Overcoming Googlers!

[tony_t3d]

Don't know if anyone has had any customers like this but my boss was 22 years army and 20 years police then straight into this job so no idea about anything we do. If he asks us questions he goes away and Googles the answer to see if we are right. On the rare occasions that I'm wrong [emoji16] he takes pleasure in coming back and correcting me.

 

Has anyone come across anyone similar?

[Stubby]

You mean a complete knob jockey ? Yes I have meet a few .

[Haironyourchest]

What kind of questions does he ask you? Sounds like there's potential with this guy for a complicated practical joke

[peatff]

Glad to see you got the kids PPE before you let them use the saw there Tony. Just make something totally incredible up when he asks you so he can prove you wrong every time if it makes him happy. 99% of facts on the internet are made up, I know this one was.

[tony_t3d]

It started because we have an old fella who thinks he knows everything. He done a sloppy cut on a limb leaving a big tear down the trunk of a tree then covered it with soil [emoji23] [emoji23] and told our boss this is what you do and the tree will repair itself. He obviously didn't belive him and googled it.

 

He recently googled how to help a dying Horthorn. He then told me to dig a trench around the base and fill with compost to help keep it alive. That was mid summer and it had no foliage on it and was clearly dead but because he googled it I had to go an do it... needless to say it's still as dead as it was but he won't let me take it down [emoji15]

[2414Gingerboy]

Tony

You need a new boss.

[codlasher]

intersperse your next converstion with 'two-three' every other word. He'll understand a little better then!

codlasher

[Chris at eden]

It started because we have an old fella who thinks he knows everything. He done a sloppy cut on a limb leaving a big tear down the trunk of a tree then covered it with soil [emoji23] [emoji23] and told our boss this is what you do and the tree will repair itself. He obviously didn't belive him and googled it.

 

He recently googled how to help a dying Horthorn. He then told me to dig a trench around the base and fill with compost to help keep it alive. That was mid summer and it had no foliage on it and was clearly dead but because he googled it I had to go an do it... needless to say it's still as dead as it was but he won't let me take it down [emoji15]

 

Not sure what the trench would do other than sever roots any way. Better option would be decompaction, mulching and removal of competing vegetation. If the tree was alive that is.

[tony_t3d]

Glad to see you got the kids PPE before you let them use the saw there Tony. Just make something totally incredible up when he asks you so he can prove you wrong every time if it makes him happy. 99% of facts on the internet are made up, I know this one was.

Safety first as always !!

Tony

You need a new boss.

We have discussed this I might drop a tree on him [emoji15]

[AHPP]

tony_t3d, Would I be right in thinking that you work in the public sector?