The Complaining and Bitching Thread

Fighting a cold for three days now. Being sick always pisses me off.

 

My cable/internet provider came today to put a media card in my Tivo.
After fighting with it for an hour and a half the installer figured out that that the reason it couldn't pick up the channels was my connection sucked (which explains why my internet keeps dropping off) and he needed to work on the cable itself.
Just as he started to work on it, there was an area wide outage.
He left saying call the company as soon as the cable comes back up and they will send out a tech this evening to finish the process.
Cable comes back two hours later, I call the company and they say they can get me an appointment on Wednesday.

I hate these people.

 

Heh. I'm wearing a dress today that doesn't allow for a bra. I feel like such a hussy. Bit I made that choice and if people notice, so be it.

 

We'll need pictures so we can decide for ourselves.

 

So I'm at a graduation for a good friends daughter. She's getting her degree in journalism. Nice banquet, half way decent chicken (if you can eat rubber chicken) they start the procession to award the degrees and for some reason they have the flood lights behind the stage directed at the audience. No one can see a thing but two bright lights. Brilliant, just freaking brilliant

 

There's a special place in hell for these people, just has to be.

 

Illustrator needs to stop being a little bitch.

 

Holy crap I have internet! This freaking country... A little rain some construction and nothing freaking works for days maybe weeks. I just got back from what should have been a hour RT to have a meeting with a lawyer,took four hours driving due to rain and accidents. I'm beat. Going to sleep. If I have internet when I wake up in the morning, please let me have net I gots bill to pay... I do that shit online, hello. Anyway way if I have net I will read up on all I've missed.

 

I hate it when I try to pay a bill online, only to receive a message that the company is having problems with their website, and then later get hit with a late fee. Add some days to the due date, assholes, it's your website that couldn't take my money!

 

This has happened to me twice in the past four months. I can't blame the lender it's my damn net down here six years living here I three houses,never had these problems. Least not problems of this magnitude or length and I moved into a brand new development. Been here a little over two years and suddenly this summer I find i have days with no water or power or phone/net or all of the above. Really getting old. My nets up just long enough to get through the three clicks to make my payment and it's down so fast I really don't know if it went through,twice now I've been told on the phone yes only goofing out it's really wasn't completed. Pissing me off.

 

I blame the company when my internet service is fine, but the company is having problems with their website. Around the Houston area Comcast was, maybe still is, famous for for spotty internet service. Comcast now offers Xfinity, and in the TV commercials you have to look closely to see the Comcast name.

Johnson Guitars started marketing their better quality acoustic guitars under the name Recording King, because people associate the Johnson brand name with inexpensive lower quality guitars.

Behringer started marketing their "better" amps (which are cheaply made copies, subject to quality control issues, of good amps made by other manufacturers) under the name Bugera, because people associate Behringer with lower quality musical gear.

 

All this tech is suppose to make ours lives easier or I suppose "better." It's easier to maintain contact with family and friends in far off locations... Usually. But when the system becomes unreliable or unavailable it's a bitch. I got a tearful message from my daughter who took my lack of responses to messages I never received last week all because I've had little to no net access. Spent probably $25 on a land line call to explain I just haven't had freaking net access.

I remember contacting my now ex by ham radio a few times floating in the Indian Ocean years ago and we were really glad to have that little contact after months of none. Now you lose you access the the "system" and people think you're either mad at them, ignoring them or maybe dead after a week of no reply. I'm learning to see a few down sides to all this progress.

 

I feel like I'm just being jerked around by the Navy, and the Bureau of Medicine. Constantly being told to go to this fort or that base, find the records. But "oh wait we don't have those, you need to go to the other fort. No no no, your records are back at the other base's E-records. Now you need to fill all this paper work out, just to be handed old/invalid documents you already sent in". RINSE AND REPEAT!

 

Carpet guys came to repair the ragged edge on the landing of my stairs.

Guy brought in the new roll of carpet all wrapped up in plastic.

Tore up the existing carpet and unrolled the new carpet.

Placed new carpet and found it was a 12"+ too short.

I now have no carpet on the landing for a week.

Fuck these clowns. I'm calling their boss.

 

I'm now going home to pay my rent.