If you ever get mad at a company and you decide that you want to have something done about it... get on the internet and complain about it. It might seem like a waste of time or a mere attempt at catharsis, but, listen.... as a guy who has worked for companies and on websites for his entire life... trust me when I say they're listening. These folks have entire departments designed around scouring the internet for negative press and forwarding it to people that matter. And those people that matter take an inordinate amount of stock in the things you have to say. Seriously. It's even a little frightening.
For example...
"AT&T's cell phone replacement policy is retarded."
Now... in a few days, some dude from AT&T is going to read that, forward a link to this post to some dude who's in charge of things (i.e. David M. AT&T III) and that guy is going to fire off an email to somebody in Marketing demanding that the issue be addressed. He's also going to spend about an hour doing lines of coke off of Cote De Pablo 's thighs and wondering what my problem with the Family Feud is, but rest assured, he will forward the link to someone that matters. Trust me. I've seen it happen.
Second note starts now.
If you've ever seen me in real life when I'm devastated, torn up and tired, chances are you've heard me say "oh, my car." This may seem asinine to the average person, but to anyone that's ever played Final Fight... it makes perfect sense. And I'm fully aware that this makes me a nerd.
Third thing:
Sometimes, you look in the mirror and you find a random bruise on your arm. You may say to yourself, "how did I get that bruise? I wish I had Life TiVo so I could go back and see these things." You don't want Life TiVo. You just don't. There's a lot to rewind through that you don't need. For example, if your name isn't Dirk or Laci, you don't want to see yourself having sex. I'm sorry, you just don't. You also don't want to see how much time you're spending in the bathroom. Plus, if you've never seen yourself eating when your hungry, that's not not a revelation you really want to have laid upon you. Life TiVo sounds like a great idea, but only if you want to become annoyed with yourself. That is all.
(In case you were wondering, yes, I only wrote this so my blog would be updated.)
7 comments:
The idea of people from a company seeing that I complain about something is both good and bad. I want them to know what they are doing wrong and the fact that I'm telling other people will encourage them to do something about it. However, the fact that they listen will encourage all sorts of other people to complain and pretty soon, the internet is just a bunch of people complaining about things. Kind of like it is now, I guess. I heard on the news recently that a woman was talking online about trying to find a torrent of some just about to be released movie and the company releasing the film saw it, said "don't do that" and sent her tickets. Hearing that just makes me want to talking about robbing a bank online.
So the life TiVo is just seeing the stuff again? Not reliving? If you were living it again, many of the parts you don't want to see would be ones you'd go back to, but the ones where you want to watch to see how something happened are ones you won't want to experience again.
This has nothing to do with anything, but have you watched the Animal Planet or Discovery show called River Monsters? You should. Sharks swimming in rivers, catfish that eat you from the inside out, not to mention the parasite catfish that went up one dude's penis.
AT&T charges way too much for the iPhone data plan, especially since it doesn't even include any texting, much less unlimited texting.
Yes, the penis fish! It was long thought to be mythical, but then a guy with access to medical care happened to have a fish swim up his urethra and now there's proof.
It's true, fo sho! We have a guy or two here that scan Twitter and the internet for comments about our company. I just heard about that last week...I mean, on some level, I knew it was happening. But I must have exceeded my complaint quota on my blog, because I've never heard from ANYONE that I complain about. I even all-capsed a comment to United a couple weeks ago. If they ignore the all-caps commentary, then where can we go from there?
I realized earlier that I failed to mention your second note. (I tried to post this earlier, but something went weird and blogger ate the comment instead of posting it.)
Yeah, it makes you a nerd to quote Final Fight, but at least you aren't one of the million or two people saying "Someone set us up the bomb!!" (Not that I don't laugh at it when I hear it.) There are worse games to quote. NBA Jam, for example. I can't imagine it not causing problems if you started shouting "Delivers the facial!"
I have nothing to add except... yes, of course I watch River Monsters. That and every other show about giant weird fish. Are you serious? Do you even know me?
Almost a month. Just sayin'.....
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