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I found an appointment that the insurance chick magically didn't see and asked to be moved to it. It's actually hard to miss. It highlights every single day they had with an opening. Monday was one of those days and she somehow managed to miss the Wednesday opening as well to tell me I'd have to wait until Thursday, which is why I was going to be without it for 4 days, but now I'm just missing it for the first half of tomorrow.

Either way, when someone goes "here we will just take your car for a few days, you can use this rental that feels weird", the common response isnt "oh thats okay, I have rental coverage", it's "how about no, I'd prefer to use my car since there's no reason for you to keep it for more than a couple hours"

Originally posted by rams78110
I found an appointment that the insurance chick magically didn't see and asked to be moved to it. It's actually hard to miss. It highlights every single day they had with an opening. Monday was one of those days and she somehow managed to miss the Wednesday opening as well to tell me I'd have to wait until Thursday, which is why I was going to be without it for 4 days, but now I'm just missing it for the first half of tomorrow.

Either way, when someone goes "here we will just take your car for a few days, you can use this rental that feels weird", the common response isnt "oh thats okay, I have rental coverage", it's "how about no, I'd prefer to use my car since there's no reason for you to keep it for more than a couple hours"


As someone who has experienced a THIRTY day loss of a vehicle, I'd recommend that most folks elect the rental car coverage.

In the popular right now section on YouTube: Woman gives birth to 10lb baby in car (for those who want to watch the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEZ6g2WLoM ). The video is nothing special, I just laughed really hard at some of the comments on the video. Probably not that funny, I just have an odd sense of crude humor.

Originally posted by Matthew Starcher
will this be on the carfax?

Originally posted by Danny Lee
Imagine getting pulled over by a cop.

Cop: License and Registration please.
Mother: AWGHAHFLEIJALKSJDFLSJFLAFK
Cop: Ok, ma'm, you're clear to go.

Originally posted by BestFriendTabitha
Hopefully this selfish bitch chipped in on the detailing.

Originally posted by bloodsling
she sounds like me after I have indian food

Sometimes I love Amazon, but man they can be dicks to a company's lot tracking system. Customer first, supplier second.

Long story short:
Person watching our house while we were on vacation broke the base part of our coffee table. Not a big deal since it was an old piece of Ikea furniture from college days...I literally threw it out the front door and later used it as firewood. I end up ordering a replacement off Amazon (Romowoman just wanted a big leather ottoman) and it comes within a couple days.

Problem is that 1 of the legs doesn't match the set. So I call the company to have them send me the right leg and I get their customer service voicemail. Clearly a small business. No problem. A couple days go by and no response still, so I call again and end up leaving another voicemail. Again no response back in a few days.

So I contact Amazon, we cross-check phone numbers and everything is right. I explain the chore of having to repack/ship a coffee table and they volunteer that they'll send me a new coffee table, I can rip the leg out of the new one and they'll have the newly created reject all picked up by UPS.

All I can think of is the company's perspective with processing this reject. They're going to get this table returned with a missing part, but it'll be the wrong lot/packing code...this one will actually have been 100% good to go. The weight and quality checks when it shipped out their doors and across the country will all be correct. It will only be wrong on the return. Like this random guy in Ohio totally stole a table leg off them for no apparent reason.

When the Financial Aid Office at your university actually blames you for not forcing someone to do their job instead of conceding that that person should have done their job right

I have to take a loan with my bank because the person I was working with at the university didn't realize the paperwork we did was for the wrong goddamn semester. A week later when my aid doesn't come through I figure out what happened and the response I get repeatedly parroted back to me by their manager today is "Well I apologize for that but you did neglect to make sure the paperwork was correct and you should have asked him." Apparently I should have known the answer to every question I had and I should have known exactly what paperwork I needed ahead of time that way when I went in to see the person whos job it is to answer questions and get paperwork, I could have corrected them that they were wrong in their answer to my question and gave me the wrong paperwork when I asked what paperwork I needed.

Fuck it, my bank is more helpful anyway.

So does little shit like this happen disproportionately more often to me or am I the only one who hasn't been jaded by culture of professional mediocrity to the point these things no longer irritate/surprise me?

Originally posted by rams78110
So does little shit like this happen disproportionately more often to me or am I the only one who hasn't been jaded by culture of professional mediocrity to the point these things no longer irritate/surprise me?


No, I've noticed a slow decline in the performance of "professional" work over the last decade. I pretty much expect these days that any office I enter that I will be more "alert" about what ever business we're transacting than the person I'm working with will be. I say "alert" because even in instances where they possess inside knowledge or power, they tend not to be focused. I think we've cut resources at so many companies that we've in some ways gotten every organization to the point where each person can "do" the maximum number of interactions, but each of those interactions will now be a "5" (on a satisfaction scale of 1-10) rather than doing a smaller number of interactions but averaging a "7-8" type satisfaction score.

I hope that made sense.

Originally posted by rams78110
When the Financial Aid Office at your university actually blames you for not forcing someone to do their job instead of conceding that that person should have done their job right

I have to take a loan with my bank because the person I was working with at the university didn't realize the paperwork we did was for the wrong goddamn semester. A week later when my aid doesn't come through I figure out what happened and the response I get repeatedly parroted back to me by their manager today is "Well I apologize for that but you did neglect to make sure the paperwork was correct and you should have asked him." Apparently I should have known the answer to every question I had and I should have known exactly what paperwork I needed ahead of time that way when I went in to see the person whos job it is to answer questions and get paperwork, I could have corrected them that they were wrong in their answer to my question and gave me the wrong paperwork when I asked what paperwork I needed.

Fuck it, my bank is more helpful anyway.

Sounds like a case of being mad at the wrong people. Unless it was the bank that gave you the wrong papers, I'm not sure why it should matter to the bank where the wrong papers came from. You gave them the wrong papers.

You should be mad at the people who gave you the wrong papers, not the people who won't accept them. You're going the wrong way on the blame train.

Raising minimum wage is the solution.

Originally posted by Corndog
Sounds like a case of being mad at the wrong people. Unless it was the bank that gave you the wrong papers, I'm not sure why it should matter to the bank where the wrong papers came from. You gave them the wrong papers.

You should be mad at the people who gave you the wrong papers, not the people who won't accept them. You're going the wrong way on the blame train.

None of that story had to do with the bank; we filled all of this out at the school for financial aid through the school, and the school's worker gave me the wrong papers which were completed and returned to the school. They pissed me off when they blamed me for him not doing his job, so I said fuck it I'll just go get a deferred loan from my bank since they're not a punch of inept pricks.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader

No, I've noticed a slow decline in the performance of "professional" work over the last decade. I pretty much expect these days that any office I enter that I will be more "alert" about what ever business we're transacting than the person I'm working with will be. I say "alert" because even in instances where they possess inside knowledge or power, they tend not to be focused. I think we've cut resources at so many companies that we've in some ways gotten every organization to the point where each person can "do" the maximum number of interactions, but each of those interactions will now be a "5" (on a satisfaction scale of 1-10) rather than doing a smaller number of interactions but averaging a "7-8" type satisfaction score.

I hope that made sense.

Made sense to me and that's almost entirely what I experienced. At no point did I confound them with any question but they gave such ridiculously watered down and cover-their-ass answers to all of them instead of actually trying to help me, and I'm not sure the guy I originally worked with had any actual understanding of the process so much as he had an understanding of "grab papers, make person sign papers, give papers to boss, next person"

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
Raising minimum wage is the solution.

Or just not hiring morons.

I don't even have a bar for 'moron' anymore, the guy that fucked it all up is enrolled in the university as a work-study deal and he's directly supervised by a paid staff member.

uh, rams? is this your first experience with bureaucracy? don't get mad, learn to manipulate. show some cleavage if you have to.

Originally posted by rams78110
When the Financial Aid Office at your university actually blames you for not forcing someone to do their job instead of conceding that that person should have done their job right

I have to take a loan with my bank because the person I was working with at the university didn't realize the paperwork we did was for the wrong goddamn semester. A week later when my aid doesn't come through I figure out what happened and the response I get repeatedly parroted back to me by their manager today is "Well I apologize for that but you did neglect to make sure the paperwork was correct and you should have asked him." Apparently I should have known the answer to every question I had and I should have known exactly what paperwork I needed ahead of time that way when I went in to see the person whos job it is to answer questions and get paperwork, I could have corrected them that they were wrong in their answer to my question and gave me the wrong paperwork when I asked what paperwork I needed.

Fuck it, my bank is more helpful anyway.

It could be worse, you could have over 150k in medical bills a now useless degree, and collection notices which are raping the ever living shit out of your credit.