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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 8:27 am
My gripe for the day is that people need to process forms efficiently. Explanation - Last year, I signed up for a summer course in the last summer session of the year. I get a tuition discount because of a relative working for the school, so before the final payment date, I paid (in full) what I needed to pay, with the discount. The woman who processes the Discount form, left for her 2 week summer vacation and since obviously NO ONE else in the office could process it, the system thought that I didn't pay my fees, put a hold on my account, and wouldn't let me register for my Fall and Winter courses. Needless to say, that got a frantic phone call last year, and luckily, and got into all my classes, with the exception of one lab I had to switch into the morning. Fast forward to this year. To graduate in the Spring, I needed to take two summer courses, which I signed up for. Payment is due today at 11:59pm, but I've already paid MY SHARE of the money, with the discount. However, my discount hasn't been processed yet, and the 3 guys I gave it to had no sweet clue what to do with it, and I wasn't sure it made it into the right hands. So, I wrote them an email explaining that the "3 guys" didn't seemed to know what to do with it, and that I hoped it got into the right hands, and that I need it processed TODAY or I'll have a hold on my account for registration TOMORROW. I get an email back stating that he's "One of the guys" who took it in and be rest assured it's in the right hands. I have a feeling he read my first paragraph and not the rest. I want to write a response like, "I hope your quick regard to my "3 guys" comment didn't cause you to disregard the rest of my email because if I have a HOLD come tomorrow morning, and I am unable to get into my courses that only have 15 seats available, I will be coming to find you and killing you with my bare hands. Best regards, Neko." Seriously? SERIOUSLY. I'm taking 6 courses each semester this year and 2 summer courses, all so I can graduate this spring, instead of having to wait another year and if this guy ruins my WELL LAID OUT PLAN, I might actually make his life a living hell. Cause surprisingly, I'm REALLY good at it. (Thank you for read my gripe, because if I didn't gripe here, I was going to send this in email for to him, and chances are, that would REALLY keep my form from getting processed.)
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 8:44 am
Better here than there, Neko! I have a feeling that email might not get you on the course . I can totally sympathise. People can so seriously screw up your plans by just not doing their jobs and it makes you feel completely powerless when no one takes you seriously. I hope the guy's right, and it was processed ok. It probably is ok. Is there a phone number you could call and hope you get someone else to speak to?
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Eris
Member
11-13-2003
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 7:12 am
oh Neko...don't I know the headaches of financial aid!!!! I moved to Georgia last year and was supposed to be attending college there...I got accepted in....did everything i thought i needed to do...wouldn't you know it just as I went to register for classes i realized that it wouldn't let me. Long story short-who knew that some college only converse with their student via email-no snail mail, no phone....and hey, even better-they don't use the email addy you have placed on all of your paperwork...nooooo they use the college email they give you that you had no idea even existed! so yeah...no college for me last year...but well, no I am back in california....where i know how things work lol I hope this all gets worked out and you get into the courses you want and need without much hassle!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 7:47 pm
Gotta do my annual Gripe.... Fireworks! My poor Bomba doesn't know what to do with himself. And no amount of hugging/holding/petting/ear scratching will help. It might not make me so !#@% mad if it weren't for the fact that they are illegal anyway!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 8:24 pm
Whomum it is definitely a rough time for the furbabies. Tell Bomba that Sandycat doesn't like all the noise either. ETA: For some reason she has decided that she needs to be up high. Would have thought she would want to be under the bed?
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 9:41 pm
My dogs dont even flinch when the fireworks go off but then I live realy close to the airport and noise is sorta regular... but geeze... when I was a kid,..sparklers were the best thing ever, now the kids and "adults" around here have freaking dynomite or bombs... eather one, they are loud and huge..and stink so bad...the stench is so thick outside right now.... the poor fire dept is working over time tonight...
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 10:03 pm
In all the 20+ years I've lived here, I've never seen a cop drive down our street when the fireworks are going off. I'm sure they have their hands filled with complaints (which is one reason I don't bother calling in), but you'd think they'd at least make an appearance or two. Its now midnight and the <self-modded> people are still out there making noise. Don't these people have jobs to get to in the morning?
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 10:13 pm
Yes they do--they are just too drunk to realize it.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 10:26 pm
Firecrackers are still going off around here but the cat is calmer now. Good point, Lance.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:35 am
Does anyone find the new Oreo commercials as irritating as I do? Not a major gripe, but they bug me. I think they are supposed to be "cute" but they are (imo) stupid.
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Sajó
Member
06-18-2007
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:47 am
Here is what a Bengal looks like.

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Sajó
Member
06-18-2007
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:50 am
Sorry... messed up, wrong place
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:20 am
After all my griping, I must have had someone looking over for me at Financial Services, because my Hold was changed to allow me to register, then before the actual start time for registering, my hold disappeared completely. I was a very happy camper. Especially since the courses I signed up for, filled up within about 4 hours after registration opened. My new gripe for day is I wish a certain manager from a certain store actually STAYED AND WORKED at his store! I mean, he's supposedly managing like 3 different stores, so it's no wonder he runs between them like a mad man, but seriously? I've been trying to stalk him down for weeks to get an interview (or at least, even find out if he's hiring!) and I haven't met him yet!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:29 am
Julieboo, almost all commercials tick me off! I always think, oooh, I'm going to gripe about that commercial tomorrow!! Dairy Queen had one about their shrimp basket, with the mommy, daddy shrimp eating the popcorn shrimp<-- that one makes me sick! I think as we get older the commercials will get more offensive, so more of the history channel for me.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 4:10 pm
I think the commercials are regional, too, since I can't remember ever seeing a DQ commercial. I just don't think we have many DQs out here.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, July 06, 2007 - 7:44 am
You aren't missing much in my opinion.
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 2:56 am
My gripe for the day? Its my first day back at work. *SIGH* Not so bad, really, but certainly not as nice as getting paid to stay at home, sleep in, swim in my pool, watch Man vs Wild. Oh, wait, one more gripe...people who don't know the right mailing group to send their reports to. Usually, the email is automatically sent to the right group through the reports program, but last night the program was down and everyone had to do manual reports and I've gotten ALL of them, even though I shouldn't be on the mailing list for any of them. And if people were using the correct list, I wouldn't be. But people are using the whole staff list, not the list for their network. Grrrr. Oh, and the commercial that always gets me is the Goldfish crackers one with the song about biting off their heads.
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 4:17 am
Okay, just me griping again...Comcast...driving me crazy. LONG explanation written in TV Shows:Random Discussions thread. I won't repeat all that here. But my gripe? Why do they make everything so difficult? Why can a service person NOT do installation? Why don't they "carry equipment"? And if the service guy doesn't carry equipment, how on earth is he going to replace my broken digital box? Why is he even coming if he isn't bringing another box? AND, why is it that they can give me a 2pm-5pm window, but I can't ask that it be 3pm-5pm? Why is there no flexibility with that. For the love of God, they always come in the last freakin' hour of the appointment anyway...how hard is it to just ask them to make me their LAST person in that hour? With the amount of money I pay for service, you'd think they'd try to make things easier. I am starting to really HATE these people. And don't even get me started on the number of different people you have to talk to get anything done...like the fact that the person I talk to to order service can't put in a disconnect order for old service. The disconnect cable woman can't process transfer of internet. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 7:25 am
Wow CD, that is weird I just changed my service with comcast and one person did the disconnect and the reconnect, all at the same time. ITA about the scheduling thing though, the dispatcher knows what time people are scheduled to get there I don't know why they can't just that time plus two hours. I had a whole day appointment for my phone, I called at 11 to confirm I was still on the list (don't even get me started about how orders dissapear) and she said he wasn't even scheduled to be there until 4pm!! I don't know why they couldn't just tell me to be home by 3 pm, in case he was running early.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 7:38 am
I dislike comcast, but had problems with Dish network. I am wondering if it's worth it to switch back.
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 7:54 am
That is strange Dipo, I wonder if its a locality thing...maybe the people at my local Comcast aren't allowed to...or maybe they just won't! I will say everyone has been nice, just ineffective. I was considering switching to DirectTv myself. They have On Demand now - or will in August (we just started sending them our August material), and that was an important consideration for me. But, internet is the big issue, DTV's internet costs more and is a lot slower...and I'm not sure how well it will work with my Vonage (they say cable internet works best with VOIP). Oh, and with the appointments, they won't even call you ahead. For service calls, they will call you 30 minutes before they arrive. But, the woman I talked to this morning (by far my least favorite of the customer service people I've dealt with..and there have been SO many at this point) said installation people will not call ahead. Oh, and I think I covered this in the other thread, but yesterday they didn't make my appointment window (11a-2p), they called AT 2pm to say it would be another hour or 1.5 hrs before they could make it. So, they pretty much expect that you'll just wait your whole day, yet they won't let you just ask that it be after 3 (and they don't do installations in the 5p-8p window, like I have for my service appointment). I really need to find the right Comcast address and send someone a very mean letter. Doubt it would help, but it would make me feel better!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 10:32 am
DirecTV has internet? I thought they just partnered with local companies. Like where we were at in Kentucky it was Bell South/AT&T [slow friggen dial up cuz we were in the boonies] but where we are here it's Qwest DSL. [AT&T has internet here but not DSL, and DirecTV isn't affiliated with AT&T here.]
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:48 am
From the DirecTV website, it looks like is is possibly a partnering. In my area it would be satellite internet through Wild Blue. They bundle it with your DTV package. Problem is that the highest speed they have is 1.5mbps for $79.95/mo, while Comcast gives me 6mbps for $42.95/mo. (Or...you know...WILL give me, if I can ever get it installed. GRRRR). I don't know if Comcast will just let you get internet if you don't have cable through them. I know back when I had BellSouth, you could only get DSL if you had phone service with them, which is why I switched to cable internet in the first place. I realized this morning that being back at work makes me gripe more. Today's first gripe: the entire time I was gone (12 days) nobody updated our grids. When I'm here I'm the only person who ever does it, which doesn't really bother me. But I couldn't finish them before I left, because we'd not received paperwork we needed for TNT & TBS. So, I passed on the my supervisor that when those docs came in, he'd need to add that info to our grids. They came in the first day I was gone, nothing ever got added. And to make it worse, when I said something to him about it this morning his response was "Doesn't it make you feel needed?" GRRRRRRR. No, doesn't make me feel needed, makes me feel irritated, because when I was trying to get as much as I could done the day I left he kept telling me not to push myself, he'd finish them if I couldn't. GRRRRRR And, despite the fact that I left dated Kill lists for our weekly purge, he decided to just go in and kill EVERYTHING, which means will have to re-upload a ton of material that shouldn't have been killed yet...which wouldn't have been killed if he'd just used the lists I left. I mean, really, I try to make it as easy as possible. You print the list for the current day, kill only what is on the list. Not rocket science. And, and, and....well before I left, one of the other people on our staff was complaining because he feels HE does "everything" around here. And, yes, he does do most of the captures and a lot of the QC'ing, but that isn't because I'm just not doing them. The majority of the time, the material comes in after I leave, and he's already done it all by the next day. And a lot of the other times, I am working on the paperwork, because nobody else does it. And despite being told that other people will if I don't, every time I am gone for any period of time, I come back to a backlog of it. Okay, gripe over...
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 7:44 am
I do know WildBlue isn't all that fast. My dad lives out in east county and lives too far away from a CO to get DSL (he even checked with AT&T when we were at the fair and I *told* him he couldn't get DSL but he thought he could talk 'em into it and nope, he couldn't.) I can't remember if Cox offers just Internet. Since I had cable before I got my high-speed Internet, I never even paid attention. You may wanna check out other satellite providers. Like, instead of Comcast, think DirectTV and see if they've got high speed Internet. As for the work gripe... yikes! Bummer!
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 8:56 am
Costa, COX offers phone, cable and internet.
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