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So Heather and I needed new cell phones pretty badly. We had some extra time to kill before meeting up with Popsicle Sarah and her new bf, so we ventured over to the Maine Mall. Went to Best Buy, saw a couple of phones. Went down to what I thought was a Verizon store, only got to see one. Some fast talking jerkstore shows us a phone. I liked it, she was a little hesitant. Says it shouldn't take longer than 5-10 minutes to switch phones and not long to renew the contract. It's 1 pm at this point, and not needing to be anywhere til 2 I was like ok. Then it's said the phone is $100 after a rebate. Heather and I are like, didn't we see this for $50 somewhere? She walks back down to Best Buy to check. Meanwhile the slick guy is eager to get the contract information through, ramming it through as quickly as possible. Grabs my old phone, connects it to the thing which transfers contacts and pictures. Except it doesn't actually start, I find this out 15 minutes later after he's trying to sell my gf some landline package for her father's house. Was too busy trying to sell more and not do what I asked. Now I'm getting pissed, as Heather's back and tells me it's 50 bucks at Best Buy indeed and slick is screwing me over lying to my face over and over again.
So it's 2, I'm still at the store, it's finally over a couple minutes later - after the guy tries to sell Heather and I half the Verizon catalog. I rush up to meet with Sarah and her bf, but we miss the tour at the Allagash brewery. I'm pissed.
It was a really amazing weekend in Portland. But the phone thing was bugging me. So Sunday after Sarah and the bf went back north, Heather and I go back to the Maine Mall. She gets the same phone as me at Best Buy, and takes 15-20 minutes total to get everything set up without the lying and malarky. (It was 75-80 for me.) Turns out the place at the other end of the mall is an authorized contractor like BB and not a Verizon owned place. And that place has a reputation in the mall for lying, scheming, and overpricing items. We go back down to the store I got my phone, and after a few minutes they agreed to refund $50 to me rather than have me returning the phone and going to Best Buy 10 minutes later.
If I don't get this $50 back by a week from now, I'll be furious. That place just looks really really shady now that I've dealt with this.
LD, I used to work for Sprint. Your situation is by NO means out of the ordinary. We are TRAINED to do things like this. If you don't lie, hide truths, hustle, scheme, and cut corners, you will never reach your quotas and you will always be in fear of losing your job. It is a super super shady business selling phones. I was always near the bottom of the sales team because I did as little of this shit as I could. The only reason I kept my job was that I always had the highest customer service survey scores in the store, and my returns and exchanges were always very low. But that doesn't mean that I didn't still do a lot of things that I felt horribly guilty about to keep my job. Anyone who has worked in this industry, or most sales jobs, will agree with me. Best Buy was quick and easy because they don't get commission, and therefore there is less pressure put on the employees to sell you every accessory available, home phone service, an extra phone line for work calls, insurance for the phones, etc...
Phones are ALWAYS cheaper at retail stores like Best Buy.
so, my practice's website was recently switched from a Joomla platform to Wordpress, and it is driving me crazy. I like WP for blogging, and use it for my personal blog but it is totally different to operate our site on that platform. that is all.
Cell phone stores are also very notorious for saying whatever it takes to get your complaining ass out of the store. You need to bitch out that store with everything you got AND you need to get on the phone for an hour with Verizon about leaving the company. One or both will give you what you want
I returned the phone last night to the crummy place (150 miles southwest of the original purchase). The location down here was brotastic. They called the sales rep in Portland, and kept giving various times on how soon I'd get refunded. With that, I just said I wanted to return it and get all my money back. They tried to sell me on a Windows Phone and some other stuff, but I wasn't going for any of that.
Went to Best Buy within minutes and got everything done much nicer there.
I never thought about from that angle, Jess. They are so excited to tell you that they no longer have contracts!! But it's because you pay full price for phones now.. They are a big-name burner phone company now. I bet Boost and Virgin Mobile are upset about it.
Thank you today for making mr feel more worthless than I usually do. Not only have I realized I hate the customer side of my job buy I realize the reason I do is because most treat me like nothing. And that's how I feel about my life right now.
I'm usually optimistic and to vent online isn't my thing but I'm going through that 'where did I go wrong' portion of my life. Oh well. It is what it is right? Just go out and change it! Life is tough but I thought I'd have some purpose by now you know? I just feel so lost and worthless....
I'll be fine though. My optimism will win out but today is just a grrrrrr day. I hate the cards I've been dealt but all we can do is play the game the best we can huh?
Post by canexplain on May 16, 2013 17:03:35 GMT -5
I hate the cards I've been dealt but all we can do is play the game
Cheat Smile when you should be frowning. Act happy when things look glum and people will just think you are crazy and you can smile again. Doesn't always work but it throws a wrench in the "bad mood gods." Misery loves company we always hear. I'm going with happiness always loves company.... cr****
Thank you today for making mr feel more worthless than I usually do. Not only have I realized I hate the customer side of my job buy I realize the reason I do is because most treat me like nothing. And that's how I feel about my life right now.
I'm usually optimistic and to vent online isn't my thing but I'm going through that 'where did I go wrong' portion of my life. Oh well. It is what it is right? Just go out and change it! Life is tough but I thought I'd have some purpose by now you know? I just feel so lost and worthless....
I'll be fine though. My optimism will win out but today is just a grrrrrr day. I hate the cards I've been dealt but all we can do is play the game the best we can huh?
token07 - you should actually post this in the YAY thread. Five months ago you'd never been to a music festival. Then you found this great place, went to a festival, met a bunch of great people and are now hanging out for four weeks until Bonnaroo. Who will you see at Bonnaroo? - oh, your idol, Sir Paul McCartney? Who will be there with you? 65,000 of your closest friends. Work sucks. It really does - but some people don't have a Bonnaroo to look forward to, so stay on the glass half full team with us optimists and roll with those sh!tty cards you were dealt!
See you on the What, sometime Friday night my friend.
Thank you today for making mr feel more worthless than I usually do. Not only have I realized I hate the customer side of my job buy I realize the reason I do is because most treat me like nothing. And that's how I feel about my life right now.
I'm usually optimistic and to vent online isn't my thing but I'm going through that 'where did I go wrong' portion of my life. Oh well. It is what it is right? Just go out and change it! Life is tough but I thought I'd have some purpose by now you know? I just feel so lost and worthless....
I'll be fine though. My optimism will win out but today is just a grrrrrr day. I hate the cards I've been dealt but all we can do is play the game the best we can huh?
At the risk of sounding trite, there is no such thing as failure- only feedback. There is no such thing as a worthless person either- confused, perhaps, but that is a state easily remedied. Anger -what you've been on the receiving end of here- is only the result of confusion. Of course, it is a state we all experience and more often than not we share it with whoever happens to be in our field of vision. This has nothing at all to do with the recipient's worth or lack thereof, only that the angry one's present condition is temporarily being filtered through a confused state. Feeling worthless takes so much effort and energy! Take the lazy route here and remember that you in your natural state are awesome. Abide in your own effortless awesomeitude. Then, having settled into your natural awesome habitat, check out this video. It's pretty awesome: The Earth-Shatteringly Amazing Speech That'll Change The Way You Think About Adulthood
Hugs indeed! So my insulin from Canada was not given a trackin' number this time and I'm runnin' low and decided to be smart and go to an urgent care center to get a prescription. Well because my sugar was a little high (as I had recently eaten) they refused to write a script and insisted I go to the ER. Quack you fer wastin' my time and money, and lyin' to me sayin' I didn't even need a prescription fer my insulin which I do. So tomorrow it's either another exorbent urgent care bill or a visit to the ER to get my life-givin' meds. Why I should even need a presrciption is beyond my understandin'. I can't afford insurance and it's not provided by either of my jobs. I just want my quackin' insulin so I can quackin' live. Please and quackin' thank you.
I swear this is why so many of us are in jobs that either bore the shiz out of us, or don't pay, or have no room for growth, etc. Good luck getting your stuff man.
this is quackin bs!!! this grrr made me more mad than my grrr... and this is why theres a multi hour wait when checking into the er. you do the right thing, they're afraid to treat you.
my grrr, turbo hose burst this week taking a belt along with it, cost $1300. sometimes i love to hate this car
No Roo for me this year, just found out I can't get the time off work...I requested it off back in January. There are good reasons for it and I get it, but it sucks balls. I realize there are a lot worse things happening to people out there, but grrrrr!
No Roo for me this year, just found out I can't get the time off work...I requested it off back in January. There are good reasons for it and I get it, but it sucks balls. I realize there are a lot worse things happening to people out there, but grrrrr!
No Roo for me this year, just found out I can't get the time off work...I requested it off back in January. There are good reasons for it and I get it, but it sucks balls. I realize there are a lot worse things happening to people out there, but grrrrr!
This would be my reaction to getting news like that. I'm so, so, so sorry
Post by mizvalentine on May 20, 2013 10:36:42 GMT -5
Got a new doctor...which is good, I like him. But we're trying to figure out why I've been having 'gluten' reactions rarely but intermittently even though I've been GF for ages. You should see the orders I got though... I swear to god he ordered every test in the book. I can't believe I'm gonna have any blood left by the time they're done. Plus all this waiting for test results is stressful, and I don't wanna be confirmed celiac, or have gallbladder surgery (both possible). Plus if anything they find ends up effecting my Roo I will just lose my mind. This on top of the house drama and work stress is really getting to me. Is it Roo yet??
Post by FuzzyWarbles on May 20, 2013 10:57:29 GMT -5
It seems like whenever you start seeing a new doctor they want to run every test to get their own opinion on your health condition. A few years back I had a new doctor spot a problem that my previous one had missed for years after running a series of tests.
It seems like whenever you start seeing a new doctor they want to run every test to get their own opinion on your health condition. A few years back I had a new doctor spot a problem that my previous one had missed for years after running a series of tests.
How is that a Grrrrrr? It seems like they did you a favor and "caught" it.
Also, that's why they call it "practicing medicine"
Post by FuzzyWarbles on May 20, 2013 11:42:54 GMT -5
Not a grrr, just a reflection on mizvalentine's post above mine. She is dealing with more important issues however and I hope everything turns out well for her and no major surgery is needed.