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Pet Peeves, let's hear them.
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All the letters I received were silent unless you count musical birthday cards.
People who leave shopping carts sitting in parking spots, usually 20 feet from a cart corral.
Pigs, all of them.
Pigs, all of them.
You know people who don't understand how computers and phones work?
Yes, but most letters include the words "final notice."
It just pisses me off looking at the crappy piss-poor photography GC takes for used instruments. I keep going there because of a huge selection and a no-hassle return policy but it's hard to tell what you're really looking at. Damn-it-man!
Hey, that sucker right there is worth 18 bucks! Bubbles will fix it up and sell it to the other store, that's how he makes his living
Yet another beef with DirecTV's customer service. I got an email last month saying Center Ice will automatically renew unless cancelled prior to the start of the season. So I called to cancel my Center Ice pkg back on Jan 1, two weeks before the season began. Today's bill shows the first installment is being billed.
Spent over 35 minutes with the CSR, who must own the slowest computers in the world. We were waiting for my account to load, waiting for the request to load, more waiting for the verification of the request to load, and finally the last 15 minutes waiting for a supervisor to OK the whole thing.
I told her I'm at work and can't be spending any more time on hold waiting for her supervisor, etc, especially when the mistake was on their end, not mine. Of course, they finally said they will issue a credit some time in the next two billing cycles (months). Which means I will have to pay the current $41 overcharge and hope they come through with the credit on their end. It's amazing how payments are instantaneous but crediting a customer takes months.
At least she didn't try to sell me yet another movie tier, which is their usual modus operandi.
Spent over 35 minutes with the CSR, who must own the slowest computers in the world. We were waiting for my account to load, waiting for the request to load, more waiting for the verification of the request to load, and finally the last 15 minutes waiting for a supervisor to OK the whole thing.
I told her I'm at work and can't be spending any more time on hold waiting for her supervisor, etc, especially when the mistake was on their end, not mine. Of course, they finally said they will issue a credit some time in the next two billing cycles (months). Which means I will have to pay the current $41 overcharge and hope they come through with the credit on their end. It's amazing how payments are instantaneous but crediting a customer takes months.
At least she didn't try to sell me yet another movie tier, which is their usual modus operandi.
I used to volunteer in the production dept. of a campus radio station so I understand your pain.
Perhaps “forget” to upload the show, or label if differently, and see how quickly the program director becomes your newest best friend!
Yet another beef with DirecTV's customer service. I got an email last month saying Center Ice will automatically renew unless cancelled prior to the start of the season. So I called to cancel my Center Ice pkg back on Jan 1, two weeks before the season began. Today's bill shows the first installment is being billed.
Spent over 35 minutes with the CSR, who must own the slowest computers in the world. We were waiting for my account to load, waiting for the request to load, more waiting for the verification of the request to load, and finally the last 15 minutes waiting for a supervisor to OK the whole thing.
I told her I'm at work and can't be spending any more time on hold waiting for her supervisor, etc, especially when the mistake was on their end, not mine. Of course, they finally said they will issue a credit some time in the next two billing cycles (months). Which means I will have to pay the current $41 overcharge and hope they come through with the credit on their end. It's amazing how payments are instantaneous but crediting a customer takes months.
At least she didn't try to sell me yet another movie tier, which is their usual modus operandi.
That’s a pet peeve of mine as well. I believe they are trying to outwait you. You have the clock but they have the time.
Also agree on the efficiency of their revenue collection vs the inefficiency of issuing refunds.
Another tv related one.
Seems like ME-TV and DECADESfor example, have this very bad habit of hacking up the intros to tv shows by running it through some time stretch/compression software so entire parts of the opening credits are missing and the tempo of the music goes up and down like a violent roller coaster.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGH!!!
Seems like ME-TV and DECADESfor example, have this very bad habit of hacking up the intros to tv shows by running it through some time stretch/compression software so entire parts of the opening credits are missing and the tempo of the music goes up and down like a violent roller coaster.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGH!!!
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I hate trying to close a pop-up ad on my tablet/phone by tapping on the X, repeatedly, yet it won't close.
I hate McAfee constantly reminding my my virus protection has expired by having a pop-up, and clicking on the X won't close it either, until it times out.
I hate McAfee constantly reminding my my virus protection has expired by having a pop-up, and clicking on the X won't close it either, until it times out.
People holding up lines when you want to pay for your gas playing lottery tickets and buying stacks of them.
