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I feel like venting my spleen — 19 Comments

  1. I feel your pain, but I think it has more to do with the ubiquitous “star” rating systems that seem to be everywhere from social media to Google Maps to e-tailers. These seem to have become a shortcut for consumers to decide what product/service/store to patronize, and thus have a real impact on sales.
    As long as this is true, I think we must expect that businesses will do everything they can to boost their ratings, including importuning customers for their opinions. As a former business owner, I was acutely aware that one bad “review” could outweigh a host of good ones.

  2. Geez!? Classic Liberals Venting their Spleens … will have to toss the Chicken Bones to rid my mind of such a thought – Shake-sssshhhaaKKKE rattle shaaake rrAAAAAtttlllEEE ‘n *TOSS*!!!!

    Bones say: ‘Liberals should be careful venting their spleens—as such can attract bad Karma.

  3. For me, the problem is less about requesting feedback, and more that they want to confine the feedback to imbecilic ‘star’ ratings, instead of (usually) excluding the possibility of adding specific comments. The first question they should ask is, ‘Would you like to opt out of providing customer feedback?’ That would probably encourage people to comment more by reverse psychology.

  4. So, I buy a couple packaged of seeds from a specialty house and next day they want me to evaluate their product. Not just how fast they arrived, etc. It’s January in Colorado. Tiresome.

  5. “Spleenventing.”

    Isn’t THIS precisely what Twitter became famous for? And now, as X.com, practical for all?

  6. My friends and I in college used the “venting spleen” figure often. We were a bunch of English and other humanities majors and had picked it up from literature as an amusing alternative to “complain.”

  7. Yeah, every doctor visit, every trip to the grocery story, I’ve even had requests to rate books I’d bought the previous day. I just ignore them now.

  8. Garrett, my part of CO on the Northern Front Range it is Feb, almost March. But the weather makes you think it is still Jan.
    I had 3 hr session on the phone about something. IPhone got updated, but an app wasn’t working. Wanted password, which I entered. WRONG!! Then on the phone to India, and they wanted $$ to reset MY password. I got the request for rating the “experience”. I could not go below 1, but I wanted too.

    Off topic, something else that makes me upset. Wanting a tip when you fill a cup with coffee.

    There, I am done Venting my Spleen.

  9. Being behind the times that I am I , etc
    , I regularly pay both my truck insurance and my phone bill in person. I have a T-Mobile account. Originally it was Sprint, but there was some kind of merger / takeover and my account was transferred to T-Mobile. I would get those request for feedback in a text after paying before I could even get to my truck. I kept complaining that the signal was weak at my house and I complained that they started charging Xtra to pay in the store. I expressed my thoughts one time to one of the workers that I thought this was part of a larger plot to go cashless in society. I didn’t get that employee for a while and one month I go in and she says wait a minute. She went and talked to the manager on the phone and came back and said I was hurting their store due to my complaints and they no longer would accept my payments. She falsely accused me of giving the store itself bad ratings even though my survey comments and ratings had been directed to the poor signal and Xtra charge of paying in store. At some point in the numerous surveys I filled out I probably mentioned that the store had told me there was a new tower going up that had not at that time materialized. I now go to a different TMobile store and never answer the survey. I thought about switching to a different company but hate the hassle. Maybe at some point. I did later look up that particular store and it had LGBTQ stuff on the site and I later thought about the strangely small framed, effeminate manager and wondered if ” he” was a “she”…

  10. sharksauce, but now we’ll need to give neo thanks in her bile as well.

    Something on the composition of bile here
    (As it says there, “while you may not think about bile much…” Well, not since that episode with the stone, at least….)
    Hmm… one interesting little detail is that it conveys bilirubin to the intestine! I had always thought bilirubin exited via the kidneys.

  11. Sarah Hoyt had a column once about how the review system originated and why anything less than a 5-star on everything is considered an abject failure (which kind of defeats the purpose of a “review” IMO).

    I would vent my gallbladder about those instant-review requests, but I had it removed 20 years ago. (I would have given the surgeon a 5-star but they weren’t asking back then.)

    Short of childbirth, the pain from the gallbladder was the worst I’ve ever had, and at least birthing was OVER in a couple of hours.
    But I did it five times, and I can’t do that with a gallbladder, thank goodness.

    I haven’t spilled my guts much, but I do give people a piece of my mind from time to time.

    But maybe we should be more concerned with the bowels of mercy; those poor folks are just trying to stay up with the herd.

    So keep your eyes on the prize, and I say that from my heart.

  12. Somewhere, I once read that that blogs are good for validating your anger. If somebody’s gotta do it, I’m glad it’s you.

    As far as my gallbladder goes, all the tests say “leave it alone.”

    Now, it’s 2:00 in the AM, and I’m gonna get back to my book. Slow blues on the radio. First time in years I’ve said “lets fund NPR.”

  13. @ Cornflour > “First time in years I’ve said “lets fund NPR.”

    Just buy the CDs that you like.
    I’ll even send you some of mine!
    NPR delenda est.

    Also, you may leave your gallbladder alone, but will it leave YOU alone?

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