Archive for August, 2005
Cart Demolition
Tonight I went to see 40 year old virgin. It was the best movie of all time. I laughed my ass off the whole time to the point that I was in tears.
After the movie we found some carts sitting around, so we were playing around with them for more then an hour. Freaking awesome. Even have pics.
Now presenting YOUR Cart Demolition riders!
Cheryl!
Jaimie!
Simon!
And last but not least Tyler!
Please be patient as the riders prepare for the demolition.
Battle 1: A free for all! Best rider wins!
Would you look at that, they all lost!What a fantastic battle. On to the next Battle: A single competion between Cheryl and Simon. Keep it clean and good luck!
And we have a winner! Good job Simon. Well that’s our show for tonight. Good night, and don’t get hit by a cart, aight?
Telus Wars III: Return of the Dumbass
I swear, they know when you say something good about them. So now it’s the 3rd time I’m going to blog about Telus here.
Forward: I had a feature set up on my cell: $15 for unlimited text & picture messaging (it’s like 15 cents for each text and $1.50 for each picture otherwise). It wasn’t associated with a plan, it was extra. So that was like the only thing they got right on my last bill.
I recieved a call last night (on the cell) from Telus at 9:30pm. They were asking for my Dad (as the account is under his name, but the phone is under mine). I asked if they could call back on the home phone, and the cell died. They never called back.
So I called today, to see what it is they were calling about, and making sure it wasn’t anything to do with the payment (that was paid on the 15th, 2 days after the bill came). They said it wasn’t, and the payment went through no problem. So he starts looking to try and find out why they called: He has no clue, there isn’t even a record of them calling. He checks to see if there is any promotions ending, promotions I’m available for, ect: There isn’t.
So then he looks to see if I’m over my minutes: I’m not even half way through. He then looks at my text/picture messages: 91 total; 19 of them text all the others picture. Now here is the kicker: There is no record of me being on a plan anymore for them, so they’re charging me individually. I’m sorry but that’s bullshit.
Me: “You’re fucking kidding right?”
Him: “No, it seems to have been removed when you changed your rate plan.”
Me: “Oh? So then that was included with my rate plan then?”
Him: “No, it was an extra feature.”
Me: “Extra feature? You mean it had nothing to do with rate plan, and therefore you have to remove it by itself.”
Him: “Yes.”
Me: “So then I removed it?”
Him: “No.”
Me: “So then it is still there?”
Him: “No, we removed it. We assumed..”
Me: “…You assumed that you could remove it without my permission and charge me ten times as much? I believe that you have to notifty me when you change my contract. I wasn’t notified.”
Him: “I’m sorry, we’ll put it back and it will be added next month. But you’ll still be charged for the ones used this month.”
Me: “So I’m going to be charged extra because you changed my contract without notifying me because one of your employees is a dumbass? I want to speak to your manager in this case. If I’m going to be paying an extra $50, I want something out of it. I want to see somebody get fired.”
Him: “Umm, there is not need for that. I’ll add it now and it will take place as of the first of August. Sorry for the inconvience.”
Me: “Oh good, I knew we could find a peaceful resolution. So what is your name again, just so I know who I was talking to for when you over charge me when the bill comes.”
Him: “Jason. And I’ll add the notes, we won’t over charge you.”
Me: “Good, if I see the extra charges, I’ll have them forwarded to you. Anything else?”
Him: “No. Anything else?”
Me: “Other then the echo of a mindless drone? No. Have a nice day.”
*click*
If it wasn’t for these jedi mind tricks…I swear, the people they hire. I’ve come to the conclussion that 98% of the people that work in customer service are morons. It’s true, nobody knows what they’re doing. I could say that I had a plan where an elephant comes by once a week to sit on my phone and they would have to go ask the manager what button they push to add it.
Stupid people piss me off.
UPDATE: I just got a call from Telus, they asked me how the service from the customer service rep was. I replied “He was good, he did exactly what he was told. Though it would be much better if you would stop changing stuff and over charging me. So yes, he did as he was told your service is just pathetic.” They replied “Ok, thank you for aiding us in our study.
SSYHAMTB
So I’ve decided to write a short story. Why you may ask? Well mostly because I’m bored. But also because it’s fun to get random stuff out of my head. I’ve written the first two chapters already, have a general idea of what I’m doing for chapter 3 and already have good chunks of the rest of the story worked out in my head. So it’s all about getting there.
Anyway, The first two chapters can be found at http://www.shirtninja.net/story. When I have new chapters done I’ll throw them into HTML format and post them up there, so keep an eye out.
Any CC would be awesome. Anyway, I’m going to bed. That is all.
Die.
I’m going to go over and knock on his door. When he answers, I’ll hand him a knife, tell him I’m going to kill him and then beat the fuck out of him until every bone is broken. At which time, I’m going to take the knife I gave him back, and cut him into small pieces as he suffers the last few minutes of his life. I’m going to mail all the parts except the head to his family and friends. The head I will use for talking to the insurance company once I burn down his house.
Larry!
So a few days ago, something happened at work and I had to call Tech Support in Finland. So I tried calling from my cell and got the nice “This feature is not yet activated. Please call Telus Client Care to activate this feature.” So I called them, and they were closed. How can a 24/7 Client Care be closed at 3am, I’ll never know. Anyway, I had to use the home phone, and I’m sure it’s going to cost me 3 arms and a leg.
So I just got off the phone with Telus, as I had to call them to set up the international calling. I talked to Larry, he rocked. I told him my situation, this is how it went:
Larry: “That’s strange, with your plan it should have already been enabled. I’ll enter it manually.”
Me: “Awesome.”
Larry: “OK, I’ve entered it manually. You should have a bunch of new international features enabled in your phone. Just turn it off for a few minutes and turn it back on.”
Me: “Cool. Do you think that it might be that I haven’t turned my phone off since April?”
Larry: “You haven’t turned your phone off since April? You’re a real slave driver Jeff.”
Me: “Yeah, well for the price that you guys are charging me I’m allowed to be.”
Larry: “True enough. Anything else?”
Me: “Nope, you rock Larry. So whenever I call again I’ll ask for you, the chicks I’ve talked to before were stupid.”
Larry: “No need to tell me, I work with them.”
Me: “Rocking, thanks Larry.”
Larry: “Later Jeff.”
Now why the hell can’t all Customer Service reps be like Larry? Larry is now my hero. I’m going to say that e’s the best damn Customer Service Rep EVER.
That is all 
Commercials!
So I was chatting with some Hobos today (yeah I know, it’s a change) and we were tallking about commercials. Anyway, of the ones we were talking about, I found this one. It think it rocks.
Don’t you put it in your mouth
No.
No, but I’m her daddy.
Those who are supposed to know what this means, will. Those who don’t, you’re not cool. I so wish I could have said that when it would have been funny. Yeah, it’s 5am, leave me alone.
Telus
Telus: A phone company. In this case, a cell phone provider.
Customer Service: People who think they know something, but are pulling it out of their ass.
So I got a HUGE cell phone bill today, and it was really messed up. I had called Telus on July 1st and asked them to change my plan from the $20/200 local minute plan to the $50/400 anywhere minute plan. She told me that since it was already the 1st, the pervious plan is already in effect. However it will change as of the beginning of August. So I’ll still have the $20/200 local for the month of July. Ok, that’s fine.
Now today’s bill is the problem: They charged me for the $50/400 mintute plan on my July 1st-July 31st bill. However, they only actually gave me the 200 local minute plan. So I talked a total of 414 minutes in July. If they gave me the $50 plan, it would be $50 + (14 x $0.25). Or if they had kept me on the $20 plan, it would have been $20 + (214 x $0.25). It’s higher but it’s still would be fine. Though that’s not what they did. Instead, they did $50 + (214 x $0.25). So they gave me the royal screw job there. So I decided to give them a call.
Me: “Hey, I think there is a mistake on my bill. You charged me for the $50 Talk Canada plan, but really only gave me the $20 Talk plan. So you charged me twice for all of my longdistance, as well as any local over the 200 mark.”
Telus Customer Service: “Well you see, the plan on the bill is actually the plan for the month to come.”
Me: “But the minutes are for the month that past. So if I’m paying for the minutes used for a month that hasn’t come yet, the minutes are being effected by a month that was already paid for. That makes no sense.”
TCS: “That’s a little right.”
Me: “So if I’m paying for the plan in advance, but paying for the minutes past, why not charge me for the minutes I haven’t used yet?”
TCS: “Because you haven’t used them yet.”
Me: “Really?! Well then how did I use the plan already? Did I talk on my phone and then come back in time to pay for it? It sounds stupid.”
TCS: “Well we can’t determine how many minutes you use..”
Me: “But you can determine what plan I want to use a month from the time I’m paying the bill?”
TCS: “Yes.”
Me: “So Can I determine that next month Telus will hire customer service that will know what they’re talking about?” TCS: “No, we don’t know about the future of the company.”
Me: “*laughing* Glad we cleared that up.”
*I hung up*
Notice how all the people who should have been shot at birth end up working in customer service? It drives me nuts. I’ll call back tomarrow and hope to get somebody with a brain, I’m sure there is at least one that knows what a cell phone is within the building. I hate stupid people.
Jack Thompson
So Ctrl Alt Del has a nice piece written up about Jack Thompson today, and I feel that I just have to comment. I’ve heard of this guy before, and I thought even then that he was an asshat. I mean it’s kind of stupid to put all the blame for things on video games. If a 13 year old was playing a game aimed at a 13 year old and did something, fine. In that case you could put some blame on the game makers; but to go to the point of lawsuit is retarded. Unless the kid bought the game(Which most 13 year olds wouldn’t) you should first point blame to the person who gave that child the video game.
To continue with that thought, games aimed at 13 year olds (Rated ‘T’, ‘E’ or ‘K to A’) aren’t ever the games that are being blamed for stuff. Why? Because they’re aimed at 13 year olds and the ESRB knows what they’re doing! It’s always the ‘M’ rated games (17 years old or up) to blame. And it seems that most of the complaints are in reference of people under 17. I wonder who gave them the game…the parents maybe?! If anything, the parents should be kicking themselves in the ass for being so fucking worthless. The rating system is there for a reason. If you don’t take the time to look into it, that’s your own fault you sorry sac of crap.
Now back to Jack: You’re an idiot. Does it make you feel good that you’re helping people be stupid? Dumbfuck. I’m not going to waste any more words on you.
Conclusion: It’s stupid to blame video games for what the users do. The video games aren’t telling you to do it. If the majority of users started shooting eachother with rocket launchers we may be on to something. Until then, you can’t prove that the stupid people that are doing shit wrong are directly leaded to video games. Next you’re going to blame Atari for when people try to bounce balls off eachother. Assclown.
Mommy, It’s over!
Well, Blogathon is officially over!
With 219 Participants and 1791 Sponsors, we raised $55497.47. I don’t think that’s too shabby. I’m sure the various charities recieving this money will be pretty satisfied as well. Now for the final speech:
Oh my this is so unexpected. I’d like to thank God…no, I’m just pulling your leg. But seriously, I’ll thank the organizers of Blogathon, you guys really pulled it off this year. A thank you to my sponsors; Without you I wouldn’t be doing it. A thanks goes out to my guest bloggers, my readers, my comment’rs and those who suggested topics. And of course, a big thank you to those of you who helped keep me awake; Without you guys I wouldn’t have been able to do it. Thank you all. This is for you Sir Froster!
Overall I’ll have to say I enjoyed the experience. Not only does it give a feeling of accomplishment being able to stay up for so long, but you feel good knowing that you’d done somethng good for somebody besides yourself. I had a blast doing it as a whole (though at times I may have said otherwise) and can’t wait to do it again next year.
So now that I have that out of the way: Have a good sleep fellow bloggers, you’ve definitly deserved it. Sweet Dreams and like always, That is All.