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Wait till ya hear about irl waiting rooms
God, can you imagine if we had to go to some sort of DMV-like building to wait in person for Comcast customer support?
People would starve.
They actually have those. Some are more like stores but a while back (maybe 8+years ago) it looked like a DMV if you needed to swap your hardware out. Long lines and terrible customer service
Where on earth did they have Comcast stores?
I remember taking equipment to a UPS store to return it.
Now they’re called Xfinity stores but before it was more of the warehouse for a distribution center. This was in South Florida.
I have one in my town. It’s less of a store and more like a quartermaster? You go in to drop off hardware you’re returning, pick up new hardware, ask for a replacement remote, pay your bill. It’s mostly just to avoid having to send things through the mail and all the trouble that can be in some years and areas.
It will typically be one per Comcast service center. So if you are in a semi rural area, it might be in the bugger city the next county over, or there might be a handful scattered across a large metro area. They also serve as the rally point for all their cable guys.
I live in the Midwest and we have one in a strip mall. It’s basically like a mobile carrier store (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc). A few backless benches, a few service desks, a “sleek” counter, walls and large TVs lined with advertisements as well as some products (Xfinity/Comcast does mobile phone plans now too so they have phones, smart watches, etc for display). You can also return your equipment there but it’s mostly for signing up for services and billing help I suppose.
Have you not been to one of these? I’ve had to go twice. It was awful.
Oh god, no. I didn’t think they existed.
The building would burn down.
Just give me the option to mute the damn hold music so I can do other stuff while waiting for someone to answer.
Or at least put music we can dance to.
No. All must suffer!
Google Pixel. Comes built in.
I use my PC gaming headset that also has bluetooth can easily do stuff while on hold.
If they’re anything like the customers I deal with then they’ll all be ready to murder each other after about 5 to 10 minutes
Hey, it means that I get bumped up in the queue…
Not sure if you work for a shitty company or just have shitty customers. Maybe both?
It’s definitely a little of both lol
My condolences
It’s always the customers fault…
I smell retail on him. The stench is still strong on me after all.
I’m all ready ready to kill a motherfucker just thinking about this.
But maybe we could calm each other down?
Maybe customers wouldn’t be in such a murderous rage if it wasn’t so fucking hard even getting through the interactive voice repsonse?
“Has everyone else here just tried turning it off and turning it back on again?”
I kinda wished there was something like this the other day when my internet stopped working for no reason. “Did your internet stop working around 10 minutes ago too?”
ISPs usually have an outage map on their website. Of course that doesn’t do you any good if you don’t have Internet access. I just check on my phone.
Yeah I checked on my phone, it didn’t say anything about a major outage. Maybe it was just me, who knows?
Thor has smote your modem!
You have to solve the person before you’s problem before the next guy solves yours.
I’ve been in an online game lobby before, and it’s not something I enjoy.
[countless smoke alarms across the globe scream in concert as every introvert melts their phones in unison]
Smoke detectors are so friggen annoying, they have horrible UX.
When the battery starts getting low they always chirp/beep starting in the middle of the night because that’s when it tends to be coldest which makes the battery slightly worse, so you get a horrible sleep and hit the snooze button because fuck finding the right battery at 3am.
Or you take the battery out and it fucking screams at you and continues chirping because it’s missing a battery and maybe you’ll forget and die on a fire while it’s powered down. But it’s 3 am, where the fuck do you find a store selling batteries that’s open?
The new ones are wired in, but they still drain the battery anyways, so they’re even more annoying to replace and still have all the same annoyances.
They say “test weekly” on the detector, so you go to do your test. It waits for you to press the button and then at full fucking volume beeps right at you. Sure, you know it’s loud enough for a fire, but it’s so fucking loud it physically hurts and scares the shit out of my pets.
Why haven’t these things gotten any better?
UL 217 and 268 standards. They have gotten better but there are certain things where the balance of safety, cost and convenience heavily favors the first followed by the second and then the third.
Interestingly (for a certain narrow definition of “interesting”), the standards have been updated in recent years to reflect the impact of convenience on safety. Cooking can produce smoke that reaches the threshold needed to trigger the alarm without being an indication that there’s an imminent danger to the structure and residents. When cooking sets off alarms, people may be tempted to disable those alarms while cooking. Some get re-connected afterward, some don’t. The result is that because the alarm is effective (annoying), a significant number of homes have fewer active warning devices than intended.
Some nerds conned a lab into letting them light stuff on fire for money without all the legal trouble a casual arsonist might have to worry about. A side benefit of this arrangement is they’ve collected a ton of data on smoke and fire development with a wide variety of fuels over time. In order to cut down on the likelihood of those annoyance disconnections, devices built to the newest standard should be less sensitive to the type of smoke that results from normal cooking.
Doesn’t fix the midnight chirp you’re talking about but the people writing the requirements have noticed that human nature is still a factor.
Thanks, that makes sense, I guess it’s kind of the same situation as headlights where despite ideas in tech the last moves slower.
You don’t take them off the wall and hold your hand over the speaker when you test them?
Not the ones that are wired in, no. I’ve also got one that has like a cone shape and you can’t cover it.
I just put on the headphones I use for woodworking or earplugs.
it fucking screams at you and continues chirping because it’s missing a battery
I have never seen a fire alarm with a backup battery. Buy a different one maybe?
Wired ones are the code where I live, and the wireless ones do seem to have a built in battery that chirps after you remove the main battery. You’d need to do surgery to stop it.
Interesting. I’ve never heard about any of these. In Germany the alarm chirps when its battery is about to run out and stops when it’s dead. They are not wired.
Make it so that it connects you to 1v1s in cod4 on shipment. Winner moves ahead one place in the queue.
This would uncover a lot of corruption I think.
New battle royale just dropped
Phone call battle royal
May the person of patients win
On the one hand, the thought makes me laugh. On the other hand, no, please let’s not do this.
This is a copied tweet. The original was posted by John Mayer in 2017: https://twitter.com/JohnMayer/status/915665811892609024
COD chat for boomers
What is this, a gaming lobby for boomers?
