Is it a bit distressing to have a "professional" tell you that something is true when it's not?

Yes, the cable TV guys told us we couldn’t watch one show and tape a different show, but I can, because of the way my husband hooked up the inputs. Of course, now the technology has changed, but five years ago, they lied to me.

Professionals are also people. Human error exists in everything. At least it’s not your medication we’re talking about. That really sucks when the professionals screw that up.

Yes, and it is aggravating.

It is always said to get a second opinion about health matters, and I have found it best to do the same for almost everything else. I don’t rationalize, analyze, and seek opinion about every single thing, but if something is going to cost some money, I call around until I either don’t do anything, choose one, or go an entirely different direction based on all the details or facts from the sources.

Yabutt...@yarnlady...I would expect someone who’s been in “the business” for six months or a year to be “wrong….” not someone who’s been in it for over decade. I’ve been told wrong before by the supposed “professionals,” but never so disillusioned as by my flooring guy.

NerfZen $%^ & 8 unurpa ^&* 4 eker! GAguh!

I never had exactly that happen but something similar occurred in this summer course I took on philosophy.

Pretty much I loved the class and the instructor until he popped the question, “What do you know?”

I replied with a quote from Socrates, “The one thing I know is that I know nothing.”

He immediately said I was wrong and asked where the hell I came up with such a response.

I slept for the remainder of the course.

Ah, but is he your flooring guy? You said he was a long time acquaintance. Were you paying him for his time or did you just ask him something while you were standing around? My time is worth money. So is his. He may not have given you the answer that he would have for someone to whom he was contracted for his services. Just sayin’, you get what you pay for.

I had an eye doctor tell me I had a cataract and I’m considered too young for that. I got a second opinion from another eye doctor. I do not have a cataract. The first doctor was pushing me to have an operation immediately.

@chyna Wow. You are way too young, and just the thought of eye surgery gives me the willies.

@trillian I had Lasik surgery! They made a video of it and it was cool! My kids, who were Middle School at the time, took it for show and tell and someone stole it!

As to your question….we were doing the kitchen floor (linoleum) ourselves, and yes. I shamelessly asked for some advice. He was so awesome…gave us some advice (just like my mechanic husband would help him out with some car-engine advice. That’s the way we do things in a small town….) The kitchen was adjacent to the back entry way AND a laundry room, and per his advice we needed to cut it all in one piece, like this > |——-/___|—-/—____ ...well, something like that. It wasn’t all squished up like that. ANYWAY, he even left his big warehouse open one evening (it’s behind James and Sons car repair there on 9th) where we could lay the whole thing out and cut it….anyway, no, he wasn’t our installer, but he was our guide, and I don’t believe he told me wrong on purpose.

Ok, I guess I have to go with @seazen. If your husband is a doctor,then you know how fast new stuff comes out, he has to read Journals and stuff from the drug companies. Or…. I don’t know. I can’t think about the lasik,

yeah if the guy had a shot at making some money on the deal, there might have been a tad more research on that one. As a contractor I can say it is extremely annoying when I get the feeling someone is trying to pick my brain on a project just so they can hand it to “their guy” or worse yet, do it themselves. Not suggesting that’s what happened there, just pointing out some consumer / contractor etiquette.

“Professional”—one of our society’s most misleading words. All it really means is the person gets paid to do whatever he’s doing—doesn’t guarantee he’s qualified to do it.

I had a film professor who’s been in the business for years. He had no idea what he was talking about. Not only was this the first time he was teaching, but he spent most of the class telling us about the famous people he’s met and that our film education’s were useless. Occasionally, a speaker would come in and actually teach us something but, for the most part, the class was completely useless and all taught by a “professional.”

The summer after my junior year of high school I went to a physics workshop at a local technical college; it was taught by a professor of physics at the college. During part of the workshop, we were constructing circuits, and the guy so obviously didn’t know what he was doing! He was trying to demonstrate how to make a series circuit… but he was doing it wrong, and then acting all puzzled when the ammeter wasn’t reading what it should have been… the worst part is that he tried to save face by blaming it on the ammeter, saying it was broken.

Absolutely hate it. Or when you are the expert in a particular thing and someone who has no idea what they’re talking about tries to convince you they are right. Happens every day ugh lol

@Trillian O! It was so cool! I was all awake and stuff, and he takes a scalpel and cuts my cornea and FLAPS it over! And then, and THEN he takes this bulls-eye laser thing and goes ‘wrup wrup wrup wrup!’ on my EYEBALL! And then he FLAPS the cornea back over and puts a stitch in it! AND he complimented me on my eyelashes! It was cool! Heh heh heh heh!!

@Dutchess_III… you hate me, don’t you?

Heh heh heh heh!!!