Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore
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Thanks, Cutlass. I'll keep it in mind, although considering the circumstances of this situation, it didn't get far enough that I'd have had any kind of chance of using it accurately anyway.
I'd have had to aim and operate it with my left hand, and I'm right-handed.
But it's something to think about if this jerk doesn't get evicted or if some other jerk moves in. I already don't go out as much as I used to, and dogs aren't allowed in this building unless they're service animals.
I'd have had to aim and operate it with my left hand, and I'm right-handed.
But it's something to think about if this jerk doesn't get evicted or if some other jerk moves in. I already don't go out as much as I used to, and dogs aren't allowed in this building unless they're service animals.
There's even specialised shaving soap.
The security system at my building is glitching. I couldn't get in the front door.
Thank goodness my old neighbor upstairs was home. I buzzed her suite to ask her to let me in.
WTH ELSE IS GOING TO GO WRONG AROUND HERE!!!
Thank goodness my old neighbor upstairs was home. I buzzed her suite to ask her to let me in.
WTH ELSE IS GOING TO GO WRONG AROUND HERE!!!
3.5 months going, still no internet ... and now this:I ordered internet at provider X.
Which is fine.
The problem was that my neighbour in the same building had internet at provider X.
So they cancelled his contract when I ordered (because one address, and for sure there can only be living one person).
He complained about it.
So they cancelled my contract.
Because there apparently can only be one.
Brilliant internal communication.
So what did I do: I ordered internet at another provider.
Yesterday, I got the bill from provider X.
About 330€. Because i cancelled my contract premature, I have to pay for the whole thing, for the whole remaining 11 months 30€ per month.
I thought "naaa", that's an error from the system, it was their fault.
Now I was just for like 20 minutes at the phone with provider X, where the callcenter agent insisted that either I need to cancel my contract at the other provider, or I have to pay the bill.
And for sure, if I did the first thing, they'd make sure that it works with 2 people at the same address.
As if I believed that.
I complained long enough that this got at least escalated. Let's see what happens.
Seriously
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Akka
Moody old mage.
I think you can simply go tell them to stuff it.
Hopefully your obnoxious home-invading neighbour won't find anybody to let *him* in.The security system at my building is glitching. I couldn't get in the front door.
Thank goodness my old neighbor upstairs was home. I buzzed her suite to ask her to let me in.
WTH ELSE IS GOING TO GO WRONG AROUND HERE!!!
Consumer laws, man. Of course their call center will tell you to pay, that's what they're there for.
So Provider X canceled your contract, but are trying to make you pay for it being canceled when you're not the one who did it?
I ordered internet at provider X.
Which is fine.
The problem was that my neighbour in the same building had internet at provider X.
So they cancelled his contract when I ordered (because one address, and for sure there can only be living one person).
He complained about it.
So they cancelled my contract.
Because there apparently can only be one.
Brilliant internal communication.
So what did I do: I ordered internet at another provider.
Yesterday, I got the bill from provider X.
About 330€. Because i cancelled my contract premature, I have to pay for the whole thing, for the whole remaining 11 months 30€ per month.
I thought "naaa", that's an error from the system, it was their fault.
Now I was just for like 20 minutes at the phone with provider X, where the callcenter agent insisted that either I need to cancel my contract at the other provider, or I have to pay the bill.
And for sure, if I did the first thing, they'd make sure that it works with 2 people at the same address.
As if I believed that.
I complained long enough that this got at least escalated. Let's see what happens.
Seriously
That has to be illegal.
Here in Canada, if something like this goes on too long without resolution, people are increasingly turning to Go Public, which is part of the CBC's investigative journalism department. Their focus is on helping people who have lost money in scams, to crooked moving companies, telecoms who gouge (like yours is trying to do to you), shady funeral homes, etc. And surprise! Most companies settle, as soon as they realize that the irate customer has complained to the national broadcaster and they're being publicly named and shamed over this, by either canceling the charges they're trying to gouge the customer for, or offer some other resolution.
I was tempted to go to them over my cable TV situation a few months ago when they kept trying to charge me fees I knew I wasn't obligated to pay, the leasing agent here knew I wasn't obligated to pay, yet two months' of phone calls and emails weren't getting anywhere. Thankfully it finally did get settled so I didn't have to pay it, but it was stressful.
Unfortunately, his wife probably would, or a neighbor. I used to get calls from my next door neighbor lady upstairs, saying she'd "left her key in the apartment" and couldn't get into the building. It always made me wonder how she expected to get into the suite if she had no key, because the building keycards (they operate the front and back door, the parkade entrance, and the door to the fitness room) and the suite keys are all issued together on the same keychain. With two adults living there, they should each have had a keycard and key, so this never made any sense to me.
Anyway, the problem has been solved. It was a glitch with my keycard, not the system. I went shopping last night and bought an organizer with magnets on the back to stick to my fridge. I was carrying it in a duffel bag, which must have been too close to my purse, and my keycards got deactivated. So of course they didn't work.
The manager fixed them this morning. But the person who let me in last night told me about how the elevator buttons stopped working for awhile some time back. Thankfully I never knew a thing about it, since unless I'm visiting someone on another floor, I never need to take the elevator anymore.
GenMarshall
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I feel like I have no sense of humor and cannot tell a joke. I have a hunch I lost it during my chronic depression.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Bought a friggin frozen lasagna from Walmart (yeah I know), and turns out it's chicken.
DISAPPOINTING
DISAPPOINTING
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Chicken's awesome. You won this gamble.
warpus
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It was the first time I ever had chicken lasagna, and it actually tasted like beef lasagna. I guess when you ground chicken and cook it like that and serve it in lasagna, it will taste like beef.
I mean eventually I got some chicken-y flavour in my mouth, but all in all it wasn't so bad. I just have no idea how I missed the giant "POULET" printed on the box.
I was sitting there in the kitchen putting the thing in the oven, and my roommate looks at the box and is like "You bought a chicken lasagna?".. and I was like... *looks at box* "I bought a chicken lasagna"
I mean eventually I got some chicken-y flavour in my mouth, but all in all it wasn't so bad. I just have no idea how I missed the giant "POULET" printed on the box.
I was sitting there in the kitchen putting the thing in the oven, and my roommate looks at the box and is like "You bought a chicken lasagna?".. and I was like... *looks at box* "I bought a chicken lasagna"
My grandmother used to make lasagna with turkey. 
Snerk
Smeghead
You're getting old then.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Five digits is small pickings. Stop paying attention to such puny things as postcount.
Post count is interesting. On some sites it confers greater privilege; I've been on forums where sufficiently high post counts grant access to hidden forums where rules that others have to follow outside that forum are relaxed inside the forum.
For instance, I've been quietly celebrating this week on the Star Trek forum I belong to: After over 10 years of (mostly) serious posts, on Sunday night I finally achieved that 8000th post that gives me the rank of Vice-Admiral, and access to the Admirals' Lounge. You can't get to any higher lounge there unless they create one for the full Admirals and Fleet Admirals (there are so few of those, however, that it will be years before it's needed). At my rate of posting, it'll take another 10 years to get the 16,000 posts needed for full Admiral and 20 years to get the 32,000 for Fleet Admiral.
So this has been a week of being welcomed and meeting people I don't usually encounter elsewhere on that forum. It's been rather nice, and quite friendly - quite a change from some of the other areas of that site, where I'm involved in an argument over whether Vulcan was or was not a monarchy (the "Vulcan princess" line in Star Trek V). On a Star Trek forum, such things are SERIOUS.
The matter of post count here? I'll admit to being annoyed about the lost post count every time a serial thread is archived. I try to do thoughtful, quality posts in those, as well as the non-serial threads, and don't appreciate the implication that they're not worth being a permanent part of my post count. So I should have much more than my current total.
But yeah, at first I didn't catch that this "5 digits" thing was about post count. My first thought was, "Okay, you're really not THAT old, although there are probably some days when you might feel like it (me, too; my left hand is giving me all kinds of painful back talk today; I can barely pick anything up with it)" and my second thought was, "The temperature is HOW high in BC today?!".
Don't fret, though. Depending on how active you are in the serial threads and elsewhere, your post count will drop.
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