For those who are Star Trek (the original episodes!!) fans, you'll remember that line. It's about the way this week has gone for me. I was off Sunday for my oldest son's birthday and when I went back to work on Monday, I discovered I was, once again, being transferred to our sister store across town to be the "fixer" of problems left behind by the one I am replacing. I am apparently this area's "morale booster". I suppose that can be agood thing, but this was not wanted by either me or my coworkers at my former location--we finally had a team that worked well together and caused no problems for our bosses--DM and higher. Now I have to be part of rebuilding such a team at my new location. Sigh.........
Anyway, I have now emailed the complaint dept. at the bank that issues the debit cards for our state's child support program----their website is totally unusable on Mozilla, my chosen browser. So I have to use IE, which I despise. Every virus or bug I have ever gotten has been from using IE.
I only keep it on my desktop shortcuts as a last resort. Even on IE, their site is almost as hard to use. Now granted I am on dial-up, which makes for longer waits, etc. but that doesn't explain why I have to click a link several times before I can reach the sign-on page......
And that leads me to my pet peeve of the day-----English vs. Spanish. I'm sorry for those who believe that business should be conducted in each person's native language, but the main language of this country has always been English, and I have reached the point where if I have to "press 1" to continue in English just one more time, I am going to start lodging formal complaints against the companies with whom I conduct business. And I dare them to shut off my utilities for complaining. I run into this with everything from water to electric to cell phone, to you name it. Provide those who need it a separate number to call toreach someone who speaks that language and let me conduct my business.
Ok, I do have another pet peeve----automated services at every place you call. Or that calls you. I am so tired of calling to report an outage or to question my bill or whatever, and ALWAYS getting the automated line. And it takes for-freaking-ever to reach a human, IF you can. I don;t suppose it would be so bad if the recording would say "to reach billing press 1" and then when you did you got connected with a human in billing. But no, they want you to do all your business by pushing numbers on your keypad. If you are lucky enough to get a human, half the time you can;t understand them, because they are in Bangladesh (has it changed names) or somewhere like that. Which leads me back to the English thing again......
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Amen, hallelujah, Honey. You got that right. No specken de Englis!!!But just wait a few ywears until Spanglish Hillbonics is the language of choice---you do the Spanglish, I'll do the Hillbonics. And, anyway, "He's dead, Jim. Beam me up Scotty, I caint take ennymoore!!!!!"
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