You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

I separated my shoulder last year on the company ski trip, couldn't hold/use a mouse in my right hand. I damn well worked through it with a sling. Moved the mouse to my left hand and got my work done.

/cool story bro.

You know you're screwing your future self, and your colleagues by having done this.

Boss: "What? You <insert ailment here>? Well, that doesn't sound as bad as when you <insert worse ailment here> and cried whenever you <insert bodily function here>".

[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by Wormius

You know you're screwing your future self, and your colleagues by having done this.

Boss: "What? You <insert ailment here>? Well, that doesn't sound as bad as when you <insert worse ailment here> and cried whenever you <insert bodily function here>".

Dammit what have I done?!

[Baxter Renegade]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Companies that manufacture food products (sauces and what not) then fail to provide an extra little tab to pull the seal off cleanly.

Drives me f'ing nuts.

Holy, talk about first world problems:



There's people in this world that would chew through the bottle with their tiny nubs of rotting teeth to get to these nourishing sauces... Then they'd brag to their buddies about the sweet day they had.



What really grinds my gears:

The fact that we as humans haven't adopted a resource based economy yet... We should be at the point of civilization where we look to establish and/or further ourselves on the galactic stage. We're too busy with making certain individuals rich and shooting the piss out of each other rather than reaching for the stars...

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by Baxter Renegade

Holy, talk about first world problems:

There's people in this world that would chew through the bottle with their tiny nubs of rotting teeth to get to these nourishing sauces... Then they'd brag to their buddies about the sweet day they had.

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Baxter Renegade

Holy, talk about first world problems:



There's people in this world that would chew through the bottle with their tiny nubs of rotting teeth to get to these nourishing sauces... Then they'd brag to their buddies about the sweet day they had.

Maybe go start 'third world gear grinders'. Every gear grinder in this thread is something poor starving people couldn't give a crap about, including your exploring the galaxy one.

[Baxter Renegade]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Maybe go start 'third world gear grinders'. Every gear grinder in this thread is something poor starving people couldn't give a crap about, including your exploring the galaxy one.

WRGMG:

When I want to order pizza, but their online ordering system is down and I have to phone them like some sort of savage.

[Coach]

Can't say I disagree with Baxter Renegade. Although I would have angled it more about everyone working together for the betterment of humanity before we get too much into exploring the galaxy (although that is something I feel is important as well). Humanity's allocation of resources is so warped its scary.

And for my first world gear grinder: It GMGs that I can't go into the How I Met Your Mother thread until I binge watch the whole final season.

[habernac]

My first world problem: my two week Hawaii vacation is coming to an end and I have to come back to the #### they call Calgary weather. Sigh.

[Igster]

Originally Posted by habernac

My first world problem: my two week Hawaii vacation is coming to an end and I have to come back to the #### they call Calgary weather. Sigh.

Two weeks in Hawaii eh?

Just shut up.

[Looch City]

Internet Explorer RGMG. And we're using version 9 at work so it's even more worse. Slow, crashes every so often, disconnects when it wants to, doesn't load website properly and on and on.

[Coys1882]

Might be in here somewhere already - don't care.

People who throw not just cigarettes out their car window - but lit ones. Filthy animals.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Dammit what have I done?!

http://youtu.be/kvM6TxUnCDE

[Regular_John]

Hopelessly out of touch customer service types. I recently made an inquiry online about a car at a dealership and got a call from a super friendly customer service rep to set up an appointment. Ok, that's all good.

Our scheduled changed and we ended up just dropping into that dealership a few days before, ok that's on us, so I email this girl afterwards just to say "hey, we ended dropping in and dealing with *SALES GUY* so we don't need that appointment anymore".

A few days pass, and we actually end up agreeing to buy a car from the sales guy we met with. We've talked to finance, we've got a scheduled delivery time and we're basically a converted lead at this point.

Now at this point I'd expect anyone calling from the dealership to be calling specifically in regard to the purchase we've made. But nope, miss sunshine calls just to "check in our how your appointment went and where you are in your vehicle search."

Really? We've agreed to purchase the car from you, I emailed you to let you know which sales person we met with, and you apparently have neither of those pieces of information?

Surely car dealers must have some kind of CRM tool which they can flag stuff like this in no? And the person making the calls would have access to it?

[keenan87]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Hopelessly out of touch customer service types. I recently made an inquiry online about a car at a dealership and got a call from a super friendly customer service rep to set up an appointment. Ok, that's all good.

Our scheduled changed and we ended up just dropping into that dealership a few days before, ok that's on us, so I email this girl afterwards just to say "hey, we ended dropping in and dealing with *SALES GUY* so we don't need that appointment anymore".

A few days pass, and we actually end up agreeing to buy a car from the sales guy we met with. We've talked to finance, we've got a scheduled delivery time and we're basically a converted lead at this point.

Now at this point I'd expect anyone calling from the dealership to be calling specifically in regard to the purchase we've made. But nope, miss sunshine calls just to "check in our how your appointment went and where you are in your vehicle search."

Really? We've agreed to purchase the car from you, I emailed you to let you know which sales person we met with, and you apparently have neither of those pieces of information?

Surely car dealers must have some kind of CRM tool which they can flag stuff like this in no? And the person making the calls would have access to it?

Really? It's a phone-call.

Enjoy the vehicle and don't worry about it!

[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by keenan87

Really? It's a phone-call.

Enjoy the vehicle and don't worry about it!

I dunno, if a person's title is "Customer Communication Specialist" I wouldn't expect things to be lost in communication like this.

Truth be told I'm slightly jaded from the whole car buying experience overall. One dealership in particular has had 3 different sales people contact me 2-3 times a piece over single inquiry.

I'd just expect an industry so driven by sales leads to have better customer relationship tools in place than that. "Oh this customer's already been contacted twice today, let's not contact him again"

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Baxter Renegade

WRGMG:

When I want to order pizza, but their online ordering system is down and I have to phone them like some sort of savage.

Do....do.do.do (stupid music)

please enter your ten digit phone number starting with the area code

do.....do.do.do X15

Hi there, this is pizza hut, can I get your phone number starting with the area code?

[Nufy]

I love it when you get calls and mail 3 months after purchase wondering if you are ready to upgrade your vehicle...


Well no I'm not, I haven't even worn the little nubs off of the tires yet...

Try me in 3-4 years maybe...

1 month later...deja poo...

Same crap all over again...

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Hopelessly out of touch customer service types. I recently made an inquiry online about a car at a dealership and got a call from a super friendly customer service rep to set up an appointment. Ok, that's all good.

Our scheduled changed and we ended up just dropping into that dealership a few days before, ok that's on us, so I email this girl afterwards just to say "hey, we ended dropping in and dealing with *SALES GUY* so we don't need that appointment anymore".

A few days pass, and we actually end up agreeing to buy a car from the sales guy we met with. We've talked to finance, we've got a scheduled delivery time and we're basically a converted lead at this point.

Now at this point I'd expect anyone calling from the dealership to be calling specifically in regard to the purchase we've made. But nope, miss sunshine calls just to "check in our how your appointment went and where you are in your vehicle search."

Really? We've agreed to purchase the car from you, I emailed you to let you know which sales person we met with, and you apparently have neither of those pieces of information?

Surely car dealers must have some kind of CRM tool which they can flag stuff like this in no? And the person making the calls would have access to it?

[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Hopelessly out of touch customer service types. I recently made an inquiry online about a car at a dealership and got a call from a super friendly customer service rep to set up an appointment. Ok, that's all good.

Our scheduled changed and we ended up just dropping into that dealership a few days before, ok that's on us, so I email this girl afterwards just to say "hey, we ended dropping in and dealing with *SALES GUY* so we don't need that appointment anymore".

A few days pass, and we actually end up agreeing to buy a car from the sales guy we met with. We've talked to finance, we've got a scheduled delivery time and we're basically a converted lead at this point.

Now at this point I'd expect anyone calling from the dealership to be calling specifically in regard to the purchase we've made. But nope, miss sunshine calls just to "check in our how your appointment went and where you are in your vehicle search."

Really? We've agreed to purchase the car from you, I emailed you to let you know which sales person we met with, and you apparently have neither of those pieces of information?

Surely car dealers must have some kind of CRM tool which they can flag stuff like this in no? And the person making the calls would have access to it?

Is it one of the corporate dealerships? AutoCanada has sales people who have zero connection to the dealership and I have found the dealership doesn't even know they are calling.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Surely car dealers must have some kind of CRM tool which they can flag stuff like this in no? And the person making the calls would have access to it?

A CRM is only as good as the user input; I suspect the sales person was delinquent in entering the pertinent information.

[sun]

Originally Posted by habernac

My first world problem: my two week Hawaii vacation is coming to an end and I have to come back to the #### they call Calgary weather. Sigh.

swt brag.