Bell Canada Sucks
Bell Canada, specifically Bell TV sucks. I called today to remove one speciality channel bundle from our package figuring, "this should only take 5 minutes right".
Right.
Change made and I hung up.
Then my kids report there is no TV. So I look and sure enough, no programming. They had managed to cancel all of our channels. Real smart.
Phone call #2.
Now I am all for cutting costs and understand outsourcing overseas is a fact of life but please, have people who speak the Queen's English or at least SOME english...
Phone call #2 lasted long enough for me to have pull and replace the smart(oxymoron?) card.
Phone call #3 was 27 minutes with someone from Canada and involved 20 minutes saying "i am not an idiot, i know how to pull out the smart card", and "the problem is that you cancelled ALL of my programming!"
Finally I convinced the Bell idgit that I did not want to stop my subscription (although tempting thanks to these blunders) and for them to just DTFJ(do their f-effing job)!
One hour and more hair off the top of my head lost.
Thanks Bell Canada, np really... thanks.
My Idiot Neighbour
Our houses here are narrow, very narrow. All of the driveways on our street are 18 feet wide and about 22 feet long before you hit the street. With 2 cars in the driveway, you really don't have a lot of snow to shovel, even with a good snow storm.
Enter my neighbour, the idiot. The guy purchased a $1200 snowblower for doing that little patch of area. He also plows out two other people (and no I am not one of them nor do I want to be) so that he can feel like a big man of the street.
I am not an environmentalist however he ran that two-stroke snow blower for a good hour, mostly shooting the breeze with others rather than plow out the snow. I went outside and in 10 minutes had my driveway, sidewalk and deck shoveled. The amount of exhaust and "carbon" that blew out of that snow-blower is a waste.
What they say is true, you can't pick your neighbours unless you own all the land around you.