Whats rustling your jimmies?

Haus said:

I think before "recompile this to be Linux compatible" we're going to simply have to live with "Do a micro-virtualization kernel wrap around this executable so it THINKS it's on a windows system".

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Or... Microsoft will just lobby the big brother Maoists in Washington, and require the entire internet backbone to communicate with Microsoft before you're allowed to access the internet.

Fucker said:

Carpet places not doing moving of furniture anymore.

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I don't blame em for this one. That's almost certainly thanks to the absolute joke of a judicial system in this country. "Carpet company damaged xyz (even if they didn't, obviously they should pay if they do actually fuck something up), I want $300,000 in damages because it had sentimental value blah blah" and judge says "yep, seems reasonable to me!".

Fucker said:

Far too many people in this country have adopted a can't do attitude...then wonder why they don't have any money.

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Certainly true for some people, but almost every example you listed isn't full of people who would be making much money even if they busted their ass. Furniture delivery people get like 15-20 an hour most places i've seen job ads for. Flooring store is probably full of people also making barely minimum wage and if they're on commission it's probably silly commissions like $5 per sale type shit.

Sevens said:

Gee and I get all kinds of shit for calling out worthless customer service fucks like this all the time. Now days you are expected to bend over and take it as these cocksuckers ram a rod up your ass. And the worst thing of all is they still expect you to tip their worthless ass and if you don't and complain about the state of customer service you get faggots like zombiewizardhawk screeching because you aren't slobbing the nob of the worthless fuck who pours your coffee and gets your name wrong.

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Not only proudly admits to acting like a magician, but clearly thinks like one too. "Everyone should treat me like a king while working their minimum wage job because i'm here to spend $7 god damnit! No I won't tip you, it's not my problem server wages are $4 an hour because tips are baked in. Should make my $7 bill into a $12 bill instead, and then I won't have to tip you (but i'll whine like a bitch about it being $12 instead of $7)!"

It's honestly a lot of things and not a simple situation like laid out.

The people in the flooring store are lazy, because they are likely just kind of watching the building while they get 3-4 customers a day. There just isn't enough business for the most part to really justify a brick and mortar place (I know, ironic) but that's where people shop so you kind of got to do it, I guess? So the average guy in the flooring place is making shit money, but in general they're also bringing in shit money. Until they get some landlord or something who wants to do 10 buildings of 50,000 sqft and then suddenly it's exciting. That rarely happens, so you get generally lazy staff because there is basically no incentive to not be lazy.

The "can't do attitude" is absolutely real, but it's not just laziness. It's corporatization. You start getting "Ok, do this thing, but charge for the next step." as the baseline, which people then start going "Well I don't want to pay for said next step, but I need next step done" and the Corporate stance is "Ok cool, then here's a <insert mildly reduced price that is the actual price> and we'll handle that." type response. You don't find this type of stuff at mom and pop places, or even midsized. It's when you start dealing with larger companies (and typically you are also spending larger amounts) that you run into the "we don't do x" shit.

Now, the CS stuff... it's been increasingly outsourced to India for T1 support for almost any service. So you get Bob, and Bob just runs through a call response sheet. Once you go outside that, Bob is useless and escalates to Tom. Tom is also Indian and also has a response sheet, so you run through that. And you can't escalate (unless you are basically yelling at them; they want to check all the boxes before they move you on and you can't skip it easily) but when you finally do, it's Bill from Nebraska who can fix your problem in 3 seconds.

This actually translates to the customer service you receive in most physical stores. Your first point of contact is Clare (who doesn't have an I in her name because of the patriarchy) and she can't help you because she doesn't want to and she knows her manager won't fire her for giving people shit. But you ask repeatedly so she gets bored and gets her boss, Jyll, who then describes exactly what Clare said but with an extra level of superiority, while Clare looks on. So you talk to Jyll for a few moments until Frank, the shift manager, sees that this interaction is holding up the line and is actually impacting the per-hour sales, and he slides in. And fixes your issue in 3 seconds.

That is customer service in today's market in a nutshell.

Youtube shows like, 8-12 videos on my feed - often repeats - and then just ends. Pretty shit.

Big Phoenix said:

Is there a single fucking music player that isn't some fucking dog shit app designed to deliver ads instead of play music?

I swear to fucking God I hate all things mobile and have no idea how people do anything with cell phones.

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You've never heard of VLC!?

Big Phoenix said:

Of course.

Is the android app infested with adds?

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No, same as windows version. Works with android auto, too.

Bandwagon said:

The back of cereal boxes aren't "fun" anymore? They're just full of a bunch of boring bullshit corporate virtue signaling.

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Time to stop eating super unhealthy cereal maybe?

posted in the health problems that i went to see podiatrist last thursday and he was super busy. probably waited 2 hours in total, so wasn't a happy camper. anyway, he said he will get me a lotion to try out. on my paperwork, i listed my local cvs for meds. i wait for cvs to call, but nothing, call them, they got nothing. call the office, she says it is a compound i sent it to soandso to be filled.
their office and that pharmacy are an hour away. she says to call them, they might mail it to me.

Sylas said:

Had surgery yesterday, it ran late... Dr prescribes some percocets for 2 weeks for the post procedure pain, but doesn't issue any at the hospital. I'm all doped up coming out of general anesthesia so think nbd.

The pharmacy on base is closed, ok np send it to cvs. They don't have any. Call every cvs around me, none have it in stock.

so i wake up around Midnight when all the meds wear off in agonizing pain. Have to wait til 8am for base to open up, oh wait it's fucking Juneteenth some made up federal holiday they are closed. So now gotta wait til 9am for any other pharmacy to open so I can call around til I find one with drugs in stock.

it's controlled so I can't just switch it or have it open ended prescription. if I can find a place that has it I have to get the dr to switch it.

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Have you tried trading an xbox for some pills? I think we know a guy.