So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Hercule]

When they ask you to push a number, say, "representative," that will often get you a real live person!

"We understand you want to speak to a representative, but first we need to get more information from you..."

I would have no qualms about giving the information first if, almost always, I didn't have to repeat it all when an actual person got on the line.

Reminds me of the financial aid office in college. Whenever I had a problem pertaining to them, it seemed like I had to go through my whole story umpteen times with everybody from the receptionist to the janitor before finally being passed on to the one person who actually had the power to do something for me.

 

[Fading Fast]

...I would have no qualms about giving the information first if, almost always, I didn't have to repeat it all when an actual person got on the line....

This. Time Warner, Fidelity and American Express are all guilty of this. I enter my information - account number, date of birth, etc. - with the automated system first, the system confirms it back and, then, 100% of the time, I have to do it all over again when the representative picks up. I'm with you, if the automated system can do basic functions to free up the representatives time and to make my time with him / her more efficient - then great, but that is not what happens.

While I agree with all this, my earlier post was about when these companies call you with an automated system and then tell you to push a number to talk to a representative and then you wait for that person to pick up. Time Warner does this. It obnoxiously reverses the "who waits for whom" equation that has always made the caller wait for the person called. It is so arrogant, so offensive that it makes me actively dislike the company.

 

[GHT]

You know you’ve been on hold a while when you go through 4 different songs of “hold music”.

At times, not sure if it qualifies as “music” though .

Sounds like the 'muzak' they play in my supermarket!

 

[Zombie_61]

Yes and a variation on the theme is the incredibly obnoxious practice of having a machine call you to do something or to push a number to wait for someone to come on the line which completely reverses, in the most arrogant way possible, the burden of who has to wait for whom. Time Warner Cable does this which only increases my loathing of that company.

And it only makes it worse when they finally come on the line and say, "Time Warner, how can I help you?" Seriously? You called me! How am I supposed to know how you can help me when I don't even know why I'm talking to you? lol

 

[Stearmen]

You know you’ve been on hold a while when you go through 4 different songs of “hold music”.

At times, not sure if it qualifies as “music” though .

Even worse, you are listing to the song, on hold, or in the elevator, and you suddenly realize it's Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin, made into elevator music! Talk about feeling old.

 

[tonyb]

I read a great suggestion for addressing our drug problem ...

1.) Legalize all currently illicit drugs, and, 2.) have all sales and distribution handled by Comcast customer service.

 

[2jakes]

And it only makes it worse when they finally come on the line and say, "Time Warner, how can I help you?" Seriously? You called me! How am I supposed to know how you can help me when I don't even know why I'm talking to you? lol

Some companies will call for a feedback on how they are doing with their service.
But when they do not provide a caller ID, I won’t answer the phone. I let the automated
voice-mail take over.


“Robbie the Robot”

Greetings earthling,
if you do not speak English,
I am at your disposal with 187 other languages
along with the various dialects & sub-tongues .
How can I be of assistance.

I also added all the snap,crackle & pop sounds as well.

 

[Stearmen]

I was walking around a corner in a office building, when I was confronted by one of the most dreaded sights in the Western World, a plumber bent over working on a drinking fountain! Thankfully, instead of the dreaded Plumber Crack, this young guy was wearing the droopy pants, so all I saw was his plaid boxer shorts. Still not a fan of the style, but, if I had my druthers, I will take the eye full of boxer over a crack any day of the week! [video=youtube;5ZDbS39azbM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDbS39azbM[/video]

 

[GHT]

I will take the eye full of boxer over a crack any day of the week!

You and me both. Do building tradesmen really go in for the: "Back, sack & crack?"
https://flic.kr/p/5JphqY

 

[Fading Fast]

I was walking around a corner in a office building, when I was confronted by one of the most dreaded sights in the Western World, a plumber bent over working on a drinking fountain! Thankfully, instead of the dreaded Plumber Crack, this young guy was wearing the droopy pants, so all I saw was his plaid boxer shorts. Still not a fan of the style, but, if I had my druthers, I will take the eye full of boxer over a crack any day of the week! [video=youtube;5ZDbS39azbM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDbS39azbM[/video]

Ever since "fashion" turned to low-rise jeans, at least in NYC, exposed women's butt cracks are everywhere, especially moms who bend over to pick up their kids, reach into the baby carriage, etc. And this is not some weird thing I'm looking for (believe me or not), as my girlfriend has said it to - it's ridiculous. When I first started to notice it, I asked my girlfriend why it was happening and she said its those "damn" low-rise jeans and low-rise pants in general.

I think it's just part of a decades-long trend (with the last fifteen years seeing an acceleration) toward overt sexuality in dressing (and conversation and actions) becoming, not only acceptable, but prevalent in society. I know I live in NYC, which isn't always representative of the country writ large, but I also live in the "regular" people area of Manhattan, where people do their own shopping and cleaning and pick up and drop off their own kids, etc., and the shift to overtly sexual clothes and conversation has been striking (as noted) in just the past fifteen years.

So, plumbers aren't the only ones whose butt cracks are hanging out in this city. What's going on in the rest of the country - is the low-rise-pants thing happening everywhere?

N.B. My grandmother passed away in 1976. I can't image her even being able to process regular women blithely showing their butt cracks in public - our society has moved very far, very fast.

 

[dh66]

I'm a plumber for a living. I got some of those low rise jeans but the end result wasn't too good. [emoji14]

 

[Fading Fast]

I'm a plumber for a living. I got some of those low rise jeans but the end result wasn't too good. [emoji14]

I been working with a plumber now as we are restoring an old apartment and the head plumber is a gym junkie - great shape - and dresses well, even his roll-up-his-sleeves work clothes have a sense of style and fit - no butt crack there. But he has a junior guy on his team who is scripted out of central casting with a disheveled look and, yes, the butt crack does show up.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Our plumber at the theatre never shows butt crack.



Oh wait, that's me.

 

[swanson_eyes]

and the shift to overtly sexual clothes and conversation has been striking (as noted) in just the past fifteen years.

I've been seeing this for 20+ years. But then, I grew up on the west coast, which may have had something to do with it.

 

[GHT]

Our plumber at the theatre never shows butt crack.

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Oh wait, that's me.

That photo Lizzie, just made me wonder: What if?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Funny how the moon always looks the same no matter where in the world you view it from.

 

[2jakes]

A very astute observation of the intergluteal cleft. :whistling

 

[sheeplady]

Ever since "fashion" turned to low-rise jeans, at least in NYC, exposed women's butt cracks are everywhere, especially moms who bend over to pick up their kids, reach into the baby carriage, etc. And this is not some weird thing I'm looking for (believe me or not), as my girlfriend has said it to - it's ridiculous. When I first started to notice it, I asked my girlfriend why it was happening and she said its those "damn" low-rise jeans and low-rise pants in general.

I think it's just part of a decades-long trend (with the last fifteen years seeing an acceleration) toward overt sexuality in dressing (and conversation and actions) becoming, not only acceptable, but prevalent in society. I know I live in NYC, which isn't always representative of the country writ large, but I also live in the "regular" people area of Manhattan, where people do their own shopping and cleaning and pick up and drop off their own kids, etc., and the shift to overtly sexual clothes and conversation has been striking (as noted) in just the past fifteen years.

So, plumbers aren't the only ones whose butt cracks are hanging out in this city. What's going on in the rest of the country - is the low-rise-pants thing happening everywhere?

N.B. My grandmother passed away in 1976. I can't image her even being able to process regular women blithely showing their butt cracks in public - our society has moved very far, very fast.

Yes, that happens here. Some of it isn't just the fact that women wear lose rise jeans, but that they wear them much too tight as well (as in tighter than they are manufactured to be worn). Then they slide down. They also create a muffin top effect at the waist, which is hideously unattractive.

Personally, I hate low rise pants. They're designed for women without vintage figures and rather the tube shape. My rule is that if I can pull a pair of pants that has a zipper off without undoing the button and zipper, I don't buy them. That leaves me with very few choices in pants.

 

[2jakes]

​You’ve Come a Long Way Jeanie !

1918.
Colleges students at a farm where they were working as replacements
for the men called up to the military in WW1.
No one was making jeans for women back then, so ....

The dirty 30s !

Here we come 40s !

Fabulous 50s !

​“For the Times..they are a-changing “ 60s

Bell-bottom mania ! 70s

Here tie-dye...gone tomorrow ! 80s

 

[GHT]

Would I be committing Lounger heresy by admitting that I don't possess a single pair of jeans? Worse, I don't really want a pair either.