Today's Rant

[Cusser]

RANT:

Last week Mrs. Cusser bought some Oster Professional Animal Clippers for her horse. Today she went to use them, and the electric cord housing fell off, so she asked me what she was doing wrong. Well, some F-Tard at the factory had forgotten to install the two screws that hold that housing to the body of the clippers. Retail shop is 20 miles away, downtown.

So I called Oster, asked for technical support to find out the thread size and length of the two screws, so I could possibly pick up at Ace Hardware, F-Tard phone operator with thick accent won't transfer me, doesn't understand that I want the screw specifications. I ask to speak with her supervisor, after being on hold that doesn't happen, tells me to return the clippers to the store. I briefly explain (using Mr. Wonderful's voice from Shark Tank) that this will cost Oster money and effort, and such practice eventually leads to folks like her losing their jobs. I ask if Oster could mail me two screws, she says Oster doesn't do that. She says I could go on Oster's website and that might parts information about buyin g such part, I tell her that I'm not paying $9 shipping for 20 cent screws. I ask to speak to a man, doesn't happen.

Anyway, while this was going on, Mrs. Cusser calls the retail shop in town; the repair guy quickly agrees to send two screws in today's mail.

Anyway, I later check Oster's website, all that does is tell me to call Oster same number and get a service center !!! What F-Tards, my favorite new word !!!

The corresponding screws in her older - but still operational - clipper are about 3mm thread by 26mm long, but I don't know for sure if metric or not, or if the new clipper uses the same screws. So I'll wait.
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[TDCTDI]

Here we go again, any chance Cusser gets to talk about screws & filling holes...



So... if the older clipper was still operational... why exactly did she get a new one?


OOH, ooh, I know, to frustrate the hell out of you.
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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[KTPhil]

When they don't want to transfer you to a super, but want you to do the legwork, try this:

I calmly ask them if they work for free. When they answer no, I state that I do not either. I then inform them that I would be happy to do their job for them, at my customary rate of $100 per hour, and to please verbally confirm agreement with this arrangement, and by the way, I am taping this phone call.

The silence is usually followed by my being transferred, since dealing with crazy is out of their pay grade.

[Spezialist]

Omertà
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[cbeck]

You mean I am not the only f@#ktard magnet? # no f@#ktards allowed!
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[Cusser]

The older clipper still works, but she was told several times that it is on its last legs.

The screws will screw into plastic, and I wasn't sure that the screws from the older unit would be the same size. And because these screws are about 3mm diameter with small heads, I didn't want to risk "cutting" new threads into the plastic. And if metric, I don 't have long 3mm screws.

However, the rant gets WORSE, much worse. An hour later got certified letter from IRS wanting $3400 from my 2017 taxes or they'll seize or lien my property. It turns out that my former employer (foreign corporation) made a mistake on my 2017 W2, so I corrected that and sent that in with my taxes. In Sept. 2019, I get a letter from IRS billing me $3400 for that so I call; agent looks into this, updates my computer file to show that I dispute this, tells me to send back the letter with box checked "I do not agree", and sign it. I do that, get another such letter in mid-December wanting the $3400. I call again, am told that IRS mis-classified my response, even though that's what my file said. So I send in more copies then, get yet another similar letter in mid-January. I call a third time, IRS says they never received two separate mailings to their Reconsideration Office in Ogden; so agent says to fax directly to her, and she called back later and said she received the fax and would push it along. So today I call again after receiving the letter, call the number provided there; after half an hour they transfer me to Reconsideration Dep't, and I'm told that once IRS classified me as "agreeing", it cannot simply be stopped, has to go through an entire review process. Today's agent said 3 to 6 weeks after receiving it (mid-January), and it's been 4 weeks now. This is like Groundhog Day in The Twilight Zone.

Just watch: I can see IRS going forward and seizing $3400 from my bank stuff, and then having to fight to get that restored.
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[KTPhil]

Time to call the local TV troubleshooter. The more shark-like the better. It will be a good ratings-generating story, with tax time coming up.

Also try your federal representatives (the more local the better, like House members), especially if they are up for re-election. They want feel good stories and your solution could be one of them.

You might make it hard on them and open a new account (maybe in a relative's name), and cash out the old one. It may delay them f'ing your accounts for a while.

[67 Florida Deluxe]

Nothing is built well anymore and the customer service people usually hate their jobs and have no fear of getting fired for being a-holes to the customers. Two months ago, I went through THREE kitchenaid toasters, all internet orders through kitchenaid's website, which required back and forths to the FedEx place to keep dropping off the crappy ones they kept sending me. Before that, it took over two months for a GE gas stove I ordered to actually get delivered. Then, it was jacked up right out of the box. Three more of the exact same model stoves were delivered and each was equally jacked up (a manufacturing defect and QC's asleep at the helm!) Lowe's was even more incompetent to deal with during all this nonsense!

Sorry for the hijack. But GD-IT! This !$ht pisses me off, too, because (to your point) it costs the customer unnecessary time and aggravation for which we receive absolutely nothing in return, simply because they couldn't build it right in the first place :2gunfire:
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[YDBD]

just an add to, not to hijack

Working for the DOD, we get transferred and we get allowances for living overseas. We get mis-paid a lot. We get debt letters that says we owe money and to send a check to the US Treasury by a certain date or they will garnish our wages. As union member this is illegal as we have rights. I received one for a little over $600, I was eh, not too bad, but filed the paperwork to check. It turns out I received the amount out of MY retirement investments (MY MONEY) and the wanted me to pay THE US TREASURY back (it's my money that I received).

DFAS figured this out and said "hey you can just pay it back into your retirement, sorry about this "fraud". UH, no...I paid taxes on this already, so put it back in and when I get it again I pay taxes on it again-exactly WTF?
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[Manfred58sc]

Just by older appliances on evil bay/estate sales/thrift stores. Plentiful and affordable. I very,very rarely buy anything "new", because its junk most of the time.
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[djkeev]

I would take the clipper part with the threaded holes to the fastener aisle of the hardware store and start trying different screws until one threads in. It will take ten minutes at most and you're G O N E gone!

Dave
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[modok]

I know of a half dozen legendary "counter women", who were excellent.

Clearly it is possible for a woman to do the job as well or better, tho they are rarer.
it's worse than ten to one, but even if it was equal opportunity it would be no less than 5 to one by my guess.

Same way it is possible for a white guy to play pro basketball, just not as common. Possible of course, but odds are against it.