I’ve ordered from Amazon 3 times in the past for gifts, but will never do so again.
First time went okay, just delayed by a couple of days. Second time the present(which was a nice decorative item made out of glass), arrived completely shattered in its neat little packaging. It also became clear that it was already broken when it first shipped as the pieces didn’t even fit together and had different colors and textures.
It also took a very long time to get a refund.
And third time, the gift never arrived at all. It got delayed to nearly a month then it just stopped being updated. And refunds again took forever.
3 Likes
Soba cup noodles are incredibly good, highly recommend
Also pho, if there’s a Vietnamese restaurant anywhere near you
2 Likes
you guys post too much over the weekends. i don’t have it in me to read 500 posts
2 Likes
Peeve: websites that pop up a “chat with a consultant” (actually a bot) unprompted when you’re browsing them.
Who looked at Microsoft Clippy saying “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” and thought it was an awesome feature that needed to be added to every website?
9 Likes
It’s the online equivalent of having a store clerk immediately jump on you after you’ve been in the shop for 2 seconds to see if you need help.
Please, I’d rather just look myself and if I got questions, I’ll happily ask then. But also, I only just entered!
4 Likes
Also very common in clothing stores.
not if you go to primark. the staff actively pretend that you don’t exist
it’s bliss
6 Likes
Seems like my computer might be too old to run Elden ring (my cpu and graphics card are both below the minimum specs and I keep getting crashes)
Hate to see it 
I’m playing it on console because I don’t trust my PC to run anything more intensive than Classic WoW these days.
1 Like
Happy birthday from your distant cousin.
1 Like
Except the clerk is a robot with defective voice recognition that misrecognizes half your words and presents you with stock options you don’t care about.
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0007.html
1 Like
https://i.gyazo.com/96690f92a4614b53945770cd1de4a51a.jpg
They got two holiday celebrations outside of Scholomance, neither are the correct one.
It makes sense once you remember skeletons don’t need to sleep so their conception of days is about 1/3rd faster than the living.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQsL_UTXAAAY8S9?format=jpg&name=medium
“A demon flattening someone out and preparing to cut them into soba noodles, Japanese Hell Scrolls ~ 1855”
3 Likes
Finished the base game of Outer Wilds
Very feel, I feel very feel
That comic once again reminded me how much I hate calling companies or customer support nowdays, because so many of them uses AI speech recognition, and it always takes forever.
It’s such a breath of fresh air when you call and get the “If you want to talk to someone, press 1.” compared to shouting at a robotic voice for 15 minutes before it finally puts you in the queue.
Also, 80% of the time, the person who ends up talking to me needs to ask for all the details the AI voice wanted me to provide anyway so what was the point.
4 Likes
unfortunately, one way to reduce incoming call volume (having worked in call centre environments before it is constant and unrelenting a lot of the time) is to make calling in mildly annoying
sure, that means that people are primed to be annoyed when getting through to your support but hey that’s fine when you don’t care about your employees and you have ridiculous turnover anyway
3 Likes
I always try to be polite and friendly to the person on the phone when I get forward, unless they themselves are directly rude to me(Which is extremely rare). Whatever problem I’m calling for isn’t their fault, and working a customer service job can be very exhausting.
It also feels quite nice to hear the genuine appreciation in their voices when I wish a good-day and thanks for the help before hanging up.