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Things I’d Rather Do Than Plow Through Customer Service

There are few things more soul sucking and painful than trying to get through to a business’ representative.

1) It takes forever to even find the site’s “Contact Us” link.

2) Navigating the phone menu when you do. To so takes more character punches than there are characters in the Oxford English dictionary.

3) And how many years do you have to do step 2?

 

So, Things I’d Rather Do Than Plow Through a Corporation’s Customer Service

1) Walk 500 miles on salt-encrusted shards of glass.

2) Have a habanero-based colonscopy.

3) Have a tax audit.

4) Have a to-the-death wrestling/boxing match with Hulk Hogan.

5) Read every single terms-of condition I come across.

6) Have constipation for life.

7) Eat lutefisk.

And many more things.

Customer Service, blech!

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Cwont

Buying a major appliance, while expensive, can be exciting. You’re tired of washing clothes by hand. You look forward to reading a good book while the washer works its magic. You anticipate hitting the open road with your spiffy new car. The list goes on and on. So do your calls with customer service. You find yourself believing the person on the other end of the phone will be imprisoned if you’re helped. But this experience pales in comparison to the soul-sucking horror of trying to get service at the place where you made your major purchase, a dealership for example. You go round and round with the service people. At every turn, you discover they can’t fix your car. And if they can fix your vehicle, you find out that they won’t.

If only there were a word to describe this implaccable lack of help. And now there is:

TODAY’S AWESOME PHRASE

Cwont

Awesome entry #46

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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