Rant Thread

Well, having completely lost my patience with the incessant ads, I'm now over to Brave too. Read mixed things about how well it still handles ads on YT so we'll see how long I stick with it.
 
Edington said:
Well, having completely lost my patience with the incessant ads, I'm now over to Brave too. Read mixed things about how well it still handles ads on YT so we'll see how long I stick with it.
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Today I had to refresh a video a couple of times due to an "error," but aside from that it's all working fine.
 
Onhell said:
Today I had to refresh a video a couple of times due to an "error," but aside from that it's all working fine.
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No errors here, I've noticed it's slightly slower when running YouTube, probably 'cause it's trying to fight the influx of ads YT is throwing at me, aside from that, it's working well.
 
Edington said:
No errors here, I've noticed it's slightly slower when running YouTube, probably 'cause it's trying to fight the influx of ads YT is throwing at me, aside from that, it's working well.
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Oh for sure, Whenever I click on a video it takes about 5 seconds to open it as it is clearly fighting the ads. When I watch it on TV or my Xbox they load immediately, but of course with ads. Last night was particularly annoying, because there were several unskipable ads of 45 seconds. WTF?
 
Don't you hate it when you're really trying to do the right thing and something seems to be working against you?

I made a little faux pas with my car insurance and didn't declare a speeding incident I had a few years ago. Genuine mistake, as the insurance company has my license details I assumed they would've already been made aware of it - not that that excuse would fly if something happened and I tried to make a claim, mind.

Anyway, I had an incident in my work vehicle last week (not my fault, but that's another story) and have been advised to report it to my own insurance company. This is how I discovered I hadn't declared the previous incident, so decided to right that wrong while I was updating them about this new incident. Apparently it can't just be as simple as filling in the required information online, I need to speak to someone. So I make a call, automated response tells me the lines are too busy and to try again tomorrow. :facepalm:
 
Edington said:
Don't you hate it when you're really trying to do the right thing and something seems to be working against you?

I made a little faux pas with my car insurance and didn't declare a speeding incident I had a few years ago. Genuine mistake, as the insurance company has my license details I assumed they would've already been made aware of it - not that that excuse would fly if something happened and I tried to make a claim, mind.

Anyway, I had an incident in my work vehicle last week (not my fault, but that's another story) and have been advised to report it to my own insurance company. This is how I discovered I hadn't declared the previous incident, so decided to right that wrong while I was updating them about this new incident. Apparently it can't just be as simple as filling in the required information online, I need to speak to someone. So I make a call, automated response tells me the lines are too busy and to try again tomorrow. :facepalm:
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How long did it take them to tell you that though? What really pisses me off is when they keep you on hold for half an hour, send you through multiple automated menus, make you listen to multiple automated messages (almost all of which are trying either to sell you more products or persuade you to go away), and only AFTER you've suffered all this do they deliver the killer blow of "all our lines are busy - please call again later". Sometimes without even a "goodbye" before they cut you off ... :mad:
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
How long did it take them to tell you that though? What really pisses me off is when they keep you on hold for half an hour, send you through multiple automated menus, make you listen to multiple automated messages (almost all of which are trying either to sell you more products or persuade you to go away), and only AFTER you've suffered all this do they deliver the killer blow of "all our lines are busy - please call again later". Sometimes without even a "goodbye" before they cut you off ... :mad:
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Oh, they quite quickly told me the lines were busy, they advised me to report it online.. which I'd already tried and failed to do and was what led me to calling them in the first place. ::)

I then spoke to some of their automated agents online, the first one didn't understand my query, the second one put me in touch with a real person. She told me "I'm reviewing the information you've given me, please give me a few moments and I'll get back to you". A few moments later the conversation was automatically terminated as I hadn't responded for a while. Was I supposed to nag her to hurry up?
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
How long did it take them to tell you that though? What really pisses me off is when they keep you on hold for half an hour, send you through multiple automated menus, make you listen to multiple automated messages (almost all of which are trying either to sell you more products or persuade you to go away), and only AFTER you've suffered all this do they deliver the killer blow of "all our lines are busy - please call again later". Sometimes without even a "goodbye" before they cut you off ... :mad:
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The "convenience" of technology has never been more inconvenient..
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
How long did it take them to tell you that though? What really pisses me off is when they keep you on hold for half an hour, send you through multiple automated menus, make you listen to multiple automated messages (almost all of which are trying either to sell you more products or persuade you to go away), and only AFTER you've suffered all this do they deliver the killer blow of "all our lines are busy - please call again later". Sometimes without even a "goodbye" before they cut you off ... :mad:
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up until fairly recently it used to be common that to skip the automated menu one could just press 0 and get a person or even random menu buttons and then that person could get you to where you needed to be. A good example is my bank. I call with a simple question, the menu options have NOTHING to do with what I need, so I press whichever, get a person, either they can help or get to who can. NOW I dial, none of the options are what I need, I press 0 and get "I didn't understand, try again" if it doesn't "understand" three times they just hang up on you. So I press random buttons hoping for a human being and it is and endless cycle of automated messages.
 
Edington said:
Oh, they quite quickly told me the lines were busy, they advised me to report it online.. which I'd already tried and failed to do and was what led me to calling them in the first place. ::)

I then spoke to some of their automated agents online, the first one didn't understand my query, the second one put me in touch with a real person. She told me "I'm reviewing the information you've given me, please give me a few moments and I'll get back to you". A few moments later the conversation was automatically terminated as I hadn't responded for a while. Was I supposed to nag her to hurry up?
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That does, indeed, suck. I'm surprised she didn't just put you back on hold (although even that wouldn't necessarily have prevented your being cut off in the end: though one could hope they'd thought of that).
 
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