Jerry, Am I right in that you agree with me. I have not received any other emails for I think that I am a fly in some of their craws if you know what I mean. I wrote too much, maybe, I tend to do that.
Linda ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jerry Blevins <jb...@mchsi.com> > To: missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thu, December 1, 2011 10:13:01 PM > Subject: RE: [MoLiCo] Corporations8890 > > WOW and again WOW!!!!!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com > [mailto:missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Linda Herd > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:19 PM > To: missouri liberty coalition > Subject: [MoLiCo] Corporations8890 > > > > > > I actually feel this way, but as with GM not paying any taxes at all I am > sure that others do not agree. That is what I have read, that GM had enough > exemptions that it did not pay any taxes, but please correct me if I am > wrong. I would hope that people would agree with the fact that money can buy > anything that people want. I keep saying that corporations own us.I have had > trouble with Mediacom, Direct TV, AT&T cell phones, land lines, Verizon, > Alltel, Allied Waste and it seems every corporation that I have had to try > to use a product or service. They have rules like when I called Mediacom and > said, "I want my name taken off the computer generated list that causes me > to receive Mediacom advertisements twice a week". The operators say, "I am > sorry but we can't do that". I have asked, you can't or won't. They tried to > tell me there was no way to do that. I told them this, "you know better than > that". I finally reached a person with the corporate number and the man did > what I was asking. One win. I changed to Dish TV after Direct refused me > service and after 8 days the Dish remote stopped working. They said that > within 3 to 5 days they would send me another one because it was defective. > I told them, I wanted it in tomorrow's mail. The operator said that would be > impossible. I told her again, "You can get it here in one day and I demand > that happen". I received it the next day. And, I received another one today. > Then I found that I had one that worked and the other one had the batteries > in the wrong way. At least I have found that taking no for an answer does > not have to be the only way to operate. That is also true of not accepting > no from your own relatives who think that I should obey all demands or > something. That goes both ways or better no way. > > Are you tired of talking to people who read from a script? My HP Office Jet > All-in-One had a paper jam. I found there was no way I could get into the > printer to remove the jam. I need it to copy papers for a law suit which is > pretty important. I called HP and the person did not know about what I was > talking. I told him that when a company produces a "throw away" product that > should be what they call it when they sell it. I tried everyway possible to > remove the paper. Where does sevice go when the "men" at the top give their > employees a script to read and nothing more and then when you want someone > higher in the line of authority you get someone who reads the same script. > First, it is, "I'm sorry". Next some will not give you the Corporate number > and others will have you called by corporate on their time which may be > never, and then some say there is an address you can use and if used I think > that the letter would be filed in the trash if I have learned anything at > all. But I go to corporate and did so today and told the lady much of what I > say here and she finally said they might refund my money after finding the > date on which it was bought. This tells me that corporations are in fact > bullies who will quit bullying when called on or when one fights back. > > Today I politely asked the first woman to not say I'm sorry anymore because > it sounds just like my relative when he says "I will consider it" which > means no and my ex-husband would say, "I'll think about it" and that meant, > no. I asked the lady for HP nicely that I would appreciate that she quit > saying I'm sorry which means, too bad, and she replied that she would not > say, I'm sorry. I thanked her. Does this sound almost amusing? It is, and > then it is not. > > As I have said to them, at least you have a job and your job has not gone > overseas and that is good. Yet, many times I get someone who can barely > speak English and I cannot understand them. How about the recordings we get > which could be changed to real people for us? Do you like talking to a > recording pushing the correct button or saying out loud the correct answer > they tell us to answer? Then often times the machine has to have me repeat > the same answer until the voice pattern, I guess, is able to be properly > used. How many jobs would that create when we consider how many businesses > use those recordings? And I am also sorry to say, that infuriates me to stay > on the line for, and get this which happened one time, I sat for 1 1/2 hours > before I could talk to someone. > Where did user friendly or customer friendly go? Where did real human beings > go? > They lost their house and health care and just about everything. > > > Am I the only person who hates what corporations can do by simply lobbying > Congress giving billions of dollars as bribes? Even NEA, the teacher group > (I do not call it a union because teachers are not to strike even though > nurses can") lobbiests are paying out cash through our dues. I see it as it > is, I think. > "I've seen both sides now" makes sense to me. Tom M. you said it yesterday. > > The worst was Direct TV which I didn't want and I was told that was the way > it was going to be in that Direct is what we would have, as usual. The first > week pornography showed up taped and it was pay for view. I do not use pay > for view and I hate pornography. I called and told them to block pay for > view and they said they would. They didn't and I had to call multiple times > to get that done. > Then the signal would not stay on or would get lost. No trees in the way. > Then my programs that I taped in series or all the like programs were not > being taped at all. I repeatedly programmed the DVR to tape, but > still programs were being missed, but not always. Finally after numerous and > I mean, numerous calls I suggested that it might be the receiver or DVR that > was the problem and the lady agreed that might be possible. She sent me to > the proper person who could send a new piece of equipment or a person to try > another one. I told the person to whom I was sent that even some programs > were being taped but only half of the program. The representative and > I talked and he was able to realize that there were several problems. Next, > he denied me any help at all. I asked him several times, "Are you denying me > any help"? Yes, he was denying me. I could use a telephone tape recorder and > guess that would make a good purchase. > > I called Dish and they installed it the next day wherupon I called Direct > letting them know that they should disconnect my service with them on that > day and which they did, but of course, I would be charged a penalty since I > had not had it for two years yet (just 14 months of poor service). Does that > bother anyone but me? I told them I am not paying a penalty and I wrote them > conveying the problem about which I had been telling them I would not pay a > penalty. I took them off automatic payment and told them I would not pay it > and why. That lady understood and wrote a note to corporate explaining my > reason for discontinuing their services. Our credit is good enough that it > can handle this and if they try to sue me, I will do the same because I know > a person who did win against Verizon. We just do whatever they tell us to do > because we think that we have to dance to their strings which almost all of > us do. How rich have congressmen and women get from this type of thing and > I read and sent yesterday about the inside stock trading. What law have > these people not broken? > > > I have a book that is called, "Boy Clinton". I kind of thought it was good > that he seemingly balanced the budget. The book was given to me by a man who > was trying to get me to come over the "right" side which I did not do until > I saw truth for myself. It is sad that he died before he found out that I > had seen the "light". He was a spiritual buddy where we were studying the > words of Jesus. In the book "Boy Clinton" it says that political people even > have other political people vaporized. I found the book again while trying > to get a huge amount of junk out of the 2nd story of my house. Of > course politicians do many, many things for the love of money and power . . > . One woman here in Springfield told me that even when they go into the > process of the political branches that they will slowly change into a person > that was different than at the beginning. > > > I have seen this at the local level I am sorry to say. Maybe interest in > one's soul and not this world would be more appropriate or was that what > Jesus was teaching? Have we gained anything yet? (MoLiCo)Look what has > happened to the ordinance the Ozark's Minutemen are trying to get passed. > The City Council has changed the wording so much that the work that the > others and I have done has been diminished. I do not think that we have > done much so enlighten me if I am wrong. > > Here is the last thing that has happened. A window just popped up in the > middle of writing this email after I called HP. It was a window that told me > to register an HP printer that is not the one that I have. Can you believe > that? > > In short, do not give up on getting good service. Hang in there if you have > the time and do not take no for an answer or "I'm sorry, but". > > What next? > > Linda > > -- > This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no > responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. > If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or > leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you > will be here forever. > > -- > This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility >for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like >what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you >leave, >learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. > -- This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever.
