Dishwasher Troubleshoooting for Dummies

Bosch dishwasher

Don't you just love it when someone pretends to be giving valuable advice, but they're really just rewording another person's work? Well, here at the Antisocial Network, we sure love it – NOT! – which is why we point out the screw-ups freelancing fools make while trying to line their pockets. Too often the problem with their "work" (if you can call a copy-reword-paste job "work") is that the freelancers don't know enough about the topic to get it right. Sometimes, they even make it worse -- not only do they mess up the reword to mangle or omit important information, they add their own thoughts. In the worst examples, their thoughts are so ill-informed as to be dangerous. That's the case with today's dumbass, a repeater named Nicole Papagiorgio, who plies her trade at eHow.com (where else?). Try this bit of dangerous stupidity on for size: Papagiorgio's advice for someone complaining that "The On-Off Button Will Not Work on My Bosch Dishwasher," now at Hunker.com.

For unknown reasons... well, we know why: it's the site's minimum word count requirement... Nicole starts by explaining that Bosch is a big German company that makes automotive parts. Really, Nicole, who cares? What we want to know is how to troubleshoot the failure to launch. Nicole starts, as usual, by suggesting that you check to see if the power is on: we wondered, don't most people know when their power has gone off? Do you really think everyone's that stupid? She then advises her readers,   "...check your household’s fuse box to make sure a fuse has not been blown, which will prevent the on/off button from turning the dishwasher on. If your dishwasher repeatedly blows fuses, you may have to buy more powerful fuses."

First, Nicole, there's no such thing as "more powerful fuses." Second, have you ever heard of a circuit breaker? Houses built in the past fifty years have breakers, not fuses. And last, Nicole the blithering dumbass, the amperage rating of a fuse or breaker is a safety feature. Installing a "more powerful fuse," as she calls it (a higher-rated fuse, as most people call it) presents a safety hazard. She's not just a dumbass, she's a dangerous dumbass!

The other answers are (mostly) correct, given that Papagiorgio did a fairly workmanlike job of just rewording the troubleshooting section of a Bosch dishwasher manual she found somewhere. She is, however, apparently unaware that some dishwasher installations have what looks like an ordinary line plug. Accidentally pulling that plug would cause the "power failure."
No matter how good a rewording job Nicole managed, inserting that idiotic line about "more powerful fuses" means that our Ms Papagiorgio well deserves the award she's about to receive: the Dumbass of the Day (dangerously stupid division).

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