Pet Peeves : Revisited

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Sunshinemiss

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 01:27 am Click here to edit this post
Why oh why would a fast-food restaurant put someone on the drive-through window that can't speak English well?????

Drives me nuts and seems to happen ALL the time!

Whoami

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 02:03 pm Click here to edit this post
Sun, I agree with you on that one! It reminds me of a place I worked, where a deaf man was assinged to answer phones. He wore a hearing aid, but still had a hard time understanding you unless he was face to face with you. They also assigned a blind man to clean the finished product, then he was reprimanded for missing some of the dirt before packaging the product!

Dahli

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 02:24 pm Click here to edit this post
I get more annoyed with things than people it seems. My current peeve is when trying to watch (hear) late nite TV while my husband is sleeping, the commercial volume IS LOUDER!! than the program... What's that about??!
I have to scramble in the dark to mute so he doesn't wake. LOL

Weinermr

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 03:16 pm Click here to edit this post
cell phones - nuff said

Buttercup

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 03:25 pm Click here to edit this post
Dahli, I know there are TVs on the market now that automatically lowers the volume when a commercial comes on (don't ask me how!!). So next time you consider bying a new TV, you might want to look into this :)

Sunshinemiss

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 04:11 pm Click here to edit this post
Whoami, that almost sounds like the start of a bad joke.

I swear, common sense is no longer common. Sigh.

Another peeve (also fast food related, oops, maybe that's part of my problem) is when your kids see some great deal advertised on TV, 3 burgers for a buck or some such, and when you cave in and take them, that particlar branch doesn't have the special. I think if you are part of a franchise you should be obligated to honor any advertised specials. I feel like it's bait and switch or extortion, when you have upset kids that you've promised this treat you HAVE to go ahead and pay the higher price... ought to be illegal.

I feel much better now.

Dahli

Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 08:29 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanx Butter, what a great idea - I will for sure!

Snee

Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 10:02 pm Click here to edit this post
oh man, i've laughed and shaken my head all through this thread. i COMPLETELY AGREE!

Angelnikki

Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 11:31 pm Click here to edit this post
sunshinemiss, not to argue with your pet peeve but on the commercial they say at participating locations.
the reason this is not a pet peeve of mine is because where i work (there are thousands of them all over the country) some are corporate and some are franchise. The one i work for happens to be franchise and we do not participate with alot of prices and specials and coupons that the corp offices participate in and that ticks off alot of people. I really dont understand it either but now that i have really gotten to know all the details about how it works, i understand other companies that advertise the same thing :)

but i completely understand your being upset about that.

Sunshinemiss

Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 03:46 am Click here to edit this post
Thanks for the point of view Angel, it wouldn't be any fun to be on the other side of it.

It just seems really inconsistent, and if a company annoys customers or disappoints them they WILL go away.

But what can you do...

I have worked as a customer service agent in several different fields, and to me it seems courtesy is in short supply these days. Maybe that is what I will ask Santa for this year.

But that is a different thread (lol)