start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I do that, too!

I also do the "I would like to speak with a human" thing (and I think once I just said "HUMAN").

What really makes me ia is the faux-conversational tone of the recorded responses in those call sorting dealies. "OK! Let me get you that information! Ah, here we are!"

"thank you for calling-" "AGENT"
"please dial one-" "AGENT AGENT AGENT AGENT"

My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.

yelling at machines is fun and it means that when i get to talk with a human, i am ready to be nice

i guess the thing that genuinely makes me ia is when the human behaves like a machine and keeps using my first name too much

Yeah, a lot of times if you don't push any buttons or do anything at all there'll be a long pause, like they're trying to wait you out, and then finally they'll say "Please stay on the line while we connect you with an agent" or whatever.

I love getting mail to myself "Or Current Resident". Makes me feel special.

That little convention is the source of the name of the band The Residents, so they say

re: humans: I start laughing when somebody thanks me after every single sentence I say. This is kind of a call center in India thing mostly.

Also, have you ever had a call where they wouldn't do what you want (adjust a charge, issue a refund, whatever) and so at the end you said, no, I'm not satisfied, but the operator has no other scripted way to end a call, except to ask you one more time if you are "satisfied with our customer service" and they don't know what to say next? It's as if the social contract has suddenly been torched and there's nowhere to go.

Duel

Customer Satisfaction Surveys At Dawn

I could watch:

- Arnold Schwarzenegger re-enacting a bunch of his movies
- Jimmy Kimmel and Jack Black re-enacting that shitty rock ballad video from the 90s
- Kristen Schaal and Mikal Cronin re-enacting "Torn" video from the 90s
- U2 "busking in a NYC subway"

Eff all of these.

My advice is don't speak to those things. Hit 0 0 0 0 0 - and if that doesn't work then be silent until they send you to a customer service rep.

Some companies' automated phone systems don't put up with shit like this - you either answer their questions the way want (and very possibly still never get to talk to a human) or else you get "I'm sorry you're experiencing difficulties. Please try your call again later," and then they hang up. The US Postal Service is the worst for this, but UPS, too, and some government agencies.

Gethuman.com

when jimmyjohns.com asks for your email address and starts giving you the OMG INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS red letter warning message after you enter one keystroke (cos there hasn't been an "@" sign added yet).

I KNOW LET ME FINISH IT JEEZUS

when you go to click in a search bar or w/e on a webpage and then right as you do that it all shifts down slightly & you end up clicking on a banner or a help link

hate hate deathray hate

if I search google for something on ilx, i.e. "site:ilxor.com/ILX something", it ruins my browser's autocomplete for "site new answers," but I can't retrain myself so easily

people from the southwest u.s. using "proper" to describe dance music they like.

is that where MC Hammer lives now?

fucking people on ILX who use "autistic" as a pejorative term. Serves me right for reading a Star Wars thread tbf.

Websites that only give you the parameters for creating a password after you've already input a password that doesn't pass muster. This happens ALL THE TIME anymore. I smash you all.

xp hey, don't blame us SW fans for Shakey

british people that use "proper" to describe dance music they like are annoying, too

there are about fifty things british people when describing dance (or other) music that makes me cringe

referring to artists as "the mighty <x>" is cringeworthy for me

the correct (American) way is to say "the mighty mighty..."

bosstones?

that's the impression that i get

no excuse for "proper" ever

I only believe music should be described in the hardwax store style

https://ofmustandmash.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/staustell-proper-job3.jpg

Proper groan here NV

*skanks*

Websites that only give you the parameters for creating a password after you've already input a password that doesn't pass muster.

Especially if, when it bounces it, it also BLANKS ALL THE FIELDS YOU JUST SPENT 10 MINS INPUTTING ARRGHHH.

xxp

i'm not proud

Local shop stopping selling milk in 2 litre bottles in favour of 3. Think its going to lead to wastage,living alone a 2 seems to last right. Also looks like the use by date has shortened. You'd think they'd keep the choice. So no longer got a 1 stop shop. Dang.

See, my IA comes from buying a gallon of milk that expires on May 31 - which seems like a really long time - and then going back the next week and buying a gallon of milk that expires on... May 31.

That's still a long time.

Seriously. Gonna start canning the stuff.

uht

(actually, that's not really a help here as it should be treated like real milk after opening)

TRying to make a shirt while doing other things, now looks like I've left a mistake in that should have been corrected before I put the collar on and I'm not sure I can get access without removing it again. Damn, was really thinking I'd get that finished without a lot of fuss later and start the next thing. Already feeling like it's taking too long to get things done.

Too bad you guys don't have milk in bags. We freeze 2 of the 3 pack and thaw when the first bag gets low!

http://i.imgur.com/6f85QvV.png

Look, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth but –

well $0.10 is a 10% savings when it comes to Banquet pot pies

gah those shitty coupons drive me insane

safeway's fistful of "buy 12 lean cuisines & save 75c!" fuck you you goddamn trolls

the other day at karaoke (which is loud enough as it is, and I've lost a bit of hearing due to concerts and the like) a casual acquaintance asks me how I'm doing and I didn't catch it so I ask her to repeat cos I refuse to be the guy that nods and laughs and pretends he knows what he heard and she says passively-aggressively and somewhat annoyed, "I just asked how you're doing!" as if I'd screwed up the one unforgivable social cue.

how hard is it for people to understand that sometimes you just outright didn't hear shit the first time and aren't actually being rude/unattentive?

people from the southwest u.s. using "proper" to describe dance music they like.

― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 6:06 PM (5 days ago)

did u find my website about proper virginia reel & contredanse music :(

when I'm in a public restroom and someone turns on the faucet in the sink and leaves the water running as they leave. This happens all the time (just now, in fact). Must be people used to dealing with automated faucets.

people who sit in unoccupied seats prior to an event/match because they think they're entitled to them since nobody's sitting in em yet. seems to happen all the time here, like the guy yesterday who was sitting in mine (it's a front row behind goal seat, one very unlikely to be 'available') and then just moved over to the one next to it, until the people that owned those showed up, so he moved into the next row. rinse. repeat.

like it's one thing to do when it's an empty event and move down to unoccupied seats (which is usually permitted), but when it's a mostly sold-out lower bowl filled with 40,000 people, come on!

worse was two weeks ago when this group of parents decided their kids were entitled to the two seats next to mine (despite their tickets obv being elsewhere) and essentially assumed I'd just babysit them as they sat several rows away. as the kid ran up and down the aisle kicking a ball and basically being the way an unsupervised kid would be when his parents aren't around to tell him not to.

This endless onslaught of FB reminders of what Memorial Day should *really* be about. We know...we don't need a smug reminder every fucking year.