The Whining and Bitching Thread

[rms]

Wicked pissed at Window's Media Player. Mine won't fucking play anything. I don't even get an error message. Put in a CD/DVD, nothing. Technology sucks.

VLC media player is a far superior player, and its free.

 

[Onder]

VLC media player is a far superior player, and its free.

Uh I've had problems with it too. For music I use winamp, for movies there's BS and that's all anyone needs.

 

[Dak]

I use the Zune player for music and WMP for everything else. All you need to do is just go download the codecs.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I can't get my comp to recognize my new speakers...fuck.

I can't recall ever having a pair of speakers that I couldn't just plug in and play right off the bat. Are you using some weird USB or wireless shit?

 

[Chanakya]

Or his soundcard isn't compatible with a particular 5.1 system?

 

[waif]

Nah, it's integrated into the motherboard and it's supported up to 7.1

 

[Badbird]

The only sport I really got into watching was baseball. But haven't watched it lately because I don't have fucking cable.


Anyone know how I can watch Redsox games online?

MLB.tv has games live.

 

[st3333phani3333]

My tooth hurts, really really bad. I have to go to the dentist now.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Ugh, one of my hard drives is playing up and my computer keeps freezing for about 10 seconds every minute.

 

[Badbird]

It fucking raining right now.

 

[st3333phani3333]

Rain is good. There should never be a complaint about rain. I wish it was raining right now where I am.

 

[Mort Divine]

I love rain, one of the few things that makes me feel peaceful.

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

My life is going no where since I graduated college. Also, there are no women my age in my area and I don't have the resources to move.

 

[waif]

But at least you're destined for greatness, so you know things will pick up.

 

[Dak]

But at least you're destined for greatness, so you know things will pick up.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Very nice WAIF

 

[musicevangelist]

My issue comes from working in retail and customer services. We seem to reward customers for the wrong behaviours. If a person comes in and is friendly and pleasant to deal with they get no special discounts or anything other than what we are promoting. If another customer comes in, rants and raves, jumps up and down over a company policy we have to bend over backwards to accomodate them and give them discounts etc that ordinarily they would not be entitled to.

The other issue with retail as I see it is due to corporate policy if a customer yells and swears at me, calls me abusive names and gets very insulting I am only allowed to politely ask them to stop what they are doing, I am not allowed to ask them to leave the store or refuse to serve them.

Somebody calls me a lying cunt in person I have options, in store all I can do is say "thank you for your opinion sir, may I offer you a 10% discount with that?"

 

[Episteme]

I work in a 5 star hotel bar. A few weeks ago, I had a customer come in and be an absolute prick to me infront of other customers. When he was about to leave, the conversation went like this:

Me: *muttered under breath, loud enough for him to hear* Fuckin' idiot
Him: WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?
Me: You heard me asshole, I called you a fucking idiot.
*Other customers snicker*
Him: I WANT TO TALK TO YOUR FUCKING SUPERVISOR!
Me: Go for it, she's right here. I don't care.

He started swearing at my supervisor and called her incompetent and was being really racist to her (she's Thai). Either way, I thought I was going to get fired for swearing at a customer but I didn't. Turns out that this dude was staying in the hotel for the next 10 days. He came in another time at a later date and I was working, he saw me, ordered a drink quietly with his head bowed down as I stared dead straight at his eyes. He just avoided my gaze, charged the drink to his room and even tipped me and went elsewhere to consume it.

 

[Pessimism]

^Good man.

Seriously, I fucking hate pricks, and I love seeing them squirm.

 

[Dak]

But at least you're destined for greatness, so you know things will pick up.

I have read thise like 4-5 times in the last 24+ hrs when scanning the page and I still literally lol every time. PFW (pure fucking win.)