RL Anger
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Rogers is very compartmentalized. There are things people can do and things they can't. For example if you have been trained to look at and explain a bill, you can't do that in cell tech. I would call and ask, as I'm pretty sure there are channels you can get without having to get all TSN. It might have hockey and some others too, but I'm pretty sure there is an NBS only channel option.
The big thing with sports only channels is that you have to pay upfront for 3 months which puts some people off because it seems really expensive, but it stops people ordering a channel for a big game and then canceling it later.
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@TNP Don't be too excited. The companies have also been shafting customers on the hardware side. So, if you get a bundle or two, the box is $2/month or something, but if you pick and choose, it's $30/month.
It's skeezy, but then, all Canadian communications companies are. We get shafted with phones, TV, internet rates...
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Canadian companies (NOT just communications ones!) are skeezy because Canadians are sheep. All it would take is people as a group living without, say, cable for a year and watch Rogers and company collapse to demands. But that would involve actually DOING something and this is not the Canadian Way.
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A friend of mine died over a year ago. Her parents (?) still log in as her occasionally and "like" things on Facebook. This needs to fucking stop.
Seriously, block that page. Now. Seeing this constantly can be incredibly damaging. Whoever's doing it is a dick.
I don't think it's for you to judge a deceased girl's parents for coping how they cope.
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@Kanye-Qwest Someone else's rights end when they interfere with another person's rights. That includes the right to grief.
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@WTFE People have been doing it, a little here; Rogers tried to start up Shomi, which was basically Canadian Netflix, it's closing in November. Not enough people using it, too expensive to run.
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@Insomnia I think that's a bit different though. It wasn't an organised boycott to send a message that killed Shomi, it's that it was simply not competitive enough to survive; Netflix had way more stuff with a cleaner interface and at a very similar price.
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@Arkandel Netflix was slightly cheaper, until recently. Now they are on par with each other. But Rogers tossed Shomi free with a lot of things; get a new plan, get Shomi for 2 years. Shomi actually had more to offer than Netflix did too (Canada's Netflix content is number 30 on the list, below Bahamas, Panama, Ecuador, and Paraguay with Canada 623 tv shows which is 53.85% of US TV shows and 55.78% of US movies. But hey, we got the Force Awakens a year before the US? Go Canada!
Add to that... catalog issues and loading and people not even being able to watch Shomi on the TV and enough people canceling it, and it was not competitive enough for the money coming in. Rogers really didn't anticipate the expense of it all. And Bell has Crave; Both Shomi and Crave started as service provider only and then branched out to Canada-wide. They've both had a couple of years to catch up with Netflix content. (Which really isn't too hard when you look at the numbers.) Crave and Shomi both only work inside of Canada, and Netflix has cracked down on VPN's that allow people from Canada to watch US content too.
People didn't have to organize though, there were a lot of ways it wasn't cost effective.
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Not being able to use the air horn we have next to the phone when "Windows Technical Support" called to tell us there was a virus on the computer when they called before 9am, because dad just got off a night shift done at 6:30am, and because of my weird can't sleep after seeing the sun habit I can't get back to sleep.
In before an air horn, what assholes. We're on the no call list. You try and tell them this and they get all nasty like you murdered a basket full of kittens. Also fuck them for trying to scam people in the first place at 8am or 2pm.
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Yeah, I know. just... grr.
I can always tell when it's a scam too, because if someone for me they ask for Firstname, or Firstname Last name. If it's a scammer they always call for Mrs. Lastname. Makes it easier to troll them. But not even 9am.
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Okay, so. Two of my co-workers who work in the same department as me got married. They invited most of the department, but there was a small handful of people who were not invited, including me.
Logical Me understands a lot of things, like they probably had a limited amount of space for people, that while I amiably chat with the bride on a number of occasions we're not exactly lunch buddies, that they may have elected to only include the people in the department that they considered within their close circle of friends.
Emotional Me is having a flashback to being a ten year old kid who had nobody show up to her birthday party, and the quiet, nasty voice murmuring in my head that nobody at my workplace actually likes me, that they think I'm weird, etc. I can't say I know it isn't true, but at least I know enough to know that it's just fear/shame/doubt talking and not actually me, if that makes any sense at all.
It's still hard, though. I don't want irrational emotions to color my behavior around the newlyweds. I mean, I'm not Maleficent, FFS. (Although wouldn't that be totally cool?) Still, I'm struggling with how to process the feeling without succumbing to it.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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@Cupcake You get to save money but not getting them a gift?
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It's a weird feeling. I've had... a number of friends get married the past handful of years where I haven't been invited, but 90% of the 'friend group' has.
However, having been married once and forced by families into having a facsimile of a wedding (it was more of a picnic where we happened to get married)... If you don't have a second brain helping you out to keep track of things, it is so fucking easy to forget people in the shuffle, as it were.
So it is to say: it's a sucky feeling, totally been there... But I've also been on the other side where you're super overwhelmed and you don't want to forget everything but oh god there's so much going on. I do my best (it's hard, it really is, and I flounder at it) to tell myself: "hey, they may have had limitations or just been overwhelmed with invites. It doesn't mean they hate me. At worst, they just forgot about me, and that kinda sucks too but everyone does it sometimes, even me."
Wait... the bridal shower didn't have booze?!
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It hasn't happened yet, but it's scheduled for a Wednesday, so I'm guessing it won't be very boozy.
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Solution: stop getting married and leave people's drinking to them.
Done deal.
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Yeah, I know. just... grr.
I can always tell when it's a scam too, because if someone for me they ask for Firstname, or Firstname Last name. If it's a scammer they always call for Mrs. Lastname. Makes it easier to troll them. But not even 9am.
These fuckers used to call here several times a day (for weeks and weeks and weeks), starting before 8am.
I used them for improv practice.
It is fun wasting their time and coming up with ways to do it.
If I was lazy, it was, "We're mac users, asshole," after letting them run through their schtick. (We actually are, no one has used a computer running Windows in this house for well over a decade now.) This, and, "Oh, hi, scammers! Nice to hear from you the third time today, how was lunch?" were reserved for 'I'm doing something else and can't be bothered'.
If it was an idle moment, however, they were more or less fucked to be stuck on the line for several minutes while some imaginary drama played out in the house, generally along one of the following lines:
"We don't have internet, the restraining order doesn't allow us to have a computer in the house since the incident, I need to look into this right now!"
"OMG THAT SON OF A BITCH PROMISED ME HE'D STOP GOING ONLINE TO PICK UP CHEAP FLOOZIES I AM GONNA... " <drop phone, muffle voice to sound like I'm in another room yelling wildly at someone>
"We don't use computers here, it's against our religious beliefs. Have you been brought into the light?"
...and so on.
Thing is, they were incredibly dumb as their caller ID showed the same fake name every time when they'd call here, so I was able to prepare before I even picked up the phone. Often, I simply didn't bother picking up, but it did open the door to what finally got them to stop calling, period, because I was prepared:
"Hello, thank you for calling Microsoft Headquarters Wilmington, how may I direct your call?"
They haven't called back since, and it's been several months now.
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@surreality I work from home, one of the reasons that dad gave me the okay to use is his landline is that being on the phone would tie it up so that people couldn't get through. He has a cell phone, that's how people call him now.
I mess with them too though. I've been someone who had a pathological need to answer a ringing phone - but I had broken in so thank you for warning me about the computer so I won't take it...
Or I'm still on a 486 so it takes a while to load.
Or they just flat out refuse to talk to me when don't think I'm old enough. But those are usually surveys.
Before 9am though they just get a fuck off, eat a bag of dicks / tits and I hang up.
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One of these days (perhaps even yesterday) scammers will start using robots to make their calls and the only time we'll be wasting by talking to them will be ours.
... Until our own robots can handle chatting up their robots and the entire exercise becomes pretty esoteric.
