Me and my SO get State Farm. We’ve been with Geico forever and are content, yet every week, we get another letter. This gets pitched into the garbage unopened.
Once I sent them back their letter with a nice note. “Please stop sending me your mail.” I got another one next week.
Then I sent back another letter. “Stop sending me your mail. You have sent so many to this address I will never, ever go to State Farm.”
I got another one next week.
Then I gave up, but not before stuffing all my junk mail into their prestamped envelope and sending it back.
I got another one next week. it had no envelope in it.
Please take me off your damned e-mail lists. The fact that I occasionally e-mail customers in Mexico does not mean I’m interested in getting e-mails advertizing office supplies, clothing, and other random crap from you. I live in Michigan, which if you’ll check a map is really quite far from Mexico, so I almost certainly will not be stopping by your stores to do any of my shopping. Also, I have never once sent an e-mail in Spanish, so why you think I’m interested in receiving them in Spanish is beyond me. This a business e-mail address, so I really don’t want any spam from anyone, much less spam I can’t read.
While you’re deleting my name from your lists, could you please let me know which numbnuts sold my e-mail address to you, so I can call the army base down the street and arrange a drone strike on his company?
Presumably the situation has resolved one way or the other by now. However, in my experience doctors and ERs would much rather have you show up with “only” anxiety than to have you show up with a real heart attack or other emergency too late for them to help you. IMHO you should definitely discuss this issue with your doctor.
Your card states “buy 10 get one free”. When I buy two drinks at one time, I’m expecting two punches, not one. This card was your idea, not mine. I’m not going to argue with you or give my daughter cash to buy her drink and get another card punched. Why bother? Your boba tea is just like anyone else’s. I’m just going to go down the street to your competitor.
That’s actually genius! I’m totally going to use that next time
It’s horrible, isn’t it. I hope you’re feeling better, and I second what MLS said. If you’re in doubt, get it checked out. Doctors would much rather see you about anxiety than not see you about a more dangerous condition.
Preach it! It’s going to be 95, with a RealFeem[sup]TM[/sup] of 105 where i work today. At least i’m inside all day.
And while i’m here, fuck Amazon.
I got a notice from them a couple of weeks back telling me that the app for streaming Amazon Video through my LG blu-ray player would not be available after September 14. Apparently the loss of functionality is a product of the fact that Amazon “continually seek to improve our service.” :rolleyes:
By that, we mean “screw over people with functioning equipment so that they will buy something new.” This player is less than four years old. How hard can it be for a company the size of Amazon to maintain the app. It’s not like an app for channeling video from their server through my player is particularly complicated, by the standards of computer programs.
The last night came the cherry on top. I got a final reminder that there’s less than a week before my app expires, along with an offer to buy an Amazon Fire TV stick (quelle surprise!!!) at a small discount.
Fuck off. I’ll use my little HTPC. If i didn’t have one, i’d buy a Roku or something first, and i would go out of my way NOT to buy it from Amazon.
For me, it’s Comcast Xfinity. Which is apparently scientific notation for how many advertisements they’re willing to send out to get your business back. I usually get one or two a week. And I suppose I’d be tempted by the promise of $250 gift cards, tablets, and a year of cheap cable if a) I didn’t know that they were going to jack up the rates at the end of that year and, more importantly, b) Comcast hasn’t earned its place on the list of the most hated corporation in American for nothing these past few years. Verizon isn’t cheap, but their quality is fine and their service has been quite good.
So I just bin the Xfinity solicitations knowing that every time I do so, that there goes another dollar that could have been trimmed off some Comcast subscriber’s monthly bill.
My scanner is old. It’s also perfectly functioning so long as I keep the netbook (that’s simpler than installing virtual Windows XP in a different computer). Because, you see, Canon doesn’t make drivers for anything newer than XP.
I’m not buying a new scanner just because Canon wants to sell me one, and if I ever buy a new scanner I’ll go through the catalog of every other company on Earth before I look at Canon models, damnit.
You’re lucky that you actually have a choice of provider and can make a decision like this. Like a huge percentage of Americans, i have basically one choice when it comes to internet service.
Luckily for me, Cox has actually been very good over the past seven years in terms of network reliability and downtime, but if they sucked there would be basically nothing i could do about it, and i also have no choice but to bend over and take their periodic price increases. I can’t threaten to go somewhere else, because there’s nowhere to go, and they know it.
Sure AT&T periodically advertises in my area, but their DSL speeds are a joke. In my neighborhood—a densely-populated urban area in San Diego (the 8th largest city, in the 17th largest metro area in the United States)—the best that AT&T can do is 1.5Mbps. In today’s internet world, that might as well be dial-up.
Time-Warner Cable operates in San Diego County, but rather than actually compete, Cox and TWC basically decided, with the cooperation of local authorities, to split up the county between them. Here’s a map of the city, and here’s one of the county, showing how it works. As you can see, there are a few small areas where the two providers overlap, but most people have to just take one or the other and be happy with whatever level of pricing and service they offer.
And just how does such an arrangement not violate anti-trust laws? I’ve wondered about that where I live, where what cable/internet you can get depends on what part of town you’re in.
Yeah, we were one of the first markets for FIOS, which is probably why Comcast is so desperate to have me return. Although, to be fair, Verizon has steadily increased their rates and thrown in bullshit extra fees quite regularly over the past few years and I was sorely tempted to kick them to the curb this past year. Instead, I called and bitched them out and, at the cost of locking in service for another two years, did get the latest fee increase reduced to an only moderately irritating $5.00 extra/month. Really, if it wasn’t for the actual quality difference between copper and fiber, I probably would have gone ahead and switched back. (The two year lock-in is another hilarious reason why Comcast is pissing away their advertising dollars.)
Note to Verizon if you guys are listening – this is why I still haven’t gotten a smart phone. I’ve seen what you do to customers once you’ve gaffed them, and there’s only so many regulatory adjustment we-don’t-count-these-when-quoting-our-prices fees I want to fork over to my local phone company.
I interviewed with you twelve fucking times for two different positions. That’s over 36 hours of interviewing for a well-paying, but definitely not CEO-level paying job. Both times I received stellar feedback. So when my recruiter called yesterday, I started cleaning out my current desk in my mind, only to be told that one job’s requisition was lost (because you interviewed over three months to fill it and the budget fell through) and the other was 'being changed to meet an internal candidate’s skill set. Eff you all!
I told the recruiter that I would never interview with this Nazi bank again and to ensure that they knew it. Same thing happened last year, so at this point, I’d have to be in foreclosure before I’d even consider an interview with them.
My nephew is a brat. He’s right around 3. I’ve had two kids. I get it - that’s prime brat time. But holy fuck, overlysister and BIL, the solution to your kid throwing a tantrum in public because he wants to eat all his one-year-old brother’s cheerios is not to give him the cheerios he’s shrieking about or to turn on your phone so he can watch a movie, it’s to take him the fuck out of the restaurant until he stops throwing a tantrum.
Granted, my kids are a few years older (though not yet even in double digits), so maybe I’m making this shit up, but delivering, “Oh, sweetie! Don’t spit on your cousins!” in a sing-songy voice just doesn’t prevent your kid from spitting on his cousins. Cuddling him and saying, “I know you’re sad that your cousins don’t want to play with you,” does NOT change the fact that his cousins do not want to play with him because he just kicked one of them three times.
UGH, lady - I know you don’t like the idea of your children being sad, but that one is going to be a hell of a lot sadder when his friends won’t hang out with him anymore because he kicks them and spits on them when they won’t do his bidding.
Thanks MLS, I did. I have a week long murder trial in two months. I expect a lot of fun anxiety symptoms between now and then. But I am having my thyroid nodes re-inspected as well. Just in case.
