Customer had a complaint, and I got hosed....

"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
06/12/2014 at 15:27 • Filed to: Worklopnik

We supply a tier one automotive supplier with some material for an end use I didn't develop the product for. No one told me this until I get an email forwarded to me where they want my blood because they threw me under the bus as "The guy who developed it". I guess they have a quality sheet they need to send to their end customer, one of the major automakers, and apparently we haven't been filling out that form correctly....

I'm still not sure what the problem they have is. The person on the phone has the thickest indian accent I've ever heard and the only person he's spoken to about this issue is.....Our salesman! Which is great! Because, obviously, salespeople have great technical backgrounds.....And thanks to the thick accent, I thought I was agreeing to just a morning phone meeting tomorrow but I apparently agreed to fill out the paperwork correctly for our most recent lot and have it set and ready to go before the meeting.........Shit.

So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to work inefficiently at this for an hour or two and try and dump this shit on someone else delegate some of this before I go home and walk over to a bar with a mug club for 2$ craft beer drafts.

Because I'm looking forward to beer tonight, and Le Mans this weekend, have a beer sponsored Porsche 962.

DISCUSSION (16)

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 15:30

"Beer"

;)

505Turbeaux > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 15:33

shit Ill raise a pint or 2 for you tonight too. Just cuz

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
06/12/2014 at 15:33

Miller High Life chemically resembles beer!

Miller LITE chemically resembles a beer drinker's piss.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 15:34

Sounds like a problem for the guy who collects a commission on the sale of said material, or fails to collect when the sale goes away.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 15:35

I use High Life when I don't have Pacifico for beer brats. That's it. lol

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
06/12/2014 at 15:36

No, I don't trust him to know how to read some of these forms. I would've had no problems helping them out a few weeks back when this started but now? We need it solved by the end of the week or we're going to be holding up the supplier and in turn, possibly holding up car production. So I need to finish the forms tonight and get them sent out to the customer who can then send them to the automaker who can THEN file them away in case there's a recall or a problem....And people wonder why cars are so difficult and expensive to make.

CRider > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 15:39

For some reason, "Porsche" and "Miller High Life" don't go together very well.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 15:40

At least have him pick up the bar tab then. tell it it's to get the tire marks off your back.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
06/12/2014 at 15:41

Again, it chemically resembles beer.......and that would be the BEST advertising tag line ever for a cheap beer! I even know the beer that needs it.

Kinja'd!!!

"Pong Beer Lite - It chemically resembles beer!"

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
06/12/2014 at 15:43

pffffft, he's a traveling salesman based in the deep south and I'm on the west side of Michigan. I won't see him for another 6 months. But I will ask him to send up a bottle of shine as an apology.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > CRider
06/12/2014 at 15:43

In all fairness, it was driven by the Andretti family. Maybe Mario got offered all the miller he could drink?

tromoly > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 16:48

Sounds like Dick Trickle's sponsorship with Miller, he would get pallets of High Life at the beginning of the year, something like 350 cases.

Cajun Ginger > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 18:40

which mug club? dark horse?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Cajun Ginger
06/12/2014 at 19:30

B.o.B.'s brewery. And I forgot it's 1$ draft night, not 2. I wanted to join the monk club at brewery vivant but the 5$ stein night is a better deal IMO. And the GR brewing company club might be nice to join too.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 19:52

well played.

Yellabeer

Cajun Ginger > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/12/2014 at 19:56

I'll have to try those next time I'm on that side of the lake.