Posts Tagged ‘customer “service”’

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It Also Doesn’t Cover Poor Choices

by adam on February 20, 2011 at 12:01 am
here i thought my tea-buying days were behind me

I would like to apologize to people who subscribe via RSS feeds. There was a mixup with the automatically-generated RSS images from a couple days ago so you got the same comic twice. Here is the missing one: http://www.asandiford.com/2011/02/youd-think-they-would-have-checked-for-that/ Comics are also posted up every day (usually between 7am and 12pm Eastern) on the Peticanoe [...]

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Register Biscuits

by adam on October 25, 2009 at 11:15 pm

This Penny Arcade Comic (warning, it has a cuss in it) filled in a hole in my vocabulary of which I was completely unaware.  It brought me the delicious phrase ‘register biscuit’ to exactly and perfectly describe the minimum wage earning, incompetent teens who populate the behind-the-counter areas of the local electronics stores.  Let me [...]

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The Opposite of Bell

by adam on July 15, 2009 at 8:53 pm

To contrast sharply with yesterday’s diatribe against Bell Canada and their horrible everything, I would like to focus today on Canadian Tire, another Canadian Institution with some underlying problems but a very different approach to how to sort them out.  They’ve been in business approximately as long as the Hudson’s Bay Company (or since the [...]

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So Long, Bell

by adam on July 14, 2009 at 7:14 pm

I am, even at this present moment, on hold and waiting to talk to a “customer service” representative in the cancellations department.  I think it’s a worrying sign not so much when a company like Bell has a specific department to handle cancellations (that’s just realistic based on their business practices), but when the hold [...]

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