If it doesn’t get them to take it easy with the selfies, it might make them consider that there’s a certain age when you should stop taking the “sexy” ones:
Found at Poorly Drawn Lines. Click the comic to see it on its original page.
Month: July 2014
The folks at Rogers — namely the team behind the @RogersHelps account on Twitter — saw my trouble trying to cancel my mobile account. They contacted me and resolved the entire thing via a Twitter direct-message conversation and a single web form, completely free of IVR (integrated voice response, as in “Press 1 for this service, press 2 for that service…”) and sitting in hold music hell. Dealing with it via Twitter chat was pleasant and let me get my work done. Nice!
I’d like to thank Rogers for their years of service — I’ve been a customer ever since the iPhone came out — and treating me much better than those rat-bastards at Bell.
Update: The chat log
Here’s our entire chat via Twitter, which is all it took to get the job done. Naturally, I’ve redacted personal phone numbers, links, and financial stuff:
This is how I imagine the customer service computers at Canadian telecom companies.
(It’s also a simulator to train doctors to perform prostate exams.)
I’m closing out my mobile phone account with the Canadian telco Rogers since I’ve moved to Tampa, which is well outside their service area. Yesterday’s attempt to cancel service was called on account of their Cancellation Department’s computers being down for the entire day (although you can be almost certain that any computers that deal with the intake of money are lovingly maintained and quickly repaired).
Today marks Day 2 — wish me luck!
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Stormtrooper vs. Redshirt
It’s the pop-sci-fi version of “unstoppable force meets immovable object”.
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Happy 4th of July!
To all my American friends and family, from your new fellow resident — Happy 4th!
Click the image to see the source.
This image was tweeted by Sarah Baker on June 30th, and it’s a succinct response to the US Supreme Court’s ruling in the “Hobby Lobby Case”. Health insurance is tied to the employer in the US, and Hobby Lobby, being a chain of stores run by evangelical Christians, objected on religious grounds (and whined in a “tragic letter” about how you can’t use Jesus to step on people anymore, calling it the “loss of religious freedom and liberty in America”) to having to pay for women’s contraception, and the “morning-after pill” in particular. Hobby Lobby’s insurance will still pay for vasectomies and Viagra, though, because men are actually people.
…was the one held by this guy, who was part of the Toronto Public Library group:
