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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

When Customer Service Is Operated By Atchays After All

--When food service does not do FDS during a rainstorm
--When taxis refuse to take you on
--When laborers do not show up because they still have money in their pockets
--When Jollibee Apalit refuses to honor your senior citizen's card the second time you approach the counter, because you ordered something already the first time
--When Papemeleroti uses substandard paper bags that tear easily and seals them with unsafe staple wires
--When Fastcat ferry does not allow you to choose your own seat because you checked in early, and then leaves the best seats for those who come in late
--When Globe has a whole list of telephone numbers and none of them work--and, when one of them does, you are referred to yet another number
--When Globe issues you an upgrade phone and, when you get home, a con artist text-messages you offering to buy the unit and meet you somewhere alone
--When, upon buying a new mobile unit, you keep receiving text messages containing dubious promotional offers
--When SM has many cashier counters but most of them are closed and you are forced to walk all the way to the counter farthest from you
--When other Makati Med doctors try to pirate you from your existing Makati Med doctor
--When PLDT withdraws your daughter-in-law's wi-fi upgrade because she recently passed away, despite the fact that the application is to the same number and the same address, and despite the fact that it is you who are paying the bills
--When you take your Acer laptop to the Acer Service Center in MegaMall because its audio volume does not increase and, when the technician is unable to fix it, the manager comes out and interrogates you to make you feel that you stole the unit
--When Whirlpool keeps stalling and ultimately does not send you a repair person within the warranty period because the ref door came off and they know that will take a lot of work to get it fixed.
--When your computer service consistently offers you updates with the hidden agenda of gaining access to your data, history, files, and location
--When institutions open jobs that are merely contractual
--When disgruntled politicians wreak havoc by causing blackouts, water interruptions, road hazards, non-collection of garbage, an increase of mendicants, and a proliferation of crimes
--When stations and stores shut off their escalators to save money
--When public vehicles have "How's My Driving?" written on their backs and the number either doesn't work or is a wrong number
--When you check out the chapel of the "psychic" who claims that a spaceship is on top of Mount Arayat and he asks to read your palm to impress you--and he then sees the scar you obtained from a chisel wound during a sculpture project, goes into a "trance", and "sees", not knowing that you are actually a hedonist and a narcissist with an extraordinary lust for life, that you tried to "commit suicide" in the past
--When a school director hosts lunch for the entire staff and then keeps everyone waiting through 2:00 PM because she has to attend to an urgent matter first
--When local government officials come deliberately very late for appointments, pretending to have busy and hectic schedules
--When your dentist comes in late and, upon arrival, takes his sweet time "resting", washing up, flirting with his assistant who offers him green mango with shrimp paste and he partakes of it before seating you in the chair
--When a supposedly door-to-door parcel ends up in the post office, where the employees order you to open the package in front of them and then levy a tax for its contents
--When garbage collectors knock on your door and ask you for money
--When the sick and the hurt are not admitted into hospitals without giving a down payment first
--When classroom teachers insist on having the last word
--When parish priests are friendly only to donors

What the fact are you doing about it?

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