Do you have a Pet Peeve (Part II)

[Elefantman]

Bazza, they should have sent you an email letting you know that the email system was down.

 

[Bazza]

Bazza, they should have sent you an email letting you know that the email system was down.

Yeah.....I actually told the guy that sending out an email when the issue WAS email didn't make any sense, either. I said "Put something on the website right on the front page!"

 

[Ledsteplin]

They explained (or tried to) what being an introvert was like and it didn't mean they didn't want anyone speaking to them. They were just more comfortable letting other people approach them rather than the other way around.

This must be why I rarely got a date!

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Companies that hire people to field customer service calls who have foreign accents so thick they literally cannot be understood. I sometimes wonder if it's done on purpose so people will just hang up? I lost out on a hotel refund I was entitled to because the customer service representative's accent was so thick I literally couldn't understand a word they were saying. I called back, hoping to get another person. Which I did get another person, only to have the same problem. The person's accent was so thick I had no clue what they were saying. So I lost out on $75 that they owed me. I simply do not have the time to keep calling, going through prompts, only to get to a communication barrier.

 

[Bazza]

People who smoke near enough that I cannot escape the stench.

This morning at my storage facility......right next to my unit. Chain smoking too.....no let up!

Why?

 

[DzynKingRTR]

People who smoke near enough that I cannot escape the stench.

This morning at my storage facility......right next to my unit. Chain smoking too.....no let up!

Why?

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there are morons that do it on the running trails

 

[BhamToTexas]

People who smoke near enough that I cannot escape the stench.

This morning at my storage facility......right next to my unit. Chain smoking too.....no let up!

Why?

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I say use the fire extinguisher.

 

[AlistarWills]

I say use the fire extinguisher.

I had a college teacher who told us the place was smoke free and if he caught us smoking he’d assume you were on fire and take appropriate action. Said he made a believer out of a person once when he opened up a fire extinguisher on them during break in class.

 

[AlistarWills]

Companies that hire people to field customer service calls who have foreign accents so thick they literally cannot be understood. I sometimes wonder if it's done on purpose so people will just hang up? I lost out on a hotel refund I was entitled to because the customer service representative's accent was so thick I literally couldn't understand a word they were saying. I called back, hoping to get another person. Which I did get another person, only to have the same problem. The person's accent was so thick I had no clue what they were saying. So I lost out on $75 that they owed me. I simply do not have the time to keep calling, going through prompts, only to get to a communication barrier.

Thick accent, real fast with thick accent, or a high pitched female voice. These people need to understand who their audience is. A retiree insurance company needs not have ladies with high pitched voices. As some of you older folks here know, that range is the first to go with hearing at an elevated age. My dad is 77, can’t hardly hear high ranges any longer. Calling his secondary insurance carrier and getting an Asian lady with a high pitch was zero help.

 

[Bazza]

Whenever I encounter that situation - I do not hesitate to say: "Could you please repeat that and a little slower this time? I cannot understand what you just said."

I'll say it twenty times in a row if I have to.......

But I always remain polite and patient. It's not their fault - don't shoot the messenger!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

As mentioned in another thread I am moving to another apartment. When did the start including a washer and dryer in the units? When I first moved off campus, it just wasn't a thing and now they all come with them. What is worse the claim the washer and dryer are "full size". They are tiny where you cannot wash all your clothes and you sure cannot wash a comforter. If I want to use my own, I have to pay to store theirs or store mine if I use theirs or sell mine that are 6 years old and get practically nothing.

 

[Elefantman]

I had to stay in a condo a couple of months for work once. It had the small stackable washer and dryer. It took about three hours to wash and dry a load. And you can't jam them full, so what takes our full size machines a couple of hours is an all day affair for the small ones.