Ranting and Raving

[Ubu]

This is the place to vent your frustrations.  Have at it!!

Post your rant here.

[Snagg]

It's "Fala", Larr.

Are you Ohioans raised in barns'r sumpin'? Jeesh.

[larry kremis]

I suppose you were raised in a house.

[Snagg]

Why, yes I was. In a nice little hole in a hidden room in the basement. Lotsa privacy. It's how I developed most of my social skills. Good Times....

[Ubu]

After another day of no work and taking care of my dad's paperwork, I'm going with Olivia's rant. Being subjected to music I'd rather not have to listen to, being put on hold, messages about not being in the office, leave a message and voice recognition questioning, ARGH. I guess it did fine tune my enunciation a bit. I really wanted to say "yep" and "okie dokie" but that would have meant I'd have to start over again and why would the ladies voice say "oh, and by the way, if....yakity yak." Oh so I've got to redo the request for my dad's misplaced social security card? A photocopy of an eighty-seven year old man's non-driver's license is not sufficient? I have to actually mail it in? He's really a threat to our national security, isn't he?

[larry kremis]

While on hold, please keep in mind that your call is important to them.

[Callipyge]

Technical support people are a PITA to deal with!

I had to put in a call about a malfunctioning datalogger at work.

Well, I tried to put in a call, but after a looooong time on hold I decided to try their tech chatline.

After a loooong time of staring at the screen which said "Please wait, someone will be with you shortly" I decided to simply send an email to them.

I've dealt with tech people before. Their first order of business is to try and blame anything and everything except their product. So, in the email I stated that I'd already changed the battery, and that I'd been able to successfully download information from the other dataloggers, so it couldn't be the data cable or the port or the computer.

You know what their response was?

"Our records indicate that your unit is 11 months old, and therefore is probably in need of a fresh battery. Please try changing the battery."

Can I claim workman's comp for the bump on my head that I got from banging it on my desk??

[Ubu]

You should have immediately dropped to the floor and moaned until someone saw you. Then saying, "Mom, is that you?" would have been a nice touch.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

I'm retired, I live in a motorhome with a big black hairy dog that loves me. I'm currently on the gulf coast riding out a cold wave that may get all the way down to 48 degrees. Ain't life a bitch?
Can you tell I'm ranting?

[Ubu]

You need to find the bragging thread. ;-) You're on the wrong thread again.

[Aggie]

Somewhere in Texas.

[Aggie]

It was all them friends stopping you to take a look at you.

[Ubu]

It was just dandy.