Scheduling SNAFU Again

The pricks did it to us again. Yesterday one of the contractors that was supposed to work on our house blew us off. After their arrival window closed they called and said they had to reschedule. My wife booked 7:30–10:00am today and got them to guarantee they’d show up.

They didn’t show up. 

My wife called them at around 11:00am to tell them to go take a long walk off a short pier and they put her on hold for 40 minutes then sent her to voicemail. Boy did she let them have it. Both barrels. 

In preparation for this work I had to tear one of the kids bedrooms apart and then totally destroy our entire basement. Since we’ve told them to screw, I started putting things right again. The bedroom is back to normal, an one area of the cellar is done. There is still a couple of hours worth of work to undo. I’ll take care of that tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, I was sort of planning on taking a bag full of cameras to the ocean for sunrise this morning, but the rescheduling screwed all of that up. Instead, I am going to try to do it tomorrow. The forecast at the coast looks pretty good. The only downside is that sunrise is at 5:04am, which means I have to be out of bed at 4:00am. It should be worth it. I’m thinking of hitting a couple of spots near Hampton Beach, NH and then maybe a riverwalk somewhere. Maybe in Lowell? Not sure yet.

I got ready for this by putting film in all of the film cameras, and like a schmuck I burned one shot on the medium format camera. Dumb ass. I also put one of the manual focus lenses that came with my last eBay purchase onto my digital camera to give it a test drive. It worked great.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55332298563/in/dateposted/

The lens is smart enough that the camera can control the aperture but not smart enough to auto focus. I have focus peeking turned on though and that is a HUGE help for an old fart with weak vision like me. I’m not sure if I will use it tomorrow, but I might. We’ll have to wait and see.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55332361739/in/photostream/

Other than that the only news right now is that my step daughter is coming home today. She’ll only be here a couple of days before she’s off again, but that’s fine with me. Any time with either of the kids in the house is time well spent.

Also, as a bit of forewarning to regular readers, once I get the cellar put back together you can expect a barage of music posts. I have five songs in progress right now and I hope to start putting guitars onto the demos soon. Duck and cover, everyone.

Until then, never forget that donald trump is a fascist and a rapist and a pedophile. Release the complete, unredacted epstein files. I don’t care if it brings down the entire US government. If it is bad enough to do that then the US government deserves to be brought down.

Finally, on the Rush 50 Something Tour, is Anika Nilles doing a drum solo?

Geez Netflix, if I wanted to watch crap police/fire/hospital procedural dramas from the big three networks, I'd be watching Hulu right now. 🤦‍♂️

Any time you want to start putting movies back out there on your listings again, I'm good with it.

#NotWhatIPaidFor
#BadCustomerService
#Netflix

Confectionery indifference.

Thanks to the laziness of our UPS delivery driver, the package containing Mrs Miasma's chocolate bars was left in front of our garage in the hot, hot sun instead of our nice shady porch just five short steps away. 👎

Boo to him, for transforming her treats from rectangles of deliciousness to nonplanar rhombuses of uncertainty.

It's like if Salvador Dali made chocolate bars.

#BadCustomerService
#StupidestTimeline
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

There is no better way to lose a customer than to tell that customer what they *should have done*.

I won't be getting a geothermal system. But more importantly, I won't be using the services of the particular company I reached out to on a whim, either.

Some people just don't get it.

#badcustomerservice

Rogers "Together" With Shaw can go f*ck themselves. Had no issues with Shaw before Rogers bought them. Before if I needed a supervisor? Sure no problem! Now? Nope, sorry. "They'll just tell me what to say which is what I'm already telling you."

Worst customer service ever.

#Rogers #Shaw #CustomerService #BadCustomerService

⚠️ For those in #Oregon specifically in the #PortlandOR area, just wanted to share info about a #SherwinWilliams franchise experience I had today. Went to 15659 Lower Boones Ferry location to get some paint matched; first, I wanted a quart of each and they only sell gallons. Then the manager, Christopher didn't ask what quality of paint and gave me one of their most expensive ($80/gallon) selections! Upon picking them up here's what they looked like.

#Ripoff
#ConsumerAlert
#BadCustomerService

Not overly impressed with aiven.io's customer service. I tried signing up with them after watching a sponsored YouTube video, but something went wrong with the sign up process. I've NEVER been able to login, and yet my account is 'suspended'. I've tried contacting their help desk through their chat, the first time they took my details and never got back to me, the second time I was told to ask for help in the forums - that I can't access without being able to login.

#Aiven #BadCustomerService

None of the registrars at the lab in this hospital are working. It's been 10 min. I'm sitting right in front of them. I am the only one waiting to check in. They're chatting and walking around. I guess it's their 2pm break?

But it's a bad look from a customer's perspective
#BadCustomerService
#AmericanHealthCareStinks