You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[DavidS877]

Calling companies usually never works. They are also usually rude, or speak in some had to understand accent.

My family has a vacation house, my parents went there and the internet was out, modem totally dead. I told them to call Xfinity and get a new one, there was a store in town so I expected they'd send them there to swap it. No, Xfinity decided to ship a new one, told them it would be there the next day. Apparently the next day is the middle of next week. As it's a vacation house they'll be home by then. Call Xfinity to redirect it, "nope, can't do that" So it will just sit on the porch and maybe get stolen before the next time they head out there. Tried to sign up for UPSes service but it doesn't believe they live there(which is true).

Luckily now they only need to get the modem to return it since the next time they visit they have internet from a different(probably just as shitty) company scheduled to install.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

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In a better world, "government" would always be "public servants" instead.

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

Government workers at all levels who never answer the phone, never return calls from voicemail, and hide behind security guards.

Court systems which force you to get excused or come to a courthouse for jury duty. Force you to take a day off work, drive to a place and waste everybody's time and money. Fucking judges who think they're gods. Idiots who are proud and happy to be chosen for jury duty when they know f-all about law or legal matters.

My job sucks. I'll take any legitimate excuse to take a day off

 

[Sugriva]

When you call a company trying to speak to an actual human being, you sit through ten minutes of the shitty robot dialogue options, and then it just tells you to go to their website and automatically hangs up.

Part 2: I finally managed to get connected to an actual human. Too bad they're a Pajeet who barely speaks English and I had to read off a 20 digit Router ID to them
Their incompetence of the English language turned what should have been a 5 minute call into a 30 minute exercise in frustration and wanting to nuke India.

 

[teriyakiburns]

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Nah, that's bullshit. The -ment suffix to a word means more like "by the mind", not "of the mind", but in this use it means more "in the manner of", in the sense that it's thinking the same way as a governor - which at the time was literally a ship's rudder. English natively uses -wise for a similar purpose. The term derives from Plato's ship of state, with "government" the thing that metaphorically steers it.

 

[Chump]

I feel immediately hostile when some one calls me buddy, guy, champ, pal or bro.

 

[teriyakiburns]

My energy provider keeps spamming me with requests to upgrade to a smart meter. They sent a very pretty japanese woman to try and convince me to get one, just the other day. I got another paper leaflet pushed through my door today. It's fucking sunday. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just being a luddite.

I feel immediately hostile when some one calls me buddy, guy, champ, pal or bro.

You okay there, friend?

 

[snailslime]

all the freakin' scam calls i get. i ignore every phone call now unless i recognize the number lol

 

[ToroidalBoat]

My energy provider keeps spamming me with requests to upgrade to a smart meter.

Good call on not "upgrading" and instead keeping a "non-standard" meter.

I heard "smart" meters can be health hazards, and that power companies make more money with "smart" meters.

i ignore every phone call now

On a landline it's impossible to tell if a call is a scam call.

So I just leave the ringer off unless I expect a call (lol).

(I miss when scam calls weren't a thing.)

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

all the freakin' scam calls i get. i ignore every phone call now unless i recognize the number lol

Just last week, I received nine scam calls in less than three hours. I try to avoid unrecognized numbers, but it's not always possible to screen them, and the scammers always seem to try calling again within 5-10 minutes with yet another spoofed numberand do so until they get an answer.

The other frustrating thing is having legitimate calls coming in on the caller ID as "Out of Area" or "(State) Call" and being hesitant to answer them because those also tend to appear for scam calls.

What's even worse is being on hold for over half an hour and then the call is just dropped.

This past fall, someone left a voice mail that sounded suspicious and scammy. So, i called the company directly to see if the call and message was legitimate. Between the menu tree and nobody knowing how to handle my simple question, I spent nearly three continuous hours on the phone. At one point, the battery in my cordless phone died and I had to hang up and start the process all over again on my mobile phone.

One shouldn't have to go through that much time or frustration to get a simple yes/no question answered.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

At one point, the battery in my cordless phone died and I had to hang up and start the process all over again on my mobile phone.

oh wow

Being on hold on a landline is crap enough, but on a mobile?

Do not want

 

[snailslime]

Just last week, I received nine scam calls in less than three hours. I try to avoid unrecognized numbers, but it's not always possible to screen them, and the scammers always seem to try calling again within 5-10 minutes with yet another spoofed numberand do so until they get an answer.

The other frustrating thing is having legitimate calls coming in on the caller ID as "Out of Area" or "(State) Call" and being hesitant to answer them because those also tend to appear for scam calls.


This past fall, someone left a voice mail that sounded suspicious and scammy. So, i called the company directly to see if the call and message was legitimate. Between the menu tree and nobody knowing how to handle my simple question, I spent nearly three continuous hours on the phone. At one point, the battery in my cordless phone died and I had to hang up and start the process all over again on my mobile phone.

One shouldn't have to go through that much time or frustration to get a simple yes/no question answered.

the scammers that target me have gotten good enough at mimicking legitimate looking local numbers.

 

[DavidS877]

the scammers that target me have gotten good enough at mimicking legitimate looking local numbers.

If I get a call that looks local to my phone number I know it's a scam. My phone number is from where I lived 15 years ago. I don't know anyone there any more.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

What really sucks about this scam call BS is that being on the "Do Not Call" list doesn't stop them because they're scamming crooks.

The list really worked back in the '00s when the worst phone annoyance was (arguably) legit telemarketers.

 

[Shidoen]

What really sucks about this scam call BS is that being on the "Do Not Call" list doesn't stop them because they're scamming crooks.

The list really worked back in the '00s when the worst phone annoyance was (arguably) legit telemarketers.

Bro when I answered a call and said "Sup Homie" the guy on the phone asked if it was slang.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

the scammers that target me have gotten good enough at mimicking legitimate looking local numbers.

If I get a call that looks local to my phone number I know it's a scam.

About 99% of the time I receive a call that's local to my phone number and the caller ID information is generic, it's either a scam call or someone who doesn't bother leaving a message if I chose not to answer.

What really sucks about this scam call BS is that being on the "Do Not Call" list doesn't stop them because they're scamming crooks.

What's frustrating me is that when I first converted a phone number I use from a landline to mobile last year, at about the same time STIR-SHAKEN was rolled out, the crap calls dropped to a trickle. When 01 Jan 2022 rolled around, the number of scam calls started increasing again as if the scammers somehow figured out how to circumvent the system. The only plus is that my phone provider adds a circled green checkmark to identify calls that it deems legitimate, but it's not helpful when you receive or expect legitimate calls from people not in your contact list.

The only upside out of all of this is my provider is flagging more calls with generic information as a scam/spam suspicion.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

About 99% of the time I receive a call that's local to my phone number and the caller ID information is generic, it's either a scam call or someone who doesn't bother leaving a message if I chose not to answer.

These scammers are pretty much destroying the medium of phone calls by making everyone wary of answering the phone.

Also how can they call so much?

I guess it's because automation tech enables mass dialing, then the crooks behind the automation talk to anyone who answers.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

When I answer my phone, I say nothing and keep the mic covered. If a human speaks, I will give them a chance and find out if they're a solicitor. If it's a pajeet or a recording, I hang up and hit the hand dandy "block number" button. Sometimes it's fun to troll them first though, TBH.

thread tax: I hate how most parents no longer teach their kids that it's not okay to scream bloody murder unless they're in some kind of danger. It's the fault of those shitty parents that kids can now get kidnapped or lose a limb in broad daylight and no one will bother looking to see if they're okay. If I checked outside every time it sounded like a kid was in mortal danger, I'd never get to sit down or get anything done.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

These faggots on twitter.

 

[The Last Stand]

These faggots on twitter.

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Now, you Photoshopped that. Nobody ACTUALLY looks like that.

Blind consumers.