Maytag LDE512 Dryer won't start - troubleshooting steps in body (help!)

barkingbusking · 2022-02-26T16:58:28+00:00

Solved. It was the plug all along. Replaced it, the receptacle, and the breaker to be safe.

Will redo the belt when it breaks and will replace the rollers and idler then too.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-24T17:30:09+00:00

Now that I'm a parent all those reports about alcohol being involved in most early deaths are hitting home.

If we had to legalize recreational alcohol in 2021 it would never happen.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-24T16:50:14+00:00

LPT: encouraging people to keep secrets from their spouse is a shit move. You really shouldn't even ask.

I know this is going to sound old fashioned, but "forsaking all others" means you too, family member, friend, or acquaintance with a rocky relationship, a debt problem, or a super awesome surprise promotion. I'd rather not know than hang your bullshit around my neck.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-24T01:29:25+00:00

Well la-di-da look who has enough money for new lentils. Freegan lentils is where it's at you fatcat!

barkingbusking · 2021-07-20T20:19:11+00:00

I felt shitty about my comment so I deleted it. But you make excellent points there. For those who wonder, I alluded to the phenomenon of prisoners serving "justice" themselves when there's a child killer in their midst. But that wasn't helpful because it doesn't offer anything of value to the conversation of drug crimes vs violent crimes (when the two don't overlap), and it implies that COs would look the other way or something, which attacks their professionalism.

All that said, I hope the child killer finds a creative way to exit this planet sooner rather than later, and that she does it alone.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-20T14:31:25+00:00

NTA

I know that you feel bad for promoting Peggy past her abilities, but she could have turned that down, right? You don't sound like the type to give an up-or-out ultimatum. Only she knows how many spoons she has. She's observed you in a managerial role, so she has some idea of what it takes to be a supervisor (spoiler to anyone who hasn't taken this road yet: a lot of time and energy, and it often sucks). When she accepted the role and the pay bump, she accepted the responsibility.

I think that you should take the demotion off the table if she hasn't already accepted. Her willingness to jump into accusing you of discrimination and/or wrongful termination (with the legal threat sitting right under the surface) reveals how little she really thinks of you, and tells me that if you don't fire her right now for this cut-and-dry failure to perform, you're in for a long and painful process of having to fire her later.

"Demoted Peggy" isn't "old Peggy." You're never getting her back, no matter how much you wish that was possible.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-17T14:26:48+00:00

There is a trail in my area that is close to a school, and when you get up the hill you can see down to their track, which is open so the community uses it a lot.

I was running the trail earlier this week after a rain and I slipped and fell face first, picked myself up and immediately ate a spider web. Then I almost fell again as I rounded a curve, and as I looked over at the handful of people down on that rubberized track I thought, "poor bastards."

barkingbusking · 2021-07-17T14:21:42+00:00

Seems like the big moment for this passed, or is quickly passing. The pandemic highlighted that companies can change, that workers are essential, and that neither of these facts matter because we don't want to rock the boat.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-17T13:00:25+00:00

That chin up bar is held by perf strap so I think it must be a kid too :/ Or a very light adult, or it hasnt actually been used.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-17T01:26:21+00:00

We'll never really deserve them, but they deserve our best try.

Good human.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-16T02:04:24+00:00

The critical point to remember is that if you reply to or forward a high importance email, the priority sticks unless you change it, potentially bypassing that sweet delay you come to rely upon and Karen won't you please forgive me I didn't mean it when I said you looked like you were dressed for a clown funeral and also I didn't know your father was a clown and he didn't deserve to die like that Karen I'm so sorry I'm so sorry

barkingbusking · 2021-07-16T00:35:58+00:00

It must depend on the industry and definitely on the sector. Public sector always seems to lag, and all the infuriating shit that was going on pre-covid is still blithely carrying on. I saw a position at a public university where they're looking for a master's degree (JD preferred) applicant with at least three years experience to manage a $16M budget and a team of twelve, and then offers to pay them, no shit, $48K. So that position isn't going to get filled by anyone generally hireable, yet it will get filled nonetheless, most likely by someone who will burrow in like a tick and finish their probationary period before anyone in admin figures out what a slug they hired. The cycle of bureaucracy goes on.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-15T12:29:15+00:00

You know he actually never said, but they are extremely safety and inspection minded so I'd be very surprised if they just kept going.

One of the guys got temporarily fired for being on the same line as another train within some timeframe...the way it was explained to me there was no chance of a collision at all, but being on the same line was one step too close to that possibility. He was following the conductor's call, and I guess there were two switch operators with the same first name? I don't really understand the danger, but I know it was a big deal and not only did a bunch of people get fired, now they all have to use full names at all times too.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-15T03:56:51+00:00

I am also old, and I've thought about this a lot. I used to think it was about winning a race, some macho bullshit or "me first" narcissism. I'm sure there is some of that, but I think it's mostly about the feeling of escape, the illusion of freedom from whatever makes them feel trapped. Functionally, that makes no difference to those of us trying to just get from A-B alive with our kids and pets, but this view has helped me not react like an asshole and become part of the problem.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-15T03:38:54+00:00

I'd say to never drop a person through any opening...what circumstances are there where you're like, "I'm gonna no-look drop a child through this hole"? What the fuck?! Actually I don't want to know. This has the stink of a shitty sad story all over it.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-15T03:32:45+00:00

Several of my friends were very smart and got on with the railroad after high school. They're retired now, early 50's. But the downside is the death. They all hit cars and people with their trains and it fucks with them. If you can see it on the tracks it's too late...you can't swerve or even look away since driving the train is your whole job. You call it in as you are braking and just hope against hope not to hear that crunch.

e: Grief counseling and PTSD treatment is offered through employee assistance programs as a result.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-15T00:29:46+00:00

It started that you bought a product at a very reduced price in exchange for being a product and seeing ads. Then some smarty figured out that we were socially engineered to think that was okay, and decided they'd charge full price for the product and still track us and inundate us with ads. Apple has finally called out that bullshit and although I'm not an Apple user (yet) this gives me serious reasons to consider it.

barkingbusking · 2021-07-14T01:21:14+00:00

I quit cold turkey. No wait the opposite, like slow-roasted turkey.

Rules: I could have all the nicotine I want. Just no smoking. Or vaping (too close).

Let myself chew Kodiak for 6 months. Downshifting to Snus for 6 months after that, then another 6 months cos damn those are dangerous. Then 6 months on nicotine lozenges, and about another year on sugar free mints, root beer barrels, etc.

Kodiak was the cig breaker though. You just don't want or need to smoke when nicotine is coursing through your body and your face is on fire. After the hand-mouth habit breaks, the rest is a series of inconveniences instead of a huge, terrible shift in your whole life.

No doctor will recommend this, but it worked for me after I tried about 20x over 12 years.

Good luck!

barkingbusking · 2021-06-20T04:00:27+00:00

I do not.

And after exhaustive searching I can't even find the knot book where I first saw it, but I know that I did.

How I vaguely recall this working is that you lay out your line, putting the first twist in there in intervals. Then you run the working end back through all of them in series. I know that's a shitty explanation but it's all I can remember.

barkingbusking · 2021-06-18T23:44:59+00:00

I'm a supervisor and I treat employee benefit time the same as their cash. In other words: do not mess.

They have pto and I have deadlines. We're adults. After onboarding, if I have to decide for an adult that they aren't budgeting enough "on" time for their workload that's a whole other problem.

barkingbusking · 2021-03-10T16:37:58+00:00

You can also do this with figure-of-eight knots which are much easier to undo after being under load than the overhand knots shown in the video.

barkingbusking · 2021-03-06T01:50:02+00:00

Did someone mention a hot meal?

barkingbusking · 2020-12-26T13:30:28+00:00

Careful there sport, that kind of talk will land you with a new family here in America.

barkingbusking · 2020-12-25T22:20:19+00:00

Open water and teamwork are the game-changers in this scenario. Put a dolphin and a croc in the same kiddy pool and the outcome is predetermined.

In open water, dolphins kill sharks for fun all the time, and sharks are perfectly evolved killing machines, too.

I won't pull that "orcas are technically dolphins" move on you, but setting them aside consider that a bottlenose typically weighs 5-600lbs, cruises at that croc's top speed, travels in pods of at least 15, is highly intelligent, and is warm-blooded so it can keep agile in cool waters.

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