Missed service appointments

*I'd rather not turn this post into a svc bashing post, looking for solid solutions*

When a customer is scheduled to come in for either a parts install, or whatever, and they miss their appointment, what does your SVC dept generally do? Ours seems to do nothing, and it gets annoying especially for the customers who we have parts ordered for.

I have placed a shelf near our back counter for daily appointments, so it is easier for me to see who misses an appt.

Thanks for any input.

*EDIT* This pertains to mainly warranty jobs, or customers who have some sort of extended warranty, all of our CP orders are pre-pay, so that isn't an issue thank goodness.

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u/PaulWithAPH — 1 day ago

First shot since March. Like riding a bike

Had a bit of a foot injury and had to cut my league season short. Decided to try again the other day. Got a few things to work on, but no pain so far!

u/PaulWithAPH — 1 month ago

Intro to Focus 10 makes me zonk

I have listened to Intro to Focus 10 a few times now, and every single time after resonant tuning, when the voice says to relax and breathe normally, I might breathe normally for about 15 seconds before I zonk, each time I woke up hours later. Headphones on, laptop battery about to die haha.

Is this normal? I honestly didn't even feel myself starting to slip off to sleep, otherwise I would have fought it. I will say, it was probably some of the best naps I have had in a long time!

Should I fall asleep? Should I try and fight it? I did feel super good after those naps, if they were even naps.

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u/PaulWithAPH — 2 months ago

A24, Google, and the future.

I see a TON of folks are upset at Google & A24's AI partnership. Lots of people boycotting ANYTHING A24 now. I just hope this doesn't make DVD sales of Backrooms tank.

Just can't believe this after one of their hottest directors, who HATES AI, made them so much money without AI.

Just my take on it.

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u/PaulWithAPH — 2 months ago

How do I regain my appetite and work through these issues after quitting weed?

Hopefully this is the correct sub to post this.

I am 44 years old, and have been a heavy marijuana user for the last 5 years or so. Morning, mid day and night time. I am too old to live life this way anymore and decided this past Monday I was going to make some changes. I didn't smoke all day, but did at night so I could get some sleep.

Tuesday after work my girlfriend was at the house and we smoked in the evening a bit more than I probably should have but no more than I normally would have.

Wednesday morning I had terrible anxiety, didn't smoke at all but had zome zzquil to sleep.

Thursday (yesterday) still didn't smoke, picked up some Magnesium Glycenate + melatonin and took that a bit before bed time and slept pretty decent.

This morning, terrible anxiety and mild nausea until about 11 AM, and it started feeling like hunger.

I am having a bad time eating anything of substance. There is a donut on my desk that I have only had two bites of today.

Other than the nausea, sleep troubles, lack of appetite.... I don't really have any brain fog like I did so that is a good thing. My energy level also seems way higher and more consistent throughout the day as well.

I plan on starting an exercise routine as well.

Will this anxiety, trouble sleeping, and lack of appetite eventually work itself out? It seems almost like the weed was tricking me because those symptoms are EXACTLY what I would reach for my weed to cure.

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u/PaulWithAPH — 3 months ago

Alfred camera

Good afternoon,

I am looking to use my old Pixel 6 Pro as a security camera for a few days using Alfred app.

I am assuming this will create a battery drain situation, and I am hesitant to leave the device plugged in for a few days while running the app.

Has anyone else used an old pixel running alfred? What was your setup?

Thanks!

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u/PaulWithAPH — 3 months ago

PC software to diagnose smartphone hardware issues?

Good afternoon,

I am still playing around with my old Pixel 6 Pro. It functions, but has some underlying issues I would like to at least figure out.

I was curious if there is a good (preferably free or inexpensive) piece of PC software I could use to test the hardware in my phone for issues?

Thanks for any help.

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u/PaulWithAPH — 3 months ago

Pixel 6 Pro no OS found after an update

Good morning,

Yesterday my Pixel 6 Pro running GOS did an update and said I needed to reboot. I clicked reboot, and now it boots to a black screen that says no os found, device will not boot.

I am able to go into fastboot menu using power + down button, but still cannot boot the OS.

In it's current state, is there any way to connect this to a PC to extract any of my files?

Thanks for any help / advice.

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u/PaulWithAPH — 3 months ago

Blade types

Good morning. I have a Kubota T2380 lawn tractor. Purchased new in 2017, I always thought the mulch quality was lacking and the power of the grass discharge was never as strong as I thought it should be. Regardless, it delivered a nice cut and I have been happy with the machine.

It came time to purchase new blades this year as I couldn't sharpen the old ones any more. I simply did a web search for "Kubota t2380 blades" and the result was a set of blades that looked nothing like the blades on the machine from new. The replacement blades look like the 5th one in the included photo and the original blades look like the second ones in the photo.

https://preview.redd.it/makcb3y1so3h1.jpg?width=7878&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c0a020aac4534f8c01107fe7d607635def62d01

The new blades mulch and discharge VERY well! It is like a whole new mower. My question to the blade professionals - why does this replacement blade outperform the old blade so much?

Thanks!

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u/PaulWithAPH — 3 months ago

Second person?

I manage a smaller parts dept inside of a dealership. My worker recently left and I am by myself. I do not mind being by myself at all. I personally believe we are not quite busy enough right now to have a second person. We recently ended Saturday hours for parts and service, so holding things down by myself isn't really a huge deal.

Any other one person departments here? How do things like being sick and vacations get handled?

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u/PaulWithAPH — 3 months ago

How many of you are blessed enough to deal with people that need tires but never, EVER know anything about what they want?

Got a brand preference? no

Got a tread pattern / design in mind? no

Do you prefer all season or more on the aggressive side? I don't know, I will leave that to you to make that call.

Like, no the fuck you will not. This is NOT my car, it is YOURS! I will help educate you on things you might not know about tires, but for the love of all that is good and holy give me something to fucking work with!

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u/PaulWithAPH — 4 months ago

I think it would be super cool if Kane were to give us a short video of things from the FF3 Still Life POV.

I can't help but think Still Life has a way of navigating the complex using null zones. I say this only because when we first see it in the speaker room, it looks like it is picking itself up from the floor to run after Ravi. Maybe it clipped from somewhere else?

I dunno. Just bored AF at work lol

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u/PaulWithAPH — 4 months ago