RL Peeves
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I have very bad insomnia, and accordingly I get prescribed very good sleeping pills.
This morning I accidentally took them 30 minutes before I’d intended to leave the house, instead of my wake-up dose.
Oops.
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Oh no, that’s not a fun whoops to start the day with.
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Just had to go to the battery store to get a battery for my car key, which is an idea that kind of stopped me dead in my tracks. What a wasteful fucking concept, you know? What a stupid thing to do.
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There’s no public pool in the town we moved to during the pandemic so I have been researching all the various “clubs” in the area that offer pools so long as you are a member, but they don’t list anything about membership on their sites, because you can’t even get on the waitlist unless you have two current members vouch for you, but of course they don’t publish their membership lists so it’s a real you already have to know the right people kind of thing. Completely ridiculous.
But come to find out that to join the country club around here you need to pay a $65,000 joining fee. Just to join. That’s like TWO CARS! Two years of college! Got curious and looked up how much it would be to join other country clubs in the area. The best one was the town we moved away from. $500,000 joining fee.
Like. If you have $500,000 for a joining fee you already have a pool you can enjoy. Possibly several. That’s a HOUSE!
What the fuck. I just want to be able to bring my kids to a pool!
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@DrQuinn Country clubs fall under the “if you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford to buy it” rule.
@insomniac used to manage a store in a mall that had an entire wing devoted to high end retailers like Balenciaga and Hermes. I have met “the right kind of people” and can assure you that I wish I hadn’t.
(Also, YMCA maybe?)
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because you can’t even get on the waitlist unless you have two current members vouch for you, but of course they don’t publish their membership lists so it’s a real you already have to know the right people kind of thing. Completely ridiculous.
Ugh that happened to me. I was like… come on, I’ve lived in this community for almost ten years. I’m a volunteer for the community ambulance service. I can get you as many references as you need but I don’t know if I even know anybody at your flipping club.
It wasn’t even a fancy schmancy country club, it was just a community pool club.
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@Aria There isn’t one nearby–there’s a couple in neighboring communities, but honestly the further away they are the less likely that we’ll use them so I was really hoping there’d be a reasonable option nearby. We live RIGHT up the road from what used to be a splash pad and a beach on a pond…that closed during the pandemic and now they say they can’t reopen because it’s in a state of disrepair. Sigh.
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My RL Peeve right now is my cat and his homocidal desires towards me.
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I don’t know what I’m doing wrong in my life but this was the second time I had to unfollow Facebook’s automatic recommendations of some pretty right-wing videos this week.
Mind you, I don’t even like being targeted for propaganda with political beliefs I actually have.
Plus I’m Canadian, leave me alone Zuck!
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@Arkandel Apparently, a bunch of the shit I’m interested in online ‘extracurricularly’ is more commonly enjoyed by right-wingers and it seems like algs decide that being interested in scholarly legal publications or writing for scholarly legal publications means I want to nail my libtard neighbor to a cross or host a bbq for Jordan Peterson while Prager U for Kids is blaring in the background.
Lazy algs are fun.
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I want chocolate with crispy rice bits in it.
I also want an assurance that neither chocolate nor crispy rice bits were harvested by child slaves.
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@GF You can have one or the other but not both.
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@TNP So it seems, yes.
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@GF Can you purchase seperately and then shove both in your mouth at the same time?
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Dealing with a vendor that has absolutely crippled their customer service reps to the point where it’s almost impossible to talk to them. It is incredibly difficult to not be frustrated with the people on the front lines, even knowing that they aren’t responsible for any of the policy matters that I’m running into. GRRRRRRRR.
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Dealing with a vendor that has absolutely crippled their customer service reps to the point where it’s almost impossible to talk to them. It is incredibly difficult to not be frustrated with the people on the front lines, even knowing that they aren’t responsible for any of the policy matters that I’m running into. GRRRRRRRR.
I frequently offer up “I’m not frustrated with you. You’re the nice person trying to help me fix someone else’s mistake.” Customer service reps seem to appreciate that one and it also generally makes them much more willing to escalate me up the phone chain.
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willing to escalate me up the phone chain.
Save yourself a ton of time and go on social media. You are much more likely to reach someone who can actually do stuff going through a front-line social media CSR than a call center supervisor (who is actually probably not a supervisor, just a person who takes escalated calls).
The most effective method is if you can go on Twitter and @ the company and their competitor(s).
(16 years in corporate customer service.)
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I don’t know if it is lingering covid or the start of the school year but I am tired. Right now I’m barely dragging myself through each day. If I had let myself stop today I would legit have fallen asleep in my chair.
But at the same time I am laying in bed but can’t fall asleep thanks to a running nose and coughing.
