How did Amazon get to be so horrible?

I pay for Amazon Prime, which means I’m a sucker and an Amazon fanboy. I pay too much to get free 2-day shipping, but I pay it every year. Today I tried to order something that clearly had the “Amazon Prime available” o the web page, and they still charged me for shipping. A book and an oven thermometer, all of $26, and they tried to charge me an extra $22 in shipping. To repair this problem, I had to call what sounded to be Indonesia in the morning, and what sounded to be India in the evening. Both were incredibly slow calls and the guy in the evening appeared to be a bit mentally impaired. I had to read him the order number FIVE TIMES VERY SLOWLY. And by very slowly, I mean like, “ONE (one one-thousand), ZERO (one one-thousand), etc” and that still wasn’t slow enough for the guy. I’m guessing that Amazon is updating their software before the Xmas season and they’re screwing it up.

It was also the last day to pay for property tax and get a discount and I almost forgot. I never forget these kinds of things, but the whole job situation has me a bit discombobulated. Fortunately, I keep emailing a co-worker, asking him, “What are you doing? I’m doing nothing. How many jobs have you applied for? I’ve only found one I’m qualified for,” and he replied that one of the only things he’d done today was pay his property tax. That guy is a lifesaver.

The only other thing I did was go to the gym. One of the women there was pretty darn surly. It was around peak time (5PM) and I finally found an open cardio machine, but it had a cell phone on it. I wanted to get it back to the owner, so I asked her if she saw who was on the machine. No dice. She said she didn’t know and I got the attitude that she didn’t care because it would take 15 seconds of her precious time. I wanted to say, “Listen bitch, this is Oregon, and we have some manners here. If you want to work your flabby ass out to distract from that flabby face, fine. But at least be courteous enough to fake concern about other people so we can get this phone back to its owner. OK? By the way, your haircut is atrocious. I don’t care if you’re married, a lesbian, or a married lesbian. There’s no reason to have a haircut that looks like that.”

I’m afraid that my current situation is making me a bit surly. At least I didn’t say it out loud.

2 thoughts on “How did Amazon get to be so horrible?”

  1. IMHO, I’m glad you didn’t say it out loud. I’m pathetic when I’m working out and if someone was asking me questions while I was on some cardio machine, I’m sure my anaerobic gasping responses might be interpreted as surly when I’m just trying not to pass out.

    And I do need a haircut…yeesh, someone has been probably wanting to yell this at me! I’m getting a haircut pronto!

    But IMHO, we all get a little surly sometimes…

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