Blue Like You

Please excuse my using this post as an opportunity to vent. Right now my blood pressure is probably sky-high, and I need an outlet.

Are you getting as frustrated as I am with call-centers located in India, Southern U.S. and anywhere-but-Canada for a so-called local company?

I’m not going to go into specifics but it’s happening everywhere, or so it seems - especially in the electronics, communications and appliance service industries.

You call with a problem and are ‘helped’ by someone who has no idea about anything and you can’t even understand them anyway. Then they promise you that they’ll get a company representative to get back to you with the answer.

Of course you wait and wait - and call again. And then you have to start all over again!!!

Well, this time I really let that poor schmuck answering the phone in Florida have it.!!! I pity her but you know what? I got an answer to my problem ten minutes later - with apologies and action !

So I guess the squeaky wheel really does get the grease. It’s just too bad that I almost had to blow a gasket to obtain it.

I’m going to take a brief vacation from blogging.  Comment Moderation has been enabled. However you can still leave comments - it’s just that they won’t necessarily get published for a few days.

Sandy might check in from time to time and let a few through as she sees fit.

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One topic I might suggest is the allegation of the Ipperwash Inquiry being a whitewash, perpetrated by Dalton McGuinty to make him look good and Harris look bad.

But there have been several editorials in newspapers across the nation questioning why Judge Linden totally disregarded any kind of responsibility or culpability regarding native actions.

Another is the question of Dalton McGuinty as leader. A recent poll shows voters appear to be ambivalent. Greg Staples says:

I don’t think he is a bad Premier. I don’t think he is a good Premier. The best I can muster up is I think he is the Premier.

Do you agree? After Lotto-gate, Colle-gate, FlickOff-gate, the $900 Health Care Premium and recycled promises just to mention a few, are you merely ambivalent?

From the Sun:

McGuinty will run in this fall’s election as the “environmental” premier, who has promised to close Ontario’s greenhouse-gas-emitting, coal-fired energy plants.

Call it the pledge so nice, he’s making it twice. McGuinty promised in the 2003 election to close those plants by this year. Now he’s talking 2014 — maybe.

Good grief. How gullible does Dalton think we are?