Things that pissed you off

[Sonikku]

I noticed two fraudulent charges on my credit card today. Going to have to go to the bank tomorrow to sort this all out.

^ I think with something like that you should call them now, don't wait to visit tomorrow.

[Peter]

Bots

[Calshot]

I noticed two fraudulent charges on my credit card today. Going to have to go to the bank tomorrow to sort this all out.

^ I think with something like that you should call them now, don't wait to visit tomorrow.

I wanted to speak with a person rather than deal with the automated system. I still ended up calling though since I didn't want to make the trip in the crappy weather outside.

[Sonikku]

Apps that require you to list any former legal names held under previous work experience. Ugh. It might almost be humorous to imagine a hiring managers reaction to see the contrast in the new name versus old, if not for the fact that my livelihood was not at stake. In an employers economy with 7 applicants to every job, it tends not to take much to have your application tossed into the discard pile these days. Legal or not.

[Who Really Cares?]

Tottenham Hotspurs.

[Brothaman]

Yesterday I got home from Clemson and decided to give my old PC a complete clean reformatting after about four years of neglecting it. It never ran this ever since I owned it. But sure enough, the motherboard in the bastard decided to die again tonight. Fuck Hewlett Packard. We're going to Best Buy to by another PC tomorrow.

[Bluecast]

Yesterday I got home from Clemson and decided to give my old PC a complete clean reformatting after about four years of neglecting it. It never ran this ever since I owned it. But sure enough, the motherboard in the bastard decided to die again tonight. Fuck Hewlett Packard. We're going to Best Buy to by another PC tomorrow.

Acer/Asus


Say no to Dell from a person who fell for dell from 2003 to 2011 and owned 3 dells.

[Bluecast]

DP and all and don't merge this please.


Was reading Brothmans topic and the first couple pages. Read something about me asking for my week off from work(when I was really ill at the time of the post). It sent me into major flashbacks. Won't get into detailed reason why. Made me real sick,chest got tight and got real nausea and now sweating. Not had a flashback in almost a year. Just thinking of that place makes me so sick. I fucking HATE IT. I never want to be in that situation again. Rather die today from my heart than suffer through that place again. Pisses me the fuck off when I have a flashback.

[Sonikku]

Ugh, Time Warner is screwing me even more than I thought, and this is one partner even I would prefer not to be screwed by. My bill claims Standard internet is 50 + 10 for turbo making my bill $60. (Plus $3.95 leasing fee for modem and $7 in taxes. How the hell do you get $7 sales tax on a $64 dollar fee?) Yet, their website lists standard as 35 and Standard + turbo as being $45. I was told when I signed up that I would not be paying more than that for 12 months. (I'm only 2 in). Now $45 for 20mpbs is a sour rate compared to just about any place in the developed world, yet they can't even stick with charging me that much, despite their claims. I had to fight with them just to take off the $75 installation fee to flip a switch on their end to enable my internet and that was the one thing I could push them to correct.

They won't budge on the new $4 a month lease fee for a crappy $10 modem made in China that they had long written off as junk years ago however. It's interesting how I can lease said $10 modem for $4 a month, but if I wanted to buy said generic brand modem to get out of the lease I can't. The only modems you can buy to get out of the leasing fee according to their website is a selection between 5 Motorola variants, the cheapest of which is $100. If Verizon fiber optic laid lines in my city I bet Time Warner would get their stuff together in a major hurry as their customers would be jumping ship in droves. Hell, I can't even get DSL internet and I now live in the biggest apartment building inside the city. This is the kind of behavior one can expect from a company with a monopoly with no regulation or oversight.

[Sonikku]

Thats what happened down here, Verizon showed up and half the city switched over so now they're offering various incentives and new modems.

Still ain't goin back tho.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

Ugh, Time Warner is screwing me even more than I thought, and this is one partner even I would prefer not to be screwed by. My bill claims Standard internet is 50 + 10 for turbo making my bill $60. (Plus $3.95 leasing fee for modem and $7 in taxes. How the hell do you get $7 sales tax on a $64 dollar fee?) Yet, their website lists standard as 35 and Standard + turbo as being $45. I was told when I signed up that I would not be paying more than that for 12 months. (I'm only 2 in). Now $45 for 20mpbs is a sour rate compared to just about any place in the developed world, yet they can't even stick with charging me that much, despite their claims. I had to fight with them just to take off the $75 installation fee to flip a switch on their end to enable my internet and that was the one thing I could push them to correct.

They won't budge on the new $4 a month lease fee for a crappy $10 modem made in China that they had long written off as junk years ago however. It's interesting how I can lease said $10 modem for $4 a month, but if I wanted to buy said generic brand modem to get out of the lease I can't. The only modems you can buy to get out of the leasing fee according to their website is a selection between 5 Motorola variants, the cheapest of which is $100. If Verizon fiber optic laid lines in my city I bet Time Warner would get their stuff together in a major hurry as their customers would be jumping ship in droves. Hell, I can't even get DSL internet and I now live in the biggest apartment building inside the city. This is the kind of behavior one can expect from a company with a monopoly with no regulation or oversight.

Aren't there consumer rights or any kind of an Ombudsman to go to? If they tried that with me, I'd be at the bank blocking their rent ASAP. Pretty sure what they're doing there is not allowed, but even if it was, I'd STILL be violating the agreement and cancelling it...

[Sonikku]

The catch is that it is them or dial up.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

The catch is that it is them or dial up.

How much can you get a mobile data dongle with a generous usage limit for over there (though I'm gonna guess it's the same assholes running the mobile networks as well?)? Something is still very dodgy about the deal that they just put it up like that, hell, it's actually MORE dodgy since they seem to have a monopoly there...
Energy companies here also put your bill up by themselves, but will put it back down again if you phone them...

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

Then the charges would be even worse. When I left the city after the hurricane I learned all about data plans and even with "unlimited" plans, theres always a point where the speed stalls. Plus you have to pay extra with most carriers for stuff like tethering.

Time Warner is one of the worst bullshit monopolies on the east coast, its got most of New York by the balls.

[Kenny]

Fucking updates. I want to play a goddamn game and download some fucking demos.

What the hell is so fucking important in these updates? My PS3 even crashed when it tried to install the Netflix one. Crashed twice in fact.