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airehead
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 Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:47 Post subject: Where is quality craftsmanship??
So, I decided there were some old files I need to shred. So I go to my local office supply store to buy a shredder.
Let's listen in to the actual conversation:
Me: which shredder do you recommend?
Salesman: none of them, they're all crap.
Me: by crap you mean the cheap ones?
Salesman: nope, they're all crap even the expensive ones. People bring these back all the time. I recommend you buy the purchase protection because that way you'll get a new one WHEN this one breaks.
Me: Ok. You've convinced me. I'll take it.
So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder?
So, I'm about halfway through my shredding project. I'll let you know when it breaks. 
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Cappy
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:48 Post subject:
I thought you didn't own any race Pictures 
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prohemp
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:51 Post subject:
i've reached across my boss's desk once and my tie dipped in his iced tea - but to this day i've never got my tie caught in the shredder 
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airehead
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:52 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | I thought you didn't own any race Pictures |
 Just a few things I um...need to dispose of....
Old bank statements and credit card receipts and crap like that.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:52 Post subject: Re: Where is quality craftsmanship??
| airehead wrote: | | So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder? |
If you lean over the shredder and are not paying attention you can dangle your tie into the shredder
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airehead
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:53 Post subject: Re: Where is quality craftsmanship??
| AlaninTX wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder? |
If you lean over the shredder and are not paying attention you can dangle your tie into the shredder |
Yabbut, at that point isn't the little picture right above the blades "too little too late"?
BTW, how's your neck?
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 20:56 Post subject: Re: Where is quality craftsmanship??
| airehead wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder? |
If you lean over the shredder and are not paying attention you can dangle your tie into the shredder |
Yabbut, at that point isn't the little picture right above the blades "too little too late"?
BTW, how's your neck? |
Didn't hurt my neck, just my pride. It broke me from wearing expensive ties
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airehead
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 21:01 Post subject: Re: Where is quality craftsmanship??
| AlaninTX wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder? |
If you lean over the shredder and are not paying attention you can dangle your tie into the shredder |
Yabbut, at that point isn't the little picture right above the blades "too little too late"?
BTW, how's your neck? |
Didn't hurt my neck, just my pride. It broke me from wearing expensive ties |
So now you channel that money into crisp, french blue shirts?
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BamBam
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 21:26 Post subject: Re: Where is quality craftsmanship??
| airehead wrote: | So, I decided there were some old files I need to shred. So I go to my local office supply store to buy a shredder.
Let's listen in to the actual conversation:
Me: which shredder do you recommend?
Salesman: none of them, they're all crap.
Me: by crap you mean the cheap ones?
Salesman: nope, they're all crap even the expensive ones. People bring these back all the time. I recommend you buy the purchase protection because that way you'll get a new one WHEN this one breaks.
Me: Ok. You've convinced me. I'll take it.
So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder?
So, I'm about halfway through my shredding project. I'll let you know when it breaks. |
I think you are supposed to shread in the nude save for guys wearing a jock and girls a bra-- I think they show graphics of keeping you breasts and genitalia out of the shredder too
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airehead
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 21:49 Post subject: Re: Where is quality craftsmanship??
| BamBam wrote: | | airehead wrote: |
So, I'm at home shredding and have come to the conclusion that morons must operate this equipment. There is a picture of a hand with a line through it and a picture of a necktie with a line through it. What moron would actually consider putting these items into a shredder?
So, I'm about halfway through my shredding project. I'll let you know when it breaks. |
I think you are supposed to shread in the nude save for guys wearing a jock and girls a bra-- I think they show graphics of keeping you breasts and genitalia out of the shredder too |
 Is that what those pics mean? I thought it was a guy with glasses with a line through it!
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 07:42 Post subject:
i'm wondering if maybe - just maybe - the shredder isn't so much a piece of crap as the salesman wanted a commission on the maintenance agreement. sounds like he has a system?? a seedy salesman system??
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 07:44 Post subject:
Alan do you know what a shredder is 
no evidence here right
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airehead
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 07:51 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | | i'm wondering if maybe - just maybe - the shredder isn't so much a piece of crap as the salesman wanted a commission on the maintenance agreement. sounds like he has a system?? a seedy salesman system?? |
It's possible, but he didn't try to sell me one on the phone--and it cost the same amount as the shredder.
The shredder rocks so far! I have filled a huge black trash bag FULL of shredding.
Haven't broken it yet! Amazing, this is only three years worth of files, too! We purge our files every three years---I can't believe how much paper there is!
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jrjo
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 09:57 Post subject:
We get a shredder truck to pull up to the office once a year. Now there is sweetness. Files as thick as phonebooks.. staples, paperclips, binding, it chews is all up. <Tim Allen grunt>
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airehead
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 10:24 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: |
We get a shredder truck to pull up to the office once a year. Now there is sweetness. Files as thick as phonebooks.. staples, paperclips, binding, it chews is all up. <Tim Allen grunt> |
Ooh. Now that would have been cool. Too bad it wouldn't be cost effective for my household files.
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