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This is a hoot! See further down.

Bilge reminds me of someone in this post (and some previous ones). He would be flattered to be compared with this guy.

We received some new equipment. Itlookedcomplicated to set up, but it's bug easy. Any, this guy, Bruce, spent 4 days trying to figure out how to program the thing. I don't think he ever did. I suspect he annoyed the rep over the phone about it enough that the guy decided to come over there and show him how to do it and be done with him. I don't know this to be a fact. But Idoknow that I answered a call just before I went home one day, and the guy on the other end said "This is didn't see what they worked on.

I came back to work and Bruce wanted me to go over some instructions he wrote (probably a version of what the rep told him to do, based completely on his understanding of what he was being told). He wanted me to test them out for him by tryingthem out on the programming of enough times in the past, but I can be suckered sometimes.)

The first step was wrong. I did it. It made no sense. Bruce said that it was wrong. He told me the proper way to do it. That made more sense. I did it.

The second step was wrong. I asked him about it. He said it was right. I couldn't do it because it made no sense. I showed it to him. He said it was right. I told him I didn't understand. He showed me. What he did wasn't what the step said. I had him read it to me while I did it. He read it and didn't see anything wrong. I switched places and read it to him. He whipped throguh the step before I could start reading. I made him do it again, slowly, as I read it, not as he remembered it. He tried to do it and it wouldn't work. He said it was wrong.

In the first part of the whole procedure, a total of 10 steps, there were no less than 14 mistakes. 12 of them big enough to not be able to follow through.

I refused to try part 2 of the programming until he fixed part 1. Bruce got iritated. He told me he'd written the procedures the prvious day, and that he'd come in that same morning to try them out and they worked fine. I asked him how that was possible with all of the mistakes that were in it. He walked off.

The next day he had 2 more people try the procedures. Both of them had the same troubles. One of them is Vietnamese. Bruce told him his problem was because he doesn't have a very good command of the english language (wrong). I asked both of those guys and they said the same errors were there that existed when I tried to do the programming.

The following day he had another guy try it. That guy took over an hour on the first part and refused the second, just like I did. When I talked to him, he said he thought he was having trouble understanding or something. He said Bruce told him he was the first one to test the procedures. The errors were still in the procedures.

Bilge is just like Bruce.

Bruce and Bilge are both pains in the butt.

Bruce has dementia. Without question.

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