![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2bTzT8w:
office job woes of the day:
#1 the giant printer suddenly has a bad sensor and will not stop screaming that there’s paper in the paper advance unit. which i have disassembled and reassembled four times. there is no paper in the paper advance unit. the printer doesn’t care. it won’t stop screaming.
#2 i’m the only person in the online department at the moment and so I have to monitor the email and it just wears at you, y’know? amazon is the worst. They keep sending me semi-abusive messages. Your offer is not the lowest! no shit buddy, the lowest offer is from a gray-market illegal reseller who’s undercutting my actual cost by twenty percent, there’s no fucking way i could match the lowest offer. oh, you’re matching the lowest offer yourself. thanks, amazon! you’re a fucking peach. you bully the manufacturers into selling directly to you at a discount and then you sell the thing for lower than I’m legally allowed by the manufacturer to sell and you’re amazon so there’s nothing anybody can do about it.
it just wears on you, y’know?
#3 we’re getting work done on the building’s facade, and they’re running around clomping on the roof and listening to a radio that’s too loud to ignore and too quiet to comprehend, so that’s. not restful.
#4 i will never understand the mindset of people who send messages (or, hell, they do this in person) like, you have this listed for a certain amount of money, but how about i just give you less? would that be cool? and expect me to be like yes! please! of course! you’re special and i’ve been wanting to sell to you and only you for so long! i’m so lucky you came into my life like this to browbeat me out of the profit margin that means my employers can pay me the pittance they do! *throws confetti*
I know academically that in some cultures this is normal, you always counteroffer and what’s the word, haggle? i forget. anyway. I come from a world where the price is the price and you shop around and if that’s the price, you just buy it or don’t depending if you can afford it. and i know that’s just not how it works many places, but to me, if you see how much i’m asking, and offer me less, then you don’t respect me. that’s just how it works, where i’m from and how i was raised, and it really upsets me, and i work hard on being chill with other ways of life and stuff, but
again. it grates on me. it wears me down. it’s exhausting.
and mostly it’s amazon. as a customer i love amazon. as a seller amazon is the reason we’ve survived. but man. as a human, i’m fucking sick of amazon.
and the subset of amazon who takes the 30-day return policy as a free license to rent shit for 29 days for free, and then kick up a fuss when we charge a restocking fee because the new thing you bought and returned is now clearly used and we’re going to have to sell it as a used item for a reduced price. because “fair” is just too much to ask for when the Customer Is Always Right.
Ugh. fuck capitalism.
office job woes of the day:
#1 the giant printer suddenly has a bad sensor and will not stop screaming that there’s paper in the paper advance unit. which i have disassembled and reassembled four times. there is no paper in the paper advance unit. the printer doesn’t care. it won’t stop screaming.
#2 i’m the only person in the online department at the moment and so I have to monitor the email and it just wears at you, y’know? amazon is the worst. They keep sending me semi-abusive messages. Your offer is not the lowest! no shit buddy, the lowest offer is from a gray-market illegal reseller who’s undercutting my actual cost by twenty percent, there’s no fucking way i could match the lowest offer. oh, you’re matching the lowest offer yourself. thanks, amazon! you’re a fucking peach. you bully the manufacturers into selling directly to you at a discount and then you sell the thing for lower than I’m legally allowed by the manufacturer to sell and you’re amazon so there’s nothing anybody can do about it.
it just wears on you, y’know?
#3 we’re getting work done on the building’s facade, and they’re running around clomping on the roof and listening to a radio that’s too loud to ignore and too quiet to comprehend, so that’s. not restful.
#4 i will never understand the mindset of people who send messages (or, hell, they do this in person) like, you have this listed for a certain amount of money, but how about i just give you less? would that be cool? and expect me to be like yes! please! of course! you’re special and i’ve been wanting to sell to you and only you for so long! i’m so lucky you came into my life like this to browbeat me out of the profit margin that means my employers can pay me the pittance they do! *throws confetti*
I know academically that in some cultures this is normal, you always counteroffer and what’s the word, haggle? i forget. anyway. I come from a world where the price is the price and you shop around and if that’s the price, you just buy it or don’t depending if you can afford it. and i know that’s just not how it works many places, but to me, if you see how much i’m asking, and offer me less, then you don’t respect me. that’s just how it works, where i’m from and how i was raised, and it really upsets me, and i work hard on being chill with other ways of life and stuff, but
again. it grates on me. it wears me down. it’s exhausting.
and mostly it’s amazon. as a customer i love amazon. as a seller amazon is the reason we’ve survived. but man. as a human, i’m fucking sick of amazon.
and the subset of amazon who takes the 30-day return policy as a free license to rent shit for 29 days for free, and then kick up a fuss when we charge a restocking fee because the new thing you bought and returned is now clearly used and we’re going to have to sell it as a used item for a reduced price. because “fair” is just too much to ask for when the Customer Is Always Right.
Ugh. fuck capitalism.
no subject
Date: 2016-09-01 11:00 pm (UTC)Just going by what I've heard about them over the years, on many different fronts, I must say that they are a company I do my best to avoid on principle. (Not necessarily the case for their individual sellers of used items! Just for Amazon itself.) I am unsurprised, though sad, to hear that they're proving to be a burden on you and your company in some ways. :/