The Complaint Thread

The rule of nothing is ever simple: get replacement treadmill, spent hours dismantling the old one and installing the new one, go to adjust the belt to line it up perfectly... treadmill kills the outlet. Mind, same model, ran just fine in the same spot for 7 years. Pretty sure it didn't fry the treadmill (turned back on when I plugged it into a different outlet, though I didn't run it for fear of... y'know, moar problums, but...

The money and the time I just spent on this just trying to outrun the fat kid I used to be, man...
 
So hey guys, turns out the treadmill? Not a lemon! But the previous owner of my house gerry rigged some of the wiring, the new machine was just enough juice to fry an outlet, which then led to the electrician discovering that the guys who replaced my siding two years ago left a gap that has been funneling water into my panel, so while I don't need a new treadmill, I need a new electrical panel. Which was also gerry rigged so it needs to be moved like five feet away from its current location.

Can I just say, as tired as I am, I'm legitimately laughing my ass off because I'm like BUT THE TREADMILL ISN'T THE PROBLEM! I just didn't want to dismantle it and send it back, I'm old and I get tired.
 
altcunningham said:
Inconvenient but good to learn now. What a ride.
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Honestly, they found a problem that would've been MUCH worse to find later. Expensive now but better than having the entire panel blow out during a snow storm this winter. At least now I can time the repairs with intent. (Also found out the electrician I called was a neighbor I never really got to know but whose dogs LOVED my dog so we're like unofficially friends.)
 
I work in insurance. One of our customers called early last week about finding cheaper auto insurance. I looked at his file and noticed we don't write his homeowners. I suggested we could quote that in the same company his auto is in, and it would give him a package discount. "I just paid my home in full so I don't want to do that." I get it, you don't want to have to pay more money while waiting for a refund. I told him I would shop it and see what we could find. He's had three claims THIS YEAR. None of my other companies were even close (one was even double). He said well maybe we can drop collision on a vehicle. I said that was possible and could help. "Let me talk to my wife and I'll let you know." This was a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday he called another local agent and wanted his policies moved there because we were taking too long with the change he wanted. My father (the owner here) asked me about it and I told him exactly what I just typed above. I called him back after and left a voicemail asking about the change and how we could move forward. After I left for the day he called and talked to one of the other ladies in the office and was adamant about not being in this office anymore, and complained about me and my lack of communication (we have a phone service through our IT company that records phone calls), and at one point he said "If I had his money, I'd burn mine." It's nice to know he thinks I'm rich, but that doesn't help the situation.

Rewind to last week. My wife works at an elementary school, and this year is on the playground most of the day. This guys daughter was doing something she shouldn't have been doing. Two other teachers told her to stop, and my wife told her three times to stop, then had her sit on the "time out" bench. The next day, this guy calls the school to complain about my wife making his daughter sit. Maybe I'm always thinking conspiracy, but this can't be a coincidence.

Today, he called a little while ago and spoke to a different lady in the office and apologized to everyone, and all the things he said...and then paid his auto insurance in full.
 
Been so stressed for the last month straight which lead to yesterday being the most stressful day in years. So much so that I missed the concert I was supposed to go to last night. Been looking forward to seeing Bruce Dickinson live for the 1st time ever. I really could've used that boost. I don't even give a fuck about the loss of money, just needed something unusual to be a light in the abyss. Hope things turn around sooner than later.
 
Random complaint but I hate the negative spiral of quality and design that has plagued VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS for 20 years.

Mainly, joysticks. I hate how Playstation made clickable thumbsticks a trend. They wear down the controllers and more often than not, cause problems with the stick. 1999 Sega Dreamcast had hall effect joysticks on their controllers, and 26 years later, mine still work great. No stick drift, no looseness or chalky feel.

Nowadays official controllers are $90-$200 and don't have hall effect joysticks, but the joystick buttons are still there. I've been buying hall effect controllers off AliExpress, had luck with brands like EasySMX and 8BitDo, but if you have an issue, it's not easy to remedy. My latest SMX controller is great except the right stick pops out when I flick it strongly, which is a problem playing the new Skate. And like, if they never bothered making the sticks into buttons, I'm sure it would have been fine. They took the part of the controller that fails the easiest, and added another way for it to fail. Great for Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, terrible for us.

And personally, after using a controller with back paddles/buttons, I'll never use stick clicks again. But it doesn't stop the controllers from having the stick click technology and having that be an issue with using the stick as it was intended, for movement.
 
I'm on my third PS5 controller and my eighth, EIGHTH, XBox X controller thanks to stick drift. These controllers are absolute fucking junk and, probably worse, they know it full well and just don't care and refuse to even attempt to fix it. To these scumbag greedy companies, it's just another sale.

There's a place near my work that fixes the controllers, but it costs like 50 bucks. Maybe nice if you have a really expensive controller, but I can get a refurbished controller from EB for 50 bucks, so I might as well just buy another one instead of paying to fix my existing ones. Plus, the refurbished EB controller has a year warranty so if it gets drift in that year, I can exchange it for another one. Literally, a year guarantee of no drift is a better deal than you fucking get FROM Microsoft/Playstation.

The cheap, disposeable controllers are a common complaint for sure, but I still don't feel like it gets talked about enough.
 
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