Originally Posted by
xiaoman1
M,
A good call on your part, perhaps since we all seem to recognize one another, it can be easy for us to banter back and forth with each other....that being said, I can see that being a newbie might make it difficult to become part of the "fold".
Best, Ben
The road to H**L....
We certainly mean well but plenty of times we spin up, throw the book at it, but if its not one of the top easy 3 things we normally see, it can turn into a bonafide azz whoopin for the new OP as it has for us so many times, at which point they may say

, why can't I figure this out with all this help.
Well they don't know that we may not be able to figure it out at that point either.
I was a FoMoCo Sr. Master Tech for 20 years and have had way more than my share of whoopins in that arena, always loved it when the hotline engineers said "huh, don't know what to tell ya, let us know what you find." which was almost all the time with me because I didn't call them until I had turned myself inside out several times before I called those geniuses.