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What I Have Been Thinking About Lately

20 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

by beverly in House and Home, Mental Diarrhea, Running Tags: cleaning, house, living, LivingSocial, Qualico, scam, services, social, Vancouver

1.) That I am going to set my voicemail message to “Thank you for calling Air Miles. Pour le service en français, appuyez sur le deux. Your call is important to us. Please hold and one of our agents will be with you shortly” just to see how long I can get someone to hold for.

2.) That sometimes, the exception becomes the reality and that it can be devastating.

3.) That I have become old and cranky, in the best ‘don’t fuck with me’ way, especially in dealing with companies. Like recently, I bought one of those deal vouchers from LivingSocial Vancouver for house cleaning. Turns out, the company offering the deal, Qualico Cleaning Services, is a total phishing scam. Nobody showed up for the appointment, nobody responded to my email asking what happened, their “Booking Line” is a FULL voicemail message box (not surprising). Getting a refund from LivingSocial, but really! As an established company with a decent reputation, I’m really disappointed that LivingSocial did not properly vet this company before offering a deal on it, which over 1000 people bought. I’m not going to be the only one that’s going to be pissed about this.

4.) I dreamt about running with Terry Fox.

The four items above don’t actually have anything to do with each other. It’s early in the morning, I’m tired and didn’t sleep well, and need to clear my mind before getting on with my day.