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amyheartssiroc ([info]amyheartssiroc) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-06-30 10:06:00


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Current mood:amused

[info]gwenhyffar posts in [info]bad_service to complain that she was not notified of a merger between Wanadoo and Orange, resulting in her Internet service getting cut off when she didn't pay a bill from the new company. Orange is less than helpful:

Orange: We had ads on the television for a month!
Me: That won't help, I don't watch Dutch television.
Orange: Well, as far as we're concerned we did all we needed to do to inform you.


Most of the replies agree that this is bad service, but [info]mathilde replies to inform the OP that, basically, it's her own fault that she doesn't watch television, and a wanky time is had by all.



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[info]chibikaijuu
2006-06-30 02:32 pm UTC (link)
Dammit, I hate it when people I associate with being self-righteously wanky are *right* (even if she is still being self-righteous). Though i do agree with mathilde that they were dumb not to set up their ISP-provided email to forward to the one they actually use.

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[info]quinctia
2006-06-30 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but it sounds like from day one, the primary email address on file with the ISP was an external one.

It's just like me and my current college's email address. I never use that email address, because there isn't a way to set up forwarding. (Which pissed me off, it was very easy to do at my undergrad school.) Therefore, my contact address for everything important (my profs, the education department, my advisors, etc) is another one. So any blanket emails to my school email are missed, but if anyone tried to email me there when I'd given them the right mail, I'd be ticked.

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(no subject) - [info]derumi, 2006-06-30 09:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]quinctia, 2006-07-01 04:49 am UTC

[info]amxjm
2006-06-30 02:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh, man, now I want to make a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I can't remember how the part I'm thinking of goes.

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[info]anne_noonlight
2006-06-30 02:46 pm UTC (link)
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."

"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display ..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."


This one or the Vogons/Alpha Centauri?

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(no subject) - [info]dramedy, 2006-06-30 02:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]amxjm, 2006-06-30 03:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-06-30 06:37 pm UTC

rachelthedemon
2006-06-30 03:21 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to have to side with Mathilde, actually. If you're too damn lazy to call customer service when you receive a strange bill and find out what the hell is going on (especially when your automatic debits for the previous company have stopped), you're far too stupid to have internet access.

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(Anonymous)
2006-06-30 03:33 pm UTC (link)
at 45 cents a minute with a first time try of 10 minutes on hold with no answer?

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(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 03:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 09:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 10:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 04:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 04:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 05:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 04:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 04:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 05:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 07:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-07-01 03:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 05:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 05:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]krazycat, 2006-06-30 06:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 10:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 10:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]quinctia, 2006-07-01 04:54 am UTC

[info]belafarinrod
2006-06-30 04:37 pm UTC (link)
There are actually plenty of companies that try to scam (mostly other companies) by sending fake bills since so many people just pay. My bank sent out an infomercial telling us to keep a list of who we do business with and at the most, forward everything else to their fraud department.

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(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-06-30 05:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 07:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lemone, 2006-06-30 08:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 10:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-01 12:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]squib, 2006-06-30 08:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ladyvorkosigan, 2006-07-01 12:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 04:46 pm UTC

[info]sepiamagpie
2006-06-30 06:06 pm UTC (link)
Please don't make me hate Carmen Sandiego.

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(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-06-30 06:39 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-06-30 03:22 pm UTC (link)
/me squeeeeeeeeee, I made it onto OTF_Wank!

[grin]

Gwenhyffar

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[info]wrongly_amused
2006-06-30 08:12 pm UTC (link)
It frankly surprises me how many people are proud of this.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 08:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2006-07-01 04:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pragmatic, 2006-06-30 09:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-07-01 01:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]staroverthebay, 2006-06-30 10:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-01 07:36 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 10:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-01 07:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankaholic, 2006-06-30 11:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]staroverthebay, 2006-07-01 12:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2006-07-01 01:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - ealusaid, 2006-07-02 01:03 am UTC

[info]seiberwing
2006-07-01 12:53 am UTC (link)
It's only fun if you're the one who wasn't being a total, well, wanker.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2006-06-30 03:38 pm UTC (link)
Who the hell doesn't check a bank account balance regularly? Especially when it's made specifically for bills?!

I'd be checking it against my numbers, and the bank's numbers at least once a month to double check that numbers match up. Gee, that'd be a clue that suddenly there's more money than there should be, then I'd track down where it came from and find something out. (But then I'm really anal about money.)

That being said, the company did give bad service. The least they could've done was send out letters/bill inserts/put it on the front of the first 6 months worth of bills (which is what my electric company did when they merged) or something. A TV commercial? Oy. *has no TV at all, except what goes through the DVD player*

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[info]mathilde
2006-06-30 04:09 pm UTC (link)
Because the Netherlands is a little pocket of Paradise where identity theft, account fraud and bad credit don't happen, of course.

(FWIW, I actually do think there could have been more notice. I do somewhat wonder how much good it would've done someone who was apparently completely oblivious though.)

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(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2006-06-30 04:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vigilanterodent, 2006-07-01 06:25 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-05 04:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 05:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 05:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smut_queen, 2006-06-30 06:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - ealusaid, 2006-06-30 08:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 08:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-06-30 06:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 06:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - rachelthedemon, 2006-06-30 09:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mrbimble, 2006-07-01 01:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 05:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 05:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 06:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 10:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]soleta, 2006-06-30 05:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 05:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]soleta, 2006-06-30 05:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 05:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 06:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vyazka, 2006-07-01 07:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2006-06-30 06:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 06:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nicolae, 2006-06-30 10:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 05:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]soleta, 2006-06-30 05:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 05:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 06:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 07:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cat_mcdougall, 2006-06-30 05:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2006-06-30 07:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]squib, 2006-06-30 08:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2006-06-30 07:41 pm UTC

[info]mathilde
2006-06-30 04:03 pm UTC (link)
Because being totally oblivious to your own financial situation is A-OK!

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 04:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-06-30 04:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-01 04:58 am UTC

[info]mindset
2006-06-30 04:16 pm UTC (link)
...what do they mean, mergers aren't announced? When Cingular and AT&T merged, I got inserts in my paper bills for two months, not to mention it being splashed all over their website and TV. And I was on the Cingular side - my brother, who had AT&T (the absorbed company), got a new announcement letter thingy every week.

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(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 04:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2006-06-30 05:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 05:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2006-06-30 05:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-06-30 07:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2006-06-30 06:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2006-06-30 08:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-06-30 06:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2006-06-30 08:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankismyfandom, 2006-06-30 11:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jerel, 2006-07-02 12:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kittikattie, 2006-07-02 07:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]staroverthebay, 2006-07-01 04:16 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-06-30 04:18 pm UTC (link)
That's funny, they sent ME a letter explaining everything. But I use Wanadoo/Orange in the UK, not the Netherlands.

~ Shadowkitty

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-01 11:49 am UTC

[info]slackerbitch
2006-06-30 04:40 pm UTC (link)
Great. They're both here, and now they're starting Round 2 for us. What fun.

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 04:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 04:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 05:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 07:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 07:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]pyrrah, 2006-06-30 07:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]amyheartssiroc, 2006-06-30 05:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 05:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 06:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-06-30 07:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2006-06-30 09:30 pm UTC
Random battle! - [info]mcity, 2006-07-01 03:48 am UTC
Re: Random battle! - [info]felinephoenix, 2006-07-05 05:30 am UTC

[info]belafarinrod
2006-06-30 04:42 pm UTC (link)
Our ISP also merged with someone else and got a namechange and turned even shittier. They *gasp* sent an actual snailmail, and included an explanatory note in the first bill. Wow, talk about using revolutionary techniques!!

In short, I think the wanky people are those who think that e-mail + TV ads are enough. Especially with all the scam e-mails going out

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 04:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]arabwel, 2006-06-30 05:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2006-06-30 08:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jrs1980, 2006-07-01 06:31 am UTC
(no subject) - chief, 2006-07-01 07:54 pm UTC

[info]april_hurst
2006-06-30 05:32 pm UTC (link)
*looks at above threads* Are we trying to make [info]wankitywank in less than 100 comments?

I know the title "otf_wank" sounds like it's a place to wank about non-fandom things, but really, it's not.

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(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2006-06-30 06:12 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]apoplexia, 2006-06-30 08:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2006-06-30 08:54 pm UTC

[info]andra_dodger
2006-06-30 06:07 pm UTC (link)
"You should balance your checkbook!"

"I don't have a checkbook, so there!"

This will be the most boring thing ever to make it to [info]wankitywank.

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(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-06-30 06:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ironymaiden, 2006-06-30 06:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-07-01 01:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]alpheratz, 2006-06-30 08:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-07-01 01:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]innsmouth_eyes, 2006-06-30 07:12 pm UTC

[info]innsmouth_eyes
2006-06-30 07:14 pm UTC (link)
This wank makes me want orange juice really bad.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 07:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rekall, 2006-07-01 04:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]drakyndra, 2006-07-01 06:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rekall, 2006-07-01 08:12 am UTC

[info]snacky
2006-06-30 07:51 pm UTC (link)
This is a huge benefit of the internet. It allows everyone to be morally superior, self-righteous Church Ladies without a) having to even be ladies, and b) having to go to church.

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2006-06-30 07:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]staroverthebay, 2006-06-30 10:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]footsie, 2006-07-05 03:11 am UTC

dracothelizard
2006-06-30 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha! Dutch wank! Not about the Dutch or in Dutch, but originated in the Netherlands.

I'm so proud of my little country.

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[info]aerobot
2006-07-01 03:44 am UTC (link)
I think she's better off without a shitty provider like that anyway. :P

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[info]annabelle_lee
2006-07-01 09:17 am UTC (link)
There's really only one thing one can do in a wank like this.

[sets out the popcorn and lawnchairs to watch the show]

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(no subject) - [info]rimrunner, 2006-07-06 05:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2006-07-06 05:45 am UTC

 
   
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