After seeing the second of two Pit threads, I have to start this one. People, if you failed to read something important, don’t start whining about the consequences of your failure.
In Fucking Robbing AOHell Bastards!, the OP ranted on how he didn’t read AOL’s agreement and didn’t like it that AOL didn’t understand his method of canceling service. Note: I do not use AOL nor work for AOL nor like AOL, but I can read agreements.
In Give me my day in court, or go fuck yourselves (long), the OP ranted on how he failed to read the speeding ticket and was mad that he had to take a day off of work to plead not guilty (although the rest of the rant, IMHO, is valid).
So, no more fucking rants about failing a school assignment since you failed to follow the explicit directions and the “asshat” professor didn’t make an exception for you. No more piss-poor whines about getting arrested by the “jackbooted Nazi” police when you were protesting illegally. No poor diaper-filled complaints about the fees (disclosed in the documents you signed when you opened your account) your bank charged you when you bounced checks since you never balanced your checkbook.
What the fuck happened to personal responsibility? You are an adult, you fucked up, deal with it - don’t complain about it. Be an adult - suck it up.
The Pit serves the useful purpose, IMO, of letting people vent, even when they’re primarily at fault. It’s funny to read instances where someone is clearly at fault himself, yet availing himself of the Pit to blow off steam. Sometimes, I like those rants best of all.
That said, I do share your frustration in the lack of ownership we seem increasingly encouraged to take for stuff that’s clearly our own personal responsibility.
And in those rants, the OP should include something like “I’m a goat-felching idiot for not reading ‘X’ but when ‘Company A’ does ‘Z’, it steams me like a freshly deposited pile of cow dung on a cool summer morn.”
Fuck that. Organizations have a long history of making up rules and regulations that are solely designed to make it difficult for the consumer to get something done that isn’t in the best interest of the company.
Government organizations that do that are right at the top of my shit list. They can and should be lambasted for making it difficult for people to assert their rights. Nobody should have to take 2 or 3 days off work to plead not guilty to a traffic ticket. I’ve gotten parking tickets that were flat out wrong - I’d been parked legally according to the fucking sign right next to my car - but in order to protest them I had to show up at a certain time on a certain date in a city 50 miles from where I lived. It shouldn’t fucking have to be that hard to say “hey, that ticket is WRONG!”
More than one company goes out of it’s way to make life difficult when you want to protest a charge or cancel service. Right now, I’m paying $5/month to a Web hosting service that I don’t use, because I can’t fucking find a way to contact them to stop the service. I’ve sent emails; no answer. I’ve searched their Web site for instructions; there’s none. No phone number can be found. I’m gonna fucking complain if given the chance, no doubt about it.
I don’t fucking care if it says in small print on my agreement that in order to cancel service X I have to wait on hold for 45 minutes, submit my cancellation request in triplicate, and blow the CEO. I’m not gonna do it. I’m gonna complain when they want me to do it. If they don’t like it, they can bite my ass - they didn’t have to make the procedure so fucking difficult and time consuming that I need to hire a brain surgeon to do it. I’m gonna bitch at the “customer service rep” when I get transferred 5 times, disconnected twice, and forced to listen to sales pitches when all I want to do is cancel my subscription.
Fuck that. Organizations have a long history of making up rules and regulations that are solely designed to make it difficult for the consumer to get something done that isn’t in the best interest of the company.
Government organizations that do that are right at the top of my shit list. They can and should be lambasted for making it difficult for people to assert their rights. Nobody should have to take 2 or 3 days off work to plead not guilty to a traffic ticket. I’ve gotten parking tickets that were flat out wrong - I’d been parked legally according to the fucking sign right next to my car - but in order to protest them I had to show up at a certain time on a certain date in a city 50 miles from where I lived. It shouldn’t fucking have to be that hard to say “hey, that ticket is WRONG!”
More than one company goes out of it’s way to make life difficult when you want to protest a charge or cancel service. Right now, I’m paying $5/month to a Web hosting service that I don’t use, because I can’t fucking find a way to contact them to stop the service. I’ve sent emails; no answer. I’ve searched their Web site for instructions; there’s none. No phone number can be found. I’m gonna fucking complain if given the chance, no doubt about it.
I don’t fucking care if it says in small print on my agreement that in order to cancel service X I have to wait on hold for 45 minutes, submit my cancellation request in triplicate, and blow the CEO. I’m not gonna do it. I’m gonna complain when they want me to do it. If they don’t like it, they can bite my ass - they didn’t have to make the procedure so fucking difficult and time consuming that I need to hire a brain surgeon to do it. I’m gonna bitch at the “customer service rep” when I get transferred 5 times, disconnected twice, and forced to listen to sales pitches when all I want to do is cancel my subscription.
Fuck that. Organizations have a long history of making up rules and regulations that are solely designed to make it difficult for the consumer to get something done that isn’t in the best interest of the company.
Government organizations that do that are right at the top of my shit list. They can and should be lambasted for making it difficult for people to assert their rights. Nobody should have to take 2 or 3 days off work to plead not guilty to a traffic ticket. I’ve gotten parking tickets that were flat out wrong - I’d been parked legally according to the fucking sign right next to my car - but in order to protest them I had to show up at a certain time on a certain date in a city 50 miles from where I lived. It shouldn’t fucking have to be that hard to say “hey, that ticket is WRONG!”
More than one company goes out of it’s way to make life difficult when you want to protest a charge or cancel service. Right now, I’m paying $5/month to a Web hosting service that I don’t use, because I can’t fucking find a way to contact them to stop the service. I’ve sent emails; no answer. I’ve searched their Web site for instructions; there’s none. No phone number can be found. I’m gonna fucking complain if given the chance, no doubt about it.
I don’t fucking care if it says in small print on my agreement that in order to cancel service X I have to wait on hold for 45 minutes, submit my cancellation request in triplicate, and blow the CEO. I’m not gonna do it. I’m gonna complain when they want me to do it. If they don’t like it, they can bite my ass - they didn’t have to make the procedure so fucking difficult and time consuming that I need to hire a brain surgeon to do it. I’m gonna bitch at the “customer service rep” when I get transferred 5 times, disconnected twice, and forced to listen to sales pitches when all I want to do is cancel my subscription.
And you’re right - 100% and I will agree with your rant. It shouldn’t be so hard to fight a ticket. BUT if it takes you another day since YOU DIDN’T READ THE FUCKING TICKET then shut the fuck up about the extra day. If you read the OP, I agreed with the rest of the rant.
And nobody is holding a gun to your head making you sign up with the service. You did it willingly. If you don’t agree with the contract DON’T FUCKING SIGN IT. They have the right to make the rules as complicated as they want. You have the right to not use them. However, if you are bitching that the customer service reps are idiots and don’t know what they are doing, that is something different.
Sorry if I irked you there. Playing a little joke. Obviously your OP had nothing to do with politics. If I had read the OP maybe I would have known that.
I swear to God, I hit submit TWICE. Yup, TWICE. The first time, I got an error. Fine - sometimes things get posted even though you get an error. I refreshed the thread to see if my post indeed got posted. Nope, it wasn’t there. So I reposted. Once.
Don’t ask me how it got there 3 times, I didn’t do it, honest!
Athena mearly suffered from the effect of too much legal nose pulling and now sends everything in triplicate just to be sure;) Eonwe that was a good whoosh.
Let people rant even if it is their own misstake, it can be fun to read.
Well, this is a quote from the traffic ticket rant:
I didn’t personally read this as ranting about the extra day so much as ranting about the process in general. You can plead not guilty, but only under very restrictive circumstances that are not used for the guilty plea. They set the whole damn thing up to me as troublesome as possible to plead not guilty. There is no reason to have the 48hr deadline other than to make it hard to plead not guilty. It took them over a YEAR to process his not guilty plea through the first step, why would a few extra days at the start make any difference at all?