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| PlainName:
I figured out a way to get around it, but usually I don't need banking support (I've only contacted a different one, where I've had an account for many, many years, to complain about something and they fobbed me off anyway). It's other benefits outweigh this potential aggro. |
| Siwastaja:
If it's something unimportant, I just don't communicate with them. If they are not willing to sell me something I want, then I buy it from elsewhere. If it's something important, like me already being a customer and bank losing my money, and there is no communication channel I can use, then I only communicate with them through authorities. If I had more money at my disposal, lawyers can make it work quicker. Besides, having the communication channel usually isn't enough. Chances are high you are facing a biological chatbot; an actual human person who has no training and no authority to do anything, and who has been programmed into detecting single words like 1980's chatbot software, and then reply something not related to the matter at all. I have had two serious complaints during the last maybe 5 years, one with a phone company who accidentally closed my phone service completely because of their broken process, and bank who "accidentally" left my old card active when they "upgraded" it into a new card. In both cases, communication was exactly like 80's chatbot, and only after very thorough explanation of which exact authorities and media houses are to be contacted, at which exact dates, only then something started to happen. You need to go far enough to trigger their process of involving their lawyers, and give enough time (2 weeks in latter case) to do that. I try to avoid using "services" as much as I can, knowing how to do everything myself. It provides a very stress-free life. The idea that paid services make life easier was maybe working in 1960's when this culture started. Nowadays most of it is just incompetence, understaffing, and cost gone through all roofs, and the downhill has accelerated during the last decade. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: SL4P on February 11, 2022, 11:23:51 pm ---Take the US election in 2016 as an example. --- End quote --- What was stupid about the US 2016 election? I've heard many say the that about the 2020 election! When I saw this comment, I thought I was reading the another thread. A big part of human stupidity is not being able to see why others think differently, understand why the voted for a different party, make different decisions or have a different culture/religion. It's true that people often genuinely make stupid mistakes, but sometimes they're right and you're wrong, or neither party is right. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 21, 2022, 11:22:12 am --- --- Quote from: SL4P on February 11, 2022, 11:23:51 pm ---Take the US election in 2016 as an example. --- End quote --- What was stupid about the US 2016 election? I've heard many say the that about the 2020 election! When I saw this comment, I thought I was reading the another thread. A big part of human stupidity is not being able to see why others think differently, understand why the voted for a different party, make different decisions or have a different culture/religion. It's true that people often genuinely make stupid mistakes, but sometimes they're right and you're wrong, or neither party is right. --- End quote --- What seems to have been lost or diminished is the ability to respect and get along with people that you don't agree with... being able to do a little "give and take" to make things work. |
| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---Do you really need a smartphone? --- End quote --- Nope,been phone free for a few years now. |
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