Job interview w/ op, what do I wear? Update: I got the job, stories inside.

[Bones]

Sounds like a fun job. When you can pay your way trough life doing something that is a passion, that's what I define as successful.

Congrats.

[ChadTower]

I think it was Theatre of Magic.

[Jabba]

Hey Peale, congrats on the job. You know you are the envy of all us guys here. Like a kid in a candy shop...Don't forget to share those tips you learn.....

[Stingray]

You know you are the envy of all us guys here.

Indeed.

-S

[SirPeale]

I think it was Theatre of Magic.  The other was...was...dogonne it...Getaway.  Had to look it up.  He just bought a Sopranos pin today, needs a lot of work.

Sopranos is a hot pin right now.  Not sure why, I guess the show tie in makes a lot of people want it.  That pin should bring in some revenue.

Huh...the concensus on that one is that it's boring.  It's cool at first, but it's not terribly involved.  It does well at first because it's a change, but after the 'newness' wears off, it doesn't make much money.

Today was cool.  Emptied that arcade I mentioned.  I guess they didn't have a flood, the owner just wanted a new floor and a drop ceiling.  Shopped out a couple pins, then went to a family fun center and filled the ticket machines with tickets.  After that the owner of the place let us take a ride on his go-carts.

[Jabba]

Hey Peale, I'm gonna be in Stowe next month, how far from Stowe is this place(s) you are working. Maybe take a drive with the kids. They've never seen a full-blown arcade before...

[SirPeale]

I don't work @ an arcade, I work for an op.  If you were to come to where I work, you'd be disappointed, as all the machines are in various states of disrepair in a oil-floor warehouse.

Stowe is quite a haul from here.  My ZIP is 05301 if you want to run the miles.

[ChadTower]

Huh...the concensus on that one is that it's boring.  It's cool at first, but it's not terribly involved.  It does well at first because it's a change, but after the 'newness' wears off, it doesn't make much money.

Could be for ops... the only buzz I get is from collectors, and they love it.  Then again, they all seem to love the show, which I have never bothered watching.

[Zakk]

Congrats Peale, I've been meaning to tell you get off your ass and do something meaningful!

[SirPeale]

LOL @ Zakk, I wonder if I'll feel that way sometime.

It's an oiled wooden floor.  It used to be a manufacturing plant of some type, and the building was made quite a while ago.

[SirPeale]

Yesterday I got to work on the Getaway pin and replaced a socket.  So what, you say?  It involved removing the old broken socket which had five inch leads, unsoldering the wires from those leads, loosening the staples that held the leads to the playfield, leading the new socket's leads thru the playfield, threading the leads thru the loosened staples, and finally soldering the wires back onto the leads.  It didn't take long, but it was interesting.

So far my job has entailed a lot of cleaning of the games that have been pulled off location, testing them for proper voltage, and general detail work.

Remember the arcade I mentioned above?  I cleaned all their games yesterday, since we'd pulled them off location, and we brought them all back today.  Man, what a pain.  Then we cashed out a bar (I can't believe how much those touch jukeboxes take in!), followed by swapping out a pin @ a pizza parlor.

Then a two hour drive north, where we pulled a couple pool tables off location, then drove all the way back to the shop, with a brief stop at a location that was having issues with their pool table.  Turned out to be a combination of chalk in the ball troughs and there were three cue balls, for whatever reason.

[ChadTower]

People in bars think that's funny, to take, for instance, the 8 balls from 5 tables and put them all into one table's dispenser.

[Bones]

People in bars think that's funny, to take, for instance, the 8 balls from 5 tables and put them all into one table's dispenser.

If that's not funny then why am I laughing? 

[Q*Bert_OP]

Heh Peale what would you do if he had you convert something such as an original robotron or pac-man to another title?