Coporate America, I have a request...

The BBQ Pit
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Would you, could you, **Please. Stop. Fucking. Me. **

Arrgh!!! I’m getting tired of Companies screwing me every fucking chance they get. I mean what the fucking hell happened to a fair service at a fair price? Three examples for you:

Last Valentines Day, my wife and I went to SF for dinner where we were meeting another couple. We’d decided to pay my stepson to watch The Boys overnight. So we pack an overnight bag and take the Ferry to San Francisco, then take a cab to the Hyatt. We check in and go to the room to have uh, settle in you know. While were putting our things away I call home on the hotel phone so that DJ will have the number to reach us if he can’t get through on our cells. I then unthinkingly also call Gerald (half of the couple meeting us later). We have a great night out, great seafood, great wait-staff, good dancing, and later great sex.

The next morning I’m about to check out. I use the remote to turn to the bill screen on the TV. What. The. Fuck. $32. Honey did you call someone in Morocco? No, how about the Space Station? Those assholes have charged me Thirty-Two Dollars for Two Freaking Calls. Grrr!!!

In a thread a while back I mentioned my brother who I wanted to send to Mom. I go to Greyhound and buy him one of those $99.00 Any Time tickets form Oakland to Asheville. To make a long story short, he’s not going. I’d already changed the original schedule once and was told “Don’t worry, when he’s ready to go, he’ll need to pay a $10.00 rescheduling fee. That’s it? That’s it. Fine, I think, that’s not bad. I should have known. Like I said he’s not going. Last weekend I call Greyhound. The following is more or less the transcript:

Hi, I have this ticket that I’m not going to be using…

Is it an Any Time ticket?

Yes, anyway like I was saying…

Those tickets are non-refundable, and if they’re not used in 30 days, they’re no good.

Wait a minute, this other rep told me, wherein I then reiterated the other phone call.

Well, I don’t know about that, but those tickets are non-refundable, and if they’re not used in 30 days, they’re no good. It says so in the printing on the back.

You mean to tell me I’ve made a donation to your company.

Sorry.

Somebody please tell me that this can’t possibly be Fucking Legal!!!

I run a small business. I use Fed-Ex almost exclusively unless I’m shipping out of the States. They’re reliable, but most of all their when I send something COD, I get my check in two days instead of whenever they feel like sending as practiced by UPS. I was talking to my area rep, because of a problem on my bill. A fact made harder as they charge their bill directly to my company credit-card, and so its hard to do any real itemization. For the longest my shipping charges and the shipping bills haven’t corresponded. A difference of about $400 a month, for which I’ve been contemplating a handling charge. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what he problem was. So I was requesting an open account so that I’d be able to vet the bills more reliably. So I’m discussing this with my rep today when he says off-handedly. “You know you’d save money by having a scheduled pick up”

What?

Do you ship everyday?

Yes.

Well if you have a daily pickup instead of scheduling, Fed Ex charges you $4 a package when you do it your way.

No one mentioned that.

Your old rep didn’t tell you?

I’ve never even seen my old rep; he never returned my calls. The driver never mentioned it either and he’s here everyday. I can’t even begin to guess how many times I’ve called and no one’s mentioned this. These fucks have been milking me this way for nearly a year.

**WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE PASS THE FUCKING K-Y? **

:mad: :mad: :mad:

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I notice you didn’t mention your health insurance company’s huge, barbed, acid-spewing cock which they ram in every available orfice before denying you treatment and raising your premiums for having the audacity to suggest that nasal insertion of huge, barbed, acid-spewing cocks might require a doctor’s visit.

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Suck it up, bub. That’s the free market for you, and don’t you be criticizing the free market 'cos only doped up hippie peaceniks and pinko terrorists criticise the free market.

Corporations owe it to their stockholders to make as much money as possible so in reality they have a duty to fuck you until the gold fillings in your teeth fall out.

Forget all the BS your liberal fag pinko college may have rammed down your throat about fair play and consumer rights ‘cos there’s money to be made you Saddam lovin’ socialist bum! Get a job! Get some money! Corporations are good and the pursuit of profit a just and noble quest. Consider yourself a casualty of war and until you’re willing to cough up 56 bucks for a tube of KY to ease your tender cornhole and pray to God and Sonny Jesus to take care of our dear, dear corporations while you do it I’ll be ashamed to call myself an American!

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vibrotronica Don’t get me started insurance companies.

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You called from the hotel phone? Without your calling card? I didn’t know anyone was dumb enough to still do that. LOL.

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I’m so with you Stuffy.

I say its time for politicians in this country to stop spending our money to ‘protect’ us from, communists. It seems to me they got their hands full with poets and exercise cults.

What we really need is protection from the Capitalists.

What about this:

Where I live, you can get cable TV and cable computer access from the same company. A company which holds a monopoly and is loathed and despised far and wide, as indeed, are all cable companies.

Here’s the thing if you get the computer access but NOT the cable TV it’s $10 more.
WTF?

I would understand if they offered a discount on one service if you took both. But I pay a higher cost for the same product because I DON’T want your other product.

That’s like MacDonalds saying the Big Mac costs a dollar extra if you’re not having fries!

What the hell is that?
How is that right?
How is that legal?
How do these people sleep at night?

I’m serious, I pay enough taxes damn it.
Screw gun control, protect me from these rat Bastards.

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In 1996 AT&T went to the Texas PUC to make all calls to cell numbers “toll calls”. The PUC denied it because by law all “toll calls” must begin with either a 1 or 0. In 1997 AT&T instituted this illegal policy and fleeced Texas residents for millions. Their single largest customer was(of course) the State of Texas and guess who the governor was.

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I hate to say this but if you don’t read the details of what you are agreeing to then it is your own problem.

Actually, on second thought, I don’t hate to say that.

You agreed to a contract in each case and you didn’t know the details of the contract. It ain’t the companies fault. It is yours.

Suck it up and in the future read the back of your tickets, check out the billing details and know ahead of time what the charges are going to be.

Also Read_Neck, let me get this straight. AT&T broke the law in Texas and it is Bush’s fault because he was in office? Sorry but Bush is not the source of all evil.

Slee

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Cool!! My very first time to tagged as a Bush-basher. Makes me feel slimy all over. This AT&T thing probably deserves it’s own thread so forgive the small hijack but when you file formal charges with the Texas PUC,Texas Attorney Generals Office and the FCC over a fraudulent $28,000 AT&T bill. Then you send copies to your State Senator,State Representative and the Governors office by certified mail and receive zero response somethings rotten.

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Yeah, sounds like it.

I know what you mean about hotels, though. One I stay at sometimes won’t even turn on the phone for 800 numbers without a deposit. It also wants to charge something like a dollar plus a call, no matter where the number is, plus long-distance charges if applicable, I’m sure. Oh, and the internet costs $10 a day, as does having a refrigerator.

So, I live without these three things when I’m there. Having the phone off keeps me from making the mistake of calling from it.

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I have a better idea sleestak I just won’t be doing business with any of the companies besides Fed-ex in the future. I like that better.

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Stuffy geez, you Fed-Ex reps were total boobs! The driver who picks up our packages always tells us ways we can save money.

And elbows I know and loooooathe the company of which you speak. The result? I refuse to have cable TV (and strangely, my bunny ears pick up the stations of the tiny few TV shows I watch) and my monthly DVD rentals have ended up costing roughly the same, but I can better guarantee I get to watch what I really want to watch for the same cost. And I can smugly enjoy the knowledge that the Evil Swine aren’t getting a dime of my money.

Sniffs_Markers has also cancelled her cable denying the Evil Swine any business.

We don’t miss cable at all (well, we kind of miss the History Channel, but hey, we have library cards.)

The Evil Swine are also forbidden from contacting the business where I work. We filed a complaint with the CRTC because they were calling us once a week for months after they were told to put us on the do not call list. We told them to put us on their do not call list because the business refuses to have anything to do with them either.

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Uh, Stuffy, I agree with you and when the revolution comes the folks you ranted about will be the first against the wall and all that, but just for the sake of clarification: You had your cell with you and you still called from the hotel phone?

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Yeah, I had it with me, but I still wnated my stepson to have the hotel number, the most reliable way to do that is to call from that phone, that way he can lock it into the caller ID, the other call was plain stupidity on my part.

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elbows, I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean that the cost for TV and Internet access combined is less than the cost for just internet access? If so, and if it’s worth it for just the cable internet, buy 'em both and just leave your TV unhooked if you don’t want the cable.

If you mean that internet costs $x and tv costs y and both together cost (x+y-10), isn’t that exactly the “discount” that you claimed you’d understand?

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On behalf of all of “Coporate America,” I apoligize to you, ** Stuffy**. :smiley:

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Hotel phone charges are clearly marked in the directory of services in every room.

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On behalf of all of “Coporate America,” I would just like to say SIZE=8]MUHAHAHAHAHA![[/SIZE].

Just wanted you to know that I will be using a $20 you spent on those calls to light my Cuban cigar while my driver takes me around town in my limo. The rest I will probably throw into my money bin or use to buy a new monocle made from rhinocerous cornea or a baby seal top hat or something.

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I mean
MUHAHAHAHAHA!!![.

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No, No.

Here’s how they have it set up.

Internet access; $50 per month.

Cable Tv; $35 per month.

If you don’t want the cable Tv then Internet access is an extra $10 per month.

That, seems to me akin to going to dine in a restaurant and being told your entree will cost you an extra $5 because you’re not ordering dessert.

I would be both familiar and comfortable with the concept of the vendor offering a discount if you get both services, but this is sort of the exact opposite of that.

And I think it sucks. I think it’s bad business and I think it’s politician’s jobs to protect us from these bastards instead of serving us up on a platter.