ufcrusher
03-07-2006, 01:07 PM
I am curious if other people would be annoyed or if the few I have asked about this and responded are outliers and most people would feel the opposite way.
You set up a full home theater set up for your parents including higher end cables, a good receiver, etc, which you basically gave everything to them. (In this instance, my TV broke during a cross country move and the money recieved was used to buy the TV in this set up, the receiver was something I earned in a sales contest with the exception of $50 which was given as a gift by my grandmother to get that particular model, the DVD player was a gift...the only thing they owned was a VCR)
Your parents decided to move the hometheater a few feet and somehow manage to disconnect several wires in the process. As you were leaving for a business trip, you told them you wouldnt be able to fix it until you return because they placed it in an area where there was NO room to work on the back of the system and you were flying out the next day.
While you are away you learn that they let some idiot they just met go behind the system and "fix" the wiring. Since it was only a wire or two that would have been out, you know it would have taken all of 10 minutes to fix it, but supposedly this person was back there for a long time supposedly fixing all of these problems and making the system "easier" to use.
The system had been wired 100% correctly and to the highest standards, so the person obvioulsy undid correct wiring to take it from better inputs to lower quality inputs.
Would you be furious at them for allowing some idiot to touch the wiring? Would it make you even more annoyed because 9 out of 10 times where you have to fix either the computer or the home theater it is because they tried to do something themselves and so they promised not to do any work on these systems themselves?
Frankly, I am so mad at this point I told them I will not fix or set up any more electronics for them. I am not going to spend 10 hours wiring something for them to let someone they just meet to come and undo it and then to have them say "he made it better and fixed the problem" when there was nothing that could have made the system better.
You set up a full home theater set up for your parents including higher end cables, a good receiver, etc, which you basically gave everything to them. (In this instance, my TV broke during a cross country move and the money recieved was used to buy the TV in this set up, the receiver was something I earned in a sales contest with the exception of $50 which was given as a gift by my grandmother to get that particular model, the DVD player was a gift...the only thing they owned was a VCR)
Your parents decided to move the hometheater a few feet and somehow manage to disconnect several wires in the process. As you were leaving for a business trip, you told them you wouldnt be able to fix it until you return because they placed it in an area where there was NO room to work on the back of the system and you were flying out the next day.
While you are away you learn that they let some idiot they just met go behind the system and "fix" the wiring. Since it was only a wire or two that would have been out, you know it would have taken all of 10 minutes to fix it, but supposedly this person was back there for a long time supposedly fixing all of these problems and making the system "easier" to use.
The system had been wired 100% correctly and to the highest standards, so the person obvioulsy undid correct wiring to take it from better inputs to lower quality inputs.
Would you be furious at them for allowing some idiot to touch the wiring? Would it make you even more annoyed because 9 out of 10 times where you have to fix either the computer or the home theater it is because they tried to do something themselves and so they promised not to do any work on these systems themselves?
Frankly, I am so mad at this point I told them I will not fix or set up any more electronics for them. I am not going to spend 10 hours wiring something for them to let someone they just meet to come and undo it and then to have them say "he made it better and fixed the problem" when there was nothing that could have made the system better.