Refusing to get with the times- phone trees, really!?

[tropicsgoddess]

I gotta agree there is absolutely no reason to not move with the times and technology. If you don't have a computer then go to the library or use your cellphone, most of them have access now.

It's an online world and everyone is gonna have to get used to it.

Agreed and like the OP said that there's plenty of low cost options. There's prepaid plans and phones you can get for cheap, there's laptops that you can get for cheap (depends where you get it from) and get plans for the internet cheap. Hell, there's places you can go to for free** wifi besides the library. Or just use the library computers.

[Amanita]

^My friend complained about the library computers- she says it's a pain in the ass to go to the library (WTF, she lives right in town), and she doesn't like having to wait her turn.

[blas87]

Well, it's a pain in the ass to play phone tag with everyone, is it not?

[Amanita]

Exactly. She thinks that event organizers should be welcoming of phone calls coming from anybody- it's the price of being an organizer. She maintains that all she would do is "one quick two minute call". But she does not see what would happen if a dozen or more people were making "quick two minute calls".

And yes, phone tag is also a pain in the ass.

[telecom_goddess]

^My friend complained about the library computers- she says it's a pain in the ass to go to the library (WTF, she lives right in town), and she doesn't like having to wait her turn.

Sorry I have no sympathy for this one.....

[Amanita]

Me neither. It seems she's got an excuse for every suggestion or idea offered to help her get online or stay connected.

[Andara Bledin]

I haven't ordered pizza by phone in many years...been doing all that online.

The beauty of ordering food online is that if there is ever a mistake, you have a physical record of who made it. Plus, there is now way for the store to "mis-hear" what you ordered.

I once got a pizza with no cheese. I was ready to call the store and ask them about it when I decided that I should first check my order. Turns out that instead of double cheese, I clicked the button for no cheese and then totally failed to catch that on the summary page. Oops.

Me neither. It seems she's got an excuse for every suggestion or idea offered to help her get online or stay connected.

That's because she wants it to all be about her.

She's just a selfish attention whore, most likely.

^-.-^

[telecom_goddess]

The beauty of ordering food online is that if there is ever a mistake, you have a physical record of who made it. Plus, there is now way for the store to "mis-hear" what you ordered.

I once got a pizza with no cheese. I was ready to call the store and ask them about it when I decided that I should first check my order. Turns out that instead of double cheese, I clicked the button for no cheese and then totally failed to
^-.-^

I hadn't thought about that...but that is a good point. It does provide a record. I was just happy about the convienance

[HYHYBT]

I've more than once clicked the topping buttons for one side rather than for the entire pizza by accident, and therefore getting a half-cheese pizza. My fault, no complaint.

On the other hand, early this year both Pizza Hut and Papa John's were running a special, supposedly any large pizza for $10. I ordered a, I think Meat Lover's, from PH and got a cheese; looking again, the site had accepted my order for a Meat Lover's, but added "minus pepperoni minus sausage..." etc making it plain, with no help from me whatsoever. It showed like that on the receipt, too, and the PH kindly remade it. (After all, nobody in their right mind would have ordered what was on the receipt.) The odd thing was that when I tried to take PJ up on the same offer, their site pulled the same thing! I caught it before finalizing the order, but the site would not let me put the toppings back on, so I wound up ordering by phone.

[smileyeagle1021]

Throwing in my two cents on ordering online versus by phone... I know where I live is easy for delivery drivers to go to the wrong place, which is why I call so I can give directions (each building has two addresses, and it's not like 123A Blah Street and 123B Blah street, one side of the building is 123 Blah street and the other is 125 Blah Street)... I cannot count the number of times my pizza has been delivered to my neighbors behind me because the delivery guy just saw our number, didn't notice the other number on the other side of the building, and pulled into the parking lot and went to our apartment number (on the wrong side of the building)... I like being able to say "and tell the driver to make sure he is going to the correct Apartment number X, we are on the side of the building facing the pool" (something that won't fit in those stupid little comment boxes).

[Racket_Man]

Throwing in my two cents on ordering online versus by phone... I know where I live is easy for delivery drivers to go to the wrong place, which is why I call so I can give directions (each building has two addresses, and it's not like 123A Blah Street and 123B Blah street, one side of the building is 123 Blah street and the other is 125 Blah Street)... I cannot count the number of times my pizza has been delivered to my neighbors behind me because the delivery guy just saw our number, didn't notice the other number on the other side of the building, and pulled into the parking lot and went to our apartment number (on the wrong side of the building)... I like being able to say "and tell the driver to make sure he is going to the correct Apartment number X, we are on the side of the building facing the pool" (something that won't fit in those stupid little comment boxes).

ahhhhh Smiley delivery drivers love people like you (not in a snarky way) all too many times I have had to walk up and down a few houses using my flashlight to find that an address or "house" that is tucked away IN THE FRIGGIN back yard unlit, unnumbered no porch light or anyother indication of its existance.

I like it when people DO give indications or specific directions such as "my address is 123 X St. but the front door faces Y St." or " go to the door on the right side of the building" or "in back right side door" or "my buzzer is broken please call when you get there".

some howerver go a little too far in giving "directions" like "go down X St to Y St turn left on Z St. 3d house on the left" when Z St is a main street in town.