Is it just me are are you also finding your interactions with most companies to be a twilight zone nightmare?
As if you are the problem for trying to politely navigate the use of a service that is offered or that your totally normal expectation of things working like they should is treated like you are absolutely crazy?
Am I alone here?
Not alone. World has gone completely mad.
Does anyone remember 1998? Everything worked.
The expectations of companies over the last +100 years has shifted from "We are here to provide a service to our customers" to "We are here to provide value to our shareholders", this has been effective because the government continues to prop up and provide assistance to monopolistic corporations and decimate small businesses. The shift has been from small businesses to large faceless corporations enveloping your life.
This shift has also neatly coincided with the creation of the Fed and infinite fiat money at low rates for large corporations via the banking cartel.
It is so terrible. If I acted like that I feel like I would be out of business. All I wanted was a little advice and an estimate lol.
I have learned to blow through three or four companies to get any assemblance of an answer, then work through three or four employees at said co before knowing what the hell is actually going to happen and what it may cost.
The world could have been built in a different way. With the current technology you can have scale and decentralized small businesses.
Large scale capital markets and easy money, is what makes it possible for giga-cap companies to exists. If you trace back through the history of any of the largest companies in the world today, with the approaches they've taken they would have gone bust under a hard money standard.
That is not to say we would have lost the innovation they produced. In fact the opposite may have happened. The innovation might have found it's way into the public domain for every entrepreneur to benefit from.
The fact that mammoth companies are no longer allowed to fail, makes sure the public domain never benefits from their knowledge and innovation.
In the 1800s the railway companies had their boom and bust. They were the giants of their time. They took risk and most failed. Investors got burnt, but the customers were better off in the long run that they did fail. They got the railroads at a discounted price, as the investors took on the losses of their irrational exuberance.
If the investors were all made whole, on the costs of the railway build out, then the customers (or tax payers) would have footed the bill. This is what happens to us today. Through fiat money we all foot the bill of failed investments. The fiat money debasement benefits the investor class the most.
Bad business practices don't get sufficiently punished by the true cost of capital. Small businesses get bought out and made to give worse customer experiences, in order to transfer more of the customers wealth to the investors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Seems like it makes more sense to keep your company privately held until you are ready to retire. Then find someone whk gives a fuck and let them run it. This why google owns google analytics, adwords, youtube, etc... and microsoft owns github, npm, and so on.
Avis car rental didn't honor my reservation at all and then the lady had the audacity to act like a bitch about it
Travelled 1000 miles for an important project site visit just to learn that I need to be more considerate about how other people are negatively impacted by Avis not having enough cars lol
I rented a suburban once. Called to confirm it was there. Specifically ensured that they understood why and that no other vehicle they offered is what I needed.
Show up and they had some Nissan sitting there. It never ends. It is shortening my life to deal with shit every day.
