Elsewhere, Discovery astronauts made repairs on the International Space Station during a seven-hour spacewalk, six hours of which were spent on hold with a tech support representative in Bangalore.

If it was tech support in Japan we could blame Adroomi!

What's that supposed to mean?

Are you dogging me again because I'm and expat living in Tokyo? My fuggin' rent is almost $10K a month. That's about equal to 4 months salary for you right?

Get off my ass servant boy.

That's like 5 times you made some reference to me being an errand boy or something in Japan. I'm not sure what you're getting at, but it's not very nice.

Play nice.

Your hypocracy kills me! Are you not Tech Support for a company in Japan?

10k a month...you kill me!

Adroomi - You ever going to send me some cigars or what?

I'm just joking with you so chill out you get so worked up all the time.

Drathaar,

Actually no. I'm the Northeast Asia Operations Director for a 9 Billion Dollar a year Aerospace Corporation with our Regional HQ's in the USA, the UK, and Singapore. I work directly under the Asia Pacific Vice President, and I have a staff under me of just over 100, which does not include the 1000+ employees at our factory in Beijing which I oversee. There are four of us under him, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia, and China. I cover Japan, Korea, and Northern China. If they fly an Airplane in one of those three areas, then they're a customer of mine.

My office is in Singapore, which is why you'll notice from my threads, I seem to be there a lot. However, due to All Nippon Airways being the launch customer for the B787 Dreamliner in May of 2008, with a total of 50 aircraft, I have settled myself into a nice little 4 bedroom high rise apartment just outside of Haneda International Airport in Japan. As an expat, I have to have the same standard of living as Everett Washington provided to me by my company.

I believe you keep referring to me as a "tech support" guy because you saw my name (one of five) listed on my company website yes? That page listed all five of us that I just mentioned.

What is your issue with this, and what is your issue with busting my ass all the time about it? Are you trying to one-up me or something?

Get over me. I'm one of those arrogant expats that are being hand fed by a corporation while overseas.

Knock off the "slamming" of peoples jobs dude.

Gunflint,

I'll be home from the 26th to about the 8th of next month.

If you're free, let's hook up for a smoke?

Again the hypocrite adroomi. Does "servant boy" ring a bell? Of course I'm referring to your company web page, where you are listed as TECH SUPPORT. Why do you feel the need to puff yourself up? You are not in charge of anything but your desk and phone. Quit pretending, you aren't fooling anyone.

-----------------PRETEND----------------

Pretend you're happy when you're blue

It isn't very hard to do

And you'll find happiness without an end

Whenever you pretend

Remember anyone can dream

And nothing's bad as it may seem

The little things you haven't got

Could be a lot if you pretend

You'll find a love you can share

One you can call all your own

Just close your eyes, she'll be there

You'll never be alone

And if you sing this melody

You'll be pretending just like me

The world is mine, it can be yours, my friend

So why don't you pretend?

You're right Drathaar....you busted me.

I'm just a little peon at a desk in Tokyo. Thank goodness air tickets are FREE in Asia, otherwise my 90% travel that I'm on would get really expensive.

Gee....Singapore 5 times in June and July so far, returned from a 3-day to Okinawa just today, Nagoya tomorrow, Okinawa next week again, China twice, Korea once, a holiday to the USA in 10 days, Australia last month for 10 days, and Michigan a week ago.

I look really silly dragging that desk through the x-ray machine at the airport.

You busted me...I'm so ashamed.

I'll crawl under my desk now.....and start posting as one of my "other" selves.

Sniff.

Great detective work watson!

That's funny adroomi, really it is. Maybe you forgot the email you sent me admitting it. I didn't post the email because of the personal nature of it, but if you want to continue the charade and call me a liar I can change my mind. Don't worry, I'll omit the personal stuff. What say you? Shall we prove who the liar is?

7. Author: adroomi Date: 07/12/2006 08:48 PM Reply

Knock off the "slamming" of peoples jobs dude.

Pot meet kettle.

Oh, I almost forgot, very funny Rick.

Drathaar,

You are not a liar. Nobody said you were.

If you want to call me a tech support phone clerk than be my guest.

Get off of my back...please.

Deal?

I refer you to post 11 adroomi. That's not calling me a liar? You are attempting to poke fun at my expense, making it appear that you are not what the website says you are.

I don't know why you want to prop yourself up so bad. Nobody cares if you're a janitor or CEO, just tell the truth. Its bad enough when a real CEO or like person comes and brags about it on every post. But its worse when its made up.

>I don't know why you want to prop yourself up so bad. Nobody cares if you're a janitor or CEO, just tell the truth...

Hey Popeye, glad to see you're back. Btw, don't you work at denny's?

Seriously,

My plane is down, could use the help!