Complainer's Corner - Challenge

1. Compose a "Complaint." This can be serious or funny.
2. Post this complaint with a creative title.
3. Copy from "START COPY*" through "*END COPY*," and paste at the end of your post. Add your site to the end of the list.
4. Tagging is optional but encouraged.
   
5. Once completed, leave me a comment with the link back to your post or email the link to Complain(at)ComplainComplainComplain(dot)com
6. I will add your post to my site with a link back and add your site to the main list.
7. I suggest keeping your list current so that everyone who participates gets maximum benefit.

Go HERE for more detailed instructions (optional.)

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In order to be able to achieve and maintain happiness we need to, actively, be able to do two things:

1. Complain and then let go (Dump the baggage, the roadblocks to happiness.)
2. Express Gratitude (The open expression of gratitude promotes happiness.)

After all everyone has something to be grateful for and/or something to complain about. If you would like to participate, please follow the appropriate link and do so: "Are You Grateful?", "Complain Complain Complain."

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#48 - Toys-r-NOT-us

By, SoccerMom


Okay can someone please tell me at what point it became okay for stores to treat customers like crap, especially here in Canada? As of late I have found the level of customer service has bottomed out and the stores and store managers could care less.

I am looking for the newest item for the Wii called Wii Fit. So being the resourceful SoccerMom I am, I go on-line to see the who’s, what’s, where’s and how much’s it’s going to be. I notice that Future Shop and Best Buy are out of stock, so I head over to Toys-r-us.ca and they are showing “Stock in Store.” I’m now thinking ~ Wahoo!! I am going to be fit for the summer and I won’t have to see the inside of the Pink-eye gym.

But wait…
Before you think way-to-go SoccerMom, I of course had issues or I would be playing and not posting.

This morning I called the 1-800-Toys-r-us line to see if the stores did in-fact have the units and why I could not order it on-line. The lady assured me that it was in the store and that if I headed over that it would not be a problem. So I jump in the car and I am driving and thinking I am on my way to being a Hot SoccerMom and not because someone turned up the pre-mena-temp.

Once I get to the store I go to the Electronics department and I don’t see the units. So I track-down a nice yet young clerk and ask her "Where is my new fitness routine??" She says “I don’t know where they are, let me check and see if we have them in stock.” She checks and say "the computer says we have 18 let me call the manager and see where they are.” At that point I was getting all giddy and said "sure."

Oh now by this point you know this is not going to go well, don’t you??

So the Store Manager tells her to tell me that they don’t have them in stock and they are not getting them until later and so they won’t be available until tomorrow. Okay so I just drove from Stoney Creek with gas at $1.27 per litre to be told by this manager No-fit-for-you??!!

That my friend did not sit well with me, so I call the 1-800-Toy-r-us line again and I am telling the very nice lady my saga and she was very apologetic and sympathetic in not understanding why be-otch will not sell me a friggen fit. It wasn’t like I was asking for a discount, Wii just want to play. She was as helpful as she could be (by the way she was in the USA) and asked me if I minded calling the Head-Office location for assistance. It this point I am all about calling, so I do just that and the lady tells me that it would be best if I called the Canadian Corp Office that has a Customer Service support, again I am thinking what they heck it’s only one more call ~ And then I get Jo-Ann on the line.

My friends let me tell you Jo-Ann gave me that same Canadian customer service they think we Canadians will tolerate and think we deserve and have come to expect!

She lied to me and said just because the computer said the stock was there doesn’t mean it is/was actually there… wha-wha-what??
Okay I was born at night but it wasn’t last night, Jo-Ann! I work for a Manufacturer and I get how stock/stock levels etc… work. Duh…

Oh I’d love to stay and whine at you but I must go and skower the pages of Ebay.ca in the hopes of finding someone who is reasonable and will not rip me off.
Wish me luck…

A Mother's Thoughts

#47 - DAVELYNNE BILANG

By, Daveylynne

I still have 2 more days to cover 5 chapters! POM ooooo POM! You really want a “PIECE OF ME”… (POM = Production & Operation Management) I’m suck at memorizing!

DaveylynneDR

#46 - Oh My Shoulder!

By, Osindak

If there is one thing that bugs me most of the time, then that would be my left shoulder.

I've been having this aching left shoulder for the past few years. The intensity of pain varies, sometimes negligible but there are times I could really feel something poking the inner part of my shoulder. I've gone for medical check-up and the kind doctor suggested I should do further tests (but I haven't done so! ha! so terrible (or lazy!) of me, huh?). Hubby has also taken me to see the Chinese doctor and he tried to 'fix' the problem too, but short lived. The kind makcik has also massaged the shoulder a few times and I must say the pain is not that bad anymore, but still... It's still lurking there...

Too burdened, perhaps? *grin* Or too much blogging? LOL

Oh well.. I should be grateful I still have functioning shoulders! *grin* A shoulder to cry on, a shoulder for my kids to bermanja, and so on.. *smiles*

I'd just have to do more from now on lah - exercise my shoulders often and go for regular massages! *wink*

This is My Life

#45 - i've got a tag

By, glad to be here

I’m getting all of these from Osindak (Thank you! :D)

This specially to me and some others.

and these two for every bloggers out there

Plus, for me to take up this challenge:

After all, everyone has something to be grateful for and/or something to complain about. If you would like to accept the challenge, please follow the appropriate link and do so: “Are You Grateful?“, “Complain Complain Complain.”

Details on how to take up the challenge are available on the two links above.

I guess I can do both, complaining and yet still be grateful. As usual, am complaining that the network here are too slow but I’m still grateful that I’ve internet access at this moment. I’m complaining that my boys whine too much, but I’m grateful that at least they let me know what they wanted. I’m complaining that our house is way too old to live in, but I’m grateful that at least I’ve a roof over my head. Yup, and many more. Actually there is nothing to complaint about really. Oh one last thing, I’m complaining that our politics sucks, but at least I’m a Malaysian.

glad to be here

#44 - Are they spam kidding me...

By, SoccerMom


I go to my e-mail this morning to find the message below in my box.
First off I love the English?!? NOT
Next are they serious they want me to send them money so I can put their weblink on my blog ~ I am curious to know how many people are going to fall for this...
~ btw; I tracked this back and it originated from India.


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A Mother's thoughts

#43 - I Need Coffee!

By, Ratu Syura

OMG! I think my head is seriously about to explode!!! I don't think I can take this kinda pressure anymore! With practically 3 more days left for finals, term papers to pass up tomorrow, and an SS opportunity to finish up in 12 hours, and not to mention other paid assignments from other 'bosses' I gotta get done soon, I seriously just feel like giving up and put on my dancing shoes and head over to Heritage Row!! Seriously!!

And if that didn't make things bad enough, what makes things even worse is that I can't log on to Facebook because of some sorta server problem! Urghh.. My fluff pet, Mumbo is the only thing that calms me down during these panic attacks! Oh! And worst of all... I'm out of coffeeee!!

Breathe Syura, breatheee.... *Heee Heee Hoooo... Heee Heee Hooo...* That's supposed to work on pregnant women but from these raging hormones I'm feeling right now, I suppose it would work... It MUST work!!

Since this post is officially a complaint, I might as well have it integrated (omg! i used the word integrated!! i think this is the effect of too many management term papers rubbing on me!!)

Petty Ramblings of a Petty Queen

#42 - No Unpretty Cuts Please!

By, Rozella

I need a haircut! Real badly! It's way overdue. My hair is weighing me down and I seriously am starting to look like this:


My problem is, I don't know where to cut my hair in KK. I haven't had much luck with any of the hairdressers here. They either make you look exactly the way you did when first came in (minus a couple of inches) or they make you look like a Japanese anime character. I am not fond of that. Thank you very much.

I want a serious makeover like the guys who were on Oprah's Great American Haircut, but how? Any good suggestions? Somebody? Anybody?

Please don't make me get out my TLC album and start cranking up Unpretty! We've had enough of that in high school, right Shem? Hahaha

asian mutt international

#41 - A problem is only a problem and all problems have solutions

By, SoccerMom

Like any other human being, I, too, can exhaust hours of my life with personal complaints. Life doesn't go my way ALL the time yet, I also know that the more I complain, the worse things become. Overall, the negative energy accrued from complaining ends up effecting my life in many aspects. I choose to not become the problem. Instead, I become a part of the solution to the problem instead of feeding the problem by adding to it.

What I have learned in my experience is that a problem is only a problem and that all problems have solutions. That is, if one is looking for a solution. Moreover, as an intelligent being, it is my job to work out the solution. I can do that. I have years of experience. The hardest part of any problem is realizing that there is a problem. Additionally, the solution is generally an easy task. On the other hand, there are those who seem to find comforting solace living in their problem(s). They don't need to, but that's their lesson. I've paid my dues as a complaining member and then some. Gratefully enough, I've learned to "just do it" then get over it. Patience and perseverance are keys used when working out solutions. Afterall, "Rome wasn't built in a day."

My complaint is against those who make complaining a career. They zap my energy whenever I allow them to do so. Identifying the problem is first rate. Moreover, in order to achieve and maintain happiness we need to actively do two things:

1.Complain then let it go. (Dump the baggage. It functions only as roadblocks to happiness.)

2. Express Gratitude (The open expression of gratitude promotes happiness.) After all, everyone has something to be grateful for and/or have something to complain about.

MARYANNAVILLE

#40 - The Don't Help Line...

By, SoccerMom


I have both Canada Savings Bonds and Ontario Savings Bonds for my kids and with the move you are required to let the company holding the Ontario Bonds know your new address as this is an outsourced company not tied to your info. As we have now been here long enough that our change of address has run out at the post office, I finally got around to calling them. I know, shame on me but in my defense I am not normally a procrastinator.

I call the 1-800 number to make sure they have my new info only to be told, “I can not help you, you have to submit your info in writing” ~ I now have that tilted head what look...

My question to you phone answer person who is sitting there being paid not to help is;
~ Why are you there?
~ Why do you put your phone number on your paperwork, if you have no intention of assist people?
~Why do you post your website on your info again if we can’t get help unless it is sent into your physical address?
What the heck…

If you are going to be there and not actually help then you need to have an automated attendant that just keeps you in phone-loop-hell.

Why pick-up the phone and frustrate people?
Oh wait I'm having a light-bulb moment... I get it now!!
This is a government agency and their job is to annoy and frustrate people not help.

My bad for getting worked up.

A Mother's Thoughts