My coworker is a dick

"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb)
11/14/2015 at 23:13 • Filed to: None

This is his bike. \rant/ after the break.

So there’s this coworker at the shop who somehow has a PH.D. in some sort of degree that deals in the human mind. While I’m doing a post-sale tune up on a bike, said PHD coworker says to me “If you did a better job on the Test Ride Tune Up, you’d wouldn’t have to spend as much time on the Post-Sale Tune Up”. I didn’t even do the test ride tune up on that bike. I was working on some other bike. In my view, I do a pretty good and fast job on my bike tune ups. I do it to the point and I do it fast so there’s no clog ups.

I got pissed, so I finished what I was doing and left the shop area to help out a few customers on sales. I managed to get to get 3 customers on board to seriously consider buying a bike. Mind you, this coworker is the main mechanic. And he’s slow at his job. For Christs, he spent 45 minutes today for no reason at all on truing some random bike’s wheel. So he got the brute of the force. Normally, I would assist and divide up the labor so we wouldn’t be swamped. And I’d rescue his ass because he’d take too long of a time. He got swamped. He had to get help, which one of the sales guys did help him with. Serves him right.

Now I’m looking through our supplier ordering catalog order overview (I also liken this to his pornography, as he looks at bike parts he can’t afford and he moans sensually about them) and I see he put a personal item (it’s a red boutique anodized bottle cage and we have fuck tons of bottle cages in the store) on the shopping cart. This particular supplier doesn’t include employee sales. Hm. Hm. Hmmm...

DISCUSSION (18)

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/14/2015 at 23:26

I’m picturing a douche on that bike blocking the road ahead of my Z.... I hate him.

TheJWT > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/14/2015 at 23:30

Kinja'd!!!

One more car for me

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > TheJWT
11/14/2015 at 23:42

Oh, you won't. He takes the bus. He ride maybe 5 miles of his 25 mile round trip commute.

tromoly > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/14/2015 at 23:45

QBP’s website catalogue is intoxicating, whenever I’d talk about a bike build with my brother he’d pull up their catalog and we’d spend way too much time getting just the right components selected.

Xyl0c41n3 > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/14/2015 at 23:56

Why is his front fender so fucking far away from the tire?

And why does he need a (single) red anodized bottle cage when it looks like he’s already got two?

And where the fuck is his tail light? (They're required in my state. Or at the very least, a red reflector).

michaeljamhar > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/15/2015 at 00:04

lol yeah well just look at all his steer tube spacers!

Anon > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/15/2015 at 00:30

You have to admit, his Soma’s pretty legit!

JGrabowMSt > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/15/2015 at 01:10

“One less car” sticker = one less fuck I give.

More to the point, let him dig his own grave. It sounds like hes off to a great start. I wouldnt lose an ounce of sleep over it.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Xyl0c41n3
11/15/2015 at 01:12

Based on the observations, he is running the “2 minute install time” front fender instead of the “1.5 hr install time” infinitely adjustable fenders that I would use to eliminate that dreaded gap. Or he went and bought those at a overpriced mark up because it had some brand name.

Correction: he had 2 on the shopping list. I really don’t know. They guy has a intimate connection with his bike. It’s named Shadow . Shadow has a theme of red and black. Maybe it’s like wearing a red top and black pants (or vice versa).

His tail light is one that produces many lumens. One is mounted on the seat post (it’s fred specific) and one was supposed to be on the back of the rack, but I guess he removed it. I guess 10 lumens.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > tromoly
11/15/2015 at 01:14

Yeah, but I think your brother doesn’t spend work hours on the clock (rhetorically) masturbating to some siiiick Thompson stems or some (sexy) red bottom brackets. But to be honest, any QBP/BTI/J&B catalog is AMAZINGBALLS.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > JGrabowMSt
11/15/2015 at 01:15

Thanks!

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > michaeljamhar
11/15/2015 at 01:21

THEY’RE ALL ANODIZED THAT MAKES MY BIKE LIGHTER CAN’T YOU SEE?

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/15/2015 at 15:09

“So there’s this coworker at the shop who somehow has a PH.D. in some sort of degree that deals in the human mind.”

Does this guy also have a 2nd job working at Starbucks?

LOL

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
11/15/2015 at 15:38

Thank god not.

Mattbob > Anon
11/16/2015 at 07:46

except for the whole “one less car” sticker. That sticker alone paints a picture in my head of how big of a douche this guy is.

Bouldaru > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/16/2015 at 12:52

I used to work at performance bike as a salesman (but I have tons of mechanical skills, as evidenced by me currently working as a bike mechanic for CU Boulder)... The shop manager decided the shop was “his shop” and kicked me out every time I came in to grab an allen key to adjust seats or whatever. He even threatened to fight me multiple times. The store manager did nothing about it, just telling me to tell the shop manager to fuck off. There’s a reason I don’t work for the company anymore

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Bouldaru
11/16/2015 at 16:48

Performance puts way too much trust in what people they have. They put me on the first 3 months of my job (when I was starting out) as the only person at the shop. They put millions collectively in the hands of 11.00/hr workers. The managers are under submission with their district manager. And some people are so protective of their duties...even if they can't do it themselves

Bouldaru > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/16/2015 at 22:01

The bureaucracy in the company is unreal