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my father is a dick. u_u
God, I'm ashamed of him.
My father knows jack shit about computers or internet. He doesn't even CARE about them, by the way, and keeps threatening me to have the net cut off whenever he feels the need to be a dick. But when I spend an hour on the phone waiting for a tech person to help because there's a region-wide problem with the internet provider, he finds normal to go and rant and bitch and moan at the techs about how their customers service just sucks and he wants a refund for the time i didn't spend online and the time spent on hold on the phone and what the fuck else.
IT'S NOT THEIR FUCKING FAULT. and even if it was, they're TECH SUPPORT. As in, they tell me what to do to make the computer better. They're not the fucking "ranting morons go there to piss and moan" service.
But no, he needs to feel superior and smugly go on and on about how their service sucked and what are they going to do to keep our subscription, eh?
Who does he think it scares, really. They're spread all over Europe. I'm sure they won't complain about a customer less if it means less verbal abuse on their techs.
And YES, dad, I am sure that I can't use the old computer and the new one AT THE SAME TIME. I only have ONE screen for both. Furthermore the old one is getting ready to die, is slow, bugs all the time and has no free memory left. I do not wish to use it. NOR CAN I CONNECT TWO TOWERS TO MAKE ONE BETTER COMPUTER. I don't care what you saw on TV about networks; I am not sufficiently qualified to attempt anything remotely like that.
AND I WANT HIM TO LEARN TO FUCKING KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
My father knows jack shit about computers or internet. He doesn't even CARE about them, by the way, and keeps threatening me to have the net cut off whenever he feels the need to be a dick. But when I spend an hour on the phone waiting for a tech person to help because there's a region-wide problem with the internet provider, he finds normal to go and rant and bitch and moan at the techs about how their customers service just sucks and he wants a refund for the time i didn't spend online and the time spent on hold on the phone and what the fuck else.
IT'S NOT THEIR FUCKING FAULT. and even if it was, they're TECH SUPPORT. As in, they tell me what to do to make the computer better. They're not the fucking "ranting morons go there to piss and moan" service.
But no, he needs to feel superior and smugly go on and on about how their service sucked and what are they going to do to keep our subscription, eh?
Who does he think it scares, really. They're spread all over Europe. I'm sure they won't complain about a customer less if it means less verbal abuse on their techs.
And YES, dad, I am sure that I can't use the old computer and the new one AT THE SAME TIME. I only have ONE screen for both. Furthermore the old one is getting ready to die, is slow, bugs all the time and has no free memory left. I do not wish to use it. NOR CAN I CONNECT TWO TOWERS TO MAKE ONE BETTER COMPUTER. I don't care what you saw on TV about networks; I am not sufficiently qualified to attempt anything remotely like that.
AND I WANT HIM TO LEARN TO FUCKING KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
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Aw, man, that sucks.
However, I couldn't help but laugh at the visual image of two computer towers, side by side...electronic cable tentacles coming out of one to bring the other closer to it, to fuse together and become one super duper pod people 'puter.
Although if that stuff happened in my house I'd run around the room screaming like the chick that eats it first in a horror movie.
"ranting morons go there to piss and moan" service.
You should so go start one. I might actually use the phone and call it. There's just something satisfying about yelling your frustration that banging on the keyboard doesn't quite match.
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Well, he can always call that other service, where you go to complain or review the terms of your contract or whatever. He just better not yell at MY tech guy about the money he paid for no service time, when the guy is supposed to GET ME BACK ONLINE.
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(My Dad says the stupider the jerk is, the higher he gets kicked up the ladder to be dealt with. Dad's about 5 levels below the CEO, and he recently got a real idiot. He happily sits there on the phone letting the guy yell and waiting for him to pop a blood vessel, and eggs him on with mild replies. I wouldn't be surprised to find that your techie is laughing at your dad and waiting for him to turn purple or have a stroke.)
Hm, random thought. Asuka's-dad, meet Vernon Dursley...
On that last note, maybe you should take that up with your grandmother. It was her job to teach him how to knock, ne?
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I love my granddad, but he is an opinionated old coot who fucks up the family computer Every. Single. Time. He. Visits. I honestly do not know how he does it-- if it is not some weird error, it is the settings, or a program he downloaded.
Guess who gets assigned to fix it.
Me.
I am not a tech person. My idea of fixing computer problems is writing down the error code and spend four hours googling tech help sites until I can find what I need to know.
Anyone can do this.
What gets me when I get assigned to spend my afternoon getting the online rebates for my /sister's/ computer. It is not hard, it is point and click, and was Not my computer.
Still my family dreads when my granddad visits. He /always/ does something to the computer. And it is never His Fault.
So I can feel your pain. Seriously.
On second thought, let us keep our respective male figures apart, they might end the western world if they get together.
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What's sadder is that my own father is just like the customers I hate. I can't even count the number of times I've reprimanded him for treating CSR's and Tech's like crap over the phone. You'd think that since his own child is in that line of work there would be some sympathy, but noooo.... as a matter of fact he feels he's more entitled...
I feel your pain all too well...
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Unfortunately I've been one of those who have yelled at the tech guy..... only because they did something stupid....like..... while trying to help me fix my sound they nearly broke my 56K Modem....
and it was 3am in the morning..... So not happy with that.
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The one job I don't have the patience for, and that I have to do because I'm the only one to know how the apps I've coded work.
No wonder I prefer working part-time, hn ?
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Fightttt!
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ahh well, he left me alone after a while. <.
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Let's don't, I like the world the way it is.
Ditto, men are so..so...
*sighs*
Granddad never messed things up too bad and he is helpful around the house.