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Out of the Blue
[Aug 19, 2014, 09:17 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

I got a huge surprise automatic bill from DirecTV with an early termination fee, in spite of already establishing I would not be hit with one. I had to call and clear up the error, which they were going to be far more relaxed about remedying than they were about causing, so I crabbed until they got a sense of urgency clearing this up. It makes me feel cynical to suspect they may have been just hoping I wouldn't notice, but it does strike me that companies seem much more prone to making financial errors that favor them than ones that favor us.

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Re: Out of the Blue
Aug 20, 2014, 03:15

InBlack

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Re: Out of the Blue Aug 20, 2014, 03:15

Aug 20, 2014, 03:15

InBlack

yonder wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:35:
PHJF wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:19:
You seriously comparing seating people at a restaurant to medical care? It takes five, ten minutes to cook a steak. Want to tell me how long to detect and then tell somebody they have cancer?

Who cares if doctors actually have legitimately important and complex jobs and that they may have been in an emergency at the hospital earlier that day which caused his 2PM appointment to be bumped up an annoying amount of time even though the doctor helped save a life. Dammit... 2 PM!!!!!!

Yeah because all GPs are also part time emergency room supermen or surgical geniuses whose presence is required at all times earlier in the day, which is why my particular doctor is always at least 20-30 minutes late. Or why I have to wait in the waiting room and listen to her chat over coffee with the nurse, through the door. 2 PM!!!!!!

I have a nifty blue line!