Quote Originally Posted by trilogy problems View Post
OK so Pool Doc, I feel as though your response is at minimum sent with a frustrated tone that I don't appreciate.
The tone was frustrated, and I regret that -- I'd been dealing with other difficulties that had nothing to do with you.

If you don't want to help fine. .
I would say, rather, I don't want to engage in a 3-way negotiation between you, us and whoever you're dealing with locally. There would be nothing wrong with doing that, but I think it's inefficient for us to engage in that sort of elongated process, this time of year.


Sorry that I refuse to step foot in a Walmart to buy the test and be forced to interact with the class of people that shop there.
I'm with Aylad, there. I shop at Walmart, weekly. So, if you don't want to interact with that class of people, you really shouldn't be talking to me or Janet or Watermom. Not sure about Carl and Al, but they wouldn't hesitate to go to Walmart if there was something there they needed. It's actually, sort of a problem, since most of the grocery store chemicals we recommend -- bleach, borax, baking soda, washing soda, HTH 6-way -- are only consistently available at Walmart, and some other items -- dichlor & trichlor -- at Walmart's sister store, Sams Club.

I think I should stop there. As I said earlier, you have the training to work this out for yourself, without our having to hold your hand. And that way, you can be as flexible as you like in working the tensions between what your pool store says, what you want, and what we say.

Just one clarification -- I don't think I ever said your local pool guys were evil. What I said was -- I think, I haven't re-read everything -- was that they are ignorant. What I usually say about pool store employees is that they are either evil OR ignorant . . . or very, very rarely neither evil nor ignorant. They believe what they've been taught; it's not their fault that what they've been taught is wrong.

It's the chemical companies that deliberately mis-train people. This is the point of Chem_Geek's corrections to the CPO training . . . and that manual is FAR better than the one I had when I became a CPO instructor, much less the one I had when I became a CPO.


I'm not going to remove your registration, but I'd suggest that you not post further, at least during 2012. Here at PoolForum, we are either the "class of people that shop" at Walmart, or else people who doing mind hanging out with such Walmart peons. I'm not sure where you'd go to find a 'higher class' pool forum, but I can assure you, it will never be here.