Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Even though you know it makes no difference to them, it still feels good. 
We discussed it, and this thread, over breakfast this morning and between internet, phone and TV we now have more products, and better service than we did 20 years ago at a third the cost. Less if you consider inflation. We are spoiled with choice. 
 

But I said a while back in this thread, I think I spend half my time dealing with incompetence and bad customer service. That's the cost right there. 
 

Gameboy is somewhat local to me, I wonder if he can guess who the evil company is?

Sciatica. berkeley you. 2.5 days so far no relief even though I have used 90% of everything I have available at home. 2 different chiropractor adjustments. Muscle relaxers. Tylenol, Advil, aleve. Heating pad. Stretches. 
I give.

In reply to Ranger50 :

My back can be awful at times. Last chiropractor I used was also a for-real doctor who could write prescriptions

He shot me full of lidocaine before he did the adjustment,  so I would relax.

Fixed me up pretty quick.

 The following is Toyota's description of the heater control mechanism on a 14 Sienna:

"This control is capable of performing complex control by artificially simulating the information processing method of the nervous system of living organisms in order to establish a complex input/output relationship similar to that of a human brain."

I don't want to perform brain surgery to get the berkeleying mode door  motor to move the air to the defroster.  It's a 10.5 hour job to replace the mode door motor, and it cannot be tested on the bench before installation, because my neural net wants to apply 12 volts and a ground...

Dear "talent acquisition specialists",

If you can list the physical demands of a help desk position in the job description of your position posting, then you can surely list the salary range.

- Signed, everyone with a brain

I had my local auto parts store (I won't mention their name as I they've always done a good job in the past) order spark plugs for my 1983 RX-7.

Nothing fancy, just a four-pack of NGK Copper, Blah, Blah, Blahs and man did I get the wrong plugs...all four plugs were identical with no L "Leading" and T "Trailing" differentiators and they had the standard arch shaped conductors rather than this...

Had I installed the plugs, I could have created a plug/rotor interference and destroyed my engine...I don't know that but I do know that rotary engine plugs look wildly different than piston engine plugs and one would assume there's an important reason for that. 

In reply to RX Reven' :

"Does it have air conditioning?"

Streetwiseguy said:

Duke said:

GameboyRMH said:

Peabody said:

The rant? I can choose 10 channels of my choice to add to the base pkg. We can't find 10 channels that are worth watching

Do you really need another TV package? There are probably more than 10 decent channels on pluto.tv alone...

Yeah, we dropped TV entirely and bought a $40 Roku.  Our service bill is less than half what it was and we actually have more channels we are interested in watching than we did with a cable TV package.

 

If Nascar had a streaming service, cable would be toast in my house.  Firestick is my choice.

I got rid of my cable provider and watch NASCAR through YouTube TV.  It doesn't save a ton of money but works better than my cable provider did. Optimum is currently feuding with a bunch of channels so people that want some of the local tv and sports networks are stuck streaming them anyway. 

It's now been 10 days since my (former) insurance company said they printed the check for the last payment to the PDR shop that fixed my Maverick. The shop still has not received payment.

How long does it take to print and mail a berkeleying check?!

This is literally the last thing they need to do and then I can have the pleasure of never dealing with that company again.

The old price to good to be true scam, and I did it anyway.  (Insert derogatory statement about myself here.)

I click on the pay link and my screen goes to a page with many asian characters on I cannot read.  A new screen pops up with more of whatever it is.  The second screen also has not fully loaded, so besides the fact I cannot read it my screen has a spinning please wait while the page loads symbol.   

I stare at this for about a minute and realize how foolish (greedy, price too good to be true) I have been.  I shut down the offending pages and call my credit card company and cancel the card, just in case.  Which means in a week when I receive my new card I have to change at least two payments that were tied to the card.  And it is all my fault.  *sigh*  Someday I wll grow up.

ShawnG said:

In reply to RX Reven' :

"Does it have air conditioning?"

Yes it does.

Is that a standard pointless question auto parts stores ask?  You've got five thumbs up as of now so obviously your post is resonating with folks but I'm not familiar with the question.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

This may help 

jfryjfry said:

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

Why not get the Colorado and change out the rear window?

I don't think trying to swap the window on a brand-new truck would do particularly good things for the warranty, and having a glass company do the swap would likely not be worth the cost even if we thought it wouldn't be a problem.

I need a long weekend somewhere else. 

Streetwiseguy said:

 The following is Toyota's description of the heater control mechanism on a 14 Sienna:

"This control is capable of performing complex control by artificially simulating the information processing method of the nervous system of living organisms in order to establish a complex input/output relationship similar to that of a human brain."

I don't want to perform brain surgery to get the berkeleying mode door  motor to move the air to the defroster.  It's a 10.5 hour job to replace the mode door motor, and it cannot be tested on the bench before installation, because my neural net wants to apply 12 volts and a ground...

2010 Corolla came in not charging.  Alternator tech is getting good to the point that about one in three times, it's a wiring or computer module problem and not a bad alternator.

There are four wires going to the alternator, and the high current lug.  Verified that the lug is connected to the battery.  Check for alternator testing procedure, since it appears to be computer controlled, and I want to see if all those wires are getting or giving the appropriate signals.

There's four steps, that boil down to "Is it spinning?  If yes, chuck an alternator at it."  No wiring tests at all.  None.

Thanks, guys.  Glad there are never any blown PCM transistors or wiring corrosion in those ivory towers of yours.

In reply to RX Reven' :

The parts chain where I used to live.

Every time you asked for a part, they would go through the prompts on the computer, one of which was always "air conditioning" which is very applicable to some parts.

It did become a bit of a joke when ordering something like a pinion seal, for example.

Ranger50 said:

Sciatica. berkeley you. 2.5 days so far no relief even though I have used 90% of everything I have available at home. 2 different chiropractor adjustments. Muscle relaxers. Tylenol, Advil, aleve. Heating pad. Stretches. 
I give.

Been there, I feel you man. I was stuck in bed for a month, but that won't work for you. I did get some meds that took the edge off the pain, but nothing stopped it.

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

I would be surprised if that's applicable to Canada 

Well, it's been 8 days since my severely detached retina surgery. It's been a week of keeping my head parallel to the ground so the gas bubble they put in keeps the retina pressed against the back of my eye.

Saw the doc today and he's happy with how things look but I've got another week of head down which sucks but what are ya going to do?

After that, I can keep my head up but have to sleep on my left side.

See him again in 2 weeks.

Pic immediately after surgery.

In reply to Peabody :

I didn't realize they were in Canada. Looks like they just extended whatever deal they previously had so probably not. 
 

Streetwiseguy said:

If Nascar had a streaming service, cable would be toast in my house.  Firestick is my choice.

I just had a discussion Today about canceling a few of the services we have because of overlap. Someone in the group mentioned he only has cable for NASCAR, and another guy said he found a solution, but it involves an antenna, so you gotta be in an area where you can get channels that way (OTA). He has a small antenna box in the window, hooked to something called a "HD Home run". It allows him to get NASCAR over the air, but still have pause, watch later, etc. 

That's all I know at the moment, but I'm going to look deeper.

In reply to GPz11 (Forum Supporter) :

Dude I worked with got fired - calls me a year later to chat and discusses his retina detachment surgery in detail that I'm squirming in my seat. 

One month later a big object crashes on my head (Doc said not related) on a Friday night and two days later I have the symptoms my coworker told me about.  

Monday to an eye specialist and Tuesday for a retina repair.  

I wish you the best and quick healing.  You're hard days are in the past on this. 
 

Steve_Jones said:

Streetwiseguy said:

If Nascar had a streaming service, cable would be toast in my house.  Firestick is my choice.

I just had a discussion Today about canceling a few of the services we have because of overlap. Someone in the group mentioned he only has cable for NASCAR, and another guy said he found a solution, but it involves an antenna, so you gotta be in an area where you can get channels that way (OTA). He has a small antenna box in the window, hooked to something called a "HD Home run". It allows him to get NASCAR over the air, but still have pause, watch later, etc. 

That's all I know at the moment, but I'm going to look deeper.

Interesting things.  I have tubi available, so I will watch for that.  Antenna is a no go, I'm sure, here.  The Bell media release is about TSN, which is why I still have cable.  They do have a streaming service, which was a goat rodeo of the highest order last time I looked.  Hockey, soccer, then 20 hours of Sports center.

I guess I need cable Fox for Indycar too.  At least I should be able to watch all the races this year.  I hope.  The NBC stuff was all over the place.  NBC, no problem.  "Cousin Clems News and Such" or whatever they call it isn't available in Canuckistan.

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :

Damn, they at least gave me a day between doc visit and surgery. Granted, I did have to run around like a headless chicken to get some blood work and ekg done.

Peabody said:

Gameboy is somewhat local to me, I wonder if he can guess who the evil company is?

All of the big telecom companies in Ontario are E36 M3ty, just in different ways. It sounds like you moved off of Bell, which offers rock-solid Internet connections but is very expensive (similar to Telus), especially for TV where they constantly jack up rates while the selection of channels slowly gets worse, and the only way to bring their costs back down to earth is to threaten to leave with competitors' quotes at the ready. If you can reach them, which isn't easy. They have a phone support line but last time I called it, it was buried pretty deep, they're trying to force everyone through some PITA customer service portal to minimize the need to have actual customer service staff available.

However it sounds like you might've switched to Rogers, which offers rock-bottom introductory prices (although maybe not as low as they seem) but is really bad for jacking up prices on everything and offers horrendously unreliable Internet connections. Their phone and TV service works decently and is relatively cheap so they can make sense if you don't mind your Internet connection regularly getting horrendous lag spikes and dropping out completely a few hours per month.