Nothing seems to work and no one cares. Manufactured items like TV's ,beds, tables, furniture, etc. Services like door or shower installations, landscaping services. No one wants to show up, no one wants to work and no one will answer the phone.When they do, you get transferred to an AI auto response bot. It's maddening. Things that used to take a few days or a week drag out for months. Re-titling a vehicle took me over two months of back and forth, hide and seek ,watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat, cloak and dagger nonsense. A shower installation took three tear downs to finally complete after 18 months of going back and forth with bad workmanship and obvious screw ups during the process. I had a landscaper tell me he needs to be paid up front and will determine which days he will come out to cut the grass. I had another one show up with brand new equipment- problem was he had never cut lawns before and didn't know what he was doing. I walked him around and showed him all his "misses", come to find out he never worked on a landscaping crew before. I am currently battling a large retailer to get a door installed. I paid for the door and door jam three weeks ago, they are still messing around trying to pull a permit then the installer should call me. It will take over a month after being paid for. The store will not answer calls, when they do, they transfer you, then hang up. This company is one of the largest in the country for home and business supplies and contracting. I had to call the national number to begin a case to identify where they are in the process of getting the door picked, ready to ship and setting an install date. The store told me "3 months" I told them NO, its hurricane season, that will not work. They then magically found the door in the back of the store. So now, we are down to 1.5 - 2 months to get it completed.
I have purchased 3 TV's in the last 6 months. Not because I love TV, I just need one that works and is not damaged on arrival or fails six months in. I worked through the first warranty process and they determined it was my fault the inner screen has lines on it and I damaged it. I did no such thing. I was exceedingly gentle with the damned thing so as to not damage it in any way.. I had to take pictures of the screen, the tag and the receipt. Then, I emailed all the evidence to them and got a case number. I was then told I would need to hire a technician to fix it and its my fault. This would cost more than the TV itself! Our third TV arrived damaged and we were told we cannot take it back to Wal-Mart, we have to deal with FedEx through a series of emails to confirm damaged on arrival.
We are on our third mattress from Rooms to Go. The first two were sagging or "dipping" is what they call it. They sent out a guy to get pics and measurements, took about 20 minutes. Now the third mattress is beginning to sag. This is odd because it was the most expensive one they had! Our kitchen table and furniture is from a local manufacturer. The kitchen table had to be replaced, wrong color. One couch cushion was bad, had to be replaced.
Our kitchen needs to be re-painted, its not that large. I had a guy quote us $2450 for the job. It is about a day to a day and a half of work. We had another guy want to charge us $600 to paint three walls. We did it ourselves in a day. These people are out of their minds.
The attitudes I have encountered with all the above misery were completely off the rails. To say that these people are entitled, arrogant, greedy and just plain stupid misses the mark entirely and is a huge understatement. The people in these retail outlets, installers, handymen or anyone providing a service or a product act as though the world is in a nuclear war and they might die tomorrow. You cannot even really make a connection with them when speaking to them. They are out to lunch, not all there and seemingly deaf and blind. Their eyes glaze over when talking with them and it seems like they go into a REM sleep mode of some sort. Then they snap out of it and don't know what you just said to them. On top of this , no one wants to show up for work. Wether its my company or any company or store, the new mantra is take off as much time as possible, always be sick and just don't care about anything. If you do have to pretend to care about something, make sure you find someone else to blame for your idiocy. This is real, I see it every day. Blame shift, don't be present, be a fault finder in emails and all communication, have no responsibility for anything and try to get out of doing anything, ever. This is the new mental state of the country. I really believe this is the truth in the year 2025.
I don't understand any of this or why it's happening however it's real and it is happening to EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE at the SAME TIME. It is probably happening to you right now!
Good Luck with the ever increasing moronic stupidity of every aspect of our lives! We are getting dumber by the minute, AI will eventually take everything over and people will not know who they are, what to do or where to go. If you made it this far in this rant, you are not one of them.
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