Oy.
Oy. Yeah, I know, real articulate. The subject of today's frustration is women in places where they don't belong. I can hear the ladies on my flist gnashing their teeth and getting ready to flambe the Falcon. Allow me to elaborate.
Sarmi and I discovered that my truck was making a funny racket. I investigated and found out that my serpentine belt was shot to hell and I needed a new one. We go to Autozone and all they have working today is women. I tell the girl what I need and she punches in the information. She then proceeds to not understand what the computer tells her. Her supervisor (also a woman) comes over and looks at the information and asks if my truck has an air pump and air conditioner. I say that it has an air conditioner but no air pump. She then gives me a belt for no air pump.
I bring the belt home and try to put it on. No dice. I know belts are tight, so I buckle down and put some serious mustard on my pry bar to get the tensioner into place and end up breaking the dang thing. (That tends to happen to me a lot, breaking things that aren't supposed to break.) So Sarmi and I go back to the store for a new belt because while the numbers say this belt should fit, the fact is that it don't. I go about getting my tools ready while Sarmi runs in for a new tensioner and belt and she comes back with a male manager. He looks over the truck and sees that the dinky bitches have given me the belt for no air pump AND no AC. That translates to a belt that was two sizes too small. He gives us the tensioner ($45.00) at no charge because his employees (two of them) gave me the wrong damn belt. (Very nice of him.) Got the new products and they went on easy as pie.
I've been going to Autozone ever since they opened the store and I've never gotten the wrong part before, of course, I've never had to deal with a female counterperson either. I've purchased serpentine belts for the truck a couple of times and never had this issue. It's a cryin' shame when people are hired and don't know shit from shinola. I have no problem with women mechanics or women in autoparts stores, but for the love of God, get some with some automotive sense.
Sarmi and I discovered that my truck was making a funny racket. I investigated and found out that my serpentine belt was shot to hell and I needed a new one. We go to Autozone and all they have working today is women. I tell the girl what I need and she punches in the information. She then proceeds to not understand what the computer tells her. Her supervisor (also a woman) comes over and looks at the information and asks if my truck has an air pump and air conditioner. I say that it has an air conditioner but no air pump. She then gives me a belt for no air pump.
I bring the belt home and try to put it on. No dice. I know belts are tight, so I buckle down and put some serious mustard on my pry bar to get the tensioner into place and end up breaking the dang thing. (That tends to happen to me a lot, breaking things that aren't supposed to break.) So Sarmi and I go back to the store for a new belt because while the numbers say this belt should fit, the fact is that it don't. I go about getting my tools ready while Sarmi runs in for a new tensioner and belt and she comes back with a male manager. He looks over the truck and sees that the dinky bitches have given me the belt for no air pump AND no AC. That translates to a belt that was two sizes too small. He gives us the tensioner ($45.00) at no charge because his employees (two of them) gave me the wrong damn belt. (Very nice of him.) Got the new products and they went on easy as pie.
I've been going to Autozone ever since they opened the store and I've never gotten the wrong part before, of course, I've never had to deal with a female counterperson either. I've purchased serpentine belts for the truck a couple of times and never had this issue. It's a cryin' shame when people are hired and don't know shit from shinola. I have no problem with women mechanics or women in autoparts stores, but for the love of God, get some with some automotive sense.