So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

Stearmen said:

The Fedora Lounge, this thread. I have never been insulted and so deeply hurt on the internet as I was on this sight! Not only was a treated as some kind of petulant child that need to be scolded because I do not conform to their ways. There were several members that seemed to have a certain pleasure in the thought of my demise. And the moderators remained silent! Most disgusting indeed.

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tonyb said:

Are you pulling our legs, Stearman? Or did I miss something?

I always found you an agreeable sort, for whatever that's worth. I'd miss you if you weren't around.

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Stearmen said:

Actually, you were one of them, calling me a "donor cycles!"

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EngProf said:

This brings back a fond humorous memory...
We were at a major NHRA drag race - in late summer - hot as all get out... It was between rounds, so it was dead quiet... An ice cream vendor was down at the front walkway of the grandstand yelling "Ice Cream!" - "Ice Cream" - "Ice Cream" ---

At the back row a semi-drunk fellow stood up and yelled at the top of his lungs, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!", then took a bow and sat down.
It completely broke up the whole grandstand and he got an enthusiastic round of applause.

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Stearmen said:

The Fedora Lounge, this thread. I have never been insulted and so deeply hurt on the internet as I was on this sight! Not only was a treated as some kind of petulant child that need to be scolded because I do not conform to their ways. There were several members that seemed to have a certain pleasure in the thought of my demise. And the moderators remained silent! Most disgusting indeed.

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LizzieMaine said:

I'm so tired of a certain type of bourgie American woman who will go out of her way to use Britishisms in her language especially when it's done in an oh-so-self-conscious way, like my wanna-be-bourgie niece calling the mail "the post." If I have to hear "Which way to the loo?" piped out one more time in a cultivated Wellesley-girl accent, I shall certainly swoon. They're almost as bad as their hubbies, in the yacht-club polo shirts and the boat shoes with no socks, talking about going to "the head." You're on dry land, commodore -- the john is over there.

I wonder if there are annoying British women who honk out "Which way to the can?"

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LizzieMaine said:

I'm so tired of a certain type of bourgie American woman who will go out of her way to use Britishisms in her language especially when it's done in an oh-so-self-conscious way, like my wanna-be-bourgie niece calling the mail "the post." If I have to hear "Which way to the loo?" piped out one more time in a cultivated Wellesley-girl accent, I shall certainly swoon. They're almost as bad as their hubbies, in the yacht-club polo shirts and the boat shoes with no socks, talking about going to "the head." You're on dry land, commodore -- the john is over there.

I wonder if there are annoying British women who honk out "Which way to the can?"

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Fading Fast said:

It drives me nuts that when I call a company and push 2 then 7 then 9 etc. - after having to hear that "our menu has changed" (really doubt it) and having to listen to a bunch of options to push all those buttons (and lose all that time) - to then be waiting on hold to be told, in a booming voice that repeats every thirty or so seconds - and that makes it hard for me to work while on hold - that "did you know, you can get answers to many of your question on line at our website at www.stopcallingus.com."

My God, the internet is not new - it's been around for twenty plus years and all but the smallest of companies have had a website for years and the big ones for fifteen or more years. Two types of people are calling you, (1) those like me who have tried the website ('cause they have no desire to be beaten up by your phone-tree moat), but can't find their answer and need to talk to someone or (2) those like my 85 year old mother who will (literally) die before she uses the internet for all but the simplest of things.

It's insulting and obnoxious to treat those who call in like idiots who don't know that the internet was invented or that you or Walmart or Con Edison has a website. To be balanced, the stupid government does this too.

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Zombie_61 said:

It's even worse when you hear this recording when you're calling your Internet Service Provider because you can't get online.

With regards to having to deal with those menus, this is by no means a complete list but it's a good start. At the very least, as soon as you hear that recorded voice try pressing the "zero" button; that'll bypass those menus sometimes.

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LizzieMaine said:

sorghum accents

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LizzieMaine said:

Coca-Cola New England has recently closed its regional sales offices and consolidated all ordering into a call center located, I assume from the sorghum accents of the employees, somewhere in the very deep South. Since this happened in August, every single order I've placed for product has been either late or wrong, and several times I've had to call the warehouse direct to try and get the situation sorted out.

Coke was always a company with impeccable service for its wholesale accounts -- going to back to the days when I was ordering stuff for our gas station forty years ago, I had never had any trouble whatsoever with them. The staff were local people, who knew the customers by name, and knew what we ordered and when we needed it. Now, it's a battle every time I try to get my fountain syrup, my bottled water, and my paper cups. As much as I don't like Pepsi, I'd threaten to take our business to them, except according to what I hear their service is just as remote and inept.

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