I got home today, and Jen was finishing up the window installation of my EIGHT THOUSAND BTU window mount air conditioner of DOOM. The ones they sell in the grocery store average 3500 BTU’s, and top out around 5,500. Home depot had a few of these 8,000 BYO units laying around at a 30% discount. Now, my only question: What the hell is a “BTU?”
Bo-Tox Unit?
Booty Tonnage Ultrakools?
Bitchin’ Temperature Undulations?
Beyond Tornado Underpressures?
Beth Twists, Undulates?
I’m certain that the internet knows the answer…but do you?
In other, unrelated news, I got my first taste of a customer going nuclear on me. His complaint shot up the Apple hierarchy, and came rapidly back down to me (within about an hour or two). Fortunately, he wasn’t complaining about any aspect of my behavior. In fact, when pressed, he admitted that I had been more helpful than most of the other folks in the process. It was just, see, my email (asking how things were working out and offering assistance) was the last one he received before going ballistic…so my name (and my company’s name) were the ones that he forwarded all over Apple under the heading “I AM GOING TO SCREAM.”
I saw my career flash before my eyes…but fortunately, I work with cool and reasonable people who have seen this sort of thing before. A major complaint to our biggest corporate sponsor in the first three weeks of employment? Sheesh, at a big firm that would be “see ya!” material.
Damn, this AC unit can cool some air…
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