The latter first, I tried to call Best Buy/Geek Squad in York to ask about options to fix this iPhone. The phone on the invoice, though a local number, rings through instead to a call centre along the Ganges. You apparently have to get vetted by the call centre and get on a schedule to go to the store (another three hours gone, round trip) just to hear the options with no guarantee the job gets revisited properly. I've already five hours invested in them, sez I, and my question to them might take ten minutes over the phone. Turns out the store receives no incoming phonecalls but calls out on direction of the phone centre. I'm starting to crack at this point.
Meanwhile, UPS delivers the new flip today. Trip 5 to AT&T in Gettysburg to get the phone functions handed off to the new phone. Arrive there at 4pm to a sign in the door that said "Temporarily closed. Will return at 5pm break". Interpret that however you want, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Another hour roundtrip shot.
I'm absolutely sick and tired of being taken for granted, not just in this Fools Quest but in life. I'm done tolerating this lazy oversensitive generation of scrotes and twats, angry and entitled, expecting handouts, an easy ride, no idea of anyone but themselves. I made a conscious effort to be understanding and civilised and not upset them by reminding them what customer service means. I despise the lot of them at the moment.
I loathe what technical masturbation has made of the 21st century; the ability to minimise, passive aggress, duck vendor and corporate responsibility to the clientele, spread hate, belittle, blame, moan, whinge, all engineered such that one never actually comes face-to-face if at all possible. The obfuscation, self absorbtion, and above all else. The Complication.
I am taking a sabbatical from all this. No internet, no more dealing with AT&T, Apple, & Bestbuy, certainly, no more being taken for granted, minimised, all the while being blamed for everything by these young self-absorbed shits. I'm not doing anything for anyone else for a while, only to be ignored. I am rethinking life, how to get some joy back, how to get what might be left of my life back as my own, what needs to go, what is worth retaining.
Thank you lot for your kindnesses; I hope to be back a better man with a simpler life and a cheerful continence. As things are right now, though, there has to be a better way.
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