Rants
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Warranty?
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments
So I had some car issues. a few things had broken or come loose. so I did what a good client should do and I called a head of time to set an appointment for me to drop off my car.
so 9 am rolls around and It’s time for me to drop off my car. I informed the dealership that i had class that night and needed it back. He re-assured me that the car would be done in the early afternoon.
Also, all the problems were covered under my warranty except an oil change.
well 3 rolls around and I decided to call up and ask how far along my car is. the man on the other side tells me they haven’t even looked at it yet. I reminded him that the appointment was at 9 am. he said they were busy. mind you there were 2 other cars there besides mine. and mine was supposed to be the first one in.
I show up at 4:30 and wind up having to wait till 6:30 till they’re done. also, they decided some of my repairs were not covered under the warranty.
this was the tire well. they said that if it breaks loose they’ll cover it but if it grinds against my tire they won’t any more.
wow, so $200 dollars later I leave the dealership only to find the tire well was not put on properly. it’s missing screws and was folded, yes folded, at the base of the front.
a phone call to them this morning reveled that i can set an appointment to bring it in some other time.
se habla English?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments
Now just so everyone knows, I’m very much in favor of allowing imigrants from different countries into the U.S. I think we’re a very blessed country and we should share our blessings with others.
However I have 2 requirments.
1: no laws are broken in your passage from there to here.
2: You need to learn English.
2.5 if you’re currently learning english don’t work in a place where I would have to trust you with my financial transactions.
I recently (about 5 min ago) had an experience that was frustrating and annoying. I went to pay my school fees and found an asian woman behind the counter.
“hi I’d like to pay my school fees.”
“you pay your what?”
(mind you this is her only job is to take school fees)
“I need to pay for my classes!”
“oh ok. what student number?”
“I have my ssn.”
“ok, you tell me ssn”
(I did)
“ok you pay all?”
“no I’m set up for the payment plan.”
“ok you pay half now.”
“no I should only have to pay 1/4 of my payment.”
“yes yes, you pay half now.”
“no I’m already set up, it should only be this much.”
“yes yes, you pay half now.”
“is there someone else I could talk to?”
“I talk you. you pay half now?”
“um, no, um, what days do you work here?”
“I work wed, thru, firday.”
“so you don’t work here tuesday?”
“no, no, you pay half now?”
“no thank you. I’ll be back tuesday.”
Back to school mess ups
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Rants | 2 Comments
School is important, I know, I get told that all the time. And yes I do understand that it is important. However, ever since I returned home from my mission I have had nothing but bad luck getting into school.
1st try, provo colledge. I was accepted, but they didn’t have courses I wanted to take, and infact tried to talk me into taking classes I had no desire to take. later I learned they were short in those classes. man those guys were pushy.
2nd try, BYU. first off, BYU’s website is a joke. I recently went back and found the only way to actually get around their site is by going through their crappy HTML and javascript encrusted site. than the acceptance letter. oh wow, they got it too me too late for me to sign up for any of their classes. the people who tried to “help” were stuck up snobs. frankly, I’m glad I didn’t go there.
3rd, SLCC. they ran into a small problem that BYU ran into as well. for some reason the state of Utah had me down as a non U.S. citizen and there for my semester of 3 classes was going to cost me about $4000 dollars. hmm, doesn’t seem fair.
4th try. Again SLCC, and again, non-U.S. citizen. however, after my birth certificate and valid drivers license wasn’t enough, a letter from my mission presidet seemed to do the trick. still I had to drop a class because they couldn’t offer it to a non-U.S. citizen.
well now I”m on my 5th try. again SLCC. the people at SLCC are super friendly (a lot more than I can say about the people at BYU) however, this time I ran into some issues as well. I had signed up for a math and english class along with a web page design class.
my english teacher resigned and the class was dropped due to lack of teacher. my math class was given to a non-U.S. citizen version of me which I later recieved an e-mail for apologizing that they had messed up and they were sorry but the class is now full.
for being institutions of education, there are not a lot of smart people running schools these days. I guess the nice thing is my fees will be next to nothing this year, but now I have another semester to take on later. goo!