What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[BravoXray]

Literally, every time the customer service manager hears an outside line ring, he already knows there's going to be a pissed-off customer on the other end of that line. It takes a unique sort of individual to deal with that, day after day, year after year.

When I owned a few over the road trucks, if the phone rang at 2:00AM, it was never going to be good news.

 

[Oaktree]

Literally, every time the customer service manager hears an outside line ring, he already knows there's going to be a pissed-off customer on the other end of that line. It takes a unique sort of individual to deal with that, day after day, year after year.

I did tech support (both phone and on-site) for many years, and I can count the number of "pissed-off" customers on one hand. Yes, it took skills that not everyone had to assess the situation and deal with the problem.

 

[Oaktree]

Sears; they tried to become Walmart and crashed and burned...."Die Hard"....but it's a trend for most of these once go to places for something that was not always mass-marketed.(before the China syndrome) and made in the USA ..

they were a pretty competitive market with reasonable pricing on many household and outdoor products. I have a 54 year old Sears Coldspot refrig on my back deck...still doing what it was designed to do...keeping things cold. Nothing like a cold beer on a hot day. (and a few sodas for the grand-kids)

Walmart didn't really become a player here in the northeast until some time in the 90s, by which Sears was already on the ropes. It was a long string of mismanagement and mis-reading where retail was headed that sank Sears.
They were truly the Amazon of their day.

 

[BnRidge]

Montgomery Ward was also a big player during the 90s. 1890s. Dairy must have been profitable because of the number of things still here that were aquired about that time. Corn sheller, cream seperator, coal forge, grass seeder, fanning mill, vacuum pump, bedroom set. Now what do we have, scamazon and cheap throw away junk.

 

[WinterDeere]

I did tech support (both phone and on-site) for many years, and I can count the number of "pissed-off" customers on one hand. Yes, it took skills that not everyone had to assess the situation and deal with the problem.

Depends on the business, I suspect. When a $400,000 amplifier fails and shuts down a test facility that's burning $5k per hour, people get "pissed off" real quick!

My last 20 years have been spent in an industry where time to repair is nearly as imporant as actual failure rate.

 

[gstrom99]

"Easy open" containers that aren't. The tab rips off early and the box has to be cut/ripped open the rest of the way...

 

[JRH02]

Often, yes. Other times, they block desired functionality. [Adblockers]

I've used AdGuard for years. It's one of a few tools that I pay a subscription to use on my laptop AND Pixel phone even though anyone can use the same for free.

To your comment about functionality, I lose no functionality. Unless you are referring to whole sites that block you just because you are using the tool. That's easy to fix with a click. Additionally, my experience is the opposite because by effectively blocking the feces my connection is noticeably faster.

 

[JRH02]

Unfortunately checks cashed and cleared. I'm very close to going down there and giving that idiot sales manager a piece of my mind. Maybe some one will chime in with dealing with a angry customers like me as there pet peeve I feel justified to be quite peevy though.

So how did that work out for you?

 

[JRH02]

I usually just wrote "see attached resume" on the application form. Those application forms are required by HR to document contact info and references, etc. But I've never been interviewed by someone who actually cared what I wrote on the job history portion of the form.

And for past salary, I always leave that blank. Screw them, they don't need to know what I made 25 or even 5 years ago. They either want me at the rate I require today, or they do not want me at the rate I require today. Period.

And it's even more frustrating when it's something the wife wants done and is challenging your past experience.

 

[JRH02]

At a hospital stay last year a social worker asked me if I felt in danger or was being abused at home....

All the time!! I really like the handcuffs to the head and footboards. The whip not so much.