What makes you grumpy?
I been posting here off and on for a few months. Its actually been therapeutic. Having an outlet like this, and knowing that at least some folks are reading it has made me a lot less grumpy. I know that I'm always gonna be a grumpy old fart, but letting it out does help. So I pose the question, what sort of things really piss you off? Anything lately just get your goat to the point you want to just pop? I promise that I'll be right back with more grumpy tales, but let me know that what winds you up besides the things I've already mentioned. Or even if I had mentioned it, let me know that too.
posted by Grumpy at 11/15/2006 10:57:00 AM
6 Comments:
I am really irritated by something Grumpy. Since living here in FL (10 years), I have found precious few service companies who do even a mediocre job (any type of company, it doesn't matter), and what's worse, they do not try to make their bad job right. They do not care whether you ever use them again. They could care less if you are a satisfied customer. They make a half-hearted effort, and if it does not suffice, they just blow you off. I am not just talking about residential services, I am talking about commercial services. No one, including the business owners, could give a flying f--- whether you were pleased with their work or not, just make sure to pay their invoice on time or they will turn you over to a collection agency. I just recently had an issue at my workplace where a vendor could not fix our problem, so his solution was to have his salesman come out and give us a proposal for a new, different system! Do they really think that I would buy a new system from them if they can't service the one I have now?! Now I know that no one wants to hear about how much better anything was when I lived "up North", but this really is the truth: I rarely had to call any vendor back because they failed to do the job right the first time. So what is with these companies here? I realize that customer service has become a thing of the past, but how do these companies even stay in business when they can't get anything right? I would say that perhaps 1 company in 100 here cares about their customers and how they conduct their business. I have been in Facilities Management all my work life, so I do know of what I speak. Everyone else I know in my line of work says the same thing!
Here's another one for you: I am tired of having to deal with kids soliciting me to buy cookies, make donations for their ball team or whatever, every time I enter or leave the supermarket. This time of year its some old fart (no offense Grumpy) working for the Salvation Army or some similar group soliciting donations. I have no problem with groups looking for donations for their cause, but for crying out loud, when its in front of the grocery store, you get hit going in and coming back out, and it is always congested enough at the entrance to the store without having to sidestep 5 girlscouts! I would GLADLY give them ten bucks just to leave me alone. When leaving, if I say that I already gave on the way in, I get dirty looks as though they think I am lying!
I have something along the lines of your first complaint luckytop. A few weeks ago we bought some sod. Well the place we bought it from didn't have enough to complete a pallet so we were forced to buy it by the piece instead of them pro-rating it. We wanted more, but they didn't have more. We paid almost as much for the partial pallet as we would have paid for a full pallet. No positive customer service attitude there at all.
ifly, your story brings to mind the last time I bought sod.
I was ordering about 4 pallets to be delivered to my home. The sole counter person at the sod company told me that he had not been working there long, and had no idea how to ring up a credit card transaction. He even tried to get me to do it for him! I said no thanks, and went somewhere else.
I had the same issue with an air conditoning co. they charged me loads of money, came out here several times... then had a salesperson call me to quote me a new AC system...for $5000.
I don't think so! especially from them, as you said,,,, they could not fix the existing system.
geez.
I have noticed that customer service here is not that good.. unless you are somewhere expensive.... or dressed up really nice....
I also cannot stand all the idiot drivers.... 99percent are on cell phones as they drive.
Rude people make me grumpy also. People who do not spay and neuter their pets. People who let their dogs run around seminole heights (or anywhere) not on a leash . I mean, these dogs are running in the street!
People who drive down my street in sem. heights and actually THROW GARBage out the window of their car.
also.. what is with all the speeding down these narrow , residential streets!!!! ugh!
I am with you grumpy..we need speed bumps or one way streets or something!
the loud stereos in the cars driving by...
the prostitutes and johns......
etc
It makes me grumpy is the laziness of people who park on their lawn.
In my stretch of the neighborhood several homes have 3 or 4 cars for two people of driving age. What is that about? Or they park their boats in the designated parking area of their yard and end up parking their cars in the street or across the yard. HELLO, this is unaccepatable and tacky.
Get rid of the extra vehicles or pay for storage elsewhere for the crap you like to collect. You're front yard should not be used an a collection ground for your shit.
There are creative solutions to the parking challenges we face but people are just lazy. Hence, why they are parking in the yard instead of parking two vehicles in the driveway behind each other. Does it suck to get up in the morning and move your vehicle because your spouse or kid leaves before you, yes but that's what you sign up for when you decided to rent or buy a home here.
If you are too lazy to move the car then put in a circular drive.
Create a designated parking area in your yard but landscape it so it doesn't look like some trashy dirt bag who doesn't have any cooth.
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