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Why Is Every Business, Organization, Etc So Utterly Incompetent These Days?

Darkmakaimura

Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Right now I am livid.

Long story short I lost buspirone I had and to get a new refill. First time it ever happened to me.

After finally getting a hold of my psychiatrist, she did me a one time favor of getting me a refill now.

So the practice called the pharmacy but left a voicemail that the pharmacy never checked. After more chasing people around on the phone, my psychiatrist receptionist got a hold of the pharmacy. The pharmacy told me my meds would be ready by 2pm.

I get there at 1:40pm and wait until 2pm when the pharmacy comes back from lunch.

My meds are not ready and on top they tell me I have to pay $4. Nobody told me I had to pay for this. For those who don't know, I'm going through a bad time and literally have $1.32 in my bank.

I had to go back home and borrow money from a neighbor to pay for my meds.... All this in 115 degree heat - no exaggeration.

After coming back to the pharmacy, I still had to wait until 2:45pm to get the meds.

This is just one recent example as of today. But it seems everytime I deal with a business, organization, etc there is a ton of incompetence and it's been like this before Covid.

Whether it's this pharmacy, my dad's in-home hospice care forgetting to put in his orders for medication, Amazon delivering my dad's items to another state, people saying they're arriving in a half hour only to show up three hours later, etc.... and these are all issues that have happened in the past week or two.

But it's just like this constantly. And if you don't get on someone's ass or pester them, they'll blow it off.

I don't know if it's just people in Vegas (but the Amazon issue wasn't) or whatever.

Look, I know if I'm coming off as a "Karen" bur ffs it's just not an excuse to be so careless or neglectful and many of these things are actually important and tied to health.

I just wish people actually cared about doing their fucking job right nowadays.
 

n0razi

Member
Don't hate the player, hate the game

Its unfortunate but much of success in life is about who you know that can give you a hookup and what loopholes and tricks you can leverage to your advantage. Just doing the right thing the way you are supposed to will put you at a disadvantage.
 
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Darkmakaimura

Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
This is what "Disastering" looks like.
Not sure about context here. Disaster as in the way society is heading or is this criticism of my post?

My honest belief is that humanity is getting rapidly dumber. Not just the SJWs either.

I can relate OP. I have to practice chill as a regular skill, or I will just blow up after hours of stupidity coming at me.
Everything you said is spot on.
 

TaySan

Banned
I'm sorry you are going through a bad time and I hope you make it out ok. Nothing worse than rude people especially when they are responsible for your healthcare. I'm sure it's not just a Vegas issue, but the people i interacted with there weren't the friendliest from my experience.
 

TaySan

Banned
Don't hate the player, hate the game

Its unfortunate but much of success in life is about who you know that can give you a hookup and what loopholes and tricks you can leverage to your advantage. Just doing the right thing the way you are supposed to will put you at a disadvantage.
This. Add some luck to that as well and being at the right place at the right time.
 

KevinMiller

Neo Member
They say that every person sees something that reflects his inner world. Maybe you should calm down and think about something more important?
 

zombrex

Member
I ask myself the same question almost every time I have an interaction with any retail or hospitality worker (I live in a non tipping country). Probably because our culture celebrates mediocrity and makes fun of people that do well in school and work hard. Part of it is also the employees have no personal investment in the business or its successful outcome so give the absolute minimum effort to maintain their employment.
 

nush

Gold Member
Part of it is also the employees have no personal investment in the business or its successful outcome so give the absolute minimum effort to maintain their employment.

It's because they are paid like shit but still expected to go above and beyond for the customer and the business. Even when they do give a shit at the start having to deal with entitled rude stupid customers burns them out eventually.

Minimum wage, minimum effort, invest in your staff and they'll invest in your business.
 
It's because they are paid like shit but still expected to go above and beyond for the customer and the business. Even when they do give a shit at the start having to deal with entitled rude stupid customers burns them out eventually.

Minimum wage, minimum effort, invest in your staff and they'll invest in your business.
I'm not disagreeing, just adding to:

The pay isn't the only part. Lots of go-getters are happy to work the shit wage if they feel there is potential for advancement. Interns and political volunteers tend to work for free or for tablescraps. Management is generally underequipped to train employees because they too are largely detached from the overarching corporate structure. So it's not just the entry level pay, it's also the line/floor supervisors who are underpaid, and their middle managers / district managers are underpaid, and so forth. And it's the overall lack of responsibility/care for the corporate brand. Mgmt is thinking of a million things and training/ talent recognition tend to go by the wayside, which is why corpos have so many cheesy "employee of the month" things to automate those back-pats.

I was lucky enough to have some bosses and some co-workers who gave a shit and invested into me with skills and wisdom. I credit them greatly. In different circumstances with lazier bosses, I may have failed to pick up / reinforce crucial work habits, wallowing in minimum-wage tier jobs for years and years.
 
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