midnyte

Sometimes things just piss me off. Like customer service people trying to be high and mighty on me.

I am an adult, I live how I want to live, do what I want to do and talk how I want to talk (and apparently I am a juggalo now too, lol). Today I had a problem with a small appliance I recently bought. I called the help line and spoke to "Joe", after taking my personal information down Joe asked me what the problem I was experiencing was. I proceeded to explain that I could not get the thing to work right and because of that had fucked up my dinner.

Before I even finished my sentence Joe interrupted me with a lecture about how I can't use words like that or he is going to hang up on me, he doesn't like hearing those words. So I told him we have an impasse then, because I don't like being told how to talk. He argued with me more and I argued with him more. I explained how I was not being abusive towards him and I was not telling how to act or what to do with his life and I would appreciate his not trying to dictate how I have to live to me. He said his calls get monitored. I said so what? And if the people monitoring want to think badly of me that is fine too they can think whatever they want, I assured him it would not reflect on him but only on me. He kept up, I assured him if his concern was with a higher being and how it feels about how I talk that said higher being had a very good aim and the lightening bolt would not miss. So he put me on hold. All of this and we still have not really talked about the problem I was having with my small appliance. He came back and gave me more of a lecture about my language and then some line about how the FTC didn't allow me to use profanity over telephone lines. I asked about the first amendment and suggested he was thinking of the FCC and broadcast regulations. I then told him he was not my mother and to not tell me how I can and can't talk. SO he hung up.

I of course was left still without my small appliance problem resolved. So I called back and asked for a supervisor. I spent 32 minutes on the phone with Joe's supervisor and explained how I feel "The customer is always right" seems to have been forgotten in his call center, or at least by Joe. I told him I don't think it is Joe's place to correct me on my language unless I am actually verbally assaulting Joe, which when I say "I fucked up MY dinner" is not derogatory towards Joe in any way. I said I am an adult and if I choose to use "profanity" it is my right. If Joe is offended by how I choose to talk too bad for Joe, in life you don't have a right to not be offended. There are words out there which offend me, but no one stops them on my behalf. Words like, Genocide, WAR, Discrimination, Oppression. Those words ALL offend me to no end, much more than words about normal biological functions and human interactions. When I was a phone monkey for a major ISP, I let people vent to me. Who cares? Why shouldn't I? If they feel better, then I'm doing my job. I'm offended by people who say "Praise Jesus" all the time. I'm not going to tell them to shut the fuck up though. Why? I don't have a right to. Sure I think it is dumb, but telling them that is not my place.

So anyway, I don't think Joe's supervisor really was behind me but he was smart enough to not argue with me about it either, which is really all Joe had to do was just let me explain HOW the gadget caused me to fuck up my dinner without trying to get up on some shitty ass high horse and try and tell me how to be. The company is sending me out a new gadget tomorrow.

I know in this world I am small and powerless, but sometimes I just feel I need to take a stand, even if it a tiny little one. I get so tired of every year seeing more and more regulations and more and more rules imposed on everyone. Every place too. Fuck that, and fuck Joe and all of the Joe's of the world. Don't tell me how to live and how to be and I won't tell you how to live or be.