Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Too late.

The main reason I wouldn't take used baby clothes is that babies shit and piss and vomit on their clothes all the time.

who among us

Finding it a bit weird that a firm that is supposed to be delivering something to my place rang me to set it up from a private number i.e. one that didn't display on my phone. Doesn't seem like the best way for the customer to feel safe does it?
Would think in something like that they would make a point of making sure you got a phone number for them. It strikes me as pretty dodgy at the best of times when somebody rings with a number you can't see even when it is someone I know.
Seems very iffy if it is a despatch company that you need to keep a trace on actually delivering things correctly and you'd want some fallback on.

To not display on this phone the phone number of a phone ringing it has to be intentionally set up not to register. I checked the log on my phone afterwards to get the details to find it said 'no number' surely a delivery firm would want you to be secure in the knowledge that you could contact them if anything came up preventing the plans they gave you for the first time. Especially when you have had no prior contact.
Previous experience of this withheld number thing has been mainly cold callers plus a couple of people I know who can't be talked out of it. It is far from helpful, difficult to ring back to. &in the case of goods delivery surely counterproductive. Makes it look like they don't want you to know who it is that has your number is first emotional response. Do a lot of people even answer the phone to 'private number' aps this phone displays it?

The delivery dud would probably get too many 'nuisance' calls of the 'where are you now? ' kind. While he is driving..

I don't know how small a firm it is but would be very surprised if there wasn't separation between despatch office & drivers. As with a taxi office. I currently don't even have a home office number.

Loads of offices have their outgoing phones set up to be withheld. Even if you ask, no delivery co. will ever give you a driver's number.

Phonecall came from despatch office not driver. I haven't asked for a driver's number. A store sold an appliance set up delivery with a 3rd party I would assume that 3rd party wouldn't withhold contact details. What do you do in an emergency if situation about delivery has to change? Nobody to contact this way would think that an obvious problem.

& interestingly now that I've been informed that I'd never get the driver's phone number. The driver rang me from a phone with a visible number. Shame the home office couldn't do the same really , not exactly customer friendly?

total bonus if you can get the driver's number! I'm always told 'they don't have mobiles' which is obviously bs

late at night driving down the freeway and suddenly blue and red flashing lights in your rearview and you slow the fuck down and your heart is in your throat and you pull into the slow lane

and they zoom right past you because it's a cop car not a highway patrol car BUT WHO THE FUCK CAN TELL AT NIGHT

shaved a good year off my life out of sheer panic

"Thanks for that mint condition CD you loaned me on Friday. I am now returning it in a smashed jewel case that I'm going to pretend is fine."

idgaf about the jewel case, the CD's going to get ripped then languish on a shelf, but at least acknowledge that you broke it?

When you're on hold and there's low-level hold music that doesn't really bother you but every few minutes there's a deceptive "pop" like someone is coming on the line and then "ALL OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE CURRENTLY BUSY ASSISTING OTHER CUSTOMERS"

what makes me mad is the 'all'

like, how potemkin is that.

you can hear it on places that you know got like 2-3 representatives max!

as if it's supposed to make you less impatient if you can be led to imagine that there is some kind of unbelievable overwhelming demand for their army of representatives, all of them

yeah, sometimes when I hear that I get the image of there being like, one dude taking a shit in the bathroom, while another one is hitting a ping-pong ball to himself.

I wish all of those had that call back thing you get on a couple. Trying to think who it is taht actually does have a system like that, could be Airtricity the electric company? After a length of time of you trying to ring they offer you the opportunity to be rung back in about 10 or 15 minutes so you know you have a live contact & aren't wasting time with that continual music/interruption by piped voice.

& that is really annoying, you'd think they could find a way of doing that more smoothly. Maybe I need to work out the conference call function which I've never used so that I'm not constantly holding the phone while on hold.

I was on hold the other day with one system that had a 5 minute "your call is very important to us, please stay on the line while we assist other callers" loop that got interrupted every ten seconds with STAY ON THE LINE, WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A HIGH VOLUME OF CALLS, STAY ON THE LINE.

So I kept getting that pop each time one of the stay on the line messages would interrupt the other stay on the line message. I hate the phone.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Phone_Booth_movie.jpg

Today:

- The UPS driver left all of this building's deliveries in our the unstaffed lobby.
Last week UPS was supposed to deliver a wifi router. They show it was delivered, but we never received it.

- A courier service tried to deliver my new computer to the office at 8:00 a.m. Their standard window for CDW deliveries to businesses is 6:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

- The US Postal Service carrier never came to this building at all.

something about being on hold i am not irrationally angry about but irrationally curious about is the music. how can something that no one likes be always used? i can't imagine one person liking the music they choose. what is the deal with that?

i was on hold with new york state obamacare for 50 minutes today, but no music so i ain't even mad

I just listened to this This American Life "Sara Corbett's father-in-law Dick is 81. And he's become obsessed with a limbo most of us hate – the music he hears whenever he's on hold."

He finally finds it and it turns out there are a lot of other people who love the tune. There's a clip of the music at the story's page http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/516/stuck-in-the-middle?act=1

Can You Force Yourself To Like A Record Through Blunt-Force Repetition?

I was on hold the other day with one system that had a 5 minute "your call is very important to us, please stay on the line while we assist other callers" loop that got interrupted every ten seconds with STAY ON THE LINE, WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A HIGH VOLUME OF CALLS, STAY ON THE LINE.

So I kept getting that pop each time one of the stay on the line messages would interrupt the other stay on the line message. I hate the phone.

― pplains, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah this is similar to what was happening to me. I don't even mind just being on hold if I can leave it on speakerphone and do whatever, but the jarring effect of that interrupting second message every few minutes prevents you from being able to leave it in the background.

http://www.blueapron.com/?nan_pid=1799395743&utm_campaign=Nanigans+Jan+2014+&utm_medium=Facebook+CPC&utm_source=Facebook

pre-prepped meals. What the fuck is the purpose of this, impress your fuckbuddy with less work?

attempt by a home-delivery 'busy professional' caterer to hold down the part of the market that has been so penetrated by the rise of good-life rhetoric around cooking that they need to at least believe that they're getting the spiritually rewarding part of the process even if they must still insist that their lives are too busy and dynamic to shop for fresh basil

"easy peelers" that are ANYTHING BUT

something about being on hold i am not irrationally angry about but irrationally curious about is the music. how can something that no one likes be always used? i can't imagine one person liking the music they choose. what is the deal with that?

I actually kinda liked the hold music when I was on hold to Amazon the other day, and it occurred to me that they knew who I was (I'd already given my details), they know what CDs I've bought, and they own a music streaming service, so they totally could be playing targeted hold music.

I considered asking what it was but if it wasn't targeted then asking would have confused the rep and been awkward all round so uh.

Biggest IA of my year so far: DVD menus where you select 'play' and press the 'play' button on the remote and it doesn't work because you have to press 'enter' or 'ok' or whatever. THE PLAY BUTTON MEANS 'PLAY' WTFFFF

http://www.blueapron.com/?nan_pid=1799395743&utm_campaign=Nanigans+Jan+2014+&utm_medium=Facebook+CPC&utm_source=Facebook

pre-prepped meals. What the fuck is the purpose of this, impress your fuckbuddy with less work?

I'll stan for these services.

I don't use the local version b/c I live alone and I'd never cook or eat all the food, but I know people who do and I've tried it and it's good food. It's a huge motivator to cook and eat healthy food. Better than some of the fare at Trader Joe's.

do they not sell groceries at trader joe's

$10/meal floor for home-cooking seems awfully pricey

Cheaper than takeout.

Not blueapron specifically, but it's how Huckabee lost all that weight.

Not just for fatcat politicians either. Old people can get into it.

i really hate onramps that give you zero opportunity to approach the speed of the freeway traffic, so no matter what you do you're having to merge at 'grandma on sunday' speed and praying for your life that no-one slams into you

There is (was?) one of these on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. You had to launch yourself into traffic at speed. There was also, iirc, no sign warning you that you had to fucking step on it or die.

there's one in particular by my office that gives me a small heartattack everytime -- onramp is a steep curve on an incline so you can't speed up even if you want to because you'll die, and then there's the miniscule approach onto the freeway....right smack at the crest of a hill....on a blind curve. awesome planning, lads. cheers.

i might've complained about this before itt but i'll do it again cause i take very busy roads home every night during rush hour --

people who, in congested but not stop-and-go traffic, where everyone is basically going 5-10 mph below the speed limit, act as if this is perfectly normal traffic and act as though the people in front of them should go faster. people who will literally weave through the space between like two cars and then get stuck going the same exact speed as everyone else, as if it makes any difference. people who tail cars that are literally going as fast as they can go given the queue of five cars right in front of them going the same speed. what the fuck is wrong with these people.

act as if [...] and act as though

lol i hope this makes someone IA

Hah, my dad apparently had this favorite motel of his in West Memphis, Ark., that he liked to stay at when visiting his family in the real Memphis. When my grandma died, he got us rooms at a sweet price. I just didn't realize when I was following him to the funeral, that when he turned right out of the parking lot, we were turning right on to the interstate.

(I don't know how to do it justice except to link here and suggest you do a 180º. Weirdest fucking three seconds of my life.)

Eek that's not right.

There are ramps onto the Kennedy Expwy that have traffic lights to keep drivers from trying to merge when the lane is full. Idk but it feels unnatural and confusing.

http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/researchenews/2011/06/images/ramp-metering.jpg

I think meter ramps are the bee's knees.

Dammit people, just because using mobile phones you CAN have a loud conversation while riding the bus, does not mean that you SHOULD.

ia at this very strange checker at winco today

I've gotten my routine down pretty good to where I put everything on the conveyor in the order that I want to bag them. That way when they get scanned, the checker sends them down the final conveyor in pretty much that order.

Except this dude today. He seemed kind of...unwell, and he sat on a stool instead of standing, and he was very slow and meticulous. Which was fine, I wasn't in a hurry. Except that when he started checking my stuff, he just sort of stacked it right next to him, setting them up to slowly form a cube. There was no one bagging down the end, he was clear to move them down, but I guess his method was just to set them all there and do whatever his OCD was telling him he needed to do I guess idk. I had all these cans, and he built this weird little fort around my cube of stuff, the small ones stacked 3 high and the big ones stacked 2 high, completely impenetrable to surprise enemy attack hooray. So I had to pick through my weird cube fort of stuff to bag all my shit, it was so strange.

It was amusing, but part of me wanted to yell NOOOO DUDE NOW MY FLOW'S ALL RUINED!

I know just how you feel. West coast grocery stores are lousy with bag boys and the bag boys are all lousy at putting shit into bags in sensible order. JUST LET ME DO IT, I KNOW WHERE SHIT'S GOING IN MY HOUSE AND ALSO I KNOW CANNED GOODS DON'T GO ON TOP OF FRUIT.

Damn. And I get annoyed when they don't bag the milk or catfood.

There's a checker at one store here who always double-bags my milk and I don't know whether to be more pissed at her for doing it or myself for always forgetting that she's going to do it if I don't say something to her about it.

recently watched one beautiful minded twit put a 5 pound bag of cereal on top of two paper-wrapped sandwiches. I squawked & then checked myself & said, 'um could you put the sandwiches on top so they dont get squashed' [you fucking dim bag of mostly water]

get one brain, jesuschristonabike

bagging is a lost art, seriously