somehow work but seriously a 35$ hose needs to be cut right the first time..

2) I'm working on modifying a PSU and I go to the hardware store to pick up supplies.
They have only 2 10 gauge connectors that I need and no more in stock.. WTF kind of store is this..
Next I tell the girl working I need some 12 awg cable and how many feet of it.
I pay for my items go home and guess what? I get (1) 12 awg wire and (1) 14 awg wire..
WTF!!!!

Seriously this crap happens on almost a weekly basis.
I know shit happens right?
Every dam day here..


Both of the issues seem to be due to lack of communication.  Maybe you could work on better communicating what you need?  Just an idea, think about it and try it, don't hate, I'm the same way when I'm not careful with what I'm saying.  And be mindful - check the hose before you leave the store to see if it's properly cut - these people are probably making close to minimum wage, they don't care.
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June 04, 2014, 07:49:40 PM
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Have faith in god and things will get better.

Dank's law: anything that can go right will go right.

Really? You believe in god?

Guess scamming left and right is okay until you beg jesus for forgiveness and then everything is alright, huh?
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June 04, 2014, 08:34:04 PM
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Have faith in god and things will get better.

Dank's law: anything that can go right will go right.

Really? You believe in god?

Guess scamming left and right is okay until you beg jesus for forgiveness and then everything is alright, huh?

I've never scammed anyone and I only failed one transaction.

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June 04, 2014, 08:36:37 PM
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Anyway, and I'm not saying anything about alleged scams, someone just quoted St. Paul saying that you only have to believe to be assured salvation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=629144.msg7133133#msg7133133

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June 04, 2014, 08:37:40 PM
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Which is correct.  Believing in yourself is all that truly matters.

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June 04, 2014, 08:44:01 PM
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Long rant
I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
Anyone else out there that has their own agent as well? I just need to find comfort in knowing
it doesn't happen to me all the dang time!
2 examples that happened in less than a week.
1) I need a large diameter fuel line hose. Only 1 place carries it in stock and they are about 13 miles away.
Ok good deal! I get there right after they open in the morning. Tell the guy this is what I need..
He than spends the next 20 minutes looking for this hose and coming back to me to show me what they have in stock even though
it isn't what I asked for. He tells me they don't have it and I tell him that I verified the night before, it was there in stock.
It's on the website inventory
So 5 minutes later he find the hose.. Imagine that..
Great I think.. He hands the hose off to another lackey to cut it the length I need. I noticed it wasn't an even cut.
I don't pay much mind to it since I assumed the guy started at the length I needed and cut a little longer (angle side)
I get home get to work and BAM.. the dumarse cut the hose 3/4" too short and the angled side was the actual measurement I needed.
Fortunately I was able to make it somehow work but seriously a 35$ hose needs to be cut right the first time..

2) I'm working on modifying a PSU and I go to the hardware store to pick up supplies.
They have only 2 10 gauge connectors that I need and no more in stock.. WTF kind of store is this..
Next I tell the girl working I need some 12 awg cable and how many feet of it.
I pay for my items go home and guess what? I get (1) 12 awg wire and (1) 14 awg wire..
WTF!!!!

Seriously this crap happens on almost a weekly basis.
I know shit happens right?
Every dam day here..


Both of the issues seem to be due to lack of communication.  Maybe you could work on better communicating what you need?  Just an idea, think about it and try it, don't hate, I'm the same way when I'm not careful with what I'm saying.  And be mindful - check the hose before you leave the store to see if it's properly cut - these people are probably making close to minimum wage, they don't care.
Really you got bad communication out of this?
I don't how much more specific I could have been. I give part numbers I verify it is in stock.
I point to the wire. I say what I wanted explicitly.
No it's just dumbass people who don't give a crap about their job. I don't care if they are making minimum wage.
Just because they make a crap living wage does not excuse poor performance. Hate it? get another job..
Because crap like that should get an employee fired. It sure in the heck doesn't do anything for a repeat customer.


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June 04, 2014, 08:58:09 PM
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Which is correct.  Believing in yourself is all that truly matters.

I think it wasn't enough to believe in your self, you had to believe that Jesus was the Christ.

Anyway, if you see my comment after on the link I posted, you'll confirm that I think this doesn't make sense, not even for a believer. And James, the just, in another epistle, says the opposite of St. Paul (they didn't like each other and were rivals).

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But we are all christ.  Deep down we share the same soul, there is only one consciousness, that which is god, Jesus.  We are all one.

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June 04, 2014, 09:07:47 PM
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If think they argue only for a Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

It seems that we, the other 7 thousands millions, are not invited to be part of them.

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Both of the issues seem to be due to lack of communication.  Maybe you could work on better communicating what you need?  Just an idea, think about it and try it, don't hate, I'm the same way when I'm not careful with what I'm saying.  And be mindful - check the hose before you leave the store to see if it's properly cut - these people are probably making close to minimum wage, they don't care.

Honestly, I've been on the receiving end of this before on the supplier side, most of the time it's an honest mistake but there are times when they're just being annoying about it as well. Going to see if I can translate this for non-Jewellers but I ordered a piece of silver that is cut so it's ready-made for setting setting gemstones ( normally you have to do everything yourself ) but when I got it the wait it was cut was flawed so I couldn't set my gemstones properly using it, sent it back and they noticed the problem right away when I talked to them over the phone and were very reasonable.

Since then I've always made my own custom settings and just used plain silver because that way I know it's correct and it's just down to my own skill, I haven't had any problems since Cheesy the honest ones will always try to fix the problem but if you have to deal with a company full of dicks then there's no point in wasting your time with them or even trying to get a refund because they'll just be unreasonable people.
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June 04, 2014, 10:00:32 PM
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I like how when you search Murphy's law in wikipedia you will get some great connotations. In example military acronyms like SNAFU, FUBAR BUNDY, BOHICA, or FIGMO. Did you guys know all this? Cheesy Pretty awesome.


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June 04, 2014, 11:07:15 PM
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I think sometimes Murphy's law is observed in practice due to poor planning/knowledge and low confidence.

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