The 70km/h speed limit on the TCH when you leave Calgary eastbound is bad enough, but now they've lowered the speed limit to 80 all the way to Chestermere. Maybe let's upgrade the road with some interchanges if the turning movements are really that dangerous instead of slowing everyone done.
Bonus gear grinder. The TCH, one of Canada's major E/W highways and the number of towns where you have to slow down as you go through (or in some cases you don't even go through them at all, just close by). Either bypass them or build interchanges. Drove to Regina this weekend and between Calgary and Regina there are 6 places where this happens (Calgary to Chestermere, just past Chestermere, Strathmore, Redcliff, Medicine Hat, and Dunmore) and at least three more in Saskatchewan off the top of my head.
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Those towns would be hurt/die if bypasses were built.
Even businesses in a larger centre like Regina, tried to fight to kill the bypass. All those businesses that you were forced to crawl by in traffic on Victoria Ave, likely saw a significant drop in revenues when the bypass opened.
sometimes I hate television programmers.
My daughter and I last month watched the first episode of a new kids tv series on Netflix.
She loved it and couldn't wait to see the next one. It doesn't come out until September.
What kind of idiot premieres a show for kids and then makes then wait 3 months to put the rest out?
Just whining about intentional customer disservice again... on the phone with Flair Air, who rescheduled my flight to leave at 2:30 a.m., trying to get on one of the other FOUR FLIGHTS today that are nowhere near full. When I called, it told me there were 29 people ahead of me.
I've now been on hold for an hour and ten minutes so I started doing math... assuming 10% of people drop off (which seems conservative), that gets you 26.1, and if each call takes an average of 10 minutes (which seems more than fair), that's 261 total minutes. So in order to be on hold for an hour and ten minutes, that would mean they'd have to have at most three people manning the phones for the whole company. That's some impressive dedication to frustrating your customers into giving up on getting assistance!
EDIT: I failed to mention, their hold music is one 5 minute long track that just repeats over and over. There's no way that's not intentional.
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I actually could get my assistant (not a paralegal - that's nowhere near a paralegal's job description) to do that but it would be kind of a dick move when she has actual, real work to do. Plus if I get through to one of these people I'm actually going to have to convince them to do what I want them to.
Anyway I'm not working this morning. Just cleaning my house up, doing laundry, yard work... listening to this incredibly repetitive hold music... I'm starting to hate the saxophone. I've now opened up a customer support chat on their website too, which has been "waiting for agent" for 25 minutes. Interested to see which one is faster!
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i've owned my own embroidery business for 23 years, so i feel i have a pretty good grasp of any possible issues that might come up when doing an order.
a customer brought up an order and i could 'see the writing on the wall' of a potential issue with what they wanted done. i told them my concerns and a very viable alternative but that didn't matter - "do it the way we want it!!!" - so i did.
sure enough, a few of the garments did exactly what i said my concern was (shocking... i know!).
wrgmg is that the customer was getting all upset about it. i reiterated what i had said to them before the order was started and that i could foresee this happening doing my absolute best to not make it sound like i was saying "i told you so".
i don't know... maybe i'm weird, but if want to do something and get warned of a possible issue by people that are in that industry, i don't think i have the right to get upset at them when things go sideways.
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Just a small example of people not listening to experts, it's a plague on our society.
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i've owned my own embroidery business for 23 years, so i feel i have a pretty good grasp of any possible issues that might come up when doing an order.
a customer brought up an order and i could 'see the writing on the wall' of a potential issue with what they wanted done. i told them my concerns and a very viable alternative but that didn't matter - "do it the way we want it!!!" - so i did.
sure enough, a few of the garments did exactly what i said my concern was (shocking... i know!).
wrgmg is that the customer was getting all upset about it. i reiterated what i had said to them before the order was started and that i could foresee this happening doing my absolute best to not make it sound like i was saying "i told you so".
i don't know... maybe i'm weird, but if want to do something and get warned of a possible issue by people that are in that industry, i don't think i have the right to get upset at them when things go sideways.
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Success. Final time: 1:47:21... It's sad that I've seen worse.
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i've owned my own embroidery business for 23 years, so i feel i have a pretty good grasp of any possible issues that might come up when doing an order.
a customer brought up an order and i could 'see the writing on the wall' of a potential issue with what they wanted done. i told them my concerns and a very viable alternative but that didn't matter - "do it the way we want it!!!" - so i did.
sure enough, a few of the garments did exactly what i said my concern was (shocking... i know!).
wrgmg is that the customer was getting all upset about it. i reiterated what i had said to them before the order was started and that i could foresee this happening doing my absolute best to not make it sound like i was saying "i told you so".
i don't know... maybe i'm weird, but if want to do something and get warned of a possible issue by people that are in that industry, i don't think i have the right to get upset at them when things go sideways.
And now you have to brace for the incoming bad review including photos of the subpar work.
We do custom stuff, too. 99% of my customers are rad and some have become friends, but that 1% is a fataing nightmare.
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i've owned my own embroidery business for 23 years, so i feel i have a pretty good grasp of any possible issues that might come up when doing an order.
a customer brought up an order and i could 'see the writing on the wall' of a potential issue with what they wanted done. i told them my concerns and a very viable alternative but that didn't matter - "do it the way we want it!!!" - so i did.
sure enough, a few of the garments did exactly what i said my concern was (shocking... i know!).
wrgmg is that the customer was getting all upset about it. i reiterated what i had said to them before the order was started and that i could foresee this happening doing my absolute best to not make it sound like i was saying "i told you so".
i don't know... maybe i'm weird, but if want to do something and get warned of a possible issue by people that are in that industry, i don't think i have the right to get upset at them when things go sideways.
This reminds me of my friends 4 year old telling her parents that she cant break her toys because they're magic, and proceeding to break them and then cry about it.
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i've owned my own embroidery business for 23 years, so i feel i have a pretty good grasp of any possible issues that might come up when doing an order.
a customer brought up an order and i could 'see the writing on the wall' of a potential issue with what they wanted done. i told them my concerns and a very viable alternative but that didn't matter - "do it the way we want it!!!" - so i did.
sure enough, a few of the garments did exactly what i said my concern was (shocking... i know!).
wrgmg is that the customer was getting all upset about it. i reiterated what i had said to them before the order was started and that i could foresee this happening doing my absolute best to not make it sound like i was saying "i told you so".
i don't know... maybe i'm weird, but if want to do something and get warned of a possible issue by people that are in that industry, i don't think i have the right to get upset at them when things go sideways.
I would have included something embroidered with "I Told You So" and put it right on top.
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First world ultimate biggest snowflake gear grinder: Apple Podcasts orders by newest which is good in theory but Flames Talk has 3 hours and I want to play hour 1 and then continue to hour 2, and onto 3. After hour 1 it continues to play the day before. Switching sorting to oldest to newest means you have to scroll 450+ episodes every day to get to the recent.
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First world ultimate biggest snowflake gear grinder: Apple Podcasts orders by newest which is good in theory but Flames Talk has 3 hours and I want to play hour 1 and then continue to hour 2, and onto 3. After hour 1 it continues to play the day before. Switching sorting to oldest to newest means you have to scroll 450+ episodes every day to get to the recent.
I just use the play next feature. Then it rolls through. But I agree it’s a silly design.
i've owned my own embroidery business for 23 years, so i feel i have a pretty good grasp of any possible issues that might come up when doing an order.
a customer brought up an order and i could 'see the writing on the wall' of a potential issue with what they wanted done. i told them my concerns and a very viable alternative but that didn't matter - "do it the way we want it!!!" - so i did.
sure enough, a few of the garments did exactly what i said my concern was (shocking... i know!).
wrgmg is that the customer was getting all upset about it. i reiterated what i had said to them before the order was started and that i could foresee this happening doing my absolute best to not make it sound like i was saying "i told you so".
i don't know... maybe i'm weird, but if want to do something and get warned of a possible issue by people that are in that industry, i don't think i have the right to get upset at them when things go sideways.
Every time you post one of these stories, it reminds me of this...
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Maybe let's upgrade the road with some interchanges if the turning movements are really that dangerous instead of slowing everyone done. 
