“LOLZ. I believe the really mean acronym you’re looking for is “FOAD!”

(“eph off and die!”) ? ?”

Heh, heh! Yeah.

I hadn’t head of, “FOAD”, yet.

I’d like to use that on my friends, but that’s probably a move that I can’t af-foad! 😀 😀

Hoping you’re a cool day. 🙂

Another bothersome thing about customer service calls are foreign representatives whose accents are hard to understand and sometimes English skills that aren’t quite all the way there.
Yes, Yes, Yes. And more Yes. When I am already teed off at the company and am calling to resolve a problem, a difficult-to-understand accent tees me off even more.

Self-service grocery checkout lines.
Yes they can be irritating- such as taking three times for Wal-mart to accept my credit card or HEB telling me that there is a problem with what is in my bag so I need assistance of HEB “associate” to continue- but I’d rather use them than wait in line.

Re chicklet keyboards: I have always used a PC in preference to a tablet because of the keyboard.

Too high toilets. I recently replaced a toilet with a high-seat toilet. No problem.

Apple is a good option for wealthy people who do not want to spend time learning the inner workings of their devices.

Good point. In the ’90s, the university computer lab I frequented had both Apple and PCs. At the time, Apple broke down more, so I used PC.

I had a prepaid hotspot with T-Mobile. Getting customer service was difficult because their system is based on the most common and most profitable services, so I would always get bounced around from agent to agent until I got to the right one. Direct dial numbers for different departments would be a real help, but I suppose that so many people might dial the wrong number that the company finds it more profitable to just rely on the automated system.

But I HATE counter-height seating at restaurants. More and more often, if I find myself in a newly decorated restaurant, all of the tables are counter height and the chairs actually are stools. Extremely uncomfortable for a short and partially handicapped person, to be perched atop a stool, often a stool without a suitable rung for stability, with my legs dangling above the floor like I’m back in kindergarten …. and then attempting to make a graceful landing when I am forced to leap from the stool at meal’s end while attempting to keep my balance using my cane. Bah! I usually turn around and walk out if this type seating is the only choice.

Walgreen’s has an amazingly good phone menu, it is easy and fast to renew prescriptions with it, and if there’s a problem you just hit 0 and it immediately connects you to a person.

Until recently, those systems were pretty bad. One of the early ones had a sexy female voice that began “Hi, I’m Wildfire!” Yuck. The phone menu at Comcast was so bad that I actually wrote a letter to the president of the company — I was calling for technical support, and the system made me listen to a Comcast ad before putting me through! Then I ended up in an infinite loop with no way in and no way out (except of course to hang up). That letter led to an amusing result: someone called me from the alleged office of the president, left a phone number on my answering machine (yeah, this was a while ago), and when I returned the call I ended up, once again, in an infinite loop!

I hate plastic packaging like the clamshell. It’s as if they forgot we have to open the thing. I now have a huge pair of kitchen shears for attacking all packages.

I cannot stand those A.I. answering voices. Amazon and Verizon are the worse.

See this AT&T ad for the service that would be called TWX, from 1931.

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/61181.html

You could type back and forth, text-messaging style, or send messages to be read later, email-style.

You all likely know this, but some of the most persistent are the least charitable. There is a federal law that requires all of them to denote what percentage of the money they take in actually goes to the cause or mission they promote (as opposed to administrative fees) and some are as low as 5%.

And most of those administrative fees are internal salaries, and some of those salaries are absurd. Money goes to other perks like lavish offices, travel… It is very sad, but there are a lot of grifters out there enriching themselves using the truly needy as a front.