This thread is going to be wall to wall comments of complaints and complaints of complaints. Even this comment is a complaint of the poll’s overt encouragement to complain.
Every one of those storms has sorta formed a big hook that curls back into the midwest, and every time the tip of that hook has passed more or less over me, leading to slight overnight sprinkles that make a mess in the dust on my increasingly in need of a wash windshield, so yeah, that’s my struggle.
When its storms in NY, the News media think everyone is being affected and report like it. I wish they would visit fly over country at least once in their lives.
Yes, I work for an airline. If you call us, and the first person can’t get the ticket to reissue, they are supposed to tell you they need to put you on hold while they call me to tell them how to fix it. In reality, they will panic, not tell you anything, and blind transfer you over to a department who is not suppose to be talking to customers, and then I need to try to hard my anger and fix the problem, while complain about poor service and ask for compensation that first person can request, but I can’t. Because I don’t have that program. Because I shouldn’t need that program. Because I “never” talk to customers. I also “never” want to take a sledgehammer to our server room.
@shahnm oof. Bad enough you got stuck, and you’re getting bounced around. Half the time, the requests for compensation get rejected the moment they see “weather” as the cause. I had a surgeon get stuck in Lagos for the next couple days, who I really can’t blame for swearing at me, considering what that call must have cost him, and all for some really bad news.
@simplersimon I was supposed to return from DEN to PHL last Tuesday (the 6th) when they were calling for the storm to start that night. SWA canceled our 1725 departure (2250 arrival) at 922. While the technical blame was the weather, I found out it was more or less a ground stop due to the fear of the plane being grounded the following day. (Little did they know I have a friend who works for SWA in Dallas.) There was no legit reason they couldn’t have gotten us home. When I contacted their customer service I got the usual pc bullshit about how they care about the safety of their customers. I responded by telling them how sorry I am they didn’t care about the safety of their customers who were still able to fly in from TPA and arrive right around our scheduled time. Don’t think they really appreciated the snark. I was offered a $50 voucher and was told that was the most they could do for me. In the meantime, my buddy wrote them and was given $75 vouchers for him and his two kids tickets. I called, spoke to an exceedingly pleasant rep who reviewed the situation and sent me the additional $25. I can absolutely empathize with your position as I used to be a CS supervisor for a large ecommerce company. All the calls I handled were the utmost of the pissed off customers. It got old quick.
@cinoclav honestly, it isn’t upset customers that bothers me. I used to be the first person they’d talk to, and I did fine. It’s more that I no longer have the tools to help, and my coworker who does just ducks out without a good reason. It’s the coworker I want to hunt down.
@simplersimon They didn’t bother me either. It was a similar problem, where I couldn’t rely on the first level reps to actually help them that was so frustrating. All they did was make the customers angrier and turn them over to me.
The slightest bit of these recent storms have been reaching down to Tennessee and North Carolina. As such, even though I’m in the South, am I still obligated to complain?
I said no, but in reality, when there’s snow, blizzards, and general terrible weather in the North, we have nice weather in Florida. It’s currently 66°.
It’s 78 here, but we’re having a 33-50mph windstorm here, been listening to it howl and beat up my lawn furniture all day. Don’t know if it’s part of the same weather system, though, I’m 2/3rds of the way across the continent.
I ordered something and it’s going to be a day late because of the storm.
@awk in fairness, since the pizza will not arrive in 30 mins or less, you will get it free.
@elimanningface Don’t tell anybody, but it’s a case of alcohol.
@awk @elimanningface Ooooo, technical grade!
Yes, I had to use up a day of vacation when the gov’t closed due to a bunch of wind.
@brhfl sounds like you need to take a sick day to mourn the loss of your vacation day.
@brhfl I thought the government was usually full of a bunch of wind.
This thread is going to be wall to wall comments of complaints and complaints of complaints. Even this comment is a complaint of the poll’s overt encouragement to complain.
@elimanningface that what she said, really
@elimanningface Feel free to praise the storms.
@awk @elimanningface I already have been. Go storms, go!
@elimanningface I’ve used this joke before, but: Oh no, that’s next door. It’s being-hit-on-the-head lessons in here.
It’s so freaking windy in the mid Atlantic… Just awaiting spring at this point
Every one of those storms has sorta formed a big hook that curls back into the midwest, and every time the tip of that hook has passed more or less over me, leading to slight overnight sprinkles that make a mess in the dust on my increasingly in need of a wash windshield, so yeah, that’s my struggle.
@nogoodwithnames that sounds rough. Ten seconds of using the wiper blades and defroster? You’re a real trooper.
I have been affected in that this reaffirms my decision to move south years ago.
@shahnm yes, it is much more normal to close a city down over 1 inch of slush rather then set a two hour delay for 10 inches of snow.
@elimanningface We don’t get slush. We get hurricanes…
Meh, please do not ask a variation of this question during the late summer months.
@shahnm Don’t worry - they will.
Still too hot here. It’s been cool in the mornings (50’s and supposedly 40’s tonight) but by noon it’s warm again.
Sleeping is the worst. I’m thinking of getting one of those bed fans Brookstone sells so it keeps the sheets cool.
@JT954 Sleep on a bouncy-house.
When its storms in NY, the News media think everyone is being affected and report like it. I wish they would visit fly over country at least once in their lives.
@hchavers But then they would have to encounter normal people. It would scare the living hell out of them.
Mid-60’s tomorrow in SoCal. Brrrrr! I might have to layer up to stay warm.
/s
(Apologies to those who have to deal with this.)
Yes, I work for an airline. If you call us, and the first person can’t get the ticket to reissue, they are supposed to tell you they need to put you on hold while they call me to tell them how to fix it. In reality, they will panic, not tell you anything, and blind transfer you over to a department who is not suppose to be talking to customers, and then I need to try to hard my anger and fix the problem, while complain about poor service and ask for compensation that first person can request, but I can’t. Because I don’t have that program. Because I shouldn’t need that program. Because I “never” talk to customers. I also “never” want to take a sledgehammer to our server room.
@simplersimon If you think that’s bad, you should try being the passenger on the other end of the phone call…
@shahnm oof. Bad enough you got stuck, and you’re getting bounced around. Half the time, the requests for compensation get rejected the moment they see “weather” as the cause. I had a surgeon get stuck in Lagos for the next couple days, who I really can’t blame for swearing at me, considering what that call must have cost him, and all for some really bad news.
@simplersimon That “Real American Heroes” song was playing in the background as I was reading that.
@simplersimon Sounds like United, but then is there really a difference anymore?
@simplersimon Use this same type of Yoda-speak with your customers do you?
@simplersimon I was supposed to return from DEN to PHL last Tuesday (the 6th) when they were calling for the storm to start that night. SWA canceled our 1725 departure (2250 arrival) at 922. While the technical blame was the weather, I found out it was more or less a ground stop due to the fear of the plane being grounded the following day. (Little did they know I have a friend who works for SWA in Dallas.) There was no legit reason they couldn’t have gotten us home. When I contacted their customer service I got the usual pc bullshit about how they care about the safety of their customers. I responded by telling them how sorry I am they didn’t care about the safety of their customers who were still able to fly in from TPA and arrive right around our scheduled time. Don’t think they really appreciated the snark. I was offered a $50 voucher and was told that was the most they could do for me. In the meantime, my buddy wrote them and was given $75 vouchers for him and his two kids tickets. I called, spoke to an exceedingly pleasant rep who reviewed the situation and sent me the additional $25. I can absolutely empathize with your position as I used to be a CS supervisor for a large ecommerce company. All the calls I handled were the utmost of the pissed off customers. It got old quick.
@cinoclav honestly, it isn’t upset customers that bothers me. I used to be the first person they’d talk to, and I did fine. It’s more that I no longer have the tools to help, and my coworker who does just ducks out without a good reason. It’s the coworker I want to hunt down.
@simplersimon They didn’t bother me either. It was a similar problem, where I couldn’t rely on the first level reps to actually help them that was so frustrating. All they did was make the customers angrier and turn them over to me.
The slightest bit of these recent storms have been reaching down to Tennessee and North Carolina. As such, even though I’m in the South, am I still obligated to complain?
@lljk I believe so. I’ve liked the snow though. And my daughter had early release on Monday and a delay at school on Tuesday. It was nice!
Yes, but I don’t live there. I had frost on my windshield this morning. It’s nice and cool today.
In NH I got 21 inches and i was at the hospital all day delivering my friends baby!! That was only after a couple hours! [enter image description here
Yay snow!
I need multiple choice on this one. 1,2 and 3 all apply!
As long as the power and internet stay on, no problem. We’ll see what happens next week.
I said no, but in reality, when there’s snow, blizzards, and general terrible weather in the North, we have nice weather in Florida. It’s currently 66°.
No but it looks sweet. It was 80 degrees inside my house when I went to bed last night.
The most recent one barely was a storm, but I’ve had a few “work”-from-home days, which is kinda nice.
Moving into an apartment, where the super does the shoveling instead of me, has been very good.
I’m more affected by the rain they keep promising us here that never materializes.
It’s 78 here, but we’re having a 33-50mph windstorm here, been listening to it howl and beat up my lawn furniture all day. Don’t know if it’s part of the same weather system, though, I’m 2/3rds of the way across the continent.
We got 40s and drizzly rain from that darn storm. It was just icky.